Timeline

Launch and christening as Sequoia II

Camden, New Jersey

The Cadwaladers cruise the Florida coast

Sold to William H. Dunning

Purchased by the Department of Commerce

President Hoover's first voyages aboard Sequoia

Washington, D.C.

The Hoovers' ten-day fishing trip along the Georgia and Florida coasts

President Hoover disembarks from Sequoia

Transferred to the Navy and commissioned USS Sequoia (AG-23)

Washington, D.C.

FDR hosts British Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald

Washington, D.C.

FDR's fifty-plus outings on the Potomac

Washington Navy Yard

Eleanor Roosevelt aboard USS Sequoia

Decommissioned; reassigned to the Secretary of the Navy

Truman, Attlee, and Mackenzie King discuss control of atomic energy

Washington, D.C.

Eisenhower, Nimitz, Spaatz, and Montgomery confer aboard

Washington, D.C.

The Secretary of the Navy's yacht on the Anacostia River

Anacostia River, Washington, D.C.

The Joint Chiefs draft the 'Sequoia Report'

Washington, D.C.

Cuban Missile Crisis strategy meetings

Washington, D.C.

President Kennedy's 46th birthday cruise

Washington Navy Yard

The Kennedys' cancelled Sunday cruise

Washington, D.C.

President Johnson has FDR's elevator removed and a bar installed

Jacqueline Kennedy's evening aboard with the President's friends

Washington, D.C.

Memorial gathering before what would have been Kennedy's 47th birthday

Washington, D.C.

President Johnson dines aboard Sequoia

Washington, D.C.

Re-designated the presidential yacht for the Nixon administration

Pat Nixon hosts inner-city children aboard Sequoia

Washington, D.C.

Nixon and Brezhnev's working dinner on the Potomac

Washington, D.C.

Nixon decides to resign aboard Sequoia

Washington, D.C.

Susan Ford's pre-prom party and 19th birthday

Washington, D.C.

President Ford holds a Cabinet meeting aboard Sequoia

Washington, D.C.

Happy Rockefeller entertains Mutsuko Miki

Washington, D.C.

Emperor Hirohito's delegation is entertained aboard

Washington, D.C.

Working dinner with Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau

Washington, D.C.

Betty Ford hosts Happy Rockefeller's 50th birthday cruise

Washington, D.C.

President Carter orders Sequoia sold

Sold at auction to Thomas Malloy

The Presidential Yacht Trust brings Sequoia back to Washington

Palm Beach, Florida

EPA administrator Anne Gorsuch Burford's cruise with Reagan officials

Washington, D.C.

Eight-month, 6,000-mile national tour

Washington, D.C.

Statue of Liberty centennial naval review

New York Harbor

Vice President Bush hosts Yang Shangkun

Washington, D.C.

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places

President Clinton attends an event aboard

Washington, D.C.

Crew reunion cruise from the Washington Navy Yard

Washington Navy Yard

Cruise to Mount Vernon for wounded soldiers and their families

Washington, D.C.

FE Partners acquires Sequoia and begins restoration planning

Moved to Belfast, Maine, for restoration

Deltaville, Virginia

Returned to Cambridge, Maryland, for a five-year renovation

Belfast, Maine