USS Recruit (TDE-1)
Landlocked training ship in San Diego, California / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For other ships with the same name, see USS Recruit.
32.72847°N 117.21632°W / 32.72847; -117.21632
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USS Recruit (TDE-1/TFFG-1) at Liberty Station (Formerly Naval Training Center), San Diego. | |
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United States | |
Name | USS Recruit (TDE-1) |
Builder | USN |
Commissioned | 1949, 1982 |
Decommissioned | 1967, 1997 |
Nickname(s) | USS Neversail[1] |
Fate | Museum ship |
General characteristics | |
Length | 225 ft 0 in (68.58 m) |
Beam | 24 ft 4 in (7.42 m) |
Draft | 0 ft 0 in (0 m) |
Propulsion | none |
Speed | N/A |
Complement | N/A |
Armament | unarmed |
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USS Recruit (TDE-1, later TFFG-1) was a landlocked "dummy" training ship of the United States Navy, located at the Naval Training Center in the Point Loma area of San Diego, California. She was built to scale, two-thirds the size of a Dealey-class destroyer escort, and was commissioned on July 27, 1949.[2] Recruit was commissioned for 18 years, for much of that period the only landlocked ship to hold that status in the U.S. Navy. After the closure of the Naval Training Center, she sat empty for the better part of 20 years, finally being opened to the public as a museum ship in 2023.[3]