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.

On 25 June 1917, the U.S. Navy acquired Blue Bird under a free lease from her owner – by then E. Palmer Gavit of Albany, New York – for use as a section patrol vessel during World War I.

Assigned to the 3rd Naval District, Blue Bird operated in the New York City area for the remainder of World War I.

She provided transportation for official passengers from place to place in the naval district, served as a boarding boat when later attached to the naval district's communication office, and operated in such areas as lower Gravesend Bay on patrol duty, tallying the names and numbers of vessels in those waters.