Voyages
46 voyages found
Launch and christening as Sequoia II
Laid down at the Mathis Yacht Building Co. in Camden, New Jersey, to a John Trumpy design, the yacht was launched at the end of October 1925 and chris…
The Cadwaladers cruise the Florida coast
In her first seasons the Cadwaladers sailed *Sequoia II* south to the Florida coast, calling at West Palm Beach and Miami.
Sold to William H. Dunning
In 1928 the Cadwaladers sold the yacht to Houston oil executive William H. Dunning, her second private owner.
Purchased by the Department of Commerce
On 24 March 1931 the U.S. Department of Commerce bought the yacht from William H. Dunning for roughly $40,000. Officially she served as a decoy vessel…
President Hoover's first voyages aboard Sequoia
Four voyages are documented during the Hoover administration, mixing presidential business with the fishing trips Hoover prized. Sequoia thus became a…
The Hoovers' ten-day fishing trip along the Georgia and Florida coasts
In December 1932, after losing the election, President and Mrs. Hoover spent ten days aboard Sequoia fishing along the coasts of Georgia and Florida,…
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…
Truman, Attlee, and Mackenzie King discuss control of atomic energy
In November 1945, three months after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, President Truman took British Prime Minister Clement Attlee and Canadian Prime Minister M…
Eisenhower, Nimitz, Spaatz, and Montgomery confer aboard
On 16 September 1946 General Dwight D. Eisenhower met Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz, General Carl Spaatz, and British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery…
The Secretary of the Navy's yacht on the Anacostia River
An official Navy photograph from April 1951 shows Sequoia, then the Secretary of the Navy's yacht, lying off the dock in the Anacostia River.
The Joint Chiefs draft the 'Sequoia Report'
From 6 to 8 August 1953 Admiral Arthur W. Radford and the Joint Chiefs of Staff met aboard Sequoia to shape President Eisenhower's 'New Look' defense…
Cuban Missile Crisis strategy meetings
During the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962 the Kennedy administration held strategy meetings aboard Sequoia, away from the White House.
President Kennedy's 46th birthday cruise
On 29 May 1963 John F. Kennedy celebrated his 46th — and last — birthday aboard Sequoia with some twenty-five friends and family. Two orchestras playe…
The Kennedys' cancelled Sunday cruise
President and Mrs. Kennedy were scheduled to cruise aboard Sequoia on Sunday, 24 November 1963. The President was assassinated in Dallas two days earl…
President Johnson has FDR's elevator removed and a bar installed
Lyndon Johnson, who had made eight recorded trips as Vice President and would make more than thirty-five as President, ordered Roosevelt's elevator ta…
Jacqueline Kennedy's evening aboard with the President's friends
In April 1964 Jacqueline Kennedy spent an evening aboard Sequoia with her late husband's closest friends.
Memorial gathering before what would have been Kennedy's 47th birthday
In late May 1964, around what would have been the late President's 47th birthday, friends and colleagues gathered aboard Sequoia in his memory — an ev…
President Johnson dines aboard Sequoia
A White House photograph by Yoichi Okamoto records Lyndon Johnson at dinner with a guest aboard Sequoia on 15 July 1965, Secret Service agent Rufus Yo…
Re-designated the presidential yacht for the Nixon administration
In January 1969 the Navy again assigned Sequoia primarily to the President's use; by June she had resumed her broader schedule under the Secretary of…
Pat Nixon hosts inner-city children aboard Sequoia
A 1969 White House photograph shows First Lady Pat Nixon aboard Sequoia with children from Washington's inner city.
Nixon and Brezhnev's working dinner on the Potomac
On 19 June 1973 President Nixon hosted Soviet General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev for a working dinner aboard Sequoia. The talks fed into the Agreement…