USS Yucca has been the name of three ships in the United States Navy: The first was a wooden hulled steamer, built near the end of the American Civil War and in commission from 1865 to 1868. USS Yucca (AT-32), a tugboat, was renamed before her keel was laid in 1919. The second , formerly named SS Utacarbon, was a tanker in commission from 1945 to 1946. United States Navy ship names