Following shakedown training in the Chesapeake Bay, the ammunition ship entered the Norfolk Navy Yard for an availability.

Akutan returned to San Pedro Bay on 10 September and operated there until 28 October, when she sailed for the east coast of the United States.

The ship paused en route at Eniwetok and Pearl Harbor, retransmitted the Panama Canal, and reached Norfolk in December.

Five days later, the vessel set sail for Houston, Tex., disposing of her cargo of gas shells off the Florida coast, en route.

Akutan was decommissioned on 19 October 1946. her name was struck from the Navy list on 1 July 1960, and the ship was transferred to the Maritime Administration for layup at Beaumont, Tex.