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WASHINGTON — The former
Presidential yacht Mayflower, vet
, eran of three wars, is still carrying
! on as a Coast Guard training ship, j
operating out of Boston.
The 320-foot, 2.700-ton craft
boasts a colorful career surpassed
by few other vessels afloat. She
has had aboard since she was
launched nearly a half century ago
: many of the great and near great
of this and other nations.
Her career appeared to be ended
in March, 1929, when she was de
commissioned by the Navy on or
ders of President Hoover. She was
sold to L. P. Coe of Chicago, who 1
towed her to Wilmington, N. C., to
recondition her for exhibition pur
poses.
That plan was not carried out,
however, and with the war she
was converted for Coast Guard
duty at Norfolk, Va., under the su
pervision of the War Shipping Ad
ministration.
On Oct. 1, 1943, she was placed
in commission by Rear Admiral
Felix X. Gygax, then commandant
of the Norfolk Navy Yard, with
Lt. Comdr. Fred E. Morton, USCG,
as skipper. She was assigned to a
task group under the command of
Lt. Comdr. W. R. Crenshaw. The
! task group was operating under
Rear Admiral D. B. Beary, com
mander of the Operational Train
ing Command, U. S. Atlantic
Fleet.
After a brief period of anti-sub
marine patrol, she was designated
as a training ship for operation
with the Navy.
The Mayflower was designed by
George L. Wason and built by J.
and G. Thompson, Clydebank, ,
Scotland, for Ogden Goelet, of
New York. She was launched Nov.
6, 1896. The following summer her
owner cruised aboard her in Eu
ropean waters. Among the guests
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traffic accidents, 1943;
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entertained aboard were King Ed-1
ward VII, Kaiser Wilhelm, King
Carlos of Portugal and Grand
Duke Boris of Russia.
After Goelet’s death in Septem
ber, 1897, the vessel was bought
by the Navy for $430,000, and
commissioned as a dispatch boat,;
the first converted yacht in the
Navy.
A month later the Spanish
American war broke out, and she j
joined the blockading fleet off Ha
vana. She captured two Spanish
schooners and a British blockade
runner. Later she participated in
the taking of Cienfuegos.
During World War I, she spent
most of the time on special serv
ice in the Fifth Naval District, of
which Norfolk is headquarters.
Between wars, the vessel was,
used by Presidents and cabinet
members for pleasure cruises and
inspection trips.
It was aboard the Mayflower
that Theodore Roosevelt reviewed
the battle fleet before and after
its cruise around the world. It was
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and it was there that he received
word of his reelection.
It was aboard the Mayflower
that President Harding reviewed
the Atlantic fleet in the Hudson
River in 1922 and officially re
ceived several thousand bodies of
American soldiers from France.
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