Evidence
12 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-12).
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[1]research packet kv-packet.md (1 sources cited) [nhhc_danfs]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERIFIED
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-charles-lawrence-de53-pkt-kv-packet-md
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[2]DANFS, Charles Lawrence (DE-53) (verbatim NHHC page text via Wayback Machine capture 2025-02-02 - live NHHC URL returns 404; entry published 5 April 2016). Corroborating transcription: ibiblio HyperWar dafs/APD/apd37.html [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS entry 'Charles Lawrence (DE-53)' - namesake biography, DE-53 spec block, full service narrative; NHHC page captured by Wayback Machine 2025-02-02; mirror https://ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USN/ships/dafs/APD/apd37.html
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS record for this hull: namesake Charles Lawrence, born Portland, Oreg., 29 December 1916, enlisted 12 February 1940, Aviation Machinist's Mate Second Class at Naval Air Station Kaneohe, Oahu, killed in action during the Japanese attack on the Hawaiian Islands 7 December 1941. DE-53 spec block: dp. 1,400; l. 306'; b. 36'10"; dr. 9'5"; s. 24 k.; cpl. 186; a. 3x3", 3x21" tt., 8 dcp., 1 dcp.(hh.), 2 dct.; cl. Buckley. Launched 16 February 1943 by Bethlehem-Hingham Shipyards, Inc., Hingham, Mass.; sponsored by Mrs. S. Lawrence; commissioned 31 May 1943, Lt. Comdr. L. S. Kintberger in command. Service: one central-Atlantic tanker-convoy escort voyage Norfolk-Casablanca 16 August-24 September 1943; then high-speed tanker convoys from New York to Northern Ireland - eight convoys between 13 October 1943 and 23 September 1944, only one tanker lost; rode out the 'Christmas Hurricane' of 1943 hove-to for 20 hours. Reclassified APD-37 on 23 October 1944 and converted to a high-speed transport in New York City. Cleared Norfolk 27 January 1945 for Pearl Harbor (22 February-5 March), Ulithi (arrived 23 March), joined the Northern Attack Force Screen for Okinawa; off the Hagushi beaches 1 April 1945 screening a group of 20 transports; three months patrolling off Okinawa against suicide boats, aircraft, and submarines with escort runs to the Philippines, Marianas and Carolines; 'firing often against the desperate kamikazes, she escaped injury.' Postwar covered the landing of occupation forces in the Japanese Inland Sea, then transport between the Philippines and Manus; returned to San Diego 16 December 1945 and Norfolk 30 December; decommissioned 21 June 1946 in reserve at Green Cove Springs, Fla. One battle star for World War II service.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1942-1946
- Population
- Bethlehem-Hingham construction trades 1942-43; USN crew (design complement 186) 1943-46; conversion-yard workers 1944-45
- Limitations
- DANFS documents construction, specifications, and service history - not materials or asbestos content. DANFS gives no laid-down date (1942-08-01 comes from NavSource, the SDB Vol. III builder row, and the ship's own war history), no stricken date, and no disposal details - those rest on NavSource/registry compilations flagged as such. 'Converted ... in New York City' names no yard; the ship's submitted war history (ev-04) identifies Sullivan Drydock and Repair Corp., Brooklyn - NavSource's DE page instead reads 'Brooklyn Navy Yard' (conflict carried in gaps). Live NHHC URL returns 404 (standing NHHC rot); verbatim Wayback capture of the NHHC page cited.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-charles-lawrence-de53-01
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[3]Bureau of Ships, Ships' Data, U.S. Naval Vessels, Vol. III (NAVSHIPS 250-012, December 1945), Auxiliaries - High Speed Transports (APD) roster, row 71: 'LAWRENCE, CHARLES (ex-DE53) ... APD37' (shipscribe.com scan; OCR of book pp. 298-299) [other_primary]
- Locator
- SDB1945v3 pp. 298-299 APD roster, table row 71 (shipscribe.com scan, pdftotext extraction verified)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Contemporaneous official BuShips roster row for this hull under its later designation - 'LAWRENCE, CHARLES (ex-DE53) APD37', row 71 of the High Speed Transports (APD) table: length overall 306 ft 0 in, waterline 300 ft 0 in, extreme beam 37 ft 0 in, trial speed 23.6 kt, trial displacement 1,650 t; limiting displacement 2,130 t, 20 tons per inch immersion, limiting draft 12 ft 7 in; total accommodations 15 officers + 189 enlisted (ship's company); troop capacity 12 officers + 150 enlisted; largest boom capacity 10 t. The 'ex-DE53' notation is the official designation-reconciliation record: DE-53 and APD-37 are the same physical hull.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1945
- Population
- USN crew and embarked troops (design accommodations 15+189 ship's company, 12+150 troops) 1945
- Limitations
- Official BuShips reference - primary quality; OCR transcription of table cells may contain digit-level errors. 'Ex-DE53' explicitly consolidates the two designations onto one hull. The table documents design characteristics and accommodations, not materials or asbestos content; accommodations figures are capacity, not mustered crew.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-charles-lawrence-de53-02
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[4]Bureau of Ships, Ships' Data, U.S. Naval Vessels, Vol. III (1945), APD machinery-table row 71 'LAWRENCE, CHARLES ... APD37' and builder/date-table row 71 (shipscribe.com scan; OCR of book pp. 300+) [other_primary]
- Locator
- SDB1945v3 APD machinery table row 71, armament table row 71, builder/keel/launch/commission date table row 71 (shipscribe.com scan, pdftotext extraction verified)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Official per-hull machinery row for this hull: APD-37 CHARLES LAWRENCE - 2 propellers, 'G.E. turbo-elec.' machinery, 12,000 shaft horsepower, 2 boilers of '"D" Exp' (D-type Express) type at 435 p.s.i. / 750 deg F superheat - documents that this hull carried a full superheated steam plant driving turbo-electric machinery, the TE-design plant shared by the Buckley class. Builder/date row 71 confirms: 'Bethlehem S.B. Co., Hingham, Mass.' - keel laid 1 Aug 42, launched 16 Feb 43, commissioned 31 May 43. Armament row 71 (as APD): '1 5"/38 cal. D.P.' gun plus '3 twin' 40mm.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1942-1945
- Population
- Bethlehem-Hingham construction trades 1942-43; engineering-plant crew 1943-46
- Limitations
- Official BuShips reference documenting the installed plant and build dates - primary quality; OCR transcription of table cells may contain digit-level errors. Boiler manufacturer is not named in SDB (the 'D' Express entries for the DE-51-98 block map to Foster Wheeler per navypedia - class-level, unverified against contract documents). Documents machinery, not insulation or other asbestos-containing materials.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-charles-lawrence-de53-03
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[5]Ship-submitted war history of USS Charles Lawrence (DE-53/APD-37), 8-page typed document scanned at NavSource (06053wh.jpg, document stamp 158471, 'Eval (B)'); transcribed in the compiled history by H.B. Cranford, UMCS(SS) USN Ret., hosted at ibiblio HyperWar (USN/ships/dafs/APD/apd37-history.html) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource DE-53 page 'War History' scan images/053/06053wh.jpg (pp. 1-8: pp. 5-6 conversion passage); ibiblio apd37-history.html (Cranford transcription)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Ship-generated wartime narrative for this hull: built at Bethlehem-Hingham Shipyard and commissioned 31 May 1943 (Lt. Comdr. Leon S. Kintberger, USN); 'Turbo Electric drive... of the Buckley class (DE-51) class carried three inch guns'; several weeks fitting out at the Boston Navy Yard, then Bermuda shakedown; flagship of Escort Division Six (with Griffin DE-54, Donnel DE-56, Sims DE-154, Hopping DE-155, Reeves DE-156); Norfolk-Londonderry 'milk run' convoy escort; March 1944 convoy action (tanker Seakay torpedoed, Reeves rescued crew) and 3 May 1944 Donnel DE-56 torpedo damage; 'came into New York with her last convoy in September, 1944, and on October 23, entered the Sullivan Drydock and Repair Corp., Brooklyn, N.Y. for conversion to a High Speed Transport (APD)... ten week conversion period... completed in January, 1945... mounted... four landing craft (LCVP's)... accommodations for about one hundred-fifty troops or passengers and fourteen troop or passenger officers'; departed Norfolk 27 January 1945 via Cristobal (2 February) and San Diego to Pearl Harbor; staging via Funafuti/Guadalcanal, Ulithi logistics, sailed 27 March as one of eight escorts of Task Group 51.11 (twenty transports); 'Love Day' 0830 1 April, anti-submarine screen around Hagushi Beach; three months screening, kamikaze attacks 'missing... crashing relatively close aboard'; early July released to Leyte Gulf for tender availability/overhaul (LCDR Seidlitz relieved by LCDR D. F. Larkin Jr., USNR, 21 July 1945); final assignment escorting Griffin (APD-38) covering the Kure Occupation Force landing in the Japanese Inland Sea.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1943-1946 (document written at war's end)
- Population
- USN crew 1943-46; embarked troops up to ~150 post-conversion; Sullivan Drydock conversion workers 1944-45
- Limitations
- The underlying document is the ship's own submitted war history (primary), consulted as a NavSource scan and a typed transcription inside Cranford's compiled history on ibiblio - the transcription layer is secondary and contains typographical errors (e.g., a 1937 enlistment rendered '1973'; 'In early July 1944' where context reads 1945). NavSource's DE-page data line instead says the conversion was 'carried out at the Brooklyn Navy Yard' - an unresolved conflict carried in gaps; the ship-authored text naming Sullivan Drydock is the stronger source. Narrative contains no material/asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-charles-lawrence-de53-04
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[6]NavSource Online Amphibious Photo Archive, USS Charles Lawrence (APD-37) ex-DE-53 page (https://www.navsource.net/archives/10/04/04037.htm) and Destroyer Escort Photo Archive DE-53 page (https://www.navsource.net/archives/06/053.htm) - volunteer archive; lead-level [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource APD-37 page (archives/10/04/04037.htm) building/operational data, TransDiv 106, call signs, CO roster, disposal line; NavSource DE-53 page (archives/06/053.htm) spec block, building data, photo captions 0605302/0605306
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Photo-archive detail corroborating and extending DANFS: laid down 1 August 1942 at Bethlehem-Hingham Shipyard; TransDiv One Hundred Six (CAPT. F. W. Schmidt USN) for the Okinawa Gunto operation (assault and occupation 1 April-30 June 1945); occupation service 25 September-12 October 1945 (Navy Occupation Service Medal); decommissioned 21 June 1946 at Green Cove Springs 'after 3 years and 21 days of service'; laid up Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Florida Group; struck from the Naval Register 1 September 1964; final disposition sold for scrapping to Southern Scrap Material(s) Corp., New Orleans - with an internal conflict: the APD page reads 'sold for scrapping 31 January 1965... removed 21 February 1966' while the DE page reads '17 November 1965: Sold for scrapping' (carried in gaps). Radio call signs NWRP (DE-53, 1943) and NQJV (APD-37, 1944); JANAP voice call 'Barcardi (L)ima'. APD spec block: 1,400 lt / 2,130 fl t; 306 ft oa; 37 ft beam; 13 ft 6 in max draft; 23.6 kt trial; 6,000 nm at 12 kt; complement 15 officers + 186 enlisted; troops 12 officers + 150 enlisted; 4 LCVP; 1x5"/38 DP, 3 twin 40mm, 8 single 20mm; two D-type Express boilers 435 psi 750 deg F, two GE turbines turbo-electric drive, 12,000 shp, two propellers. DE spec block: 1,400 lt / 1,740 fl; 36 ft 9 in beam; 10 ft 6 in draft limit; 24 kt; complement 15 officers/198 enlisted; armament 3x3"/50 Mk22, 1 twin 40mm, 8x20mm, 3x21" TT, Hedgehog, 8 Mk6 DCP, 2 Mk9 DCT. CO roster: LCDR Kintberger (31 May-15 Aug 1943); LCDR Kernan Jr. (15 Aug 1943-3 Jan 1944); LCDR Seidlitz (3 Jan 1944-21 Jul 1945, spanning DE-53 and APD-37); LCDR Larkin Jr. (21 Jul 1945-4 Apr 1946); LT Matson (4 Apr-21 Jun 1946). Photo captions document the hull at New York Naval Shipyard, Brooklyn, on 5 October 1943 (image 0605302; the USS Slater museum catalog record for the image gives caption 'F644C4858 NAVY YARD. NEW YORK OCTOBER 5, 1943') and at the New York Navy Yard on 13 January 1944 (image 0605306) - wartime availabilities separate from the later conversion.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1942-1966
- Population
- USN crew and embarked troops 1943-1946
- Limitations
- Volunteer-maintained photo archive - lead-level documentation, not an official record; dates, spec blocks, roster, and photo captions are unverified against the underlying USN/NHHC originals. Stricken and disposal dates are NavSource-only (DANFS is silent; the public NVR does not cover pre-1987 disposals). The DE-page claim that conversion was 'carried out at the Brooklyn Navy Yard' conflicts with the ship's own war history (Sullivan Drydock and Repair Corp., Brooklyn) - the ship-authored document is the stronger source; conflict flagged in gaps. The DE-page 'Brooklyn Navy Yard' line may reflect conflation with the documented October 1943/January 1944 navy-yard availabilities. Nothing on materials aboard.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-charles-lawrence-de53-05
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[7]U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph NH 107406, 'USS Charles Lawrence (APD-37), photographed circa 1945' (NHHC Online Library of Selected Images picture-data page, ibiblio mirror; collection of Bruce H. Franklin, original source Gordon Stewart; image posted 30 November 2010) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- NHHC Online Library picture-data page for NH 107406 (ibiblio HyperWar mirror of the NHHC catalog entry)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Official NHHC photograph catalog record for this hull: NH 107406 images USS Charles Lawrence (APD-37) circa 1945, with the NHHC caption noting 'In 1943-1944, prior to conversion to a high-speed transport, this ship performed escort service as DE-53' - an official catalog statement consolidating the two designations on one hull.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- circa 1945 (image); 2010 (cataloging)
- Population
- USN crew 1945
- Limitations
- Photographic catalog record only - documents the hull's appearance as APD-37 circa 1945 and NHHC's own DE-53/APD-37 identity statement; says nothing about component or insulation materials or asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-charles-lawrence-de53-06
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[8]Consolidated era/design inference - BuShips SDB 1945 Vol. III per-hull machinery row for APD-37 (2 'D' Express boilers 435 psi/750 deg F, G.E. turbo-electric 12,000 shp) + navypedia TE block map (Foster Wheeler boilers for the DE-51-98 block) + Atlas shipyard dataset records 'brooklyn-navy-yard' (tier 3) and 'boston-naval-shipyard' (tier 3) for the documented wartime availabilities and post-commissioning fitting out [other_primary]
- Locator
- SDB1945v3 APD machinery row 71; navypedia us_de_te block map; shipyards.json records 'brooklyn-navy-yard' and 'boston-naval-shipyard'; buckley-class.class.json class_notes
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Era/design inference for a turbo-electric (TE) steam-driven escort hull built 1942-43 at Bethlehem-Hingham and converted in Brooklyn 1944-45: the plant documented for this hull - two 'D' Express boilers at 435 psi/750 deg F feeding G.E. turbo-electric machinery, 12,000 shp - is a full superheated steam plant, so the heavy steam-ship asbestos categories apply as period-standard inference: boiler and steam-line lagging, turbine insulation, gaskets and packing in the engineering spaces, fireproofing, accommodation insulation, and deck coverings. The Buckley class profile notes the TE group is the most asbestos-relevant DE design alongside John C. Butler. Yard-level context: New York Naval Shipyard (Brooklyn), where the hull was photographed during October 1943 and January 1944 availabilities, is a tier-3 documented yard in the Atlas dataset; Boston Naval Shipyard, where the ship's war history places post-commissioning fitting out, is also tier-3 (John Crane gasket/packing product IDs) - yard-level documentation that does not establish materials aboard this hull. Builder Bethlehem-Hingham Shipyard has no distinct Atlas yard entry (the corporate bethlehem-shipbuilding record is anchored to Sparrows Point and other yards) and conversion yard Sullivan Drydock and Repair Corp. is not in the dataset.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1942-1946
- Population
- Bethlehem-Hingham construction trades 1942-43; New York Navy Yard availability workers 1943-44; Sullivan Drydock conversion workers 1944-45; USN engineering crew 1943-46
- Limitations
- Class/era and builder-yard inference only - not a ship-specific finding. Yard-level documentation establishes what materials were worked at those yards, not what was installed on this hull; no per-hull material manifest is public. Does not establish asbestos presence, quantity, or location aboard DE-53/APD-37, nor any individual exposure. Boiler manufacturer (Foster Wheeler per navypedia block map) is unverified against contract documents.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-charles-lawrence-de53-07
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[9]CourtListener API v4 sweep (opinion index type=o and RECAP docket index type=r) for 'USS Charles Lawrence', 'Charles Lawrence' asbestos, and hull numbers via cl-auth-search.py (authenticated, fleet-paced) [court_record]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-charles-lawrence-de53-06 through -08
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- CourtListener sweep results: exact-name opinion query '"USS Charles Lawrence"' (type=o) returned 0 hits; the same phrase against the RECAP docket index (type=r) returned 0 hits; hull-number query '"APD-37"' (type=o) returned 0 hits. The qualified query '"Charles Lawrence" asbestos' (type=o) returned 1 hit - Champagne v. Celotex Corp., 599 So. 2d 1086 (La. 1992) - which on full-text review is a NAME COLLISION: the phrase match resolves to 'Lake Charles, Lawrence G. Pugh, III' in the counsel roster (a city name adjacent to an attorney's name), not the ship and not even a person named Charles Lawrence; the case itself is qualifying asbestos litigation (Cities Service refinery workers) but contains no vessel reference. Hull-number query '"DE-53"' (type=o) returned 153 hits - systematic NAME COLLISION noise: the phrase resolves to PACER docket-entry numbering ('[DE 49, 53]' = docket entries 49 and 53) in unrelated civil opinions; the first-page results (20) are non-asbestos civil cases with zero vessel references. The qualified query '"Charles Lawrence" asbestos' (type=r) returned 18 dockets - all NAME COLLISIONS: 'Charles Lawrence' resolves to person names (attorney/party/service-list entries) inside large asbestos-litigation and bankruptcy dockets such as In re: Asbestos Products Liability Litigation (No. VI) (MDL-875), W.R. Grace, and Boy Scouts of America; the returned docket text contains zero vessel references. A bare-name 'Charles Lawrence' docket query is not useful - it resolves to unrelated bankruptcy dockets for persons named Charles Lawrence (17,807-row OR-query noise observed and discarded).
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 2026-09-28
- Limitations
- Opinion index swept for the exact ship name (0 hits), hull number APD-37 (0 hits), hull number DE-53 (153 hits, all PACER docket-entry-number artifacts - name collision noise), and the asbestos-qualified name (1 hit, classified a name collision on full-text review); the RECAP docket index swept for the exact ship name (0 hits) and the asbestos-qualified name (18 hits, all person-name collisions in MDL-875/bankruptcy party lists - no vessel references). The sweep does not cover state-court records, bankruptcy trust claims, or non-U.S. jurisdictions. 'Charles Lawrence' is a person's full name - high collision surface; any future hit requires classification rather than automatic attribution.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-charles-lawrence-de53-08
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[10]Batch-4361 search ledger (this record): NHHC DANFS live + Wayback capture + ibiblio mirror, NVR, NavSource DE/APD archives, BuShips Ships' Data Vol. III (shipscribe scan), ship-submitted war history scan, NHHC Online Library photo record, NARA Special List 44, Atlas shipyard dataset, CourtListener API v4, general web [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-charles-lawrence-de53-01 through -13
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no ACM survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, material-condition report, or asbestos litigation naming this hull was found in the public sources searched. General-web hits naming the ship are confined to asbestos-marketing listicles (shepardlawfirm.com, asbestos-ships.com, mesotheliomahelp.org ship lists) - non-authoritative and excluded per sourcing rules; none cites a primary record. The hull was sold for scrapping in 1965-66, decades before the museum-donation hazmat-disclosure era, so no present-day survey is possible.
- 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 - only that no qualifying documentation was found in the sources searched. Marketing-list presence is not evidence. Construction (Bethlehem-Hingham), conversion (Sullivan Drydock), wartime-availability, and disposal-era material documentation are paper leads only (ev-10).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-charles-lawrence-de53-09
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[11]NARA Special List 44 (Named Vessels) - 'Charles Lawrence (DE-53)' logbook run 5/31/1943-6/30/1945; NARA RG 19 (BuShips contract specifications / General Information Books); Sullivan Drydock conversion contract records; Southern Scrap Material Corp. disposal records - coverage confirmed for deck logs, other series undigitized [other_primary]
- Locator
- archives.gov Special List 44 'Charles Lawrence (DE-53)' row (5/31/1943-6/30/1945); NARA RG 19/RG 24 entry series; Sullivan Drydock contract records; Navy/MARAD disposal files
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Archival leads for hull-level material and operational documentation: (1) NARA Special List 44 lists a 'Charles Lawrence (DE-53)' deck-log run covering 31 May 1943 - 30 June 1945 - the full commissioned period through Okinawa, available in NARA's logbook holdings (RG 24); deck logs document operations and yard periods, not material schedules. (2) NARA RG 19 holds BuShips per-vessel specifications and ships-data books covering DE-53's Bethlehem-Hingham construction and the APD conversion. (3) The Sullivan Drydock and Repair Corp. conversion contract/work records (October 1944-January 1945) would document material installed or removed in the conversion - location of those corporate records unverified. (4) Disposal-era records for the 1965-66 scrapping sale to Southern Scrap Material(s) Corp., New Orleans (MARAD/Navy sales files) could document material condition at disposal.
- Verification
- unverified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1943-1966 (records); 2026 (lead status)
- Limitations
- Leads only - none of these holdings were pulled or inspected; contents unknown. They establish nothing about materials aboard. The Special List 44 entry confirms deck-log coverage of the 1943-45 window; the ship's submitted war history (ev-04) is the digitized narrative counterpart already consulted.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-charles-lawrence-de53-10
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[12]Upstream PRIMARY metadata check: master-hull-list entry 'USS Charles Lawrence, APD-37, High-Speed Transport, ship_class Clemson' vs. DANFS spec block 'cl. Buckley', BuShips SDB row 'LAWRENCE, CHARLES (ex-DE53) APD37', NavSource 'Buckley Class Destroyer Escort / Charles Lawrence Class High-speed Transport', and the ship's own war history 'of the Buckley class' [other_primary]
- Locator
- master-hull-list.json 'USS Charles Lawrence APD-37' row (ship_class 'Clemson'); hull-list-verify master list 'USS Charles Lawrence DE-53' row (ship_class 'Buckley'); DANFS spec block; SDB1945v3 row 71; NavSource APD-37 page header
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Metadata correction for this record: an upstream PRIMARY hull-list entry carries 'USS Charles Lawrence (APD-37)' with ship_class 'Clemson'. Clemson is wrong for this hull - the Clemson/Wickes flush-deck destroyers were the World War I-era hulls converted to the APD-1 through APD-36 series (e.g., USS Little DD-79/APD-4); APD-37 is the first of the destroyer-escort-derived high-speed transports, converted from the Buckley-class DE-53 and treated in NavSource and standard references as name ship of the Charles Lawrence class. Every located authoritative source agrees: DANFS spec block 'cl. Buckley'; the official BuShips roster notation 'CHARLES LAWRENCE (ex-DE53)'; the ship's own war history ('a destroyer escort of the Buckley class (DE-51) class'); NavSource 'Buckley Class Destroyer Escort / Charles Lawrence Class High-speed Transport'. This ADD file documents the designation reconciliation only: DE-53 and APD-37 are one physical hull, not a second ship; the corrected verify-side hull list already carries the hull as 'DE-53, Buckley'.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- correction
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1943-1945 (underlying facts); 2026-09-28 (correction)
- Limitations
- Corrects an upstream metadata label and records the designation reconciliation; no service-history fact is changed. The 'Charles Lawrence class' label for the converted-DE APD group is carried from NavSource and standard secondary references - official sources (DANFS, SDB) identify the hull by the ex-DE53 lineage rather than a class name.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-charles-lawrence-de53-11
