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| Keywords: USS Recruit (TDE-1) in 1949.jpg The U S Navy landlocked dummy training ship USS Recruit TDE-1 located at the Naval Training Center in the Point Loma area of San Diego She was built to scale two-thirds the size of a Dealey-class destroyer escort and was commissioned on 27 July 1949 Recruit was decommissioned in March 1967 due to the inability to classify the unique ship in a computerized registry of Navy vessels However she was later recommissioned in 1982 and refurbished to look like an Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigate as TFFG-1 Commissioned or otherwise she served continuously as a training facility from her construction in 1949 until the base was closed in 1997 http //www navy mil/ah_online/department_arch html U S Navy All Hands magazine http //www navy mil/ah_online/archpdf/ah194910 pdf October 1949 p 6 1949-07-27 U S Navy All photographs published in ALL HANDS are official U S Navy photographs unless otherwise designated 32 72847 -117 21632 PD-USGov-Military-Navy USS Recruit TDE-1 | ||||
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