her return to New York, the destroyer resumed local escort work until 22 October, when she departed New York in company with , , and to cover the passage of another convoy. The unit steamed via Bermuda, where it was joined by , and arrived at Casablanca on 3 November. Following a short voyage to Gibraltar, Tarbell headed back across the Atlantic on 10 November. The return convoy entered New York harbor on 21 November. The following month brought an availability, refresher training, and time spent in training prospective crews for destroyer-type warships. On 26 December, she departed Norfolk in company with and Destroyer Division 61 to cover convoy UGS-28 to North Africa, from there operating as a hunter/ killer group in the vicinity of the Azores. On 31 December, Lea was severely damaged in a collision, and Tarbell took her in tow for Bermuda. On 3 January 1944, the destroyer was relieved of her towing duties by and and caught up with the convoy at Horta in the Azores on the 7th. After hunting submarines along the convoy routes, Tarbells group reached Norfolk, on 7 February, and the destroyer set out for a 10-day availability at Boston. Following that, she was assigned to the Air Force, Atlantic Fleet (AirLant) for air crew training operations off Provincetown, Massachusetts. Relieved of that duty in April, she operated for a time in the screen of and . From then until July 1945, she alternated between carrier escort duty and target ship duty with AirLant. On 20 July 1945, Tarbell was placed out of commission at Philadelphia. Her name was struck from the Navy List on 13 August 1945, and she was sold for scrapping on 30 November 1945 to the Boston Metal Salvage Company, Baltimore, Maryland. As of 2012, no other ship in the United States Navy has borne this name. Convoys escorted References External links navsource.org: USS Tarbell hazegray.org: USS Tarbell Wickes-class destroyers World War II destroyers of the United States Ships built by William Cramp & Sons 1918 ships