USS Harder

[propbeanie]

Originally Posted by Red Devil

thats what it said in the history which I will try and find again.

quote: The Japanese Navy discovered the wreck, and raised, repaired, and recommissioned it into Japanese service in 1943 as Patrol Boat 102.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Harder_(SS-257)

I can only assume wiki contributor got it wrong as the PB 102 is also in Wiki.

Having done some more checks she is listed on one site as an Applejack type sub; and correctly in Uboat.net as a Gato.

Well, your link goes to a "mostly dead" page, but has a link on it to the 'correct' page for the boat, but man, that is one messed-up wikipedia series of pages. Slightly confusing. It looks like someone sneezed in the middle of editing that page... The 2nd page does have this:

"Before dawn 24 August two ships were spotted which they initially identified as a Japanese minesweeper and the three-stack Siamese destroyer Phra Ruang. The two ships were later discovered to be the Japanese Type D escort ship CD-22 and the very unusual destroyer: PB-102 flying the Japanese flag. The latter was built in America and commissioned as USS Stewart (DD-224), a Clemson-class destroyer, but she was damaged by Japanese fire during the Battle of Badung Strait. While under repair in drydock at Surabaya in February 1942, the Japanese captured the airfield at Bali, thus threatening the naval base and so the ship was scuttled at the docks early in World War II. The Japanese Navy discovered the wreck, and raised, repaired, and recommissioned it into Japanese service in 1943 as Patrol Boat 102."

The link for that 2nd page is
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Harder_(SS-257)
which does the same thing, and you might note is the SAME page you linked to, yet does properly forward you when you click on the other link... ?? I don't understand what they did to the site, nor the article...