The Song of Hiawatha The Song of Hiawatha The Song of Hiawatha is an 1855 epic poem in trochaic tetrameter by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow that features Native American characters. The epic relates the fictional adventures of an Ojibwe warrior named Hiawatha and the tragedy of his love for Minnehaha, a Dakota woman. Events in the story are set in the Pictured Rocks area on the south shore of Lake Superior. Longfellow's poem, though based on native oral traditions surrounding the figure of Manabozho, represents not a work of transmission but an original work of American Romantic literature. Longfellow's sources for the legends and ethnography
USS Hiawatha (YT-265) USS Hiawatha (YT-265) The third 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 built as the tug "Port Angeles" under a Maritime Commission contract by Birchfield Boiler, Inc. at Tacoma, Washington, and launched as such on 3 April 1942, sponsored by Mrs. Violet Davies. The U.S. Navy acquired "Port Angeles" on 30 April 1942, changed her name to "Hiawatha", and placed her in service as harbor tug USS "Hiawatha" (YT-265). "Hiawatha" performed harbor tug duties for the 13th