A Summer 2000 Visit

to the USS Slater

This is the main entrance
to the Slater. After crossing
the gang plank, the tour
guide gave us permission
to come aboard. 

Shortly after coming aboard,
they called us to our
battle stations.

This is a picture of the ship's mast, 
taken from the deck. 
You can see one of the guns to the left.

 This is where the sailor's ate.
In the other part of this room, 
there are bunks. 
All space is used
24 hours a day.

This is a picture of kettles
in the main Galley, 
the Navy name for the kitchen.
This is a birds-eye view 
of an Anti-Aircraft Gun.

This is a gun. 
It takes one person to 
elevate the gun and 
one to turn it 
in a circular motion. 
It uses two cranks, 
seen in the picture.
These are Hedgehog rockets. 
They're very old. 
If these hit a boat, 
they exploded, 
but if they didn't, 
they would sink.

This gun has a little peek-hole 
to the upper-right. 
The C-shaped things are for
your shoulders.
This is the dining area 
where the important people, 
like the captain, ate at. 
It also became an 
operating room for 
injured people.

This is one of the
officer's rooms. It was
very spacious, compared
to the other quarters.
This is the Captain's Room.
It had a private bathroom.

This is a picture of 3 bunks. 
The total of bunks 
in this room was 30.
This is the communications 
room. Much of the has been
restored so that it now works.

This is the radar room 
where they searched for other ships 
and subs. There would be 
12 people working 
in this small room.
It's actually a lot darker in here 
than it looks in the picture.
This was the steering room. 
These would send signals 
to the people in the engine room, 
and they would control 
the engine from there.

This is the mast of the Slater.
The flags can be used to
send short messages.
These are where they kept 
their flags for signaling.

They'd pull people up 
and over the water on
this contraption to transfer
them to another ship.

 
Our tour guide is talking 
about depth charges. 
He used to serve on 
the ship a long time ago. 
He also rang in the shift and
demonstrated a very loud horn
that was used for signaling.
In the background 
is the Dutch Apple II.

At the end of our tour,
we each got a chance to
be gunners.
These guns weighed 13 tons, 
yet they could be easily 
rotated by two cranks 
on each side.

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