The USS Recruit helped break in sailors at the Naval Training Center in Point Loma between 1949 and the base's closure in 1997
After almost two decades of sitting idly at Liberty Station, the USS Recruit, a landlocked ship that once was used to train Navy recruits, has opened to the public.
It was nicknamed the “USS Neversail” because it was built on land at the naval base. It measured 225 feet from bow to stern and 41 feet tall from the tip of the mast to the ground. It is the Navy’s only commissioned ship that has never touched the water.The Recruit was used to teach Navy newcomers the fundamentals of shipboard procedures. As many as 50,000 recruits a year trained on board.
The property was acquired in 2018 by The Seligman Group, a property acquisition and development company based in San Francisco. “When you come for a dance class or an art exhibit or for dinner, the history of the space kind of gets overlooked, and that’s the point of this centennial — to tell that story,” Albrecht said.
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