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,…
An afternoon on the Potomac with family and friends
On 15 October 1933 President Roosevelt left the White House at 12:45 p.m. for the Navy Yard and an afternoon on the Potomac aboard USS Sequoia. The Wh…
President Roosevelt at the New London boat races
President Roosevelt attended the boat races at New London, Connecticut, on 22 June 1934 and spent the night aboard USS Sequoia. The White House stenog…
President Roosevelt's party boards Sequoia
On 6 October 1934 President Roosevelt's party left the White House at 11:40 a.m. to board USS Sequoia. The Usher's log names Col. and Mrs. Edwin M. Wa…
Return from Williamsburg, Virginia
President Roosevelt returned from Williamsburg, Virginia, aboard USS Sequoia on 21 October 1934. The yacht docked at the Washington Navy Yard, and the…
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…
President Roosevelt joins Sequoia down river
On 26 May 1935 President Roosevelt drove to the Navy Yard at 11:20 a.m. and boarded a barge that met USS Sequoia down river. With him, the Usher's log…
To Jefferson Island with Vice President Garner
On 13 July 1935 President Roosevelt drove to Annapolis, Maryland, and boarded USS Sequoia for the Jefferson Rod and Gun Club in Chesapeake Bay. Vice P…
Opening the Choptank River bridge at Cambridge, Maryland
On 26 October 1935 President Roosevelt drove to Annapolis and boarded USS Sequoia for Cambridge, Maryland, to open the newly built bridge over the Cho…
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…