The USS SLATER is a WWII Destroyer Escort, which has been undergoing a continuous restoration project since 1993 when the ship was towed to New York City. The first in a long line of volunteer crews began chipping away at her in an attempt to restore her to her 1945 condition. This project has continued after the ship was moved to Albany in 1997, where she is moored as a floating museum. Throughout the years, the SLATER has undergone a thorough overhaul, which included the removal of all the modifications that had been done to her after she had been transferred to the Greek Navy, chipping and repainting nearly every inch of her hull, decks, and bulkheads, and the location and re-installation of several tons of authentic WWII naval equipment. The restored spaces were stocked with not only the requisite equipment found aboard every naval vessel, but also the personal items and gear of the men who once served aboard her.

On Sunday, June 5, 2020, the USS Slater made a trip down the Hudson River to the Caddell Dry Dock and Repair Co. Shipyard in Staten Island, to have further needed restoration work done to her hull in dry dock. She is expected to return to Albany once the work is completed in August. The USS Slater is also the only WWII Destroyer Escort still afloat in the United States.

These are a few photos I took as she sailed past Poughkeepsie, NY on Sunday, around 5:00PM. The conditions were not the greatest as far as the light goes. It was 96°, with hazy, bright sun.

If you are interested, I included the links to the Slater's webpage and FB page.

https://www.ussslater.org/

https://www.facebook.com/USS.Slater/

The USS SLATER is a WWII Destroyer Escort, which has been undergoing a continuous restoration project since 1993 when the ship was towed to New York City. The first in a long line of volunteer crews began chipping away at her in an attempt to restore her to her 1945 condition. This project has continued after the ship was moved to Albany in 1997, where she is moored as a floating museum. Throughout the years, the SLATER has undergone a thorough overhaul, which included the removal of all the modifications that had been done to her after she had been transferred to the Greek Navy, chipping and repainting nearly every inch of her hull, decks, and bulkheads, and the location and re-installation of several tons of authentic WWII naval equipment. The restored spaces were stocked with not only the requisite equipment found aboard every naval vessel, but also the personal items and gear of the men who once served aboard her.

On Sunday, June 5, 2020, the USS Slater made a trip down the Hudson River to the Caddell Dry Dock and Repair Co. Shipyard in Staten Island, to have further needed restoration work done to her hull in dry dock. She is expected to return to Albany once the work is completed in August. The USS Slater is also the only WWII Destroyer Escort still afloat in the United States.

These are a few photos I took as she sailed past Poughkeepsie, NY on Sunday, around 5:00PM. The conditions were not the greatest as far as the light goes. It was 96°, with hazy, bright sun.

If you are interested, I included the links to the Slater's webpage and FB page.

https://www.ussslater.org/

https://www.facebook.com/USS.Slater/

Is not that kind of ship in Tom Hanks's new movie. I had a friend who during WWII was on two destroyer escort, he was all over the place. From a run in the North Atlantic up to Murmansk, Russia and back. His ship was part of the invasion of Sicily. Back to America and put on a new ship and off to the Pacific: Palau and after that picked line off Okinawa. He ended the war in the bay of the second city that got hit by a A-Bomb. Than all the way back home to Brooklyn. At war end he was only 20 years old.