Evidence
4 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-4).
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[1]DANFS entry, USS Birmingham (CL-62), Vol. 1 A-B, p.125 (1959) + Bauer & Roberts register bracket (hazegray transcription; live NHHC page 404) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS CL-62 entry, specifications block + full service narrative
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS record for this hull: launched 20 March 1942 by Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., Newport News, Va. (laid down 17 February 1941 per BuShips Ships' Data / class profile); commissioned 29 January 1943; complement 1,200. WWII service: Sicily invasion (Jul 1943); fast-carrier raids (Tarawa, Wake); Empress Augusta Bay action 8-9 November 1943 - hit by two bombs and a torpedo, Mare Island repairs to 18 February 1944; Saipan, Philippine Sea, Tinian, Guam, Philippine raids; topside damage from PRINCETON explosions during Leyte Gulf 24 October 1944 - Mare Island repairs November 1944-January 1945; Iwo Jima, Okinawa - third damage by kamikaze 4 May 1945 - Pearl Harbor repairs 28 May-1 August 1945. Decommissioned in reserve at San Francisco 2 January 1947. Bauer & Roberts register bracket: stricken 1 March 1959; sold 12 November 1959. Nine battle stars.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-18
- Study period
- 1941-1959
- Population
- Construction trades 1941-1943; crew 1943-1947
- Limitations
- DANFS documents construction, service history, and disposal - not materials or asbestos content. Mirror transcription cited because the live NHHC page returns 404; transcription is verbatim DANFS text.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-birmingham-cl62-01
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[2]NHHC Online Library of Selected Images, USS Birmingham page (official Naval Historical Center narrative + photo catalog) [other_primary]
- Locator
- https://ibiblio.org/hyperwar/OnlineLibrary/photos/sh-usn/usnsh-b/cl62.htm
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NHHC Online Library narrative for this hull: three battle-damage repairs documented; 'decommissioned there [San Francisco] at the beginning of January 1947. Stricken from the Naval Vessel Register in May 1959' [conflicts with Bauer & Roberts 1 March 1959 - register value carried]; sold for scrapping the following November.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-18
- Study period
- 1947-1959
- Population
- Reserve-fleet custody and disposal-era personnel
- Limitations
- Official NHHC narrative page - month-level summary corroborating DANFS and supplying register/disposal dates; contains no asbestos or materials content. Where its narrative conflicts with DANFS/register values, the conflict is carried in gaps and the register value used.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-birmingham-cl62-02
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[3]U.S. Navy, Bureau of Ships Technical Manual, NAVSHIPS 250-000, Chapter 39 'Thermal Insulation' (1960) + BuShips Ships' Data 1945 CL machinery tables + Atlas shipyard dataset [other_primary]
- Locator
- NAVSHIPS 250-000 ch. 39 (scan via Garlock bankruptcy repository); DANFS entry; shipyards.json records; cleveland-class.class.json
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Era inference: Cleveland-class wartime construction (4 Babcock & Wilcox boilers, 4 GE geared steam turbines, 100,000 shp) at Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., Newport News, VA, falls squarely in the documented Navy asbestos-insulation era; the 1960 BuShips Technical Manual insulation chapter enumerates the era-standard suite - 85%-magnesia (~15% asbestos) and amosite-fiber pipe covering, asbestos felt, chrysotile cloth/tape lagging, asbestos millboard, finishing cement, and molded asbestos block. Documented disturbance periods for this hull: builder yard period 1941-43 at Newport News; THREE documented battle-damage repair periods - Mare Island Navy Yard November 1943-18 February 1944 (bomb/torpedo damage), Mare Island again November 1944-January 1945 (Princeton-explosion topside damage), and Pearl Harbor Navy Yard 28 May-1 August 1945 (kamikaze damage) - the heaviest documented yard-disturbance profile in this batch; and reserve layup at San Francisco 1947-59.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-18
- Study period
- 1941-1947
- Population
- Construction trades 1941-1943; repair/overhaul yard workers; crew 1943-1947
- Limitations
- Class/era specification and yard-period inference only - no ship-specific asbestos record exists for this hull (ev-04); this row must not be read as establishing that asbestos products were or remain aboard. Does not quantify material; insulation disturbance at documented yard periods is inference from work scope, not a documented abatement record.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-birmingham-cl62-03
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[4]Batch-50 search ledger (this record): NHHC DANFS + Online Library; CourtListener ship-name and hull-number queries; NVR; museum/disclosure sweep [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-birmingham-cl62-01 through sl-uss-birmingham-cl62-05
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: CourtListener queries ("USS Birmingham" asbestos = 0; "Birmingham" "CL-62" asbestos = 0) returned no qualifying asbestos litigation naming this hull - no hits of any kind; SSN-695 submarine namesake and the Alabama city name produced no asbestos-litigation collision; and no hull ACM survey, abatement contract, scrapping hazmat disclosure, NVR entry (hull disposed of before live-register coverage), or museum record with asbestos data was found in the public sources searched (see search_ledger).
- 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 - it establishes only that no qualifying ship-specific documentation was found in the searched repositories. Does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-birmingham-cl62-04