USS Stewart (DD-224) was a destroyer in the United States Navy during World War II. She was the second ship named for Rear Admiral Charles Stewart. Scuttled in port at Surabaya, Java, she was later raised by the Japanese and commissioned as Patrol Boat No. 102. She came back under American control in 1945 after the occupation of Japan. Design and construction The Clemson-class was a modified version of the previous (itself a faster version of the ) with more fuel, as many of the Wickes-class had poor fuel economy and hence endurance. Like the Wickes-class ships, the Clemsonss had flush decks and four funnels and were ordered in very large numbers to meet the US Navy's need for ships to counter German U-boats as well as to operate with the fleet. Stewart was long overall and at the waterline, with a beam of and a draft of at full load. Displacement was normal and full load. Four White-Forster water-tube boilers supplied steam at and to two sets of Parsons geared steam turbines, which in turn drove two propeller shafts. The machinery was rated at , giving a design speed of . The ship had a designed endurance of at . Main gun armament consisted of four /50 caliber guns, supplemented by a single 2 inch (76 mm) 23 caliber anti-aircraft gun, while torpedo armament consisted of twelve 21 inch (533 mm) torpedo tubes. The ship had a crew of 7 officers and 124 enlisted men. Stewart was one of a batch of 25 Clemson-class destroyers ordered from William Cramp & Sons on 19 December 1917. The destroyer was laid down on 9 September 1919 at Cramp's Philadelphia shipyard and launched on 4 March 1920; sponsored by Mrs. Margaretta Stewart Stevens, granddaughter of Rear Admiral Stewart. Stewart underwent successful sea trials on 8 September 1920, making an average speed of during a four-hour full speed trial. Stewart was delivered to the US Navy on 15 September 1920, and commissioned the same day. Service history United States Navy Between the wars On commissioning, Stewart was assigned to Destroyer Division (DesDiv) 37, a reserve division of Destroyer Squadron (DesRon) 3 of the Atlantic Fleet, transferring to DesDiv 39 in October that year. After a year of coastal operations for reserve squadrons, Stewart joined Destroyer Squadron, Atlantic, on 12 October 1921. On 5 January, Stewart and five more destroyers left Charleston, South Carolina