The first USS Rush (SP-712) was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission during 1917.

Rush was built as a private motorboat of the same name by Baker's Yacht Basin at Quincy, Massachusetts.

On 1 May 1917, the U.S. Navy acquired her from her owner, N. H. White of Brookline, Massachusetts, for use as a section patrol boat during World War I.

On 8 December 1917, Rush was on a voyage from Boston, Massachusetts, to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, when she struck a submerged log at the entrance to the back channel of League Island Navy Yard in Philadelphia and was wrecked.

Much of Rush's equipment was salvaged, but she was finally declared a total loss on 12 December 1918.