For the rest of the war, ATA-181 aided warships damaged in that campaign, towing them from combat into Kerama Retto and thence to bases in the Marianas and in the Western Carolines.

On 15 October, a severe typhoon struck the anchorage at Okinawa and drove ATA-181 aground, but the tug escaped heavy damage and soon returned to duty.

While she operated most often along the eastern seaboard and in the West Indies, her work also took her to such widely separated locations as Labrador, Ascension Island, and even inland to Lake Michigan.

Decommissioned at Norfolk Naval Shipyard on 29 June 1972, Accokeek was transferred to the Maritime Administration on 19 September 1972 for layup in its National Defense Reserve Fleet.

She was sunk as an artificial reef in the Gulf of Mexico on 20 February 1987 and is a recreational dive site of the Florida Panhandle Shipwreck Trail[1] Wreck location: 29°58.475′N 85°51.915′W / 29.974583°N 85.865250°W / 29.974583; -85.865250[2] As ATA-181, Accokeek earned one battle star in World War II.