My weekend Plan, the USS Slater DE-766
Fri Jul 29, 2005 2:36 pm
Looks I found something to do Saturday.
Kelly is out of town this weekend and I figured I’d do something kind of fun that she would not mind missing. So it’s off to tour a Destroyer Escort, the USS Slater, that is a museum in Albany, NY. I’ve been planning to go for a few years now. Pictures to come tomorrow night.
All I have to do is get around the falling overpass.
http://www.ussslater.org/
Kelly is out of town this weekend and I figured I’d do something kind of fun that she would not mind missing. So it’s off to tour a Destroyer Escort, the USS Slater, that is a museum in Albany, NY. I’ve been planning to go for a few years now. Pictures to come tomorrow night.
All I have to do is get around the falling overpass.
http://www.ussslater.org/
Fri Jul 29, 2005 11:30 pm
Tim,
Was USS Slater the ship that was next to the Intrepid in NYC?
Look forward to your pics.
Bill
Was USS Slater the ship that was next to the Intrepid in NYC?
Look forward to your pics.
Bill
Sat Jul 30, 2005 8:56 am
I think it was several years ago when it returned from Greece.
The Destroyer that was most recently removed from the Intrepid Museum (I assume for the same reasons as a bunch of the A/C were) was a different ship. That one was DD-946 USS Edson. I was pictures of hat also.
More of the ship story later & picutres
The Destroyer that was most recently removed from the Intrepid Museum (I assume for the same reasons as a bunch of the A/C were) was a different ship. That one was DD-946 USS Edson. I was pictures of hat also.
More of the ship story later & picutres
Sat Jul 30, 2005 5:07 pm
The USS Slater is one of only two Destroyer Escorts (DE) known to have survived from WW2. The tour guide said the other is in the Houston, TX area but in very poor shape. Some time after WW2 this ship was sold to Greece. Before it was retired it was used as an Officer training ship. When the Greek Government decommissioned it, it was going to be scrapped. It was saved either by the DE or DD association, bought for 1 dollar from the Greek Government and towed to the United Stated (for much more than $1.00).
After paying a very reasonable admission fee, you watch a 10 minute or so video that gives you a very quick but informative history of the DE Class ship. I was surprised how well done the video was, a real credit to the museum which I assume they put it together as I have never seem it anywhere before. Then you are given a tour by one of the several volunteers there. Ours was named Chuck and he served on a DE when he first got in the Navy. The tour was first rate, very informative and even kept my attention through out the tour. The ship is in great shape and the volunteers are doing an incredible job restoring it back to WW2 configuration. I was then able to grab one of the tour guides to jump back on board to grab a few shots I missed. His name was Dave and he was studding at RPI as an Aeronautical Engineer. He is also in the ROTC, which I did not hold against him mostly because he hopes to be a Naval Aviator. I drop a reference to the WIX board after the aviation topic came up.
This ship is a real time capsule, they are trying to keep it as real as possible and is one of the best ships I have toured. Well worth the trip to make a visit. The also, as most museums are need of money, this ship will need to be dry docked in the next few years or it could be lost. They also hope to be able to get the ship fully operational in the future.
This past week part of the Bridge system in Albany had a failure, so I included a few shots of that. Then I drove over to the city of Rensselaer to get some profile shots of the Slater, which you can't get next to the ship. Docked there was the Clearwater, the Hudson River Hippies, which works very hard to clean up the Hudson River and has done a great job at getting it from the sewer it once was. But they sail up and down the river in a pretty nice sailing ship. So I took a few shots of that.
I also was unable to get bow shots because the sidewalk under the broken bridge was closed off.
Tour shots
http://community.webshots.com/album/408533376KZWUDX
Just in case I messed up some of the information
http://www.ussslater.org/
After paying a very reasonable admission fee, you watch a 10 minute or so video that gives you a very quick but informative history of the DE Class ship. I was surprised how well done the video was, a real credit to the museum which I assume they put it together as I have never seem it anywhere before. Then you are given a tour by one of the several volunteers there. Ours was named Chuck and he served on a DE when he first got in the Navy. The tour was first rate, very informative and even kept my attention through out the tour. The ship is in great shape and the volunteers are doing an incredible job restoring it back to WW2 configuration. I was then able to grab one of the tour guides to jump back on board to grab a few shots I missed. His name was Dave and he was studding at RPI as an Aeronautical Engineer. He is also in the ROTC, which I did not hold against him mostly because he hopes to be a Naval Aviator. I drop a reference to the WIX board after the aviation topic came up.
This ship is a real time capsule, they are trying to keep it as real as possible and is one of the best ships I have toured. Well worth the trip to make a visit. The also, as most museums are need of money, this ship will need to be dry docked in the next few years or it could be lost. They also hope to be able to get the ship fully operational in the future.
This past week part of the Bridge system in Albany had a failure, so I included a few shots of that. Then I drove over to the city of Rensselaer to get some profile shots of the Slater, which you can't get next to the ship. Docked there was the Clearwater, the Hudson River Hippies, which works very hard to clean up the Hudson River and has done a great job at getting it from the sewer it once was. But they sail up and down the river in a pretty nice sailing ship. So I took a few shots of that.
I also was unable to get bow shots because the sidewalk under the broken bridge was closed off.
Tour shots
http://community.webshots.com/album/408533376KZWUDX
Just in case I messed up some of the information
http://www.ussslater.org/
Sat Jan 07, 2006 8:23 am
Just saw on the news that there was a fire on board the ship. A welder caused it, which is good in a way, because they were able to isolate the fire and prevent damage to other parts of the ship. I guess it was in the Captain's Cabin.
Hope is that she will be ready to go back on display in the spring.
Hope is that she will be ready to go back on display in the spring.
Thu Jan 12, 2006 9:50 pm
Tim:
DE238 is preserved at the Pelican Island park, in Galveston, TX.
Last time I saw it was in 2004, and some remodelling work was being conducted at the park, and the DE was closed off to visitors.
This photo goes back to July 1986, when I went to Pelican Island for the first time.
Saludos,
Tulio
DE238 is preserved at the Pelican Island park, in Galveston, TX.
Last time I saw it was in 2004, and some remodelling work was being conducted at the park, and the DE was closed off to visitors.
This photo goes back to July 1986, when I went to Pelican Island for the first time.
Saludos,
Tulio