Presidential yacht may refer to a naval vessel of a country's navy that would be specially used for by the country's President. It is common for a vessel to be designated as the Presidential yacht during a fleet review.
Specific vessels include:
- USS Potomac, USS Mayflower, USS Sequoia, and USS Williamsburg, past yachts of the President of the United States
- Sirius, yacht of Russian President Dmitri Medvedev
- BRP Ang Pangulo (English: BRP The President) the presidential yacht of the President of the Philippines
Famous quotes containing the words presidential and/or yacht:
“Under a Presidential government, a nation has, except at the electing moment, no influence; it has not the ballot-box before it; its virtue is gone, and it must wait till its instant of despotism again returns.”
—Walter Bagehot (1826–1877)
“I’ve given parties that have made Indian rajahs green with envy. I’ve had prima donnas break $10,000 engagements to come to my smallest dinners. When you were still playing button back in Ohio, I entertained on a cruising trip that was so much fun that I had to sink my yacht to make my guests go home.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)