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  • Outstanding work on the bell! Keep up the good work, shipmate.

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    • Coast Guard Day!

      It was Coast Guard Day Ceremony yesterday for the Coast Guard's 222nd Birthday!

      The Video - Brief History of the Coast Guard & there role in WWII followed by the 3 run gun Salute from our stern 3" gun (From two differnt camera locations - starts at 6:28) & I was the one who got to fire it! Then lastly also added in the Recognition of Coast Guard veterans who are Slater volunteers too!



      Then along with the picutres from the day including of people in there dress Whites, & some of the Coast Guard Veterans peresent also! (Inlcudes a few picutres of some of our WWII veterans who where present too!)
      http://s853.photobucket.com/albums/a...20Guard%20Day/

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      • Was onboard the 13 and just realzied that I forgot to share the link again! :red:
        Anyway...It was a Monday so that means I was Able to get my Second Whaleboat ride, then I went on to shinning the Bell (like I do every time now ;) ) And then exercised all 9 of our duall 20 MM mounts.

        Most of the picutres of are the Whaleboat ride along with two of our 90 year old; oldest active volunteer!

        2012 USS Slater Aug 13th pictures by qaz14595 - Photobucket

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        • The Times Union; Albany's Capital Region's major Daily newspaper is running a promotion for local nonprofits and SLATER is part of it!
          The promotion, which runs through the summer, will award $15,000 in prizes to two local nonprofits: $5,000 in cash plus $5,000 in-kind advertising in the Times Union to the first-place winner, and $5,000 in-kind advertising in the Times Union to the second-place finisher.
          Right now they are currently doing the finalists in the Education category in which the Slater is under. All you need to do to vote for SLATER so it goes onto hopefully being one of the seven finalists (one from each category) that move on to a final vote beginning Oct. 2; is to Select SLATER on the poll of three (3) options and click select.

          Cast your vote for ‘Education’ - Capital Region Gives - timesunion.com - Albany NY

          Thank you for taking the time to vote for SLATER & if you can please share this for others so they may vote for SLATER as well!!
          Last edited by qaz14595; 28 Aug 12,, 17:15.

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          • Okay...The reason this time I haven't gotten around to updating this is beucase partly due to procrastination & Also becuase School started (Senior Year of High School)

            But anyway in regards to the "Cast your Vote thing" Slater did not endup with the most votes to go onto the Finalist round..(CAme in 2nd) While "A Different Way" went on..

            Spent the day mainly on the Bell (Going to endup Clear coating it soon ish! ) But got some intresting piutres of various locations onboard.

            2012 USS Slater Sept 1st pictures by qaz14595 - Photobucket

            Then on the 3rd got Another Whlaeboat ride (Whaleboat normaly heads out most Monday's)
            From the Whaleboat ride I got some in my opinion some Awesome Black & White river view's of the Slater, the 1870's RR Bridge ext ext. You will also see a few picutres of me driving? Or whatever it's called too! Along with a quick pic or two to get an idea on the view while driving it! Then affter the whaleboat ride I got some other intresting various pictures ( Some in Black & white) And Lastly took picutres of the Newspaper article about our 90 Year old that taks about his Naval Service along with how he maintains a 100 year old wooden boat!

            2012 USS Slater Sept 3rd pictures by qaz14595 - Photobucket


            Lastly was there the 6th (Only spend about 3 or 4 hours there since the Dad had to do stuff back home lol) So All I did was take pictures of the USS Earl K. Olsen DE 765 Reunion Group!

            2012 USS Slater Sept 6th DE 765 reunion pictures by qaz14595 - Photobucket

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            • The August "Slater Signals" The Newsletter of the USS SLATER's Volunteers by our Executive Director - The Newsletter of the USS SLATER's Volunteers

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              • Great work you guys!

                I'm sure it's already been mentioned that the Philippine Navy has the last Cannon class DE in active use.

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                • Yepp Such as you can see in this video - PN Ship BRP Rahaj Humabon PF-11 - YouTube

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                  • An intresting story that I came across on our website - Read this account from one of SLATER's crew members concerning the true identity of the ship: "Yard Birds Save Buns!" (Link includes a picture)

                    Yard Birds Save Buns!
                    During a phone conversation with Ed Simpson EM1, who was a SLATER crew member during 1944 and 1945, he related an interesting sea story (or was it a port story?) concerning the SLATER.

                    It seems that there is a small controversy (at least in one man's mind) about whether the Destroyer Escort returned to the Hudson River by DESA is indeed the USS SLATER! It is true that several DEs were transferred to the Greek Navy along with the SLATER. An ex-crewmember of one of the other DEs has asserted the ship now docked in Albany is his old ship and not the SLATER. Now, to the casual observer, one DE might look just like another and after 55 years memories can be forgiven for fading just a little, but Simpson's memory is sharp and clear and he claims incontrovertible proof of the SLATER's identity!

                    Simpson recalls that while SLATER was in the Brooklyn Navy Yard in 1944, a pair of yard birds with flashlights awakened him in his bunk at 2 am. "Are you Simpson?" "Yes" said Simpson. "Is your space the IC and Gyro room?" "Yes" said Simpson. "Well you better roll out and come with us then, because the yard fire watch has spotted smoke and we think it's coming from the IC room and we don't have a key."

                    Simpson was afraid he knew what it was right away. It seems that on a DE a place to press your uniform is not that easy to find. Simpson had a nice wooden bench in the IC room kind of tucked in between the ship's gyroscope and the 1MC amplifier that was just the right size. He also had two good buddies, Balkin and Blackwood, who used to press their uniforms there with him. Down through the hatch in the mess deck to the IC room with the two yard birds close behind, Simpson unlocked the door and, sure enough, there was the red-hot iron burning right through the wooden work bench! No big deal, no fire, and the compartment was soon cleared of smoke, but there still remained the hole burned in the bench.

                    "Oh dear" said Simpson (well, maybe not his exact words). "My division officer will find out about this tomorrow, he'll tell the Captain, I'll get a mast, get busted and won't get a liberty until 1950!"

                    The two yard birds put their heads together and after a short conversation one of them said to Simpson, "Well, nobody but the three of us needs to know about this, meet us on the pier at 0800".

                    So Simpson was on the pier at 0800 and there were the two yard birds with a neat steel plate that they had fabricated to fit over the hole in the bench. The plate was discreetly installed, covering the evidence, and nobody has been the wiser for the over 55 years. And there the story would end except for the allegation that the ship now in the Hudson River at Albany is one of the other DEs and not the SLATER!

                    In April 1999, the former SLATER crew held its annual ship's reunion onboard and the first thing Simpson did was make it down to the IC room to check out the workbench. Sure enough, undisturbed and just as it was 55 years and untold thousands of miles ago, there was the wooden workbench with the steel patch still hiding the evidence.

                    And now you know the rest of the story. Except that Simpson isn't telling whether it was Balkin, Blackwood or himself who left the iron on the bench. . .

                    Jerry Jones ET, SLATER Volunteers 1/1/2000
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                    • Yes yesss i know havent updated this in a while! (Been busy with school...Senior in High School ;) )


                      USS Haynsworth DD 700 Reunion Group - 2012 USS Slater Sept 22nd pictures by qaz14595 - Photobucket

                      Volunteer Dinner pics & Aslo Bell Clear Coat on the Bell - 2012 USS Slater Oct 6th Volunteer Night pictures by qaz14595 - Photobucket

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                      • The September "Slater Signals" The Newsletter of the USS SLATER's Volunteers by our Executive Director - September 2012 SIGNALS

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                        • October 13th also happend to be the Navy's 237th Birthday - So we had the Capitol Area Chief Petty Officer Association holding the Navy Birthday ceremony onboard along with the retirement ceremony for one of our volunteers; CSC Art Dott who retired after serving 36 years, And also with the Navy Birthday we have the announcement of the volunteer of the year with it being Chief Dott being awarded Volunteer of the year.

                          Picutres (P.S I felt SO under dressed; I was just in My Blue Chambray Navy Shirt & Blue Jeans Lol) - 2012 USS Slater Oct 13th Navy Birthday pictures by qaz14595 - Photobucket

                          Also a Few Video's! (How Many Car Alarms do you hear going off By the way? I count about 3 or 4)



                          We also had some of the Guest's "Piped Aboard"

                          Last edited by qaz14595; 20 Oct 12,, 01:12.

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                          • Think some of you might enjoy this! Chief Dott's top 10 list of what you don't want to hear during a uniform inspection -



                            Lasty Chief Dott being piped Ashore for the Final Time -

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                            • Each day is a new test!
                              It was a satisfying thing to have the engineers all corner me in different areas of the ship and ask me to find 100 gallons of antifreeze! Hmmm, it seems they are about ready to turn over #3 main engine! 50 gallons for that one and 50 for #4 which is soon to follow!
                              So, I find 2 fifty five gallon drums in surplus and in Virginia! Do we have a way to get them from VA to NY? Nope!

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                              • The following weekend affter the Navy Birthday we brought the 26" ft. Wooden Motor Whaleboat back onboard!

                                Rest of the pictures - 2012 USS Slater Oct 20th pictures by qaz14595 - Photobucket



                                Plus also took a neat picture of the Smaller Brass bell -




                                Was also there on Nov. 3rd & helped with some of the final painting/touch up painting of the Flying Bridge (But not many picutres since I did not want to get any paint on the Camera ;) )
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