![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]](https://www.afloimages.com/stock-photo-xpreview/103072439.jpg?src=https%3A%2F%2Fd22ku65k4a4snt%2Ecloudfront%2Enet%2F18DE8F93F%2F0Qr7aSDDoKIg%2Faflo%5F103072439%2Ejpg)
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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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