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USS Hiawatha (YT-265)
Tugboat of the United States Navy / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For other ships with the same name, see USS Hiawatha.
USS Hiawatha (YT-265), later YTB-265, later YTM-265, was a type V2-ME-A1 harbor tug that entered service in the United States Navy in 1942, and was sold in 1987. She was the third ship to bear the name Hiawatha.
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![]() Red Cloud (YTB-268), a type V2-ME-A1, same as Hiawatha, alongside David C. Shanks, outside the Oakland Bay Bridge in San Francisco Bay, California, 1950s | |
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Name | Port Angeles |
Namesake | Port Angeles |
Owner | Maritime Commission |
Ordered | as type (V2-ME-A1) hull, MCE hull 432[1] |
Awarded | 23 August 1941 |
Builder | Birchfield Boiler, Inc., Tacoma, Washington |
Cost | $301,042[1] |
Yard number | 1 |
Laid down | 27 October 1941 |
Launched | 3 April 1942 |
Sponsored by | Mrs. Violet Davies |
Fate | Transferred to the US Navy, 30 April 1942 |
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Name | Hiawatha |
Namesake | Hiawatha |
Owner | US Navy |
Acquired | 30 April 1942 |
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Fate | Sold for scrapping, 7 April 1987 |
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Class and type | Hiawatha-class tugboat |
Type | Harbor tug |
Displacement | 237 long tons (241 t) |
Length | 100 ft (30 m) |
Beam | 25 ft (7.6 m) |
Draft | 9 ft 7 in (2.92 m) |
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Propulsion | Single propeller |
Speed | 16 kn (30 km/h; 18 mph) |
Crew | 14 |
Armament | 2 × 0.50 in (12.70 mm) heavy machine guns |
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