Evidence
11 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-11).
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[1]research packet jn-packet.md (5 sources cited) [nhhc_danfs]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERIFIED
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-beale-dd40-pkt-jn-packet-md
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[2]Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, 'Beale I (DD 40)' entry (live NHHC page history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/b/beale-i.html returns HTTP 404 - standing NHHC link rot per Batch-01 report; verbatim DANFS transcription via hazegray mirror) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS 'Beale I' entry incl. spec block; hazegray transcription read in full (contains OCR typos 'launched 80 April 1912' and 'Reactivated In l924' - read as 30 April 1912 and 1924)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS entry 'Beale I' (spec block reads: DD 40; dp. 742; l. 293'11"; b. 27'; dr. 9'5"; s. 29.7 k.; cpl. 83; a. 4 3", 6 18" tt.; cl. Monaghan): launched 30 April 1912 by William Cramp and Sons Ship and Engine Building Co., Philadelphia, Pa., sponsored by Mrs. John R. McLean, daughter of Lieutenant Beale; commissioned 30 August 1912, Lieutenant (junior grade) C. T. Blackburn in command. Joined the 5th Group, Torpedo Flotilla, Atlantic Fleet; cruised the Atlantic coast and Mexican and Caribbean waters until placed in reserve 13 December 1915; reactivated with a reduced crew 5 January 1916 for Neutrality Patrol along the Atlantic coast; placed in full commission 22 March 1917; joined the Atlantic Destroyer Force and arrived Queenstown, Ireland, 5 February 1918; convoy and patrol duty out of Queenstown until the end of World War I; returned to the United States December 1918; served with the Atlantic Fleet until placed out of commission in reserve at Philadelphia Navy Yard 25 October 1919; reactivated in 1924 and transferred to the Coast Guard 21 April 1924 for use in enforcing the Prohibition Act; returned to the Navy 18 October 1930 and laid up at Philadelphia Navy Yard until scrapped in 1934.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1911-1934
- Population
- Cramp yard construction workforce 1911-12; ship's company (DANFS design complement 83); Coast Guard crew 1924-1930
- Limitations
- DANFS establishes identity, construction, service history, transfer, and disposal year; it contains no asbestos, insulation, or materials information and supports no asbestos claim. Spec-block values (4 x 3-inch guns, 'cl. Monaghan', cpl. 83, dr. 9'5") diverge from other authoritative tabulations - variances itemized in the correction row (ev-08) and gaps.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-beale-dd40-01
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[3]Navy Department, Ships' Data, U.S. Naval Vessels, January 1, 1914 (GPO 1914), Destroyers tables, per-hull row 6 'Beale (40)' (shipscribe.com scan of the official publication, Google Books digitization; image-only PDF OCR'd locally) [other_primary]
- Locator
- SDB 1914 Destroyers tables: builder/duty/dimensions p.54, service conditions p.55, propelling machinery p.56, batteries/complement/cost p.58, contract and construction dates p.59; Beale is row 6 throughout; rows read directly from rendered page images via local OCR
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Contemporaneous official Navy Department Ships' Data, U.S. Naval Vessels, January 1, 1914 edition (GPO 1914), carries per-hull table rows for BEALE, Destroyer No. 40: name/builder/station table (p.54) - 'Wm. Cramp & Sons, Philadelphia, Pa.', duty 'Atlantic Fleet', length 293'10" overall with beam and mean-draft columns consistent with 27 ft and 8'4" mean; service-conditions table (p.55) - 742 tons displacement, designed 12,000 ihp (column reads 12.00 x 1,000), 293'10" overall, full-load displacement 883 tons, highest speed on trial 29.65 knots, mean displacement on trial 740 tons; machinery table (p.56) - 'Parsons turb. (3)', 4 White-Forster boilers; batteries/complement table (p.58) - '5 3" 50cal. R.F.', 3 twin 18-inch torpedo tubes, 2 masts, 4 funnels, contract price of hull and machinery $654,000, act authorizing building June 24, 1910; construction dates table (p.59) - contract signed December 1, 1910, keel laid May 8, 1911, launched April 30, 1912, commissioned August 30, 1912.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1910-1914 (publication 1914)
- Population
- Ship's company and construction workforce at William Cramp & Sons, 1911-12
- Limitations
- Contemporaneous official Navy tabulation naming this hull - the strongest specification source in the file. Documents machinery plant, dimensions, armament, cost, and construction dates only; contains no asbestos or insulation-material statements and supports no asbestos claim beyond establishing the steam-plant type to which era inference applies. Scan is image-only; values read by local OCR (tesseract) and cross-checked against DANFS and secondary compilations.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-beale-dd40-02
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[4]NHHC Online Library of Selected Images, 'USN Ships - USS Beale (Destroyer # 40, later DD-40), 1912-1934' (official Navy photo captions; transcription hosted on HyperWar/ibiblio) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- ibiblio transcription usnsh-b/dd40.htm - summary text plus photo captions NH 56363, NH 103743, NH 61401, NH 61498, NH 61499
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NHHC Online Library of Selected Images page 'USS Beale (Destroyer # 40, later DD-40), 1912-1934' (Naval Historical Center text, transcribed on HyperWar): 'a 742-ton Paulding class destroyer built at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was commissioned in late August 1912'; Atlantic Fleet service with participation in the 1914 occupation of Vera Cruz; neutrality patrols from early 1916; crossed to the European war zone early 1918, based at Queenstown, Ireland on anti-submarine patrol and convoy escort for the rest of the conflict; returned late 1918, Atlantic Coast duty until decommissioned October 1919; transferred to the U.S. Coast Guard in 1924 and served as USCGC Beale (CG-9) enforcing prohibition laws until October 1930, then returned to the Navy and laid up at Philadelphia Navy Yard; 'stricken from the register of U.S. Naval vessels in July 1934 and scrapped later in that year.' Photo captions carry official Navy photo numbers NH 56363 (Queenstown 1918, pattern camouflage), NH 103743 (French waters 1918), and NH 61498/61401/61499 - the British steamer City of Glasgow torpedoed and sinking in the Irish Sea, 1 September 1918, photographed from Beale, which rescued her crew.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1912-1934
- Population
- Ship's company at Queenstown 1918; rescued crew of SS City of Glasgow
- Limitations
- Official Navy photographic captions documenting service and the September 1918 rescue of City of Glasgow's crew; no asbestos or materials content. 'Paulding class' used by NHHC while the DANFS spec block for the same entry family reads 'cl. Monaghan' - the class-name variance is logged in the correction row and gaps. Stricken month reads 'July 1934' here vs. NavSource 'June 28 1934' - carried in gaps.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-beale-dd40-03
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[5]U.S. Coast Guard Historian's Office, history.uscg.mil photo records 2002975033 and 2002975035 (Waesche Special Collections); USCG Historian biography of R. R. Waesche Sr.; USCG cutter list entry 'BEALE (1924-USCG); CG DESTROYER CG-9' [other_primary]
- Locator
- history.uscg.mil igphoto records 2002975033/2002975035 captions; Waesche Sr. biography service paragraph ('May 1924 through March 1926 ... commanded the destroyer Beale'); webcutters cutterlist 'CG DESTROYER CG-9' entry (Wayback capture)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- U.S. Coast Guard Historian's Office records confirm the Coast Guard phase of this hull: historian photo-caption pages describe 'BEALE (CG-9) (Of the old U.S. Coast Guard Destroyer Force - 1924-1930) An early 20th century 742-ton oil burner with four stacks' stationed 'at New London with Division 3 of the U.S. Coast Guard Offshore Patrol Force'; a second caption identifies 'Officers and crew of CGC Beale (Navy destroyer given to CG during rum running days) LCDR R R Waesche, Jr., Commanding Officer, New London, Conn. - About 1925'; the Historian's Office biography of Russell R. Waesche, Sr. (later Commandant) records 'From May 1924 through March 1926 he commanded the destroyer Beale'; the office's cutter lists index 'BEALE (1924-USCG); CG DESTROYER CG-9.'
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1924-1930
- Population
- USCG crew, CG-9, 1924-1930
- Limitations
- Official USCG historian records confirming the CG-9 phase (1924-1930), station (New London), and assignment (Division 3, Offshore Patrol Force); contains no asbestos, insulation, or materials statements. Exact USCG in-commission dates vary across compilations (commissioned October 1924; decommissioned June 1, 1930 vs. Navy custody return October 18, 1930) - the custody transfer date 18 October 1930 is DANFS; intra-CG commission dates are compilation-sourced and flagged in gaps.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-beale-dd40-04
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[6]Consolidated era/design inference - Ships' Data 1914 machinery row for Beale (Destroyer No. 40) ('Parsons turb. (3)' / '4 White-Forster' boilers) + DANFS construction record (Cramp, Philadelphia, 1911-12) [other_primary]
- Locator
- SDB 1914 p.56 machinery row 6; p.54 builder column 'Wm. Cramp & Sons, Philadelphia, Pa.'
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Era/design inference: this hull carried an oil-fired steam plant - three-shaft Parsons direct-drive turbines fed by four White-Forster water-tube boilers, designed 12,000 ihp (Navy Department Ships' Data 1914 row for Destroyer No. 40) - built May 1911-August 1912 at William Cramp & Sons, Philadelphia, a major private Naval constructor. Early-twentieth-century Navy steam-plant construction used asbestos-containing boiler insulation, steam-line lagging, turbine and exhaust lagging, valve/flange gaskets, machinery packing, and fireproofing as standard materials; no hull-specific material schedule, insulation specification, General Information Book, or survey naming DD-40 was located.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1911-1930
- Population
- Cramp construction trades 1911-12; Navy ship's company 1912-1919; USCG crew 1924-1930
- Limitations
- Inference from the documented machinery plant, construction era, and builder - NOT a hull record. Establishes no asbestos content aboard DD-40, no quantity, no location, no individual exposure, no causation. This hull predates the WWII asbestos-construction peak that most era scholarship describes; the builder (Cramp) is not an Atlas shipyards.json entry, so no yard-level asbestos documentation attaches.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-beale-dd40-05
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[7]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 + report PDF https://www.gao.gov/assets/hrd-80-2.pdf (Navy response attachment, shipboard-asbestos paragraph)
- 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' (attachment quoting Navy response on shipboard applications). Context for the general practice of Navy shipboard asbestos use; DD-40 (built 1911-12, scrapped 1934) predates the report scope, but the finding documents the longstanding Navy-wide practice this hull's construction era preceded and belonged to.
- 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 about the modern (1970s) fleet, not about this 1911-12 hull - quoted language describes ships delivered since 1973 and in-service practice; establishes nothing about DD-40's materials. Included only as Navy-wide context consistent with Batch-01/3337 usage.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-beale-dd40-06
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[8]CourtListener API v4 searches: 'USS Beale' type=o (0 hits); '"DD-40" asbestos' type=o (0 hits); 'USS Beale' type=r (1 hit - MDL-875 JPML docket 1245688, Doc. 3694 Viacom stay motion re Mathias TXW 3:01-cv-380, phrase in filing text) [court_record]
- Locator
- CourtListener search API v4; docket 1245688 (MDL No. 875, J.P.M.L.); Document 3694, 'MOTION TO STAY VACATION OF CTO-214' (Viacom, filed/entered 2002-09-10, 55 pp., exhibits A-C), re constituent case Mathias, W.D. Tex. 3:01-cv-380
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- CourtListener sweep (authenticated API v4, 2026-09-27): 'USS Beale' (type=o) returned zero hits - no published opinion contains the phrase; '"DD-40" asbestos' (type=o) returned zero hits. 'USS Beale' (type=r) returned exactly one docket: IN RE: Asbestos Products Liability Litigation (No. VI), MDL No. 875, U.S. Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation (assigned Judge Eduardo C. Robreno; docket 1991-01-17 to 2022-11-01) - the phrase sits inside indexed filing Document 3694 (entered 2002-09-10): 'MOTION TO STAY VACATION OF CTO-214' filed by defendant Viacom, Inc. in the constituent action Mathias, W.D. Tex. 3:01-cv-380, with Exhibits A-C, 55 pages. The phrase's position is inside that filing's text/exhibits, not docket metadata - a constituent-filing vessel reference in the master asbestos MDL. Hull attribution unresolved: DD-40's Navy service ended 1919 and Coast Guard service ended 1930, so a 2001-era plaintiff's exposure window would most plausibly reference the WWII-era USS Beale DD-471 (Fletcher class, in commission 1943-1968) - but the document text beyond the snippet was not retrievable this session and no hull number appears in the index. Classification: no qualifying asbestos litigation for DD-40 located; the single hit is an unresolvable collision leaning DD-471, at pleading/exhibit stage at most.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- correction
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- sweep 2026-09-27; underlying filing 2002
- Population
- Mathias plaintiff/decedent (unverified from index); DD-40 crew window would be 1912-1919 Navy / 1924-1930 USCG
- Limitations
- Sweep result, not a merits finding: the opinion index supports 'no published opinion names USS Beale (any hull)'. The single docket hit is filing-level text inside MDL-875 - pleading-stage content at most, unadjudicated, and hull attribution (DD-40 vs. DD-471 vs. neither) is unresolved because the 55-page filing text was not retrievable; exposure-era arithmetic favors DD-471 (1943-1968). Classified down per litigation-stage discipline; a RECAP/PACER pull of Doc. 3694 is the open lead. No qualifying asbestos litigation for DD-40 is recorded.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-beale-dd40-07
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[9]Cross-source reconciliation: DANFS (hazegray transcription) vs. Navy Department Ships' Data 1914 rows vs. NHHC Online Library caption text vs. NavSource compiled data vs. Destroyer History Foundation (NHHC-derived) vs. Navypedia/Wikipedia compilations [other_primary]
- Locator
- DANFS 'Beale I' spec block and narrative; SDB 1914 pp.54-59 row 6; NHHC usnsh-b/dd40.htm; navsource.org/archives/05/040.htm data block; destroyerhistory.org/early/ussbeale/
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Source discrepancies resolved or logged: (a) Commissioning date - DANFS narrative and SDB 1914 dates row both read 30 August 1912 ('commissioned 30 August 1912, Lieutenant (junior grade) C. T. Blackburn in command'; SDB row 6 'Aug. 30, 1912'); Wikipedia's infobox reads 30 September 1912 while its own body text reads 30 August - 1912-08-30 carried per the official sources, September reading logged as error. (b) Coast Guard transfer date - DANFS reads 'transferred to the Coast Guard 21 April 1924'; NHHC caption text reads 'transferred ... in 1924'; Destroyer History Foundation (NHHC-derived) and NavSource read 28 April 1924; the Waesche biography supports command from May 1924 - April 1924 carried, day-level conflict in gaps. (c) Stricken/disposal dates - NavSource 'Stricken June 28 1934'; NHHC photo page 'stricken ... July 1934 and scrapped later in that year'; Destroyer History Foundation 'name struck from the Navy list on 5 July 1934 ... sold on 22 August 1934 for scrapping'; Wikipedia infobox 'Stricken 28 June 1934' with 'Sold for scrap 22 August 1934' - stricken carried as 1934 with 28 June/5 July unresolved; sale date 22 August 1934 consistent across sources. (d) Guns - DANFS spec block 'a. 4 3"' vs. SDB 1914 row 6 '5 3" 50cal. R.F.' and NavSource '5 x 3"/50' - five carried per the contemporaneous official table; Navypedia carves out DD-40 at four - unresolved, in gaps. (e) Complement - DANFS 'cpl. 83'; NavSource 'Crew 86'; Wikipedia 4+87; SDB row partially illegible - 83 carried per DANFS, conflict in gaps. (f) Displacement - 742 tons normal consistent across DANFS, SDB 1914, NHHC caption; full-load 883 (SDB/Navypedia) vs. 887 (Wikipedia) - both in gaps. (g) Class name - NHHC caption 'Paulding class' vs. DANFS spec block 'cl. Monaghan' (the DD-32-42 group carried under Monaghan in the older convention; Navypedia lists a Monaghan class DD-32-42) - Paulding class carried per modern NHHC usage. (h) Cost - SDB contract price $654,000 vs. Wikipedia '$669,168.12 (hull and machinery)' - contract price is the SDB figure; the $669k figure is consistent with a final-cost column pattern (e.g., Conyngham row reads 996,168) but the Beale cell is partly illegible in the scan - in gaps.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- correction
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1910-1934
- 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 1912-1934 timeline.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-beale-dd40-08
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[10]Batch-3385 search ledger (this record): DANFS via hazegray transcription; Navy Department Ships' Data 1914 per-hull rows (OCR'd locally); NHHC Online Library captions (ibiblio transcription); USCG Historian's Office records; NavSource compiled data (search-index); Destroyer History Foundation; NARA Special List 44; CourtListener name/hull searches; general-web asbestos-mention check [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-beale-dd40-01 through sl-uss-beale-dd40-12
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, materials schedule, General Information Book insulation section, court finding, or docketed asbestos case naming USS Beale DD-40 was found in the public sources searched (see search_ledger). The disposal profile itself limits what could exist: the hull was sold and scrapped in 1934, decades before any asbestos-survey or abatement regime existed, and there was no postwar mothballing, overhaul, museum, or reserve-fleet program under which asbestos documentation would typically be generated for this hull.
- 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 1911-12 steam destroyer is era-consistent with asbestos-containing insulation, lagging, gaskets, packing, and fireproofing. 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-beale-dd40-09
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[11]NARA Special List 44 (named-vessel logbook list, 'Beale (DD-40)' 8/30/1912-10/25/1919); NARA Guide to Federal Records RG 24/RG 19/RG 26; Independence Seaport Museum library collection description (Cramp collection) [other_primary]
- Locator
- SL-44 named-vessel list row 'Beale (DD-40) | 8/30/1912 | 10/25/1919'; phillyseaport.org research/collections descriptions for the William Cramp & Sons collection
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Archival leads (not retrieved - research-room or reproduction order; no spend authorized): (a) NARA RG 24 'Logbooks of U.S. Navy ships and stations, 1801-1946' - NARA Special List 44 explicitly lists 'Beale (DD-40)' logbooks covering 8/30/1912-10/25/1919, the complete Navy commissioned period; (b) NARA RG 26 Coast Guard deck logs for CG-9 (1924-1930) - not in the Navy SL-44 list, coverage unverified; (c) William Cramp & Sons Ship and Engine Building Company Collection, Independence Seaport Museum (J. Welles Henderson Archives), Philadelphia - plans, contract books, and photographs 1830-1927; the collection is the strongest lead for hull-specific material specifications (Cramp hull 379) but no asbestos statement is documented in the collection's public descriptions; (d) NARA RG 19 (Bureau of Construction and Repair / Bureau of Ships) records incl. any DD-40 General Information Book and Cramp construction correspondence; (e) NH still-picture holdings for the identified photo numbers (NH 56363, NH 103743, NH 61401, NH 61498, NH 61499); (f) Naval Vessel Register - not applicable: stricken 1934, predating NVR coverage.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1911-1930 records
- Limitations
- Record-group/collection mapping only - no box-level retrieval performed; existence of asbestos-specific documents for DD-40 is unknown until surveyed. The DD-40 SL-44 entry verifies the Navy logbooks exist at NARA; it says nothing about their contents. Nothing in this row is an asbestos finding.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-beale-dd40-10