USS Spitfire may refer to the following ships of the United States Navy: , a gunboat on Lake Champlain. , a Rhode Island galley captured by the British in 1778 during the Mount Hope Bay raids. , a merchant sloop operated until 1820. , a ship operated until 1816. , a sidewheel gunboat operated until 1848; used during the Mexican–American War , a tugboat that was renamed Spitfire when operated by Union forces on the Mississippi River during the American Civil War , a temporary name of Casco-class monitor USS Suncook while laid up in 1869