TBD 3Column - USS Slater

Chairman’s Report
Volume 20 Number 2
Second Quarter 2014
By Bartley J. Costello III
Albany is abuzz with the return of Slater, dressed in her dry dock, pierside for completion, and transit back home, we
dazzle camouflage new coat of paint. The look with gratitude and pride at the result. Slater is now the
return was accomplished with great flour- sharpest ship afloat from any era. Her hull has been strengthish during the entire transit. As she sailed ened with new steel welded to resist the Hudson River winter
past the Statue of Liberty, helicopters from and spring ice flows. Other major repairs were made and her
the major networks buzzed overhead. The look restored to the WWII dazzle camouflage, stunning to the
media interviewed many groups and indi- eye! This was made possible by all hands working together and
viduals, ranging from a teen who reaching sometimes difficult agreements. Our leader, Tim
expressed the gratitude of his generation Rizzuto, brought his expertise and knowledge of the ship, coufor the sacrifices of those who sailed pled with his passion and untiring daily efforts. Over this long
before, to senior citizens who remembered period, that included his personal relocation to the ship, his
the difficult days in the past.
superb leadership made our time most productive.
These tributes included an exchange of gun salutes with
The magnificent work was accomplished within budWest Point and rendering honors while passing Hyde Park, get, on time, and with many extras. Remarkably, it was accomhome of FDR, the President when Slater was launched and the plished on a handshake with this high-quality, longstanding,
father of a DE commanding officer. All acknowledging success experienced shipyard. This is a significant tribute to Tim’s graof the plans of those who preceded us in
cious, persistent manner. He always acts
this goal of restoring Slater, and realizing
with integrity to secure the best result for
their most ambitious dreams. It is also in
Slater. I witnessed firsthand the respect the
line with our mission of making real our
top management, as well as the shipyard
heritage, and thereby creating patriotic pride
workers, had for Tim. This resulted in their
in our country and in Naval traditions.
adopting Slater as their own, accomplishNone of this complete transformaing their work with great pride.
tion would be possible without the financial
We now move into the next phase
and emotional support of hundreds of indiof our lives and the life of Slater, knowing
viduals who contributed their funds and
that our work will never be fully done, but
time to our enterprise. Our faith in you made
confident we have reached a major milethe Board’s bold decision to move to
stone in preserving our heritage for generaCaddell’s shipyard easier, trusting you
tions to come.
would support us fully. And did you ever!
Thank you to all that have made this
After twelve weeks, from transit Volunteer Ed Zajkowski and Caddell’s VP possible. It is a privilege to serve as your
to the shipyard in Staten Island, into the of Engineering Joe Eckhardt take a last Chair.
look at the hull on launch day.
A View From the Bridge
By Tony Esposito, President DEHM
We arrived mid-Sunday afternoon on June 29. We
were an excited Albany contingent of
15 joining the on-board group of 9,
making a total crew of 24 to man Slater
for her return to Albany. We moved
smartly off the mini-bus and stowed
our gear throughout the ship.
My first stop was to check in with Ed
Zajkowski and review dinner plans. Ed
and I made some quick decisions and resolved the meal issue.
Then off to continue work activity of all sorts preparing the
ship for the 0500 departure Monday morning, June 30.
In spite of it being Sunday, the New York harbor was
bustling with activity of all sorts; from the largest freighter
sailing the oceans to two jet skis!
Slater lay tied up at the pier and close by was our old
friend for the past several months, Drydock 6, with its new
vessel already in place.
Supper arrived, and we knocked off work to take a
brief time out. The day was still hot so we ate on the starboard side in some welcome shade.
Back to work with nightfall quickly approaching.
The crew began to stake out berthing space in the ship while
some decided to sleep outside and enjoy the wonderful lighted sky of New York Harbor; truly a magnificent sight. I was
joined on the fo’c’sle with four others and we had the pleasant opportunity of sleeping under the stars with a cool breeze
and the music of passing-by ship engines lulling us to sleep.
A most wonderful experience.
We didn’t sleep long, however, reveille began at 0430
and shortly Slater was a beehive of activity. The tugs arrived
promptly and Caddell Shipyard staff was there to disconnect
water and power and we were shortly underway.
Ed Z had the galley up and active and in no time was
serving a tasty breakfast of pancakes and eggs.
Soon we were opposite the Statue of Liberty and
Ellis Island on port and the Staten Island Ferry terminals on
starboard. Overhead were four helicopters from the many
news organizations buzzing around us in a counter clockwise
pattern.
The sun rising and World Trade Center resting in low
hanging clouds and me on the bridge. I was close to heaven.
People were cheering Slater from every bridge and
river crossing and park the entire trip home. Passing West
Point, their military color guard acknowledged our presence
Campaign Reports As Of 6/30/2014
Endowment Monies Received - $ 1,049,100
Hull Fund Monies Received - $ 1,320,756
with a cannon salute. We returned the salute with our own 3”
gun among cheering, waving crowds on the shore. Finally
arriving in Albany around 2400 I watched a docking maneuver which was a first for an old Army guy – the Pilot placed
a tug on the stern between the pier and the ship so as to safely
dock Slater and protect her new camouflage paint design.
A second night sleeping under the stars on the
fo’c’sle with reveille at 0530 on Tuesday July 1.
Tugs arrived at 0600 and by 0700 Slater was safely at
the Snow Dock and ready to receive gangways with the help
of Doug Tanner and Flach Crane.
The Albany-based crew had been working the past
three months on new pier mounts, gangway refurbishing and
coordinating the crane availability to promptly make Slater’s
return a complete reality. Dutch Apple Tours also helped by
temporarily moving their vessel downstream to facilitate
docking.
We did it; we, the entire nationwide team that finally
made the drydock possible by contributing so much over the
years.
What a lucky guy I am to be part of the team. The
only sad note we had was the news that our own Gus Negus,
Engineman 1st Class, passed away in Schenectady during the
trip.
I had the experience of a lifetime, shared with 24
crew. Thank you Slater for giving us the opportunity to preserve your proud heritage.
As dawn breaks, USS SLATER eases up the Hudson, a oncein-a-lifetime experience.
The Destroyer Escort Historical Museum (DEHM) is an educational organization, chartered by the New York State Board of Regents, to increase
the knowledge of the general public about naval history and heritage
focusing on destroyer escorts and the men who sailed them through World
War II, Korea, Vietnam, and the Cold War years. The Museum is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization funded by contributions from members, corporations, and private foundations. All contributions are tax-deductible to
the extent allowed by law. DEHM is not associated with, nor receives any
regular financial support from, the national Destroyer Escort Sailors
Association (DESA).
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The Silent, Invisible War Under the Sea - Part I
By Ira Wolfert
Reprinted with permission from Reader’s Digest.
Copyright © 1945 by The Reader’s Digest Association, Inc.
In the year 1942, enemy submarines sank 1161 of
our merchant vessels.
Had Hitler’s U-boats been able to go on at that rate,
Britain could not have survived, Russia could not have
won, and the whole course of the Japanese war and our
own fate would have been inscrutable. Both sides were
aware how high the stakes were and the play was desperate. The United States threw a million and half men into
the Battle of the Atlantic and dedicated thousands of scientists to the same single fight.
The Battle of the Atlantic was war under the sea
unlike any that ever had been before – secret, nearly invisible, only faintly heard and then at second hand, through
its echoes.
At the outset it was the little corvettes, shown here, and old WWI
destroyers that held the line against the U-boat onslaught.
Blind men groped for each other with rays. They
fumbled for each other’s throat with slide rules and graph
paper. They turned dials, pushed buttons, read thermometers, prayed at frosted glass windows, humbled themselves
imploringly before bakelite earphones while at a large console sort of thing a single note and its overtones – the
immortal ping – were composed into a symphony of death
by a young man who had to have a musician’s ear.
Then, at the end of hours, or days, or a week, there
was most often no climax to the symphony, just a drifting
off into silence. If there seemed to be a little oil on the surface, an apparatus known as an “oil thief” would be
thrown over the side so that chemists might ascertain
whether the U-boat was dead. Sometimes there was a playful, bubbling gurgle, a kind of watery death rattle, and then
fatal vomitings from the bottom – upbobbing wreckage.
The wreckage would be collected carefully, including broken-off pieces of men.
The undersea warfare seemed often much more
like a patient, silent experiment than a battle. And indeed
it was largely a battle of the laboratories – to counteract the
enemy’s devices, to counteract his counteractions to your
devices, to produce new devices.
An example: the acoustical torpedo. In its way, the
acoustical torpedo was the weirdest weapon of the war.
The rockets and the bombs were just big, blah, dumb,
blind, wham-bambos. The acoustical torpedo had a
fiendish little brain sitting up in its war head. It “homed”
on noise. The German submarine skipper had only to
launch it in the general direction of a ship and the whole
wide field of sound of a ship’s propellers became an awful
kind of vacuum cleaner sucking the torpedo out of the sea
and into the ship. The torpedo seemed to snuffle through
the water like a dog on the scent of a rabbit. Whatever turn
the ship made, the torpedo could turn better; whatever
speed, it could go faster. Once it got its nose caught in a little whimper on the edge of the field of sound it was sucked
deeper and deeper into that field until at last it rammed
unerringly for the ship’s panting heart.
The acoustical torpedo had the further devilish talent of being able to pick out the biggest target in a convoy.
When a small ship was traveling within range of a larger
one, the torpedo would circle hastily as if sniffing and then
lunge for the larger and noisier ship.
American experts came up with 14 answers to the
acoustical torpedo in a brief number of hours. I noted them
down not because I understand them all, or would be
allowed to explain them if I did, but simply to illustrate the
ingenuity existing in our laboratories. Here they are, in the
One of the fifty fourpipers the U.S. loaned England, the Townclass destroyer HMS Leamington G-19 (ex-USS Twiggs DD-127),
showing the horrid conditions encountered in the North Atlantic.
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Technology played a major role. In the center of antisubmarine activity was the sonar shack with the sound stack in the background, the
chemical recorder, and the attack plotter, or DRT, on the bulkhead.
This is USS SIMS DE-154.
Navy’s own nomenclature: 1) rotating hammer trough; 2)
vibrating diaphragm – plunger and propeller type; 3) rattling chain pipe; 4) tuning fork; 5) vibrating pine cone; 6)
tear drop hammer; 7) vibrating diaphragm with bellows; 8)
double cone inside rattle pipe; 9) knocker with vanes
inside pipe; 10) circular vibrator; 11) towing spar with propeller and rattler; 12) air bottle and pneumatic hammer;
13) 5’ x 25’ canvas sleeve; 14) tripping device.
The idea of all such devices is, as one admiral put
it, “to make more noise where you ain’t than where you
is.”
However, the laboratories could only provide part
of the answer. Men in battle had to do the rest. A whole
new tactic of defense had to be evolved and special skills
developed to use the noisemakers. For example, there was
always the danger than an acoustical torpedo circling in
the trap of a noisemaker would hit another ship in the convoy by accident. For another example, experts could actually pass the torpedo from noisemaker to noisemaker until
it cleared the target area.
On the German side there was the race against our
radar and the elaborate sonar devices with which the ping
was evolved into a symphony of destruction. The ping is
an underwater sound wave; when it strikes a solid object it
returns an echoing ping. The Germans spent a long time
trying to develop a rubber for coating their submarines
which would absorb the ping. They did get a rubber so
sound-absorbent that men in a room lined with it could not
understand each other’s words. Then they developed a
glue to fasten the rubber onto their subs. German workmen
got some of the glue on the soles of their shoes. They tore
the soles from the uppers trying to free them from the Uboat hull. The rubber and the glue were wonderful—but
still the ping kept echoing back to the last day of the war.
The Pillenwerfer – an underwater gun to shoot chemical
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pills giving off a noise that bent and agitated the ping - was
a more effective counter.
Our radar drove the Germans crazy. The first
answer they tried was the “Flying Dutchman” – a cross
between a helicopter and a kite. It was attached to a drum
in the conning tower. The U-boat made speed into the wind
to send the kite aloft. Once air-borne, an engine-driven
horizontal propeller kept it up. The pilot had a walkietalkie. There were two things wrong. The first was that the
pilot was so busy keeping his Flying Dutchman aloft he
did not have much time to keep a lookout. The second was
that there was no way to retrieve him hastily in the event
he spotted an airplane and the sub had to crash-dive.
Generally he was just cut loose to fall helpless into the sea.
This made him a morale problem.
The Germans then came up with radar decoy balloons. These were hydrogen-filled and had tinfoil strips on
them to reflect radar waves. They were attached by about
30 yards of catgut to a sea anchor. An expert radarman seeing on his screen a pip that traveled with the wind and at
about the wind’s speed could guess it was a decoy. But
nobody could be sure. It might be a sub crafty enough to
travel with the wind and with the wind’s speed. So these
balloons had nuisance value right up to the end.
The Germans’ radar could pick us up no sooner
than ours would spot the sub, and then things became like
As the war progressed, the development of the combat information
center greatly improved antisubmarine tactics.
The flying bridge of a WWII DE from where the attacks were directed,
with the officer standing next to the door leading to the sonar shack.
a brawl in a western movie where both sides draw simultaneously. So the Germans evolved a “search receiver” with
which they could detect the location of a radar set ten to 20
miles farther away than the radar could spot them.
Then we sent to war a new kind of radar – the Sradar. A feeling almost of panic spread through the Nazi
fleet. Their search receivers couldn’t detect the S-radar.
The Germans had tried to develop a detector using infrared
rays and they thought that where they had failed we had
succeeded. For six months they barked up this wrong tree,
developing a paint to coat their submarines that would
make them invisible to infrared rays. Meanwhile Nazi
skippers were afraid to use their search receivers or radar,
and ship sinkings fell steeply. Eventually the Gestapo in a
spy raid in Rotterdam found a set which broke the secret.
“The Germans would do something and we’d do
something back,” said Admiral “Killy” Kilpatrick, Chief of
Staff, Atlantic Fleet. “Then we’d do something and they’d
do something back. The whole war went that way with
both sides like boxers trying to think up and work out the
answers with a face full of leather.”
Throughout the critical four years Admiral Royal E.
Ingersoll commanded in the North Atlantic. Admiral Jonas
Ingram succeeded him. Admiral Ingram reflected, “When I
look back on the whole thing I’d say that what we won on
was the ability of American boys to learn faster than
Germans how to become expert in using the stuff scientists
put out.”
The Germans made three revolutionary developments in undersea warfare, each one of which was
designed in turn to seal victory.
The first of these was the Wolf Pack. Submarines
on patrol made rendezvous until they outnumbered the
escort vessels of a convoy. Then they lunged.
The airplane was our answer. Heavy land-based,
radar-equipped bombing planes drove the Wolf Packs out
from both shores of the Atlantic, where the pickings were
thickest. But then the packs clustered in mid-Atlantic, out
of land-plane range, and made their kills.
The escort carrier was our answer to that. “We got
the Bogue and rushed it out on an experimental basis,”
Admiral Kilpatrick said. “Baby carriers didn’t have the
speed to keep up with a fast convoy. They made their 16
and 18 knots all right, but they had to stop and turn into the
wind to launch and take on their planes. That was time lost
they couldn’t make up. What we did was send the Bogue
up to wait at the switch and pick up a convoy as it drew out
of range of the land-based air. A complicated timetable–
well, I guess it was the most complicated and finely drawn
timetable ever made – took care of the speed problem
eventually. There should have been escort ships to protect
the carrier, but we didn’t have the escort ships and we
couldn’t wait for them. The war was slipping out of our
grasp. So we just had to cross our fingers, and you can
imagine how the Fleet felt when the Bogue sailed on its
first mission. And how the men on the Bogue felt.”
The first baby carriers scored hysterical successes.
They took the Nazis by complete surprise and found submarine crews feeling so secure that they were using the
middle Atlantic as their private beach for sun bathing and
swimming. A crash-diving submarine is helpless before an
airplane in what the Navy calls “those sacred seconds”
More technology. A BT drop. The bathythermograph, or BT, detected
thermal layers which could hide a submarine from sonar detection.
before a relatively safe undersea level is reached.
The initial Nazi reaction to the baby carrier was an
incomprehensible error so profound that, our own men say,
it cost the Germans the battle. In panic and with Teutonic
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One of our first “Jeep Carriers,” the USS BOGUE CVE-9. Aircraft coupled with adequate escorts such as USS HUSE DE-145
(see below) and electronic intelligence made the defeat of the U-boats inevitable.
stubbornness, they decided the sub should fight it out with
the airplane!
Admiral Doenitz called in all the submarines and
bristled them with AA guns. Yet in six months in 1943, 150
Nazi subs were sunk and the back of the Wolf Pack was
broken. And all the time the Nazis had the answer to their
problem sitting “fat, dumb, and happy,” to use the Navy
phrase, right in front of their nose – the escort carrier itself
lying helpless for at least three hours out of every 24 as it
launched and took on its planes. They never made a successful attack on a baby carrier until the closing months of
the war.
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The great victory of the little flat-tops was not won
“just like that.” Three things went into it: thought, skill,
and willingness to die to make a kill.
A long campaign of trial and error was endured
before the ideal attack by an airplane against a sub was
developed. The most minute instructions were drawn up.
An enormous variety of skills was required of pilots and
their crews, from radar and sound-gear reading to the
astute reading of the enemy’s intentions in the last
moments of the attack. The Navy insisted fanatically on the
development of these skills.
Example: On April 15, 1943, an airplane of Patrol
Squadron 83 at the end of its tenth hour on patrol stumbled
over a German submarine. When the plane was still one
half mile off, the sub made a crash-dive. There was no time
for correct tactics. The pilot just threw himself on the sub.
He made a 60-degree dive from 4000 feet. He disabled the
sub, forcing it to the surface and kept harassing it in the
face of its ugly anti-aircraft fire until a second plane from
the squadron could come up and destroy it. Then, with gas
running low, he photographed the enemy survivors swimming in the sea and flew more than 300 weary miles back
to his base. There were no medals waiting for him there.
Instead, there was a chilly critique of his unorthodox methods which concluded: “While there is no denying the attack
was effective, the end attained should not be permitted to
obscure the means employed.”
In other words, do it our way, or don’t do it at all.
And this policy, says Admiral Ingram, paid off. It paid off
in reducing our casualties and in increasing our kills.
Under the heading of bald, brass-boweled courage:
During the night of August 5, 1943, Lieut. J. M. Erskine,
skippering a Mariner plane on patrol out of Trinidad naval
base, spotted a sub and made an attack with the aid of
flares, reporting damage unknown. Such attacks were
rarely successful. If the flare was bright enough to light up
the target, it generally was bright enough to glare up the
pilot’s eyes and throw off his judgment of distance.
Erskine spent the rest of the night making what is
known as a “gambit” – keeping out of periscope view so
that the sub might be tempted to surface, yet remaining in
radar contact so that he could pounce if it did.
But that was a wise old, tough old German down
below there and he knew about gambits and stayed underwater. At dawn Erskine, running low on gas, was replaced
by Lieut. A. R. Matuski. For seven and one half tedious
hours, Matuski plied back and forth and around a square of
ocean, figuring how he would maneuver if he were a sub
skipper who had been down so and so many hours in such
and such currents and this and that kind of sea, and making
his gambit accordingly.
Matuski was a boy who knew his business. At 1321
hours (1:21 p.m.) Trinidad naval base got a sub contact
report from him, giving longitude and latitude, adding, “I
am going in to attack.”
“1330,” he radioed, “sub damaged, bow out of
water, making only about two knots.”
“1335: sub bow sank.”
“1337: no casualties to plane or personnel.”
“1348: Damaged. Damaged. I am on fire.”
Silence.
Matuski and his crew died. Apparently in their
eagerness to keep the wounded sub under observation they
had gone too close.
Continued next issue.
More ASW technology included the High Frequency Radio Direction Finder, or Huff/Duff, which enabled escort groups to home in
on U-boat radio transmissions.
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SLATER SIGNALS
by Tim Rizzuto
We opened Season 17 on Friday the 4th of July, 2014.
Collectively, we did it! Since 2010 we raised $1.3 million,
laid out a work plan and got USS SLATER towed to the shipyard. We blasted and painted the hull, surveyed her, reinforced
the waterline and other suspect areas, and did about 500 other
odd jobs around the ship. Then we painted her up in camouflage
and brought her home looking unique and better than ever.
A great deal of credit has to go to President Steve Kalil
and VP of Engineering Joe Eckhardt of Caddell Drydock
and Repair Company for operating a shipyard with the highest level of integrity. There was no contract, only a priced-out
work list, payment schedule and a handshake. And, there were no
surprises. The price quoted was the price we paid. I can’t imagine a better shipyard experience. It turns out that repair work
with no contract is a common practice at Caddell’s, a testament
to their integrity. Yard management worked closely with us
arranging for us to live aboard for the entire time. It was as good
as it could be in the shipyard.
When we last left you, our loyal readers, we were safely
on the blocks and the 4,000 psi pressure wash had punched
three holes in the hull. Things weren’t looking good for old
SLATER. The following day, in conference with estimator Joe
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Eckhardt and our surveyor Rick Meyerrose, my original spec
for an SPCC commercial blast went out the window. They both
agreed that a “very light” sweep blast was in order or we
wouldn’t have any hull left. A brush blast as they called it. The
blasters went to work on the hull below the waterline. They had
discovered about ten small holes needing to be repaired, but after
blasting everyone agreed that the hull was in much better shape
than had first appeared. While the blasting began, the tank
cleaning crew began to clean and gas-free all our fuel oil
tanks. We had originally planned to clean these tanks in Albany,
but Mother Nature intervened and froze our fresh water line. So,
the work fell back on the shipyard. This work normally would
have been done pierside with a short run from the ship to the vacuum truck on shore however, in drydock, the hose runs are much
longer and the process goes more slowly. The forward tanks
were cleaned in two days without difficulty.
The tank cleaning crew started on the aft tanks under C201L when they decided that they needed to shift to the
engine rooms because one of the holes they blew in the initial
4,000 psi washdown was the day tank under the forward
ship’s service generator. That’s when the cost began to escalate.
When we got the yard estimate for tank cleaning we didn’t figure
in the four main engine sumps and the two generator day tanks.
All of these are skin tanks, and to avoid the possibility of punching a hole into them and dropping any oil, they had to be cleaned.
Since lube oil is much heavier than diesel fuel, the lube oil tanks
are harder to clean. Thus, it took three additional weeks of sump
cleaning in the machinery spaces before the tank cleaners could
An event almost 20 years in the making, USS SLATER is floated off Drydock No. 6 at Caddell Drydock and
Repair Company on Wednesday 18 June 2014.
angle iron brackets from the hull to support the
plank staging from which the doublers would
be hung. The steel plate began to arrive from
the roll shop and the process of reinforcing the
waterline began.
Hector Sosa supervises as his crew lifts another steel plate
into position on the port side.
return to the after fuel tanks and voids. The addition of the six
engine sumps was a time-consuming, and thus an expensive,
add-on.
I have to express the deepest admiration for the tank
cleaning crew. And, I’ve learned that you do not want to be the
smallest man in the crew. When you’ve seen a man crawl into a
24” manhole and then hear the sound of the scraper cleaning the
inside of the tank, and see the buckets of black oily muck that
come out, you have to ask, “Where do we find such men to do
this work day after day?” The same goes for Tony Mathews, our
marine chemist, who entered each tank and void to certify it safe
for hot work.
The sandblasting of the hull and freeboard
continued in April. There is only one word that can
describe this experience at that point. Gritty. With
four blasting nozzles going full-bore seven hours a
day, despite our best efforts to keep everything buttoned up, there was a fine dust coating on every horizontal surface. The yard set me up with an office
about 500 yards from the ship, right near the gate to
the east yard. The office had Internet, the ship didn’t.
From the office was about a 400-yard walk to the drydock gangway, across the gangway to a vertical ladder. If the tide was high you stepped right on to
Drydock Number 6. If the tide was low you would
climb down the ladder, take a few more steps down
and you’re on the drydock floor. You hang a right
along the back end of the drydock, right again to go
past the rudders and screws, and climb a scaffold stairway up 26’ to the maindeck, just forward of the starboard “K” guns. I made the climb more times than I
can count. When the blasting was finished, a coat of
primer was applied and the yard crew hung a series of
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I really wasn’t prepared for the mess that
sandblasting makes inside the ship, despite
our best effort to seal up the doors and ventilators. We spent the first week throwing
sheets over furniture, tightening porthole dogs
and taping up around doors. Dirt was everywhere. Take a couple barefoot steps down any
passageway and your feet would be black.
Barry Witte warned me but I didn’t get it. I
should have sensed something a few weeks earlier before the move when Jerry Jones began
wrapping all his precious radios in plastic. He’d
been through a yard overhaul. I never had. It’s a
painful process.
For our part, we planned to keep four
volunteers aboard every week. Our goal was to do a cosmetic
cleaning and repainting of all the storerooms and magazines that
were now empty of junk due to the requirement that the interior
of the ship be available for fire watch. The first week Gary
Sheedy and Ed Zajkowski stayed aboard and started work. The
second week it was Guy Huse, Ron Prest, Gary and Ed again.
The third week it was Ed, Gary Dieckman and Wayne White.
The fourth week Gary left but George Amandola and Bill
Wetterau joined the crew with Ed and Wayne. They’ve been
prepping and painting the storerooms forward before we fill
them back up again with all our “junk.”
Then we had a major shift in priorities. Eddie Z made a
significant discovery in that one of the design characteristics of
We will always have the utmost respect for the tank cleaning crews of
Union Maintenance. You don’t ever want to be the smallest man in the crew.
WWII DEs is that the bilges in the aft magazines are decked over
and the false deck is welded in place. There is no way to maintain
the bilge below. Our guys started cutting into it, and the condition of the bilge below was a disaster. A couple frames were rotted right out. We knew we had to address this in the yard,
because it would be most unfortunate to put an air chisel through
the bottom back in Albany. So we instructed the yard to cut away
the false decking, clean and preserve the bilge, and install a
removable lightweight fiberglass decking. Another expensive
add-on, but totally necessary for the long-term preservation of
SLATER.
By this time, the add-on list of things that needed to be
done in the shipyard looked like this: Repair hull as needed,
grind out 25 sea chests quarter-inch blanks and replace them all
with 3/8” ABS steel blanks. Clean up and re-pack outside stern
tube shafts. Install valves on shaft alley packing glands. Weld on
draft marks over doubler, open one sea chest for the aft ship’s
service generator and place steaming out connection. Repair
scuppers as needed, cut out the false decking in aft-most magazines and clean and preserve 10 voids under aft magazines.
When the new valves were fitted on the shaft glands, we hooked
up a hose to a large shop vac and blew air through each shaft tunnel for several days to try and dry them out, and thus stabilize
them without pulling the shafts.
There were several more items that were more convenient to do in shipyard. These included scarfing off the broken
accommodation ladder support, opening up port for sand blast
cabinet exhaust, finish welding on port 40mm shell cage since
it’s right by our gangway, installing a missing section of mast
ladder, hydroblasting the waterways and snaking tie down bar,
spot blasting the main deck aft, moving the practice loading
machine to original position, repairing some rot in stack cap,
repairing the wasted steel under the searchlight platforms, fabricating a gaff on stack for the battle ensign, and repairing the dent
in the port bulwark, including removal of the Greek davit
pedestals. There were also three watertight doors that needed
repair and at that point it looked like the final tally would be $1.5
million, so dipping into the endowment seemed inevitable.
The yard was great to work with and the people most
accommodating and friendly. Our on-site supervisor Hector
Sosa’s answer to almost everything was, “No problem.” Marine
surveyor Rick Meyerrose, who did the initial survey of
SLATER to tow her to Albany in 1997, made it a point to stop by
whenever he was nearby doing another survey, to offer his guidance and set up the hull gauging so we would know how much
metal was left in those pits. And special mention to “my old
friend” Ed Zajkowski who took on the duties of chief commissary steward, ship’s cook and even did my laundry for me. Ed
and his blueprints signed on for the duration. He called it, “My
last big adventure.” We both kept reminding each other that this
wasn’t a weekend sprint. This one was a marathon.
Shipyard Vice President in Charge of Engineering Joe
Eckhardt deserves special mention for his patience in dealing
with us and our 0600 drop-in meetings as our primary
administrative contact. Each day I got an estimate of how much
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we had spent. I first dealt with Joe when he was working for
GMD at the old Brooklyn Navy Yard back in 2000. I sent RFPs
to all the regional shipyards because I thought the big grant was
just around the corner. Joe was the only one who responded to
my initial RFP. Little did I know that fourteen years later I would
be doing the project with private money that we raised ourselves.
Joe was an Army vet who did occupation duty in Korea.
In 1960 he was returning home aboard the troopship GENERAL
WILLIAM MITCHELL AP-114. As the MITCHELL headed
into the channel, she put her bow into the passenger liner
SUSQUEHANNA. The MITCHELL was drydocked for repairs
and a new bow in Yokosuka, and Joe was held in limbo watching
the repairs. As the new bow was fabricated and set into position,
Joe decided that this shipyard stuff was pretty interesting. Upon
his return to the States he got a job at the Bethlehem Steel shipyard in Hoboken and worked his way up becoming a member of
the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers
(SNAME). His experience and advice has been a great asset to
us during this overhaul, as has been the support of our Marine
Surveyor on the project, Rick Meyerrose. Rick went over the
hull inch by inch with audio gauger Kevin Desousa of ABC
Testing. They pinpointed all the thin spots and Rick is writing up
a report detailing the recommended repairs. In essence, the hull
is in much better shape then we thought after we blew those three
holes through with the initial pressure wash. Rick identified 15
areas of thin plating for deteriorated welds that needed to be
addressed below the waterline doubler.
Meanwhile, all had not stopped in Albany. Doug Tanner
and his shipfitters made repairs to the gangways and the crew
made repairs to the shoreside structure, aka trailer. A lot of carpentry skills not normally needed aboard SLATER went into the
effort. The Herchenroder twins and Don Miller did most of the
carpentry. On April 7th BJ Costello and Heather Maron gave a
presentation to the men’s group at the Terrace at Beverwyck in
Slingerlands. They were warmly welcomed by Paul Woods,
who not only coordinated the talk but, more importantly, had
facilitated our provisional charter in the early days of the
Museum. Heather has been enjoying the opportunities to schedule these presentations, which often bring the ship to audiences
that might not otherwise know about it or be able to visit. She is
also taking advantage of the ship’s absence to complete much
needed organizational projects related to our archival material
and collections.
BJ Costello and Rosehn were delighted to visit the
Albany Times Union headquarters to accept the “Capital
Region Gives” prizes. TU Publisher George Hearst and
Community Relations Coordinator Charmaine Ushkow presented the $5,000 check. In addition, the Museum received credit for
$5,000 worth of advertising in the Times Union. Thanks to
everyone who voted for SLATER in the contest! And Heather,
Rosehn, Erik, and BJ Costello were proudly in attendance at
the 2014 Albany County Executive’s Volunteer Awards; a big
congratulations to our Richard “Dick” Walker, who was honored as an award recipient! I had nominated Dick for the 2014
Albany County Executive’s Volunteer Awards but, sadly, was
down in Staten Island when the award was presented.
Work progresses as the “ice belt” marches aft along the starboard side.
Thankfully, BJ took my place in introducing Dick, outlining the
invaluable contributions he has made to the ship. Heather,
Rosehn, and Erik went out of their way to attend the ceremony
as well, to show their appreciation for someone who is always
looking for ways to help. To illustrate how much he does for us,
we had a hard time finding a picture of him to provide to the ceremony coordinators, because he is always on the go working
behind the scenes.
May began week five of our adventure and found Gary
Sheedy, Walt Forney, Wayne White, and Ed Zajkowski
aboard. On May 1 we celebrate 70 years since USS SLATER
was commissioned. The anniversary went uncelebrated as we
were in a drydock far from home. At this point we made the decision to try and have the yard rebuild three of our worst watertight
doors, and replace the glass in eleven of our most battered portholes. A crane lifted the doors ashore and the crew hand-carried
the portholes down the ladder. The shipyard machinists finished
repacking the propeller shafts in the shaft alleys, so that item was
checked off the list. The most critical evolution of the week was
re-establishing the waterline. This was critical to the placement
of the top of the doublers as the line moved aft. In Albany, as an
afterthought, I had Erik Collin measure the distance from the
main deck to the waterline in ten spots down the length of the
ship. And, Barry Witte asked our loyal RPI Midshipmen to ride
the paint float around the ship, marking the waterline with alternating orange and white spray paint marks. We had three photos
showing the waterline at the bow and stern draft marks and the
sonar dome. These measures became critical in making sure the
plate line ran straight and true. We marked the waterline after
hours. The yard had Rogers Surveying verify our measurement
so the project could progress without delay. In the end, the plate
line looks perfect, and the weight of the additional plate and
anodes must have been equaled by the amount of waste oil and
water that we pumped off the ship during tank cleaning.
Replacement of the old sea chest blanks continued as the
pitted quarter-inch blanks were replaced by three-eighths
plate and seal-welded by ABS certified welders. The volunteers continued cutting and stamping out neoprene gaskets for all
of our fuel tank manhole covers. Thursday of that week Board
Chairman BJ Costello organized a VIP tour consisting of himself, NY State Senator Diane Savino, and Assemblyman
Michael Cusick, representatives for this area of Staten Island.
The day was gray and rainy. Shipyard President Steve Kalil
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accompanied the group as we made the quarter-mile trek to the
east yard. I assumed that Diane would take one look at the ship
on the blocks and say, “That’s nice, can we go home now?” But,
she surprised me and turned out to be a real trooper, asking to
come aboard and take the full tour of SLATER at her worst. She
even climbed into a bunk and asked great questions throughout
the tour. All I can say is that as spunky and adventurous as she
is, I’d like the opportunity to vote for her.
That week we also got the word that SLATER’s wartime
engineering officer and Trustee Emeritus Cliff Woltz passed
away in Houston. A major force in all the SLATER reunions
over the years, and a wealth of knowledge about life aboard
SLATER during the war, Cliff was a presence who will be forever missed by our organization. The ensign flew at half-staff for a
week in drydock in his honor. At the end of the week Barry
Witte came down with two young helpers, Eric Altman, a
mechanical engineering student at Clarkson, and Midshipman
Tulsa Scott, a nuke engineering sophomore at RPI. They cleaned
the glass on the port and starboard sidelights and restored the
electrical portions that have had no attention for a decade or
more. On a tip from Ed, they traced some piping and found out
that the sea chest that we opened up to cool the ship’s service
generator will also feed a firepump, so there is no need to open
up any others. This was confirmed in the CANNON Class piping book and a system tracing in the B3 bilge. Barry, Tulsa, Eric
and Gary Sheedy traced out the power lines for the 20mm gunsight compressors on the 01 and 02 levels forward. This has been
a mystery fuse box in the pilothouse for as long as we have had
SLATER. They looked into restoring the light fixtures in the
shaft alleys, which are severely corroded, but since the yard will
not let us do any hotwork ourselves this will be an Albany project.
They left me with a Greek sea chest blank in the CO’s
cabin that was eaten clear through. There was evidence of
water in many other sea chests, proof that the concern about
freezing damage to these sea chests in Albany may not be warranted, since it is now obvious that many of the sea chests were
subjected to very cold temps before we brought heat on to the
ship in early 2000s. I kept the plate as a souvenir to show at the
HNSA meeting. The bad news is that it proves that much of the
pitting occurring in SLATER has happened since she came to the
U.S. More concern about cathodic protection is a must.
Week 6 arrived with Ed Zajkowski, Gary Sheedy, Wayne
White, Steve Klauck, Bill Wetterau, Ron Prest, and George
Amandola aboard. Ed made his bi-monthly trip home to do his
laundry so George covered for Ed in the galley and did quite well
for himself. Bill Wetterau sanded and repainted raft number 1
and then painted out the ship’s store. When he finished painting,
he and Sheedy installed the new door on the ship’s store. Sheedy
then busied himself polishing urinals until bronchitis pretty well
knocked him out of the picture. New volunteer Steve Klauck
scaled and primed the starboard 40mm shell cage, an area that
hasn’t seen a paintbrush or needle scaler in 16 years. Though
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Board Chairman BJ Costello leads NYS Assemblyman Mike
Cusick, State Senator Diane Savino and Shipyard President
Steve Kalil on a tour of USS SLATER.
site Steve on the port 40mm shell cage and got that primed and
painted. He then went to work doing more scaling in the depth
charge magazine bilges. The yard replaced the two forward most
chocks with two new ones that were donated several years ago
by Schoellhorn-Albrecht Company in St Louis. Julio and
Raphael also replaced all the wasted metal under the port and
starboard searchlight platforms, another eyesore that has bedeviled us ever since SLATER returned from Greece. They completed fabrication of the ensign battle gaff on the stack and hoisted
the first flag on it. The yard workers also scaled under the ship’s
service generator tank in B-3 after the decision was made to add
preservation and painting of that tank to the yard work list. They
hydroblasted and primed waterways. The yard welders also
welded on the first of the draft numbers that Barry Witte had his
students Marc Boyer, Devon Urbano and Jeremy Zhang fabricate, over the doubler plates. The surprise of the week was a
visit by Board President Tony Esposito who bought the whole
crew lunch.
Week 7 Found Ed Zajkowski, Gary Sheedy, and Wayne
White continuing to hang tough and going the distance. They
were joined by Thomas Scian, Bill Haggart, and our very special guest, Collections Manager Heather Maron. As week 7 progressed, our surveyor Rick Meyerrose laid out the placement of
the anodes and the yard welded all the studs in place for the 100
magnesium anodes. Thomas Scian and Heather Maron did a
lot of scaling and priming topside. Thomas allowed himself to be
talked into climbing through the four main engine sumps and
photographing their condition. We also lowered the anchors and
chain to the drydock floor using our own crew and the anchor
windlass without any assistance from the yard crane. The anchor
chains were hydroblasted on the dock floor in preparation for
painting. The gangway staging was moved aft to make way for
the continuing march of the platework, and the yard completed
restoration of the port spray shield following removal of the
Greek davit supports. Bill Haggart completed rigging raft number 1, lashing in the gratings and the canvas bands around the
raft. Heather went home midweek and took bronchitis patient
Gary Sheedy with her. Ed and Wayne fabricated several main
deck tank vent clamps used for holding fuel oil tank vent pipes.
The yard removed both rudder drain plugs and the rudders were
full of water. Leaks in rudders will be patched. They also took
the galley vent apart for scaling and painting and put that back
together.
Week 8 started with Memorial Day Monday, which the
yard took off. There were only two volunteers aboard that week,
Ed Zajkowski and Bill Haggart. Ed and Bill gave the ship a
thorough topside washdown Sunday. Ed went home on Tuesday
and as soon as he left, the yard set up to brush blast all the completed welds forward of frame 70. That completely covered the
deck with sand grit again. The final plates were fitted and welded
in on Wednesday and after that all the welders turned to production welding to complete the job. As each section was completed
the staging was rapidly disassembled so blasting and painting
could continue as soon as possible. Thursday was the annual
Caddell company picnic, which we were invited to and thoroughly enjoyed. The anchor chain received its first coat of paint
prior to being turned over and then another coat was applied. The
chain locker and the depth charge storage magazine were power
washed, dried and primed. All the aft compartments were now
ready for painting. Ballast tank C-10W was also ready for its first
coat of primer. That Saturday, May 31, the last welds were completed on the doublers and all the staging was disassembled to
make way for sandblasting of the new welds and hull painting.
Our onsite supervisor Hector Sosa kept pushing his crew
and took his responsibility very seriously. He was always there
to rig a plate or to pull on a chain fall when an extra hand was
needed. Laborer Roy was in more places at once than any person
has a right to be. One of the most cheerful faces on the dock, the
guy moves more weight for his size than should be possible. His
brother-in-law, Harry, was the primary crane operator. He
shared Roy’s good humor and is most often found perched in the
cab of “Big Betty,” the huge floating crane that is married to
Drydock 6. We complained about our climb up to SLATER’s
main deck, but none of us envied Harry’s climb to the top of “Big
Betty.”
The welders, Vince, Luis, Fred, Paco, Julio, Danny,
Rodriguez, and Lopus did a great job lifting, fitting and
welding plate. The first welders I got to know were Vince and
Luis, as they were working the section closest to the gangway. I
knew Vincent as “The Hammer” because of the hours he spent
wielding a big hammer as he and Luis formed the new plate to
the contours of SLATER’s battered original shell. Coming down
on the port side were Frederico and Rodriguez. There were two
Pacos. The younger Paco the welder was one of the most professional looking and focused people in the dock. There was something special about the way he carried himself and the pride he
took in his appearance. He rarely joined with the antics of the
rest of the crew. He just welded. The elder Paco was a laborer
and spent hours grinding and cleaning up the welds. We got to
know Julio and Rafael really well as Hector assigned them most
of the jobs on the main deck and above. Ed developed a special
relationship with Julio. Julio didn’t understand much English and
Ed doesn’t speak a word of Spanish, yet Ed would point, Julio
would nod, and do the job just the way Ed wanted. I also went
into the experience figuring that if I could learn the names of the
workers, I could also learn a new word in Spanish every day.
That lasted about a week, and I learned about four words. I communicate through Hector and everything works well, though I’m
still trying to figure out what “Loco Gringo” means.
The sub-contractor Union Maintenance’s workers had
their own personalities. They were the ones responsible for the
cleaning, surface preparation and painting. I truly enjoyed working with Matt Kelley, and his good nature. As I’ve said before, I
have the utmost respect for the guys who crawl into the tanks and
voids and do the dirty work no one else wants to do. After the
tank cleaning, Manny and Chris moved aboard to do the spray
painting. Manny operates the sand blasting tanks and spray
equipment and mixes all the paint. Chris and Oscar were the
ones who went into the tanks with an air supplied system and had
my utmost respect. I spray painted compartments in the days of
alkyds and, as miserable as it was back then, I wouldn’t want to
be doing it with epoxy.
It was the Tuesday after Memorial Day that a crew of
three from the subcontractor Union Maintenance reported
aboard to continue tank and bilge scaling. The crew leader
was one of my favorite people, who I only know as “Big John
from Trinidad.” I know this because I asked if his accent was
Jamaican and was promptly corrected. He had two teenagers
with him and I was skeptical. I climbed down a tank they were
working in. Much to my surprise, John was in the tank scaling
and I had no idea how he fit down the manhole, except perhaps,
with a liberal application of Vaseline or some other grease. The
teens seemed to be holding their own which was surprising, but
I took it in stride. There are exceptions to every stereotype. It
wasn’t until late in the day that I learned that these two kids were
identical twins Jared and Liam Kelly, the sons of Paul Kelly,
one of Union Maintenance owners. They were both studying
management in college. Neither sounded too excited about making this a career, but this was their summer job for a couple years
and they handled it like pros. I realized I truly had the “A-Team”
cleaning our bilges.
Work progressed in Albany as Doug Tanner, Tim Benner
and Super Dave were reinforcing the supports for the aft
gangway. Erik Collin repainted the seawall, mooring bollards
and the gangway, and was engaged in recording and thanking the
hundreds of you who have responded to our final Hull Fund
solicitation. I didn’t envy Rosehn and Heather who spent a
good part of their days explaining to irate visitors why SLATER
was not at the dock and open for tours. Or, explaining to the guy
who said, “Why can’t you just fix it in Albany?”
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USS SLATER volunteers did all of the topside camouflage painting. Here, Bill Wetterau and Ron Prest apply pale gray to the forward
20mm splinter shields.
On May 5th, Heather Maron visited Beacon Pointe
Memory Care in Clifton Park to give a presentation to the
residents. In attendance were veterans, as well as a former
school teacher who had visited the ship on a field trip with her
students several years ago. She enjoys the opportunity to
encourage dialogue about WWII frontlines as well as homefront
experiences. With the ship away, Heather also has been utilizing
the time to tackle reworking aspects of the overnight program.
Her goal is to incorporate more hands-on activities, and is always
looking for suggestions and volunteers to help. If you’ve had a
positive experience with an overnight event, either aboard
SLATER or another historic ship, feel free to contact Heather to
see how we can improve.
In addition to fabricating the draft numbers, one student
at Colonie Central High School made another significant
contribution. Welding student Nicole put the finishing touches
on a bike rack just for us. Last fall tech teacher Chris Hanley
asked if there were any special projects that his students could
work on in their spare time. We casually mentioned that there has
been the need here for an appropriate compact bike rack. Nicole
procured a worn-out rack from the Middle School and proceeded
to downsize and refurbish it to meet our specifications. Then,
going the extra mile, she added her own version of SLATER’s
silhouette, complete with a wave. Thanks, Nicole! Now our visitors arriving by bicycle will have a secure place to park.
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The month of June began with our ninth week in the drydock. We had Ed Zajkowski, Wayne White, Ron Prest,
Thomas Scian, Bill Haggart, and Gary Dieckman aboard
that week. By this point the steel work was pretty much complete and the ship was turned over to the subcontractor Union
Maintenance for final sandblasting and painting. The yard crew
began cleaning out the drydock and working on the rudders.
Union Maintenance blasted and primed all the new weld work on
the doublers and they painted out the chain locker and primed
ballast water tank C-10W. The yard also removed the capstan for
blasting and painting. The volunteers worked on using Epoxy on
the snaking tie down bar to keep rainwater from streaking the
hull, as a stopgap, until permanent repairs can be made. That
week it rained all Thursday morning so the yard worked under
the hull out of the rain bolting on the magnesium anodes and they
painted out the white in the depth charge magazine. The volunteers cleaned in compartment C-201L, and then trashed the place
as we worked to fix a split drain line we discovered. That same
afternoon the volunteers raised both anchors and chain with our
windlass. That weekend the only SLATER guy getting a paycheck,
me, and Eddie Z both took the weekend off. Brandon Easley
and Joe Delfoe joined the crew for the weekend. Boats Haggart
had a new person to tell his sea stories to in Joe Delfoe, a DE Vet
off MAURICE J MANUEL. Ron Prest and Wayne White got the
2 seats primed/bolted in on the flying bridge. We tightened the
chain stoppers to snug up the anchors. Joe and Brandon did chip-
Working off JLG lifts, Union Maintenance painters Oscar, John Thomas and Gustavo laid out and applied the camouflage pattern
to SLATER’s hull.
ping along the port side main deck. They spotted the three
restored watertight doors and 2 scuttles on the 01 level. Harry
Rodriguez, the crane operator lifted them aboard without us
knowing it.
They got the 3 doors re-hung on the galley, hedgehog
locker and gear locker. Boats got the absentee pennant flying
and made breakfast and lunch. Down below the yard crew got the
entire boot top roughed in and started the cutting in on the bottom
edge on port side. They got up to the start of the port roll chock
with the cutting in. They came back Sunday to finish the rest of
the cutting in on the bottom side of the boot top.
On week ten Steve Klauck and Bill Wetterau stepped in
for Ron Prest and Wayne White. The big event of the week was
fleeting SLATER on Wednesday the 9th. Fleeting is the process
of sinking the drydock so the ship floats, moving it forward four
feet and setting it back down on the blocks so the areas of the ship
that were obstructed by the blocks can now be sandblasted and
painted. We were scheduled for 0800 but intense rain all morning
set it back to noon. Our water and sewage were secured for most
of the day. The ship was floated for leak checks by us. We
checked every space, tank and void three times and Thomas
Scian checked all the engine sump tanks. No problems except
issues with the stern tubes and the problem of a pinhole leak in a
water tank. By 1500 we were back on the blocks ready for work
the next day. Ed commented that fleeting a ship is as boring as
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watching grass grow.
The leaky stern tubes were a result of an attempt to seal
them with Splash Zone Epoxy. Following the fleeting, the decision was made to seal the stern tubes with a steel enclosure welded to the hull and shafts. The yard crew came with new devices
to seal the stern tubes from letting water enter. These were preformed 3/8” metal pieces that, once welded, will be a solid barrier
to protect the ship. A solid weld around the outside of the tube, a
solid weld around the shaft and all pieces welded. We placed a
pipe nipple on the flat piece for testing. The entire tube was pressure tested to 1.5 pounds. Not to worry though. The whole
process is reversible if we ever find a benefactor with deep
enough pockets to get the ship underway. The volunteer crew
worked on doing multiple tasks inside the ship including insulation repairs and preservation in storerooms.
At the same time, yard workers Oscar, Gustafo and John
Thomas began laying out the camouflage pattern on the port
side hull. The camouflage effort is primarily a result of Ed’s dedication and Oscar’s skill. Ed spent a month working from
SLATER’s original photographs as he painstakingly laid out the
plans in two large 13’ drawings. Shipyard painter Oscar used
magnets to hold the drawing on the drydock wall and, working
off the basket of a JLG man lift, transferred the lines to the ship.
We didn’t understand how he could be so accurate without the
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Destroyer Escort Historical Museum – Financial Report -- 2013
Here is our year end unaudited financial statement for 2013. We present it prior to the release of the audited
statement to get it to you in a timely manner. In addition to this statement, we recorded 17,391 volunteer hours
in our quarterdeck log book, and that doesn't count all the hours that Trustees and volunteers worked on our
behalf off-site. We continue to encourage you to consider bequests to the Museum so that the legacy of the
destroyer escorts will live on. We will continue to make every effort to see that your donations are spent
carefully and wisely. As you will see in the statement, it is you, our members, who remain the backbone of this
project.
Statement of Financial Position -- December 31, 2013
ASSETS
Current Assets
Checking/Savings
Cash-Operating Account
Savings & Short-term Investment
Total Checking/Savings
Other Current Assets
Merchandise Inventory
Prepaid Expenses
Grants & Pledges Receivable
Total Other Current Assets
Total Current Assets
Other Assets
Endowment
Hull Preservation Fund
Fixed Assets less depreciation
Total Other Assets
TOTAL ASSETS
$
6,363.05
8,009.17
14,372.22
8,952.12
8,560.03
18,508.29
36,020.44
50,392.66
1,508,426.72
970,983.31
452.08
2,479,862.11
$ 2,530,254.77
LIABILITIES & EQUITY
Liabilities
Accounts Payable
Accrued Wages, Taxes, Leave. Etc
Total Liabilities
Equity
Opening Bal Equity
Retained Earnings
Total Equity
Net Income
TOTAL LIABILITIES & EQUITY
8,510.58
21,971.15
30,481.73
738,842.38
1,475,873.46
285,057.20
2,499,773.04
$ 2,530,254.77
Statement of Activity for the Year Ended December 31, 2013
Operating Income/Expense
Income
Contributed support
Individual & business contributions
$ 89,931.89
Hull Preservation Fund
127,126.84
Winter Fund
80,485.00
Grants
6,300.00
Donated use of facilities & professional services
175,619.50
Total Contributed support
479,463.23
Earned revenues
Ticket sales
69,365.00
Merchandise sales
27,171.72
Overnight camping
29,710.00
Membership dues
40,883.00
Miscellaneous revenue, interest & dividends
Total Earned revenues
Total Income
Expense
Salaries & related expenses
Staff salaries & wages
Seasonal wages
44,085.59
211,215.31
$ 690,678.54
$ 176,336.25
24,083.33
Employee benefits & payroll taxes
64,452.41
Total Salaries & related expenses
264,871.99
Non-personnel expenses
Office & curatorial supplies
1,311.24
Ship supplies
16,588.04
Postage, shipping, mailing services
12,623.32
Telephone & telecommunications
3,381.77
Equipment, rental, maintenance
10,396.53
Printing, copying, photography
5,117.70
Professional fees & contractual services
19,658.84
Utilities, waste services, storage
24,040.62
Travel & meetings
1,239.32
Merchandise & store expenses
11,254.93
Marketing & public relations
16,698.07
Insurance – non-employee
28,346.70
Overnight camping & special events
16,321.35
Donated use of facilities & professional services
175,619.50
In-house publications
10,376.00
Other expenses
Total Non-personnel expenses
Total Expense
Net Operating Income
Endowment
Contributions
Dividends & interest
Realized gain (loss)
Unrealized gain (loss)
Total Endowment Revenue
Net Income
7,223.29
360,197.22
$ 625,069.21
$
65,609.33
$
32,312.00
47,357.10
3,673.08
136,105.69
$ 219,447.87
$ 285,057.20
Slater Signals - cont’d
drawings for reference while he was suspended in the air until he
showed us that he had photographed the drawings with his smart
phone and thus had a ready reference in the basket. We old guys
would have never thought of that. The resulting hull camouflage
is a tribute to their combined creative skills and dedication.
Another dramatic moment occurred when I was standing
outside the galley and I heard John Thomas screaming profanities from the dock floor. Now John Thomas is not the kind
to use profanity unless seriously called for. A look down revealed
that Ed’s precious, one-of-a-kind 13’ portside drawing had blown
off the dock wall into a pool of water. Ed retired to his stateroom,
presumably to console himself in a bottle of whatever was available. I raced down to the dock floor and helped John lay out the
drawing over a grating and weigh it down with scrap metal to dry
it out and keep it from being blown apart. It survived the experience as a battered artifact testifying to our shipyard struggle.
The end of week 10 marked the conclusion of all belowwaterline work. Nothing was left now but camo and deck painting. The camo pattern was fully laid out on the port side, ready
for colors 5-H and 5-N. Painting was held up due to high humidity. Ron Frankosky worked aboard cleaning up in C-203L. Ed
fixed a huge “Last Supper” as Boats Haggart, Steve Klauck,
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Wayne White and Bill Wetterau left that Friday. Week eleven
began with a surprise visit by Mary Habstritt and one of her volunteers from the Coast Guard buoy tender USCGC LILAC. They
appeared on the drydock wall and we invited them for dinner in
the middle of a torrential rainstorm and gave them the traditional
SLATER tour. Monday it was all about painting as the contractors completed the pale gray and haze gray on the portside and
laid out the pattern on the starboard side. We made the decision
to do the superstructure painting ourselves to save time and
money and the volunteers painted out all the pale gray on the
fo’c’sle and the portside forward deckhouse.
That Monday we were still in drydock as the yard workers finished the portside painting, including the hull and draft
numbers, and we got our name back on the stern. Eddie Z,
Ron Prest, John Burroughs, Bob and Thomas Scian worked
on painting the main deck house. They finished the pale gray on
Monday and haze gray on Tuesday. The camouflage design was
completed on the port side, and it was beautiful, a work of art.
The old girl looks like a kid again with her new makeup. The hull
was so new and good-looking, it seemed a shame to put her in
water.
On Wednesday June 18th, around noon, the yard flooded
the drydock and we were floated out. We made a last check of
all the tanks, bilges and voids as she floated off, but no problems
The riding crew homeward bound.
were found. After 11 weeks we were starting to feel like we had
grown roots to the drydock. The Caddell yard tug and two assist
tugs provided by Henry Towing moved us west one slip to floating pier “B” where we moored portside to. It didn’t take the yard
long to get us our electrical and water back. With 90% humidity
and 60% chance of rain in the morning, it was a less than perfect
day for painting but Bill Wetterau, Ron Prest, Gary
Dieckman, Thomas Scian and John Burroughs continued cutting in the superstructure camouflage under overhangs. By that
Friday the volunteers had finished camouflage on the main deck
house and moved up to the 01 Level. That Saturday Barry Witte
brought aboard volunteers ENS William Gregory, Steve
Bologna-Jill, Jesse Futia and George Gollas. Working with the
week 11 crew, they provided the youth and muscle to finish the
superstructure painting. We used a modified 32/3d pattern, leaving some areas haze gray that were just painted last year, including the stack and pilothouse exterior.
The week wrapped up with Bernarda “Bernice” Thomas
and her diligent crew of ladies doing an outstanding job of
cleaning three months of shipyard dirt and grime from all
our living and display spaces. Meanwhile, fire hoses and applicators went back in the racks, display gear came out and decks
were being cleaned for painting. The high point of the week was
when Barry Witte presented Ed with the “Meals on Keels”
award for keeping us alive for the past 11 weeks. The end was in
sight.
arrived with a small bus with the riding crew that brought our
total to 24 for the trip home. Everybody settled in that evening for
0400 reveille. As we prepared to get underway, the only people
on the dock were two yard electricians tasked with cutting the
shore tie and making sure we didn’t try to steal the shore power
cable. The engineers cranked up the emergency diesel generator,
we shifted the load, cut loose the shore tie, water line and gangway, let go all lines, and pilot Tim Newman of the Sandy Hook
Pilots Assn. eased us away from the pier and into the Kill Van
Kull.
At sunrise the colors were hoisted at half-mast in honor of
Merrill “Gus” Negus, our longtime engineer who had passed
away the day before. It was like a scene from a movie when
engineers Gary Lubrano, Mike Dingmon and Ken Myrick
came into the ship’s office to relay the sad news. Gus was one of
the most competent engineers ever to report aboard, back in
1999. Gus was chiefly responsible for getting the emergency
diesel generator running, and his attention to detail in the engine
room restoration earned him the nickname “Rembrandt.” His
death came as a real blow to us because he should have been with
us in B-4, standing his watch. Now his watch is over.
As we sailed past Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty
towards the Battery, New York City was just waking up to a
sight that hadn’t been seen since 1945, the sight of a destroyer
escort in camouflage paint making her way up the Hudson.
We drew some attention as all the major news networks had their
Week 12 was spent preparing for departure. The yard con- helicopters flying over us and we made the national news. At
tinued deck painting and we did camouflage touch up. We had Yonkers we changed pilots and our old friend Paul Capel arrived
some out-of-town guests, Charles Stone and Joe Scott. Charles’ to bring the ship into Albany. Ed Zajkowski, our technical confather and Joe’s great-grandfather served as an MM on USS sultant turned cook, continued to keep the expanded crew fed all
MELVIN R. NAWMAN in WWII. Charles and Joe made the pil- day. The voyage was without incident, which is the way all voygrimage all the way from Spokane, Washington to see SLATER, ages should be. We exchanged cannon salutes with West Point
and booked their flight months ago when we were sure SLATER and fired a few other times to the delight of crowds ashore. A
would be home by now. Rosehn Gipe brought them down from check of our Facebook page shows how popular we were with
Albany and it was only fitting that John Burroughs should be hundreds of people posting photos and many chasing the ship for
their guide. John had served aboard the NAWMAN as an officer miles. We are particularly indebted to volunteer Bill Maloney
in the fifties. Talk about customer service and ‘what are the odds’ who, in addition to chasing the ship that Monday, provided weekof them finding a guide off their ship. Thursday Wayne White ly documentation of the entire drydock process, giving us a comreported back aboard. Ed Zajkowski, Thomas Scian and John plete photo record of the work in progress and the faces of so
Burroughs spent the day touching up the camouflage, and many of the yard workers we came to know.
Thomas completed restoration of the aft head porthole.
For the trip home RM 1 Joe Breyer handled our radio
In the midst of all this activity, the Marine Corps League, traffic. Unfortunately, the trip occurred on a Monday following
Department of New York notified us that we had been selected amateur radio “field day” weekend. This is by far the ham radio
to receive their Chairman’s Choice Newsletter Award for our event with the highest participation. Hams across the country go
publication, “Trim But Deadly.” Our Board Chairman, BJ to vacant fields to erect various antennas and communication
Costello, graciously agreed to accept the award at the League’s centers powered by portable generators and simulate emergency
annual convention.
communications for 24 hours. After a grueling weekend of radio,
few hams are motivated to get back on the air for a while. The
The entire plan for the trip home began to gel late in the result was a disappointing 36 contacts. We had expected to be
week. Rob Goldman of NYS Marine Highway planned to use inundated with a pileup, which did not materialize.
the tugs MARGOT and FRANCES to move SLATER north.
Departure was set for 0500 Monday morning, June 30th, with
The evening grew hot and humid as we approached
arrival in Albany scheduled for late that evening. The pilots were Albany. We reached the Port around 2300. Paul looked over the
lined up. The yard completed deck painting that Saturday after- situation and elected to tie up on the Rensselaer side, just south
noon. We celebrated our last quiet evening in the yard with a of our traditional winter berth. This last minute change caused
small nucleus crew. Around noon on Sunday Tony Esposito
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some hurried shifting of fenders, but Paul did an excellent job of
mooring SLATER to the wharf using the tug MARGOT as a
fender so there wasn’t a mark in our new camouflage paint. The
FRANCES slipped away into the night, and her place was taken
by BENJAMIN ELLIOT in the morning. The only problem with
that was a barge was scheduled to tie up at our location at 0600
which meant getting underway for the home berth an hour before
we were expected. I probably should have notified Rosehn, but I
didn’t.
We secured the generator and nobody got much sleep
that night in the humidity. I slept on deck for the first time since
the overhaul began. We were up at 0500 and Ed made his last
breakfast. I called Rosehn just before 0600 and she was already
in the office. She made some hurried media calls and Paul got us
underway at 0550. As we eased upriver the port seemed to
explode with activity as three large barges and ships all got
underway at the same time. The volunteers we had left behind
were all waiting for us. Doug Tanner had arranged for Flach
Crane Service to have a rig waiting on the wharf to lift the gangways. It took Doug about an hour to have the gangways, water
and sewer hooked up. Barry Witte, Gary Sheedy, Larry
Williams and Ken Kaskoun got the electrical service and communications cable hooked up. The media attention we received
was wonderful. We set about resetting the displays and emptying
out the shore PODs in anticipation of our July 4th opening.
We’ve got a lot of lost time to make up for, but with this momentum, we think we can do it.
Looking back over the experience, the whole evolution
has led to a lot of sleepless nights. I spent a lot of time hoping
that we are spending this money as prudently and carefully as
possible to ensure that this ship will continue to honor our veterans and educate the public for another 70 years. That led to a lot
of sitting topside and walking the decks, but that is actually a
benefit of this experience. The warm nights are beautiful with the
ship traffic in the channel, the Bayonne Bridge lit up red, white
and blue, and the bright lights of the New York City skyline to the
east. There’s also something special about wandering into the
galley at 0300 looking for midrats. The radio was always tuned
to WCBS oldies, so there was always good music. We never
turned it off. The coffee was always hot and, despite the fact that
it was 22 hours old, it tasted pretty good. I usually settled for a
piece of cheese, but if I was really lucky I beat Thomas and
scored a leftover piece of one of Eddie Z’s peach or apple raisin
pies. Then it was back to the captain’s cabin, the space I occupy,
though a steward had yet to bring me coffee or make my bunk. I
never managed to even get the quartermaster to put up the absentee pennant when I went ashore.
As for the yard crew, they couldn’t have been more helpful. Anyone who has a problem with Latin immigration needs to
spend a month at this shipyard. English is a second language
there, but the phrase I heard most often is “No problem.” I saw
the American dream the way it was meant to be. Immigrants
come here, work hard doing the dirty jobs, stay loyal to the company, work their way up, and put their kids through college so
their children will have a better life. I haven’t figured out who has
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the toughest job here. The tank cleaning crew certainly has it
tough, especially Herman Padillia, who is the smallest guy in
the crew and has to get in the worst places. The job they did
cleaning out tanks and voids goes way beyond my expectations.
The burners and welders are up high in the stack or down in
smoke-filled bilges cutting out wasted metal. And, the guys on
those sandblast nozzles spend hours at a time on a man-lift blasting away. It’s hard work for everyone involved. Whether they
work for the yard or the subcontractor they have my utmost
respect. And I can’t say enough about Steve, Joe, Bill, Joe, Tom,
Barbara and the yard management team that made this happen.
And, then there was “My Friend Ed Zajkowski.” Barry
Witte wrote that “Ed Z needs to be recognized as the volunteer of the year. I saw how he has basically taken ownership of
the day-to-day operations of the drydocking, freeing you to manage the more ‘executive’ type matters.” I’m not sure about the
phrase “Executive Type Matters,” unless doing dishes and hauling trash counts. My role here must be akin to a father’s role during the birth process. Watch, worry and wait. But I can’t express
how much Ed being here has meant to the process. He was a true
advocate for the ship and my conscience, in addition to his culinary skills and covering the ship for me every weekend. I got a
lot of grief for the eight weekends I went home because the “Paid
Guy” goes home while the “Volunteer” was stuck on the ship.
While all the work in the yard was going we made a last
solicitation to all our members for Hull Fund donations. We
can’t thank you enough for the support and encouragement you
have given us through this evolution. We are now in a position
most historic ships will envy. The drydocking project is complete, paid for by you and we still have $1.5 million in our
endowment fund. The success has enabled us to add many items
to the work list that we were hesitant to add before. Included
among them were scaling and preservation of eleven of the worst
deteriorated skin tanks, magazines and voids, scaling and painting the chain locker, blasting and painting the anchor chain,
replacing two wasted chocks, pulling the capstan and sandblasting the inside of it, replacing the glass in eleven portholes, and
purchasing 1,800 feet of new mooring line. Our mooring line is
all 15 years old. The original budget for the project was $1.2 million. When we add in the towing, bilge cleaning in Albany, and
the incidentals, it will be just a little over $1.4 million. The total
amount was covered by your donations without having to dip into
the endowment.
We believe we couldn’t give USS SLATER a better 70th
birthday gift than this. I still can’t believe that over four years
we raised a million dollars and managed to pull this project off.
It’s an incredible accomplishment and a tribute to all you members. There’s something special about the spirit of this ship that
enabled this to happen. It’s an intangible combination of patriotism, humor, toughness and a stretch back to the youth of our supporters. I think John Burroughs summed it up best in the shipyard
when he observed, “Navy makes men out of boys, SLATER
makes boys out of men.” We’ll keep doing that for everyone who
comes across our gangway.
July 13, 2014
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Dear Tim & Slater shipmates,
I was pleased to see so many donations made to the
Slater in memory of Gus. He loved working on the ship and
especially enjoyed the whaleboat. He loved to talk and would
bend the ear of anyone who would listen to him. I was a captive audience at home and I’m sure I know as much about the
Slater as any of you.
My heart aches as I miss him so much, but it makes
me smile knowing how much he enjoyed working with you
guys. I wish you happy memories and continued success with
the ongoing restoration. I’m sorry Gus was not around when
the Slater came back to home port. I know he would have
loved to have made the trip.
Thank you to all who came to the wake and sent cards.
It was very comforting to me and my family. The picture and
the remembrance of Gus in the Slater Signals touched my
heart. I will continue to follow your progress as I have done
before. I hope that all of you enjoy the Slater as much as Gus
did.
Sincerely,
Mary Ann
Loving Wife
April 23, 2014
Dear Tim,
Thank you for your letter of April 7 concerning the Hull
Preservation Fund and that the Slater is already at the shipyard
in Staten Island. I am enclosing my check for $5,000 to the
DEHM Hull Preservation Fund in memory of my father, LCDR
Charles B. Brown who, as you know, was the Commanding
Officer of DE-242, USS Tomich, during World War II. He would
be very proud of what you have been doing for the Slater. I
think that I told you that he took me on board the Tomich in, I
believe, 1944, when she went from the Brooklyn Navy Yard to
New Jersey to reload her ammunition and explosives. Being
only 7 or 8, it made for a super “show and tell” story at school.
My mother was a plank owner when the Slater was first brought
over from Greece.
We will be in Burlington, Vermont on April 8th and had
planned on stopping by the Slater on the way home but I guess
that she will still be in Staten Island at that point. Hopefully, we
will be able to come up and see her later this summer. Thank
you for all that you have done for the Slater.
Sincerely,
C. Bennett Brown, Jr.
April 29, 2014
Tim,
I’ve been following the saga of drydocking Slater
through the website and linked articles. I have to confess to getting a little choked up when reading about the crowds of people
watching the ship and waving flags as she travelled down the
Hudson. It’s such a tribute to the sweat and toil (and $$$) of the
volunteers over the years, and I have to think that those people
who took the time to go down to the river did it as a tribute to
the service of SLATER’s WWII crew, and all those who served
on Destroyer Escorts. It’s just gratifying to know that
Americans still care.
Maybe the enclosed check will pay for a hull rivet. I
wish it could be more.
Good luck with the repairs.
Buzz Surwilo
Montpelier, VT
4/28/2014
Dear Tim,
Thanks for your kind words about Dad in your recent
letter updating us on the dry docking activities for the USS
Slater. As I discussed with you during my call to you in March,
my father wanted us to remember him by providing a contribution to the Slater. My sisters and I hope our attached contributions will help allow you and your team to continue your great
work in providing meaningful insight of naval history through
your presentation of life on board a DE. As noted on the envelope, I would love to have one of the prints of the Slater on
“Atlantic Convoy Duty.” Please reduce my contribution by the
associated $200 value of the print.
I have not forgotten my trip to Albany with my father to
see the ship several years ago at one of the last USS Slater
reunions. I was thoroughly impressed with the results of your
team’s restoration and preservation activities.
I hope to bring my family to Albany this summer to provide a glimpse of Dad’s shipboard life during WWII. I look forward to hearing about your continued progress on the ship
through the quarterly newsletter.
Best wishes,
Keith Poulsen
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May 8, 2014
Dear Rosehn, Yesterday we received the dog tags we ordered. Please
accept my thanks for them. If someone else made them, please
pass along my thanks to them. It has been the most difficult
thing in our lives to have to learn to live with Eli as a memory
and not as our lively companion. These tags will help us with
that in a small way, and I pray you all will be blessed. I do not
remember the name of the fellow who was there when we were
on our overnight, but he was an older fellow who took the time
to tell the kids all he could. I remember Eli, as one of the
youngest ones there, really hit it off with that gentleman. Eli
was always filled with questions and the fellow took the time to
answer him and establish a rapport with him. What a wonderful
thing the impact of small kindnesses can be. Please give our
thanks to all your crew just for working at what you do.
One set of the tags is now with Eli’s ashes. I believe he
would want to be marked that way. The others are for me to
carry.
Every blessing to you all.
With gratitude,
Father Rich Dibble
Ed. Note: Elijah Dibble passed away on November 4, 2013,
hours after sustaining injuries in a bicycle-car collision in front
of his home. He was 11 years old. In 2012, he had visited
SLATER with his Cub Scout Pack on an overnight encampment.
May 9, 2014
Thank you for the information concerning the Slater! I
get a little nostalgic when I see pictures like the one shown in
your letter! I was a Sonarman 1/C and a “plank owner” of the
USS Peter Tomich DE 242 and served on it throughout WWII
for just short of three years. Took convoys across from Halifax,
Nova Scotia and stateside ports to various places in England,
Scotland —- the Mediterranean, etc. Our war ended with us
tied up at Saipan waiting for the invasion of southern Japan.
Even though I only know we can’t keep all those old, worn out
ships, I still hate to think that my ship (and my home for nearly
three years) was put through the metal grinder at Green Cove
Springs, Florida!
Just a thought regarding our fundraising need for the
Slater; as much as I would love to have the large picture, I have
been retired from any sort of a job for many years and can’t
afford the $1000 tariff for it. However, I think there may be
enough of us still alive who would pay to have the name or
number of their DE put on a smaller version, probably an 8x12
or 12x14 inch copy of that picture of a Navy DE underway protecting a convoy in heavy seas. That picture with DE242 on the
bow would sure look good in my house!
I want all my grandsons and five great-grandsons to see
that picture —— I know exactly what the word “Contact!!!”
means to a DE sailor!
I thank all of you for keeping our memories alive!
Arthur O. Miller
May 12, 2014
Hello Tim and Slater Crew,
I was glad to receive your latest letter, it sounds like you
are going big time, all the way to Staten Island. I continue to
receive your magazine, Trim But Deadly, and it keeps me
informed. I’m glad to hear that you have much younger exsailors doing the scrape and paint on all parts of the Slater.
To all of you volunteers, I know it has been the goal to
get the SLATER in dry dock, now you will be able to continue
to receive visitors and have them go way back in time.
I am limited in what I can do and thankful I was part of
the crew. When I need a lift I think back on the metal parts I
could scrape and repaint like new, I’ll be in Dry Dock myself
one day.
John Del Giorno of WABC-TV/Total Traffic & Weather Network
sent us this photo that he took from NewsCopter 7 as we
headed up the Hudson.
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Good luck to all,
Ray Lammers SC 2/c
At 89 years
Ed note: Ray Lammers of USS TATUM was one of our most
dedicated volunteers for ten years.
May 14, 2014
Dear Mr. Rizzuto,
We re-commissioned the Sturtevant in August 19, 1951
at Green Cove Springs, FL for the Korean conflict and held our
first reunion in June of 1990. Now, 16 reunions later, with our
last reunion held this past week with only 10 crew members, we
decided it was time to quit. It was with reluctance that we decided and voted on that the remaining account to be split up and
passed on to those who could best use and were in need. Please
process this check as soon as possible as we would like to close
our account.
Regards and thanks,
Ted Prager President, Jereline Clarke Treasurer, and Clinton
Bjornson Secretary
USS Sturtevant DE/DER 239 Reunion Association
May 14, 2014
At the recent reunion of the USS Walter B. Cobb, we
tried to think of a special way to thank one of our shipmates who
has been of great help to our group. Jim Burton handles our
website, mailing labels, Cobb Grams and any other task we ask
of him. Therefore, please accept the enclosed check in the
amount of $100.00 for the Slater Hull Fund to honor and show
our appreciation to Mr. Burton.
Most Sincerely,
Kristi Adams
June 3, 2014
Dear Tim,
Debated sending another check, but no better cause.
So, what the HULL. Hope to see you and the ship very soon.
Art Dott
June 11, 2014
Hello Tim,
It has been a while since we have communicated.
Enclosed is a check for $28.00. It came from the USS Slater
Donation box that I set out at our Military Displays. I have several friends that have Military Vehicles & Weapons and I have
the Mothball Fleet Displays. Some donate because of a father
or grandfather who served here or because they may purchase a
DVD of the fleet. This year I had DVDs, photos, and refrigerator magnets. I read in this past “Trim But Deadly” newsletter of
a sailor who used to volunteer on the Slater and had moved to
Tampa. He is living in the birthplace of the Slater. She was
built in the Tampa Shipyards. Next October, of 2015, we will
be holding the 75th Anniversary of the Navy Base here in Green
Cove Springs, Florida. If anyone is interested, you may give
them my contact information. Thank you for what you and all
of your volunteers do.
Your Friend,
Frank Haggard
101 Joey Drive Box 504
Green Cove Springs, Florida 32043
Tel (904) 772-5250
Email: [email protected]
June 2, 2014
Tim,
Am enclosing my donation for the Hull Preservation
Fund. Glad to hear she is finally on her way to dry dock
although a bit earlier than planned. Hope there will be plenty of
photographic documentation as I find drydocking one of the
most fascinating aspects of ship repair and maintenance. Be
sure to include as many photos as possible in the Slater News of
her progress. Am very much looking forward to the finished
product.
Jim Nehnevaj
A view of USS SLATER from the stern shortly after her arrival.
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Restoration Fund Donations
Received April 1 – June 30, 2014
$1 to $25
Hugh Ashburn * Judith Asphar * Bill's Goodies * Donald W. Bulger USS
CHIWAWA AO68 * Peter Cosgrove USS CHESTER T. O'BRIEN DE421 *
DESA Heart of America Chapter * Robert Dunscomb * Robert Egler USS
SLATER DE766 * Mario J. Falcone, Sr. USS SILVERSTEIN DE534 * Paul
Finigan USS WATERMAN DE740 * James Futtner USS FINCH DE328 *
H. B. Kuhn Seniors Center * Art Hamilton LST980 * Robert Harris USS
PRICHETT DD561 & USS CHUKAWAN AO100 * Charles Hawkins *
Joseph Iadevaio.Jr. USS OSBERG DE538 * Richard Jordan USS HUSE
DE145 * Robert Lamb HMS DARING * John Lee * Paul McGreevy *
Robert Meyer * William Miller USS O'CALLAHAN DE1051 & USS
KOELSH DE1049 * Rodney F. Monnat USS COOLBAUGH DE217 * David
Moody USS FORMOE DE509 * Mrs. John Paul USS FORMOE DE509 *
Craig Pulliam * Donald Reinhart USS FORRESTAL CVA59 * Frank
Scherl USS ROY O. HALE DE336 * Parveen Sharma * Jim Smith *
Robert St. John * Charles Staub USS RHODES DE383 * Edward A. &
Jean Thomas USS CONNOLLY DE306 * Frank S. Virden USS HOOPER
DE1026 * Steve Waddell * Joe Winn USS WOODSON DE359 *
$26 to $50
Lisa Adriani * Tony Bosworth USS DELONG DE684 & USS ALBERT T.
HARRIS DE447 * Mike Brueckmann USS ALLAGASH AO97 * David
Colamaria * David Ferguson USS J. DOUGLAS BLACKWOOD DE219 &
USS GEORGE A. JOHNSON DE583 * Hans Funk USS GREENWOOD
DE679 * Robert Goodrich USS LANSING DE388 * John Hill * Laurel
Hixson USS BRAY DE709/APD139 * David Jackson * Peter Keyser *
Stephen Klauck * Christina Larsen * Manuel Maroukis USS WISEMAN
DE667 * Francis McMonagle USS WILLETT DE354 & USS CONY
DDE508 * Douglas Menikheim USS CLAUD JONES DE1033 & USS
BRADLEY DE1041 * Vince Terrone USS MCDONNELL DE1043 *
Thomas Troike US ARMY * Perry Valantine * Chris Williams USS SUNBIRD ASR15 * Bruce Wolf *
$51 to $100
Anthony Apfelbeck USS BOOTH DE170 * Leonard Barrett * Richard
Beers USS PILLSBURY DE133 * William Black USS CLIFTON SPRAGUE
FFG16 & USS TRUETT FF1095 * John M. Boardman USS MELVIN R.
NAWMAN DE416 & USS PARLE DE708 * David Buffington * Maria
Chakmakas USS CARROLL DE171 * Thomas Cline * Robert Cole USS
EDMONDS DE406 * Betsy Cosart USS SLATER DE766 * Robert
Dadekian * John Dageenakis * Robert & Susan Downs * Fleet Reserve
Association, Branch 115 * Fleet Reserve Association, Branch 214 * Carl
Flitcraft * Walter Gadsby USS BLAIR DE147 * Clinton Gantt USS
BRONSTEIN DE189 * Robert Getz USS GUNASON DE795 * Morton
Goldberg USS REDNOUR DE592/APD102 * Alexis Gordon * Fred Hodge
USS GILLETTE DE681 * Gerald Jones USS MISSISSINEWA AO144 *
William Kish * Michael Kozak US ARMY * Francis E. Lamore USS
GILLIGAN DE508 * Ronald Leeper USS ROBERTS DE749 & USS
It could be 1945, but the wind tower gives it
away. USS SLATER spent two weeks pierside
while we completed deck and topside painting.
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MCCLELLAND DE750 * Thomas M. Lewis USS HOLTON DE703 * C. S.
Lovelace USS LAKE DE301 * Dave Mardon * Linda Murawski * John
Orzalli USS LERAY WILSON DE414 * Richard Palmer * Henry Petersen
USS CABANA DE260 * Robert D. Piper USS O'FLAHERTY DE340 *
Lucien Potvin USS HURST DE250 * Arthur L. Riggle USS WALTER S.
BROWN DE258 * Karl Schultz * Lester Selby USS JOYCE DE317 *
William Sennhauser USS BRONSTEIN DE189 * Robert Steiner * Walton
Stuart USS VESUVIUS AE15 * Chistopher Vallery * Richard Will USS
ALBERT T. HARRIS DE447 * Christopher Ziebro USS NEUENDORF
DE200 *
$101 to $250
Julius Bozman USS O'TOOLE DE527 * Robert Collin * Margaret &
Donald P. Connelly USS KLEINSMITH DE718/APD134 * Nick England *
Henry Erwin USS DELONG DE684 * Elmer Fredd USS PILLSBURY
DE133 * Dwight Helle USS CALCATERRA DE390 * Bruce Lane * James
Lang * Donald Leypoldt USS DEALEY DE1006 * Robert Lowe USS
HILBERT DE742 * Russ Padden USS NESHOBA APA216 * William
Scharoun USS OSMUS DE701 *
$251 to $500
Robert M. Comly * Harvey Jacobs USS INDEPENDENCE CVA62 * John
B. Madden, Jr. PT304 * Donald Newman * Eric O'Brien * David Savell *
Gary White *
$1,000 +
Rhodes Memorial Fund * John Whalen *
$10,000
Estate of Sally P. Snure USS CRONIN DE704 *
Hull Fund Donations
$1 to $25
Robert Adair USS CALCATERRA DE390 * Louis Alban USS CHAMBERS DE391 * Oral Amundson USS DEALEY DE1006 * Charles
Andersen USS OSBERG DE538 * Harry Andersen USS TABBERER
DE418 * Mrs. Helen Andersen USS GENDREAU DE639 * Paul & Joan
Andersen USS GENDREAU DE639 * Joseph & Julia Apice * Norman
Arleth USS WISEMAN DE667 * Henry Ashton USS CHARLES P.
CECIL DD835 & USS HORNE DLG30 * Fred Babbitt USS JENKINS
DDE447 * John & Norma Bakley USS DOBLER DE48 * David &
Merideth Bastiani * Roy Bayless USS NEUENDORF DE200 * C. Henry
Beazley USS GREENWOOD DE679 * Ernest Bebernitz * Belva &
Timothy Bernhardt USS ENGLAND DE635 * Richard Bertoldo USS
RHODES DE384 * Edson Birchard USS DARBY DE218 * Richard
Bodiker USS HAROLD C. THOMAS DE21 * Ada & Edward Bohmann
USS EARL K. OLSEN DE765 * Francis L. Bonesteel * Jack Boon USS
KEY DE348 * Margaret Bowne USS FALGOUT DE324 * Kenneth Boyle
USS SNOWDEN DE246 * John Bracelin USS DARBY DE218 * Amanda
& Joe Brillant USS O'FLAHERTY DE340 & USS JENKS DD655 *
Vernon R. Budd USS COFER DE208/APD62 * Brian Bush British Army Royal Engineers * James Bussert USS WALTER B. COBB DE596 & USS
LEWIS DE535 * Mrs. Betty Byrum USS GILMORE DE18 * Frank
Cambareri USS PATTERSON DE1061 * Robert Cameron USS GRISWOLD DE7 * Robert Capriotti USS ALBERT T. HARRIS DE447 *
Robert Carlyle USS KEPPLER DDE765 & USS DELONG DDE680 *
Robert Casten USS BROUGH DE148 * Billy Clark USS J. RICHARD
WARD DE243 * Edwin W. Coleman USS PETTIT DE253 * Earl Condit
USS RUDDEROW DE224 * Karen Conners * John Connolly USS
ALBERT T. HARRIS DE447 & USS VAN VOORHIS DE1028 * Peter
Cosgrove USS CHESTER T. O'BRIEN DE421 * George W. Coulston USS
JOYCE DE317 * Noel R. Couture USS OTTERSTETTER DE244 * Stuart
Crandall * Charles Dasho USS BROWNSON DD868 * Helen Davis USS
SLATER DE766 * Preston L. Davis USS ATHERTON DE169 * Raymond
Davis USS BOWERS DE637 * Sam Davis * Nicholas Day US Air Force *
Herman Deisenroth USS WISEMAN DE667 * Dana & Debra DeJonkerBerry USS JACK C. ROBINSON DE671 * Dominic S. Delia USS J. DOUGLAS BLACKWOOD DE219 * DESA Garden State Chapter * Daniel
DiBono USS BARR DE576 * Frank DiGrande USS ALBERT. T. HARRIS
DE447 * Robert E. Dillman USS WINGFIELD DE194 * Thomas Doin *
John Downes USS NAIFEH DE352 * John Dube USS DAVIDSON
DE1045 * George Duncan USS DOHERTY DE14 * Edward Dyer USS
PARLE DE708 * Frank Ehrnreiter USS PARLE DE708 * Mario J.
Falcone, Sr. USS SILVERSTEIN DE534 * Sheryl Falls USS DUFILHO
DE423 * Frances Fasano USS BRISTER DE327 * William Fehlan USS
RABY DE698 * John M. Ferro USS GUSTAFSON DE182 * Robert
Fifield USS DUFILHO DE423 & USS THOMAS GARY DE326 * Edward
Finney USS WALDRON DD699 * Ernest Fix USS THADDEUS PARKER
DE369 * FOP Lodge 51 * Frank Formichella USS JOSEPH E. CAMPBELL DE70 * Jean Fraylick USS WINGFIELD DE194 * Howard Freund
USS DAMON M. CUMMINGS DE643 * Tom Friedmann USS STRAUS
DE408 * George Futch USS WITTER DE636 * James Gelston USS
PIVOT MSO463 * Donald George USS FARQUHAR DE139 * Robert
Giacomino USS THOMAS J. GARY DE326 * Elliott Glassman USS
KYNE DE744 & USS MCANN DE179 * Robert & Bonnie Glidden USS
LOESER DE680 * A.J. Goers USS SPANGLER DE696 * George Good,
Jr USS NORRIS DD/DDE859 * Edward Goutink, III USS SELLSTROM
DE255 * John Grandinetti USS UNDERHILL DE682 * David M.
Graybeal USS SNOWDEN DE246 * Fred Greatorex USS COONER
DE172 * Gene Griesau * Herman Grimme USS FORMOE DE509 *
Eugene Gross USS WATERMAN DE740 * Alan Grupp USS HAMMERBERG DE1015 * Salvatore C. Guarneri USS SCOTT DE214/APD64 *
Bill Haggart USS PALAU CVE122 & YTB540 & USS KITTIWAKE
ASR13 * Hobart D. Harding USS EUGENE E. ELMORE DE686 *
Norman Harman USS SANDERS DE40 * Roy R. Harris USS BULL
DE693/APD78 * Paul Heim USS AMICK DE168 * Eric E. Heinicke USS
THOMAS J. GARY DE/DER326 * Robert D. Hemenway USS LLOYD
DE209/APD63 * Ronald Lee Hepp USS BURROWS DE105 * Earl
Herchenroder * Arnold Hiller USS ROBERTS DE749 * R. F. Hoffman
USS DAMON M. CUMMINGS DE643 * Ed Hollins USS HARVESON
DE316 * Robert J. Howell, Sr. USS FARQUHAR DE139 * Rudolph Hron
USS BRIGHT DE747 * Patrick Hughes * Steven R. Hurley USNR *
Joseph Iadevaio.Jr. USS OSBERG DE538 * Joseph Iannucci USS
RICHARD M. ROWELL DE403 * Joseph Irving USS EVARTS DE5 *
Harvey Jacobs USS INDEPENDENCE CVA62 * LaVerne H. Jensen USS
MILLS DE383 * Raymond Jensen USS ALEXANDER J. LUKE DE577 *
George Johnson USS KEITH DE241 * Skip & Barb Johnson * Catherine
Johnston USS SNOWDEN DE246 * Mervin Jones USS WATERMAN
DE740 * Charlie Jones, Jr. USS LOESER DE680 * Edward Kaufmann,
Jr. USS FRAMENT DE677 * Gerald J. Kelleher USS ROLF DE362 *
John Kenney USS DIONNE DE261 * Robert R. Kessler USS BROUGH
DE148 & USS KENNETH M. WILLETT DE354 * William Kilchenman
USS OTTERSTETTER DE244 * George King USS THADDEUS PARKER
DE369 * Harry W. Kinsley, Jr. USS BLAIR DE147 & USS COOLBAUGH DE217 & USS RAYMOND DE341 & USS GEENWOOD DE679
* Albert L. Kirkhuff USS FINCH DE328 * John Klett USS JACK W.
WILKE DE800 * William Knestis USS HAVERFIELD DE393 * Sophie
Knudsen USS IRA JEFFERY DE63 * Charles Kohler USS STRAUB
DE181 * Roland Kolar USS WHITMAN DE24 * Richard C. Kossakoski
USS CHESTER T. O'BRIEN DE421 * Victor G. Kubelsky USS FOREMAN DE633 * Marcell Langenhahn USS LOVERING DE39 * Roland
Lanier USS STAFFORD DE411 * Robert Larrabee USS THOMAS J.
GARY DE326 * Kurt Laurer * Donald A. Leask USS ROBERTS DE749
* Ward Littrel * Jim Lord * Jay Lucas USS NEUNZER DE150 *
Richard Lynch USMC * Kenneth R. Lyon USS FOSS DE59 * Walter &
Helen Mack * Charles A. Maehler USS CARTER DE112 * Charles
Manges USS FRYBARGER DE705 * Donald Markham USS TARAWA
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The night before departure USS SLATER rests quietly alongside Floating Pier B at Caddell’s. Thomas Scian photo.
CV40 * Linton Marks USS PARKER DE369 * Alvin May USS
JAMESTOWN AGTR-3 * Ivan W & Alma McCombs USS ENRIGHT
DE216/APD66 * Barbara M. & Raymond D. McCoy USS HILBERT
DE742 * Patrick McCoy USS BIGELOW DD942 * William B. McDonald
USS THOMAS DE102 & USS JOHN M. BERMINGHAM DE530 * Edwin
C. McDowell USS HYMAN DD732 * Arnold McLain USS SAMUEL S.
MILES DE183 * Maebelle A. Milian WAVES * Dorcas Miller USS
HODGES DE231 * Russell Miller USS GREENWOOD DE679 * William
Miller USS O'CALLAHAN DE1051 & USS KOELSH DE1049 * Leonard
Mitas USS WISEMAN DE667 * Francis Mlsna USS AHRENS DE575 *
Richard Mohl USS MALOY DE791 * Henry Mohr * Randall Moon USS
CRONIN DE704 * Jessie W. Moore USS SWEARER DE186 * Robert
Morgan USS WISEMAN DE667 * Robert Mueller * Len Muhlich * Ken
Myrick USS SAN MARCOS LSD25 * Harold Newman USS FISKE
DE143 & USS SLATER DE766 * Marty Newman USS RHODES DE384 *
Bill O'Neill USS O'NEIL DE188 * Marvin Osborne * Marie Oxford USS
O'NEILL DE188 * John & Patty Paduano * Aubrey Painter USS TRUMPETER DE180 & USS FINCH DE328 * Primo Paolini USS DALE W.
PETERSON DE337 * Herbert Parker USS O'REILLY DE330 * James
Parker * Kenneth Parker USS WILEMAN DE22 * Richard Parker *
Richard L. Patten USS GEORGE A. JOHNSON DE583 * Louis Payne
USS BRENNAN DE13 * Lawrence Percival USS CROMWELL DE1014 *
Richard Petrowski USS WILLIS DE395 & USS ALGER DE101 * Arnold
Pettijohn USS WHITEHURST DE634 * Robert Phelan * Florian W.
Pinkowski USS KYNE DE744 * Stanley Przybysz USS WOODSON
DE359 * Robert Quaranta USS RIZZI DE537 & USS DELONG DE684 &
USS COATES DE685 * George Quigley USS OTTERSTETTER DER244
& USS BRISTER DER327 * Glenn Raymo * Jack Reed USS DEEDE
DE263 * Gerald E. Rehbein USS FIEBERLING DE640 * Joseph M.
Retcho USS WEBER DE675/APD75 * Janet & Douglas Rhodes * Louis
& Margaret Riccitelli USS COOLBAUGH DE217 * William Ried USS
NEUNZER DE150 * Dennis Rivenburgh * Steven Rizzo USS THADDEUS PARKER DE369 * Duane Robertson USS RABY DE698 * Frank
Roche USS WILHOITE DE397 * Walter Rose USS CHARLES J. KIMMEL DE584 * Charles Sabo, Jr. USS LANSING DE388 (WDE488) *
James Sanborn USS COURTNEY DE1021 * Lloyd Schaber USS EISELE
DE34 * Everett Schrader USS IRA JEFFERY DE63 * Lloyd Sellers *
William Sennhauser USS BRONSTEIN DE189 * Earl Setterlund USS
RABY DE698 * Warren Seward USS FOGG DE57 * Howard Shapiro *
Donald Shehigian * Francis Shovlin USS SLATER DE766 * William V.
Shumate USS RALL DE304 * Bert Sikowitz USS HORACE A. BASS
DE691 * David Singer USS HOWARD D. CROW DE252 * Sheldon H.
Slater USAF * Donald Smith USS ROBERT E. PEARY DE132 * Ernest
Smith USS GREENWOOD DE679 * Leon Smith USS FIEBERLING
DE640 * Leonard J. Smith USS OSMUS DE701 * Tracy D. Smith USS
FALGOUT DE324 & USS GEORGE DE697 * Dr. Rod Speer * John F.
Spina USS KEITH DE241 * Randall Stack USS CROMWELL DE1014 *
Robert Stott USS ROMBACH DE364 & USS WHITEHURST DE634 *
John Strainer USS LANSING DE388 * Joe Sturiale USS HEYLIGER
DE510 * John Sulkowski USS LESTER DE1022 * Marybeth Sulkowski *
Jon Surprise USS BENHAM DD796 * Frank Szutar USS SNOWDEN
DE246 * Hratch Tashjian USS FIEBERLING DE640 * Van Thomas USS
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MARTIN H. RAY DE338 * Jim Tomlinson USS HORNET CVA12 * Sal
Tornatore USS GENDREAU DE639 * Dell Trilli USS CROUTER DE11 *
C. E. Trotter USS EBERT DE768 * Hugo Uglione USS JOYCE DE317 *
Wayne Van Amburgh USS ALBANY CG10 * Carl Van Fossen USS
BLAIR DE147 * Alicia Vasilow * Dominic Vassalluzzo USS POOLE
DE151 * Walter A. VonHone USS RUNELS DE793/APD85 * Don Walser
USS FOGG DE57 * Robert T. Weigel USS MOORE DE240 * Robert
Weiler USS CROSS DE448 * Mary Wesolowski USS DUFILHO DE423 *
Russell A. White USS SEDERSTROM DE31 * William White USS
MOSLEY DE321 * Bruce Whitney USS JOSEPH K. TAUSSIG DE1030 *
Donald Wilkins USS MARSH DE699 * Sidney Wilkins USS STRICKLAND DE333 * David Williams USS STAFFORD DE411 * Dick
Williams USS DELONG DE684 * James Winebarger USS FINCH DE328
& USS WILHOITE DE397 * Joe Winn USS WOODSON DE359 * Donald
Winnie USS JACK W. WILKE DE800 * Edward Woerz USS DONALDSON DE44 * Robert Wolfgang * James P. Wong USS FIEBERLING
DE640 * Robert Zang USS SILVERSTEIN DE534 * John & Peggy
Zeldam * John Zink * William Zourdos USS EARL K. OLSEN DE765 *
Anne Zulauf *
$26 to $50
James Anderson * Richard E. Armstrong USS DOYLE C. BARNES
DE353 * Glenn Bailey USS LESTER DE1022 * Jarvis H. Baillargeon
USS RUDDEROW DE224 * Harold A. Barber USS NEAL A. SCOTT
DE769 * Richard Barry USS RILEY DE579 * Kenneth L. Benson USS
SNOWDEN DE246 * William Blackham USS FOSS DE59 * Edward
Bobrick USS CROMWELL * Paul F. Bodling, Jr. USS SCHMITT
DE676/APD76 * Theodore Bogosh USS CATES DE763 * Kathleen
Bossidy USS REYNOLDS DE42 * Herbert M. Bridge USS DOHERTY
DE14 * Luke Bridges USS WEBER DE675/APD75 * Doug & Michell
Brill * Paul D. Bryan USS MARSH DE699 * Victor Buck USS KEY
DE348 * Don Butters USS HOLDER DDE819 * Ron Castle USS TABBERER DE418 * Verna & Carl D. Cederstrom USS ROBERT BRAZIER
DE345 * George Chambers USS WILLIAM T. POWELL DE213 & USS
CHAMBERS DE391 * Shirley Charbonneau USS EDWARD H. ALLEN
DE531 * Louis Chiarelli USS DOUGLAS L. HOWARD DE138 * Andrew
L. Cisternino USS PRIDE DE323 * Peggy Citarella * Janet Clarkson
USS GANDY DE764 * Johnny Clayton, Jr. USS BOWERS DE637 *
Mike Comar USS NEWMAN K. PERRY DD883 * James A. Cooley USS
SILVERSTEIN DE534 * Phyllis & Jeff Cramer USS JAMES E. CRAIG
DE201 * J. Lawrence Crouth USS FRANCIS M. ROBINSON DE220 *
Robert C. Davis USS CONNOLLY DE306 * Leslie Davison USS JOYCE
DE317 * Steve Davisson USS JOHN PAUL JONES DD932 * Robert
Dawson USS WALKE DD723 * Calvin D. Deeter USS CONKLIN DE439
* DESA South West Florida Chapter * Richard Donald USS MELVIN R.
NAWMAN DE416 * Daniel Donovan USS RABY DE698 * Robert
Dooley USS HEMMINGER DE746 & USS PRICE DE332 * George
Dowdell USS EARHART APD113 * Frank Dragotta USS WALTON
DE361 * Roger Eastman USS WEBER DE675 * Donald Ehre USS
FRANCIS M. ROBINSON DE220 * Clifford Eng * Barbara Erwin *
Donald Fankhouser USS EDMONDS DE406 * John Finch USS MALOY
DE791 * Eleanor & Frank R. Flanders USS ROY O. HALE DE336 *
James Flynn, Jr. * James T. Foraker USS RAYMOND DE341 * Arthur
Galvin USS GREENWOOD DE679 * Lawrence Gamble USS OSTERHAUS DE164 & USS LEVY DE161 * Roger Garner USS MILLS DE383
& USS RHODES DE384 * Nat Gayster USS CLARENCE L. EVANS
DE113 & USS ROBERTS DE749 * Myron Gordon * George E. Gorman
USS DURIK DE666 * John C. Goss USS CARROLL DE171 * Thomas A.
Gray USS J. DOUGLAS BLACKWOOD DE219 * George Greear USS
MCCOY REYNOLDS DE440 * Susanne T. Haberbush USS NAIFEH
DE352 * Frank Haggard * Robert O. Hahn USS DEALEY DE1006 *
David Hall USS WINGFIELD DE194 * Chet Halpern USS COOLBAUGH DE217 * Bob & Pat Harris USS SNYDER DE745 * Evelyn
Haschert USS NEVADA BB36* Paul Hefflefinger USS ROBERT F.
KELLER DE419 * Arthur Heiderman USS RHODES DE384 * Richard
C. Heller USS WILHOITE DE397 * Antone Hipp * Charles Horvath
USS SCHMITT DE676/APD76 * Kenneth & Sally Howard USS
MANLOVE DE36 * Lenard Ilgen USS SEDERSTROM DE31 * Brian
Issing USS CONKLIN DE439 * Robert Jacob USS DOUGLAS A.
MUNRO DE422 * David M. Jalbert USS ROBERT F. KELLER DE419 *
Richard Johnston * Paul R. Jolley USS CHAFFEE DE230 * Samuel
Kahn USS LESLIE B. KNOX DE580 * John Kampe USS CLAUD
JONES DE1033 * Christopher Kelley * Kenneth Kemmer USS QUELLET DE1077 * George Kleinhagen USS STRAUB DE181 * Paul Klote *
Charles Knight * Bert Ladre USS MARSH DE699 * Ruth Leeson *
Kerry B. Long USS THOMAS C. HART DE1092 * Robert B. Lynch USS
EDSALL DE129 * Marine Corps League, Inc USMC * Anthony V.
Marino USS MANLOVE DE36 & USS BELET DE599/APD109 * Michael
Marko USS BROUGH DE148 & USS PETERSON DE152 * Arthur
Marsan USS GILMORE DE18 * Dr. James McCullough USS REUBEN
JAMES DE153 * Michael McGrath USS COOLAUGH DE217 & USS
FRANCIS M. ROBINSON DE220 * Karen McKeena * Pernell McNeal
USS SOLAR DE221 * Donald Mellinger USS HISSEM DE/DER400 *
Douglas Menikheim USS CLAUD JONES DE1033 & USS BRADLEY
DE1041 * Edgar Miller USS BROUGH DE148 * Emory Miller USS
WHITEHURST DE634 * James Mitchell USS ROCHE DE197 * W.
Kenneth Morgan USS FIEBERLING DE640 * Robert E. Murphy USS
CARLSON DE9 * Arthur Naylor USS PETERSON DE152 * Merrill
'Gus' Negus USS CUBERA SS347 * Mack Newton USS MOORE DE240
* James Normile USS HEYLIGER DE510 & USS RIZZI DE537 * Joe
Oettel USS GREENWOOD DE679 * Rosemary Page USS BARR
DE576/APD39 * Jack D. Paul USS BASSETT DE672/APD73 * Robert
Pease USS ORION AS-18 * Richard Perry USS ALBERT T. HARRIS
DE447 * Juergen Peters USS DELONG DE684 * Pete Petraska USS
WILTSIE DD716 * John Pierce * James Plough USS WALTER B. COBB
DE596/APD106 * David G & Evelyn Poe USS FINCH DE328 * Philip
Poplaski * James Potter USS LAKE DE301 * George Prebish USS
HOWARD D. CROW DE252 * John Priesing USS EDMONDS DE406 *
Arthur J. Quattro USS WINGFIELD DE194 * Joseph Reck USS
WATERMAN DE740 * Harding Reemsnyder USS SCROGGINS DE799 *
Donald Reinhart USS FORRESTAL CVA59 * John Reynolds USS
SLATER DE766 * Orren Robbins USS EARLE B. HALL DE597/APD107
* Gardner Roberts USS OBERRENDER DE344 * Kenneth E. Roberts
LSM186 * Peter Rosaschi, Jr. USS HEYLIGER DE510 * Robert Ryder
USS EISILE DE34 * Wayne Schutte * Warren C. Shepard USS RIDDLE
DE185 * Stuart Singer USS HOWARD D. CROW DE252 * Ted Sluzas
USS SWASEY DE248 * Stephen Snyder USS VREELAND DE1068 *
Robert Somerville USS DEALEY DE1006 * John V. Spears USS SPANGLER DE696 * Robert Spees USS SPANGENBERG DE223 * Wayne
Spence USS LANING DE159/APD55 * William Spurrier USS DARBY
DE218 * Clayton E. St. John USS AMESBURY DE66/APD45 * William
Stewart USS THOMAS J. GARY DE326 * James V. Surwilo USS MARCHAND DE249 & USS RICKETTS DE254 * David R. Swanson USS
MITCHELL DE43 * Stanley Syrek USS PRIDE DE323 * Maurice
Thibodeau USS PENNEWILL DE175 & USS RAYMOND DE341 * Ruth
Thorne USS HEYLIGER DE510 * Michael Traynor * Charles
Unterberger USS O'REILLY DE330 * Tom Vagle USS WISEMAN DE667
* Frank Vasquez USS RIZZI DE537 * Harold Veeder USS SNYDER
DE745 & USS KYNE DE744 * Edgar D. Wakeman USS EDSON DD946
* Edwin Waldron USS REYBOLD DE177 * Paul Wardwell * Blair
Warrender USS MURRAY DDE576 * William Wasko * Joel Weinstein
USS STRICKLAND DE333 * LaVern & Jack Wells USS REYNOLDS
DE42 * William Whittarer USS WEEDEN DE797 * Kenneth Wiman
USS RAMSDEN DE382/WDE482 * Ray & Lois Windle USS FIEBERLING DE640 * Gordon Worden USS BUNCH DE694/APD79 * Emil
Zapalski USS PETTIT DE253 * Norval Ziegler USS O'REILLY DE330 *
$51 to $100
Earnest Aeschliman USS HUSE DE145 * Angelina & Richard A. Ager
USS GANTNER DE60/APD42 * William Albrecht USS WHITMAN DE24
* Charles W. Alexander USS WILLIAM SEIVERLING DE441 *
Alexander Allan USS ALBERT T. HARRIS DE447 * American Legion
Post #16 * Saratoga County American Legion Post 533 * Louis Amico
USS ALBANY * Nick G. Anastas USS CRONIN DE704 * James E.
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Andrus USS COOLBAUGH DE217 * John Antczak USS THOMAS F.
NICKEL DE587 * Bill Archibald USS EARL V. JOHNSON DE702 * J. T.
Arenberg USS THADDEUS PARKER DE369 * E Julian Austin USS
CHATELAIN DE149 * John Avener USS RAMSDEN DE382 * Leo
Baehler USS GUSTAFSON DE182 * Robert Baldwin USS ROBERT F.
KELLER DE419 * Harlan S. Barney, Jr. * William T. Barnhouse USS
KIDD DD661 * Mike Barry * Floyd Beans USS CRONIN DE704 *
William Becker USS WOODSON DE359 * Merle Beddow USS RIDDLE
DE185 * Victoria & William T. Beetel USS POOLE DE151 * William H.
Bell USS ULVERT M. MOORE DE442 * Paul J. Beltrandi USS
GILLETTE DE681 & USS BULL DE693 & USS HANNA DE449 *
Lawrence Biernacki USS CHARLES BERRY DE1035 * Larry Blount
USS SELLSTROM DE255 & USS COURTNEY DE1021 * Martin
Bockhorn USS THOMAS DE102 * Joseph Bordogna USS HUSE DE145
* John Brodhacker USS T. J. GARY DE326 & USS NAWMAN DE416 &
USS ROBERTS DE749 * David Brodie USS LANSING DE388 *
Maryellen Browarski * Ben F. Bryan USS MELVIN R. NAWMAN
DE416 * Charles Buhlmann USS ROBERT F. KELLER DE419 * John
Burroughs USS MELVIN R. NAWMAN DE416 * Thomas J. Burrows
USS BRISTER DE327 * Stephen Burtchell * Al Butkus USS HANNA
DE449 * John Caddell * W. C. Camp USS J. RICHARD WARD DE243 *
Tony Castellano PC564 * William Caulfield USS COFFMAN DE191 *
Paul Chatman USS BRONSTEIN DE189 * John C. Chitester USS GRISWOLD DE7 * Allan G. Clark, Jr. USS RICHARD S. BULL DE402 *
Robert Collin * Alfred W. Collins USS WEAVER DE741 * John &
Joanne Collins * Margaret & Donald P. Connelly USS KLEINSMITH
DE718/APD134 * Albert O. Cooper USS LAKE DE301 * Paul Cora *
Roger M. Corray USS FINCH DE328 * Joseph F. Coury USS EDWARD
H. ALLEN DE 531 * David W. Cregut USS SILVERSTEIN DE534 *
Eason Cross, Jr. USS NEIL A. SCOTT DE769 * Edward Cunliff USS
HOPPING DE155/APD51 * Henry A. Curtin USS DARBY DE218 *
DESA Arizona Chapter * Ralph DeSantis, Jr USS DELONG DE684 *
Mrs. Roxie Digaetano USS HAVERFIELD DE393 * Thomas F.
Dougherty USS J. DOUGLAS BLACKWOOD DE219 * Laurence T.
Duncan USS DELONG DE684 * Donald Eberle USS NEWPORT NEWS
CA148 * Laurel Edwards USS BULL DE693/APD78 * Arthur Eldred
USS EDWIN A. HOWARD DE346 * John Ernes, Jr. USS BROUGH
DE148 * David Ferguson USS J. DOUGLAS BLACKWOOD DE219 &
USS GEORGE A. JOHNSON DE258 * John Ferguson USS DIACHENKO
DE690 * John P. Fersch USS CHAMBERS DE391 * Everett Flodeen
USS SILVERSTEIN DE534 * Marilyn Florey USS AHRENS DE575 * C.
E. Ford USS PRICE DE332 * Walter Forney USS DARBY DE218 *
Victor T. Fortwengler USS BURROWS DE105 * Polly Foster USS
THORNHILL DE195 * Roxanne Franklin USS JOHN R. PERRY DE1034
& USS CALCATERRA DER390 * Ron Frankosky USS REEVES DE156
* Zane 'Zeke' Frazier USS WHITEHURST DE634 & USS BRIDGET
DE1024 * David Friedricks * Henry Fuqua USS WISEMAN DE667 *
Peter Gamwell USS KRETCHMER DE329 * Robert C. Gardner USS
SEDERSTROM DE31 * Neil Geis USS ROY O. HALE DE336 * Morton
Goldberg USS REDNOUR DE592/APD102 * Bruce L. Gottsch USS
BRADLEY DE1041 * William Greenhalgh USS TATUM DE789/APD81 *
Kenneth Griffin USS GANTNER DE60/APD42 * CDR Pat & Mrs.
Adriana Grillo USS KYNE DE744 * William R. Grundon USS EVARTS
DE5 * Paul Guarnieri, Jr. * Don Hagy USS J. DOUGLAS BLACKWOOD DE219 * Kent Hamaker, Jr. USS VANCE DE387 * Marie Helm *
Duane Henry USS NORRIS DDE859 * Fritz Hilbert USS BARON
DE166 * Herbert Hilmer USS PETTIT DE253 * Paul Hodges USS
SMARTT DE257 * William D. Holland USS TILLS DE748 * Charles
Holzschuh USS HARTLEY DE1029 * James A. Hopper USS FALGOUT
DE/DER324 * George Huemmrich USS STRAUB DE181 * Bill
Humienny USS EDWARD H. ALLEN DE531 * William Igo USS DENNIS DE405 * Dolores & Eugene Jackey USCGC WESTWIND WABG97 *
Wayne R. Jacobs USS ROBERT E. PEARY DE132 * Clinton James USS
TISDALE DE33 * Michael Jenkins USS PETERSON DE152 * Nancy
Jessen USS ALBERT T. HARRIS DE447 * Peter Jez * Graham Jones *
Robert Kane USS AMICK DE168 * Steve Keleti USS JOHN WILLIS
DE1027 & USS ROBERTS DE749 & USS MANUEL DE351 * William
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Kelleher * Dorothy Kelley USS EISELE DE34 * Charles Kelly USS
MACON * Nelda Kent USS SLATER DE766 * John Klar * Dan Kriss
USS CHAUNCEY DD667 * Louis La Corte USS MILLS DE383 * Ralph
W. Lake USS McCOY REYNOLDS DE440 * John T. LaMunyon USS
KEITH DE241 * Emmett Landrum USS BEBAS DE10 * Jeffrey
Landrum USS BEEBAS DE10 * Ryan Lane USS FLEMING DE32 *
James Lanzillo US ARMY * Joyce Larner USS DAY DE225 * C.
Edward Lavin USS SLATER DE766 * Richard Lawrence USS
WILLIAM C. COLE DE641 * Ben Leal USS DOUGLAS A. MUNRO
DE422 * Edward Lebioda USS GENDREAU DE639 * Angelo Ledesma
USS PETERSON DE152 * Charles Leonard USS FORMOE DE509 *
Stan Levandowski USS BOXER LPH4 * Marion Lewis USS JACK W.
WILKE DE800 * Edward Long USS MELVIN R. NAWMAN DE416 &
USS SLOAT DE245 * Stephen Long USS SHADWELL LSD15 & USS
BOTETOURT APA136 * C. S. Lovelace USS LAKE DE301 * Holger
Lukas SS SANTA MARIA * Robert Mantell Jr * Dave Mardon * Roland
& Betty Marr USS MARCHAND DE249 * George E. Martel USS PAUL
G. BAKER DE642 * William Matys, Jr. USS HISSEM DE400 * James
McClure, Jr. USS WEBER DE675 * Wallace McClymont USS O'FLAHERTY DE340 * William McColl USS DEALEY DE1006 * Myles P.
McCosker USS EARL V. JOHNSON DE702 * William T. McCroskey
USS MARSH DE699 * Henry McGinnis USS OTTER DE210 * Burnell
McIntyre USS HAMMERBERG DE1015 * John Meeker USS INCH
DE146 * Irvin Messinger USS DOUGLAS L. HOWARD DE138 * John
Metz USS ELDRIDGE DE173 * Henry Michaelis USS BLESSMAN DE69
* Paul E. Might USS LEHARDY DE20 * Don Miller USS HICKOX
DD672 * Terry Miller * William Montgomery USS DOUGLAS A.
MUNRO DE422 & USS SILVERSTEIN DE534 * Charles Moore USS
PRICE DE332 & USS STRICKLAND DE333 * Lorin Morlan USS
RHINEHART DE196 * Robert Mulligan, Jr. * Richard Mundis USS
ROBERT E. PEARY DE132 * Joe Munro USS SHELTON DE407/APD986
* James M. Nehnevaj * Peter Nemeth * David Nixon USS FECHTELER
DE157 * Robert Nolte USS FISKE DE143 * Ruth & Charles E.
Nordman USS SWENNING DE394 & USS PAUL G. BAKER DE642 *
Joseph E. Norris USS SPANGLER DE696 * Robert O'Brien USS
LESTER DE1022 * Gerald O'Dell USS GREENWOOD DE679 * Joan
Ogrodnik USS WITTER DE636 * Robert Olson * Samuel Painter USS
HARWOOD DDE861 * Phillip Passler USS DEALY DE1006 * Arthur R.
Pearson USS JACK W. WILKE DE800 * Robert Pehnke USCGC CHAMBERS DE391 (WDE491) * Henry Petersen USS CABANA DE260 * Peter
Piro USS GENDREAU DE639 * Charlie Poltenson * Charles Poreda
USS FINCH DE328 * George W. Post USS FISKE DDR842 & USS RIZZI
DE537 * Otto Postl USS DOBLER DE48 * Adele & Joseph Poulin USS
RICHEY DE385/WDE485 * Theodore Prager USS STURTEVANT DE239
* A. P. Presnell, Jr. USS ABERCROMBIE DE343 * Linda & Ronald
Prest USS CHARLES BERRY DE1035 * Edward Prunier * Vall Pulliam
USS NORTHWIND AGB282 * Karen & Christopher Purrone * Anthony
M. Quilici * William Reidy USS JOYCE DE317 * Arthur L. Riggle USS
WALTER S. BROWN DE258 * Nellis Riisberg * Jerome & Marilyn Rivet
US AIR FORCE * Lawrence K. Rockwood USS COONER DE172 *
Alfred Roehm USS WATERMAN DE740 * Wendell H. Rogers USS
SWENNING DE394 * Robert Rowe USS RATHBURNE DE1057 * David
S. Rowley USS THOMAS F. NICKEL DE587 * Francis Ruml USS WISEMAN DE667 * Leo Sands, Jr. USS COATES DE685 * Frank Scherl USS
ROY O. HALE DE336 * Michael J. Schneider USS ROBERT E. PEARY
DE1073 * Robert Schnell USS CHAMBERS DE391 * Jean Schuster USS
OSTERHAUS DE164 * Dan Sentilles USS HUSE DE145 * Kevin &
Roger D. Shields USS O'NEILL DE188 * Ronald Simmers USS CHAMBERS DE391 * Thomas Skane, Jr. USS RABY DE698 * Douglas Skinner
* Stephen Skiscim USS SCOTT DE214/APD64 * Paul R. Slater USS
SLATER DE766 * Philip R. Smith USS JOHNNIE HUTCHINS DE360 *
Jim Spittel USS EISNER DE192 & USS J. RICHARD WARD DE243 *
Herbert Springer USS CROSS DE448 & USS JOHNNIE HUTCHINS
DE360 * Edwin Starrett USS SPANGENBURG DE223 * Robert Steele
USS BRACKETT DE41 & USS MUIR DE770 * Milton Stein USS
BROUGH DE148 * Willis Stewart USS SEID DE256 * Nancy Straight *
Arthur H. Tagland USS FOSS DE59 * Jody Treadway USS J. DOUGLAS
BLACKWOOD DE219 & USS DANIEL A. JOY DE585 * Robert
Vanderscors USS HILL DE141 * Martin J. Vehstedt USS BROUGH
DE148 * John Vero * John Voelzke USS TINSMAN DE589 * Alfred Volk
USS A. J. LUKE DE577 * Carl Walin USS MCCOY REYNOLDS DE440
& USS SAVAGE DER386 * Edward Walker USS WREN DD568 & USS
NEW JERSEY BB62 & USS HOWARD W. GILMORE AS16 * Maralyn &
Richard L. Walker USCG * Henry Ward USS OTTERSTETTER DE244
* Edward A. Warner USS FRYBARGER DE705 * Frederick Wedinger
USS WESSON DE184 & USS STERN DE187 * Bernard Weinland USS
SLOAT DE245 * Charles Wicker * Barry Willard USS CHAMBERS
DE391 * Marian Willetts USS MANHASSET * Kenneth Williams USS
WILLIAM E. COLE DE641 * Lawrence G. Williams USS SNOWDEN
DE246 * Carol Wilsey USS O'REILLY DE330 * Elmer Wittman USS
CONNOLLY DE306 * Robert Worsfold USS SUTTON DE771 * William
Wrase USS NAIFEH DE352 * Robert Yim USS LEHARDY DE20 *
Robert Young USS SEDERSTROM DE31 * Norbert Ziegman USS FRYBARGER DE705 *
$101 to $250
David Altrichter USS JOHN R. PERRY DE1034 * Vernon B. Baker USS
THADDEUS PARKER DE369 * CDR James L. Barrett, USN (RET) USS
WEEDEN DE797 * Annette & Lester Beauchaine USS FORMOE DE509
* Alfred Bendorf USS GEORGE DE697 * Stephen Bennett USS
REYNOLDS DE42 & USS FOGG DE57 * Lucille & Harold E. Berndt
USS MICKA DE176 * Paul Bertiaux USS MARSH DE699 * Dean
Bymers USS RAYMOND DE341 & USS CROSS DE448 * Mrs. Frederick
W. Byron USS ATHERTON DE169 * Jay Carson * Betsy Cosart USS
SLATER DE766 * Charles Cutler USS DAMON M. CUMMINGS DE643
* Normand R. Demers USS CHESTER T. O'BRIEN DE421 * John des
Groseilliers US ARMY * DESA Statue of Liberty Chapter * William
Dickson USS STANTON DE247 * Don Dillon * Lysle R. Dirrim USS
GRADY DE445 * Marion J. Farrier USS SAMUEL S. MILES DE183 *
Christian C. Fedden USS EUGENE A GREENE DD711 * Bill Freeman
USS WALTON DE361 * Ted Friederich USS HUSE DE145 * Hans Funk
USS GREENWOOD DE679 * S. Thomas Gagliano USS HOWARD D.
CROW DE252 & USS MUIR DE770 * Arnold Gelbin USS RICHARD M.
ROWELL DE403 * William Haimes USS COOK DE1083 * Milly & Ted
Hansen USS TILLS DE748 * Robert Herion, Jr. USS EISNER DE192 *
Walter R. Hermann USS SILVERSTEIN DE534 * James & Mary Hulme
* Frederick Hutchings USS GUSTAFSON DE182 * Bette & Wilfred L.
Iandoli USS HOWARD D. CROW DE252 * Max Ingersoll USS DANIEL
A. JOY DE585 & USS COURTNEY DE1021 * Abbie Jackson * Charles
H. Kanenbley USS JOHN C. BUTLER DE339 * Robert A. Kempe USS
AHRENS DE575 * Lee & Janet Kempf * William A. King USS KLINE
DE687/APD120 * Raymond P. Lammers USS TATUM DE789/APD81 *
Glenn A. Lane USS DOUGLAS A. MUNRO DE422 * Herbert Mann, Jr.
USS JOSEPH K. TAUSSIG DE1030 * Charles & Margaret Markey USS
BATES DE68 * Charles W. Marshall USS KYNE DE744 * George
Martens * Ronald Mazure USS SKILL MSO471 * Raymond Medbury
USS KIRKPATRICK DE318 & USS TILLS DE748 * Arthur Miller USS
PETER TOMICH DE242 * Charles A. Miner USS KITTY HAWK CVA63
* Thomas F. Mullaney, Jr. USS HISSEM DER400 * Leonard B. Nowak
USS KENDALL C. CAMPBELL DE443 * George W. Oja USS COFFMAN DE191 * Tom O'Neill USS SLATER DE766 * Nicholas Paola USS
EMERY DE28 * Kenneth Poggenburg * Glendon Pyle USS MELVIN R.
NAWMAN DE416 * William Robinson USS JOHN R. PERRY DE1034 *
Ainsley Rockwood * Sage Brothers Painting * Donald Shattuck USS
HAROLD C. THOMAS DE21 & USS WESSON DE184 * Earle Smith US
Navy - Armed Guard * Raymond Smith USS FECHTELER DE157 *
William Smith USS MARSH DE699 * John Spangler USS J. DOUGLAS
BLACKWOOD DE219 * David A. Stuntz USS STEELE DE8 * Michael
Swezey * Harold V. Swift USS EDWARD H. ALLEN DE531 * USS North
Carolina Living History Crew USS NORTH CAROLINA BB55 *
Edward D. Wessler USS SPANGLER DE696 & USS HANNA DE449 *
Francis Zevnik USS AMICK DE168 *
$251 to $500
Allen Beddoe USS SLATER DE766 * Dow Clark * Lewis M. Cowden
USS WHITEHURST DE634 * DESA North Pacific Chapter * John
Dewitt * Karen Dobert * Robert Emig USS GREENWOOD DE679 *
Henry Gregg USS JACCARD DE355 * Robert Grimm USS HANSON
DD832 * Kenneth Hauser USS KRETCHMER DE329 * LT & Mrs.
Malcolm Holderness USS HUSE DE145 * Robin Larner USS DAY
DE225 * Gordon Lattey * Charles M. Liddle * Robert Lowe USS
HILBERT DE742 * Gregg D. McBride USS SILVERSTEIN DE534 *
William McDonald USS ALVIN C. COCKRELL DE366 * James Miller
USS KRETCHMER DER329 * Elana & David D. Norris USS MCGINTY
DE365 & USS SPANGLER DE696 * Claire Oesterreich USS LOESER
DE680 * Basil & Ginny Philippy USS HOWARD D. CROW DE252 * Gil
Richter USS NEUNZER DE150 * William Rosen USS SPANGLER
DE696 * Mike & Lola Sandberg USS FINCH DE328 * Don A.
Schiemann USS DEMPSEY DE26 & USS ALGER DE101 * Guy A.
Schneider USS CONNOLE DE1056 * Robert Schroll USS GILMORE
DE18 * John Shields * William Svihovec USS GILMORE DE18 & USS
SLATER DE766 * Rick Vorhees USS HAYNSWORTH DD700 * Karan &
Donald Whamond USS SIMS DE154/APD50 * Charles E. Williams, Sr
USS LYMAN DE302 * Masako & Leonard A. Wiseman USS GEORGE
E. DAVIS DE357 & USS WILHOITE DE397 & USS HAVERFIELD
DE393 *
$501 to $1,000
Samuel T. Alexander USS MCGINTY DE365 * American Welding
Society * Catherine & Richard Andrian * Nicholas Athanassiou HNS
AETOS D01 * Robert F. Clark USS HOWARD F. CLARK DE533 *
Bartley Costello, III USS GENESEE AOG8 * Judy Curtis USS CARTER
DE112 * DESA Los Angeles Chapter * DESA Michigan Chapter *
Arthur F. Dott USS SIERRA AD18 * Linda & Dale Drake USS CONNOLLY DE306 * John & Lillian Ferguson USS GARFIELD THOMAS
DE193 * Raymond Hale USS GENDREAU DE639 * Margaret Harbison
* William Harris USS GANDY DE764 * Harold M. Hatfield * Kenneth
A. Johnson USS LAKE DE301 * Greg Krawczyk USS SAMPSON
DDG10 * Joseph Mann USS SELLSTROM DE255 * William S.
McMillan USS BULL USS BATES DE693/APD78 DE68/APD47 * John S.
Montrym USS SWEARER DE186 * Charlie Nelson USS VAMMEN
DE644 * Owen Nicholson USS REYNOLDS DE42 * Kenneth J. Nolan
USS SPANGLER DE696 * Paul & Susan Parfrey * Jason Pilalas USS
ALBERT T. HARRIS DE447 & USS J. DOUGLAS BLACKWOOD DE219
* Harold V. Richard USS STADTFELD DE29 * Charles & Lee Rowe
USS STAFFORD DE411 & USS RICHARD W. SUESENS DE342 *
Robert W. Schwier USS ULVERT M. MOORE DE442 * William
Shinkwin USS FALGOUT DE324/DER324 * Lyle Sovereign USS SILVERSTEIN DE534 * Albert Stickney USS BRUMBY DE1044 * USS
HUSE Assn. USS HUSE DE145 * USS STURTEVANT Assn. USS
STURTEVANT DE239 * Betty Jo Weiser USS SLATER DE766 * Kenneth
Wray USS PETERSON DE152 & USS GREENWOOD DE679 & USS
MCDONNELL DE1043 *
$1,001 to $5,000
Neal M. & Joan W. Allen USS DARBY DE218 & USS SNYDER DE745 *
John P. Cosgrove USS GENDREAU DE639 * Charles Kieb USS
RHODES DE384 * RADM & Mrs. Martin Leukhardt, USNR (Ret) USS
DANIEL A. JOY DE585 * Mitch Matthews USS JOHN C. BUTLER
DE339 * Frank McClatchie USS NEIL A. SCOTT DE769 * CDR Barry
Witte, USNR (Ret) USS GEORGE WASHINGTON CVN73 *
$10,000
George Christianson USS ROBERTS DE749 & USS JOSEPH K. TAUSSIG DE1030 *
$100,000
Estate of Sam Saylor GMCM USS CONNOLLY DE306 *
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Memorial Donations
Frederick W. Biermann, USS ROCHE DE197
Thomas Biermann
Bill Branham, USS SWASEY DE248
Don & Natalie Walden
Charles B. Brown, USS TOMICH DE242
C. Bennett Brown, Jr.
John R. Cann, USS JACOB JONES DE130
William Cann
John H. Case, USS HEYLIGER DE 510
Kay Case
Johnny Clayton, for Father's Day USS BOWERS DE637
Mrs. Johnny Clayton
James E. Everin, USS EMERY DE28
Carol Everin Gerrish, Dorothy Everin
John O. Gautreau, USS RANGER CVA-61 & US AIR FORCE
Jerome & Marilyn Rivet
Robert L. Goggins, USS COLLBAUGH DE217
Willis & Mary Gunder
Paul C. Huelsenbeck, USS PARKS DE165
Margaret Rich
Waldo Hutchins
Sarane Ross
Don C. Johnson, USS KENDALL C. CAMPBELL DE443
Don V. Johnson
Werner E. Johnson, USS SLOAT DE245
Muriel C. Johnson
Robert W. Kanady, USS MOORE DE 240
DESA Garden State Chapter, DESA Philadelphia Keystone Chapter
John R. Kessler, USS WARD DE243
DESA Garden State Chapter
Donnell Lorenz, USS RHODES DE384
Arthur Heiderman
Bruno Mancinelli, USS GRISWOLD DE7
Mary Mancinelli
Johnson McRorie, USS EDWIN A. HOWARD DE346
Marie McRorie
Gary Moffat ,USS HANK DD702 & USS NORRIS DD859
DESA Garden State Chapter
Michael Patrick Murphy, US ARMY
Henry Ward
Thomas O'Neill, USS SLATER DE766
Rosemarie Stanek
Wesley C. Phelps, USS DALE W PETERSON DE337
David Phelps
John B. Pippin, USS HILBERT DE742
Robert Lowe
Harold Poulsen, USS SLATER DE766
Karen Chichester, Doug & Peggy McVicar, Keith Poulsen,
Christine Silkensen, Mr. & Mrs. Edward Sutphin
Leonard Ross, USS SWEARER DE186
Philip Ross
Stanley Salagan, USS ASHLAND & USS PENNSYLVANIA
Jay Utzig
Sam Saylor, USS CONNOLLY DE306
John P. Cosgrove, Linda & Dale Drake, Robert Eckhardt, Robert &
Doris Fischer Malesardi, Arlie Hamburger, Yolanda Hamburger,
Marie McRorie, Helen Swearengin, Barbara Syme
E. R. Silvers, Jr., USS RALL DE 304
Margaret Myatt
Erwin Stahl, USS ROY O. HALE DE236
Jo Anne Stahl
Robert Storrick, USS FROST DE144
Robert Holman
Dominic Taormina, USS WITTER DE636
DESA Garden State Chapter
USS CURRIER DE700 Shipmates
Ramona Moore
In memory of USS VANCE DE/DER387
Stephen Phimister
Cletus Waldmiller, USS MENGES DE320
Brian Waldmiller
Donald N. Wemple, USS GRISWOLD DE7
Ray Wemple
Cliff Woltz, USS SLATER DE766
John Maki, Don C. & Vivian Norris, Betty Jo Weiser
Ross W. Wright, Captain of USS VANCE DE387
Anne Wright
Mike Zarem, Son of Ron Zarem USS BROUGH DE148
David G. Zarem
Allen Zensen, USS JOHN J. POWERS DE528
Dorothy Zensen
Helen Andersen-Virum for mother's day, USS GENDREAU DE639
Dale & Mary Dickinson
Robert C. Black, USS BROCK DE234/APD93
Barry D. Black
Jim Burton, USS WALTER B. COBB DE596/APD106
USS WALTER B. COBB crew
Henry Gadomski
Joe Herkenham
In tribute to USS GUSTAFSON DE182, South Atlantic, WWII.
Richard Wiringa
Frank Heckart, USS LERAY WILSON DE414
Sheryl & Tom Skufca
Captain Kinney & the USS BRONSTEIN DE189 crew
Clinton Gantt
Harold Mankin on his 90th birthday, USS HILBERT DE742
Margaret Mankin
Edwin Michaelis, USS BLESSMAN DE69
Henry Michaelis
USS NEVADA BB36
Evelyn Haschert
John Virum for father's day, USS GENDREAU DE639
Dale & Mary Dickinson
$1 to $25
Henry Harman USS MENGES DE320 * Gardner Roberts USS OBERRENDER DE344 * William A. Wood USS DEALEY DE1006 *
Honorary Donations
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Endowment Fund Donations
$26 to $50
Hans Funk USS GREENWOOD DE679 * Nat Gayster USS CLARENCE
L. EVANS DE113 & USS ROBERTS DE749 * Frank Scherl USS ROY O.
HALE DE336 *
$100 to $250
Julius Bozman USS O'TOOLE DE527 * Richard Conroy USS PARKS
DE165 * Bob & Marie Dolfi USS WALTER S. BROWN DE258 * C. S.
Lovelace USS LAKE DE301 * Dave Mardon * Claude T. May USS
SWEARER DE186 * Gerard Ward *
We apologize.
Normally we feature photos of many different DEs each
issue, but so many good images came out of the shipyard
we decided to dedicate this entire issue to USS SLATER.
We'll get back to featuring the other 562 DEs next edition.
Visit The DEHM/USS Slater Website:
www.ussslater.org
Slater Signals is published every month online. If you'd
like to receive monthly SIGNALS via email, send a
request to Tim at [email protected]
Please remember
USS SLATER
in your will.
She’s your legacy.
Visit Albany and USS Slater!
The Albany County Convention and Visitors Bureau stands
ready to assist you in planning your trip to Albany, New York
and surrounding areas. Individuals and reunion groups can
obtain information by contacting:
Subbie Modasra, Sales Manager
Phone: 1-800-258-3582, Ext 106
TRIM BUT DEADLY
The Quarterly Newsletter of the
DESTROYER ESCORT HISTORICAL MUSEUM
DEHM, USS SLATER, PO BOX 1926
ALBANY, NY 12201-1926
PHONE: (518) 431-1943 Email: [email protected]
B. J. Costello, Esq. – Chairman
Anthony Esposito – President
Gregory M. Wolanin – Vice President S. Greg Krawczyk – Secretary
Frank J. Lasch, Esq. – Past President Steve Long - Trustee
Robert F. Cross – Trustee
John P. Cosgrove – National Rep
Harold M. Hatfield, P.E. – Trustee
Ray Windle – Trustee
Earl F. Johnson - Trustee
Ron Zarem – Trustee
Alan Fox – Trustee
Gary Dieckman - Trustee
John R. Vero, Esq. – Trustee
James Brown – Trustee
Michael Swezey - Trustee
Sheridan Biggs - Trustee
Don Norris – Trustee Emeritus
Tim Rizzuto – Executive Director/Editor Rosehn Gipe – Business Manager
Erik Collin – Database Manager
Heather Maron – Collections Manager
“Trim But Deadly” Layout and Design – Richard Andrian
VOLUME 20, NUMBER 2, SECOND QUARTER 2014
Winter Fund Donations
$1 to $25
James Cantrell * Selwyn Harlow USS PRICE DE332 * Weldon Hoyt USS
PALMER * Robert Nolte USS FISKE DE143 * Sally Rogers USS SCROGGINS DE799 & USS MARTIN DE30 & USS STANTON DE247 *
Catherine Walker USS PAVLIC DE669/APD70 *
$26 to $50
Derek Canavan * Stanley Dickstein USS SLATER DE766 * Cathy Lempa
USS SLATER DE766 * Dan Zachary USS LEHARDY DE20 * Channing
Zucker USS ST PAUL CA73 & USS DUTTON AGS22 *
$51 to $100
Don Arnold USS PAUL G. BAKER DE642 * John Breeze * John Coffin
FALL WORK WEEK DATES
USS WILLIAM C. COLE DE641 * Jim Hart USMC * Hawthorne
Ordnance Museum * David M. Jalbert USS ROBERT F. KELLER DE419
* Sotirios Koutsoukos A/T AETOS D01 * Michael Poncsak *
$101 to $250
David Buchli * CDR Pat & Mrs. Adriana Grillo USS KYNE DE744 *
$500
Mitch Matthews USS JOHN C. BUTLER DE339 * Clifton Woltz USS
SLATER DE766 *
$1,000
Elizabeth Kaido *
If you are serious about working on USS SLATER, there will be two
USS SLATER Work Weeks this fall, and readers are encouraged to volunteer. You supply your bedding (or sleeping bag) and toilet gear. We
supply the bunks & grub (approximately $10/day) and work. Rags, buckets, paint brushes and rollers are always encouraged. A limited number of
spaces are available.
The USS HUSE Veterans will be aboard Sunday, September 7 - 12, 2014.
If you have not already done so, contact George Amandola at 610-7895105 or email [email protected] or Dave Perlstein at 561-368-7167,
email [email protected] with the subject header SLATER WORK
PARTY in order to confirm. You don’t have to be a HUSE former crew
member to participate.
The Joint DESA Michigan Chapter/USS SLATER fall work week will be
October 5-10, 2014. If you want to sign up, contact Dick Walker at 616676-1392 or email [email protected], or Tim Rizzuto at 518-4311943, email [email protected] You don’t have to stay all week, and we
won’t work you harder than you are able.
Our arrival in Albany on July 1, 2014. Thomas Scian photo. page 31
DEHM/USS Slater
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Trim But Deadly
The Newsletter of the Destroyer Escort Historical Museum
This sums up our whole experience and it isn’t “Photoshop-ed.” This is real. Kevin Oldenburg captured this encounter at
Dutchman's Landing. From raising the money, through the overhaul and return to Albany, we thank you all.
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