USS Stromboli was a bomb brig of the United States Navy used in the Mexican-American War. In 1846, the United States Navy purchased the brig Howard at Boston, Massachusetts to strengthen its forces for the Mexican-American War. Commissioned on 18 March 1847 Stromboli, named for the island of Stromboli in the Tyrrhenian Sea, the ship sailed for the Gulf of Mexico under the command of Commander William S. Walker. In July 1848, Stromboli sailed home, and she was decommissioned on 6 September 1848. She was sold later that year.