USS Paul G. Baker (DE-755)
For other ships of the same name, see USS Paul G. Baker.
For ships named USS Baker, see USS Baker.
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| Name: | USS Paul G. Baker |
| Namesake: | Lieutenant, junior grade, Paul G. Baker, (1910-1942), U.S. Navy officer and Navy Cross recipient |
| Builder: | Western Pipe and Steel Company, San Pedro, California |
| Completed: | Never |
| Fate: | Construction suspended 1944; scrapped incomplete |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type: | Cannon-class destroyer escort |
| Displacement: | 1,240 tons |
| Length: | 306 ft (93 m) |
| Beam: | 36 ft 8 in (11.18 m) |
| Draft: | 8 ft 9 in (2.67 m) |
| Speed: | 21 knots |
| Complement: | 186 |
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USS Paul G. Baker (DE-755) was a United States Navy Cannon-class destroyer escort proposed during World War II but never completed.
The construction contract for Paul G. Baker was cancelled in 1944 before she could be completed. The incomplete ship was scrapped.
The name Paul G. Baker was transferred to the destroyer escort USS Paul G. Baker (DE-642).
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