Tappahannock (AO 43) - Naval Cruise Book

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,W Z I K , if!! ,E LCDR D. S. MARKEL U. S. NAVY After graduating from the Uni- versity of California at Los Angeles, with an Associate Bachelor's Degree in Pre-medicine in June of 1954, LCDR D, S, MARKEL entered the U,S Navy. Relieving LCDR TARKA as our Executive Officer in January 1967, LCDR' MARKEL reported to TAPPA- HANNOCK from the U,S, Naval Weap- ons Station, Seal Beach, California., where he had been the Administrative Officer, Prior to that he had been Chief Engineer, USS CHEMUNG QAO-30pg Executive Officer at the Military Sea Transportation Service Offices in Sasebo, Japan, and Inchon, Korea, XECUTIVE FFICER Gunnery Officer, USS JENKINS QDDE- 4473, and the USS LOS ANGELES QCVA--1355. With sports as his principal in- terest, LCDR MARKEL enjoys partici pating as well as spectating. One of his favorite sports is tennis, as the crew is well aware. Camping and fishing are also his avocation. Married to the former Miss Patricia Ellen Pieters of Long Beach, California, LCDR MARKEL and his wife make Los Alamitos, California their residence, where they have two sons, Mark, 103 Eric, 7g and a daugh- ter, Stacy, 3 years of age.

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comm NDING oFHcER Captain Erman O, PROCTOR, U,S, Navy, born on 28 February 1920, entered the Navy in 1941, and was as- signed to various electronics schools, first as student, then as instructor. His firstsea duty was on an APD in the Pacific. This was followed by duty on the Staff of Commander Amphibious Group 13, on board USS ESTES, and O11 the USS CATOCTIN and on the USS FREMONT, all in the Pacific. At the end of World War II, he was assigned to the Staff of Commander Amphibious Group Two, whose flagship was USS TACONIC, home-ported at Norfolk, Virginia, me . .iff qua , W fs, fy Wk, fc I H ,fr I , A CAPTAIN ERMAN 0. PROCTOR U. S. NAVY He was ordered to the U,S, Naval Submarine School in 1946 and after graduation reported to the submarine, USS CLAMAGORE, Upon completion of this duty, he served normal tours of duty successively on submarines, TIGRONE and CUTLASS. Captain PROCTOR next served a tour of duty as instructor at the Advanced Under- seas Weapons School in Key West, Florida, In 1955,'he was ordered to command the submar'ine,USS CORPORALg following this tour he at- tended and graduated from the Armed Forces Staff College, Norfolk, Virgin- ia. ' During the period 1957 to 1960, Captain PROCTOR served as Director of Submarine Officer Training, U, S. Naval Submarine School, New London, Connecticut. In 1960-61, he was Chief Staff Officer and Operations Officer on Staff of Commander Submarine Squadron TENg from August 1961, un- til September 1962, he served as Commander, Submarine Division 122, home-ported at Key West, Florida. Captain PROCTOR next was as- signed as Chief Staff Officer, Key West Test and Evaluation Detachment, Operational Developement Force, un- til mid-1964, when he reported as a student in the Naval Warfare Course, U.S. Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island. Upon graduation from War College in June 1965, he joined the Staff of the Chief of Naval Mater- ial, Navy Department, Washington, D. C. as Inspector General. He re- ported as prospective Commanding Officer, USS TAPPAHANNOCK on 28 February of 1966. Captain PROCTOR is a graduate of Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, where he was a member of Phi Betta Kappa, National Scholastic Honor Society, and Sigma Pi Sigma. National Physics Honor Society. He took his Master of Science Degree at George Washington University, Wash- ington, D, C,

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1 ., , -. 0 .. -. 31,5 Qyggpggfivo Gommazzciing Ofgcer, Ofkcers and Grew requosi iizo izonor of your preimw ai file commissioning of iize United Siaies Sizip giappaizcuznock U, dvozvai Support Gfciiviiy, jiew Orieam, Ba. II on guesaay, iiie iizirfy-jqrsi of .May rzineieezz hundred and sixiq-six ai eievolz o 'ciock R S V P CARD ENCLOSED UNIFORM FOR NAVAL PERSONNEL SERVICE DRESS WHITE HISTORY OF TAPPAHANNOCK The USS TAPPAHANNOCK QAO- 43J was originally constructed as the SS JORKAY and launched 18 April 1942. A month later the JORKAY was purchased by the Navy for use as a fleet oiler and commissioned in the U,S, Navy in June of 1942. TAPPA- HANNGCK, served heroically through- out World War Il, earning nine battle stars and despite her auxiliar status 9 y 9 was credited with shooting down three Japanese planes. She was decommis- sioned in June 1950, and seven months later was recommissioned for service as a tanker, making repeated runs between ports of the Mediterranean and eastern United States. TAPPA- HANNOCK was again decommissioned in December 1954, and remained in reserve until December 1956 when she was commissioned for the third Leaving wives and sweethearts at h time. She was deployed first in the Mediterranean and then in the North Atlantic as a tanker for the Military Sea Transportation Service, supplying fuel to carriers engaged in NATO maneuvers. TAPPAHANNOCK WELS again decommissioned in November 1957, after having steamed over 60,000 miles in her 11 months of ser- vice. , On 31 May 1966-, after almost 9 years in reserve and extensive re- modernization, TAPPAHANNOCK WHS recommissioned in New Orleans, Louisiana as a fleet oiler destined to support the Seventh Fleet in Viet Nam operationsg Commanded by Captain E. O. PROCTOR, her fourteenth com- manding officer, TAPPAHANNOCK 1.5 homeported in Long Beach, California , 01110, Happy Tappy departed Long Beaflh 25 November 1966 and 531100 011110 West-Pac. On 17 December 1966 we arrived in. . .