[HN Gopher] USS Recruit (1917): The Wooden Dreadnought in Manhat...
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USS Recruit (1917): The Wooden Dreadnought in Manhattan's Union
Square
Author : weatherlight
Score : 64 points
Date : 2023-10-22 04:21 UTC (1 days ago)
(HTM) web link (www.warhistoryonline.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.warhistoryonline.com)
| mcpackieh wrote:
| I love the dazzle camo, it really does make the 'ship' hard to
| recognize as a ship.
|
| Maybe not effective for it's intended purpose of frustrating the
| use of optical rangefinders, but it sure looked cool.
| evbogue wrote:
| Is this real? I've been through Union Square 10,000 times over
| the past 20 years and never heard mention of it.
| Tommstein wrote:
| > _"When the First World War came to an end, the USS Recruit
| stayed put for another two years. However, as Christenson
| explains, 'By 1920, the United States had the largest Navy in
| the world in terms of sailors, and there was less of a need for
| them with the end of World War I.' As such, the ship's flag was
| lowered on March 16, 1920, and she was decommissioned and
| dismantled."_
| evbogue wrote:
| well yes, I assumed it was gone by the time I wandered
| through Union Square. I just feel like I should have seen a
| memo printed into metal about it at some point during my
| journeys.
| thisismyaccoun7 wrote:
| Nope. Its successor is still in San Diego though
| https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Recruit_(TDE-1)
| mcpackieh wrote:
| There's a somewhat similar sort of thing in New Jersey for
| development/training (not recruiting afaik), basically a
| warehouse with the superstructure of a cruiser/destroyer
| sitting on top of it:
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Rancocas
| thatfunkymunki wrote:
| You sure about that?
| https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Recruit_(1917)
| evbogue wrote:
| Wow! You can see Barnes and Noble from that photo. Never
| knew about it, now I know.
| psunavy03 wrote:
| I don't think you read the linked article. Yes, there have
| been several "USS Recruits" at various bases which have
| hosted Navy boot camps over the years. One is in San Diego
| at Liberty Station, a mixed-use development which used to
| be Naval Training Center San Diego and is now anchored by a
| Stone brewpub.
|
| Source: I served in San Diego in the reserves, did
| detachments there while on active duty, quaffed quite a few
| pints at said Stone brewpub, and have walked around the
| "ship."
| lostlogin wrote:
| I'm confused. Are you saying the NY ship did, or didn't
| exist?
| slyall wrote:
| They both existed. The New York one is completely gone.
| The San Diego one still physically exists as a museum
| "ship".
| marcellus23 wrote:
| > Nope.
|
| I'm guessing you just misinterpreted the parent's comment --
| you didn't intend to mean that it's not real, right?
| pimlottc wrote:
| I think they meant it's not there anymore.
| Animats wrote:
| The successor to that one is the USS Trayer. It's at Great
| Lakes Naval Training Center. It's a 2/3 scale Navy destroyer,
| indoors, in a water tank alongside a pier. It's not just a
| mockup; it's a large-scale simulator, and most of the
| equipment works. New Navy recruits go through a 12-hour
| training exercise on the ship, called "Battle Stations 21".
| The Navy doesn't give out full details, but fire and flooding
| are involved.
| Freak_NL wrote:
| At 2/3 scale, does that mean taller seamen are going to
| find things a bit cramped?
| simmerup wrote:
| There are so many photos of it in the article...
| pjc50 wrote:
| "was only there for three years" a century ago.
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