USS Paul Jones was a large 1,210-ton sidewheel, double-ended, steam gunboat of the Union Navy that served during the American Civil War.

She carried heavy guns and was assigned to the Union blockade of the waterways of the Confederate States of America.

While patrolling on blockade duty, she assisted in capturing schooner Major E. Willis 19 April 1863 off Charleston, South Carolina, and successfully took sloop Mary, loaded with cotton, off St. Simons Sound, Georgia on 8 July.

Paul Jones recommissioned at the Boston Navy Yard 1 April 1865 for further service in the Gulf of Mexico.

This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships.