USS Prudent (PG–96), originally ordered as HMS Privet, was an Action-class patrol gunboat in the United States Navy.

Following shakedown off Bermuda, Prudent steamed to New York to begin a series of east coast-Cuba escort runs.

Returning to New York on 15 March, she resumed patrol duties, and for the remainder of World War II in Europe plied the waters off the northeast coast.

Struck from the Navy List on 1 November 1945, she was transferred to the Maritime Commission for disposal on 22 September 1947.

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