Subsequent tours included USS Concord (CL-10), and instructor at the Post-Graduate School, Annapolis, Maryland.

Later he was assigned to the ANZAC Squadron in the South Pacific and, as senior officer in destroyers, participated in the early strikes in the Solomons and the Battle of the Coral Sea.

In October 1946, VADM McInerney reported as commanding officer of the Naval Receiving Station, Treasure Island, California.

[1] In May 1953, he became senior member, Board of Naval Inspection and Survey, West Coast Section.

In October 1954, he was assigned as president of the Permanent General Court Martial, Eleventh Naval District.