USS Williamsburg

Museum Quality Giclee Print

USS Williamsburg

Museum-quality GICLEE print guaranteed not to fade for 75 years. Each print is personally signed by the artist - David Harrison Wright.

18.5" X 28"

$250

(original is available for purchase: 23" X 34" $2500)

U. S. S. WILLIAMSBURG Presidential Yacht from 1945 to 1953
Displacement 1,805 (fl) t; Length 243'9" ; Beam 36' ; Draft 14' ; Speed 13.5 kts; Comliment 81 ; Propulsion two 1,100 hp deisel engines USS WILLIAMSBURG served President Harry Truman during his 11 working vacations at the Little White House in Key West. All the meals for the Little White House were cooked in the WILLIAMSBURG'S Galley and carried ashore to a warming kitchen and then served to the President and his guests. Truman kept in touch with Washington and the rest of the world via. the state of the art communications equipment on board the ship. Guests and staff were housed onboard. WILLIAMSBURG was a familiar sight in Key West Harbor in the years following World War II. Launched at Bath Iron Works in 1930 as the steel-hulled yacht ARAS II ; Acquired by the Navy in 1941 and renamed WILLIAMSBURG ; Classified as a Gunboat PG-56 ; Recommissioned in late 1941 as a General Communications Vessel AGC-369 and designated Presidential Yacht ; Decommissioned in 1953 ; Transfered to the National Service Foundation for oceanographic service, renamed ANTON BRUNN ; Damaged beyond economical repair 1968 in a drydock sinking; Acquired by a commercial concern for use as a combination hotel-restaurant-museum ; Ownership transfered to the Presidential Yacht Trust ( date unknown ) ; Transferred to the USS WILLIAMSBURG Corp , 1993. The ship has been berthed in Le Ricci Italy since 1994 following a failed attempt to restore her there. The $65 million restoration as a Mediterranean Cruise ship failed when the shipyard owner took the first $8 Million and disappeared to Switzerland. The ship has been lying at a salvage yard since then.