"Yuma" left the Far East again in May 1947, departing from Samar in the Philippines. She stopped at Pearl Harbor briefly in June 1947 and continued on to San Francisco, California, where she arrived on 10 June 1947. In July 1947, the tug voyaged to Pearl Harbor before returning to the west coast at Puget Sound on 28 July 1947. From that time until February 1948, she operated along the western coast of the United States, visiting ports in Washington, Oregon, and California.