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.