USS Simplicity (SP-96) was an armed motorboat that served in the United States Navy as a patrol vessel from 1917 to 1918.

Simplicity was built as a civilian motorboat in 1906 by Smith and Mabely at Astoria, New York.

On 12 May 1917, the U.S. Navy acquired her from her owner, A. S. Korter of New York City, for World War I service as a patrol boat.

Simplicity was assigned to the Section Net Patrol at New York City, where she carried out harbor patrols during World War I On 19 October 1918, the barge No.

78 struck and crushed Simplicity while she was alongside a United States Army pier at Fort Wadsworth, New York.