USS Hiawatha (ID-2892)

The second USS Hiawatha (ID-2892[1] or SP-2892[2]) was a harbor tug that served in the United States Navy in 1918.

For other ships with the same name, see USS Hiawatha.
Hiawatha as a civilian tug, probably sometime between 1903 and 1917.
History
United States
Name: USS Hiawatha
Namesake: Hiawatha, a leader of the Onondaga and Mohawk nations of Native Americans and a fictional character in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem "Song of Hiawatha"
Builder: Brown, Tottenville, Staten Island, New York
Completed: 1903
Acquired: 1 August 1918
Commissioned: 1 August 1918
Decommissioned: 5 December 1918
Fate: Returned to owner 30 April 1919[1] or 5 May 1919[2]
Notes: Operated as civilian tug Hiawatha 1903-1918 and from 1919
General characteristics
Type: Harbor tug
Displacement: 69 tons
Length: 65 ft 5 in (19.94 m)
Beam: 17 ft (5.2 m)
Draft: 8 ft (2.4 m)
Installed power: 250 indicated horsepower (0.33 megawatt)
Propulsion: Steam engine, one shaft
Speed: 8 knots
Complement: 5

Hiawatha was built as a civilian, wooden-hulled steam tug of the same name in 1903 by Brown at Tottenville, Staten Island, New York. The U.S. Navy acquired her under charter from her owner for World War I service on 1 August 1918. She was commissioned as USS Hiawatha (ID-2892[1] or SP-2892[2]) at New York City the same day.

Assigned to the 3rd Naval District, Hiawatha operated with the guard ship USS Amphitrite and was manned either by sailors from Amphitrite or by a civilian crew.[3] She performed guard duty in the New York Harbor and boarded ships to inspect cargo until she was decommissioned on 5 December 1918.

Hiawatha was returned to her owner on either 30 April 1919[1] or 5 May 1919.[2]

Throughout her U.S. Navy service, Hiawatha was one of two ships simultaneously in service as USS Hiawatha, the other being the patrol vessel USS Hiawatha (SP-183).

Notes
  1. Per the Naval History and Heritage Command Online Library of Selected Images (at http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/sh-civil/civsh-h/hiawatha.htm).
  2. Per the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (at http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/h6/hiawatha-ii.htm) and NavSource Online (at http://www.navsource.org/archives/12/172892.htm).
  3. Per NavSource Online (at http://www.navsource.org/archives/12/172892.htm).

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