Evidence
9 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-9).
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[1]research packet hq-packet.md (11 sources cited) [other_primary]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERIFIED (secondary-sourced; DANFS not directly reachable) — real identity: USS Bebas — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Bebas
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Limitations
- qualifier: VERIFIED (secondary-sourced; DANFS not directly reachable)
- Evidence ID
- uss-bebas-de10-pkt-hq-packet-md
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[2]DANFS, Bebas (DE-10) (namesake biography, builder, dates, service narrative, striking-era summary; verbatim transcription - live NHHC page serves 404) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS entry 'Bebas' (DE-10), namesake paragraph + specifications block + service narrative
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS record for this hull: namesake Ens. Gus George Bebas, USNR (b. Chicago 24 February 1914; Ensign USNR 26 May 1938; naval aviator 5 September 1941; Distinguished Flying Cross at the Battle of Midway with Bombing Squadron 8 aboard Hornet CV-8; killed in an airplane crash 19 July 1942). Specifications: dp. 1140; l. 289'5"; b. 35'1"; dr. 11'; s. 21 k.; cpl. 156; a. 3 3"; cl. Evarts. Originally intended for Great Britain under Lend-Lease as BDE-10; taken over for American use and reclassified DE-10, 25 January 1943; launched by Boston Navy Yard 9 January 1943; sponsored by Mrs. Angeline M. Bebas, mother of Ensign Bebas; commissioned 15 May 1943, Lt. Cmdr. G. B. Gilbertson, USNR, in command. Service: patrolled the east coast until 24 August 1943 departure for the Pacific; patrolled out of Espiritu Santo, Guadalcanal, and New Caledonia 28 September 1943-12 April 1944; returned to San Francisco 26 May via Pearl Harbor; departed San Francisco 31 May escorting convoys to Pearl Harbor, Majuro Atoll, and Eniwetok; Southwest Pacific hunter-killer group September-December 1944; patrolled off Peleliu, the Palau Islands, and between Ulithi and Eniwetok December 1944-April 1945; off Okinawa 1 May-30 June; supported 3rd Fleet raids against Japan 10 July-15 August; returned to San Francisco 9 September 1945; decommissioned 18 October 1945; sold 8 January 1947. Three battle stars for World War II service.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1942-1947
- Population
- Boston Navy Yard construction trades 1942-43; wartime crew (DANFS design complement 156); yard workers at Hunter's Point (1944 overhaul) and Terminal Island (1945 inactivation)
- Limitations
- DANFS documents service history and specifications, not materials or asbestos content. DANFS omits a laid-down date and a stricken date; its compressed closing ('returned to San Francisco 9 September 1945 was decommissioned there 18 October 1945') implies a San Francisco decommissioning that conflicts with the ship's own war history (Terminal Island, San Pedro - see ev-02 and gaps). Live NHHC DANFS page returns 404 (standing link-rot note from BATCH-01); hazegray/ibiblio verbatim transcription cited.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-bebas-de10-01
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[3]USS Bebas (DE-10) war-end history submission to the Secretary of the Navy, 'Short History of the U.S.S. BEBAS (DE-10)' (forwarded under reference ALPAC 142240/202; routing stamp A12-1 / Section 150; received 29 October 1945; signed by direction of the Chief of Bureau) - scan of the official document hosted by NavSource [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource DE-10 page, 'War History' scan (06010wh.jpg) - cover forwarding letter (A12-1(150), 29 OCT 1945) + one-page narrative
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Primary ship-submitted history for this hull: 'U.S.S. BEBAS (DE-10) was built in Charlestown Navy Yard, Boston, Mass. and commissioned there on 15 May 1943.' July 1943 shakedown to Bermuda; August Atlantic coastal cruises; Panama Canal transit 1 September 1943 in company with USS Seid, USS Parks, and USS Osterhaus; routine convoy and screening Noumea-Espiritu Santo-Guadalcanal October-November, including 11 October 1943 alongside the torpedoed S.S. John H. Couch for four hours attempting to stop gasoline and TNT fires ('much salvage work was accomplished'); hunter-killer operations with ComGen Fiji December 1943-January 1944; Solomons-New Hebrides-New Caledonia convoy work February-March 1944; returned to the United States in April for overhaul 'in Hunter's Point Naval Drydocks, San Francisco'; June-July 1944 training at Pearl Harbor and escort duty Hawaii-Marshall Islands; assigned to T.G. 30.7 with USS Hoggatt Bay for air-search/anti-submarine operations connected with the Palau and Philippine invasions (August); screening and escort around the Palaus and Ulithi; repairs at Espiritu Santo late November-mid-December; escort work Palaus-Ulithi-Eniwetok January-March 1945; on 3 February approximately 400 miles west of Eniwetok established radar contact on a Japanese submarine and attacked ('not credited with a "kill", BEBAS' record of successful escorting remained clear'); April-May participated in the invasion of Okinawa (transport escort; anti-submarine screen; rescued a Marine flier); July assigned to the refueling group supporting Task Force 38 attacks on Japan; August returned to Pearl Harbor for installation of ordnance and radar equipment; ordered to the United States for decommissioning and 'on 18 October 1945 was placed out of commission in the Naval Drydocks, Terminal Island, San Pedro, California.'
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1943-1945
- Population
- Crew during operations described; yard workers at Hunter's Point (April-May 1944) and Terminal Island (October 1945)
- Limitations
- Official ship-submitted summary (a SecNav/Bureau filing) - a primary source for this hull's movements and availabilities; it does not discuss materials or asbestos. It resolves the decommissioning location to Terminal Island, San Pedro (carried over the ambiguous DANFS wording - see gaps) and independently documents the Hunter's Point overhaul and Pearl Harbor ordnance/radar installation that DANFS compresses or omits. Scan hosted on a private archive site (NavSource); the underlying document is an official government submission.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-bebas-de10-02
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[4]NHHC, 'United States Naval Aviation 1910-1995,' Appendix 12 - Ships Named for Naval Aviators: 'Bebas (DE 10) ENS Gus G. Bebas, USNR 15 May 1943' [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- Appendix 12 PDF, 'Bebas (DE 10)' entry (p. 601)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Official NHHC publication independently confirms the namesake and commissioning date for this hull: Bebas (DE-10) was named for Ensign Gus G. Bebas, USNR, and commissioned 15 May 1943 - consistent with DANFS and the ship's war history.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1943
- Limitations
- Namesake/commissioning confirmation only - no construction, materials, or asbestos content. The namesake is unique to this hull (no later ship has carried the name), so 'USS Bebas' references are not subject to namesake-era collisions.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-bebas-de10-03
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[5]NavSource DE-10 class/specification block (Evarts class, GMT type: 'diesel-electric tandem motor drive, short hull'; propulsion '4 GM Model 16-278A diesel engines with electric drive, 6000 shp, 2 screws') + Fleischer WE, Viles FJ Jr, Gade RL, Drinker P., 'A health survey of pipe covering operations in constructing naval vessels,' J Ind Hyg Toxicol. 1946;28(1):9-16 [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource DE-10 specifications block; Fleischer et al. 1946 (bibliographic citation; digitized copy not fetched)
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Era/class inference: this hull was an Evarts-class destroyer escort built 1942-43 with a diesel-electric plant (four GM 16-278A diesels with electric drive, 6,000 shp - no boilers or steam system). A WWII Navy diesel-electric escort would have carried era-standard asbestos applications appropriate to that plant type - exhaust insulation, gaskets and packing, electrical insulation, winch/windlass brake linings, and deck coverings - while the largest asbestos categories of steam ships (boiler and steam-line lagging) do not apply. The contemporaneous Fleischer/Viles/Gade/Drinker survey (WWII-era naval-vessel construction, published 1946) documented asbestos pipe-covering operations across Navy and contract yards as standard practice.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1942-1945 (construction/operations); 1942-46 (era hygiene literature)
- Population
- Boston Navy Yard construction trades 1942-43; crew 1943-45 (DANFS design complement 156)
- Limitations
- Class/era inference only - NOT a hull-specific finding. Machinery specifics are class-design data (NavSource; the DANFS spec block for this hull carries speed and armament only). The 1946 survey anonymized its yards and does not name this hull; it establishes era practice, not installation aboard DE-10. Does not quantify asbestos, establish crew exposure, or speak to legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-bebas-de10-04
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[6]Atlas shipyard dataset (shipyards.json): 'boston-naval-shipyard' (evidence tier 3), 'hunters-point-naval-shipyard' (tier 3), 'pearl-harbor-naval-shipyard' (tier 1) [other_primary]
- Locator
- shipyards.json records 'boston-naval-shipyard', 'hunters-point-naval-shipyard', 'pearl-harbor-naval-shipyard'
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Yard-level documentation for yards where this hull was built or worked on: builder Boston Navy Yard (Charlestown) is a tier-3 asbestos-documented yard in the Atlas dataset; the April-May 1944 overhaul yard, Hunter's Point Naval Drydocks/Shipyard (San Francisco), is tier-3; Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard (ordnance and radar installation August 1945 per the ship's war history) is tier-1 in the dataset. DE-10's construction and availabilities at these yards fall within the documented asbestos era for each.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1942-1945
- Population
- Yard workers during 1942-43 construction, 1944 overhaul, and 1945 availabilities
- Limitations
- Yard-level findings only - no work order, specification, or survey ties yard asbestos products to this hull's specific construction or availabilities; yard tier reflects the dataset's yard-level documentation, not conditions aboard DE-10. Establishes builder/overhaul context only.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-bebas-de10-05
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[7]NARA holdings for this hull: the war-end history submission itself (A12-1/Section 150 file, forwarded under ALPAC 142240/202 - the document scanned at NavSource 06010wh.jpg); Bureau of Ships photographs BS 69837-69839 (24 May 1944, off Hunters Point, camouflage measure 31/22D) cataloged to NARA; RG 24 deck logs for DE-10; RG 19 Bureau of Ships 'Booklet of General Plans' per-hull series [other_primary]
- Locator
- catalog.archives.gov (deck logs, RG 24); archives.gov/research/cartographic/ship-plans (RG 19 plans); NavSource BS 69837-69839 photo captions citing NARA
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Archival leads for hull-level material/work documentation: (a) DE-10 deck logs (RG 24, Logbooks of U.S. Navy Ships and Stations) document availabilities and yard periods; (b) the ship's war history submission exists in the Secretary of the Navy/Bureau files (A12-1), already located in scan form via NavSource; (c) Bureau of Ships construction/inspection photos BS 69837-69839 are NARA-held; (d) a per-hull Booklet of General Plans or Evarts-class engineering drawings in RG 19 would record machinery and insulation-spec callouts. NARA catalog search was inconclusive in-session (catalog API requires key); retrieval not performed.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1942-1945 records
- Limitations
- Leads only - deck logs log events and yard periods but rarely identify materials; plan-booklet existence for DE-10 specifically is unverified. No asbestos content is asserted from these holdings.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-bebas-de10-06
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[8]CourtListener API v4 (authenticated, fleet-paced helper cl-auth-search.py) - opinion (type=o) and RECAP docket (type=r) searches for '"USS Bebas"', '"Bebas"', and '"DE-10"' [court_record]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-bebas-de10-05 through -08
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- No qualifying litigation naming this hull located. CourtListener opinion index: '"USS Bebas"' = 0 hits; '"Bebas"' = 23 hits, all pre-1978 opinions (1794-1977) where the term matches litigant/witness surnames or OCR artifacts - all predate the asbestos-litigation era and none is vessel-related by caption. '"DE-10"' = 3,106 opinion hits and 12,641 docket hits, all identifier collisions on review of top results (Puerto Rico case-number strings, exhibit/document labels, unrelated civil dockets) - no vessel-related result identified among them. Residual variants '"USS Bebas"' (type=r dockets) and '"aboard the Bebas"' phrasing queries remained blocked by fleet-wide request pacing at record time (see ledger).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 2026-09-28
- Limitations
- Sweep completed 2026-09-28 under intermittent fleet pacing. Not a trial-level finding for any vessel - it establishes only that no docketed opinion or RECAP docket surfaced naming USS Bebas or DE-10 as a vessel. Absence of a docket hit does not prove no claim was ever asserted; asbestos lawsuits naming hulls are a small subset of filed cases. The surname-variant hit set was classified by caption and date (all pre-1978); individual full-text review was not performed.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-bebas-de10-07
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[9]Batch-3946 search ledger (this record): NHHC DANFS (live 404; hazegray transcription); NHHC Appendix 12 namesake publication; ship's war-end history submission (NavSource scan of SecNav filing); NavSource building/specification data; Atlas shipyards.json yard records; CourtListener sweep (partially completed; see ledger); law-firm ship-list pages (excluded by source rule) [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-bebas-de10-01 through -09
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located for DE-10: no hull ACM survey, abatement contract, materials inventory, or confirmed docketed litigation naming this hull was found in the public sources searched (see search_ledger). The hull was sold for scrapping January 1947, so no museum-phase or layberth hazmat record can exist. Generic asbestos claims for 'USS Bebas' exist on law-firm marketing pages (asbestos-ships.com; shepardlawfirm.com; elslaw.com; mesotheliomahelp.org) - all are boilerplate ship-list pages with no cited source and are excluded per source rules.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 2026-09-28
- Limitations
- Absence of a located public record does not prove absence of asbestos aboard - era materials are consistent with a 1942-43 diesel-electric escort, and the hull's 1947 destruction forecloses modern survey evidence. Litigation sweep completed with no qualifying hit for this hull but with residual surname/phrasing variants unqueried under fleet pacing. Does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-bebas-de10-08
