The first ship a lot of San Diego recruits ever boarded never left the base: USS Recruit, a two-thirds scale destroyer escort built on dry land in 1949, which sailors knew as USS Neversail. Recruits...
The Navy took over this stretch of San Diego Bay on 23 February 1922 as U.S. Destroyer Base, San Diego, and the name on this patch did not arrive until 15 September 1946. Naval Station San Diego is...