USS George W. Rodgers was a schooner captured by the Union Navy during the American Civil War.

She was initially intended to be used as part of the stone fleet of sunken obstructions; however, she was retained and used as a picket boat and dispatch vessel and, later, as a survey ship, concentrating her efforts in the waterways of the Confederate South.

George W. Rodgers, originally blockade runner Shark, was captured by the screw steamer South Carolina off Galveston, Texas, 4 July 1861 and sent to the U.S. East Coast.

Renamed George W. Rodgers, she sailed to Port Royal, South Carolina, for arming and repairs, and commissioned there 17 January 1865, Acting Master Loring G. Emerson in command.

She resumed picket duty 2 May and operated along the Georgia and Florida coasts until departing Ossabaw Sound for Boston, Massachusetts, 25 July.