USS Shawmut, named for the shawmut, is the name of more than one ship of the United States Navy:

• was an American Civil War gunboat in use 1863–1877.

• Massachusetts was renamed Shawmut (CM-4) in 1917 and was renamed on 1 January 1928; the minelayer was decommissioned in 1946.

• was the final name of USS Salem (CM-11), a minelayer and net-laying ship during World War II.

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