USS Watseka
Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox ship USS Watseka (YTM-387) was a medium harbor tug of the YTM-192 class in the service of the United States Navy during World War II. The Naval Historical Center lists the namesake as: "Possibly a variant spelling of Watsaghika, a former village of the Iruwaitsu Shasta Indian tribe of northern California, at the extreme west end of Scott Valley."<ref name=DANFS>Template:Cite DANFS</ref>
Watseka was purchased in 1943 from Ira S. Bushey and Sons of Brooklyn, New York, and assigned to the 8th Naval District, New Orleans, Louisiana, as YT-387. On 15 May 1944, her designation was changed from YT-387 to YTB-387. While in reserve, she was redesignated YTM-387 in February 1962.<ref name=DANFS/>
Placed in reserve, out of service, and berthed with the Columbia River, Oregon, group of the Pacific Reserve Fleet from March 1946, she was subsequently sold on 1 July 1972. As a civilian tug, she operated under the names Deborah W, Beaver, Seahorse,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> SB IX, Seahorse, and Glen Cove.<ref>"U.S. Shipbuilding History, Shipbuilding records, Tim Colton", Shipbuilding History website.</ref>
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