Evidence
8 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-8).
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[1]research packet gy-packet.md (5 sources cited) [other_primary]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERDICT: VERIFIED (mirror-sourced; NOT Gearing-class)
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Limitations
- qualifier: VERDICT: VERIFIED (mirror-sourced; NOT Gearing-class)
- Evidence ID
- uss-bristol-dd857-pkt-gy-packet-md
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[2]DANFS, Bristol II (DD-857) (specifications block, builder, dates, service narrative, battle stars; verbatim hazegray.org DANFS transcription via Wayback capture 2025-06-02 - live NHHC page serves 404) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- hazegray DANFS transcription 'DD-857 / Bristol II', specifications block + full narrative (Wayback 2025-06-02)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS record for this hull: 'cl. Allen M. Sumner'; launched 29 October 1944 by Bethlehem Steel Co., San Pedro, Calif., sponsored by Mrs. August Frederick Eberly; commissioned 17 March 1945, Commander K. P. Letts in command (the hazegray transcription's '1844' launch year is an OCR typo - every other source reads 1944; laid down 5 May 1944 per NavSource/association record). Departed San Diego 1945-06-13, Pearl Harbor 1945-06-19, Guam 1945-07-29; joined TG 30.8 logistic support group supplying TF 38; collided with USS Ashtabula (AO-51) 1945-08-05, bow damage repaired at Guam, repairs completed 1945-09-01; Far Eastern occupation duty to 1946-02-21; returned to San Pedro 1946-03-15. Atlantic Fleet from 1946-04; European cruises 1947-02/08 and 1948-09/1949-01; Reserve training ship out of New Orleans for 18 months; Caribbean/Guantanamo 1950; homeport Newport R.I. from 1950-10-21; Mediterranean 6th Fleet from 1951-03-05; round-the-world cruise 1951-10-02 incl. Korea 1951-10-31 to 1952-02-27, return via Suez/Mediterranean arriving Newport 1952-04-21. One WWII and two Korean battle stars.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1944-1969
- Population
- Bethlehem San Pedro construction trades 1944-45; wartime and postwar crew (design complement 345 per DANFS)
- Limitations
- DANFS documents service history, dates, and specifications, not materials or asbestos content. The hazegray transcription cited is the older DANFS edition ending mid-service (1952); the later DANFS text (reproduced verbatim in public-domain-derived secondary sources) appends 'On 21 November 1969, the ship was decommissioned and stricken. She was later loaned to Republic of China on 9 December 1969' - that framing conflicts with NavSource/NavalCoverMuseum decommission dates (1969-08-21/23) and on loan-vs-sale (see gaps). hazegray.org blocks automated fetch; cited via Wayback capture.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-bristol-dd857-01
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[3]NavSource Naval History Destroyer Photo Index, USS Bristol (DD-857) class/machinery/building-data and fate block (Wayback capture 2025-06-02; live navsource.org fetch blocked) + NavalCoverMuseum designation history (navalcovermuseum.org/wiki/BRISTOL_DD_857) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource DD-857 page 'CLASS'/'Machinery'/'Operational and Building Data'/'Fate' blocks (Wayback 2025-06-02); navalcovermuseum.org 'Ship Name and Designation History' table
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NavSource data block for this hull: 'CLASS - ALLEN M. SUMNER'; laid down by Bethlehem Steel, San Pedro, 1944-05-05; launched 1944-10-29; commissioned 1945-03-17; decommissioned 1969-08-23; stricken 1969-11-21; to Taiwan 1969-12-09, renamed Hua Yang; 'stricken and scrapped in 1993'; machinery 60,000 SHP, Westinghouse turbines, 2 screws; speed 36.5 knots; crew 336; call sign NBEZ, tactical voice call 'COLLAR BONE' (c.1968). NavalCoverMuseum: 'Decommissioned August 21 1969. Struck from Naval Register November 21 1969. HUA YANG DD-3 (Taiwanese Naval Service) Sold to Taiwan December 9 1969. Stricken and scrapped 1993.' ROC-era secondary record (Wikipedia citing ROC sources): commissioned ROCN 1969-12-09 as Hua Yang (DD-3); triple Hsiung Feng I launcher + RTN-10X radar missile conversion; renumbered DD-988 1976-01-01 and DDG-903 1979-10-01; decommissioned 1994-04-25, sold for scrap.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1944-1994
- Population
- USN crew 1945-1969; ROCN crew 1969-1994; Taiwan scrapping workers 1993-94 (exposure undocumented)
- Limitations
- NavSource and NavalCoverMuseum are volunteer-maintained secondary compilations, not official records - the 1969 decommission date (Aug 21 vs Aug 23), loan-vs-sale transfer framing (DANFS-derived text says 'loaned'; NavalCoverMuseum says 'sold'), and the 1993-vs-1994 scrapping year are not confirmed against primary documents (see gaps). NVR does not cover pre-1987 disposals. No asbestos content in these sources.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-bristol-dd857-02
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[4]Destroyer History Foundation, 'Allen M. Sumner class' narrative (Sumner-Gearing class series, sourced to DANFS, Friedman, Reilly, Sumrall, Whitley) + 'Bethlehem San Pedro' builder page [other_primary]
- Locator
- destroyerhistory.org Sumner class page (paragraph on builder blocks; Bristol parenthetical) and /destroyers/bethsp/ builder page
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- The class narrative names this hull explicitly: 'Sixty-nine ships were ordered 7 August 1942, with one group of hull numbers assigned to each builder (a 70th, Bristol, DD 857, was numbered and ordered from Bethlehem, San Pedro as the first of its block of Gearings but completed as its last Sumner).' This explains why a Sumner-class hull carries a DD-85x hull number inside the Gearing block (DD-710 through DD-890). The builder page records Bethlehem Steel's San Pedro yard at Terminal Island (Berth 240, founded as Southwest Shipbuilding 1917, leased by Bethlehem 1921, purchased 1925) built 26 destroyers for WWII: four Benson-class, ten Fletchers, eight Sumners, and four Gearings; shipbuilding ended postwar and the yard was sold to Southwest Marine in 1981.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1942-1945 (ordering/construction); page content 2000-2026
- Population
- Bethlehem San Pedro yard workforce (construction)
- Limitations
- Foundation-maintained secondary source - used for the numbering/design attribution and builder-yard context, not asbestos content (none present). Resolves a classification ambiguity: DD-857 is Sumner-class despite sitting in the Gearing number block - relevant because class-level asbestos inference must attach to the Sumner plant, not the Gearing hull form.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-bristol-dd857-03
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[5]GAO, 'Navy Efforts To Protect Workers From Asbestos Exposure,' HRD-80-2 (Oct. 18, 1979) - product-page description + Sumner-class machinery data (NavSource DD-857 block: 60,000 shp Westinghouse turbines; class-standard 4 B&W boiler plant) [gao]
- Locator
- gao.gov/products/hrd-80-2 product description; NavSource DD-857 machinery line
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Era/design inference: Bristol was built 1944-45 with the Sumner-class standard high-pressure superheated steam plant (4 Babcock & Wilcox boilers, geared steam turbines, 60,000 shp - NavSource lists Westinghouse turbines on this hull). GAO HRD-80-2 documents the Navy's extensive shipboard asbestos insulation use with substitution not beginning until the early 1970s - this hull's entire U.S. construction and service life (1944-1969) falls inside the documented asbestos-use era. Period-standard applications for this plant type: boiler and steam-drum insulation, steam-line lagging, valve and flange gaskets, machinery packing, turbine lagging, fireproofing, deck coverings, and bulkhead insulation.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1944-1969 (U.S. custody)
- Population
- Bethlehem San Pedro construction trades 1944-45; USN crew 1945-1969
- Limitations
- Class/era inference only - NOT a hull-specific finding. GAO is a program-level document; no survey or specification names DD-857. Does not quantify material, does not establish what was installed aboard this hull, and does not establish any individual's exposure. GAO product page used because gao.gov full text returns HTTP 403 to automated fetch (standing access defect from Batch-01).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-bristol-dd857-04
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[6]Goodrich v. Air & Liquid Systems Corp., Omnibus Opinion and Order, ECF No. 171, E.D. Va. No. 4:17-cv-00009 (Sept. 28, 2018) - class engineering-drawing recital (as transcribed in the Sumner class profile, allen-m-sumner-class.class.json / gearing-class.class.json evidence rows) [court_record]
- Locator
- Goodrich omnibus opinion pp. 12, 19, 31 (OCR of scanned ECF 171), as quoted in class-profile rows ev-gearing-class-04 / Sumner class profile
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Class-level litigation recital applicable to this hull's class: the Goodrich omnibus opinion recites that 'an engineering drawing for the insulation and lagging of forced draft blower turbines for the class of destroyers (DD 692, USS Allen M. Sumner class), within which the USS Harlan Dickson fell, specifies the use of amosite felts and asbestos cloths' and quotes an expert report estimating 'a partial tally of the weight of the asbestos-containing thermal insulation and lagging products in the fire ... and engine rooms of a ship belonging to the USS Allen M. Sumner (DD 692) and USS Gearing (DD 710) classes of destroyers is 30.3 tons.' DD-857 is an Allen M. Sumner-class hull (DANFS), so the DD-692-class drawing recital covers its machinery class.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1940s design era; opinion filed 2018-09-28
- Population
- Destroyer fire/engine-room crews (class context)
- Limitations
- Litigation-record recital of an expert report (McCloskey) and a Navy engineering drawing - not an adjudicated classwide quantity, not a hull record for DD-857, and the opinion treated related exposure conclusions as speculative. The recital is carried as class context: it describes the DD-692 design's specified materials, not what was actually installed aboard this hull. Underlying exhibits not retrieved.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-bristol-dd857-05
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[7]CourtListener API v4 searches: '"USS Bristol" "DD-857"' type=o (0 hits); '"USS Bristol"' type=o (0 hits); '"USS Bristol"' type=r (blocked - fleet pacing stand-down, retries exhausted across session); '"DD-857"' (blocked - pacing); '"aboard the Bristol"' (blocked - pacing); '"Hua Yang"' (blocked - pacing) [court_record]
- Locator
- CourtListener search results 2026-09-28: 'USS Bristol' o=0; '"USS Bristol" "DD-857"' o=0; type=r and variant queries = pacing stand-down (exit 2 on repeated spaced attempts)
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- Litigation sweep status for this hull: authenticated opinion-index searches for the exact phrase 'USS Bristol' and for 'USS Bristol' + 'DD-857' both returned ZERO results - no published opinion naming this vessel was located. Docket-index (RECAP) and remaining variant queries ('DD-857' alone, 'aboard the Bristol', 'Hua Yang', surname-collision sweep 'Bristol asbestos') could not be executed: the fleet-wide CourtListener pacing budget (~114 req/hr shared across all concurrent sessions) stood down repeatedly over multiple spaced retries during this session. Name-collision risk assessed as high if hits had surfaced: USS Bristol (DD-453), a Benson-class destroyer sunk off Algiers 1943-10-13, shares the name; 'Bristol' is also a common place/surname in unrelated litigation.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 2026-09-28
- Limitations
- Partial sweep, honestly bounded: the two completed opinion queries exclude published opinions naming the hull, but docket-index references (complaints, exhibit lists, unindexed filings) were not exhausted - a pleading-stage naming of DD-857 cannot be excluded. Absence of indexed hits does not establish that no claim was ever filed. Remaining queries logged as blocked in the search ledger for a later session.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-bristol-dd857-06
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[8]Batch-3821 search ledger (this record): DANFS transcription (hazegray via Wayback); NHHC live site; NavSource via Wayback; NavalCoverMuseum; NVR ship detail; Destroyer History Foundation class + builder pages; USS Bristol DD-857 Veterans' Association site; FRAM II conversion roster (naval-encyclopedia.com); Atlas shipyard dataset; CourtListener opinion index [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-bristol-dd857-01 through sl-uss-bristol-dd857-09
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located for DD-857: no hull ACM survey, no abatement contract or disclosure, no museum hazmat record (none can exist - the hull left U.S. custody 1969-12-09 and was scrapped in Taiwan 1993-94, before ACM documentation regimes), and no published opinion names this vessel. The only asbestos-relevant material is class-level (GAO era record; Goodrich class-drawing recital) and era/yard inference for the 1944-45 Bethlehem San Pedro construction.
- 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 - a 1944-45 Sumner-class hull is era-consistent with extensive asbestos fit, but that is inference, not ship-proven documentation. The docket-index sweep is incomplete (fleet pacing stand-down); a pleading-stage naming cannot yet be excluded. Does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-bristol-dd857-07