Search results
Becoming a member of the Destroyer Escort Historical Museum is the most basic way you can support the restoration and educational programs aboard USS SLATER. Members receive a subscription to our quarterly newsletter “Trim But Deadly,” an invite to special events we hold, and free admission to SLATER.
- Plan a Visit
Historic Naval Ships Museum Ships. USS SLATER PO Box 1926...
- Ship's Store
Ship's Store - USS SLATER
- Contact
Mailing Address. USS SLATER : DEHM. PO Box 1926. Albany, NY...
- Radio
Museum Ships Radio Weekend. Steve Syrotynski . WW2DEM is...
- Online Tour
Online Tour - USS SLATER
- History
The USS SLATER DE-766 is a CANNON class destroyer escort...
- Education
The Destroyer Escort Historical Museum staff and volunteers...
- DE Classified
DE Classified - USS SLATER
- Memoriam & Honor
Lewis, Charles - USS SLATER DE 766. Lewis, BT2/c, Edward -...
- Links
Other Museum Ship Sites: An excellent guide to historic...
- Plan a Visit
USS Slater is now a museum ship on the Hudson River in Albany, New York, the only one of its kind afloat in the United States. As of 2020, fewer than 12 destroyer escorts survive, with Slater the only one in its wartime configuration. Slater was designated a National Historic Landmark on 2 March 2012.
USS Slater/Destroyer Escort Historical Museum. Broadway and Quay. Albany, NY 12202. 518-431-1943. www.ussslater.org. During World War II, 563 destroyer escorts battled Nazi U-boats on the North Atlantic, protecting convoys of men and material. In the Pacific they stood in line to defend naval task forces from Japanese submarines and Kamikaze ...
The USS SLATER has been designated a National Historic Landmark. Of over 2,500 national Museum members, locally 120 volunteers are actively engaged with the organization, interpreting the USS SLATER to the public, maintaining the ship and her vintage equipment, and preserving the maintenance techniques of sixty years ago.
The USS Slater, docked on the Albany waterfront, is the only World War II-era destroyer escort still afloat and the only one in existence with its original battle armament. Launched in 1944 and named after Alabama sailor Frank O. Slater, killed during the Battle of Guadalcanal in 1942, the Slater saw service in both the Atlantic and Pacific ...
The USS Slater Destroyer Escort Historical Museum, 141 Broadway, Albany, NY 12202 (telephone 518-431-1943) is located on the Hudson Riverfront of New York’s state capital. Towed back from Greece in 1993, Slater underwent restoration beginning in 1999 by volunteers led by Tim Rizzuto, former ship superintendent of USS Kidd in Baton Rouge, and ...
People also ask
Where is USS Slater now?
Where can you visit a reconstructed USS Slater?
Is the USS Slater still afloat?
When was USS Slater commissioned?
