John F. Fitzgerald 1946, when John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy decided to run for Congress, 83-year-old Honey Fitz helped him plan his campaign strategy. At the victory celebration, Fitzgerald danced an Irish jig, sang "Sweet Adeline," and predicted that his grandson would someday occupy the White House. Shortly after his election to the presidency, President Kennedy renamed the presidential yacht the "Honey Fitz" in honor of his maternal grandfather. On September 18, 1889, Fitzgerald married his second cousin Mary Josephine "Josie" Hannon. She was a daughter of Michael Hannon and Mary Ann Fitzgerald. On October 2, 1950, Fitzgerald died in Boston at the age
Royal yacht Principality of Monaco owned the princely yacht "Deo Juvante II" between 1956-1958. This Camper and Nicholsons yacht was a wedding gift from Aristotle Onassis to Prince Rainer and Grace Kelly and was used on their honeymoon. The yacht, now called M/Y "Grace", is now owned and operated by Quasar Expeditions. Yugoslavia had some royal yachts before World War II (most notably, one was a sister ship of "Ilinden" which sank in Lake Ohrid in 2009). Zanzibar had only one naval ship in 1896, the royal yacht . It was sunk by the British during the shortest war in history, the