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Mayflower (PY-1)


Mayflower served both the U. S. Navy and Coast Guard.

Patrol Yacht: Built in 1896 as the yacht Ogden Goelet at 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 as a Patrol Yacht, PY-1, 17 July 1920; Decommissioned 22 March 1929; Purchased by the War Shipping Administration 31 July 1942 and renamed Butte; Transferred to the Coast Guard 6 September 1943 and commissioned Mayflower (WPE-183); Decommissioned 1 July 1946; Returned to the War Shipping Administration for disposal; Sold 8 January 1947 at Baltimore, MD to be converted to a seal catcher; Resold to Collins Distributer's Inc; Registered as Panamanian Malla; Fitted out for coastal trade at Genoa, Italy; Carried Jewish refugees from the Exodus to Haifa, Palestine. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 2,690 t; Length 273'; Beam 36'; Draft 13' 2"; Speed 17 kts; Complement 171; Armament six 6-pounders.


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Mayflower 58k Photographed in 1898.
U.S. Navy Photo NH 60646
Naval Historical Center
Mayflower 176k U.S. Navy photo -
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 142k USCGC (WPE-183)
U.S. Navy photo
USNSM and USS Salem (CA 139) web site
Mayflower 49k USCGC (WPE-183)
U.S. Navy photo
USNSM and USS Salem (CA 139) web site

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DANFS History entry located on the Haze Gray & Underway Web Site. The main archive for the DANFS Online Project.
Crew Contact And Reunion Information
U.S. Navy Memorial Foundation
Fleet Reserve Association
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