USS Penguin has been the name of three United States Navy ships:
USS Penguin (1861), a steamer purchased at New York on 23 May 1861 which served in the U.S. Navy until 1865.
USS Penguin (AM-33), a minesweeper laid down 17 November 1917 at the New Jersey Dry Dock and Transportation Co., Elizabethport, New Jersey which served in the U.S. Navy from 1918 to 1941.
USS Penguin (ASR-12), a submarine rescue vessel laid down as USS Chetco (AT-99) by the Charleston Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., Charleston, South Carolina, 9 February 1943, and commissioned in 1944.
