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&sq=&lang=&file=File:USS_Mayflower_PY-1_enlargement.jpg) USS Mayflower in 1905
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| History | |
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 United States | |
| Name | Mayflower |
| Owner | Ogden Goelet |
| Builder | J & G Thomson, Clydebank, Scotland |
| Launched | 17 November 1896 |
| Fate | Purchased by the US Navy, 24 March 1898 |
 United States | |
| Name | Mayflower |
| Acquired | 24 March 1898 |
| Commissioned | 24 March 1898 |
| Decommissioned | 1 November 1904 |
| Recommissioned | 25 July 1905 |
| Decommissioned | 22 March 1929 |
| Fate | Sold to private ownership, 19 October 1931 |
 United States | |
| Name | Butte |
| Acquired | by purchase, 31 July 1942 |
| Fate | Transferred to the Coast Guard, 6 September 1943 |
 United States | |
| Name | Mayflower |
| Commissioned | 19 October 1943 |
| Decommissioned | 1 July 1946 |
| Fate | Sold to private ownership, 8 January 1947 |
 Panama | |
| Name | Malla |
| Fate | Sold to Israel, 1950 |
 Israel | |
| Name | Maoz |
| Fate | Broken up, 1955 |
| General characteristics | |
| Tonnage | 1,009 GRT |
| Displacement | 2,690 t (2,650 long tons) |
| Length | 275 ft (84 m) w.l. |
| Beam | 36 ft (11 m) |
| Draft | 17 ft 2.5 in (5.245 m) |
| Installed power | 4,700 ihp (3,500 kW) |
| Propulsion |
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| Speed | 16.8 kn (31.1 km/h; 19.3 mph) |
| Complement | 171 |
| Armament | 6 × 6-pounder guns |
USS Mayflower (PY-1) (later as USCGC Mayflower (WPG-183)) was a 275 ft (84 m), 2,690 t (2,650 LT) motor vessel originally built as a private yacht that went on to serve in a variety of military, governmental, and commercial roles.
She had an extremely long and diverse career. She served as a private yacht, merchant ship and as the presidential yacht for five United States presidents (T. Roosevelt, Taft, Wilson, Harding and Coolidge). She also served as a warship, and was possibly the only US Navy ship (certainly one of the very few) to have been in active commissioned service during the Spanish–American War, World War I and World War II. She was also one of the few ships to have served in both the United States and Israeli navies.[citation needed]