USS Wassaic (ID-3230) was a cargo ship that served in the United States Navy from 1918 to 1919. SS Wassaic was a steel-hulled, single-screw freighter built under a United States Shipping Board contract. She was launched on 14 April 1918 by the Los Angeles Shipbuilding and Drydock Company at Los Angeles, California. Subsequently taken over by the U.S. Navy for World War I use by the Naval Overseas Transportation Service (NOTS) and given Identification Number (Id. No.) 3230, she was commissioned at New Orleans, Louisiana, as USS Wassaic (ID-3230) on 14 October 1918 with Lieutenant Commander George H. Cooke, USNRF, in command.