Evidence
10 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-10).
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[1]research packet fy-packet.md (3 sources cited) [nhhc_danfs]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERDICT: VERIFIED
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-allen-dd66-pkt-fy-packet-md
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[2]DANFS, Allen II (DD-66) (short entry, hazegray mirror) and DANFS Allen II narrative text (destroyerhistory.org mirror, 'Source: Naval History & Heritage Command including Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships') [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS Allen II entry, specifications block + service narrative (hazegray mirror); full narrative text (destroyerhistory.org/early/ussallen)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS record for this hull: second Allen, laid down 10 May 1915 (long entry; short entry omits laid-down date) by Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine; launched 5 December 1916, sponsored by Miss Harriet Allen Butler and Miss Dorthea Dix Allen; commissioned 24 January 1917, Lt. Comdr. S. W. Bryant in command; escorted Troop Convoy Group 3 of the first U.S. troop convoy to France 14 June 1917; Queenstown-based convoy escort and anti-submarine duty for the rest of WWI, reporting engagements with German submarines on 10 occasions (all unsubstantiated by postwar checks of German records); escorted George Washington with President Wilson embarked into Brest December 1918; returned to New York 7 January 1919; out of commission 22 June 1922; recommissioned 23 June 1925, Naval Reserve training at Washington D.C.; out of commission March 1928 at Philadelphia; recommissioned 23 August 1940 at Philadelphia; joined Destroyer Division 80, proceeded to Pearl Harbor 9 December 1940; present during the 7 December 1941 attack without casualties or damage; Pearl Harbor Defensive Sea Area duty until August 1945 (departed Pearl Harbor 20 August 1945 per short entry; 'September 1945' per long entry); arrived Philadelphia 13 September 1945; decommissioned Philadelphia 15 October 1945; stricken 1 November 1945 (long entry); sold 26 September 1946 to Boston Metals Co., Baltimore. One battle star.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1915-1946
- Population
- Bath Iron Works construction trades 1915-17; crews 1917-22, 1925-28, 1940-45 (design complement 130 per DANFS spec block)
- Limitations
- DANFS documents service history and specifications, not materials or asbestos content. Intra-DANFS discrepancies (departure date Aug vs Sep 1945; short entry omits stricken date) are carried in gaps. Live NHHC DANFS pages return 404 under all tested URL patterns - verbatim transcriptions at hazegray (losthistory.net) and destroyerhistory.org cited.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-allen-dd66-01
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[3]U.S. Naval Historical Center / NHHC Online Library of Selected Images, 'USS Allen (Destroyer # 66, later DD-66), 1917-1946' ship caption page (verbatim mirror on ibiblio HyperWar) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- USNHC Online Library caption, usnsh-a/dd66.htm (ibiblio HyperWar mirror)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NHHC/USNHC caption page for this hull: commissioned January 1917; designated DD-66 in July 1920 when the Navy implemented its hull-number system; placed out of commission June 1922; returned to commissioned service in June 1925 as a Naval Reserve training ship based at the Washington Navy Yard, D.C.; decommissioned March 1928 and 'spent the next dozen years laid up in the Philadelphia Navy Yard's "red lead row"'; 'In August 1940, when Allen was the last survivor of her class, she was placed back in commission'; thereafter based at Pearl Harbor; present 7 December 1941, crew 'claimed assists in shooting down three of the attacking planes'; escort and patrol duty in Hawaiian waters for the rest of the Pacific war.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1917-1946
- Population
- Crews 1917-22, 1925-28, 1940-45; reserve training ship complement 1925-28
- Limitations
- NHHC caption documents service history, not materials or asbestos content. 'Last survivor of her class' and 'red lead row' details supplement DANFS. Mirror transcription cited; corresponding live NHHC Online Library page not separately verified.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-allen-dd66-02
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[4]Ships' Data, U.S. Naval Vessels, 1919 edition, U.S. Navy Department (GPO) - destroyer data tables, Allen (66) entries (digitized Google scan via shipscribe.com) [other_primary]
- Locator
- SDB 1919 destroyer tables pp. 62-67: Allen row in displacement/dimension table, fuel/messes table, machinery table, and battery/builder/dates tables
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Official Navy Department 1919 data for this hull: authorization act 30 June 1914; contract signed 30 January 1915; keel laid 10 May 1915; launched 5 December 1916; contract completion date 30 January 1917; preliminary acceptance 23 January 1917; first commission 24 January 1917; builder Bath Iron Works, Bath, Me.; contract price hull and machinery $800,000; displacement 1,071 tons normal / 1,185 full load; length over all 315'3"; trial speed 30.29 knots; battery 4x4"/50 cal., 2x3"/23 cal. AA, 4x21" triple torpedo tubes; machinery 2 propellers, Parsons geared turbines, 4 Normand oil-burning boilers, 22,500 sq ft total heating surface, 16,369 shaft horsepower on trial; messes complement 8 wardroom officers, 8 chief petty officers, 106 men; station Atlantic Fleet as of 1 October 1919.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1914-1919
- Population
- Construction trades, Bath Iron Works 1915-17; commissioning crew January 1917
- Limitations
- Official contemporaneous specifications - documents a four-boiler geared-turbine steam plant requiring thermal insulation, but names no insulating materials and contains no asbestos statement. Resolves machinery attribution for this hull (Parsons turbines + Normand boilers; sister Sampson carried Curtis turbines + Yarrow boilers - secondary sources that assign Sampson's plant to Allen are contradicted by the official tables).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-allen-dd66-03
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[5]Vice Admiral Homer N. Wallin, 'Pearl Harbor: Why, How, Fleet Salvage and Final Appraisal' (Naval History Division, 1968), Appendix G - 'Ships Present at Pearl Harbor and Vicinity, 7 December 1941' (verbatim mirror on ibiblio HyperWar) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Wallin report Appendix G, DD section, entry '66 Allen'
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- The official Navy post-salvage history's tabulation of ships present at Pearl Harbor at 0800 local time, 7 December 1941, lists 'DD 66 Allen' among the destroyers - corroborating this hull's presence during the attack, consistent with DANFS and the ship's own action report.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1941-12-07
- Population
- Crew aboard at Pearl Harbor, 7 December 1941
- Limitations
- Presence tabulation only - confirms the hull was moored in Pearl Harbor during the attack; contains no materials, damage, or asbestos information for this ship.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-allen-dd66-04
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[6]USS Allen (DD66) action report, 'Air Raid Attack by Japanese - Report on,' DD66/A16/(CF-33), Hawaiian Area, 14 December 1941, signed D. B. Miller, Commanding Officer (verbatim transcription on ibiblio HyperWar; original in NARA records) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Action report body, paras. 1-7 (DD66/A16, CF-33)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- The ship's own official action report: at 0755 on 7 December 1941 general quarters sounded and guns No. 5 and No. 6 (3"/50 caliber) manned; first shot fired within 10-15 minutes; 57 rounds of 3-inch and 600 rounds of .50-caliber ammunition expended over ~45 minutes; 'Two planes were definitely shot down by this ship's fire' with a possible third; 'No casualties to personnel nor damage to materiel were sustained by this vessel'; moored alongside USS Chew. Documents the WWII-era armament fit and the operating crew in action.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1941-12-07/14
- Population
- Crew aboard, December 1941
- Limitations
- Contemporaneous official document; contains no materials or asbestos information. Its 'two definite, possible third' tally is the primary record behind DANFS's 'assisted in downing three' phrasing - a framing difference noted in gaps.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-allen-dd66-05
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[7]National Archives, Special List 44 - Named Vessels (vessel and station logbooks finding aid): Allen (DD-66) entries [other_primary]
- Locator
- Special List 44, 'Allen (DD-66)' table rows
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- NARA's official finding aid lists three deck-log series for Allen (DD-66): 1/24/1917-6/22/1922; 7/23/1925-3/23/1928; 8/23/1940-10/15/1945 - matching this hull's three commission periods in DANFS. Deck logs can corroborate yard availabilities, drydockings, and maintenance periods relevant to material-disturbance windows.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1917-1945
- Limitations
- Finding aid only - establishes that logbooks exist and their date coverage; log contents (yard periods, repair entries) were not retrieved and no asbestos-relevant entry is documented. The 1925 series opens 7/23/1925, one month after the 6/23/1925 recommissioning - noted in gaps.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-allen-dd66-06
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[8]Ships' Data U.S. Naval Vessels 1919 machinery table (4 Normand boilers, Parsons geared turbines, this hull) + Atlas shipyards.json records 'bath-iron-works' (1942 Harvard pipe-covering-shop study, PMID 21016030) and 'philadelphia-naval-shipyard' (published product-ID opinions, 1941-1984 window) [other_primary]
- Locator
- SDB 1919 machinery table (Allen row); shipyards.json evidence ev-bath-iron-works-02 (PMID 21016030) and ev-philadelphia-naval-s-02
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Era/yard inference: a four-boiler, geared-turbine steam plant of 1915-17 required thermal insulation throughout the fireroom and steam lines, and period marine insulation products (sectional pipe covering, lagging, gaskets, packing, boiler insulation) commonly contained asbestos fiber. Builder-yard context: the Atlas dataset documents a 1942 Harvard industrial-hygiene study of pipe-covering operations in naval-vessel construction at Bath Iron Works recording 'fairly serious dust risk' (PMID 21016030) - yard-level evidence that asbestos pipe covering was worked there during naval shipbuilding. The hull's 1940 reactivation at Philadelphia Naval Shipyard occurred within that yard's documented asbestos-era window (1941-1984 product-ID litigation in the dataset), so any refit-era renewals likewise belong to the peak-asbestos period.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1915-1945
- Population
- Bath Iron Works construction trades 1915-17; Philadelphia Navy Yard reactivation workforce 1940; crews 1917-22, 1925-28, 1940-45
- Limitations
- Class/era and builder-yard inference only - no source names this hull's materials. The Drinker study postdates this hull's construction by ~27 years and documents 1942 yard conditions, not the 1915-17 build; the Philadelphia product-ID window opens in 1941 and documents the yard, not this vessel. Nothing here establishes ship-specific asbestos presence, quantity, or exposure.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-allen-dd66-07
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[9]CourtListener API v4 sweeps, 2026-09-27: opinion queries "USS Allen", "aboard the Allen", "Allen DD-66", "Destroyer No. 66" (0 hits each); opinion query "DD-66" (3 hits, all court docket-number collisions); docket query "USS Allen" (3 hits, all judge-name collisions) [court_record]
- Locator
- CourtListener v4 search results (type=o and type=r), queries as listed
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- No qualifying asbestos litigation naming this hull located. Opinion index: zero hits for the ship name in any form; the three "DD-66" opinion hits are court docket numbers, not the vessel (Harrell v. Branson, Fla. 1st DCA No. DD-66, 1977 - family law; Committee for Open Media v. FCC, D.C. Cir. 1976; National Western Life v. Merrill Lynch, S.D.N.Y. 2002 - none asbestos, none maritime). Docket index: three asbestos-PI dockets matched "USS Allen" - Goodrich v. Air & Liquid Systems (E.D. Va. 4:17-cv-00009), Mullinex v. Air & Liquid Systems (E.D. Va. 4:18-cv-00033), and the MDL-875 master docket - but in each case the matched term is presiding Judge Arenda Wright Allen ('AWA' in both Virginia docket numbers), not the ship; no snippet text names the vessel. Both Virginia cases involve exposure windows decades after this hull was scrapped in 1946.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 2026-09-27 (sweep)
- Limitations
- Absence of located dockets does not prove absence of claims - state-court, settled, and non-digitized matters are outside the index. 'Allen' is a high-collision surname and ship name (Allen M. Sumner, DD-692, is a different hull); classification relied on snippet text and case metadata.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-allen-dd66-08
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[10]Batch-3635 search ledger (this record): DANFS/NHHC mirrors, NHHC Online Library, Wallin report, ship action report, NARA Special List 44, Ships' Data 1919, CourtListener name and hull-number sweeps, Naval Vessel Register scope check [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-allen-dd66-01 through sl-uss-allen-dd66-11
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, litigation product identification, or docketed case naming this hull was found in the public sources searched (see search_ledger). The outcome is structural - the hull was sold for scrap in September 1946, decades before asbestos documentation, disclosure, or survey regimes existed for Navy vessels.
- 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 during service - the era/yard inference (ev-07) stands as context for what a 1915-17 steam plant and a 1940 reactivation would plausibly have carried. Does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-allen-dd66-09