Evidence
7 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-7).
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[1]DANFS, Brock (APD-93 / ex-DE-234) full entry (Robert J. Cressman, rev. 1 Dec 2005); live NHHC page returns 404 - verbatim text via Wayback capture of the official history.navy.mil page [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS entry 'Brock' (specifications block + full service narrative)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS record for this hull: laid down 27 October 1943 at Charleston (S.C.) Navy Yard as Rudderow-class DE-234; launched 20 January 1944, sponsored by Mrs. James W. Brock; reclassified fast transport APD-93 (Crosley class) 17 July 1944; commissioned 9 February 1945, Lt. Comdr. Harrison H. Holton in command. Guantanamo Bay shakedown March 1945; post-shakedown repairs and alterations at Norfolk Navy Yard; Panama Canal transit 14 April; Pearl Harbor 2 May (UDT exercises); Marshalls/Ulithi May; Okinawa operation 12 June-1 July 1945 (downed a Japanese fighter off Ie Shima 26 June; rescued downed pilot 23 June); Philippine Sea Frontier patrols; two occupation convoy escorts to Tokyo Bay (13 September, 27 October); sank a floating mine; drydock at San Pedro Bay 10 October; Bungo Strait harbor entrance control vessel 11 November-15 December. Homeward via San Pedro (10 January 1946); pre-inactivation overhaul at Boston (arrived 5 March); Green Cove Springs, Fla., 13 April 1946 - one year in commission as a 'mother ship' for the Florida Group, 16th Fleet (later Atlantic Reserve Fleet), providing steam and power to inactive-fleet ships and quarters/mess for deactivation crews; decommissioned 5 May 1947; reserve 4 June 1947; stricken 1 June 1960; sold to Colombia January 1962 for use as a floating power plant; one battle star for WWII.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1943-1962
- Population
- Charleston Navy Yard construction/conversion trades 1943-45; wartime crew (complement 204 + 162 troops); Green Cove Springs deactivation crews quartered aboard 1946-47
- Limitations
- DANFS documents identity, service, and disposition - not materials or asbestos content. Live NHHC DANFS page returns 404 (standing link rot); verbatim text recovered from a Wayback capture of the official page. The mother-ship detail establishes her steam plant ran continuously for a year supporting ship deactivation work - an occupational context, not a materials record.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-brock-de234-01
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[2]NHHC, 'United States Naval Aviation 1910-1995,' Appendix 12: Ships Named for Naval Aviators - 'Brock (APD 93-ex-DE 234)' named for 'ENS John W. Brock, USN,' 9 Feb 1945 [other_primary]
- Locator
- Appendix 12 table, alphabetical 'B' entries (p. 601 of the PDF)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Official NHHC appendix corroborates this hull's identity: Brock (APD 93, ex-DE 234) named for ENS John W. Brock, USN - naval aviator of Torpedo Squadron 6 killed in action at the Battle of Midway 4 June 1942, posthumous Navy Cross (per DANFS biography) - with the 9 February 1945 commissioning date.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1942-1945
- Limitations
- Index-table corroboration of namesake, hull numbers, and commissioning date only; adds nothing on materials or conditions aboard. Appendix lists him 'USN'; DANFS biography records an enlisted naval aviator commissioned ensign 21 April 1942.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-brock-de234-02
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[3]DANFS APD-93 specifications block + NavSource APD-93 specifications block (secondary compilation) + Atlas shipyard dataset record 'charleston-naval-shipyard' (yard-level asbestos documentation) [other_primary]
- Locator
- DANFS APD-93 spec line; NavSource 'APD Specifications' block (propulsion); shipyards.json 'charleston-naval-shipyard'
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Era/yard inference: a Rudderow-class DE hull built at Charleston Navy Yard and completed there as a Crosley-class APD in 1944-45 carried a steam plant - two Babcock & Wilcox 'D'-type boilers (435 psi, 750 F), two General Electric turbines in turbo-electric drive, 12,000 shp, two shafts (NavSource APD specifications block) - of a type that as built in 1944 would have carried period-standard asbestos boiler and turbine insulation, steam-line lagging, gaskets, packing, and fireproofing. The builder yard is documented at yard level in the Atlas dataset (tier 2): magnesia pipe insulation, asbestos gaskets in pumps and valves, packing for rotating equipment, thermal insulation for steam systems, and other era products, plus an OSHA asbestos citation (1988 inspection).
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1943-1947
- Population
- Charleston Navy Yard construction and conversion trades, 1943-45; crew 1945-47
- Limitations
- Class/era and builder-yard inference only - no ship-specific asbestos record was located for this hull. Machinery detail is from the NavSource secondary spec block, unverified against contract documents or NARA RG19 General Information Books (archival lead). Yard-level Charleston findings do not establish what was installed aboard DE-234/APD-93.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-brock-de234-03
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[4]U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Jacksonville District, FUDS record: 'Final installation-wide background chemical data study report: Former Lee Field Naval Air Station, Green Cove Springs, Florida' (2004), CONTENTdm record 11861; companion Florida DEP site documents note scheduled friable-asbestos removal from site buildings (e.g., the shore Power Plant) [other_primary]
- Locator
- USACE Digital Library, Jacksonville District FUDS reports (CONTENTdm 11861); prodenv.dep.state.fl.us DepStaging dms 8.249447.1 (indexed snippet)
- Finding type
- environmental_record
- Finding
- The Green Cove Springs naval facility (former NAS Lee Field / Naval Station; Florida Group, Atlantic Reserve Fleet) where this hull served a year in commission as a reserve-fleet 'mother ship' (1946-47) and then lay in reserve (1947-1960) is a documented FUDS site whose postwar mission was deactivating Navy ships; the official record set includes facility-level asbestos documentation (asbestos-abatement scheduling for shore buildings).
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1946-1960 (site period); 2004 (report)
- Population
- Reserve-fleet deactivation workforce, Green Cove Springs, 1946-1960s
- Limitations
- Facility-level documentation of shore buildings only - does not document asbestos aboard this or any hull, nor exposure of any person. Report metadata verified via the CONTENTdm record; the 59 MB report body and the DEP staging PDF were not text-extracted (encrypted/large files), so asbestos specifics are carried from the record's indexed description, not full-text review.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-brock-de234-04
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[5]NARA RG 24 U.S. Navy deck logs (USS Brock, DE-234/APD-93, commissioned period February 1945-May 1947); NARA index of digitized Navy deck logs [other_primary]
- Locator
- NARA 'Navy Deck Logs Available in the National Archives Catalog' index (Brock absent); RG 24 deck-logs series
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Deck logs for this hull's February 1945-May 1947 commissioned period are held in NARA Record Group 24 (U.S. Navy deck logs). Brock does not appear in NARA's index of digitized Navy deck logs as of 2026-09-28 - the logs exist in the paper series but are not located in the online catalog's digitized set.
- Verification
- unverified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1945-1947
- Population
- Crew of USS Brock, 1945-1947
- Limitations
- Archival lead only - logs not retrieved. Deck logs document movements, musters, and availabilities, not materials; they would corroborate the DANFS narrative and repair/yard periods but would not establish asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-brock-de234-05
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[6]Batch-4154 search ledger (this record): full DANFS entry (Wayback capture of history.navy.mil); NHHC 'Ships Named for Naval Aviators' appendix; NavSource/HyperWar leads; NARA digitized deck-log index; USACE FUDS Green Cove Springs records; CourtListener exact-name and hull-number sweeps [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-brock-de234-01 through sl-uss-brock-de234-09
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, abatement contract, museum hazmat disclosure, or docketed asbestos case naming DE-234 or APD-93 was found in the public sources searched (see search_ledger). No post-1962 material record exists in U.S. hands - the hull was sold to Colombia in January 1962 for use as a floating power plant and its fate is unknown.
- 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 - the hull's 1943-45 construction at a naval shipyard is era-consistent with asbestos use, and nothing about the ship's later fate documents material removal. Does not establish that asbestos is or is not present; does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-brock-de234-06
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[7]CourtListener API v4 authenticated searches (type=o opinions and type=r RECAP dockets), 2026-09-28 [court_record]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-brock-de234-08, sl-uss-brock-de234-09; /tmp artifacts cl-de234-o.json, cl-de234-op.json
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- No qualifying asbestos litigation naming DE-234/APD-93 located. Results: '"USS Brock"' opinions 0 hits; '"USS Brock"' RECAP dockets 0 hits; '"aboard the Brock"' opinions 0 hits; '"APD-93"' opinions 0 hits; '"DE-234" asbestos' opinions 0 hits. '"DE-234"' alone returned 20 opinion hits, all name collisions - sampled full-text pull (Ethypharm S.A. France v. Abbott Laboratories, 3d Cir. 2013) confirms 'DE-234' does not literally appear in the opinion; hits reflect index-level matches on docket-entry numbers and linked-opinion IDs, not the hull.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 2026-09-28
- Limitations
- Litigation search coverage is limited to CourtListener-indexed state/federal opinions and federal dockets; unindexed state trial-court filings and settled MDL-875 claimant records are not covered. No search can prove the absence of all possible litigation. Sweeps ran through the authenticated fleet-paced helper under heavy quota contention.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-brock-de234-07