Evidence
12 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-12).
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[1]research packet hn-packet.md (6 sources cited) [other_primary]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERDICT: VERIFIED — real identity: USS Charles F. Adams | Hull: DDG-2 | Designation: guided-missile destroyer (DDG)
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-charles-f-adams-ddg2-pkt-hn-packet-md
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[2]DANFS, Charles F. Adams (DDG-2) (NHHC; live page returns 404 - Wayback capture 2022-08-11; verbatim transcription also hazegray.org/danfs/destroy/ddg2.htm via Wayback 2021-04-21) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS entry, specifications block + service narrative (single-paragraph entry)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS record for this hull: launched 8 September 1959 by Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine; sponsored by Mrs. R. Homans, sister of the namesake; commissioned 10 September 1960, Commander W. R. Monroe, Jr., in command; operated along the east coast on shakedown training through the end of 1960. Specifications block: displacement 4,500; length 437'; beam 47'; draft 22'; speed 30 knots; complement 354; armament RIM-24 Tartar surface-to-air missiles, 2 5-inch; class Charles F. Adams. Entry notes the ship is eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places and that a detailed history is 'under construction.' Namesake: Charles Francis Adams, Secretary of the Navy 1929-1933.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1959-1960 (narrative); 1866-1954 (namesake)
- Population
- Bath Iron Works construction trades 1958-60; crew (design complement 354)
- Limitations
- DANFS documents service history and specifications, not materials or asbestos content. The entry is truncated - 'detailed history under construction' - so it covers only 1960; post-1960 operations are not covered by this source. Live NHHC page returns 404; Wayback capture cited.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-charles-f-adams-ddg2-01
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[3]Naval Vessel Register, CHARLES F. ADAMS (DDG 2), UIC 04668 (Wayback capture 2011-01-16; live record removed after disposal) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NVR ship-details page, status/characteristics blocks
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NVR record for this hull: builder Bath Iron Wks Corp; award date 03/28/1957; keel date 06/15/1958; launch 09/08/1959; delivery 08/31/1960; commission 09/10/1960; decommission 08/01/1990; stricken 11/20/1992; status 'Stricken, available for donation as a museum and memorial' - planned disposition ON DONATION HOLD AS A MUSEUM AND MEMORIAL; berth NAVSEA Inactive Ships On-site Maintenance Office, Philadelphia, PA; custodian NAVSEA Inactive Ships On-site Maintenance Office; steel hull, aluminum superstructure; light displacement 3,601 tons.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1957-2011 (record snapshot)
- Population
- Crew 1960-1990; inactive-ship maintenance workers 1990-2020
- Limitations
- NVR snapshot as of January 2011 - the donation-hold status it records was later revoked (see ev-07). NVR keel date 06/15/1958 conflicts by one day with NavSource/secondary 16 June 1958 (carried in gaps); NVR is carried as authoritative. Record documents status and dates, not materials or asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-charles-f-adams-ddg2-02
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[4]Federal Register 63 FR 54682, Department of the Navy, 'Notice of Deadline for Submission of Donation Application for the Guided Missile Destroyer Ex-CHARLES F. ADAMS (DDG 2)' (13 October 1998, FR Doc. 98-27289) [federal_register]
- Locator
- 63 FR 54682, notice text
- Finding type
- regulatory
- Finding
- Official Navy notice names this hull: ex-CHARLES F. ADAMS (DDG 2) located at the Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility, Philadelphia, PA; deadline of January 6, 1999 for donation applications under 10 U.S.C. Section 7306; transfer at no cost to the government; transferee required to maintain the vessel as a static museum/memorial; prospective transferees must submit a comprehensive application addressing 'the significant financial, technical, and environmental responsibilities that accompany ships donated under this program.'
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1998
- Population
- NISMF Philadelphia maintenance/custodial workforce; prospective museum transferees
- Limitations
- Establishes the ship's 1998 location, donation-program status, and that donation applicants had to manage 'environmental responsibilities' - the notice does not enumerate hazardous materials or asbestos aboard. No donation transfer resulted (see ev-07).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-charles-f-adams-ddg2-03
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[5]Defense Logistics Agency Disposition Services, 'DLA to scrap five warships' (5 October 2020; live page 403 to automated fetch - Wayback capture 2022-12-08) [other_primary]
- Locator
- DLA news article, paragraphs 1-5
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Official DLA announcement names this hull: DLA Disposition Services will recycle five retired U.S. Navy ships - the ex-USS Charles F. Adams (DDG-2), ex-USS Barry (DD-933), ex-USS Stephen W. Groves (FFG-29), ex-USS Hawes (FFG-53), and ex-USS Ticonderoga (CG-47) - under a new scrap sales contract 'to save taxpayer money and protect the environment'; the winning bid for all five ships was $240; final destination Brownsville, Texas, 'where full dismantling will commence and 98% of all removed materials are expected to be recycled'; Navy officials reviewed technical proposals for the contract.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 2020
- Population
- Ship-recycling workforce, Brownsville, TX
- Limitations
- Documents the disposal contract and destination; the article does not describe hazardous-material or asbestos handling aboard any of the five ships. $240 bid covers all five hulls combined.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-charles-f-adams-ddg2-04
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[6]DVIDS / official U.S. Navy photo caption 200826-N-PE636-0027, 'USS Charles F. Adams is towed through the Delaware River' (26 August 2020, photo by MC2 Anthony Flynn, released) [other_primary]
- Locator
- DVIDS image page 1 of 4, caption text
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Official Navy photo caption: 'The decommissioned guided-missile destroyer USS Charles F. Adams (DDG 2) is towed through the Delaware River en route to Brownsville, Texas, for dismantling. Adams, the U.S. Navy's first guided-missile destroyer built from the keel up, was decommissioned and retired to Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility Philadelphia over 30 years ago.' Documents the 26 August 2020 departure under tow and the ship's design-first status within the service.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 2020
- Population
- Tow/salvage crew, Delaware River transit
- Limitations
- Caption-level official record; establishes the tow date/route and the 'first guided-missile destroyer built from the keel up' characterization. No materials or hazmat content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-charles-f-adams-ddg2-05
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[7]Recycling Today, 'International Shipbreaking Ltd. to recycle the USS Charles F. Adams' (21 September 2020); EMR/International Shipbreaking Ltd. release text (arrival notice, Port of Brownsville, 13 September 2020) [reputable_press]
- Locator
- Recycling Today article; EMR/ISL release (uk.emrlocal.com news notice)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Industry press + contractor release for this hull: 'the Charlie Deuce' will be dismantled and recycled by International Shipbreaking Ltd. (EMR Metal Recycling) at Brownsville, Texas; the ship sailed into the Port of Brownsville on the morning of Sunday 13 September 2020; the recycling contract 'requires complete demilitarization of the entire ship, is set for completion in 2021 and will see 98 percent of all materials removed being recycled'; ISL describes 'a world class green ship recycling facility' and prior Navy hulls recycled (USS Tripoli, USS Constellation, USS Ranger).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 2020-2021
- Population
- International Shipbreaking Ltd. workforce, Brownsville, TX
- Limitations
- Contract-scope and company statements; no asbestos or hazardous-material handling detail for this hull is disclosed. Completion-in-2021 is a contractual target; actual scrapping completion (19 May 2021) rests on NavSource building data (ev-10).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-charles-f-adams-ddg2-06
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[8]Jacksonville Daily Record, 'Group: Navy to scrap USS Charles F. Adams, not donate it to Jacksonville' (21 December 2018); WJCT News (26 December 2018); Jacksonville Daily Record museum-coverage series 2014 [reputable_press]
- Locator
- Jax Daily Record 2018-12-21 article; WJCT 2018-12-26; Jax Daily Record 2014-06-26
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Local business press documents the end of the donation effort for this hull: the Jacksonville Historic Naval Ship Association had pursued the ship since before 2014, filed a donation application 31 March 2008, raised ~$2.8 million in donations, private capital, bank loans and state grants, and won a Downtown Investment Authority development agreement for a St. Johns River berth; in December 2018 the JHNSA announced the Navy would not release the ship and intended to scrap her. Coverage confirms the ship spent 20 years at Naval Station Mayport and had been berthed at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard (NISMF) since 1990. A 2014 installment reports the donation application anticipated an EPA inspection 'to confirm the vessel is environmentally fit for transport and use as a public floating museum.'
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 2008-2018
- Population
- JHNSA/museum-planning stakeholders
- Limitations
- Press reporting of the parties' accounts, not Navy findings; the anticipated EPA fitness inspection never occurred because the Navy declined transfer. 'Environmental fitness' language is donation-program boilerplate and does not identify shipboard contaminants.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-charles-f-adams-ddg2-07
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[9]GAO HRD-80-2, Navy Efforts To Protect Workers From Asbestos Exposure (18 October 1979), incl. Navy enclosure Ser 4542/318054 (5 Jan 1979) and Ser 454D/318571 (8 Feb 1979) (product page + full-text PDF verified via Wayback; live gao.gov 403 to automated fetch) [gao]
- Locator
- HRD-80-2 enclosure I (5 Jan 1979 letter + cost table, pp. ~1-4 of enclosure); enclosure II (8 Feb 1979 insulation-weight letter)
- Finding type
- gov_survey
- Finding
- Navy program-level record covering the era in which this hull served: the Navy's 5 Jan 1979 enclosure states 'each ship has several types of asbestos containing materials installed' and 'all ships presently in service contain some quantity of asbestos,' citing deck tiling, galley-range cabling, piping gaskets and packing, and equipment brakes and clutches, and judging it 'nearly impossible to build a Navy ship free of the mineral.' Its reinsulation-cost table groups in-service 'DESTROYER: DD & DDG' - a category including the Charles F. Adams class then in service - among frigates and submarines in a $965.13 million tentative fleet estimate for thermal-insulation removal/reinsulation (about half the fleet). The report documents the 1973 asbestos-free specification change, contract-by-contract transition, and asbestos-insulated deliveries continuing to May 1978; the Navy's 1975 policy removed/replaced asbestos insulation only when damaged or removed for repairs, modified in 1979 to add selective replacement in high-maintenance areas - under which 'implementation ... will result in the removal of all shipboard thermal asbestos except that 30 to 50 percent which is normally untouched during the life of the ship.'
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1978-1979 (review period); policy through ~1984
- Population
- Navy ship crews and shipyard repair workers, 1970s
- Limitations
- Program-level: names no individual hull and gives no DDG-2-class insulation quantity - the report's only per-class thermal-insulation weight (87,634 lbs) is for the Spruance DD-963 class. The DD & DDG line is a grouped cost category, not a per-hull finding. Establishes that in-service destroyers of this era carried asbestos-containing applications, not what was aboard DDG-2 specifically.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-charles-f-adams-ddg2-08
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[10]NARA, 'Researching Asbestos aboard US Naval Vessel up through 1961' (military-records research guide) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NARA guided-topic page, 'Bureau of Ships ... Correspondence' and series accordions
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- NARA's official research guide for documenting whether a particular U.S. naval vessel carried asbestos: directs researchers to RG 19 (Records of the Bureau of Ships) general/confidential correspondence 1940-1961, filed under the Navy Filing Manual by hull designation (e.g., 'DDG2') and by class correspondence under the namesake hull's filing code, with private-yard correspondence filed under 'QM' (e.g., QM/Bath Iron Works); also covers plans, specifications and related series. This hull's entire construction period (contract 1957, build 1958-1960) falls inside the guide's 1940-1961 coverage window.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1940-1961 (records scope)
- Population
- Researchers; NARA reference staff
- Limitations
- A research guide, not a record: it documents where hull-level material specifications would be found but contains no DDG-2 content. No DDG-2 file from RG 19 was examined in this batch.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-charles-f-adams-ddg2-09
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[11]NavSource Destroyer Photo Index, DD-952/DDG-2 USS Charles F. Adams (volunteer photographic archive); NHHC Online Library, 'USN Ships by Hull Number: DDG - Guided Missile Destroyers' (HyperWar/ibiblio transcription) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource 05/01002 building-data block; ibiblio HyperWar shusn-no/ddg-no.htm lead section
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Secondary archive building data for this hull: built by Bath Iron Works (YN 335); ordered 28 March 1957; originally classified DD-952, classification changed to DDG-2 (NavSource reads 23 April 1957); laid down 16 June 1958; launched 8 September 1959; commissioned 10 September 1960; decommissioned 1 August 1990; stricken 20 November 1992; departed Philadelphia Navy Yard for scrapyard 26 August 2020; scrapping completed 0832 hours, 19 May 2021. NHHC Online Library hull-number history corroborates the designation chain: the eight planned new-construction guided-missile destroyers were designated DDG-952 through DDG-959 in August 1956, then placed in the new DDG series as DDG-2 through DDG-9 in 1957 ('about a month' after Gyatt resumed DDG-1 in May 1957).
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1956-2021
- Population
- Crew; archive contributors
- Limitations
- NavSource is a volunteer photographic archive, not an official record: its keel date (16 Jun) conflicts with NVR (15 Jun), its redesignation date (23 Apr 1957) conflicts with the NHLC narrative's ~June 1957 framing, and the 19 May 2021 scrapping-completion timestamp has no official corroboration located. DD-952/DDG-952/DDG-2 are designation stages of this single hull, not separate ships.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-charles-f-adams-ddg2-10
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[12]NavSource specification block (as built: 4,526 t full, 437' x 47' x 15'; Tartar SAM Mk 11 twin-arm; 2 x 5-inch/54; ASROC 1x8; 6 x 12.75-inch Mk 32 TT; 70,000 shp geared turbines, 2 screws; 33 kt; 4,500 NM @ 20 kt) + Atlas shipyard dataset, Bath Iron Works record (yard tier 2; 1942-era industrial-hygiene study of pipe-covering-shop dust risk) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource 05/01002 specification block; shipyards.json record 'bath-iron-works'; GAO HRD-80-2 enclosure I
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Era/yard inference: a steam-plant guided-missile destroyer built 1958-1960 - four ~1,200-psi boilers feeding two geared turbines, 70,000 shp - would have carried period-standard asbestos applications: thermal insulation on boilers, turbines, machinery, piping and ventilation ducting, gaskets and packing, deck coverings, and fireproofing - consistent with the Navy's own 1979 statements (ev-08) that all in-service ships contained asbestos in multiple applications. Builder Bath Iron Works is documented at yard level in the Atlas dataset (tier 2), including a 1942-era industrial-hygiene study of pipe-covering-shop dust risk.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1958-1990
- Population
- Bath Iron Works construction trades 1958-60; crew 1960-1990
- Limitations
- Class/era and builder-yard inference only - no ship-specific finding. The Navy's 'all ships' statement is fleet-level; the DD & DDG cost line is a grouped category; no DDG-2-class insulation quantity exists in the reviewed sources. Whether and where ACM remained aboard at decommissioning (1990) or disposal (2020) is undocumented.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-charles-f-adams-ddg2-11