Recruiting for the United States Navy, c1917 (1919). Artist: Press Illustrating Service

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Recruiting for the United States Navy, c1917 (1919). Artist: Press Illustrating Service

Recruiting for the United States Navy, c1917 (1919). USS Recruit, also known as the Landship Recruit, was a wooden mockup of a dreadnought battleship constructed by the US Navy in Manhattan, 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 US Navy and manned by a trainee sailors, Recruit was located in Union Square from 1917 until 1920. From The Wonder Book of the Navy for Boys and Girls, by Harry Golding. [Ward, Lock & Co. Limited, London, Melbourne and Toronto, 1919]

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