USS Markab (AD 21)

Navy	The US Navy
Type	Destroyer tender
Class	Hamul
Pennant	AD 21
Built by	Ingalls Shipbuilding Corp. (Pascagoula, Mississippi, U.S.A.)
Ordered
Laid down
Launched	21 Dec 1940
Commissioned	15 Jun 1941
End service
History	Acquired by the USN on 2 June 1941 and commissioned as cargo ship USS Markab (AK-31) on 15 June 1941 Reclassified as destroyer tender (AD-21) on 24 January 1942 Decommissioned in January 1947 Recommissioned on 26 February 1952 Decommissioned on 31 July 1955 Reclassified as repair ship (AR-23) on 15 April 1960 Recommissioned on 1 July 1960 Decommissioned at an unknown date Stricken on 1 September 1976

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and that we only list Commanding Officers for the duration of the Second World War.

	Commander	From	To
1	Cdr. Allen Dudley Brown, USN	15 Jun 1941	3 Oct 1943 (1)
2	Cdr. Leo Bernard Farrell, USN	3 Oct 1943	20 Apr 1945
3	T/Capt. Albert Laurence Prosser, USN	20 Apr 1945	18 Jul 1946

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