Evidence
9 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-9).
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[1]research packet ft-packet.md (9 sources cited) [other_primary]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERIFIED — real identity: USS Abbot (DD-629)
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-abbot-dd629-pkt-ft-packet-md
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[2]DANFS, Abbot II (DD-629) (verbatim transcription - live NHHC page returns 404; text cross-verified across two independent transcriptions: 2001-06-28 Wayback capture of hazegray.org/danfs/destroy/dd629txt.htm and abbot.us/official 'Official History' carrying 'Source: U.S. Navy') [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS entry 'Abbot II', specifications block + service narrative + closing striking/sale paragraph; mirror texts: abbot.us/official ('Source: U.S. Navy') and web.archive.org 2001-06-28 capture of hazegray.org/danfs/destroy/dd629txt.htm
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS record for this hull: laid down 21 September 1942 at Bath, Maine, by Bath Iron Works Corp. (builder yard hull #208 per abbot.us spec table); launched 17 February 1943, sponsored by Mrs. Grace Abbot Fletcher (descendant of Commodore Joel Abbot - transcription conflict on generation, see gaps); commissioned at the Boston Navy Yard 23 April 1943, Comdr. Chester E. Carroll. Collision with carrier Cowpens (CVL-25) 18 October 1943 followed by ~3-month Pearl Harbor Navy Yard repair. WWII: TG 50.15 neutralization bombardments of Wotje/Taroa (Jan-Feb 1944) with cruisers Chester, Salt Lake City, Pensacola; Southwest Pacific convoy escort; TG 78.2 escort-carrier screen for Aitape/Hollandia (Apr-May 1944); TG 53.7 carrier support group for Saipan/Guam and the Battle of the Philippine Sea (Jun-Jul 1944; shared a G4M 'Betty' kill with Hale DD-642 on 26 June); Leyte invasion screen (Oct 1944); Lingayen Gulf/San Fabian carrier group (Jan 1945); Corregidor, Puerto Princesa, Zamboanga, Cebu, Macajalar Bay support (Feb-May 1945); TG 38.3 fast-carrier screen and TG 34.8.1 bombardments at Kamaishi (14 Jul) and Hamamatsu (29 Jul) 1945. Starboard propeller and part of tail shaft broke off 8 August 1945; drydocked Saipan 17 August; repaired at Puget Sound Navy Yard (arrived early Sep 1945). Out of commission 21 May 1946, San Diego. Recommissioned 26 Feb 1951; three months of alterations/modernization at Mare Island Naval Shipyard; Newport R.I. homeport; repairs at Philadelphia Naval Shipyard (1951); first Mediterranean deployment Apr-Oct 1952; seven-month circumnavigation with DesDiv 242 (Jun-Dec 1954) incl. South China Sea/Taiwan Strait; Boston Naval Shipyard 19-week repair (early-May 1956); DesRon 10/DesDiv 102; Mediterranean Nov 1956-Feb 1957; Operation Strikeback (fall 1957); Boston NSY overhaul Jan-Apr 1958; Lebanon crisis TF 66 / Beirut gunfire support (summer-fall 1958); CortRon 14 flagship from 1 May 1959; Boston NSY overhaul May-summer 1959; Destroyer Officer's School school ship, Newport (Sep 1961); Guantanamo base defense during Haiti disorders (Aug 1962); Cuban missile quarantine (Oct-mid-Nov 1962); Naval Reserve training ship and ResDesRon 30 flagship at Philadelphia from 14 Apr 1964; decommissioned 26 Mar 1965; berthed Philadelphia Group, Atlantic Reserve Fleet. Bracketed narrative: 'Struck from the Navy list on 1 December 1974, she was sold for scrapping to the Boston Metals Company of Baltimore, Md., in August 1975.' Eight battle stars WWII. Spec block: dp. 2,050; 376'6" x 39'7"; dr. 13'9"; s. 35.2 k.; cpl. 329; cl. FLETCHER.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1942-1975
- Population
- Bath Iron Works construction trades 1942-43; wartime and postwar crew (design complement 329); Naval Reserve trainees and ResDesRon 30 staff (1964-65); Atlantic Reserve Fleet caretakers (1965-74)
- Limitations
- DANFS documents service history and specifications, not materials or asbestos content. Shipyard availabilities recited (Pearl Harbor 1943-44 and Aug 1944; Puget Sound 1945; Mare Island 1951; Philadelphia 1951; Boston NSY 1956, 1958, 1959) are repair/overhaul events only - no asbestos scope is stated for any of them. Transcription-level conflicts (sponsor generation; 'August 1975' sale vs. 31 July 1975 secondary date) carried in gaps. Live NHHC page 404; cited via verbatim transcriptions.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-abbot-dd629-01
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[3]HyperWar Foundation, 'Ships of the U.S. Navy, 1940-1945: DD-629 USS Abbot' (compiled by Patrick Clancey from BuShips-era data; last updated 2003-12-01) [other_primary]
- Locator
- HyperWar ibiblio.org DD-629 page (spec block)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Independent spec-page corroboration for this hull: 'Fletcher Class Destroyer: Displacement: 2050 tons; Length: 376'6"; Beam: 39'4"; Draft: 17'9"; Speed: 35 knots; Armament: 5 5"/38, 2x5 21" torpedo tubes; Complement: 329; High-pressure super-heated boilers, geared turbines with twin screws, 60,000 h.p.; Built at Bath Iron Works and commissioned 1943.'
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1943
- Limitations
- Spec-sheet corroboration only - 'high-pressure super-heated boilers, geared turbines' describes a steam plant consistent with, but not proof of, era-standard asbestos insulation aboard this hull. Minor variance vs. DANFS block (beam 39'4" vs. 39'7"; draft 17'9" vs. 13'9"; speed 35 vs. 35.2 kt) reflects different measurement conventions; DANFS figures carried in record fields.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-abbot-dd629-02
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[4]USS Abbot DD-629 tribute site (abbot.us), 'Cowpens Collision' page - drawn from the ship's action report and deck logs [other_primary]
- Locator
- abbot.us/collision/ - narrative and linked action report
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Detail on this hull's 18 October 1943 collision with Cowpens (CVL-25): struck the carrier at 0224 during a turn; forward crew berths crushed, three killed in their bunks (S2c Frederic Louis Nedeau, BM1c Edward James Halligan, GM2c Arthur Walter Ceresna), six severely injured; bow bent to a 75-degree angle; fire broke out at 1047 and was extinguished; entered Pearl Harbor next day escorted by Coghlan (DD-606); post-repair trials 10 December 1943.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1943-10-18 to 1943-12-10
- Population
- Abbot crew 1943 (3 killed, 6+ injured); Pearl Harbor Navy Yard repair workforce Oct-Dec 1943
- Limitations
- Secondary host presenting ship-generated primary documents (action report, logs, crew recollections); site is a private tribute project, not an official repository - used to detail a repair event already in DANFS, not as an independent official source. The collision repair at Pearl Harbor Navy Yard involved reconstruction of forward spaces but no material content is documented for it.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-abbot-dd629-03
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[5]DANFS specifications block (Fletcher class; 60,000 h.p. steam plant) + Atlas shipyard dataset, Bath Iron Works record (incl. 1942 Drinker Harvard industrial-hygiene study of pipe-covering shops; OSHA 1987 asbestos-standard citations) and documented availabilities at Pearl Harbor, Puget Sound, Mare Island, Philadelphia, and Boston naval shipyards; NARA RG19 General Information Books archival lead [other_primary]
- Locator
- DANFS spec block; shipyards.json records 'bath-iron-works' (ev-bath-iron-works-01, -02), 'philadelphia-naval-shipyard', 'puget-sound-naval-shipyard', 'mare-island-naval-shipyard', 'pearl-harbor-naval-shipyard', 'boston-naval-shipyard'; NARA RG19 lead
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Era/yard inference: a WWII Fletcher-class destroyer built 1942-43 with a four-boiler/60,000-shp steam plant would have carried period-standard asbestos boiler and steam-line insulation, turbine lagging, gaskets, packing, fireproofing, and deck coverings. Builder Bath Iron Works is documented at yard level in the Atlas dataset: Dr. Philip Drinker's 1942 Harvard study found 'fairly serious dust risk' in BIW pipe-covering shops with exposure levels reported at ten times the safe threshold - contemporaneous with this hull's September 1942-April 1943 construction - and OSHA's 1987 inspection recorded asbestos-standard citations with an 80-percent bulk sample and a 1.71-F personal sample (May 20, 1987). All six documented service yards (Bath, Boston NSY, Pearl Harbor NSY, Puget Sound NSY, Mare Island NSY, Philadelphia NSY) carry yard-level asbestos documentation in the Atlas dataset. NARA RG19 'General Information Books' per-vessel material specifications are an unretrieved archival lead for hull-level specs.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1942-1975
- Population
- Bath Iron Works construction trades 1942-43; crew 1943-1965; yard workforces at documented availabilities; reserve-fleet caretakers 1946-51, 1965-74
- Limitations
- Class/era and builder-yard inference only - NOT a hull-specific finding. The 1942 Drinker study is contemporaneous with this hull's construction but documents yard shop conditions, not materials installed aboard DD-629; the 1987 OSHA data postdates the hull's sale by a decade. No asbestos scope is documented for any of this hull's yard availabilities. Does not quantify material or establish any individual's exposure.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-abbot-dd629-04
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[6]GAO, Navy Efforts To Protect Workers From Asbestos Exposure, HRD-80-2 (Oct 18, 1979) [gao]
- Locator
- GAO product page HRD-80-2
- Finding type
- gov_survey
- Finding
- GAO documented that the Navy used asbestos insulation extensively aboard ships and did not begin substituting alternative insulation materials until the early 1970s - placing DD-629's construction (1942-43) and entire commissioned service (1943-1965) inside the documented asbestos-use era.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1979
- Population
- Navy shipyard workers; asbestos program review
- Limitations
- Program-level documentation; supports era context only, not any fact specific to this hull. Full report text not retrieved (gao.gov blocks automated fetch, HTTP 403) - content via product-page description.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-abbot-dd629-05
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[7]CourtListener API v4 sweeps via authenticated fleet-paced helper (9 queries): '"USS Abbot"' type=o (0 hits), type=r (1 hit - resolves to a DD-184 name collision, see ev-07), type=rd RECAP full-text (1 hit - same document); '"U.S.S. Abbot"' type=o (0 hits); '"DD-629"' type=o (0 hits), type=r (4 hits - all non-vessel string collisions), type=rd (4 hits - same four dockets' internal documents); '"DD 629"' type=o (0 hits), type=r (4 hits - same four dockets) [court_record]
- Locator
- CourtListener search API v4, 2026-09-27: 'USS Abbot' o=0/r=1/rd=1; 'U.S.S. Abbot' o=0; 'DD-629' o=0/r=4/rd=4; 'DD 629' o=0/r=4; document: gov.uscourts.jpml.375294.6475.20.pdf via archive.org RECAP mirror
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- Litigation sweep for this hull (9 queries: 'USS Abbot', 'U.S.S. Abbot', 'DD-629', 'DD 629' across opinion, docket, and RECAP full-text indexes): zero opinion hits for any name or hull-number variant; the single RECAP docket hit for 'USS Abbot' is the MDL-875 master docket (JPML No. 875) entry 6475-20, an attached complaint in Eisler v. CBS Corp., C.D. Cal. 2:10-cv-01190 - full-text review of the RECAP document (via the archive.org RECAP mirror) shows it names 'USS Abbot (DD-184)', the first Abbot, with 1940-1941 exposure dates: a verified name collision, not a reference to DD-629. The 'DD-629'/'DD 629' docket and full-text hits are the same four unrelated dockets (Univ. of Pittsburgh v. Varian patent damages exhibits, pawd 2:08-cv-01307; Deepwater Horizon MDL tax-return exhibit, laed 2:10-md-02179; U.S. v. Good Article 15 UCMJ attachment, flsd 9:22-cr-80173; Carlos v. York County prison-medical appendix, pamd 1:15-cv-01994) - string collisions on document-internal identifiers, none referencing a vessel, the Navy, or asbestos. No qualifying asbestos litigation naming DD-629 was located.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 2026-09-27
- Limitations
- Search coverage is limited to CourtListener-indexed text; non-indexed dockets and un-digitized records (incl. state-court filings not removed to federal court) are outside coverage. The Eisler collision was resolved by full-text review of the actual complaint exhibit; the four 'DD-629' string collisions were classified from docket metadata and RECAP document text (patent exhibits, a tax return, a UCMJ form, prison records). Absence of located litigation does not mean none exists.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-abbot-dd629-06
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[8]Eisler v. CBS Corp. et al., No. 2:10-cv-01190-R-VBK (C.D. Cal.), complaint filed 2010-02-17 (removed from L.A. Super. Ct. BC430519; terminated 2010-03-29); complaint exhibit as filed in MDL-875 master docket, ECF Doc. 6475-20 [court_record]
- Locator
- MDL-875 Doc. 6475-20 complaint exhibit, exposure table (employer/location/job-title/dates)
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- Verified name collision: the only CourtListener-indexed record matching 'USS Abbot' is an MDL-875 complaint (Eisler v. CBS Corp., C.D. Cal. 2:10-cv-01190, Nature of Suit 368 P.I. Asbestos) whose exposure table lists plaintiff Leroy Eisler as a Navy 'Fireman' 1940-1941 aboard 'USS Barry (DD-248), USS Blakeley (DD-150), USS Abbot (DD-184), USS Denebola (AD-12)' - all WWI-era flush-deckers/auxiliary, consistent with 1940-41 service. The hull named is DD-184 (Wickes class, USN service ended 23 September 1940), NOT this hull DD-629. NON-QUALIFYING as DD-629 litigation.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- correction
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1940-1941 (alleged exposure, DD-184); 2010 (litigation)
- Population
- Leroy Eisler (USN Fireman 1940-41 per pleading); exposure alleged aboard DD-184 et al., not DD-629
- Limitations
- The complaint is a pleading-stage allegation as to DD-184 (unadjudicated; case terminated by remand/dismissal 2010-03-29). It establishes nothing about DD-629's materials or conditions. Hull-number attribution (DD-184) is explicit in the pleading's own parenthetical.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-abbot-dd629-07
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[9]Batch-3602 search ledger (this record): NHHC DANFS (live 404; verbatim transcriptions via HazeGray Wayback capture + abbot.us); HyperWar spec page; abbot.us ship documents; CourtListener opinion + RECAP sweeps; NVR scope check; GAO HRD-80-2; Atlas shipyard dataset; NARA RG19 lead; law-firm/aggregator pages excluded per sourcing rules [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-abbot-dd629-01 through sl-uss-abbot-dd629-10
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located for DD-629: no hull ACM survey, abatement record, materials inventory, or hazmat disclosure exists in the public sources searched, and no qualifying asbestos case names this hull (the single 'USS Abbot' docket hit names DD-184 - see ev-06/-07). The ship was stricken in 1974 and scrapped by Boston Metals, Baltimore, in 1975-76 - before modern asbestos documentation practice - and never became a museum, so the museum-disclosure channel that produced ship-specific records for preserved hulls does not exist here.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 2026-09-27
- Limitations
- Absence of a located public record does not prove absence of asbestos aboard - era-standard applications are documented at class/era level (ev-04) and the builder's 1942 yard conditions are documented (ev-04). Does not establish that asbestos is or is not present; does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-abbot-dd629-08