USS Water Witch (1845) was a steamer designed and constructed by the U.S. Navy with an experimental propulsion system that never quite worked, the Hunter wheel. The first Water Witch, a steamer built in 1844 and 1845 at the Washington Navy Yard, saw little active service. She was originally constructed to serve as a water supply vessel for the Norfolk, Virginia, station, but she was not used for that purpose because her draft was too deep for her to pass through the locks of the Dismal Swamp Canal to obtain fresh water. Consequently, she was fitted as a harbor vessel and tug.
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