Dropping anchor at Ulithi on 13 April 1945, "Lynx" fueled from the following morning, 14 April, then took on stores and accomplished minor repairs, 15–19 April, before getting underway in Ulithi-Okinawa Convoy UOK 2 on 20 April, the vice-commodore riding in the ship, and the commodore in , accompanied by refrigerated store ship , cargo ships , and , net-laying ship , flotilla flagships and , the tank landing craft "LCT-708", large support landing craft , degaussing vessel and five freighters, escorted by , and high speed transport , Captain Glenn R. Hartwig in tactical command, in .