USS Surveyor was an armed steamer that served in the United States Navy from 1917 to 1919. Surveyor was built as the survey ship USC&GS Surveyor in 1917 by Manitowoc Shipbuilding and Drydock Company at Manitowoc, Wisconsin, for the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, and entered service with the Survey that year. Surveyor was transferred to the U.S. Navy on 24 September 1917 for service in World War I and commissioned as USS Surveyor on 22 October 1917.