USS Blue Bird (SP-465)
 USS Blue Bird (SP-465) was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1919.Blue Bird was built as the private motorboat Houqua in 1911 by the Matthews Boat Company at Port Clinton Ohio for A. A. Augustus of Lakewood Ohio. She may have been renamed Parthenia later and eventually was renamed Blue Bird.On 25 June 1917 the U.S. Navy acquired Blue Bird under a free lease from her owner - by then E.