USS Slater

Announcing the First Tin Can Sailors Photo Contest.

Enter in Tin Can Sailors' first Photo Contest, honoring the service, history, and legacy of U.S. destroyers, and the people who sail and preserve them.

Winning images will be showcased in The Tin Can Sailor magazine, on destroyers.org, and on association and museum ship channels, with cash prizes and membership awards in each track.

Full Contest Rules are available on our website using the link below!
Enter Here 👉 https://www.destroyers.org/photo-contest/

Join us next Saturday 20 June for Destroyer Es**rt Day! Our ceremony will begin at 10 AM and tours will start immediately after.

Destroyer Es**rt Day pays homage to the DE/APD/DER sailors killed in WW II, Korea, and Vietnam and to the ships lost in action. As the name of each of the fifteen ships lost is read, the ship’s bell is tolled and a carnation is dropped into the waters of the Hudson River from the main deck of USS SLATER DE-766.

The first Destroyer Es**rt Day was held at the Intrepid Sea, Air, & Space Museum in New York City on June 16, 1990. The third Saturday in June is now recognized and celebrated by the Destroyer Es**rt Historical Museum. Governor George E. Pataki’s Proclamation naming the third Saturday of June was issued on Saturday June 20, 1998.

The event is free to attend and welcome to all!

Tuesday, 9 June 2026. Twelve maintenance volunteers and four tour guides reported aboard today, to continue our maintenance efforts.

The crew changed the old sewage hose to the new hose. The old hose was flushed, drained, and discarded. Ashore, Bill and Chuck worked on the security fence extension, on the north end of the seawall. Danny continued fabrication of the replacement hydraulic press cross head. Doug, Warren, and John walked down the starting air system.

John continued work, greasing all the 20mm guns, and found many frozen and missing grease fittings. He also found an elevation trunnion spring broken on the aft 20 mm gun 29. Tom continued work on the aft head sink faucet.

Ron was in from Massachusetts, and continued scaling and priming on the 01 level portside. The tours had to work around him. Steve was aboard, and continued working on a cable issue with the TBL transmitter.

Monday, 8 June 2026. Twelve maintenance volunteers reported aboard in the morning and Chris, Jim, and Bob reported aboard for tour duty in the afternoon.

In the morning, the crew installed connecters and attached carrier line to new sewage hose. It passed a 15 minute 25 pound pressure test. They worked on an extension for our roadside security fence, and installed the train locks on 20mm guns 25 and 26.

They also worked on fabricating the cross head for shop press, test ran the 340 compressor, walked down the HP Compressor piping, and worked on the aft head sink.

Not a bad days' work. Photos by Thomas Scian