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WWII ship floats down Hudson River Sunday
Apr 06, 2014 12:02 am
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From the Destroyer Escort Historical Museum website.[/caption]Thane Grauel reports in The Poughkeepsie Journal that a World War II destroyer escort sails down the Hudson River Sunday from Albany to Staten Island. The USS Slater, a floating museum run by a nonprofit, will leave Albany, will be pulled by two tugboats sometime in the morning arriving at the Caddell Dry Dock and Repair Co. about 12 hours later. The trip is to refurbish the 70-year-old boat, now serving as the Destroyer Escort Historical Museum. The 306-foot Slater, retired from service in 1943, is the last floating destroyer escort in the United States. Destroyer escorts, now called frigates, protected merchant vessel convoys crossing the Atlantic Ocean during the war. The last frigates will be retired from the Navy in 2015. The Slater is now a National Historic Landmark and should be back in Albany in June. Read the full story in The Poughkeepsie Journal.
From the Destroyer Escort Historical Museum website.[/caption]Thane Grauel reports in The Poughkeepsie Journal that a World War II destroyer escort sails down the Hudson River Sunday from Albany to Staten Island. The USS Slater, a floating museum run by a nonprofit, will leave Albany, will be pulled by two tugboats sometime in the morning arriving at the Caddell Dry Dock and Repair Co. about 12 hours later. The trip is to refurbish the 70-year-old boat, now serving as the Destroyer Escort Historical Museum. The 306-foot Slater, retired from service in 1943, is the last floating destroyer escort in the United States. Destroyer escorts, now called frigates, protected merchant vessel convoys crossing the Atlantic Ocean during the war. The last frigates will be retired from the Navy in 2015. The Slater is now a National Historic Landmark and should be back in Albany in June. Read the full story in The Poughkeepsie Journal.