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Hiawatha (SP 183)



Call sign (1927):
Love - Dog - Mike - Jig

Hiawatha served the U. S. Navy, the State of Maryland and the U.S. Forestry Service

Patrol Yacht:

  • The first Hiawatha was built in 1914 as Donaire by George Lawley and Sons, Neponset, MA
  • Commissioned USS Hiawatha (SP 183), 10 May 1917
  • Delivered 18 May 1917
  • Loaned to the Maryland State Conservation Commission 11 December 1919
  • Returned to Navy control 16 March 1920
  • Sold to the Department of Agriculture 1 October 1920
  • Registered in 1927 to the Sunny Point Packing Co. of Ketchikan, AK as the yacht Winifred II
  • Registered in 1931 to Lewis P. Larson of Spokane, WA as the yacht Winifred II
  • Renamed Frances
  • Fate unknown.

    Specifications:

  • Displacement 89 t.
    1931 - 87 t.
  • Length 95'
    1931 - 89.8'
  • Beam 17'
    1931 - 16.6'
  • Draft 5'
    1931 - 7.7'
  • Speed 11 kts.
  • Complement 26
    1931 - Three
  • Armament one 3-pounder, one 1-pounder and one machine gun
  • Propulsion: Two 80hp 8-cylinder Winton gasoline engines, two shafts.
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    Hiawatha/Inca 71k Probably photographed in the Norfolk, Virginia, area in 1917-18. USS Inca (SP 1212) is at left, wearing the Naval Aviation star insignia. The Wallace Brothers gasoline engine machine shop is at right
    U.S. Navy photo NH 101791    		 Naval Historical Center
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