June 10, 2008: Landship

Diaphone Jim · 06-10-2008, 05:19 PM

xoB always has food for thought.
Besides the Union Square "office" ship, seen finished and colorized here:
http://www.brown.edu/Facilities/Univ...ion_square.GIF

There was another wooden USS Recruit, a large scale mock-up at the San Diego Naval Training Station built after WWII and referred to as the USS Neversail.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Recruit

And a real USS Recruit, a Admirable-Class Minesweeper built in 1943 with a short, sort of strange service in the Pacific:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Recruit_(AM-285)

06-10-2008, 05:19 PM	#20
Diaphone Jim Junior Master Dwellar Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Northern California Posts: 2,122	xoB always has food for thought. Besides the Union Square "office" ship, seen finished and colorized here: http://www.brown.edu/Facilities/Univ...ion_square.GIF There was another wooden USS Recruit, a large scale mock-up at the San Diego Naval Training Station built after WWII and referred to as the USS Neversail. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Recruit And a real USS Recruit, a Admirable-Class Minesweeper built in 1943 with a short, sort of strange service in the Pacific: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Recruit_(AM-285)

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