USS Slater (DE-766)

USS Slater during World War II
History
United States
Name:	USS Slater
Namesake:	Frank O. Slater
Builder:	Tampa Shipbuilding Company, Tampa, Florida
Laid down:	9 March 1943
Launched:	20 February 1944
Commissioned:	1 May 1944
Decommissioned:	26 September 1947
Struck:	7 March 1951
Identification:	DE-766
Fate:	Transferred to Greece, 1 March 1951
Greece
Name:	Aetos
Acquired:	1 March 1951
Decommissioned:	5 July 1991
Identification:	D01
Fate:	Returned to US and preserved as memorial in Albany, New York
General characteristics
Class and type:	Cannon-class destroyer escort
Displacement:	1,240 long tons (1,260 t)
Length:	306 ft (93 m)
Beam:	36 ft 8 in (11.18 m)
Draft:	8 ft 9 in (2.67 m)
Propulsion:	4 GM Mod. 16-278A diesel engines with electric drive 6,000 shp (4,474 kW) 2 screws
Speed:	21 knots (39 km/h; 24 mph)
Range:	10,800 nmi (20,000 km; 12,400 mi) at 12 kn (22 km/h; 14 mph)
Complement:	15 officers, 201 enlisted
Armament:	As built: 3 × single 3 in (76 mm)/50 cal. guns 3 × 40 mm (1.6 in) AA guns (1×2) 10 × single 20 mm (0.79 in) AA guns 1 × triple 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes 8 × depth charge projectors 1 × Hedgehog anti-submarine mortar 2 × depth charge racks
USS Slater (Destroyer Escort)
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. National Historic Landmark
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Location	Port of Albany, Albany, New York
Coordinates	42°37′40″N 73°45′19″W / 42.62778°N 73.75528°W / 42.62778; -73.75528Coordinates: 42°37′40″N 73°45′19″W / 42.62778°N 73.75528°W / 42.62778; -73.75528
Built	1944
Architect	Tampa Shipbuilding
NRHP Reference #	98000393
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	7 May 1998
Designated NHL	2 March 2012

USS Slater (DE-766) is a Cannon-class destroyer escort that served in the United States Navy and later in the Hellenic (Greek) Navy. The ship was named for Frank O. Slater of Alabama, a sailor killed on the cruiser USS San Francisco during the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal. He was posthumously awarded the Navy Cross for gallantry in action and the Purple Heart. 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, the only one of its kind afloat in the United States. (USS Stewart (DE-238) is exhibited at Seawolf Park in Galveston, Texas, but located on dry land and USS Atherton (DE-169) is still in service in the Philippine Navy.) Slater was designated a National Historic Landmark on 2 March 2012.

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 20 February 1944. The ship was commissioned on 1 May 1944. She was built at the Tampa Shipbuilding Company in Tampa, Florida.