USS Commodore (401B)

Commodore, was a landlocked "dummy" training ship of the United States Navy.

She was equipped with operational guns and equipment, except for an engine, to allow for the training of sailors in shipboard operations in a reasonably safe environment during the Second World War and the early Cold War era.

Commodore was equipped with most of the facilities found on a real ship, including deck guns, a pilot house, davits with whaleboats, and mooring lines fastened to earth-bound bollards, so that recruits could even learn the proper casting off of hawsers and other lines connecting the ship to its dock.

Due to her landlocked condition, Commodore was referred to by the cadets who trained aboard her as "The Never-Sail".

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Olivia Hooker (front) and Aileen Anita Cooks (behind) of the SPARS aboard USS Commodore (401B).