page_title: USS Annapolis (AGMR-1)
hierarchical_section_title: USS Annapolis (AGMR-1)
caption_attribution_description: English: USS Annapolis (AGMR-1) underway at slow speed in New York Harbor after leaving New York Naval Shipyard soon after completing conversion from USS Gilbert Islands (AKV-39, originally CVE-107). Staten Island ferryboats are in the left and center backgrounds.
context_page_description: USS Annapolis (AGMR-1) was the former USS Gilbert Islands and a Commencement Bay-class escort carrier of the United States Navy.
  Reclassified as AGMR-1 on 1 June 1963, renamed USS Annapolis on 22 June 1963, and then commissioned on 7 March 1964 with Captain John J. Rowan becoming its first commanding officer. Captain Rowan also served as the pre-commissioning officer when the ship was removed from the Naval Fleet Reserve in Bayonne, New Jersey and then converted at the New York Navy Shipyard.
context_section_description: USS Annapolis (AGMR-1) was the former USS Gilbert Islands (ex-Sunset Bay) and a Commencement Bay-class escort carrier of the United States Navy.
  Reclassified as AGMR-1 on 1 June 1963, renamed USS Annapolis on 22 June 1963, and then commissioned on 7 March 1964 with Captain John J. Rowan becoming its first commanding officer.  Captain Rowan also served as the pre-commissioning officer when the ship was removed from the Naval Fleet Reserve in Bayonne, New Jersey and then converted at the New York Navy Shipyard.
caption: USS Annapolis leaving New York Naval Shipyard after her conversion, 1964
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