Evidence
10 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-10).
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[1]research packet jb-packet.md (1 sources cited) [nhhc_danfs]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERIFIED
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-aulick-dd258-pkt-jb-packet-md
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[2]DANFS, Aulick I (DD-258), verbatim transcription and Wayback capture of canonical NHHC page (live page returns 404) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS entry, specifications block + service narrative; canonical URL https://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/a/aulick-i.html verified via Wayback capture of 2025-02-02
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS record for this hull (Aulick I): Clemson-class; displacement 1,308; length 314'4.5"; beam 30'11.5"; draft 9'4"; speed 35 k.; complement 122; armament 4 4"/50, 1 3"/23, 12 21" tt. Laid down 3 December 1918 by Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp., Quincy, Mass.; launched 11 April 1919, sponsored by Mrs. Phillip J. Willett; commissioned at the New York Navy Yard 26 July 1919, Lt. Comdr. Lee P. Johnson in command. Joined Destroyer Flotilla 10, Pacific Fleet; designated DD-258 on 17 July 1920; decommissioned 27 May 1922 at Mare Island Navy Yard; recommissioned 18 June 1939 at San Diego after over 17 years in reserve; east coast service until fall 1940; decommissioned 8 October 1940 at Halifax, Nova Scotia, and transferred to the British under the destroyers-for-bases agreement; struck from the Navy list 8 December 1941. As HMS Burnham: escort duties from December 1940; Iceland-Newfoundland voyages early 1941; Newfoundland-Londonderry 1942-43; aircraft training in Western Approaches 1944; reserve at Milford Haven November 1944; scrapped at Pembroke December 1948. Namesake John H. Aulick (1787-1873), first Navy ship so named.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Limitations
- DANFS documents identity and service chronology, not materials or asbestos content. Mirror transcription and Wayback capture cited because the live NHHC page returns 404. Its stricken date (8 December 1941) conflicts with NavSource and derivative compilations (8 January 1941); carried in gaps.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-aulick-dd258-01
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[3]NavSource Naval History, Destroyer Photo Index, USS Aulick (DD-258) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Operational and Building Data block; 'On British Service' narrative (Robert Hurst); Commanding Officers list; photo captions incl. 1922 'Red Lead Row' and 29 Dec 1926 San Diego layup (U.S. Naval Historical Center / San Francisco Maritime Museum photos); Admiralty-official photo caption FL-series
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NavSource destroyer index for this hull: machinery 26,500 SHP, Curtis turbines, 2 screws, 35 knots, crew 114; decommissioned 22 May 1922, recommissioned 18 June 1939, decommissioned and to Britain 9 October 1940 as HMS Burnham (H82); stricken 8 January 1941; broken up 1947. Photo captions place the hull among laid-up destroyers at San Diego 29 December 1926 (with Kennison, Jacob Jones, Babbitt, Twiggs, Badger) and in the end-of-1922 'Red Lead Row' photo at San Diego Destroyer Base - corroborating the 1922-39 reserve layup. Commanding officers: LCDR Lee Payne Johnson (26 July 1919-16 October 1920), LCDR Howard Stafford Jeans (16 October 1920-22 May 1922), LCDR Roland Nesbit Smoot (18 June 1939-8 October 1940, later VADM). Foreign-service history (compiled by contributor Robert Hurst): commissioned RN at Halifax 8 October 1940; Devonport 16 October; work-up Scapa Flow complete 12 November; escorted HMS Formidable Belfast-Clyde then convoy SL 56; weather-damage repair Belfast 17 December 1940-30 January 1941; 12th Escort Group; collision with HMS Malcolm 3 March 1941 (Liverpool repairs to 27 April); Newfoundland Escort Force, St. John's, late May 1941; collision with HMS Chesterfield (Boston repairs mid-September-23 October 1941); Charleston, S.C., refit mid-March 1942 six weeks; Bermuda a month; Thames refit November-December 1942; C3 Escort Group transatlantic escort to late 1943; Liverpool refit as Air Target Ship to March 1944; eight months aircrew-training Irish Sea; paid off to reserve Milford Haven 1 December 1944; listed for disposal March 1947; arrived Pembroke Dock 2 December 1948 to be broken up by R.S. Hayes. An Admiralty-official photo caption documents wartime modifications: Type 271 radar on an extended bridge, Type 286 radar on the foremast, centerline torpedo tubes retained, third 20mm AA gun in the former searchlight tower.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Limitations
- Volunteer-maintained photographic archive compiling official data and named collection captions; the foreign-service narrative is contributor-compiled (Robert Hurst) rather than an official text. Used as archival lead and for dates divergent from DANFS (decommissioning day; stricken; disposal sequence). Its crew figure (114) differs from the DANFS design block (122). Does not address materials or asbestos.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-aulick-dd258-02
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[4]NHHC, 'Destroyers for Bases Agreement, 2 September 1940' (FAQ 59-24, archived); Building the Navy's Bases in World War II, ch. 18 (official Navy history, HyperWar transcription) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- NHHC FAQ text of the Hull-Lothian exchange of notes; bases-18.htm paragraph on the 2 September 1940 agreement
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- The 8 October 1940 transfer of this hull at Halifax was executed under the Destroyers for Bases agreement - the exchange of notes of 2 September 1940 under which Britain received 50 over-age destroyers in exchange for 99-year base leases - not under the Lend-Lease Act (March 1941), which postdates the transfer. DANFS's own wording ('the agreement with the United Kingdom exchanging American destroyers for bases in the Atlantic') is consistent with this.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Limitations
- Documents the program under which this hull transferred; it does not establish anything about materials aboard.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-aulick-dd258-03
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[5]The National Archives (UK), Discovery catalog: ADM 199 War History Cases and Papers, CO HMS Burnham reports of proceedings, 1941-1943 [other_primary]
- Locator
- TNA Discovery item records ADM 199/55/29, ADM 199/284/48, ADM 199/55/52, ADM 199/1147/35, ADM 199/1147/53, ADM 199/1147/84, ADM 199/714/5, ADM 199/358/2, ADM 199/358/8
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- UK National Archives Discovery lists item-level Admiralty War History cases holding reports of proceedings by the commanding officer of HMS Burnham for convoys SC 33 (ADM 199/55/29, 14 June 1941), OB 347 (ADM 199/284/48, 3 August 1941), SC 53 (ADM 199/55/52, 21 November 1941), ON 38 (ADM 199/1147/35, 30 November 1941), ON 50 (ADM 199/1147/53, 4 January 1942), ON 69 (ADM 199/1147/84, 5 March 1942), SC 102 (ADM 199/714/5, 6 October 1942), ON 180 (ADM 199/358/2, 8 May 1943), and ON 187 (ADM 199/358/8, 10 June 1943) - primary British records corroborating the RN escort service narrative.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Limitations
- Catalog-level verification: the reports exist and name this ship's commanding officer; the underlying folios were not reviewed and convoy-report contents do not address materials or asbestos. RN deck logs for Burnham (ADM 53 series) are an additional unreviewed lead.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-aulick-dd258-04
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[6]National Archives, Ship Plan Index, AULICK DD-258 entries [other_primary]
- Locator
- AULICK DD-258 rows, RG 19, Alphabetical Ship Drawings and Microfilm
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- NARA's Ship Plan Index lists AULICK DD-258 in Record Group 19 under Alphabetical Ship Drawings (NAID 53483735) and Microfilm (NAID 175668323). These holdings are leads for ship-specific plans, including any S39 insulation/lagging and S48 piping drawings. The adjacent index row AULICK DD-569 (NAID 153714577, Hull series) is the second, Fletcher-class Aulick - a different hull outside this record.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Limitations
- The index establishes holdings, not the contents of individual drawings. No Aulick drawing or material schedule was retrieved or reviewed; the index is not evidence of asbestos aboard.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-aulick-dd258-05
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[7]National Archives, 'Researching Asbestos aboard US Naval Vessel up through 1961' [other_primary]
- Locator
- Beginning Research; General Information Books; Cartographic Branch; Other Records sections
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- NARA's research guide describes asbestos-relevant Navy record groups for the 1941-1961 period: RG 19 Bureau of Ships correspondence by hull designation (DD258 / DD186 Class), Destroyer General Information Books (Entry P 9), and ship engineering drawings under S-filing codes including S39-Insulation and Lagging and S48-Piping. It states that deck logs and muster rolls do not directly show asbestos aboard ships.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Limitations
- Research guide, not an Aulick material record; it establishes where to search, not that any Aulick GIB or S39 drawing exists or that this ship contained asbestos. Its principal correspondence series begin 1940 - after most of this hull's U.S. Navy custody (the 1939-40 reactivation and the transfer/survey files are the in-scope periods).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-aulick-dd258-06
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[8]U.S. GAO, HRD-80-2, Navy Efforts To Protect Workers From Asbestos Exposure (1979) [gao]
- Locator
- Highlights, paragraphs 1-2 (product-page description; gao.gov returns HTTP 403 to automated fetches)
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- The 1979 GAO review documents asbestos insulation policy and exposure concerns across Navy shipbuilding and repair, with fieldwork at Long Beach and Norfolk Naval Shipyards. This is program-level context only.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Limitations
- GAO studied policy decades after this hull left U.S. custody (1940) and did not examine it. It cannot establish this ship's materials, exposures, or repair work. Full text not retrieved (HTTP 403).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-aulick-dd258-07
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[9]Negative result across NHHC DANFS, NavSource, NARA Ship Plan Index, NARA asbestos research guide, TNA Discovery, NVR, and GAO HRD-80-2; see search_ledger [other_primary]
- Locator
- Search ledger sl-01 through sl-08
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- The official sources and catalog entries reviewed for this record did not yield a ship-specific asbestos survey, product schedule, abatement record, insulation specification, or material finding for Aulick (DD-258). Asbestos presence aboard DD-258 remains unknown.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Limitations
- This is a bounded search result, not proof that asbestos was absent. Underlying NARA plans, GIBs, the 1939 reactivation work package, and RN refit files were not obtained. The 1948 demolition in the UK forecloses postwar museum or abatement documentation, and British-era material records (MOD/Admiralty) were not reviewed beyond catalog level.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-aulick-dd258-08
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[10]CourtListener authenticated API v4 search responses via fleet helper cl-auth-search.py / cl-patient-search.py, six queries (name and hull, opinion and docket corpora, plus RN-name and dotted-name variants) [court_record]
- Locator
- Search ledger sl-09 through sl-14; query counts recorded there
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- Authenticated CourtListener API v4 sweep, 27 September 2026: exact-name opinion query "USS Aulick" returned count 0; exact-name docket query returned count 0; hull-number opinion query "DD-258" returned count 0; "U.S.S. Aulick" (dotted variant) opinion query returned count 0; British-name opinion query "HMS Burnham" returned count 0. The hull-number docket query "DD-258" returned 7 hits, all name collisions in which 'DD-258' is a docket-entry/exhibit/claim identifier in unrelated litigation (United States v. Puentes S.D. Fla. 2012 criminal; Univ. of Pittsburgh v. Varian Medical W.D. Pa. 2008; Washington v. Offender Aid and Restoration W.D. Va. 2022; SIPC v. Madoff Inv. Securities S.D.N.Y. bankr. 2008; Williams v. Big Picture Loans E.D. Va. 2017; United States v. Kepke N.D. Cal. 2021 criminal; Gambers v. Crown Paradise Hotels S.D.N.Y. 2007) - none references the vessel. No qualifying asbestos litigation naming this hull was located.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Limitations
- Bounded result: six CourtListener queries returned no vessel-related hit. Does not cover state-court dockets, PACER-only filings, MDL-875 claimant interrogatory answers, VA BVA decisions (not in the corpus), or UK proceedings. A plaintiff could have served aboard DD-258 without the hull being named in an indexed opinion or docket. 'USS Aulick' hits would also require hull attribution - DD-569 (Fletcher class) is the higher-collision namesake.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-aulick-dd258-09