From 1932 to 1977 US presidents had a private yacht named USS Sequoia at their disposal. Aboard the Sequoia, presidents hosted foreign leaders and held glamorous parties. The boat was sold by the ...

As luxurious as this sounds, one form of transportation has been conspicuously absent from the chief executive's lineup for 40 years: the presidential yacht ... cruise on the USS Sequoia.

USS Mayflower, a recommissioned a luxury steam yacht, was put into service on July 25, 1905, by President Theodore Roosevelt. Presidents Woodrow Wilson, Howard Taft, and Herbert Hoover would also ...

A Washington, D.C., lawyer is trying to fend off a “dastardly plan” to take control his former presidential yacht. The USS Sequoia , the official presidential yacht from the 1930s to the 1970s ...

From 1936 to 1945, this former U.S. Coast Guard cutter served as President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's presidential yacht, after being renamed the USS Potomac and being recommissioned as a Navy ...