USS Artemis (SP-593) - Constructed in Delaware

Constructed in Delaware

Cristina — a steel-hulled yacht designed by Gielow and Orr, naval architects — was built at Wilmington, Delaware, by Pusey and Jones Co., for Frederick C. Fletcher of Boston, Massachusetts; and launched in 1912. In 1916 or 1917 the Cleveland philanthropist John Long Severance (1863–1936) acquired the yacht and renamed her Artemis.

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