Daiquiri possible that William A. Chanler, a US congressman who purchased the Santiago iron mines in 1902, introduced the daiquiri to clubs in New York in that year. Originally the drink was served in a tall glass packed with cracked ice. A teaspoon of sugar was poured over the ice and the juice of one or two limes was squeezed over the sugar. Two or three ounces of white rum completed the mixture. The glass was then frosted by stirring with a long-handled spoon. Later the daiquiri evolved to be mixed in a shaker with the same ingredients but with shaved
USS Daiquiri (SP-1285) USS Daiquiri (SP-1285) USS "Daiquiri" (SP-1285) was a motorboat – one of a series of identical boats – planned and built by the U.S. Navy in the event they would be needed during World War I. "Daiquiri" was armed as a patrol craft and assigned to New England waterways under the cognizance of the 1st Naval District based at Kittery, Maine. She was sold when the war ended. "Daiquiri", 62'4" motor boat, was constructed in 1917 at Bristol, Rhode Island, as "Herreshoff Hull # 317". She was one of a group of identical craft built in the expectation that they