USS Sultana

USS Sultana (SP-134) was a steam yacht acquired under a free lease by the United States Navy in World War I.

She rescued survivors adrift in the water, and protected cargo ships from U-boat attack, and was returned to her owner at the close of the war.

One time we cruised for a year and a half from the North Cape to the Suez, stopping wherever and for as long as we pleased."

It was fitted out at Brooklyn Navy Yard, and she joined a special patrol force at Tompkinsville, Staten Island, on 6 June.

On 4 July, she rescued 45 survivors of the American merchantman, Orleans, which had been torpedoed the day before; and she landed them at Brest, France, that evening.

Sultana was stripped of her naval hardware, decommissioned, and on 17 February 1919 was struck from the Navy list and returned to Mrs Harriman.