USS Sequoia is the former presidential yacht used during the administrations of Herbert Hoover through Jimmy Carter. To set a cost-cutting example, Carter ordered her sold in 1977.
Sequoia in Washington Marina in 2008
USS Sequoia
President Harry Truman and prime ministers Clement Attlee and Mackenzie King board the Sequoia for discussions about nuclear weapons, November 1945
John F. Kennedy opening gifts with family and friends on board USS Sequoia May 29, 1963
Emily Roebling Cadwalader
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Emily Margaretta Roebling Cadwalader was an American socialite and philanthropist, based in Philadelphia. She is best known as the owner of two historic yachts, the USS Sequoia and the MV Savarona.
USS Sequoia (presidential yacht)
…Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the Sequoia continues to carry its "USS" designation. The Sequoia is believed to have been named by her original owner, Emily Roebling Cadwalader, after Sequoyah, a leader of the Cherokee Nation. Designed by John Trumpy and built by the famed John H. Mathis & Company Shipbuilders in Camden, New…
Emily Roebling Cadwalader, from a 1909 publication
The yacht MV Savarona in 1953