Evidence
6 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-6).
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[1]DANFS, Buchanan II (DD-484) (builder, dates, full service narrative, transfer; verbatim transcription - live NHHC page returns 404) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS entry, specifications block + service narrative + decommissioning/transfer paragraphs
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS record for this hull: Gleaves-class destroyer launched 22 November 1941 by Federal Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., Kearny, N.J., sponsored by Miss Hildreth Meiere (great-granddaughter of namesake Admiral Franklin Buchanan); commissioned 21 March 1942. Continuous Pacific service: Guadalcanal-Tulagi landings 7-9 August 1942; survivor rescue at Savo Island; Battle of Cape Esperance 11-12 October 1942; Naval Battle of Guadalcanal 12 November 1942 (damaged by U.S. gunfire, five crew lost); grounding off Guadalcanal 30 April 1943; New Georgia/Rendova/Munda; Battle of Kolombangara 13 July 1943 (collision with Woodworth DD-460); Treasury-Bougainville and Rabaul strikes; sank Japanese submarine RO-37 on 22 January 1944; Bismarck Archipelago operations; stateside overhaul at Mare Island; Palaus September-October 1944; Luzon/Formosa/China coast strikes; typhoon damage 18 December 1944; Iwo Jima, Okinawa, and Third/Fifth Fleet operations against Japan. On 2 September 1945 she carried General MacArthur to USS Missouri for the surrender ceremony. Decommissioned in reserve at Charleston 21 May 1946; recommissioned 11 December 1948 with a nucleus Turkish crew; turned over to the Turkish Navy at Golcuk 28 April 1949. Presidential Unit Citation and 16 battle stars. Design complement 276; specifications block gives 37.4 kt.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1941-1949
- Population
- Federal Shipbuilding construction trades 1941-42; wartime crew (design complement 276)
- Limitations
- DANFS documents service history and specifications, not materials or asbestos content. Mirror transcription cited because the live NHHC page returns 404. Does not state laid-down or stricken dates; Turkish-service details end at transfer.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-buchanan-dd484-01
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[2]NavSource Naval History, USS Buchanan (DD-484) page - Operational and Building Data (compiled volunteer archive hosting official NHHC photo records) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource DD-484 page, 'Operational and Building Data' block and 'Fate' line
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NavSource compiled record for this hull: laid down by Federal Shipbuilding, Kearny NJ, 11 February 1941; launched 22 November 1941; commissioned 21 March 1942; decommissioned 21 May 1946; recommissioned 11 December 1948; decommissioned 28 April 1949; stricken 7 June 1949; transferred to Turkey 28 April 1949 and renamed Gelibolu; stricken and scrapped 1976. Machinery line: 50,000 shp, Westinghouse geared turbines, 2 screws; 35 knots; crew 208. Full Presidential Unit Citation text reproduced.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1941-1976
- Population
- Wartime and postwar U.S. crew; Turkish Navy crew 1949-1976
- Limitations
- NavSource is a volunteer-compiled secondary archive, not an official record; used for the laid-down date, stricken dates, and Turkish disposition absent from DANFS. Its decommission dates agree with DANFS; its crew figure (208) differs from the DANFS complement (276) - the DANFS figure is carried. Speed (35 kt) differs from the DANFS block (37.4 kt). Turkish pennant number D-346 is corroborated by secondary references, not by an official Turkish source.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-buchanan-dd484-02
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[3]National Archives, 'Navy Deck Logs Available in the National Archives Catalog' (online availability index) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NARA deck-log index, 'B' section - 'Buchanan (DDG-14)' is the only Buchanan entry; no DD-484 listing
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- The NARA online deck-log index lists digitized logs for Buchanan (DDG-14) only - a different hull (Charles F. Adams-class guided missile destroyer). No DD-484 log months appear in the digitized index; World War II-era deck logs for this hull are held in RG 24 (Logbooks of U.S. Navy Ships and Stations) at Archives II, College Park, per the index's stated coverage and contact procedure for unlisted logs. Deck logs are potential primary records for maintenance and material events aboard this hull.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1942-1949 (hull's U.S. log years)
- Limitations
- The index is an availability guide for digitized logs, not the logs themselves; absence of DD-484 from the online index means undigitized or unlisted, not nonexistent. Logs were not retrieved or reviewed and index coverage does not document asbestos or exposure.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-buchanan-dd484-03
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[4]Atlas shipyard dataset (shipyards.json) record 'federal-shipbuilding-kearny': Owens-Illinois Industrial Health Survey of Federal Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., Kearny, NJ, 30 August-2 September 1944; documented products include Johns-Manville Superex pipe covering and Kaylo (Owens-Illinois) pipe/boiler insulation [other_primary]
- Locator
- shipyards.json yard_id 'federal-shipbuilding-kearny' (ev-federal-kearny-ihs-1944); 'mare-island-naval-shipyard'; 'charleston-naval-shipyard'
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Yard-level asbestos context for the builder: a 1944 Owens-Illinois industrial health survey at Federal Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., Kearny documented insulator work with asbestos pipe covering (Johns-Manville Superex, ~15% amosite) and Kaylo pipe/boiler insulation products at the yard during the wartime construction era. This hull was built at that yard in 1941-42. Documented repair/availability periods at Mare Island Navy Yard (1944 overhaul) and Charleston Naval Shipyard (1946 inactivation; 1948-49 recommissioning) place the hull at two additional yards with documented asbestos-product histories in the Atlas dataset.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1941-1949
- Population
- Federal Shipbuilding Kearny insulators and construction trades (1944 survey period); yard workers at Mare Island (1944) and Charleston (1946, 1948-49) availability periods
- Limitations
- Yard-level and class/era context only - the 1944 survey post-dates this hull's 1941-42 construction and names the yard, not this ship. No work order, material schedule, or survey ties these products to DD-484. No ship-specific asbestos finding is made from this row.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-buchanan-dd484-04
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[5]CourtListener API v4 authenticated sweep via mandated helper cl-auth-search.py: opinion and docket searches for 'USS Buchanan' and 'DD-484' [court_record]
- Locator
- See search_ledger entries sl-uss-buchanan-dd484-03 through -06
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- Completed authenticated CourtListener sweep: zero published opinions match 'USS Buchanan' or 'DD-484'; docket (RECAP) search returns one asbestos docket in which 'USS Buchanan' appears in indexed document text (Redman v. A.W. Chesterton, N.D. Cal. 2008 - see ev-06) and three 'DD-484' docket hits that are name collisions unrelated to the ship (a 2020 bankruptcy, a 2022 voting-rights case, a 2005 contract case where '484' appears in billing data). No qualifying adjudicated litigation naming this hull is in the index. Separately, no ship-specific asbestos documentation was located in the official sources reviewed for this batch - a bounded search result, not proof that none exists.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Limitations
- Sweep covers CourtListener's published-opinion and RECAP docket indexes only; a state-court or unindexed filing would not appear. The lone docket hit is an unverified archival lead (ev-06), not a classified qualifying case. This row establishes nothing about asbestos aboard the ship.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-buchanan-dd484-05
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[6]Redman v. A.W. Chesterton Company, No. 3:08-cv-03013-JSW (N.D. Cal.), Petition for Removal - Asbestos Litigation (filed 2008-06-18; terminated 2009-02-02) [court_record]
- Locator
- CourtListener docket 4174328 (N.D. Cal. 3:08-cv-03013); match inside ECF No. 11 declaration, 323 pp.
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- Asbestos personal-injury docket (nature of suit 368 P.I.: Asbestos; cause 28:1441 Petition for Removal - Asbestos Litigation) in which 'USS Buchanan' appears in indexed CourtListener RECAP document text - the match falls inside ECF No. 11, a 323-page declaration with exhibits (plaintiff's removal/remand filings). Whether 'USS Buchanan' names the plaintiff's alleged exposure vessel or appears in an attached ships/list exhibit is not retrievable from the public index; the 323-page document was not reviewed.
- Verification
- unverified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 2008-2009 (litigation)
- Population
- Unverified from index (plaintiff Jeri Redman)
- Limitations
- Docket-text reference only, pleading/removal stage - unadjudicated as to this hull. Hull attribution caution: two U.S. Navy Buchanans precede DDG-14 - DD-131 (in U.S. service 1919-1940, then HMS Campbeltown) and DD-484 (1942-1949); a veteran's exposure window would distinguish them, and it is not resolved from the index. Establishes nothing about materials aboard this ship.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-buchanan-dd484-06