 "ATA-204" was reactivated on 17 April 1952 at Astoria, Oregon, for assignment to the 14th Naval District.Recommissioned at Pearl Harbor on 3 May 1952 with Lieutenant William A. Walden in command, she was renamed USS "Wandank" while retaining her "ATA-204" designation.She operated out of Pearl Harbor until 1955, providing tug and tow services for the Pacific Fleet, and occasionally deployed to American Samoa and other Pacific islands with tows.