USS Arcata has been the name of more than one United States Navy ship, and may refer to:

– a wooden-hulled Coast Guard cutter built 1903, remained in service into the early 1930s – a subchaser built in 1942 and struck in 1960 – a large district harbor tug, entered service in 1965 and sunk as target in 2004

See also

— merchant ship built 1919; converted for US Army service in 1941; sunk in 1942 south of the Aleutian Islands by Japanese submarine.