USS Yuma (AT-94/ATF-94/T-ATF-94) was a Navajo-class fleet tugboat constructed for the United States Navy during World War II.

After a one-year stint on the West Coast, Yuma returned to the Pacific and served in the combat zone of the Korean War in 1951 and 1952, earning two battle stars for her service.

Yuma was laid down on 13 February 1943 at Portland, Oregon, by the Commercial Iron Works; launched on 17 July 1943; sponsored by Mrs W. J. Jones; and commissioned on 31 August 1943, LT W. R. J. Hayes, USN, Commanding.

[1] She arrived at Melbourne, Australia, on 1 February 1944 and operated in Australian waters for the next three months; visiting the ports of Sydney, Fremantle, and Brisbane as a unit of the U.S. 7th Fleet.

On 4 June 1944, she returned to the 7th Fleet at Milne Bay, New Guinea, to prepare for the landings on Noemfoor Island and at Cape Sansapor, both of which she supported in July 1944.

[1] At mid-May 1945, the fleet tugboat concluded her six-week tour of duty at the Okinawa inferno and set course, via Guam, for Ulithi where she arrived on 24 May 1945.

The tug entered port at Pearl Harbor on 27 December 1948 and remained there until 7 January 1949 at which time she got underway to return to the west coast.

She spent February and March 1949 engaged in normal west coast operations and in April 1949 returned to the Aleutians where she served until late August 1949.

[1] That move, however, did not presage her early participation in the war which had broken out in Korea just two weeks earlier for, after visits to Sasebo in Japan and to Subic Bay in the Philippines, she returned to Guam on 2 August 1950 and resumed duty in the Pacific Trust Territories for another year.

During that 12-month period, she visited Japanese ports and, no doubt, performed missions in distant support for the United Nations forces fighting in Korea.

[1] On 10 October 1951, with USS Reclaimer, she towed the British Royal Navy hospital ship RFA Maine which had lost a propeller, on a westward passage through the crowded and narrow Shimonoseki Straits.

She arrived in Oahu on 5 May 1952 and, for most of the year, made voyages from Pearl Harbor to Eniwetok and Kwajalein in the Marshall Islands in support of Operation Ivy in progress there.

In January and February 1954, she operated at Midway Island with USS Current during the salvage of a grounded civilian ship, SS Quartette.

In early June 1958 the escort carrier USS Tinian was taken in tow at Tacoma, Washington, by Yuma; destined for San Diego, California.

While very near the Swiftsure Bank lightship, Neah Bay, Washington; at the entrance of the Strait of Juan de Fuca, Yuma developed engine troubles.