USS Stewart (DE-238)

Stats and Facts

• Commissioned on 31 May 1943

• Edsall-class destroyer escort

• Dimensions: 306 ft long, 1,273 Tons, and 21 knots

• Armament: 3 x 3 inch guns, 2 x 40 mm guns, 8 x 20 mm guns (antiaircraft), 8 x depth charge projectors, and 1 triple torpedo tubes

• Convoy in 1944 around the world

• 1945 Atlantic Reserve Group

• Decommissioned January 1947

• Status: Museum Ship at the Galveston Naval Museum in Galveston, TX

• Future Status: Museum Ship at Battleship Cove, Fall River MASS in 2033

• Notable Sources:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Stewart_(DE-238)#Construction_and_career 

• https://www.galvestonnavalmuseum.com/copy-of-uss-cavalla