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}}{{Infobox ship career | Hide header= | Ship country=United States | 1986}} | Ship name=USS Natahki (YTB-398) | Ship namesake=Natahki was the name of a Piegan Blackfeet Indian woman who was married to noted explorer and national park guide James Willard Schultz. | Ship ordered= | Ship awarded= | Ship builder=Gibbs Gas Engine Co., Jacksonville, Florida | Ship original cost= | Ship laid down=15 May 1944 (As YT–398) | Ship launched=2 November 1944 | Ship sponsor= | Ship christened= | Ship commissioned=13 April 1945 | Ship recommissioned= | Ship decommissioned= | Ship maiden voyage= | Ship in service= | Ship out of service= | Ship renamed= | Ship reclassified=*1.District Harbor Tug, Large (YTB-398) while still under construction 15 May 1944- 2.District Harbor Tug, Medium (YTM-398) in February 1962
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}}{{Infobox ship characteristics | Hide header= | Header caption= | Sassaba|harbor tug}} | Ship type=Harbor Tug | Ship tonnage= | Ship displacement=237 tons | Ship tons burthen=310 tons | 101|ft|m|abbr=on}} | 28|ft|m|abbr=on}} | Ship height= | 11|ft|m|abbr=on}} | Ship hold depth= | Ship decks= | Ship power= | Ship propulsion=Diesel engine, single propeller | 12|kn|km/h mph|abbr=on}} | Ship complement=10 | Ship crew= | Ship armament=2 x .50-caliber machine guns | Ship notes=
}} | USS Natahki (YTB-398) was a Sassaba-class harbor tug that served in the United States Navy from 1945 into the mid-1980s. The exact date she was decommissioned is unknown. The Natahki was assigned to the Pacific Fleet (11th Naval District, San Diego, California) upon delivery to the Navy. She served out the duration of World War II there and into 1946 when, like many wartime ships, she was placed in reserve as surplus. In 1951, Natahki was withdrawn from reserve and re-activated in the 11th Naval District. Records of her service from 1951 onward are virtually non-existent although presumably she served in southern California ports for the remainder of her career. Natahki was re-designated a district harbor tug, medium (YTM) in February 1962. Her name was struck from the Navy list sometime in the mid-1980s and she was sold for scrapping by the Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service (DRMS), 6 April 1987. References- {{DANFS|http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/n2/natahki.htm}}
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