Franklin D. Roosevelt
Voyages
Transferred to the Navy and commissioned USS Sequoia (AG-23)
On 25 March 1933 the Department of Commerce transferred the yacht to the Navy, which commissioned her as USS *Sequoia* (AG-23) with Lt. John S. Blue i…
FDR hosts British Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald
Weeks into his first term, Franklin D. Roosevelt took British Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald down the Potomac aboard Sequoia. Their conversatio…
FDR's fifty-plus outings on the Potomac
Between 1933 and 1935 Roosevelt made more than fifty recorded outings aboard Sequoia. An elevator was installed so the President, paralyzed by polio,…
Eleanor Roosevelt aboard USS Sequoia
A 1935 National Archives photograph shows First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt on the deck of USS Sequoia during the yacht's last year as the presidential yac…
Decommissioned; reassigned to the Secretary of the Navy
Sequoia's third and final period in commission ended on 9 December 1935. With USS *Potomac* designated the presidential yacht in March 1936, Sequoia b…