Shifting to the Tiburon anchorage during the afternoon watch on 1 July 1945, "Lynx" secured a towing hawser to section 51 of , along with covered lighter , at 11:06 the following morning, 2 July, and a little under seven hours later took departure from San Francisco in Convoy FE 3 (TU 06.12.15), with Capt. Lyell St.L. Pamperin, the convoy commodore, on board. The tug "Hillsboro Inlet", towing open lighter and covered lighters and , accompanied the cargo ship and her tows, with the salvage vessel in the role of retriever. Derangement to her anchor windlass prevented the tug "Point Arena", with her tows, section 52 of "ABSD-7" and "YF-1012", from getting underway with the convoy as it put to sea, bound for the Marshall Islands.