Evidence
6 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-6).
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[1]research packet gu-packet.md (3 sources cited) [other_primary]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERIFIED — real identity: USS Agerholm (DD-826); only USN ship of the name, named for
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-agerholm-dd826-pkt-gu-packet-md
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[2]Naval History and Heritage Command, Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, Agerholm (DD-826) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- Specifications block and opening ship-history paragraph
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NHHC's Agerholm (DD-826) ship history identifies the vessel as a Gearing-class destroyer; its specifications block gives a complement of 367. It states that Bath Iron Works at Bath, Maine, laid the ship down on 10 September 1945, launched it on 30 March 1946, and commissioned it on 20 June 1946.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1945-1946
- Population
- USS Agerholm (DD-826)
- Limitations
- Supports vessel identity, class, builder, dates, and design complement only. It makes no statement about asbestos content, individual exposure, or liability.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-agerholm-dd826-01
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[3]Naval History and Heritage Command, USS Agerholm (DD-826) collection page [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- Ship-history summary preceding the item-level image listings
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NHHC's USS Agerholm (DD-826) collection page states that the ship was decommissioned and stricken on 1 December 1978 and sunk as a target on 18 July 1982.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1978-1982
- Population
- USS Agerholm (DD-826)
- Limitations
- Establishes disposition dates only; does not document asbestos removal, remaining material, or a final wreck location.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-agerholm-dd826-02
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[4]National Archives, Ship Plan Index, USS Agerholm (DD-826), NAID 153714773 [other_primary]
- Locator
- Ship Plan Index table row for AGERHOLM, DD-826; RG 19; Hull series of Ship Engineering Drawings; NAID 153714773
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- The National Archives Ship Plan Index lists USS Agerholm (DD-826) under Record Group 19, Hull series of Ship Engineering Drawings, National Archives Identifier 153714773. This identifies an archival source for further hull-specific research; the index entry itself does not describe the drawing contents.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1945-1946
- Population
- USS Agerholm (DD-826)
- Limitations
- Index listing only; underlying drawings were not retrieved or inspected. It does not establish asbestos content, shipboard materials, or exposure.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-agerholm-dd826-04
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[5]Speck v. 3M Co., No. 3:20-cv-05845-JD, Order re Summary Judgment, ECF No. 475 (N.D. Cal. Apr. 5, 2024) [court_record]
- Locator
- Order pp. 5-7 (Bath Iron Works section; recitation of deposition evidence and asbestos acknowledgment)
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- In a partial summary-judgment order in Speck v. 3M Co., the court recited evidence that John Speck worked for three or four months during a major overhaul of USS Agerholm, entered its engine room while other trades removed turbines, boilers, and insulation, and walked through insulation dust. The order states that Bath Iron Works acknowledged original insulation on its 1940s naval destroyers contained asbestos and held this evidence sufficient to create triable questions of actual exposure and substantial-factor causation as to Bath Iron Works. The order is a discovery-record and summary-judgment-stage ruling, not a trial finding or final judgment on those questions.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- Agerholm overhaul in the 1960s; order filed 2024-04-05
- Population
- John Speck, civilian electrician working at Mare Island Naval Shipyard; estate asbestos litigation
- Limitations
- Discovery-stage evidence summarized in a partial summary-judgment ruling. The court did not make a trial finding that Speck was exposed or that exposure caused injury; it held the evidence was triable as to Bath Iron Works. The finding is specific to evidence concerning Speck and the builder, does not quantify asbestos aboard, does not inventory other materials or locations, and does not establish that ACM remains aboard or liability to other people.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-agerholm-dd826-03
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[6]Garza v. Asbestos Corp., Ltd., 161 Cal. App. 4th 651, 74 Cal. Rptr. 3d 359 (Cal. Ct. App. 2008), as modified Apr. 2, 2008 [court_record]
- Locator
- Published opinion, factual background (Garza's service aboard Agerholm and insulating cement); disposition (judgment affirmed); see also jury's apportionment of fault
- Finding type
- litigation_product_id
- Finding
- The published California appellate opinion in Garza v. Asbestos Corp., Ltd. records Joseph Garza's trial testimony that after service aboard USS Randall he served for about eighteen months aboard USS Agerholm (DD-826) as a boiler man second class, in charge of No. 2 boiler room. He described similar repair work with piping insulation and adhesive cement aboard both vessels, identified Eagle-Picher Super 66 as an insulating cement he used, and testified to dust from opening and mixing bags and cleaning insulation debris without respiratory protection. A jury returned an asbestos-injury judgment for the plaintiffs and the Court of Appeal affirmed the judgment in all respects. The verdict's fault allocation was not apportioned to Agerholm alone.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- About 1955-1956 aboard Agerholm; judgment affirmed 2008
- Population
- Joseph Garza, Navy boiler man; asbestos-related asbestosis and pleural disease litigation
- Limitations
- This is trial testimony recited in a published appellate opinion and a jury judgment affirmed on appeal. Garza served on USS Randall as well as Agerholm and had other lifetime exposure sources; the jury's 75/25 fault allocation was not assigned to Agerholm alone. The opinion does not establish a ship-wide inventory, quantities aboard, current ACM, or exposure of other people.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-agerholm-dd826-05