The USS Punishment was a United States Navy river monitor that was in service during the Great War, primarily acting as off-shore fire support for the U.S. Army. It patrolled the rivers that marked the border between the United States and the Confederate States from 1915 to 1916. The Punishment did engage in one ship-to-ship battle with a Confederate monitor on the Mississippi River, along the shores of Tennessee. Despite taking shell-fire, the Punishment sank the Confederate warship.