USS AULICK (DD-569)

Evidence

10 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-10).

1. [1]research packet fk-packet.md (2 sources cited) [other_primary]

   Finding type

   vessel_history

   Finding

   Identity packet verdict: Queue: USS AULICK DD-569 → VERIFIED

   Verification

   verified

   Role

   supporting

   Documentation level

   ship_specific

   Evidence ID

   uss-aulick-dd569-pkt-fk-packet-md

2. [2]Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, 'Aulick' II (DD-569) entry (live NHHC page not located - multiple candidate URLs return HTTP 404; verbatim transcription via the hazegray.org DANFS mirror, fetched through its losthistory.net mirror; globalsecurity.org carries the same verbatim text) [nhhc_danfs]

   Locator

   DANFS DD-569 entry incl. spec block; canonical NHHC pages under /research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/a/aulick*.html returned HTTP 404 (standing NHHC link-rot per Batch-01 report); transcription http://www.hazegray.org/danfs/destroy/dd569txt.htm (hazegray.org DNS unresolvable this session; identical file served at losthistory.net/hazegray/danfs/destroy/dd569txt.htm)

   Finding type

   vessel_history

   Finding

   DANFS entry 'Aulick' (DD-569) (spec block: dp. 2,050; l. 376'5"; b. 39'7"; dr. 13'9"; s. 35.2 k.; cpl. 329; a. 5 5", 6 40mm., 7 20mm., 2 dct., 6 dcp., 8 21" tt.; class Fletcher - the '8' torpedo-tube figure conflicts with the standard 2x5 Fletcher fit and TSHA's 'ten'; see correction row). Second Aulick laid down 14 May 1941 at Orange, Tex., by the Consolidated Steel Co.; launched 2 March 1942; commissioned 27 October 1942, Lt. Comdr. O. P. Thomas, Jr. in command. Shakedown Gulf of Mexico and Casco Bay; departed Philadelphia 23 January 1943 for the South Pacific; Noumea 12 February; TF 64 Coral Sea / Russell Islands support. On 10 March 1943 struck a coral reef off southern New Caledonia at 20 knots - extensive hull, propeller, and engine damage; brief drydocking at Noumea; towed to Pearl Harbor (10 April), repaired to 8 November; Puget Sound Navy Yard 14 November-23 December for replacement of damaged machinery; Pearl Harbor availability to January 1944. Fleet Operational Training Command, San Francisco, as training ship from 3 February 1944; relieved 18 May; repairs at Bethlehem Steel Shipyard, San Francisco; Pearl Harbor 27 June. Guam invasion screen 22 July-6 August; Peleliu/Anguar support September; 7th Fleet; Leyte 18 October - shore bombardment, direct Japanese shell hits 19 October (one crewman killed); Surigao Strait screen 25 October, joined sinking of an Akitsuki-class destroyer. On 29 November 1944 at the east entrance to Leyte Gulf, attacked by six Japanese planes; a kamikaze struck the starboard bridge with its wingtip and exploded near the bow, firing the No. 2 gun and handling room - 31 killed, 64 wounded, 1 missing. Relieved by Pringle (DD-477); emergency repairs San Pedro Bay; entered Mare Island Navy Yard 24 December 1944. Sea trials 24 February 1945; Mindanao landings escort April; Okinawa antiaircraft/radar-picket screen from 16 May through war's end; air-sea rescue Okinawa-Tokyo lane 24 August-2 September. Departed Okinawa 10 September; New York 17 October; Presidential fleet review 27 October; New York Navy Yard 15 November for inactivation; decommissioned 18 April 1946. Transferred on loan to Greece 21 August 1959; name struck from the Navy list 1 September 1975; sold to Greece April 1977. Five battle stars.

   Verification

   verified

   Role

   supporting

   Documentation level

   ship_specific

   Accessed

   2026-09-27

   Study period

   1941-1977

   Population

   Consolidated Steel construction trades, Orange TX 1941-42; ship's company (design complement 329, DANFS spec block); Puget Sound Navy Yard and Mare Island Navy Yard repair trades 1943-45; Bethlehem Steel Shipyard San Francisco repair trades 1944

   Limitations

   DANFS establishes identity, builder, construction dates, service history, battle damage and repair-yard periods, decommissioning, transfer, striking, sale, and awards; it contains no asbestos, insulation, or materials information and supports no asbestos claim. The repair-yard events (Puget Sound machinery replacement Nov-Dec 1943; Mare Island battle-damage repair Dec 1944-Feb 1945) are documented as events only - their insulation/asbestos scope is not described in the source.

   Atlas source

   true

   Evidence ID

   ev-uss-aulick-dd569-01

3. [3]Texas State Historical Association, Handbook of Texas Online, 'Aulick' entry; Texas Historical Commission marker no. 11522 text (transcribed via the Texas Historical Sites Atlas / txgenweb mirror) [reputable_press]

   Locator

   tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/aulick (full text read); THC marker no. 11522 text via atlas.thc.texas.gov listing and txgenwebcounties.com/orange transcription

   Finding type

   historical_record

   Finding

   Texas state historical record: the TSHA Handbook of Texas 'Aulick' entry (Howard C. Williams, 1994) records this hull as the first combatant ship constructed in Texas - launched 2 March 1942 at Orange before a crowd of 6,000 on Texas Independence Day; a $8.2 million warship; commissioned 27 October 1942 with Lt. O. P. Thomas first commander; 376 ft, 2,050 tons, 329 men, 35.2 knots, five 5-inch guns and ten 21-inch torpedo tubes; the campaign narrative parallels DANFS (coral reef 9 March 1943 [DANFS reads the strike at 0411 on the 10th - logged in the correction row], Leyte kamikaze casualties 'thirty-one men killed, sixty or more wounded, and one missing'); decommissioned at Charleston Navy Yard 18 April 1946; loaned to Greece 21 August 1959; struck 1 September 1975; sold April 1977; renamed 'Sphendoni'; five battle stars. Texas Historical Commission subject marker no. 11522 (erected 1993, Front Ave. at 3rd St., Orange) commemorates the 9 September 1940 $82-million federal contract for 12 Fletcher-class destroyers at Consolidated Steel and the Aulick/Charles Ausburne keel-laying of 14 May 1941.

   Verification

   verified

   Role

   context

   Documentation level

   ship_specific

   Accessed

   2026-09-27

   Study period

   1940-1946; entry published 1994; marker erected 1993

   Population

   Orange, TX wartime shipyard workforce (Consolidated Steel, Levingston, Weaver yards; peak >22,000 workers per TSHA facility entry)

   Limitations

   Authoritative state historical record corroborating builder, Texas build significance, key dates, and the Charleston Navy Yard decommissioning detail; contains no asbestos, insulation, or materials information. The marker documents the construction contract, not the ship's materials.

   Atlas source

   true

   Evidence ID

   ev-uss-aulick-dd569-02

4. [4]Hellenic Navy (Polemiko Naftiko) official website, historical ships section, 'To Antitorpiliko Sfendoni' page (hellenicnavy.gr) [other_primary]

   Locator

   hellenicnavy.gr Sfendoni III / D-85 page (Greek; full text read and translated) - identity line, build data, transfer receipt 'Philadelphia naval station 21 August 1959', decommission 'Souda naval station 25 October 1991'

   Finding type

   vessel_history

   Finding

   Hellenic Navy official history page for 'The Destroyer Sfendoni' records: Sfendoni III / D-85 was a Fletcher-type destroyer, formerly 'USS AULICK DD 569'; built 1941-1942 at 'USA - Consolidated Steel Corp. Orange, Texas'; launched 2 March 1942; in service from 27 October 1942; displacement 2100/3050 TN; armament as listed reflects the post-refit fit (4x 5"/38, 3 twin 3"/50 RF, 5x 21" surface torpedo tubes, 2 triple A/Y, BB and Hedgehog). The ship was received (pareliphi) on 21 August 1959 at the Philadelphia naval station, USA, by Capt. A. Chrysanthis, and decommissioned (paroplistike) 25 October 1991 at the Souda naval station.

   Verification

   verified

   Role

   supporting

   Documentation level

   ship_specific

   Accessed

   2026-09-27

   Study period

   1941-1991

   Population

   Hellenic Navy crew 1959-1991; Philadelphia naval station transfer personnel 1959

   Limitations

   Official foreign-navy source confirming hull identity (ex-USS Aulick DD-569), the 1959 handover location (Philadelphia), and the 25 October 1991 Greek decommissioning at Souda; gives no scrapping date/location, no refit detail, and no asbestos or materials information. Greek service 1959-1991 carries an undocumented material history - no survey, abatement, or disposal record for the hull under Greek custody was located.

   Atlas source

   true

   Evidence ID

   ev-uss-aulick-dd569-03

5. [5]Consolidated era/design inference - DANFS spec block + HyperWar 'Ships of the U.S. Navy' DD-569 page (4-boiler/60,000-hp geared-turbine plant) + Atlas class profile fletcher-class (class-c worktree) + THC marker 11522 / TSHA (builder, contract date) [other_primary]

   Locator

   ibiblio DD-569 spec block ('High-pressure super-heated boilers, geared turbines with twin screws, 60,000 h.p.'); Fletcher class profile class_notes; TSHA Handbook 'Aulick' and 'United States Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility' entries

   Finding type

   asbestos_application

   Finding

   Era/design inference: this hull carried the Fletcher-class standard plant - four oil-fired boilers feeding geared steam turbines on two screws, 60,000 shp (HyperWar ship page spec; DANFS s. 35.2 k.) - built May 1941-October 1942 at Consolidated Steel Corp., Orange, Texas, the first destroyer built in Texas, under the 9 September 1940 federal 12-destroyer contract (THC marker 11522; TSHA). The Fletcher class (175 hulls, 1941-44, eleven yards) is documented at class level in the Atlas class profile as a single-design steam destroyer squarely inside the Navy's peak asbestos-use era; GAO HRD-80-2 records that the Navy did not begin substituting alternative insulation materials until the early 1970s - after this hull's USN service ended. WWII-era Navy steam-plant construction used asbestos-containing boiler insulation, steam-line lagging, turbine lagging, valve/flange gaskets, machinery packing, and fireproofing as standard materials; no hull-specific material schedule, insulation specification, or survey naming DD-569 was located.

   Verification

   inferred

   Role

   supporting

   Documentation level

   class_or_era

   Accessed

   2026-09-27

   Study period

   1941-1991

   Population

   Consolidated Steel construction trades 1941-42; ship's company 1942-46 (design complement 329); repair-yard trades at Pearl Harbor, Puget Sound, Mare Island, Bethlehem SF 1943-45; Hellenic Navy crew 1959-1991

   Limitations

   Inference from documented machinery plant, construction era, and builder - NOT a hull record. Establishes no asbestos content aboard DD-569, no quantity, no location, no individual exposure, no causation. The builder yard (Consolidated Steel, Orange TX) has no Atlas shipyards.json entry and no located industrial-hygiene study for the 1941-42 window; yard-level asbestos documentation could not be applied even as context.

   Atlas source

   true

   Evidence ID

   ev-uss-aulick-dd569-04

6. [6]U.S. General Accounting Office, 'Navy Efforts To Protect Workers From Asbestos Exposure,' HRD-80-2 (published 18 October 1979) [gao]

   Locator

   GAO product page description (gao.gov returns HTTP 403 to automated fetch this session - standing block per Batch-01; product-page description and prior-session verification carried)

   Finding type

   gov_survey

   Finding

   Program-level documentation that asbestos use was pervasive in Navy ships: the GAO's 1979 report on Navy asbestos protection conveys the Navy's statement that 'thermal insulation for machinery, equipment and piping systems has been the major application of asbestos' and that 'all ships presently in service contain some quantity of asbestos'; the report documents that the Navy did not begin substituting alternative insulation materials until the early 1970s - placing this hull's entire construction and USN service period (1941-1946) inside the documented asbestos-use era.

   Verification

   verified

   Role

   context

   Documentation level

   context_only

   Accessed

   2026-09-27

   Study period

   1975-1979 (report); practices described span earlier decades

   Population

   Navy shipyard workers and ship crews (program context)

   Limitations

   Program-level finding, not about this hull - quoted language describes the modern fleet and in-service practice; establishes nothing about DD-569's materials. Included only as Navy-wide era context consistent with Batch-01 usage. Full text unreachable this session (gao.gov 403).

   Atlas source

   true

   Evidence ID

   ev-uss-aulick-dd569-05

7. [7]NARA 12th Naval District War Damage Reports index (usnavyresearch.com catalog, lines 13-14, 'A thru E' US Naval Vessels) + NARA Special List 44 named-vessel logbook table + NHHC photo NH 95049 caption [other_primary]

   Locator

   usnavyresearch.com 12th ND WDR A-E lines 13-14 (both USS AULICK DD569, Leyte Gulf 29 November 1944); archives.gov/research/military/logbooks/special-list-44-named 'Aulick (DD-569) 10/27/1942-6/30/1945'; ibiblio.org/hyperwar/OnlineLibrary/photos/images/h95000/h95049c.htm

   Finding type

   historical_record

   Finding

   Archival leads (located by index, not retrieved): (a) TWO war damage reports for this hull's 29 November 1944 Leyte Gulf kamikaze damage exist in NARA 12th Naval District records - one 'typed by Commanding Officer J. D. Andrew' (no photographs) and one 'typed by Mare Island' with thirty-four photographs and two plates (usnavyresearch.com index of the records group); these document exactly which spaces, structure, and machinery were damaged and repaired aboard this specific hull - the closest thing to a repair-scope record identified for DD-569; (b) NARA Special List 44 (named-vessel logbooks) logs an Aulick (DD-569) deck-log run 27 October 1942-30 June 1945; (c) NARA RG 19 (BuShips/BuC&R) construction records incl. any DD-569 General Information Book and Consolidated Steel yard correspondence; (d) NHHC/NARA still-picture holdings incl. NH 95049 (underway off Mare Island Navy Yard 24 February 1945) and the BuShips-collection damage photographs of 26-27 December 1944. NVR not applicable - stricken 1975, predating NVR digitization coverage for disposed hulls.

   Verification

   unverified

   Role

   archival_lead

   Documentation level

   ship_specific

   Accessed

   2026-09-27

   Study period

   1942-1945 records; index accessed 2026

   Limitations

   Index-level evidence only - the war damage reports' contents have not been read; they establish that hull-specific damage/repair documentation exists at NARA, not what it contains about insulation or materials. Deck-log and GIB existence for this hull is per finding aid/series mapping; no box-level retrieval performed. Nothing in this row is an asbestos finding.

   Atlas source

   true

   Evidence ID

   ev-uss-aulick-dd569-06

8. [8]CourtListener API v4 searches 2026-09-27: 'USS Aulick' type=o (0 hits); 'DD-569' type=o (0 hits); 'Aulick asbestos' type=o (1 hit - Markovich v. ACNR Resources, wvactapp 25-ICA-180, 2025 - surname/content collision); 'USS Aulick' type=r (0 dockets) [court_record]

   Locator

   CourtListener search API v4 results: zero-hull-name opinions, zero-hull-number opinions, zero ship-name dockets; sole hit opinion 10710607 is a West Virginia workers' compensation appeal (Virgil Markovich v. ACNR Resources Inc.) - 'Aulick' present as a non-vessel string only

   Finding type

   litigation_documented

   Finding

   CourtListener sweep (authenticated API v4 via cl-auth-search.py / cl-patient-search.py, fleet-paced, 2026-09-27): 'USS Aulick' (type=o) returned ZERO hits - no published opinion names the ship; 'DD-569' (type=o) returned ZERO hits - no published opinion cites the hull number; 'Aulick' + asbestos (type=o) returned 1 hit - Virgil Markovich v. ACNR Resources, Inc., Intermediate Court of Appeals of West Virginia No. 25-ICA-180 (2025-10-24), a coal-workers' compensation opinion in which 'Aulick' occurs as non-vessel text (surname/other reference) - NAME COLLISION, not qualifying; 'USS Aulick' (type=r, docket/RECAP index) returned ZERO dockets - no docketed case carries the ship name. Classification: no qualifying asbestos litigation for DD-569 located; the single opinion-level hit is a confirmed non-vessel collision.

   Verification

   verified

   Role

   correction

   Documentation level

   ship_specific

   Accessed

   2026-09-27

   Study period

   sweep 2026-09-27; sole collision opinion 2025

   Limitations

   Sweep result, not a merits finding: opinion-index coverage supports 'no published opinion names USS Aulick or DD-569' and the docket index supports 'no docket carries USS Aulick'; pleadings naming the hull in an opinion-less docket would not surface at type=o, and a hull named only as 'Aulick' without USS/DD-569 in a non-asbestos-framed matter is theoretically possible. The Markovich hit is classified non-qualifying on court and subject matter (WV workers' compensation appeal, JCN 2024025188). No collision with DD-258 (Clemson-class Aulick I) was needed - zero hits either way.

   Atlas source

   true

   Evidence ID

   ev-uss-aulick-dd569-07

9. [9]Cross-source reconciliation: DANFS (hazegray/losthistory transcription) vs. TSHA Handbook vs. Hellenic Navy official page vs. uboat.net vs. seaforces.org vs. globalsecurity.org (secondary compilations used for variance checks only) [other_primary]

   Locator

   DANFS spec block and narrative; tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/aulick; hellenicnavy.gr Sfendoni page; uboat.net/allies/warships/ship/1880.html; seaforces.org Aspis class page; globalsecurity.org dd-569 page

   Finding type

   historical_record

   Finding

   Source discrepancies resolved or logged: (a) Torpedo tubes - the DANFS spec block transcription reads '8 21" tt.' while TSHA Handbook reads ten 21-inch torpedo tubes and the Fletcher standard fit was 2 quintuple mounts (10 tubes); treated as a transcription/spec-block anomaly, ten carried in prose as the design fit. (b) Coral-reef grounding date - DANFS reads 'on the 10th' of March 1943 (at 0411), TSHA reads 'On March 9' - DANFS 10 March carried, conflict logged. (c) Decommissioning site - DANFS reads 'entered the New York Navy Yard on 15 November [1945] to prepare for inactivation... decommissioned on 18 April 1946' while TSHA reads 'steamed to Charleston Navy Yard, where she was placed out of commission in reserve on April 18, 1946' - consistent if inactivation preparation occurred at New York and final decommissioning at Charleston; both recorded, not silently merged. (d) Greek decommissioning - Hellenic Navy official page reads 25 October 1991 at Souda; secondary compilation seaforces.org reads 25 October 1992 - official 1991 carried. (e) Kamikaze casualties - DANFS reads 31 killed / 64 wounded / 1 missing; TSHA 'thirty-one... sixty or more... one missing'; uboat.net reads 32 killed / 63 wounded - DANFS figures carried. (f) Final disposition - secondary sources (uboat.net, Wikipedia) report scrapped 1997 at Aliaga, Turkey, while globalsecurity.org reported the hull 'laid up in Souda Bay Crete as of January 1998' - official endpoint unlocated; carried as reported-only in prose and status fields. (g) Draft - DANFS spec block transcription reads 'dr. 13'9"' vs. the Fletcher-consistent 17'9" in other compilations - treated as transcription error, not carried.

   Verification

   verified

   Role

   correction

   Documentation level

   ship_specific

   Accessed

   2026-09-27

   Study period

   1941-1997

   Limitations

   Reconciles publication-level discrepancies among authoritative and secondary sources; none of the underlying sources contains asbestos information, and none of the variances affects identity or the service timeline.

   Atlas source

   true

   Evidence ID

   ev-uss-aulick-dd569-08

10. [10]Batch-3540 search ledger (this record): DANFS/NHHC (transcription mirror); TSHA Handbook + THC marker 11522; Hellenic Navy official Sfendoni page; NARA Special List 44 + 12th ND war-damage-report index; Atlas shipyards.json yard check; CourtListener name/hull searches; general-web asbestos-mention check [other_primary]

    Locator

    search_ledger rows sl-uss-aulick-dd569-01 through sl-uss-aulick-dd569-12

    Finding type

    historical_record

    Finding

    No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, materials schedule, court finding, or docketed asbestos case naming USS Aulick or DD-569 was found in the public sources searched (see search_ledger). The lifecycle profile limits what could exist: post-commissioning yard periods (Pearl Harbor, Puget Sound machinery replacement, Mare Island battle-damage repair, Bethlehem SF, New York Navy Yard inactivation) generated repair documentation rather than asbestos records; the hull spent 1959-1991 under Greek custody with no located material documentation, and its reported 1997 scrapping at Aliaga, Turkey was not performed under U.S. environmental disclosure regimes.

    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 - a 1941-42-built steam destroyer is era-consistent with asbestos-containing insulation, lagging, gaskets, packing, and fireproofing, and neither hull materials nor the two NARA-held damage reports have been surveyed. This row records that no ship-specific documentation was located; it does not establish presence or absence, exposure, or legal eligibility.

    Atlas source

    true

    Evidence ID

    ev-uss-aulick-dd569-09