 Steaming to San Francisco late in January, 1944 the ship prepared for an even more extensive Pacific tour.She departed the West Coast on 26 February and worked her way toward the war zone.As a part of Service Squadron 10, "Markab" overhauled, repaired, and replenished destroyers and destroyer escorts at Pearl Harbor, Majuro, and Eniwetok in the Marshall Islands, and Ulithi in the Carolines.