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DANFS merely says "An Indian name," which perhaps reflects the difficulty the writers had trying to figure out where the word came from. It appears to be derived from a Taíno or Arawak word for lizard, which evolved into the familiar term for this lizard species, iguana.
Alternatively, it might be a misspelling of H'iwana, a Taos name for the Apache. On the other hand, whoever was tasked with coming up with names for these tugs in the 1890s might have just made up a suitably "Indian" sounding word. |
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Iwana (YT-2)
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Iwana (YT-2) alongside USS Constitution in Boston harbor, date unknown.
US Navy photo |
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Iwana (YT-2) underway in Boston harbor during the 1920s.
Photo courtesy of the Boston Public Library, Leslie Jones Collection, accession number 08_06_006780 (cropped) |
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Iwana (YT-2) alongside USS Constitution in Boston harbor, date unknown. This and the above photo were likely taken during the period of Constitution's refit in 1927-1931.
Photo courtesy of the Boston Public Library, Leslie Jones Collection, accession number 08_06_008016 (cropped) |
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Iwana (YT-2) moored at Boston Navy Yard, mid-1930s. USS Constitution is moored across the pier, with a Wandank-class fleet tug moored aft of Iwana. |
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Iwana (YT-2) underway at Boston Navy Yard, mid-1930s. |
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Commercial Service
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Joseph York moored along the waterfront of West Commercial Street, Portland, ME, 1946.
Photo courtesy Portland Press Herald Still-Film Negatives Collection, call number 46560 |
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