USNS Powhatan (T-ATF-166) was the lead ship of the United States Navy Powhatan-class fleet ocean tugboats.

USNS General Hoyt S. Vandenberg, a missile range instrumentation ship, was detailed to support the flight.

[10] A dive team was embarked, and in July 1985 Powhatan assisted in refloating the beached USS Boulder.

[11] In November 1985 Powhatan was assigned to tow ex-Salmon from Panama to Norfolk, Virginia where the decommissioned submarine was to be used for testing antisubmarine techniques and equipment.

While en route, off the coast of Haiti, the rudder locking device on the submarine broke, threatening the tug's ability to tow the hulk.

[12] In October 1986 the ship was in the area of Soviet ballistic missile submarine K-219 that had suffered an explosion and fire approximately 480 miles northeast of Bermuda.

[13][14][15] In May 1995, Powhatan towed ex-Saratoga from its former base in Mayport, Florida to the Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility in Philadelphia.

[18] The government of Turkey contracted with Donjon Marine to tow four decommissioned U.S. Navy ships from ports on the east coast of the United States to the Gölcük Naval Shipyard.

[19] In September 1999 the 750-foot-long container barge San Jaun Jax Bridge broke loose from her towboat during Hurricane Floyd.

[22] In early 2005 Powhatan towed ex-America out to sea where she was sunk by a series of explosions intended to evaluate aircraft carrier vulnerabilities.

[25] Due to her poor condition upon termination of the lease, she underwent a refit which included complete rebuilding of all engines and generators at Charleston.

[26] Inebolu was involved in the search and rescue operations for the downed Turkish F-4 reconnaissance jet in the eastern Mediterranean Sea.

The aircraft was shot down by Syrian Armed Forces in international airspace on 22 June 2012 killing two pilots.

Inebolu joined the research vessel EV Nautilus, and was tasked with the salvage operation for the aircraft's wreckage from the 3,000 m (9,800 ft) deep seabed after the bodies of the pilots were brought up to the surface.

[27] The ship participated in the 2017 NATO submarine rescue exercise "Dynamic Monarch", as part of a nine-nation fleet.

[28] In 2020, damaged Bangladesh Navy corvette BNS Bijoy was towed by TCG İnebolu to Turkey for repairs in Aksaz Naval Base.