The recovery of a cylindrical Underwater Unmanned Vehicle (UUV) into a launch tube in an underwater environment presents significant challenges with numerous potential applications. Historically, the recovery process has been challenging and as a result, the UUV’s are oftentimes remotely recovered by external surface craft or housed external to a host platform. The objective of this project is to design, fabricate and demonstrate a means by which a cylindrical body may be recovered into a host launch tube. In addition to the design of a recovery system, the testing of the system is very important. Evaluating UUV recovery systems requires specialized tow-tank testing fixtures that minimize interference with the flow field and accurately measure hydrodynamic properties. Therefore, this task should also include the design of an optimized test fixture for the testing of the selected recovery system.