USS Hiawatha (YT-265)

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.

Hiawatha was laid down as the tug Port Angeles, under a Maritime Commission (MARCOM) contract, MC hull 432, by Birchfield Boiler, Inc. at Tacoma, Washington, on 27 October 1941.

[1] Hiawatha performed harbor tug duties for the 13th Naval District, at Seattle, Washington, during and after World War II.

[3] In 1948, Hiawatha was assigned to the 12th Naval District, where she operated as a tug for the San Francisco Naval Shipyard, at San Francisco, California, into at least the 1960s.

She was reclassified as a medium harbor tug, and redesignated YTM-265, in February 1962.