From 'seagoing White House' to ghost ship: Truman's yacht rusts far from home - World News
If you?re under 70, you?ve probably never heard of the USS Williamsburg.
But at one time she was among the most famous ships on the planet -- the stuff of newsreels and bold headlines.
Steel-hulled and built to look like a mini-Titanic, the 240-foot Williamsburg started out in the early 1930s as the Aras, a private yacht. She became a patrol gunboat during World War II. But it was as President Harry S. Truman?s yacht that she gained acclaim as his "seagoing White House."
If you?re under 70, you?ve probably never heard of the USS Williamsburg.
But at one time she was among the most famous ships on the planet -- the stuff of newsreels and bold headlines.
Steel-hulled and built to look like a mini-Titanic, the 240-foot Williamsburg started out in the early 1930s as the Aras, a private yacht. She became a patrol gunboat during World War II. But it was as President Harry S. Truman?s yacht that she gained acclaim as his "seagoing White House."
