 Launched on 3 March 1945, and commissioned at Port Arthur on 3 May 1945, Lieutenant James McKnight in command.Following fitting out and shakedown off Galveston, "ATA–211" reported to the Naval Supply Depot, Gulfport, Mississippi, on 5 June, and thence steamed via the Panama Canal to San Diego, where she was to join ServRon 2, Pacific.