USS Zoraya (SP-235)

USS Zoraya (SP-235) was an armed yacht that served in the United States Navy from 1917 to 1919.

Zoraya was a wooden-hulled stram yacht constructed in 1901 by J. M. Bayles and Sons at Port Jefferson, New York, for Ms. Atala W. Thayer. The U.S. Navy acquired her from a later owner, Mr. William Biel, for World War I service with the section patrol on 16 August 1917. She was armed, designated SP-235, and commissioned at New York City on 17 December 1917.