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Revision as of 14:18, 1 February 2017

U.S.S. Stewart (1902)
Hull Number: DD-13
Builder: Gas Engine & Power Co. and Chas. L. Seabury & Co.[1]
Laid down: 24 Jun, 1900[2]
Launched: 10 May, 1902[3]
Commissioned: 17 Dec, 1902[4]
Stricken: 15 Sep, 1919[5]
Sold:

U.S.S. Stewart was a destroyer completed for the U.S. Navy in 1902. Though small, she was notably fast. She is sometimes considered one of thirteen destroyers of the composite Bainbridge class though she was different enough to merit treatment here as a unique vessel.

Design & Construction

Performance

Armament

Service

Stewart commissioned on 1 December 1902, Lieutenant Frederick A. Traut in command, although the U.S. Navy's officer Register of Officers lists Traut as having been assigned to the Naval Academy starting on 15 November, 1902 and Lieutenant Arthur Bainbridge Hoff being in command of the Stewart from 10 September, 1902.[6]

In early 1904, she was one of six destroyers in the Second Torpedo Flotilla.[7]

Captains

See Also

Footnotes

  1. Friedman. U.S. Destroyers. p. 428.
  2. Friedman. U.S. Destroyers. p. 428.
  3. Friedman. U.S. Destroyers. p. 428.
  4. Friedman. U.S. Destroyers. p. 428.
  5. Friedman. U.S. Destroyers. p. 428.
  6. Register of Officers, 1903. pp. 26, 28.
  7. Register of Officers, 1904. p. 22.
  8. Register of Officers, 1905. p. 30.
  9. Register of Officers, 1906. p. 28.
  10. Register of Officers, 1908. p. 32.
  11. Register of Officers, 1909. p. 36.
  12. Register of Officers, 1909. p. 36.
  13. Register of Officers, 1908. p. 22.
  14. Register of Officers, 1912. p. 44.
  15. Register of Officers, 1912. p. 44.
  16. "The Navy Gazette". Army and Navy Register. 28 June, 1913. Vol. LIII, No. 1,719, p. 822-823.
  17. Register of Officers, 1914. p. 46.
  18. Register of Officers, 1915. p. 48.
  19. Register of Officers, 1914. p. 46.
  20. Register of Officers, 1916. p. 34.
  21. Register of Officers, 1919. pp. 50-51.

Bibliography

  • Chesneau, Robert; Kolesnik, Eugene (editors) (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. London: Conway Maritime Press. (on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk).
  • Friedman, Norman (1985). U.S. Destroyers: An Illustrated Design History. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press. (on Amazon.com).


Destroyer U.S.S. Stewart
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