Evidence
8 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-8).
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[1]DANFS, Boise (CL-47) (builder, dates, specifications, service narrative; verbatim transcription - live NHHC page serves 404); cross-checked against HyperWar/ibiblio transcription [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS entry, specifications block + full service narrative
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS record for this hull: launched 3 December 1936 by Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., Newport News, Va.; commissioned 12 August 1938 (Capt. B. V. McCandlish). Struck an uncharted shoal in Sape Strait 21 January 1942 - repaired via Colombo and Bombay to Mare Island Navy Yard; raiding cruise off Japan July-August 1942; hit by Japanese shells in the Cape Esperance victory October 1942 (after taking six planes under fire) - repaired at Philadelphia Navy Yard 19 November 1942 - 20 March 1943; Sicily cover and fire support July-August 1943; Taranto and Salerno landings September 1943; New Guinea operations January-September 1944 (Madang-Alexishafen, Humboldt Bay, Wakde-Sawar, Wakde-Toem, Biak, Noemfoor, Cape Sansapor, Morotai); Leyte invasion and Surigao Strait October 1944; Mindoro; Lingayen Gulf with General MacArthur embarked January 1945; Bataan-Corregidor; Zamboanga; Tarakan; carried MacArthur on a 35,000-mile tour of the Philippines and Brunei Bay June 1945; overhaul and training at San Pedro to October 1945; arrived New York 20 October and decommissioned there 1 July 1946; sold to Argentina 11 January 1951 (as Nueve de Julio). Battle stars: transcriptions conflict - HazeGray reads eleven, HyperWar reads ten.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-18
- Study period
- 1935-1951
- Population
- Newport News construction trades 1935-38; crew 1938-46; Mare Island and Philadelphia repair-yard workers 1942-43
- Limitations
- DANFS documents service history and specifications, not materials or asbestos content. DANFS gives no laid-down date for this hull (keel 1 April 1935 verified via BuShips Ships' Data 1945 construction row, ev-02) and no stricken date; Argentine-service dates rest on secondary references and are flagged in gaps. The Philadelphia reconstruction is a documented deep-yard event whose insulation scope is inference. Mirror transcription cited because the live NHHC page returns 404.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-boise-cl47-01
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[2]U.S. Navy Bureau of Ships, Ships' Data U.S. Naval Vessels, Vol. 1 (1945), Light Cruisers (CL) construction and machinery tables (shipscribe.com scan, OCR-extracted) [other_primary]
- Locator
- SDB1945v1.pdf, CL section, construction table pp. 50-51 and machinery table pp. 54-55 (PDF pp. 33, 35; OCR row 6)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Official 1945 BuShips tabulation supplies the date DANFS omits: the CL construction table lists Boise (Newport News S. B. & D. D. Co.) with keel laid 1 April 1935, launched 3 December 1936 (alphabetical CL row 6), and the CL machinery table lists this hull with 4 shafts, N.N. Parsons-type geared turbines, 100,000 shp - the Brooklyn-class machinery suite.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-18
- Study period
- 1935-1945
- Population
- Construction yard workers 1935-38
- Limitations
- Official machinery/construction data only - contains no asbestos, insulation-material, or condition content. OCR extraction of a scan; row identification by alphabetical CL row position (row 6 = Boise); the steam-pressure columns on this row are OCR-degraded but the turbine-family reading is unambiguous.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-boise-cl47-02
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[3]U.S. Navy, Bureau of Ships Technical Manual, NAVSHIPS 250-000, Chapter 39 'Thermal Insulation' (1960) [other_primary]
- Locator
- BuShips TM ch.39, sections 39-11 through 39-13
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- The Navy's own insulation manual enumerates the asbestos material suite standard to steam plants of this hull's construction era: MIL-P-2781 pipe covering including 85% magnesia (~15% asbestos fiber) and amosite-fiber classes; 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.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-18
- Study period
- 1960 (manual); describes specifications representative of 1935-38 practice
- Population
- n/a
- Limitations
- Specification-level era documentation, not a hull record - the manual is 1959-60 vintage while this hull was built 1935-38; the same material family is documented for 1930s practice but the manual postdates construction by two decades. Does not quantify material aboard. Retrieved PDF is a scan hosted in the Garlock bankruptcy Daubert-appendix repository.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-boise-cl47-03
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[4]DANFS specifications block + damage/repair narrative (this record, ev-01) + BuShips Ships' Data machinery row (ev-02) + BuShips TM ch.39 era suite (ev-03) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- ev-01/-02/-03 synthesis; repair dates from DANFS service narrative
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Era inference for this hull: a Brooklyn-class cruiser built 1935-38 with the documented 8-boiler/100,000-shp steam plant would era-typically have carried asbestos boiler and fireroom insulation, steam-pipe and turbine lagging, gaskets and packing, deck covering, and bulkhead/cable insulation. The documented deep-yard events - grounding repairs at Mare Island (early 1942) and the four-month Philadelphia Navy Yard reconstruction after Cape Esperance shellfire (19 November 1942 - 20 March 1943) - opened machinery and hull spaces where original-era material would have been disturbed.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-18
- Study period
- 1935-1946
- Population
- Construction trades 1935-38; crew 1938-46; Mare Island + Philadelphia yard workers 1942-43
- Limitations
- Class/era inference only - NOT a hull-specific finding. The Philadelphia repair period is documented by exact dates but its insulation scope is inference from work extent; no work package or abatement record for CL-47 is digitized. Does not quantify material aboard or establish any individual's exposure.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-boise-cl47-04
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[5]DANFS Boise (CL-47) disposition sentence (sold to Argentina 11 January 1951 as Nueve de Julio) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS disposition paragraph; foreign-service dates per class-profile/secondary references (flagged)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Foreign-transfer material status undocumented: sold to Argentina 11 January 1951 and served as Nueve de Julio; secondary references give Argentine stricken ~1978 and scrapping ~1983. No condition survey, abatement record, or materials accounting from transfer through 27+ years of Argentine service is located in U.S. sources.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-18
- Study period
- 1951-1983
- Population
- Argentine Navy crew and foreign-yard workers 1951-83
- Limitations
- Documents custody only - Argentine-service material history (1951-78/83) is outside U.S. documentation; whether original-era asbestos material was present, removed, or replaced during foreign service is unknown. The 1978/1983 foreign-service dates rest on secondary references, not a cited primary record.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-boise-cl47-05
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[6]CourtListener REST API v4 - class-level per-ship exact-phrase sweep 2026-09-16 (brooklyn-class profile sl-05) + per-ship query attempt 2026-09-18 [court_record]
- Locator
- search_ledger sl-uss-boise-cl47-05; brooklyn-class profile search_ledger sl-brooklyn-class-05
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- No qualifying asbestos litigation naming CL-47 located: a per-ship exact-phrase opinion sweep ('USS Boise' + asbestos) run 2026-09-16 across the class member names returned zero qualifying results. A fresh per-ship re-verification and RECAP/docket expansion on 2026-09-18 was blocked - the CourtListener API returned HTTP 429 (daily 125-request limit exhausted; ~44,400 s to reset), so opinion-level re-check and any docket-level coverage remain unexecuted.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-18
- Study period
- 2026-09-16; 2026-09-18
- Population
- n/a
- Limitations
- The 2026-09-16 sweep covered type=o opinions at class level only and predates this record by two days; docket-level (type=r) coverage and exact-name re-verification are deferred and logged as a gap. A negative result does not establish that no case exists - 'Boise' is also a place name and Argentine-service-era claims would fall outside U.S. indexed coverage.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-boise-cl47-06
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[7]This record's search ledger: NHHC DANFS probe; two independent DANFS transcriptions; BuShips Ships' Data 1945 and Navy Directory 1938 OCR; NVR coverage check; CourtListener attempts [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-boise-cl47-01 through -07
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No ship-specific asbestos documentation of any kind was located for CL-47: no insulation or material specification, no hull survey, no abatement contract or hazmat disclosure (including for the 1942 Mare Island grounding repairs or the 1942-43 Philadelphia reconstruction), no qualifying litigation. All asbestos-relevant content in this record rests on class/era specification (BuShips TM ch.39), the documented uniform plant (Ships' Data), and documented repair and foreign-transfer events.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-18
- Study period
- 2026-09-18
- Population
- n/a
- Limitations
- Absence of a located record does not prove absence - the Philadelphia Navy Yard repair work packages (November 1942 - March 1943, NARA RG 19) and the 1951 MDAP transfer condition survey are the likeliest unmined primary records; Argentine-service material records are effectively unreachable.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-boise-cl47-07
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[8]NARA Record Group 19 (Bureau of Ships series) + MDAP/security-assistance transfer files - known holding class, not yet searched [other_primary]
- Locator
- NARA RG 19 / RG 330 (not yet searched)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Archival lead: NARA RG 19 BuShips damage/repair records for the January 1942 Sape Strait grounding (Mare Island) and the Cape Esperance reconstruction at Philadelphia Navy Yard (November 1942 - March 1943), plus the 1951 MDAP transfer condition survey - the likeliest primary records of material disturbance and handoff state. Not digitized; not consulted for this pass.
- Verification
- unverified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-18
- Study period
- n/a
- Population
- n/a
- Limitations
- Holding location inferred from standard records disposition; MDAP transfer surveys may sit in RG 59/RG 330 security-assistance files rather than RG 19.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-boise-cl47-08