On 28 May of that year, she got underway from Norfolk, Virginia, bound for Oran, Algeria. On 4 June, however, while in the vicinity of the Azores, "Abnaki" received orders to rendezvous with Captain Daniel V. Gallery's Task Group (TG) 22.3 built around USS "Guadalcanal". That task group had just succeeded in capturing the , and "Abnaki" was to tow her to Bermuda. She arrived there with the prize on 19 June and remained 10 days before shaping a course for New York.