USS RECRUIT, SAN DIEGO, CA
N 32° 43.708 W 117° 12.987
11S E 479718 N 3621206
USS Recruit, a landlocked "dummy" training ship. She was built to scale, exactly 2/3 the size of a destroyer escort. Anyone who went through naval training in San Diego will remember this ship.
Waymark Code: WM5A7X
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 12/06/2008
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This 2/3 scale model of a destroyer escort (TDE-1) helped instruct as many as 50,000 naval recruits annually in basic naval procedure. Commissioned 27 July 1949, the Recruit was the Navy's only commissioned ship never to reach water. The Recruit was the first of three similar structures built by the Navy following World War II. It is the sole survivor of the three. Decommissioned 7 March 1967 when it could not be classified in a computerized naval inventory. The USS Recruit nevertheless continued to train recruits, and was recoditioned in 1982 as a training guided missile frigate. Recruits gave the structure its affectionate nickname: USS Neversail.
This is also known as California Historic Landmark 1042 (WM579B).
The USS Recruit is located on Gearing Drive between Evans and Chauncey Roads.