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Destroyer escorts · from 1920

USS Slater

Cannon-class destroyer escort.

History

USS Slater (DE-766) is a Cannon-class destroyer escort that served in the United States Navy and later in the Hellenic (Greek) Navy. Following service during World War II, the ship was transferred to Greece and renamed Aetos. Decommissioned in 1991, the destroyer escort was returned to the United States.

USS Slater is now a museum ship on the Hudson River in Albany, New York. As of 2020, fewer than 12 destroyer escorts survive, with Slater the only one in its wartime configuration and the only one afloat in the United States. Slater was designated a National Historic Landmark on 2 March 2012.

USS Slater was struck by the Hudson River touring ship Dutch Apple on 10 September 2019. A mechanical problem aboard Dutch Apple was blamed for the collision.

Text from Wikipedia: USS Slater, CC BY-SA 4.0, lightly trimmed.

Wars and campaigns

World War II

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Key dates

  1. 1920
    Frank Olga Slater was born on 19 December 1920 in Kennamer Cove, Alabama, one of twelve children of James Lafayette Slater, a sharecropper and Lenora (Morgan) Slater.
  2. 1943
    USS Slater was laid down on 9 March 1943, she was christened on 20 Feb 1944 by Lenora Slater, mother of Frank Olga Slater and launched on 13 February 1944.
  3. 1944
    On 3 October 1944, Slater reported for convoy duty in Brooklyn, New York; she would spend the next 7 months alternating between convoy duty and additional training in Portland, Maine.
  4. 1945
    She went through the Panama Canal on 28 June 1945 and stopped at San Diego before sailing to Pearl Harbor.
  5. 1951
    On 1 March 1951, Slater was transferred to the Hellenic Navy under the Truman Doctrine, and renamed Aetos ("Eagle") (D01).
  6. 1961
    The ship was seen in The Guns of Navarone (1961) and I Aliki sto Naftiko (Η Αλίκη στο Ναυτικό/Alice in the Navy, filmed in 1961) while in Greek service.
  7. 1993
    In 1993, a Russian ocean-going tugboat towed the ship from Crete to New York City, where it was docked next to the aircraft carrier USS Intrepid.

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