USS G. W. Blunt (1861)
 USS G. W. Blunt (1861) was a schooner acquired by the Union Navy during the American Civil War. She was used by the Union Navy as a gunboat as well as a dispatch boat in support of the Union Navy blockade of Confederate waterways. Towards the war’s end she was reconfigured as a rescue and salvage ship. Her new task was to remove many of the shipwrecks hulks and other in-water debris of war.