USS Surfbird (AM-383) was an Auk-class minesweeper built during World War II for the United States Navy.

Surfbird was laid down on 15 February 1944 by the American Ship Building Company, Lorain, Ohio; launched on 31 August 1944, sponsored by Mrs. F. W. Chambers; and commissioned on 25 November 1944.

Surfbird departed Lorain on 26 November en route to Boston, Massachusetts via Montreal, Quebec and Halifax.

She arrived at Kerama Retto on 25 June and began daily sweeps of the "Skagway" area of the East China Sea.

The minesweeper departed Okinawa on 5 September for North Saddle Island, at the entrance of the Yangtze River.

The minesweeper touched at Yokosuka, Japan on 28 December 1952 and departed on 1 January 1953 with units of Mine Division (MinDiv) 76 to begin sweep and blockade operations between Wonsan and Hungnam, Korea.

When Surfbird was due for rotation on 9 August, she and Waxwing began a 13,000-mile cruise home through the South Pacific.

Surfbird again performed "Market Time" patrols and special ranging service off the coast of South Vietnam from 2 to 22 August 1966, and from 17 September to 7 October 1966.

She departed Japan on 7 September and, after making port calls at Guam and Hawaii, arrived at the Inactivation Facility, Bremerton, Washington on 3 October.

[1] Surfbird appeared briefly in the 1954 film The Caine Mutiny as the fictitious minesweeper USS Jones.