USS Marquette (AKA-95) was an Andromeda-class attack cargo ship in service with the United States Navy from 1945 to 1955.
[1] Two weeks prior to the end of hostilities in the Pacific, Marquette departed the east coast for Pearl Harbor.
Her activities also included periodic deployment with the 6th Fleet and, from 15 August to 21 September 1947, a Brazilian cruise with congressional observers for the Rio Conference embarked.
On her first such deployment, in July 1948, Marquette hosted a conference between the U.N. mediator in Palestine, Count Folke Bernadotte, and the commanding officers of units of TF 167 as tension, despite truce between Israel, Transjordan, and Egypt, continued to mount.
This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.