USS Recruit (1917)
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USS Recruit, also known as the Landship Recruit, was a wooden mockup of a dreadnought battleship constructed by the United States Navy in Manhattan in New York City, as a recruiting tool and training ship during the First World War. Commissioned as if it were a normal vessel of the U.S. Navy and manned by a crew of trainee sailors, Recruit was located in Union Square from 1917 until the end of the war. In 1920, with the reduced requirements for manning in the post-war Navy, Recruit was decommissioned and dismantled, having recruited 25,000 sailors into Navy service.
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East 15th Street, New York Manhattan
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N 40.7356 ° | E -73.9906 ° |
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14th Street–Union Square
East 15th Street
10003 New York, Manhattan
New York, United States
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