USS Baker DE 190

USS BAKER DE 190

Photo courtesy of Joseph Uhelsky MoMM 3/C, Plankowner
Aboard 1943 -1946

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Named for Ensign John Drayton Baker, b. 31 May 1915, Plainsfield, NJ; KIA 7 May 1942,
Battle of Coral Sea; Navy Cross

Type: DET
Builder: FED
Originally named RABY, renamed 09/03/43
Keel laid 09/09/43
Launched 11/28/43
Commissioned 12/23/43
First CO: Lt Cdr L. B. Lockwood
Decommissioned 03/04/46
1 battle star

To France as MALGACHE (F-724) 03/29/52
Stricken (US) 04/18/52
Stricken 1969

Unit of CortDiv 48
Escorted U-977 to eastern ports in Victory Loan Drive November-December 1945

From the research of Anne McCarthy,
with contributions by Pat Perrella and Pat Stephens, webmaster. March 2006