USS Underwriter is a name used more than once by the U.S. Navy: USS Underwriter (1852), a steamer purchased by the Navy on 23 August 1861. USS Underwriter (1880), a tugboat that served during World War I. This article includes a list of ships with the same or similar names. If an internal link for a specific ship led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended ship article, if one exists. Wikiwand - on Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.