So the folks at Seawolf Park in Galveston chose a different approach to presenting their ships than the folks minding the Elissa or USS Texas. Rather than have to deal with slowly rotting hulls and their vessels taking on water, they simply dug them into the land. Yes, the hull is likely still corroding but they don't have to worry about these vessels taking on water and sinking!
The Destroyer Escort 238 USS Stewart was commissioned into active service on May 31, 1943 having been constructed at the Brown Shipbuilding Yards in Houston. Brown Shipbuilding was part of Brown and Root, which itself is part of today's KBR where I have my day job in the IT Department. Small world – happens a lot like that in Houston which recently overtook New York as the most diverse cosmopolitan metro area in north america (according to an article I read on the Captivate TV screen in the elevator yesterday). It's a little easier now but when I first moved here in 1995, the odds of meeting someone born in Houston were pretty small.
The us Navy paid Brown Shipbuilding $3.3 million for each of 61 destroyer escorts that they turned out at the rate of nearly one per week between May 1943 and August 1944. The USS Stewart was the first of these vessels produced by Brown Shipbuilding.
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