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USCGC Mayflower (WPG 183)



Call sign:
Nan - Roger - Uncle - Xray

ex-USS Mayflower (PY 1)
ex-USS Mayflower


Mayflower served the U. S. Navy and Coast Guard


Mayflower served the U. S. and Israeli Navy.

Patrol Yacht:

  • Built in 1896 as the yacht Ogden Goelet by J. and O. Thompson, Clydebank, Scotland
  • Purchased by the Navy in 1898
  • Commissioned USS Mayflower 24 March 1898 at the New York Navy Yard
  • Decommissioned 1 November 1904
  • Converted to a Presidential Yacht and recommissioned 25 July 1905
  • Designated a Patrol Yacht, PY-1, 17 July 1920
  • Decommissioned 22 March 1929
  • Sold 19 October 1931 to Leo P. Coe, an agent for Frank P. Parish
  • Sold to Broadfoot Iron Works of Wilmington, NC
  • Purchased by the War Shipping Administration 31 July 1942 and renamed Butte
  • Transferred to the Coast Guard 6 September 1943
  • Commissioned USCGC Mayflower (WPG-183), 19 October 1943
  • Decommissioned 1 July 1946
  • Returned to the War Shipping Administration for disposal
  • Sold 8 January 1947 to Frank M. Shaw of Baltimore, MD for use as an Arctic seal catcher
  • Resold in 1948 to Collins Distributer's, Inc. under Panamanian registration as Malla an Aliyah Bet ship
  • Fitted out for coastal trade at Genoa, Italy
  • Carried Jewish refugees from the ill-fated Exodus to Haifa, Palestine
  • Purchased by Isreal in 1950, renamed INS Maoz (K 24) and served as a patrol craft and training ship
  • Broken up in 1955.

    Specifications:

  • Displacement 2,690 t.
  • Length 273'
  • Beam 36'
  • Draft 13' 2"
  • Speed 17 kts.
  • Complement 171
  • Armament: Six 6-pounders (1898), one 5"/51, two 3"/50, six 20mm, two depth charge tracks, four K-guns and one Hedge Hog
  • Propulsion: Two 2,400shp triple-expansion 4-cylinder, double-acting steam engines, two shafts.
    Click on thumbnail
    for full size image    		 Size Image Description Source
    USS Mayflower
    Mayflower 58k Photographed in 1898.
    U.S. Navy photo NH 60646    		 Naval Historical Center
    Mayflower 61k . Robert Hurst
    Mayflower 182k Military officers are leaving a launch and ascending steps [the accommodation ladder] to Presidential Yacht Mayflower during the Portsmouth Peace Conference in 1905
    Library of Congress photo ppmsca 08834    		 Bill Gonyo
    Mayflower 176k c. 1905
    National Archives photo 43-1289a    		 -
    Mayflower 58k . Robert Hurst
    Mayflower 112k Postcard of U.S. Yacht "Mayflower, the President's Yacht" at anchor, Oyster Bay, Long Island, NY
    © Enrique Muller, 1905    		 © Richard Leonhardt
    Mayflower 112k President Roosevelt, Mrs. Roosevelt, Admiral Coles, Captain Sims, and others on board Mayflower.
    From Stereograph Copyright 1907 by Underwood & Underwood    		 Warren McLean
    Mayflower 112k President Roosevelt and Officers of Battleship Fleet on Board "Mayflower." On President's right Admiral Evans: On his left Admiral Thomas, next: Admiral Sperry, and next Admiral Emery.
    From Stereograph Copyright 1907 by Underwood & Underwood    		 Warren McLean
    Mayflower 110k President Theodore Roosevelt and Admiral Robley Dunglison Evans stroll the deck aboard the Presidential Yacht USS Mayflower in 1908
    Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division photo cph 3b00102    		 Bill Gonyo
    Mayflower 96k North River [New York/New Jersey]
    Admiral Thomas S. Rodgers boarding the Mayflower in December of 1918. LT W. P. Frost is to the right of Admiral Rogers.
    Photo from the New York Public Library    		 Bill Gonyo
    USS Mayflower (PY 1)
    Mayflower 93k Washington Navy Yard, District of Columbia. Panoramic view of the Navy Yard waterfront, looking north from across the Anacostia River, circa 1927. Ships present are (from left to right): probably USS Porpoise (YFB-2047); USS Allen (DD-66), Naval Reserve training ship; an "Eagle Boat" (PE); Presidential Yacht Mayflower; and probably USS Sylph (PY-12).
    Courtesy of the U.S. Naval Institute Photographic Collection, 1981.
    U.S. Navy photo 91949    		 Naval Historical Center
    USCGC Mayflower (WPG 183)
    Mayflower 49k U.S. Navy photo USNSM and USS Salem (CA 139) web site
    Mayflower 142k 18 February 1944
    U.S. Navy photo    		 USNSM and USS Salem (CA 139) web site
    INS Maoz (K 24)
    Mayflower 41k Maoz at anchor, circa 1952
    Israeli Navy photo from the 1954/55 edition of Jane's Fighting Ships.    		 Robert Hurst
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    DANFS History entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site.
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