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USS Recruit (1917)
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, dismantled, and moved to Coney Island. ''The New York Times'' reported at the time that the "Landship" had helped the U.S. Navy recruit 25,000 men into the service〔("Landship Recruit sails" ), ''The New York Times'', 17 March 1920. Retrieved 29 April 2010.〕—625 times the size of her own crew, and enough to crew twenty-eight battleships.
==Description==
Operating as the U.S. Navy's headquarters for recruiting in the New York City district, ''Recruit'' was a fully rigged battleship, and was operated as a commissioned ship of the U.S. Navy. Under the command of Acting Captain C. F. Pierce and with a complement of thirty-nine bluejackets from the Newport Training Station for crew, ''Recruit'' served as a training ship in addition to being a recruiting office. The Navy also offered public access and tours of the ship, allowing civilians to familiarize themselves with how a Navy warship was operated.〔
The accommodations aboard ''Recruit'' included fore and aft examination rooms, full officer's quarters, a wireless station, a heating and ventilation system that was capable of changing the temperature of the air inside the ship ten times within the span of an hour, and cabins for the accommodation of the sailors of its crew.〔
Two high cage masts, a conning tower, and a single dummy smokestack matched ''Recruits silhouette to the layout of seagoing U.S. battleships of the time. Three twin turrets contained a total of six wooden versions of guns, providing the ship's 'main battery'. Ten wooden guns in casemates represented the secondary anti-torpedo-boat weaponry of a battleship, while two replicas of one-pounder saluting guns completed the ship's 'armament'.〔
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