Evidence
8 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-8).
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[1]DANFS, Allen M. Sumner (DD-692) (builder, dates, service narrative, disposal; verbatim transcription - live NHHC page serves 404; hazegray.org DNS unresolvable this session, cited via Wayback capture) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS entry, specifications block + service narrative + closing disposal paragraph
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS record for this hull: laid down 7 July 1943 at Kearny, N.J. by Federal Shipbuilding & Drydock Co.; launched 15 December 1943 (sponsor Mrs. Allen M. Sumner, the namesake's widow); commissioned at the New York Navy Yard 26 January 1944, Comdr. Norman J. Sampson in command. WWII Pacific service: fast-carrier screen; Ormoc Bay night action 2-3 December 1944 with Moale (DD-693) and Cooper (DD-695) - Kuwa sunk, Cooper lost to a Take torpedo, near-miss bomb pierced Sumner's hull and wounded 13; kamikaze hit near the after stack and after torpedo mount in Lingayen Gulf 6 January 1945 (DANFS: 14 killed, 19 injured), remained in action to 14 January; repairs at Hunters Point 13 February-10 April 1945; Tokyo Bay 16 September 1945; Operation Crossroads 1946; Far East cruise 1947. Atlantic Fleet from 1949; Korea (TF 77 plane guard) June-October 1953; Suez-crisis evacuation support at Alexandria 1956; FRAM overhaul 17 May 1961-2 January 1962; Cuban quarantine October 1962; Vietnam deployment February-September 1967 (PIRAZ screen for Long Beach CGN-9, Seadragon, gunfire support); final Mediterranean deployment August 1970-February 1971; Naval Reserve training ship at Baltimore from 1 July 1971; decommissioned 15 August 1973 (DANFS reads 'at Baltimore'); sold 16 October 1974 to Union Minerals & Alloy Corp. for scrapping. Two WWII, one Korean, two Vietnam battle stars.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-19
- Study period
- 1943-1974
- Population
- Federal Shipbuilding construction trades 1943-44; wartime and Cold War crew (design complement 345); reserve-training cadre 1971-73
- Limitations
- DANFS documents identity, service history, and disposal - not materials or asbestos content. The DANFS decommissioning location (Baltimore) is contradicted by the ship's own CY1973 command history (Philadelphia Naval Shipyard) - see ev-03. Casualty figures for the 6 January 1945 hit differ from the association history (14 KIA/19 WIA vs 16/27) - logged in gaps. Live NHHC page 404; verbatim transcription cited via Wayback capture of hazegray.org mirror (hazegray DNS unresolvable this session).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-allen-m-sumner-dd692-01
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[2]USS Allen M. Sumner (DD-692) Command History for CY1968 (ComDesRon Sixteen INST P5000.1A submission; forwarded by CDR J. A. Meacham 7 February 1969), enclosure (1) narrative - scanned Naval Historical Center document images hosted at dd-692.com [other_primary]
- Locator
- CY1968 command history, enclosure (1) narrative, page ch6802.jpg
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- The ship's own CY1968 command history documents a regular overhaul at the U.S. Naval Shipyard, Charleston, S.C.: 'SUMNER got underway on 7 June for the U.S. Naval Shipyard, Charleston, S.C. for a regular overhaul period during which 1.7 million dollars were spent for the repair and replacement of equipment,' with the yard period running to early November 1968. A documented mid-life yard availability with equipment repair/replacement aboard this hull.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-19
- Study period
- 1968
- Population
- Charleston Naval Shipyard workforce June-November 1968; ship's company
- Limitations
- Documents the yard period, cost, and equipment repair/replacement scope only - the report contains no asbestos, insulation, or lagging references and does not establish what materials were disturbed or removed. Scanned image of the official report hosted on a private association site; NHHC holds the original (archival lead).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-allen-m-sumner-dd692-02
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[3]USS Allen M. Sumner (DD-692) Command History for CY1973 (OPNAV Report 5750-1; submitted by LCDR M. J. Bresnahan, USNR, 13 August 1973), Section I chronology + Section II narrative + Section III command data - scanned Naval Historical Center document images hosted at dd-692.com [other_primary]
- Locator
- CY1973 command history: Section I chronology (Jan-Aug 1973), Section II narrative April/August entries (ch7307-ch7309), Section III parts B-C (ch7310)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- The ship's own CY1973 command history corrects DANFS on the decommissioning site: the decommissioning process commenced at Baltimore in February 1973; ammunition was off-loaded at Yorktown 15 March; the ship moored at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard from 6 April 1973 (pierside training of Iranian crews for IIN Palang D-5 and Babr D-7 also conducted there); on 10 July she made her last underway; and 'In the beginning of August SUMNER was moored to pier 4 at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard... On the morning of Wednesday, the fifteenth of August, the commissioning pennant was hauled down' - decommissioned 15 August 1973 at Philadelphia, not Baltimore as DANFS reads. Section III confirms homeport Baltimore and homeyard Norfolk for the period.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- correction
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-19
- Study period
- 1973 (Jan 1 - Aug 15)
- Population
- Ship's company and SELRES crew; Philadelphia Naval Shipyard; Iranian trainee crews embarked April-July 1973
- Limitations
- Corrects the DANFS decommissioning location; records the administrative end of service, not materials or asbestos content. No asbestos, insulation, or hazmat references anywhere in the report. Scanned images of the official report hosted on a private association site; NHHC holds the original.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-allen-m-sumner-dd692-03
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[4]USS Allen M. Sumner (DD-692) association history page (dd-692.com) - compiled ship chronology supplementing DANFS; also NavSource Online Destroyer Archive DD-692 page (building/disposal data) [reputable_press]
- Locator
- dd-692.com history.htm narrative paragraphs (1949-1973); navsource.org/archives/05/692.htm operational/building data block
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Association-compiled chronology supplies yard-period detail DANFS omits: Boston Naval Shipyard overhaul summer 1952 (40mm mounts replaced by 3"/50 guns); Philadelphia Navy Yard overhaul January-April 1956 (ASW armament, ECM, radar replacement); Norfolk Naval Shipyard overhauls early 1957 (four months, submarine-detection equipment), late 1958, and a three-month period from ~August 1959; Charleston Naval Shipyard variable-depth-sonar installation after the October 1962 Cuban quarantine; DASH drone-helicopter installation at Norfolk May 1966; decommissioning pennant hauled down 15 August 1973 at Philadelphia Naval Shipyard; sold to Union Minerals & Alloy Corp. for $163,132 (16 October 1974 per DANFS/association; NavSource reads 13 November 1974), passed from Navy control 6 December 1974.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-19
- Study period
- 1949-1974
- Population
- Shipyard workforces (Boston NSY 1952; Philadelphia NY 1956; Norfolk NSY 1957-59; Charleston NSY 1962-63; Norfolk 1966); ship's company
- Limitations
- Secondary association compilation, not an official source - carried as context for yard-period mapping only; details unverified against primary records and several figures conflict with DANFS (casualties 16 KIA/27 WIA vs 14/19; sale date 13 Nov vs 16 Oct 1974). Does not establish materials or asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-allen-m-sumner-dd692-04
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[5]Owens-Illinois, Inc., Industrial Health Survey of Federal Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., Kearny, NJ (Aug. 30-Sep. 2, 1944); introduced as Owens-Illinois interrogatory exhibit #20 in Heathman v. Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp., Brazoria County TX (1990) - as indexed in the Atlas shipyard record 'federal-shipbuilding-kearny' [other_primary]
- Locator
- shipyards.json record 'federal-shipbuilding-kearny', ev-federal-kearny-ihs-1944; toxicdocs.org scan of the survey
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- The builder yard is documented at yard level: an Owens-Illinois industrial-health survey of Federal Shipbuilding & Drydock, Kearny (30 August-2 September 1944) recorded insulators cutting and fitting asbestos pipe covering (Johns-Manville Superex) and boiler insulation in confined shipyard spaces, with dust counts measured - during the same wartime production era in which this hull was built there (laid down 7 July 1943, delivered/commissioned 26 January 1944).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-19
- Study period
- 1944 (survey Aug 30-Sep 2); hull construction Jul 1943-Jan 1944
- Population
- Federal Shipbuilding & Drydock insulators and pipefitters, Kearny NJ, wartime peak
- Limitations
- Yard-level documentation, not hull-specific: the survey postdates this hull's construction by months, names no vessel, and does not establish which products were installed aboard DD-692. Survey was conducted by a manufacturer with commercial interest in the findings; dust counts in mppcf (pre-fiber-count era). Documents yard practice, not a worker health outcome study.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-allen-m-sumner-dd692-05
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[6]Navypedia, Allen M. Sumner-class technical block (4 Babcock & Wilcox boilers, 2 GE geared steam turbines, 60,000 shp, 2 shafts; complement 336 as commissioned, 302 after FRAM II) + DANFS specifications block for DD-692 [other_primary]
- Locator
- navypedia us_dd_a_m_sumner.htm class block; DANFS DD-692 spec block; allen-m-sumner-class.class.json (class-c worktree)
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Era/class inference: a Sumner-class destroyer built 1943-44 with a four-boiler geared-turbine steam plant would have carried period-standard asbestos insulation, lagging, gaskets, packing, and fireproofing, and this hull's documented yard periods - 1961-62 FRAM modernization, 1968 Charleston overhaul, and the 1950s-60s availabilities recorded by the association history - would have disturbed original insulation in the Navy's pre-substitution era.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-19
- Study period
- 1943-1973
- Population
- Construction trades 1943-44; overhaul workforces 1952-1968; crew 1944-73
- Limitations
- Class/era inference only - no hull-specific insulation survey, specification, or abatement record located; does not establish asbestos content, quantity, location, or individual exposure aboard DD-692. FRAM yard not named in DANFS; modernization asbestos scope undocumented.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-allen-m-sumner-dd692-06
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[7]USS Allen M. Sumner (DD-692) OPNAV 5750-1 command histories, CY1968 (5 pp.), CY1969 (2 pp.), CY1973 (11 pp.) - scanned Naval Historical Center document images hosted at dd-692.com [other_primary]
- Locator
- dd-692.com/images/comhist/ ch6801-ch6805, ch6901-ch6902, ch7301-ch7311 (all pages of sampled years reviewed)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Page-image review of the ship's own command histories for CY1968 (covering the June-November Charleston Naval Shipyard overhaul), CY1969, and CY1973 (covering the February-August decommissioning process at Baltimore and Philadelphia Naval Shipyard): all are operational chronologies - movements, drills, personnel, and message enclosures - containing no reference to asbestos, insulation, lagging, or industrial-hygiene work.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-19
- Study period
- 1968-1973 (sampled reports)
- Limitations
- Negative finding within the sampled years only: the CY1970, CY1971, and CY1972 reports (63 scanned pages) and the 1964 ComDesRon 16 submission were not reviewed; absence of asbestos references in operational chronologies does not establish absence of asbestos aboard - these reports do not carry safety/IH sections of the kind that documented asbestos aboard later vessels (e.g., CVN-69).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-allen-m-sumner-dd692-07
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[8]Batch-277 search ledger (this record): NHHC DANFS via hazegray/Wayback; ship OPNAV 5750-1 command-history scans; NavSource; association history; Atlas shipyard record (federal-shipbuilding-kearny); VA BVA indexed decisions; CourtListener API v4 (partial - throttled); web litigation-lead searches [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-allen-m-sumner-dd692-01 through -10
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no hull insulation survey, abatement contract, disposal-condition hazmat disclosure, docketed civil case, or VA Board of Veterans' Appeals decision naming this hull was found in the public sources searched (see search_ledger). The hull was sold for scrapping 16 October 1974 - no museum custody, no present-day survey possible.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-19
- Study period
- 2026-09-19
- Limitations
- Absence of a located public record does not prove absence of asbestos aboard - a 1943-44 steam-plant destroyer sits squarely in the Navy's documented asbestos-specification era, and class/era inference applies (ev-06). CourtListener coverage is incomplete: the hull-number opinion query returned zero hits; the ship-name query was rate-limit blocked (125/day shared cap) at research time - supplemental site:courtlistener.com indexed coverage surfaced only surname/geographic name collisions. Does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-allen-m-sumner-dd692-08
