USS Western Belle (ID-3551) was a United States Navy cargo ship in commission from 1918 to 1919.

Western Belle was constructed in 1918 as the commercial steel-hulled, single-screw cargo ship SS Western Belle for the United States Shipping Board by the Columbia River Shipbuilding Corporation at Portland, Oregon.

Assigned to the Naval Overseas Transportation Service, Western Belle departed the Puget Sound Navy Yard on 22 December 1918 with a cargo of 6,818 tons of flour.

She arrived at Gibraltar on 3 February 1919 and awaited further orders.Notes from the Log of Bosun Donald Chandler Thompson, who shipped on the Western Belle in 1918: "Dec. 3 1918 - Left Albers Dock #3 at 6:20 a.m..." Dec. 7 - "Lights of San Francisco glowing on the horizon off port beam at nine oclock."

Docket at 11:30 a.m. Pier 46 Hudson R."[From family records, posted by Jeri-Lynn Woods, Donald Thompson's granddaughter].

Directed to proceed to Deringe, France, Western Belle got underway from Gibraltar on 8 February 1919.

Once again SS Western Belle, she remained in the custody of the Shipping Board until 1932, when Merritt, Chapman, and Scott purchased her.