USS Slater is now a museum ship on the Hudson River in Albany, New York, the only one of its kind afloat in the United States.

[4] USS Slater was struck by the Hudson River touring ship Dutch Apple on 10 September 2019.

Upon completion of his basic training, he was transferred to the Receiving Station at Pearl Harbor, and assigned to the heavy cruiser USS San Francisco on 4 April 1942.

On 1 March 1951, Slater was transferred to the Hellenic Navy under the Truman Doctrine, and renamed Aetos ("Eagle") (D01).

The ship did patrol duty in the eastern Aegean and the Dodecanese and also served as a training vessel for naval cadets.

Destroyer escort sailors from around the nation donated more than $250,000 ($559,247 today[9]) to bring Slater back to the United States as a museum ship.

In 1993, a Russian ocean-going tugboat towed the ship from Crete to New York City, where it was docked next to the aircraft carrier USS Intrepid.

In January 2006, a welder accidentally started a fire aboard Slater which caused some minor damage to the ship.

The ship was seen in The Guns of Navarone (1961) and I Aliki sto Naftiko (Η Αλίκη στο Ναυτικό/Alice in the Navy, filmed in 1961) while in Greek service.