Evidence
10 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-10).
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[1]research packet eb-packet.md (3 sources cited) [other_primary]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERIFIED.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-boggs-dd136-pkt-eb-packet-md
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[2]DANFS, Boggs I (DD-136), Vol. I p. 136 (specifications block + service narrative + namesake biography; verbatim transcription - live NHHC page serves 404) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS entry, specifications block + service narrative (hazegray.org transcription mirrored at losthistory.net)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS record for this hull: (DD-136: dp. 1154; l. 314'5"; b. 31'9"; dr. 9'; s. 35 k.; cpl. 122; a. 4 4", 12 21" TT.; cl. Wickes). Launched 25 April 1918 by Mare Island Navy Yard, sponsored by Miss Ruth Hascal; commissioned 23 September 1918, Commander H. V. McKittrick in command. Departed San Diego March 1919 for a six-month cruise along the east coast, in the North Atlantic and the Caribbean; served with the Pacific Fleet until placed out of commission 29 June 1922. Redesignated miscellaneous auxiliary AG-19 on 5 September 1931; recommissioned 19 December 1931 and assigned to Mobile Target Division 1, Battle Force, for high-speed radio-control tests, target towing and minesweeping; east-coast cruise January-October 1934, otherwise west coast until 1940; arrived Pearl Harbor 11 September 1940; reclassified high-speed minesweeper DMS-3 late in 1940. At sea during the 7 December 1941 attack, returning the same day to sweep the approaches and anchorage; Pearl Harbor minesweeping/patrol/training until January 1943; Canton Island supply run, returning 2 March 1943; patrol vessel, minesweeper, and towboat in the vicinity for the next year; target towing with the Operational Training Command out of San Diego 12 April 1944-March 1945; overhaul at San Pedro, Calif. March-June 1945; stripped of sweeping gear and reclassified AG-19 5 June 1945; arrived Eniwetok via Pearl Harbor 15 August (transcription reads '1946' - internally inconsistent with the same paragraph's October 1945 departure; carried as 1945); Eniwetok until 6 October 1945; returned early 1946; decommissioned 20 March 1946; sold 27 November 1946.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Study period
- 1917-1946
- Population
- Mare Island Navy Yard construction trades 1917-18; USN crews 1918-22 and 1931-46 (design complement 122); San Pedro overhaul workforce 1945
- Limitations
- DANFS documents service history and specifications, not materials or asbestos content. The transcription carries apparent errors logged in gaps: the Eniwetok arrival year reads '1946' (contextually 1945) and the namesake biography reads died '1888' (1877 per NHHC Online Library and standard references). DANFS does not mention the IX-36 designation, which the NHHC Online Library designation chain and NavSource document. Mirror transcription cited because the live NHHC page returns 404 for all tested URL variants.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-boggs-dd136-01
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[3]NHHC Online Library of Selected Images, 'USS Boggs (Destroyer # 136, later DD-136, IX-36, AG-19, DMS-3 and AG-19), 1918-1946' + companion 'Actions and Activities' page (transcribed at ibiblio.org HyperWar mirror) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- ibiblio.org HyperWar mirror of NHHC Online Library pages dd136.htm and dd136-k.htm (photo captions NH 766, NH 98833-34, NH 99143-44, NH 81406, NH 42536, NH 57141, NH 42539, NH 95792, NH 106144; NARA 80-G-276612, 80-G-246909)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NHHC photo-history record for this hull: confirms the full designation chain on one hull - the page title reads 'USS Boggs (Destroyer # 136, later DD-136, IX-36, AG-19, DMS-3 and AG-19)' and the narrative reads that 'in mid-1931 Boggs was reclassified as an auxiliary (first as IX-36 and very soon afterwards as AG-19) and converted for employment as a radio-controlled target ship.' Photographic documentation: NH 766 (at anchor circa 1919-21); NH 98833 (operating as a radio-controlled target, 26 March 1936); NH 99143/NH 99144 (valving steam as a radio-controlled target ship, circa 1933-35, Arleigh A. Burke collection); NH 98834 (as DMS-3 circa early 1942, probably off Mare Island Navy Yard); 80-G-276612 (arrives Pearl Harbor from Canton Island, 2 March 1943, National Archives); 80-G-246909 (DMS-3 underway at ten knots, 23 August 1944, photographed from a ZP-31 blimp, National Archives); NH 81406 (as AG-19, June 1945); NH 42536/NH 57141 (Panama Canal, Gatun Locks, 24 July 1919); NH 106144 series (Destroyer Division Seventeen panorama, San Diego Harbor, 14 August 1920 - with Kennison DD-138, Claxton DD-140, Ward DD-139, Boggs DD-136, Hamilton DD-141); NH 42539 (reserve destroyers 'Red Lead Row,' San Diego, end of 1922); NH 95792 (NC-aircraft transatlantic flight destroyer-station diagram, May 1919).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Study period
- 1918-1946
- Population
- Mare Island Navy Yard trades (1941 overhaul period); USN crews 1918-1946
- Limitations
- NHHC Online Library is an official U.S. Navy publication (Naval History and Heritage Command) transcribed on the HyperWar/ibiblio mirror; it documents designations, conversions, and photographic record, not materials or asbestos content. The NH 95792 diagram depicts the 21-destroyer NC-flight station line but does not name Boggs in its caption - her participation is carried from the historyofwar.org summary (see ev-03). Individual photo captions - not an ACM record.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-boggs-dd136-02
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[4]NavSource Destroyer Photo Index USS Boggs (DD-136/IX-36/DMS-3/AG-19) page + NavSource DMS index (navsource.net/archives/11/0903.htm): class/spec block, operational/building data, designation chronology; historyofwar.org USS Boggs (DD-136/DMS-3) article (service summary incl. NC-4 picket and late-1941 Mare Island overhaul); NavalCoverMuseum BOGGS AG-19 designation chronology [other_primary]
- Locator
- navsource.org/archives/05/136.htm (destroyer index; live fetch refused, content via search-index text) + navsource.net/archives/11/0903.htm (DMS index); historyofwar.org/articles/weapons_USS_Boggs_DD136.html; navalcovermuseum.org/wiki/BOGGS_AG_19
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Secondary-transcription record for this hull: NavSource operational/building data reads built by Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, CA; laid down 15 November 1917 (consistent with the captioned keel-laying photograph on the NavSource page, D. Baker collection, showing Commander Henry M. Gleason, Navy Constructor, and Captain Henry George, Mare Island Commandant, at the keel on that date); launched 25 April 1918; commissioned 23 September 1918; designated DD-136 on 17 July 1920; decommissioned 29 June 1922; reclassified Unclassified Miscellaneous and renamed Light Target No. 2 (IX-36 - 'an unofficial filing designation') 11 August 1931; renamed Boggs and reclassified AG-19 5 September 1931; recommissioned 19 December 1931; reclassified DMS-3 19 November 1940; reclassified AG-19 5 June 1945; struck from the Navy Register 12 April 1946; sold for scrapping to Northern Metals Co., Philadelphia, PA, 27 November 1946. Machinery block: 24,200 shp, geared turbines, 2 screws, 35 kt; class machinery table gives the non-Bethlehem (Bath-design) groups Parsons geared turbines and Normand/Thornycroft/White-Forster boilers. historyofwar.org's service summary adds that Boggs supported the NC-4 transatlantic flight (May 1919) as a picket/navigation-aid destroyer off Newfoundland, and that she underwent a major overhaul at Mare Island late in 1941 (consistent with NHHC photos of DMS-3 off Mare Island October 1941/early 1942).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Study period
- 1917-1947
- Population
- Mare Island Navy Yard construction trades 1917-18 and 1941 overhaul; USN crews 1918-46; Northern Metals Co. breaking workforce 1946-47
- Limitations
- NavSource is a volunteer-maintained archive transcribing official records (its spec block derives from Ships' Data/BuShips-type sources) and historyofwar.org is a specialist secondary reference - neither is a primary record; the day-level designation dates and the stricken date rest on these transcriptions rather than the underlying Navy Register entries. Decommission-date variants across NavSource pages (30 March / 20 May 1946 vs DANFS 20 March 1946) are logged in gaps. Boiler make is a class-level attribution, not verified for this hull. Asbestos content is not addressed by these records.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-boggs-dd136-03
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[5]Rushworth, 'The Navy and Asbestos Thermal Insulation,' Naval Engineers Journal (2005); Franke et al., 'Government and Navy knowledge regarding health hazards of asbestos: a state of the science evaluation (1900-1970)' (2011); Atlas shipyard dataset, mare-island-naval-shipyard record (tier 2) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Naval Engineers Journal 2005 (doi.org/10.1111/j.1559-3584.2005.tb00336.x); Franke 2011 state-of-science review; shipyards.json record 'mare-island-naval-shipyard'
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Era inference: peer-reviewed reviews of U.S. Navy asbestos practice document shipboard asbestos thermal insulation in use from the 1880s through the 1950s - spanning this hull's 1917-18 construction and every subsequent commission, conversion, and overhaul. A Wickes-class destroyer built at Mare Island in 1917-18 with a saturated-steam plant (four water-tube boilers and Parsons geared turbines per the class machinery table for the non-Bethlehem Bath-design groups) would have carried period-standard asbestos-containing boiler and steam-line insulation, turbine lagging, gaskets, packing, and fireproofing. Builder Mare Island Naval Shipyard is documented in the Atlas yard dataset (tier 2) with asbestos products identified across insulation block (Unibestos, Kaylo, Careytemp), Marinite board, Transite pipe, and packing/gasket materials - though the yard's dated findings (1998 EIS/EIR facility ACM; Collins v. Plant Insulation worker exposure 1976-1994) postdate this hull's construction by decades.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Study period
- 1917-1946 (vessel); 2005-2011 (era reviews)
- Population
- Mare Island Navy Yard construction trades 1917-18; USN crews 1918-1946; conversion/overhaul workforces 1931, 1941, 1945
- Limitations
- Class/era and builder-yard inference only - NOT a hull-specific finding. The cited reviews are state-of-the-science literature covering 1900-1970 era practice and do not name this hull; the yard dataset's dated product identifications postdate this hull's 1917-18 construction. No insulation specification, survey, or material test for this hull was located; nothing quantifies material or establishes any individual's exposure.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-boggs-dd136-04
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[6]NARA RG 19 (Records of the Bureau of Ships) Alphabetical Series of Ship Engineering Drawings - Booklet of General Plans for USS Boggs (DMS-3) reported under NAID 78116429 per the NavSource index; NARA deck-log holdings (RG 24 Entry 118 / Special List 44 pre-1941; NAID 594258 series 1941-1978); NARA RG 181 Mare Island Navy Yard records; NHHC photograph catalog [other_primary]
- Locator
- navsource.net/archives/11/0903.htm (NAID 78116429 reference); archives.gov/research/military/logbooks/navy (RG 24 Entry 118, Special List 44; NAID 594258); NARA photo identifiers 80-G-276612, 80-G-246909 per NHHC page
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Archival leads for this hull: NavSource's DMS-3 index page reports a National Archives-held Booklet of General Plans for Boggs (DMS-3 configuration, outboard/inboard profile) under NAID 78116429 - as-built/converted plan sheets of the type that can carry insulation callouts; the sheets were not examined and the NAID was not resolved against the catalog this session (catalog.archives.gov is JS-driven and did not return record content). NARA RG 19 General Information Books hold per-vessel material specifications (not retrieved). NARA holds pre-1941 deck logs (RG 24 Entry 118, itemized in Special List 44) covering this hull's 1919-1940 commissions, and the WWII deck-log series (NAID 594258, 'Logbooks of the U.S. Navy Ships and Stations, 1941-1978') covers 1941-46; the USS Ward (DD-139) log transcription demonstrates Boggs's December 1941 movements are documented in contemporaneous logs. RG 181 holds Mare Island Navy Yard records covering the 1917-18 construction and the late-1941 overhaul.
- Verification
- unverified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Study period
- 1917-1946 (record subjects)
- Limitations
- Archival leads only - the Booklet of General Plans NAID is reported by NavSource and was not verified against the NARA catalog; no listed source is stated to contain asbestos or materials data. Deck logs record events, not materials; RG 19 General Information Books are the standard path for hull-level material specifications and were not pulled.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-boggs-dd136-05
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[7]Shipscribe 'Unclassified (IX), Special Types' index (S.S. Roberts); NavalCoverMuseum BOGGS AG-19 designation chronology; NavSource operational/building data block [other_primary]
- Locator
- shipscribe.com/usnaux/IX3/IX3type.html (IX-36 (I) and IX-36 (II) entries); navsource.org/archives/05/136.htm designation block; navalcovermuseum.org/wiki/BOGGS_AG_19
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- IX-36 consolidation record: while in reserve, this hull was reclassified an Unclassified Miscellaneous auxiliary and renamed Light Target No. 2 (IX-36) on 11 August 1931; the name Boggs was restored and the hull reclassified Miscellaneous Auxiliary AG-19 on 5 September 1931. NavSource marks IX-36 as 'an unofficial filing designation.' The Shipscribe IX index documents that IX-36 / 'Light Target No. 2' was assigned twice in 1931: first to USS Hazelwood (DD-107) - IX-36 (I) - and then to this hull, USS Boggs (DD-136) - IX-36 (II), later AG-19 - after the Hazelwood assignment did not proceed. IX-36 is therefore a reserve-period filing designation of THIS hull for the second assignment, not a separate ship; the exposure-map 'USS Light Target Number 2 (IX-36)' listing consolidates into this canonical DD-136 record.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- correction
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Study period
- 1931
- Limitations
- Shipscribe and NavSource are specialist reference sites transcribing official Navy Register data - the IX-36 sequence is corroborated by NHHC's own page title listing 'IX-36' in this hull's designation chain, but the day-level dates (11 August / 5 September 1931) rest on these transcriptions; the underlying General Correspondence/Navy Register entries were not pulled. The dual assignment of IX-36 (Hazelwood DD-107, then Boggs DD-136) means an IX-36-keyed record could conceivably conflate two hulls - see gaps.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-boggs-dd136-06
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[8]CourtListener API v4 sweeps, 2026-09-26: opinion index 'USS Boggs' = 0 hits; docket (RECAP) index 'USS Boggs' = 0 hits; 'DD-136' (o) = 1 hit, identifier collision; remaining designator and surname-control queries blocked under fleet-wide pacing [court_record]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-boggs-dd136-05 through sl-uss-boggs-dd136-08
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- CourtListener litigation sweep for this hull: the exact-name query 'USS Boggs' returned zero hits in both the opinion index and the RECAP docket index - no case naming the ship exists in the index as searched. The hull-designator query 'DD-136' returned one opinion, an identifier collision: City of Jacksonville v. Slaughter, 344 So. 2d 271 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1977), in which 'DD-136' is a Duval County docket designator in a civil-service exemption dispute - no vessel reference. There is no second USS Boggs hull to produce same-name collisions; 'Boggs' without the USS prefix is a common litigation surname and would produce party-name collisions rather than vessel references.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Study period
- 2026-09-26
- Limitations
- CourtListener coverage is not exhaustive of all courts and eras; absence of a hit does not prove no claim was ever filed. The remaining designator queries ('DMS-3', 'AG-19', 'IX-36'), the 'DD-136' docket-level sweep, the 'Boggs' + asbestos surname-collision control, and the 'Light Target' query did not complete under fleet-wide pacing this session - logged 'blocked' in the search ledger and gaps rather than reported as negatives. The DD-136 hit was classified as a collision from case name, court, and docket-number context without full-text review.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-boggs-dd136-07
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[9]USS Ward (DD-139) deck-log transcription, December 1941 (contemporaneous Navy record, HyperWar) [other_primary]
- Locator
- ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USN/ships/logs/DD/dd139-DL.1241.html - '8 to 12' / '12 to 16' / '16 to 18' watch sections, Boggs channel entries
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Contemporaneous corroboration of this hull's Pearl Harbor operating pattern at the moment of the 7 December 1941 attack: the deck log of USS Ward (DD-139) - the destroyer that attacked the midget submarine off the Pearl Harbor entrance that morning - records 'U.S.S. Boggs' standing in and standing out of the channel on the days bracketing the attack (0820 stood in / 1025 stood out; 1542 stood in / 1625 stood out entries in the early-December log period). DANFS records that the attack found Boggs at sea and that she returned the same day to sweep the approaches and anchorage.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Study period
- 1941-12
- Population
- USN crews, Pearl Harbor channel, December 1941
- Limitations
- Corroborates presence and underway operations only; deck logs record movements and events, not materials. The log-period dates of the specific Boggs entries were not cross-fixed to a calendar day in this transcription. No asbestos relevance beyond confirming the hull's operational status during the attack period.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-boggs-dd136-08
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[10]Batch-3142 search ledger (this record): NHHC/DANFS (live page 404; verbatim transcription via hazegray.org mirror at losthistory.net); NHHC Online Library designation-chain and photo records (ibiblio mirror); NavSource DD-136/DMS-3 index pages; Shipscribe IX index; NARA leads; Atlas shipyards.json builder check; CourtListener name sweeps; Naval Vessel Register (not applicable - struck 1946) [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-boggs-dd136-01 through sl-uss-boggs-dd136-13
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no hull survey exists or was generated (the hull was sold to Northern Metals Co., Philadelphia, on 27 November 1946 and broken up decades before shipbreaking asbestos documentation), no abatement contract or hazmat disclosure exists, and the completed CourtListener name sweeps returned no case naming the ship. The hull left Navy custody in 1946 - before the era that produced asbestos documentation or litigation - so the usual exposure-record pathways (postwar yard abatement records, museum hazmat disclosures, veteran litigation naming this hull) do not exist for it.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Study period
- 2026-09-26
- Limitations
- Absence of a located public record does not prove absence of asbestos aboard - a 1917-18-built steam destroyer consistent with era practice would have carried insulated steam-plant materials, and her documented conversion and overhaul events are the type that disturb such material. Does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility. Remaining CourtListener designator/control queries are open (pacing-blocked), not negative.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-boggs-dd136-09