Evidence
10 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-10).
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[1]research packet crew-manus-b-packet.md (18 sources cited) [nhhc_danfs]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERIFIED — real identity: USS Adams (third ship of that name)
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-adams-dm27-pkt-crew-manus-b-packet-md
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[2]DANFS, Adams III (DM-27) (builder, designation chain, dates, service narrative, striking and disposal; verbatim transcription - live NHHC page serves 404; verbatim mirror also at hazegray/losthistory dd739txt.htm) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS entry, specifications block + full service narrative
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS record for this hull and the designation reconciliation this record exists to document: laid down as DD-739, an Allen M. Sumner-class destroyer, 20 March 1944 at Bath, Maine, by Bath Iron Works; redesignated destroyer minelayer DM-27 on 20 July 1944 during construction (before launch - the hull never served as DD-739); launched 23 July 1944, sponsored by Mrs. Maude Ryan Adams, widow of Lt. Samuel Adams (naval aviator killed at Midway); commissioned at Boston 10 October 1944, Comdr. Henry J. Armstrong in command. Specs block: 2,200 tons; 376'6" x 40'10" x 18'10"; 34 kt (trial); complement 363; 6x5", 8x40mm, 12x20mm, 80 mines; class Robert H. Smith. DD-739 and DM-27 are one physical hull - the redesignation occurred during construction, so all commissioned service was under DM-27. Yard periods documented: fitting out at Boston; post-shakedown availability at the Norfolk navy yard (December 1944); two Pearl Harbor Navy Yard periods (VF radar installation; main-deck plating strengthened, early 1945); emergency repairs at Kerama Retto alongside Endymion (ARL-9) after 1 April 1945 fantail bomb damage; permanent repairs at Mare Island Navy Yard 7 May to first week of July 1945. Postwar minesweeping Kagoshima, Ise Wan/Nagoya, Sasebo provisioning, Taiwan Strait (TG 70.5, December 1945), Shanghai/Yangtze; decommissioned December 1946; San Diego Group, Pacific Reserve Fleet ~23 years; redesignated fast minelayer MMD-27 7 February 1955 while in reserve; struck 1 December 1970; sold 16 December 1971 to Chow's Iron & Steel Co., Taiwan. One battle star for WWII.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1944-1971
- Population
- Bath Iron Works construction trades 1944; wartime crew (complement 363); navy-yard workers at Boston, Norfolk, Pearl Harbor, and Mare Island; reserve-fleet caretakers 1946-1971
- Limitations
- DANFS documents service history, the DD-739-to-DM-27 designation chain, and specifications - not materials or asbestos content. Decommissioning is dated only 'December' (1946 by narrative sequence; NavSource destroyer index reads 29 January 1947 - carried in gaps). Mirror transcriptions cited because the live NHHC page returns 404; the ibiblio transcription carries a 'Batch, Maine' typo for Bath (hazegray reads correctly - no content effect). Kerama Retto repair alongside a repair ship is anchorage repair, not a shipyard availability.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-adams-dm27-01
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[3]NHHC, United States Naval Aviation 1910-1995, Appendix 12 'Ships Named for Naval Aviators' - roster entry 'Adams (DM 27--ex-DD 739)* LT Samuel Adams, USN 10 Oct 1944' [other_primary]
- Locator
- U.S. Naval Aviation 1910-1995, Appendix 12, 'Adams' roster line
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Independent official NHHC confirmation of the designation reconciliation this record documents: the Appendix 12 roster of ships named for naval aviators lists this hull as 'Adams (DM 27--ex-DD 739)' - NHHC's own editorial notation carrying both designations on one hull - with namesake LT Samuel Adams, USN, and commissioning date 10 October 1944, all consistent with DANFS.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1944
- Limitations
- Confirms only the naming, the ex-DD-739 notation, and the commissioning date - no service, materials, or asbestos content. PDF not directly retrievable by automated client (404); entry text verified via the NHHC-hosted document's search-index text and a verbatim transcription of the same appendix (USCS Data Sheet 36).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-adams-dm27-02
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[4]NavSource Mine Warfare Vessel Photo Archive, 'Adams (MMD-27) ex-DM-27 ex-DD-739' - transcribed Secretary of the Navy Navy Unit Commendation citation; commissioning at Boston Navy Yard, Charlestown; commanding-officer roster [other_primary]
- Locator
- navsource.org/archives/11/0827.htm (mine warfare archive entry; NUC citation block; CO roster)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Volunteer-archive corroboration of the designation chain - the page title itself carries 'Adams (MMD-27) ex-DM-27 ex-DD-739' - plus a transcribed SecNav citation: 'For outstanding heroism in action while serving as Flagship of Mine Division EIGHT during operations for the seizure of enemy Japanese-held Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands, from March 24 to April 1, 1945 ... fighting her guns valiantly to down seven planes and one probable. Severely damaged by a near miss when three enemy planes attacked on April 1 ...' All personnel attached March 24 to April 1, 1945 authorized the Navy Unit Commendation ribbon. NavSource also documents commissioning at Boston Navy Yard, Charlestown, decommissioning December 1946 at San Diego, MMD-27 reclassification 7 February 1955, striking 1 December 1970, and sale for scrap 16 December 1971 to Chow Iron and Steel Co. of Taiwan, plus a commanding-officer roster (Armstrong to 7 May 1945; Clay to 20 Nov 1945; Christie to 20 Dec 1946; Price to 29 Jan 1947).
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1945 (action); citation transcription undated
- Population
- Crew attached 24 March - 1 April 1945 (NUC eligibility window)
- Limitations
- NavSource is a volunteer photographic/archive transcription site, not the issuing authority - the NUC citation is a transcription of a SecNav document whose award-card primary was not directly retrieved; verification_status partial for that reason. The companion NavSource destroyer index (archives/05/739) conflicts with this page on decommissioning (29 Jan 1947) and the MMD redesignation (1 Jan 1969) - conflicts carried in gaps. Direct fetch refused to the automated client; content verified via search-index text. No asbestos information.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-adams-dm27-03
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[5]DANFS specifications block (Robert H. Smith class; 34 kt trial) + class design data (Allen M. Sumner-class profile: 4 Babcock & Wilcox boilers, 2 GE geared steam turbines, 60,000 shp) + Atlas shipyard dataset, Bath Iron Works record (era industrial-hygiene study; NARA RG19 General Information Books archival lead) [other_primary]
- Locator
- DANFS specifications block; shipyards.json record 'bath-iron-works'; class profile allen-m-sumner-class
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Era/yard inference: a Robert H. Smith-class destroyer minelayer completed October 1944 on an Allen M. Sumner hull with a four-boiler steam plant would have carried period-standard asbestos insulation, lagging, gaskets, packing, fireproofing, and deck coverings; builder Bath Iron Works is documented at yard level in the Atlas dataset (tier 2), including a 1942-era industrial-hygiene study of pipe-covering shop dust risk; documented navy-yard availabilities aboard this hull (Boston fitting-out, Norfolk post-shakedown, two Pearl Harbor periods, Mare Island battle-damage repair May-July 1945) are events in which era insulation would have been installed, disturbed, or renewed; NARA RG19 'General Information Books' per-vessel material specifications are an archival lead for hull-level specs.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1944-1946
- Population
- Bath Iron Works construction trades 1944; navy-yard workers 1944-1945; wartime crew 1944-1946
- Limitations
- Class/era and builder-yard inference only - no ship-specific asbestos finding exists for this hull; this row adds context, not an independent ship-specific finding. Yard-event asbestos scope is inference. NARA GIB and Maine Maritime Museum BIW-hull records not retrieved.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-adams-dm27-04
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[6]CourtListener API v4 sweep, 2026-09-29 (opinion and RECAP docket indexes): '"USS Adams" asbestos' type=o; '"DM-27"' type=o; '"DD-739"' type=o; '"USS Adams" asbestos' type=r; '"DD-739"' type=r [court_record]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-adams-dm27-09 through sl-uss-adams-dm27-13
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- No qualifying asbestos litigation naming this hull located. Exact-phrase opinion queries returned zero hits for '"USS Adams" asbestos' and '"DD-739"'; the ten '"DM-27"' opinion hits are all name collisions - Texas Attorney General opinions indexed under 'DM-27'/'DM-271' document numbers, Texas Court of Appeals education cases, a U.S. Customs Court case, and a Third Circuit German-foundation case, none vessel-related (result-level inspection this session). Docket-level queries returned zero '"DD-739"' hits and two '"USS Adams" asbestos' hits - the same two asbestos personal-injury removal dockets the PRIMARY record resolved on RECAP full-text review as name collisions with USS Charles F. Adams (DDG-2), not this hull (Sullivan v. A.W. Chesterton, E.D. Pa. 2:18-cv-03622; Westberry v. American Steel & Wire, M.D. Fla. 3:10-cv-01179 - see ev-07). A name match is not automatically a case; here no docketed asbestos case is verified to name DM-27/DD-739.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 2026-09-29
- Limitations
- Negative finding is bounded by index coverage and name collision risk: 'USS Adams' is shared by earlier vessels (brig, frigate, screw gunboat) and by USS Charles F. Adams DDG-2 (commissioned 1960, decommissioned 1990 - also a Bath Iron Works hull, homeported Mayport, Fla.) - the litigation-era collision hull for any Cold-War-window claim - while 'Adams' is a common surname. A pleading naming a bare 'USS Adams' without hull number could exist unindexed. The two docket hits were not re-fetched at full text for this record - they are the identical documents resolved by the PRIMARY record's RECAP review 2026-09-27 (ev-07); index results reproduced identically on 2026-09-29. Absence of located litigation does not prove no sailor was exposed; it records that no docketed asbestos case naming this hull was found in CourtListener's opinion and RECAP indexes.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-adams-dm27-05
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[7]Batch-4586 search ledger (this record): NHHC DANFS live + HyperWar/ibiblio and hazegray/losthistory verbatim transcriptions; NHHC naval-aviation Appendix 12; NavSource mine/destroyer archives; NVR; LOC/HAER; NARA RG19 GIB lead; CourtListener ship-name and hull-number sweeps [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-adams-dm27-01 through sl-uss-adams-dm27-15
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, insulation specification, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, or adjudicated asbestos finding naming DM-27/DD-739 was found in the public sources searched (see search_ledger), and the CourtListener sweep located no qualifying asbestos case naming this hull (ev-05). The hull was sold for scrap abroad in December 1971, before any federal asbestos survey regime, after ~23 years inactive in the Pacific Reserve Fleet.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 2026-09-29
- Limitations
- A bounded search result, not proof that asbestos was absent aboard - 1944 steam-destroyer construction commonly used asbestos, but for this hull that remains era inference, not ship-proven. No physical survey exists (hull scrapped 1971-72, Taiwan). Does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-adams-dm27-06
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[8]Atlas internal consolidation reference - PRIMARY record uss-adams-dd739.atlas.json (branch batch-3712/uss-adams-dd739, researched 2026-09-27) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Atlas dataset, uss-adams-dd739.atlas.json (sibling record)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Designation-reconciliation ADD record: this file records the DM-27 operational designation of one physical hull whose canonical consolidation target is the existing PRIMARY record uss-adams-dd739 (Tier 2). DD-739 (laid-down designation, held 1944-03-20 to 1944-07-20) and DM-27 (redesignation before launch; all commissioned service) are not two ships. The PRIMARY record's full-text resolution of the two 'USS Adams' asbestos dockets (Sullivan v. A.W. Chesterton, E.D. Pa. 2:18-cv-03622; Westberry v. American Steel & Wire, M.D. Fla. 3:10-cv-01179) as DDG-2-era namesake collisions stands for this hull in both records; this ADD record re-ran the index-level sweep for its own ledger (ev-05) rather than re-adjudicating those pleadings.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 2026-09-29
- Limitations
- Internal dataset cross-reference, not an external primary source - it records the consolidation decision so the DM-27 record is not mistaken for a second hull. Any future DM-27-keyed research should attach to this record or the PRIMARY record, not create a third file.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-adams-dm27-07
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[9]NARA RG 19 (Bureau of Ships) General Information Books / Maine Maritime Museum Bath Iron Works hull records - archival leads, not retrieved [other_primary]
- Locator
- NARA RG 19 GIB holdings; Maine Maritime Museum, Bath ME (BIW archive)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Archival leads for hull-level material documentation: (1) NARA RG 19 'General Information Books' hold BuShips-era per-vessel records that may carry material/insulation specifications for DD-739/DM-27; (2) Maine Maritime Museum (Bath, Maine) holds Bath Iron Works construction records - the builder archive most likely to contain hull-specific material orders for this BIW-built hull. Neither was retrieved; the PRIMARY record carries the same open leads.
- Verification
- unverified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1944
- Limitations
- Unexamined leads only - nothing in this row establishes what the sources contain, and no asbestos inference should be drawn from their existence.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-adams-dm27-08
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[10]Library of Congress Veterans History Project, Owen L. Adams Collection (AFC/2001/001/115013) - veteran service record naming 'USS Adams (DM 27)' [other_primary]
- Locator
- LOC VHP item AFC/2001/001/115013, service unit/ship field
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Library of Congress Veterans History Project holds the Owen L. Adams Collection: a veteran (service 1942-1945, highest rank Boatswain's Mate First Class) whose recorded service units are 'USS Glennon (DD 620); USS Adams (DM 27)' - a named crew member documented aboard this hull during its commissioned period, with service locations including Hawaii, Guam, and Okinawa matching the DANFS narrative. The collection (interview/materials) is a first-person crew account lead for this hull.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1942-1945 (service); collection cataloged 2001
- Population
- Owen L. Adams, BM1, USS Adams (DM-27) crew (1944-1945 service window)
- Limitations
- VHP catalog entry verifies the crew member's assignment to this hull; collection contents were not reviewed and no asbestos or working-conditions statement should be inferred from it. Does not establish exposure - establishes only that a documented crew member served aboard DM-27 in the exposure-relevant window.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-adams-dm27-09