208-PU-172-B-17:   Prayers for the Mayflower.  Prayers for the safety of the famed old presidential yacht Mayflower, going on patrol with the Coast Guard, are offered by Chaplain H.B. Hodgkins, USN, during ceremonies as the ship is commissioned for service in the U.S. Coast Guard.  Standing behind the chaplain are Rear Admiral Felix X. Gygax, Commandant of the Norfolk Navy Yard; Commander G.B. Whitehead, Acting Captain of the Yard; and Lieutenant Commander Fred E. Morton, Coast Guard Officer named to commend the vessel.  This will be the third war in which the Mayflower has participated.  In the Spanish-=American War, the vessel served as a dispatch boat during the Havana blockade, and took part in the capture of the Spanish vessel Santiago Apostle.  During the the first World War, the Mayflower operated as a patrol ship out of Norfolk, Virginia.  Office of War Information Collection.   (2016/08/30).
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