The USN Presidential Yacht USS Mayflower PY-1
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The Presidential Yacht USS Mayflower PY-1 (later USCGC Mayflower WPG-183) in 1909 with the newly elected President Theodore Roosevelt on board.
Launched on 17 November 1896 Mayflower had an extremely long and diverse career. She served as a private yacht, merchant ship and as the presidential yacht for five United States presidents Roosevelt, Taft, Wilson, Harding and Coolidge. She also served as a warship, and was possibly the only US Navy ship (certainly one of the very few) to have been in active commissioned service during the Spanish–American War, the First World War and after conversion into a coast guard patrol, patrolling the Atlantic coast guarding against German U-boats in the Second World War. She was also one of the few ships to have served in both the United States and eventually the Israeli navy as a training ship under the name INS Maoz until she was broken up in 1955. (Wikipedia)
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USS Mayflower, 1905.
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President Taft boards the USS Mayflower on 14 October 1912.
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