For WWII ship fans

[tbm3fan]

Some folks have been restoring the only destroyer escort left in the world up in Albany for 10 years I believe. They raised enough money for dry docking and may have posted some pictures of the ship making the transit down through New York Harbor to the dry dock. Well a lot of great work was done on the hull and she got all painted up. Painted up as she would have been seen in during the war. Here is a cam capture as she heads back home to Albany. Quite a sight at 6:00 AM.

 

[patrick66]

Very cool. People seem to want to see aircraft carriers, battleships and subs; but the destroyers, escort ships, landing craft and Liberty ships, among others, get the short end of the stick when it comes to enthusiastic restoration and preservation of our wartime history.

Very cool, indeed! This is a great sight to see.

 

[superB]

great job

but the future doesn't look good

 

[C Body Bob]

Very cool. My dad served on the destroyer USS Agerhome. DD826 during the Korean war. Based in San Deigo, Ca. He found out it was tied up in a Navy yard in Norfolk, Va along with a lot of other obsolete ships. He went to see it one last time a few years ago. Said it was just a rusted shell. Striped of anything usefull. He told me they have since hauled out in the Altantic & sunk it.

 

[1978 NYB]

Very cool!

Thanks for sharing!

 

[tbm3fan]

One more shot which fools one into thinking it is under it's own power.

USS Slater

 

[ZedR]

That's awesome. My granddad served on the Destroyer Escort USS PAVLIC APD-70 (originally DE-669) during and after the war from '43-'46 in the pacific.

His ship is surprising well documented here: http://www.usspavlic.org

Thought it was pretty wild to find him in some of the pictures on that site.

 

[tbm3fan]

Another video of the Slater from above showing the layout of the ship and placement of all her antiaircraft weapons which she is very lucky to have.
[video=youtube_share;mB_aT6bVjd0]http://youtu.be/mB_aT6bVjd0[/video]