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Patrol Yacht Photo Archive

USCGC Mayflower (WPG 183)
ex-USS Mayflower (PY 1)

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 and 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 dct, 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
	58k	Photographed in 1898. U.S. Navy photo NH 60646	Naval Historical Center
	61k	.	Robert Hurst
	176k	c. 1905 National Archives photo 43-1289a	-
	112k	Postcard of U.S. Yacht "Mayflower, the President's Yacht" at anchor, Oyster Bay, Long Island, NY © Enrique Muller, 1905	© Richard Leonhardt
	112k	President Roosevelt, Mrs. Roosevelt, Admiral Coles, Captain Sims, and others on board Mayflower. From Stereograph Copyright 1907 by Underwood & Underwood	Warren McLean
	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
	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)
	49k	U.S. Navy photo	USNSM and USS Salem (CA 139) web site
	142k	18 February 1944 U.S. Navy photo	USNSM and USS Salem (CA 139) web site
INS Maoz (K 24)
	41k	Maoz at anchor, circa 1952 Israeli Navy photo from the 1954/55 edition of Jane's Fighting Ships.	Robert Hurst