Evidence
7 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-7).
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[1]DANFS, USS Badoeng Strait (CVE-116) entry (verbatim transcription; live NHHC page returned 404) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS CVE-116 entry, construction and service paragraphs
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS documents: laid down 18 August 1944 by Todd-Pacific Shipyards, Inc., Tacoma, Wash., as San Alberto Bay; renamed Badoeng Strait 6 November 1943; launched 15 February 1945; commissioned 14 November 1945; decommissioned 20 April 1946; recommissioned 6 January 1947 for antisubmarine-warfare development and served as flagship for Carrier Divisions 17 and 15; three Korean War tours supporting the Pusan Perimeter, Inchon landing, and Hungnam evacuation - receiving the Navy Unit Commendation and six battle stars; modernization April-September 1953; participated in Operation Redwing atomic tests at the Pacific Proving Grounds February-July 1956; inactivated at Bremerton and decommissioned 17 May 1957; reclassified AKV-16 (7 May 1959); stricken 1 December 1970; sold 8 May 1972 to American Ship Dismantlers of Portland, Oregon, and released from Navy custody 5 June 1972.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-18
- Study period
- 1944-1972
- Population
- Crew (~1,072) plus embarked squadrons and Bremerton inactivation workforce
- Limitations
- Documents construction, service, reclassifications, and disposal; contains no insulation, material, or asbestos information. Does not name the Portland completion yard - NavSource/navysite carry that detail (see ev-uss-badoeng-strait-cve116-02).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-badoeng-strait-cve116-01
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[2]NavSource Online, Escort Carrier Photo Archive, USS Badoeng Strait (CVE-116) - Operational and Building Data + navypedia class technical block [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource CVE-116 page, Operational and Building Data block; navypedia us_cv_commencement_bay.htm technical block
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- NavSource building data documents: keel laid 18 August 1944; launched 15 February 1945; completed at Commercial Iron Works, Portland, Oregon (the same Portland completion yard used for Salerno Bay); commissioned 14 November 1945 at Portland; decommissioned 20 April 1946; recommissioned 6 January 1947; decommissioned 17 May 1957; reclassified AKV-16 7 May 1959; stricken 1 December 1970; sold 8 May 1972. Class machinery data (NavSource/navypedia): 16,000 shp, geared turbines, 2 screws, 19 knots; navypedia technical block gives 4 Combustion Engineering boilers and 2 Allis-Chalmers (source spelling 'Allison-Chalmers') geared steam turbine sets.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-18
- Study period
- 1944-1972
- Population
- n/a (building data)
- Limitations
- Compiled secondary sources consistent with DANFS on all overlapping facts; the Commercial Iron Works completion detail is from NavSource/navysite rather than DANFS - corroborated for this hull by the class-wide two-yard construction pattern but flagged in gaps as secondary-sourced. No insulation/asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-badoeng-strait-cve116-02
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[3]U.S. Navy, Bureau of Ships Technical Manual, NAVSHIPS 250-000, Chapter 39 'Thermal Insulation' (1960, page date 15 April 1959) - specification-level document for Navy shipboard insulation materials [other_primary]
- Locator
- BuShips TM ch.39, sections 39-11 through 39-13 (materials)
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- The 1960 BuShips Technical Manual's insulation chapter enumerates the asbestos material suite standard to Navy steam plants of this hull's construction era: MIL-I-2781 pipe covering including 85% magnesia 'formed from a combination of 85 percent magnesium carbonate with about 15 percent asbestos fiber' and a class 'formed from a uniform mixture of amosite asbestos fibers'; roll asbestos felt MIL-I-15091; asbestos cloth/tape SS-C-466 (80-95% chrysotile) as lagging; asbestos millboard HH-M-351; asbestos finishing cement; molded asbestos block for high-temperature service. This hull's four Combustion Engineering boilers, two Allis-Chalmers geared turbines, and associated steam piping are the equipment classes these specifications cover - and her documented 1953 modernization and 1956-57 Bremerton inactivation are era events where such materials were worked or removed.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-18
- Study period
- 1960 (manual); describes era-standard specifications
- Population
- Construction trades (Tacoma and Portland yards, 1944-45); shipyard workforces (1953 modernization; 1956-57 Bremerton inactivation); crew
- Limitations
- Specification-level documentation of materials the Navy specified, not a ship-specific installation or removal record - establishes the era insulation suite, not what was installed on or worked aboard this hull. Retrieved PDF is a scan hosted in the Garlock bankruptcy Daubert-appendix repository; the document itself is the government manual (verified legible 2026-09-18; also independently verified in the class-D profile 2026-09-16).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-badoeng-strait-cve116-03
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[4]Braaten v. Saberhagen Holdings, Inc., 165 Wn.2d 373, 198 P.3d 493 (Wash. 2008); lower record per 137 Wn. App. 32 (2007) [court_record]
- Locator
- 165 Wn.2d 373 (2008), No. 80251-3; Court of Appeals opinion 137 Wn. App. 32 (2007) at paras. 1-6 (PSNS work description)
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- Washington appellate opinions document that Vernon Braaten worked 35 years (1967-2002) as a pipefitter at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard (Bremerton) maintaining ship valves, pumps, and turbines; that regular maintenance required sawing or hammering off exterior asbestos 'mud insulation' and grinding, scraping, or chipping off interior asbestos gaskets and packing; that asbestos dust was released during this maintenance with no respiratory protection until the mid-1980s; and that he was diagnosed with mesothelioma in 2003. The Supreme Court held the equipment manufacturers owed no common-law duty to warn about asbestos products they did not manufacture, sell, or supply - a defense win on the merits for the manufacturers sued.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-18
- Study period
- 1967-2008
- Population
- PSNS pipefitter workforce (mesothelioma plaintiff)
- Limitations
- Documents the shipboard asbestos-maintenance regime at Bremerton (where this hull was inactivated 1956-57) but at a later era (1967-2002) than this hull's availabilities; does not name this hull or adjudicate exposure aboard it; the plaintiffs' claims failed on no-duty grounds - a merits-level negative for that plaintiff, not affirmative exposure evidence for any vessel.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-badoeng-strait-cve116-04
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[5]Port of Tacoma v. Todd Shipyards Corp. et al., No. 3:08-cv-05132-BHS (W.D. Wash.), Order approving TSC settlement (Doc. 139, 2010-09-09); allegations recited from Port's CERCLA contribution complaint (Doc. 58) [court_record]
- Locator
- Order Doc. 139 at 1-3; complaint summary Doc. 58 (Shipbuilding Site, 1916-1946)
- Finding type
- environmental_record
- Finding
- A W.D. Wash. order recites the Port of Tacoma's CERCLA/MTCA contribution allegations that Todd Shipyards Corporation owned and operated parcels near the mouth of the Hylebos Waterway in Tacoma - 'the Shipbuilding Site' - from 1916 through 1946, and that Todd's shipbuilding operations disposed of contaminated material and hazardous substances into the waterway. The Shipbuilding Site is the Commencement Bay yard where this hull's hull was built before tow-out to Portland; a settlement releasing TSC (Todd) was approved.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-18
- Study period
- 1916-1946 site era; litigation 2005-2010
- Population
- Todd Tacoma yard workforce (allegation-level)
- Limitations
- Establishes the hull builder's site identity and operating era (1916-1946); this hull was completed at Commercial Iron Works, Portland - a separate yard not covered by the Tacoma site record and absent from the shipyard dataset (logged in gaps). The litigated contaminants were listed hazardous substances, not asbestos; the order recites allegations for settlement approval, not findings. No individual or hull-level exposure is established.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-badoeng-strait-cve116-05
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[6]Herring v. Texaco, Inc., 161 Wn.2d 189, 165 P.3d 4 (Wash. 2007) [court_record]
- Locator
- Opinion, 161 Wn.2d 189 (No. 78774-3)
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- Washington Supreme Court opinion documents that Roger Herring worked for subcontractors at Todd Shipyards sites in the 1960s-early 1970s, developed pleural thickening (1986), asbestosis (~1989), and fatal mesothelioma (2002), and that his suit against Todd was barred because his asbestos claims were discharged in Todd's 1987 Chapter 11 bankruptcy (published-notice sufficiency was the litigated issue). Documents that occupational asbestos-exposure claims were litigated against the hull builder's corporate family in the postwar era.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-18
- Study period
- 1960s-2007
- Population
- Todd Shipyards subcontractor worker (mesothelioma)
- Limitations
- Yard/corporate-level litigation at Todd's Puget Sound operations post-dating this hull's construction era; does not name this hull, does not adjudicate exposure aboard any specific vessel, and Herring's claim was barred on bankruptcy-discharge grounds - a merits-level negative for that plaintiff, not affirmative exposure evidence. Neither the Tacoma construction era (1944-45) nor the Commercial Iron Works completion yard is addressed.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-badoeng-strait-cve116-06
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[7]Batch-54 search ledger (this record): DANFS/NavSource/navypedia ship records; CourtListener-domain searches by exact name and hull number; yard litigation verification [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-badoeng-strait-cve116-01 through -08
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, insulation specification, abatement contract, or docketed asbestos case naming USS Badoeng Strait (CVE-116) was found in the public sources searched (see search_ledger). Litigation-index sweeps by exact ship name and hull number returned no qualifying asbestos opinion naming this hull.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-18
- Study period
- 2026-09-18
- Limitations
- Absence of a located public record does not prove absence of asbestos aboard - a 1944-45 two-yard construction plus documented modernization and Bremerton inactivation sits inside the Navy's asbestos-specification era and the negative reflects record availability, not hull condition. CourtListener API was rate-limited (HTTP 429, daily cap) and its HTML interface CloudFront-blocked on 2026-09-18; the domain-restricted index sweep is a degraded but honest substitute, logged in the ledger. Does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-badoeng-strait-cve116-07