Landship Recruit

[anteros_lmc]

Remember the pictures of the land ship I posted recently? Well it turns out that the US Navy had one too! USS Recruit was built in Union Square, Manhattan in 1917 and was used as a recruiting centre and training ship. She also seems to have been used for dancing classes ;)

Comments

[eglantine_br]

I bet that goat was having a great time. Goats love a crowd. Are goats associated with the Royal Navy? The goat is our Naval animal.

[charliecochrane]

We have many a regimental goat. http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/justthejob/takeitfromme/star_shenkin.shtml

And they used to have goats on ships (for the milk). There's a story in one of the Aubrey books about a bloke and a goat.

[vespican]

If I remember, it's in Master and Commander. Very funny!
Dave

[anteros_lmc]

I seem to recall that Basil Hall had some highly entertaining stories about naval goats too.

PS Have a look at the lovely fellow below ;)

[vespican]

the USN had a second USS Recruit. It was a similar mock up of a destroyer escort (frigate) at San Diego's Recruit Training Center. It had class rooms in the hull and topsides configured like a typical destroyer or escort destroyer of late WWII or Cold War era. I remember standing watch on board while in boot camp.
Dave

[anteros_lmc]

I wondered if there were other training ships like this and if you knew of any of them. Did you have dancing and goats in San Diego too? :)

[eglantine_br]

I think they may have had one like that at Great Lakes too, long ago.