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	115k	Charles Stewart was born at Philadelphia, Pa., on 28 July 1778. He went to sea at the age of thirteen as a cabin boy and rose through the grades to become master of a merchantman. During the Quasi-War with France, Stewart was commissioned a lieutenant in the United States Navy on 9 March 1798 and joined the frigate United States for a cruise in the West Indies. He took command of the schooner Experiment on 16 July 1800 and soon captured two armed French vessels and freed several captured American ships. After brief command of Chesapeake in 1801 and service in Constellation in 1802, Stewart sailed to the Mediterranean in command of the brig Siren. There he participated in the destruction of Philadelphia after her capture by Tripoli, helped to maintain the blockade of Tripoli, and distinguished himself in assaults on the enemy in August and September 1804. After the war, he participated in a show of force at Tunis and returned home as captain in 1806. On the outbreak of war in 1812, Stewart commanded, successively, Argus, Hornet, and Constellation. But, as the latter was closely blockaded in Norfolk, he took command of Constitution at Boston in 1813. He made two brilliant cruises in her between 1813 and 1815. The frigate captured HMS Cyane and HMS Levant on 20 February 1815. Stewart's later service included command of a squadron in the Mediterranean from 1816 to 1820 and of one in the Pacific from 1820 to 1824. He served as a Naval Commissioner from 1830 to 1832 and commanded the Philadelphia Navy Yard from 1838 to 1841, in 1846, and again from 1854 to 1861. By a bill passed on 2 March 1859, Congress made Stewart "senior flag officer," an office created for him in recognition of his distinguished and meritorious service. He became rear admiral on the retired list on 16 July 1862, and he died at Bordentown, N.J., on 6 November 1869.		Bill Gonyo
	68k	Undated, location unknown. Note 4" guns mounted on deck house amidships.		-
	50k	Undated, location unknown. As she appeared during her tour in the Asiatic fleet.		Steve Langer
	47k	Undated, Stewart (DD 224) starboard side to tender with sister destroyers Pope (DD 225), Pillsbury (DD 227), Ford (DD 228), Truxton (DD 229), and Peary (DD 226) nested outboard. The tender is almost certainly the USS Whitney (AD-4). US Navy photo.		Joe Radigan
	138k	Undated, as part of the Asiatic Fleet. Photo from the collection of the Vallejo Naval and Historical Museum.		Darryl Baker
	141k	Undated, as part of the Asiatic Fleet. Photo from the collection of the Vallejo Naval and Historical Museum.		Darryl Baker
	71k	Undated, in drydock in Shanghai, China.		Paul Rebold
	64k	Undated, in drydock in Shanghai, China.		Paul Rebold
	145k	Undated, location unknown.		Edward Compton
	154k	Steaming at high speed, circa the 1920s or 1930s, as part of the Asiatic Fleet. Photo from the collection of the Vallejo Naval and Historical Museum.		Darryl Baker/Robert Hurst
	711k	USS Black Hawk (AD-9) in Chefoo, China circa 1934-1939. The USS Heron (AM-10) is alonside the pier. The four destroyers are (from left to right): USS Edsall (DD-219); USS Bulmer (DD-222); USS Parrott (DD-218); and USS Stewart (DD-224). . From the collection of LCDR Rayborn M. Hall USN who served aboard the USS Bulmer (DD-222) during this period.		Nancy Hall Anderson
	173k	The Ship's Crew on July 14 1934. Ed's dad is the sailor standing between the two Chiefs on the right side of the picture.		Edward Compton
	97k	Stewart survived the Badoeng Strait action and was placed in dry dock at Soerabaja. She was knocked off her keel blocks during an air raid (As seen here) and later scuttled in place by American forces. The Japanese were able to salvage her and she operated with their Navy until captured at wars end.		-
	32k	The Imperial Japanese Navy Patrol Boat # 102 (ex-USS Stewart, DD-224) at Kure, on 12 March 1945. Photo by Kure Naval Arsenal, Imperial Japanese Navy.		Robert Hurst
	145k	USS Stewart (DD 224) after her recapture in San Francisco Bay in March 1946. Photo from the collection of the Vallejo Naval and Historical Museum.		Darryl Baker
	133k	USS Stewart (DD 224) after her recapture. Photo from the collection of the Vallejo Naval and Historical Museum.		Darryl Baker
	56k	Stewart after her recapture, Note the removal by the Japanese of the 1st funnel and the trunked 2nd funnel.		Robert Hurst
	54k	Stewart sinking off California, May 25 1946.		Robert Hurst
Newspaper Clippings from her history				Ron Reeves

LT Scott Grisell Lamb    Sep 15 1920 - ?
LCDR Howard Blaine Mecleary    May 11 1922 - Jun 25 1924
LCDR Charles Lewis Best    Jun 25 1924 - 1926
LCDR Carleton Fanton Bryant    1926 - ? (Later VADM)
LCDR Ryland Dillard Tisdale    Sep 30 1928 - Oct 31 1929
CDR Laurance Sprague Stewart    Oct 31 1929 - 1930
LCDR Samuel Power Jenkins    ? 1932 - ?
LCDR John Boyd Mallard    ? 1936 - ? (Later RADM)
LCDR Donald Sidley Evans    ? 1939 - ?
LCDR Harold Page Smith    ? 1940 - ? (Later ADM)
LTJG George T. Burns    Oct 29 945 - May 23 1946

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