USS Stallion ( ATA - 193 ) The second Stallion was laid down on 26 October 1944 at Orange , Texas , by the Levingston Shipbuilding Co . as ATA - 193 ; launched on 24 November 1944 ; and commissioned on 1 February 1945 , Lt . Allen Oliver in command . The tug completed shakedown along the Gulf coast out of Galveston , Texas , between 11 February and 2 March . On the following day , she towed Army barges to New Orleans and , after a five - day stay , got underway for the Panama Canal . ATA - 193 arrived in the Canal Zone on 17 March and departed on 3 April . She reached San Diego on 25 April and Pearl Harbor on 17 May . On the 29th , she continued west and stopped at Eniwetok , Saipan , and Guam , before reaching Okinawa on 11 July . The tug served at Okinawa with Service Squadron 10 until 29 July . She headed via Saipan to Pearl Harbor and arrived on 24 August . Six days later , ATA - 193 sailed west again , stopped at Saipan and Okinawa , and returned to Pearl Harbor on 24 October . She remained there until 1 March 1946 ; then got underway for San Diego where she arrived on the 20th . Eight days later , ATA - 193 sailed for Panama . She transited the canal between 14 and 17 June and continued on to Jacksonville , Florida , then to New Orleans and Orange , Tex . , arriving on 13 August 1946 . She decommissioned there on 1 September 1946 . ATA - 193 was named Stallion in July 1948 and remained inactive at Orange as a unit of the 16th ( Reserve ) Fleet until 19 July 1949 , when she was recpmmissioned , Lt . A . E . Belch in command . She was assigned to the Commander , Hydrographic Survey , to operate in the Persian Gulf . After short visits to Norfolk and New York , the tug got underway for the Mediterranean on 1 October 1949 . Stallion spent 27 of the next 32 months operating in the Mediterranean Sea and the Persian Gulf . In addition to Kuwait , Bahrain , and Aden , she visited Port Said , Suez , and Karachi during her tour in the Middle East . Stallion returned to Norfolk on 29 May 1952 . For the next three years , the tug was administratively assigned to the 5th Naval District but was operationally controlled by the Naval Ordnance Laboratory ( NOL ) , White Oak , Maryland She operated out of Fort Monroe , Virginia , and Port Everglades , Florida , assisting NOL in ordnance evaluation tests . On 7 March 1955 , Stallion was reassigned to the 6th Naval District administratively , but remained under the operational control of NOL . She operated primarily out of her new home port , Port Everglades , Fla . , in conjunction with the Naval Ordnance Test Facility located nearby . She participated in mine evaluation tests conducted in the Bahama Islands and along the coast of Florida , particularly around Panama City and Fort Lauderdale . On 22 May 1959 , Stallion came under the operational control of the 6th Naval District . Although she continued to be associated with the projects of the Naval Ordnance Test Facility at Fort Lauderdale , her participation came to be more on a single project basis with the tug concentrating more often on duty for the naval district . On 1 July 1967 , Stallion ' s homeport was changed to Charleston , South Carolina , and she spent increasingly greater portions of her time engaged in ocean towing , off - shore salvage , and rescue salvage operations . On 1 October 1968 , Stallion was placed in reduced operational status at Charleston . Stallion was decommissioned at Norfolk , Va . , in October 1969 and joined the Atlantic Reserve Fleet . In December 1970 , she was transferred to the custody of the Maritime Administration but remained under Navy ownership . She was finally transferred to the Dominican Republic under the Security Assistance Program and renamed Enriquillo ( RM - 22 ) . ATA - 190 earned one battle star for World War II service .