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USS Baxter
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USS Baxter (APA-94) was a Sumter-class attack transport in service with the United States Navy from 1944 to 1946. She was subsequently sold into merchant service and was finally scrapped in 1968.
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Name | USS Baxter (APA-94) |
Namesake | Baxter County, Arkansas |
Builder | Gulf Shipbuilding |
Laid down | 18 March 1943 |
Launched | 19 September 1943 |
Sponsored by | Mrs R. S. Hendry |
Acquired | 30 November 1943 |
Commissioned | 15 May 1944 |
Decommissioned | 22 March 1946 |
Stricken | 17 April 1946 |
Honours and awards | Four battle stars for World War II service |
Fate | Scrapped, 1968 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Sumter-class attack transport |
Displacement | 8591 tons (lt?), 13,910 tons (fl) |
Length | 468 ft 8 in |
Beam | 63 ft |
Draft | 23 ft 3 in (limiting) |
Propulsion | 1 × General Electric geared drive turbine, 2 Babcock & Wilcox header-type boilers, 1 propeller, designed shaft horsepower 6,000 |
Speed | 16.5 knots |
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Complement | Officers 56, Enlisted 498 |
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Notes | MCV Hull No. 483, hull type C2-S-E1 |
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