Evidence
10 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-10).
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[1]research packet gw-packet.md (2 sources cited) [other_primary]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERIFIED
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-charles-p-cecil-dd835-pkt-gw-packet-md
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[2]DANFS, Charles P. Cecil (DD-835), Naval History and Heritage Command ship-history entry (verbatim text verified via Internet Archive Wayback capture 2024-12-01; live NHHC page returns 404) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS entry, specifications block + service narrative + namesake biography
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS record for this hull: Gearing-class destroyer; specifications block gives displacement 2,425, length 390'6", beam 41'1", draft 18'6", speed 35 k., complement 367, armament 6 5", 5 21"tt., 6 dcp., 2 dct. Launched 22 April 1945 by Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine; sponsored by Mrs. C. P. Cecil; commissioned 29 June 1945, Commander W. Outerson in command. Arrived San Diego home port 20 November 1945; operated as part of Joint Task Force One in the atomic bomb tests at Bikini and supported occupation forces in Japanese waters; returned 9 August 1946. Second Far East deployment 26 August 1947 - 5 May 1948 (China, Japan, Okinawa). Reclassified DDR-835 18 March 1949; left San Diego 4 April 1949 for Newport, R.I., and Atlantic Fleet assignment; from December 1950 homeported Norfolk, Va. Through 1960: midshipmen training cruises, Sixth Fleet Mediterranean deployments including a watchful patrol in the eastern Mediterranean during the Suez Crisis of fall 1956, and NATO operations from north of the Arctic Circle to the Mediterranean. From January 1959, fitted with complex electronic computational and tracking equipment for air-defense experiments. Named for Rear Admiral Charles Purcell Cecil (born Louisville, Ky., 4 September 1893; killed in an airplane crash in the Pacific 31 July 1944).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1944-1960 (DANFS narrative coverage ends ~1960)
- Population
- Bath Iron Works construction trades 1944-45; wartime and postwar crew (DANFS design complement 367)
- Limitations
- DANFS documents identity, specifications, and service history, not materials or asbestos content. The published entry's narrative ends around 1960 - it does not cover the FRAM I modernization, Vietnam deployments, 1979 decommissioning, or Greek transfer (post-1960 chronology carried from NVR and secondary compilations). Mirror/Wayback text cited because the live NHHC page serves 404. Namesake's state, Kentucky, explains the CourtListener name-collision pattern (Cecil family estate litigation).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-charles-p-cecil-dd835-01
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[3]Naval Vessel Register, CHARLES P CECIL (DD 835) (ex-DDR 835), UIC 5213, nvr.navy.mil detail page (Wayback capture 2012-01-26; live NVR excludes pre-1987 disposals) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NVR detail page, status/builder/dates/custodian fields
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Official Naval Vessel Register record for this hull (CHARLES P CECIL (DD 835) (ex-DDR 835), UIC 5213): class DD 710 (Gearing); builder BATH IRON WKS CORP; keel date 12/02/1944; launch date 04/22/1945; delivery and commission 06/29/1945; stricken date 10/01/1979; custodian GREECE; status 'Disposed of through the Security Assistance Program (SAP), transferred, cash sale, ex-US fleet hull foreign military sale case number assigned,' date status changed 08/01/1980; steel hull, steel superstructure; age at disposal 35.3 years.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1944-1980
- Limitations
- NVR documents dates, builder, striking, and SAP disposal only - no materials or asbestos content. NVR's 08/01/1980 status-change date is the official SAP disposal date; secondary sources give the Greece transfer as August 2 or August 8, 1980 (conflict carried in gaps). NVR propulsion/accommodation fields are blank for this hull.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-charles-p-cecil-dd835-02
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[4]VA Board of Veterans' Appeals, Citation Nr. 1109502, Docket No. 09-39 721 (decided 2011-03-10), appeal from St. Petersburg RO [other_primary]
- Locator
- BVA decision, Findings of Fact para. 2 (ship list incl. USS Charles P. Cecil (DD 835)); Reasons and Bases (asbestos concession citing mesotheliomaweb.org; lung-tissue findings); Order (grant)
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- Federal administrative adjudication naming this hull in a granted asbestos claim: VA Board of Veterans' Appeals Citation Nr. 1109502 (Docket 09-39 721; St. Petersburg RO; decided 10 March 2011; Veterans Law Judge S. S. Toth). Finding of Fact 2: 'the Veteran served aboard the USS Little Rock (CLG-4), the USS Koelsch (DE 1049), the USS Gearing (DD 710), the USS Charles P. Cecil (DD 835), and the USS Dyess (DD 880). All five ships were known to have contained asbestos or asbestos-related products.' The decision's narrative attributes the known-to-contain-asbestos recital to a cited third-party list (mesotheliomaweb.org/navyshipsasbestos.html). The Board conceded the veteran's in-service asbestos exposure ('the Board concedes asbestos exposure'); noted post-mortem lung-tissue findings of asbestos bodies, grade III asbestosis, bilateral pleural plaques, and bilateral pleural fibrosis; and granted the widow's claim: 'Entitlement to service connection for the cause of the Veteran's death is granted' (esophageal squamous cell carcinoma, death January 2008). Veteran served December 1960 - March 1983 aboard nine ships and at shore stations including Boston Naval Shipyard and Philadelphia Naval Shipyard.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1960-1983 (service); 2008 (death); 2011 (decision)
- Population
- Navy veteran, service December 1960 - March 1983 aboard nine ships incl. USS Charles P. Cecil (DD 835), plus shore/shipyard stations; widow appellant
- Limitations
- Administrative merits adjudication - above a pleading, below an Article III trial finding; BVA decisions are non-precedential and apply the veteran-favorable reasonable-doubt standard (38 C.F.R. 3.102). The ship-specific asbestos-content recital ('known to have contained asbestos or asbestos-related products') cites a commercial list site (mesotheliomaweb.org), not a survey or materials record of this hull. Exposure was conceded for the veteran's service collectively across five asbestos-reported ships and shore/shipyard stations; nothing is apportioned to DD-835 specifically, no asbestos product aboard is identified, and the decision establishes nothing about other crew members.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-charles-p-cecil-dd835-03
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[5]National Archives and Records Administration, Ship Plan Index (archives.gov/research/cartographic/ship-index), Charles P. Cecil entries, RG 19 [other_primary]
- Locator
- NARA Ship Plan Index, Charles P. Cecil rows (three entries)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- NARA Ship Plan Index lists three record series for this hull in Record Group 19 (Bureau of Ships engineering records): 'CHARLES P. CECIL DDR-835' Hull series of Ship Engineering Drawings (NAID 153714926); 'CHARLES P. CECIL DDR-835' Aperture Cards (NAID 175661021); and 'CHARLES P.CECIL DD-835' Hull series of Ship Engineering Drawings (NAID 153714781). These are index-level identifications of hull engineering-drawing holdings at the National Archives.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1944-1979 (drawing coverage period unknown)
- Limitations
- Archival lead only: the index identifies the existence of hull engineering drawings; it does not describe their contents, and the drawings were not retrieved or reviewed. Engineering drawings may document machinery and insulation arrangements but are not themselves evidence of asbestos content until examined.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-charles-p-cecil-dd835-04
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[6]NavSource Naval History, Destroyer Photo Index DD-835/DDR-835 (Wayback capture); Tin Can Sailors (National Association of Destroyer Veterans) ship history, The Tin Can Sailor, April 1990 [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource 'Operational and Building Data' block + fate line; destroyers.org DD-835 ship history narrative
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Post-1960 chronology from secondary compilations (the published DANFS entry ends ~1960): reverted from DDR-835 to DD-835 on 30 July 1963; FRAM I modernization completed May 1964 (NavSource operational/building data; the FRAM yard is given as the New York Naval Shipyard in secondary accounts and 'in New York' in the Tin Can Sailors ship history, at an estimated cost of $11 million); Vietnam deployments (association history describes two Vietnam tours in the 1969-1972 period and gunfire-support missions; hullnumber.com compilation lists WestPac/Vietnam April 1966 - April 1967 and April - July 1972); Naval Reserve Training duties from July 1973 at Newport, Norfolk, and Groton; decommissioning ceremony at Naval Submarine Base, Groton, Connecticut, 1 October 1979; sold to Greece August 1980, renamed Apostolis (D-216); Hellenic Navy service until decommissioned 1993; laid up at Suda Bay until sold for scrap 4 March 2003.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1960-2003
- Population
- Postwar crew, 1960-1979; FRAM yard workers (New York Naval Shipyard, 1963-64) per secondary attribution
- Limitations
- Secondary compilations, not official records: NavSource/Tin Can Sailors dates corroborate the NVR (stricken 10/01/1979; SAP disposal 08/01/1980) but the FRAM yard attribution, Vietnam deployment dates, and Greek-service details are not independently verified against official records. TCS's 'March 18, 1948' DDR-classing line is a typo for the 1949 reclassification in DANFS/NVR (ex-DDR). The NavSource crew figure (336) conflicts with DANFS (367) - conflict carried in gaps.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-charles-p-cecil-dd835-05
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[7]Consolidated era inference: DANFS class specifications + Gearing-class technical data; Speck v. 3M Co., No. 3:20-cv-05845-JD, Order re Summary Judgment, ECF No. 475 (N.D. Cal. Apr. 5, 2024) (BIW 1940s-destroyer insulation acknowledgment, recited in litigation); shipyards.json 'bath-iron-works' and 'brooklyn-navy-yard' entries [other_primary]
- Locator
- Speck ECF 475 pp. 5-7 (Bath Iron Works section); shipyard dataset yard records
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Era/design/yard inference for this hull: a Gearing-class destroyer built 1944-45 at Bath Iron Works with the class-standard plant of four Babcock & Wilcox superheated boilers feeding 60,000-shp GE geared steam turbines - the peak Navy asbestos-use era - would have carried period-standard asbestos insulation, lagging, gaskets, packing, fireproofing, and deck coverings. Builder corroboration at yard level: a 2024 federal summary-judgment order (Speck v. 3M Co., N.D. Cal.) recites that Bath Iron Works acknowledged original insulation on its 1940s naval destroyers contained asbestos - an acknowledgment covering the yard's wartime destroyer output generally, of which this hull is one. Builder Bath Iron Works is documented at yard level in the Atlas shipyard dataset (bath-iron-works). The 1963-64 FRAM I yard period (New York Naval Shipyard per secondary accounts) is a documented insulation-disturbance-era event for the class.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1944-1979
- Population
- Bath Iron Works construction trades 1944-45; New York Naval Shipyard FRAM workforce 1963-64; crew 1945-1979
- Limitations
- Class/era and builder-yard inference only - not a ship-specific finding for DD-835. The Speck order's recited BIW acknowledgment covers the yard's 1940s destroyers as a group; it was recited in litigation about a different hull (Agerholm) and is not a finding that asbestos was aboard Charles P. Cecil. FRAM yard attribution rests on secondary sources. Presence of boilers/steam plant does not itself prove installed asbestos aboard this hull.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-charles-p-cecil-dd835-06
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[8]Goodrich v. Air & Liquid Systems Corp., Omnibus Opinion and Order, ECF No. 171, E.D. Va. No. 4:17-cv-00009 (Sept. 28, 2018) [court_record]
- Locator
- Omnibus opinion, recitals of class engineering drawing and expert insulation-tonnage report (per internal Gearing-class profile transcription)
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Class-level litigation recital bearing on this hull's design family: the omnibus opinion in Goodrich v. Air & Liquid Systems Corp. (E.D. Va., MDL-adjacent asbestos litigation) 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)... specifies the use of amosite felts and asbestos cloths,' and quotes an expert report giving a partial tally of approximately 30.3 tons of asbestos thermal insulation/lagging in the fire rooms and engine rooms of Sumner/Gearing-class destroyers. Charles P. Cecil (DD-835) is a Gearing-class lengthened derivative of the Sumner design sharing the class machinery arrangement.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1943-1949 construction era; 2018 opinion
- Population
- Class-level: Sumner/Gearing-class destroyer engineering spaces
- Limitations
- Litigation-record recital of an expert report and a Navy engineering drawing at class level - not a ship-specific finding for DD-835; the drawing covers DD-692-group machinery shared by the Gearing class, and the ~30.3-ton figure is an expert partial tally for fire/engine rooms, not a hull inventory. Opinion existence and docket verified via CourtListener; the quoted recitals are carried as reported in the internal class profile (Goodrich ECF 171 itself was not re-pulled this session).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-charles-p-cecil-dd835-07
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[9]CourtListener API v4 opinion/docket search results for this hull (see search_ledger rows sl-05 through sl-09) [court_record]
- Locator
- CourtListener search endpoint results; per-query status in this record's search_ledger
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- CourtListener sweep (authenticated API v4 via fleet helper cl-auth-search.py): exact-phrase opinion query '"Charles P. Cecil"' returned 6 published opinions - all Kentucky Court of Appeals estate litigation involving Cecil family decedents (e.g., estate of Charles P. Cecil III; Granville Cecil estate, Boyle County, Ky., 1917-1952), classified name collision, none involving the ship or asbestos. Exact-phrase opinion query '"USS Charles P. Cecil"' returned 0 indexed opinions. Remaining planned queries - '"USS Charles P. Cecil"' docket type, '"DD-835"' opinion/docket, '"Charles P. Cecil"' docket, '"Charles P. Cecil" asbestos' - were not completed: repeated requests returned the helper's fleet-wide pacing stand-down notice within the session window. Separately, one qualifying federal asbestos adjudication naming this hull was located outside CourtListener: BVA Citation Nr. 1109502 (ev-03).
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1917-2026 (index coverage)
- Limitations
- Sweep is index-bounded and incomplete: only the two opinion queries ran to completion; docket-type and hull-number queries returned the fleet-pacing stand-down and were not retried to completion this session - no negative conclusion is inferred from uncompleted queries. CourtListener covers published opinions and PACER-harvested RECAP dockets; unreported, state-court, settled, or non-digitized claims (and VA administrative decisions, which are not in CourtListener) are outside its coverage.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-charles-p-cecil-dd835-08
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[10]Negative finding across this record's search ledger (NHHC/DANFS, NVR, NARA, NavSource, destroyers.org, VA BVA, CourtListener partial sweep) [other_primary]
- Locator
- This record's search_ledger, rows sl-01 through sl-10
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Negative finding across the reviewed corpus: no ship-specific asbestos-containing-material survey, abatement record, material inventory, construction specification, FRAM work package, hazmat disclosure, museum/owner asbestos disclosure, or disposal-phase record was located for DD-835 in any source reviewed (DANFS/NHHC, NVR, NARA Ship Plan Index, NavSource, Tin Can Sailors association history, VA BVA corpus). The only ship-specific asbestos record located is the BVA adjudication (ev-03), whose asbestos-content recital traces to a third-party list rather than a materials survey of this hull.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1944-2003
- Limitations
- Absence of located records is not proof of absence: DD-835 is a WWII-era steam destroyer built and modernized in the peak asbestos period, and the BVA record recites it was 'known to have contained asbestos.' Plausible unsearched repositories include NARA RG 19 hull drawings (ev-04), FRAM I work packages at New York Naval Shipyard records, shipyard contracts at Bath, and Greek Navy / Turkish scrapping records for the 1993-2003 disposal.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-charles-p-cecil-dd835-09