Daiquiri President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Good Neighbor policy rum was easily obtainable because the policy opened up trade and travel relations with Latin America, Cuba and the Caribbean. The Good Neighbor policy, also known as the Pan-American program, helped make Latin America fashionable. Consequently, rum-based drinks (once frowned upon as being the choice of sailors and down-and-outs), also became fashionable, and the daiquiri saw a tremendous rise in popularity in the US. The basic recipe for a daiquiri is also similar to the grog British sailors drank aboard ship from the 1740s as a means of preventing scurvy. By 1795 the
USS Daiquiri (SP-1285) would be needed by the Navy should the United States enter World War I. Purchased by the Navy in mid-September 1917, she was commissioned in early October as USS "Daiquiri" (SP-1285) and performed patrol service for the 1st Naval District in New England waters for the rest of the conflict. Inactivated in April 1919, the boat was sold in March 1920. 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