After the Marine Lynx’s missionary service, it came to dock at San Francisco on April 7, 1947 (NARA RG85 M1410). In 1948, the Marine Lynx was again returned to the Maritime Commission as part of a reserve force. In 1950, the US Navy acquired the Lynx and it was commissioned for military service. The ship, now called the USNS Marine Lynx (T-AP-194), saw significant action moving troops about in the Korean War until 1958. During this period it received six battle stars (NavSource Online).
In 1946, Earl Willmott remarked that he didn’t “see what they could do with a ship like this. It is impossible to get freight into her. And it could never be re-fitted with cabins because there are pipes, rods, tanks, wires, ventilator ducts all over the place...” However, in 1967, the Hudson Waterways Corporation did convert the Marine Lynx to a cargo ship and renamed it the SS Transcolumbia (NavSource Online). Interestingly, none of the miliary sources about the Marine Lynx note its service as the “missionary ship” immediately following the war.