Letting go her tow shortly before mid day on 28 October 1944, off the entrance to the Pearl Harbor entrance channel, releasing "Lignite" “into the care of pilot and tugs,” "Lynx" directed "YF-450" to proceed independently, then moored at berth K-5 soon thereafter. She unloaded cargo at X-5 until 7 November, at which point she shifted berths to X-11, mooring alongside "Durham Wright" at 09:47, that ship's place taken by another freighter, "Joel Palmer", at 18:12. The following afternoon, 8 November 1944, "Lynx" got underway for San Francisco, taking station in Convoy PS 160T with the convoy commander in the transport , the C1–B troopship "Cape Cleare", "Gulf Caribbean", "Permanente", and "Duala"', escorted by the frigate and the minesweeper .