6/10/2007
6/10/2007
6/10/2007
6/10/2007
6/10/2007
6/10/2007
Landmark information
- Location:
Off Harbor Dr, near Spanish Landing, San Diego - Plaque:
Official State Plaque - Site:
Existing - Date First Visited:
6/10/2007 - Date Most Recently Visited:
6/10/2007 - GPS Coordinates:
N 32 43.707, W 117 12.985 - Other Designations:
National Register of Historic Places
About this landmark
Plaque text:
USS Recruit
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 was reconditioned in 1982 as a training guided missile frigate. Recruits gave the structure its affectionate nickname: USS Neversail.