Evidence
7 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-7).
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[1]NHHC DANFS, 'Anthony I (Destroyer No. 172)' - updated online entry by Robert J. Cressman (25 August 1983) (live page returns 404 as of 2026-09-26; 2025-02-08 Wayback capture; print-edition transcription mirrored at losthistory.net/hazegray) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS updated entry 'Anthony I', specifications block + service narrative (Wayback capture 2025-02-08 of history.navy.mil)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS record for this hull: laid down 18 April 1918 at San Francisco by Union Iron Works as unnamed Destroyer No. 172; named Anthony by General Order No. 408 of 1 August 1918; launched 10 August 1918, sponsor Miss Grace Heathcote; commissioned at Mare Island Navy Yard 19 June 1919 (Cmdr. David Alexander Scott). Characteristics: 1,284 tons; 314'4.5" x 30'11.25" x 9'2"; 33.82 kt; complement 122; armament 4 4", 2 3", 3 .30-cal Lewis MG, 12 21" TT; class Wickes. Pacific Fleet establishment reviews Aug-Sep 1919 (carried SecNav Daniels; reviewed by President Wilson 13 Sep); reserve at Santa Fe Wharf, San Diego from 23 Nov 1919; tentatively designated light minelayer 18 Mar 1920; shoal grounding 15 Jul 1920, repairs at Mare Island (passenger Cmdr. William F. Halsey Jr.); received alphanumeric designation DM-12 on 17 Jul 1920 but continued with destroyer force; detached to Mine Force 3 Jun 1921; minelayer conversion at Pearl Harbor Navy Yard (torpedo mounts removed for mine tracks, 64-80 mine capacity); operated Pearl Harbor through Jun 1922 (reef strike at Lahaina 1 Feb 1922, both screws bent); decommissioned 30 Jun 1922 at Naval Station Pearl Harbor; layup 14 years; struck from Navy list 1 Dec 1936; reduced to hulk; towed to west coast (San Pedro 4 Apr 1937, San Diego); sunk by shellfire from Portland (CA-33) in U.S. Fleet gunnery exercises 22 Jul 1937 off Southern California. Namesake: USMC Sgt. Maj. William Anthony (1853-1899), Maine Marine Guard private who reported the 15 Feb 1898 Havana explosion to Capt. Sigsbee.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Study period
- 1918-1937
- Population
- Union Iron Works construction trades 1918-19; crew across commission period 1919-1922 (complement 122 per NHHC online entry); Pearl Harbor Navy Yard conversion/repair workforce 1921-22
- Limitations
- DANFS documents service history and specifications, not materials or asbestos content. The updated online entry diverges from the print edition on minor points (see gaps): print reads 1,191 tons, 35 kt, complement 133, class 'Little', and 'designated a light minelayer 16 November 1920'; online NHHC values carried. Live NHHC URL returns 404; Wayback capture cited.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-anthony-dd172-01
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[2]Naval Historical Center (NHHC) Online Library of Selected Images, 'USS Anthony (Destroyer # 172, later DD-172 and DM-12), 1919-1937' (photo page NH 82919 et al.; mirrored at ibiblio HyperWar) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NHHC Online Library page usnsh-a/dd172.htm (ibiblio HyperWar mirror), narrative + photo captions NH 55479, NH 57621-57623, NH 82919, NH 100414
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NHHC photo-archive narrative for this hull: 'a 1060-ton Little class destroyer' built at San Francisco in the WWI shipbuilding program; commissioned June 1919; reserve destroyer force from November 1919 with only occasional steaming through 1920; 'designated DM-12 in July 1920' while continuing destroyer service; steamed to Hawaii June 1921 with conversion to minelayer 'performed at the Pearl Harbor Navy Yard'; decommissioned end of June 1922 and laid up at Pearl Harbor; 'stricken from the list of Naval vessels at the beginning of December 1936'; towed to the West Coast; sunk as a target off Southern California 22 July 1937. Photos include NH 57621 (at Mare Island Navy Yard 27 June 1919, 'eight days after she went into commission'), NH 57623, NH 57622, NH 82919, NH 100414, and namesake portrait NH 55479.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Study period
- 1918-1937
- Population
- Crew 1919-1922; Pacific Fleet reserve establishment
- Limitations
- Narrative page is consistent with the updated DANFS entry (June 1919 commissioning corroborated independently by the NH 57621 caption); '1060-ton Little class' reflects a different displacement basis than the updated entry's 1,284 tons - figure variance noted in gaps, not merged. Contains no materials or asbestos information.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-anthony-dd172-02
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[3]NARA Special List 44 - Named Vessels, digitized Navy logbook index (archives.gov) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Special List 44 table, 'Anthony (DD-172)' row
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- NARA's digitized-logbook index lists this hull as 'Anthony (DD-172)' with logs available online for the full single commission period 6/19/1919-6/30/1922. Deck logs name individual sailors and duty stations - the personnel-level research path for any exposure documentation on this hull. (Index separately lists 'Anthony (DD-515)' logs 2/26/1943-6/30/1945 - the Fletcher-class namesake hull.)
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Study period
- 1919-1922
- Population
- Crew of record, 1919-1922
- Limitations
- Index entry only - establishes that logs exist and are digitized, not their contents. No logbook page was reviewed; logs document names/stations/events, not materials or asbestos.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-anthony-dd172-03
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[4]Fleischer, Viles, Gade & Drinker, 'A health survey of pipe covering operations in constructing naval vessels,' J. Ind. Hyg. Toxicol. 28:9-16 (1946), PMID 21016030 [other_primary]
- Locator
- J. Ind. Hyg. Toxicol. 28:9-16 (1946), 'Pipe Covering Material' section; PubMed record 21016030
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Contemporaneous industrial-hygiene survey documenting U.S. Navy construction practice: 'An important ingredient of pipe covering material used on U. S. Navy vessels is amosite' (amosite = an asbestos mineral); the study X-rayed 1,074 pipe coverers at two Government Navy yards and two Navy contract yards and analyzed asbestos dust counts across pipe-covering, sawing, sewing, and mixing operations. Establishes asbestos felt/pipe covering as standard Navy shipyard practice of the era in which this hull was built (1918-19) and converted at Pearl Harbor Navy Yard (1921).
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Study period
- 1946 (publication); WWII-era practice described
- Population
- 1,074 pipe coverers at two Navy yards and two Navy contract yards (WWII-era survey)
- Limitations
- Class/era documentation of Navy construction practice, not a hull record - the study does not name this vessel and surveyed WWII-period yards; it establishes period-standard asbestos use, not this hull's fit-out, quantities, or any individual exposure.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-anthony-dd172-04
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[5]Booklet of General Plans, DD Wickes & Clemson Class (Navy Yard, Newport News, Va., 1 October 1919); NARA RG 19 (Records of the Bureau of Ships), file unit 'Plans for Flush Deckers, 1789-1967', Alphabetical Series of Ship Engineering Drawings - mirrored scan at archive.org [other_primary]
- Locator
- archive.org item ddflushdeckersbogp1919 (provenance: downloaded from US National Archives; NARA RG 19 file unit and series named on item page)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- NARA-held class-design drawings (10 sheets: cover, general information, outboard/inboard profiles, main deck, platform decks, hold, midship section) for the Wickes/Clemson flush-deck type of which DD-172 (Little subclass, Bethlehem design) is a member. Primary class-design documentation available for material and arrangement review.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Study period
- 1919 (document date)
- Limitations
- General-arrangement drawings; do not itemize insulation or identify asbestos. Class-level, not hull-specific; the booklet's Newport News provenance reflects the standard flush-deck arrangement rather than this Bethlehem/Union Iron Works hull's builder drawings. Sheet-level review for material callouts not performed.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-anthony-dd172-05
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[6]CourtListener litigation sweep: 'USS Anthony' (type=o and type=r), 'DD-172' (type=o and type=r), 'DM-12' + asbestos (type=o) queries, 2026-09-26 [court_record]
- Locator
- CourtListener API v4 search, queries 'USS Anthony' (o:0, r:0), 'DD-172' (o:8, r:17), 'DM-12' asbestos (o:1)
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- No qualifying asbestos litigation naming DD-172/DM-12 located. 'USS Anthony' returns zero hits on both the opinion and RECAP docket indexes. 'DD-172' opinions: 8 hits, all New York Appellate Division Third Department family-law opinions (Matter of Carol E., Aaron K., Deborah Z., Thomas KK., Virginia HH., Jaxon UU., Anne MM., Michele D.) - 'DD' tokenizes to the developmental-disability abbreviation and '172' to a number collision; no vessel reference. 'DD-172' dockets: 17 hits, all non-naval matters (NYC delivery-fee litigation exhibits 'DD-##', bankruptcy schedule contract IDs incl. Motors Liquidation/GM, Madoff SIPA, Puerto Rico PBA) - number collisions; the single asbestos-adjacent docket (GM bankruptcy claims committee) matched a contract-ID column, not the vessel. 'DM-12' + asbestos: 1 hit, Montgomery Ward & Co. v. United States, 51 Cust. Ct. 431 (1963) - customs reappraisement of camera imports; product/model-number collision, not the vessel. The hull's service ended 1922 and it was expended as a target in 1937 - predating the asbestos-litigation era entirely.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Study period
- 2026-09-26 (search date)
- Limitations
- Sweep covers CourtListener opinion and RECAP docket indexes; absence of hits does not prove no filing ever named this hull (state-court and removed-then-deleted pleadings are under-indexed). The 'USS Anthony' zero-hit result means no collision filtering was needed; any future hit would still require hull-attribution review against USS Anthony DD-515 (Fletcher-class, 1943-1946 service) before classification.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-anthony-dd172-06
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[7]Batch-3177 search ledger (this record): NHHC DANFS updated entry (live 404; Wayback capture) + print-edition transcription (losthistory.net/hazegray mirror); NHHC Online Library photo page (ibiblio); NARA Special List 44; NARA RG 19 flush-decker plans (archive.org mirror); CourtListener ship-name and hull-number sweep [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-anthony-dd172-01 through sl-uss-anthony-dd172-09
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, museum stewardship file, or docketed case naming DD-172/DM-12 was found in the public sources searched (see search_ledger). The hull was expended as a gunnery target in 1937, more than four decades before federal asbestos regulation - no preservation-era documentation channel exists and no wreck survey is documented.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Study period
- 2026-09-26
- Limitations
- Absence of a located public record does not prove absence of asbestos aboard - a 1918-19 steam-plant destroyer would have carried period-standard insulation, which for U.S. Navy vessels of the era included asbestos products (see ev-04). Does not establish that asbestos was or was not present in specific applications; does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-anthony-dd172-07