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btd64 wrote: Fri Feb 20, 2026 12:49 pm To much "good morning " here. Let's talk about historical events. We use to have a historian here. Someone want to fill in....GP

zebrazwo wrote: Fri Feb 20, 2026 1:52 pm

btd64 wrote: Fri Feb 20, 2026 12:49 pm To much "good morning " here. Let's talk about historical events. We use to have a historian here. Someone want to fill in....GP

02/20/42 Fri. Submarine SWORDFISH (SS-193) evacuates President Quezon and
other Philippine officials from Luzon, P. I.
Atlantic and Pacific Fleets are directed by Commander in
Chief United States Fleet to establish Amphibious Forces.
Darwin, Australia, is abandoned as an Allied naval base.
Japanese invade Timor Island in the Netherlands East Indies.
United States naval vessel damaged:
Destroyer STEWART (DD-224), by naval gunfire, Battle of
Badoeng Strait, Netherlands East Indies,
07 d. 18' S., 112 d. 46' E.

BBfanboy wrote: Fri Feb 20, 2026 2:51 pm

zebrazwo wrote: Fri Feb 20, 2026 1:52 pm

btd64 wrote: Fri Feb 20, 2026 12:49 pm To much "good morning " here. Let's talk about historical events. We use to have a historian here. Someone want to fill in....GP

02/20/42 Fri. Submarine SWORDFISH (SS-193) evacuates President Quezon and
other Philippine officials from Luzon, P. I.
Atlantic and Pacific Fleets are directed by Commander in
Chief United States Fleet to establish Amphibious Forces.
Darwin, Australia, is abandoned as an Allied naval base.
Japanese invade Timor Island in the Netherlands East Indies.
United States naval vessel damaged:
Destroyer STEWART (DD-224), by naval gunfire, Battle of
Badoeng Strait, Netherlands East Indies,
07 d. 18' S., 112 d. 46' E.

Wasn't Stewart captured by the Japanese and fixed up for use in their navy?

BBfanboy wrote: Fri Feb 20, 2026 2:51 pm

zebrazwo wrote: Fri Feb 20, 2026 1:52 pm

btd64 wrote: Fri Feb 20, 2026 12:49 pm To much "good morning " here. Let's talk about historical events. We use to have a historian here. Someone want to fill in....GP

02/20/42 Fri. Submarine SWORDFISH (SS-193) evacuates President Quezon and
other Philippine officials from Luzon, P. I.
Atlantic and Pacific Fleets are directed by Commander in
Chief United States Fleet to establish Amphibious Forces.
Darwin, Australia, is abandoned as an Allied naval base.
Japanese invade Timor Island in the Netherlands East Indies.
United States naval vessel damaged:
Destroyer STEWART (DD-224), by naval gunfire, Battle of
Badoeng Strait, Netherlands East Indies,
07 d. 18' S., 112 d. 46' E.

Wasn't Stewart captured by the Japanese and fixed up for use in their navy?

BBfanboy wrote: Fri Feb 20, 2026 2:51 pm

zebrazwo wrote: Fri Feb 20, 2026 1:52 pm

btd64 wrote: Fri Feb 20, 2026 12:49 pm To much "good morning " here. Let's talk about historical events. We use to have a historian here. Someone want to fill in....GP

02/20/42 Fri. Submarine SWORDFISH (SS-193) evacuates President Quezon and
other Philippine officials from Luzon, P. I.
Atlantic and Pacific Fleets are directed by Commander in
Chief United States Fleet to establish Amphibious Forces.
Darwin, Australia, is abandoned as an Allied naval base.
Japanese invade Timor Island in the Netherlands East Indies.
United States naval vessel damaged:
Destroyer STEWART (DD-224), by naval gunfire, Battle of
Badoeng Strait, Netherlands East Indies,
07 d. 18' S., 112 d. 46' E.

Wasn't Stewart captured by the Japanese and fixed up for use in their navy?

zebrazwo wrote: Fri Feb 20, 2026 6:46 pm

BBfanboy wrote: Fri Feb 20, 2026 2:51 pm

zebrazwo wrote: Fri Feb 20, 2026 1:52 pm

02/20/42 Fri. Submarine SWORDFISH (SS-193) evacuates President Quezon and
other Philippine officials from Luzon, P. I.
Atlantic and Pacific Fleets are directed by Commander in
Chief United States Fleet to establish Amphibious Forces.
Darwin, Australia, is abandoned as an Allied naval base.
Japanese invade Timor Island in the Netherlands East Indies.
United States naval vessel damaged:
Destroyer STEWART (DD-224), by naval gunfire, Battle of
Badoeng Strait, Netherlands East Indies,
07 d. 18' S., 112 d. 46' E.

Wasn't Stewart captured by the Japanese and fixed up for use in their navy?

This was the battle damage that lead to her scuttling. Was put into floating drydock at Surabaya on 22 February. Somehow they failed to make adequate support in the drydock and Stewart fell off them and was damaged even more. With the approach of the Japanese, the navy planted explosives inside, blew them and sank the drydock as well.

Japs must have been desperate for patrol boats and such, recovered her and used her until the end of the war.