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 USS Stewart, once called the "Ghost Ship of the Pacific," served in both the U.S. and Japanese navies during World War II.

The wreckage of a Second World War US Navy destroyer known as the “Ghost Ship of the Pacific” has been discovered off the coast of California almost eight decades after it sank. Ocean explorers found USS Stewart 3,

The wreck of what was once known as the mysterious “the Ghost Ship of the Pacific” that fought on both sides of the Pacific theater in WWII has been discovered lying off the coast of California in “exceptional” condition.