Скачать или смотреть The Ghost Ship of the Pacific: USS Stewart - The American Warship Captured by Japan

August 2024. Thirty miles off California's coast, research vessels detect something impossible at 3,500 feet below—a shipwreck that has haunted sailors for over 80 years. This is the USS Stewart, DD-224: the only American warship ever captured and operated by Imperial Japan, a vessel that died twice and served two enemies, and a destroyer that Allied pilots swore they saw deep in Japanese waters... but officially could not exist.
This is the true story of the Ghost Ship of the Pacific—one of World War II's most bizarre and haunting mysteries, finally solved.
Built in 1920 as a Clemson-class "four-stacker" destroyer, the USS Stewart spent two decades as the workhorse of the U.S. Asiatic Fleet, patrolling the Yangtze River and protecting American interests across the Far East. But when Pearl Harbor plunged America into World War II, everything changed. By February 1942, during the desperate Battle of Badung Strait off Bali, Stewart took devastating hits from Japanese destroyers and limped to Surabaya for emergency repairs.
Then fate intervened in the strangest way possible. The ship fell off drydock supports and suffered catastrophic damage. With Japanese forces closing in, her crew made the terrible decision to scuttle their beloved destroyer on March 2, 1942. The Navy struck DD-224 from the register. The USS Stewart was officially dead.
But one year later, Japanese salvage crews raised her from the harbor floor, repaired her, and recommissioned her as Imperial Japanese Navy Patrol Boat Number 102. An American warship now flew the Rising Sun flag—serving the very enemy she was built to fight.
And then the sightings began. American submarine commanders and Navy pilots reported seeing an American four-stack destroyer operating deep in Japanese-controlled waters—in the Inland Sea, off Kyushu, places no Allied ship could possibly reach. Every report was dismissed as exhaustion, combat stress, or mistaken identity. But the reports never stopped. Pilots hesitated to attack what looked like one of their own ships. The psychological warfare was perfect. The Ghost Ship sailed on.
Discover how the Stewart survived until Japan's surrender in August 1945, how shocked American occupation forces found her among damaged Japanese warships at Kure Naval Base, and the emotional moment when her former crew members came to San Francisco Bay to see their old ship one final time. Learn about her final mission as a target ship in May 1946, teaching the Navy lessons that would save future lives, and her discovery in 2024 using cutting-edge autonomous underwater vehicle technology.
From the desperate battles of early 1942 to her remarkable preservation on the Pacific floor, this is the complete story of a ship that wouldn't die—a testament to the courage of sailors on both sides and a reminder of war's strange twists of fate.
Featured in this documentary:
🚢 USS Stewart DD-224 - Clemson-class destroyer history
⚓ U.S. Asiatic Fleet and the Fall of the Dutch East Indies
🇯🇵 Imperial Japanese Navy Patrol Boat Number 102
👻 Ghost ship sightings by Allied pilots 1943-1945
🔍 Battle of Badung Strait February 1942
🏴‍☠️ Ship capture, salvage, and recommissioning
🇺🇸 Discovery and repatriation October 1945
🎯 Final mission as target ship May 1946
🌊 2024 discovery using Ocean Infinity AUVs
📍 Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary
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