USS Shawmut explained

USS Shawmut, named for the shawmut, is the name of more than one ship of the United States Navy

• , an American Civil War gunboat 1863–1877.
• Massachusetts was renamed Shawmut (CM-4) in 1917 and then it was renamed on 1 January 1928.
• Salem (CM-11) was renamed on 15 August 1945.