# Did Chicago Once Have a Brick Battleship?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 22, 2010, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-chicago-once-have-a-brick-battleship/537002 "2010-04-22T16:53:26Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 4, 2023, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-chicago-once-have-a-brick-battleship/537002/7 "2023-08-04T15:31:41Z")

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Bumped again.

And see: [Chicago's very own battleship [incl column by Cecil]](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chicagos-very-own-battleship-incl-column-by-cecil/532657)

There’s an article about the wooden “battleship” USS _Recruit,_ built in NYC’s Union Square in May 1917, in the June 2022 issue of _Naval History_ magazine; see p. 8.

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