In 1945, as Japan was occupied at the end of World War II, the ship was found afloat at Kure, Japan. Recommissioned once more as the USS Stewart, the old destroyer was towed back to San Francisco and sunk the next year as a target ship.

Undersea investigators have located the wreck of a century-old US Navy destroyer, USS Stewart, that was lost for nearly 80 years. The wreck, once known as “The ghost ship of the Pacific”, was found off the coast of northern California 1,

The “ Ghost Ship of the Pacific ,” used by both American and Japanese forces, was given a “burial at sea” and intentionally sunk on May 24, 1946, off the coast of San Francisco, according to a joint Oct 1. release from Ocean Infinity, SEARCH and the Air/Sea Heritage Foundation.