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Episode 20 - USS SLATER Volunteers

For 25 years, USS SLATER DE-766 has called Albany, NY home. At 82 years old, the SLATER, by all accounts, should not be around. She should be razor blades or home to ocean life as an artificial reef. Designed and built cheaply during World War II, SLATER and her sister destroyer escorts were meant to serve in a temporary capacity, protecting merchant vessels and other warships as they transited the oceans. At no point in their construction was thought given to preservation as a museum. But SLATER has defied the odds to become a model of maritime preservation. Throughout her nearly 30 years as a museum, one constant has remained the same: the volunteers.

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USS SLATER is a private not-for-profit museum that receives no regular support from New York State, the federal government, or the US Navy. We are funded by private donations, ticket sales, and merchandise sales. 

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