Evidence
9 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-9).
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[1]research packet jj-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-clark-dd361-pkt-jj-packet-md
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[2]DANFS, Clark I (DD-361) entry (verbatim transcription at Destroyer History Foundation, credited to Naval Historical Center including Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships; live NHHC DANFS page unavailable) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- destroyerhistory.org/goldplater/ussclark - verbatim DANFS entry text
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS record for this hull: launched by Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp., Quincy, Mass., sponsored by Mrs. S. Robinson, commissioned 20 May 1936 with Commander H. Thebaud in command; prewar service on the Atlantic coast, in the Caribbean, and from Pearl Harbor (home port from 1 April 1940); Samoa-Australia-Fiji cruise 3 March-10 April 1941; in overhaul at San Diego at the outbreak of war; departed the West Coast 27 December 1941 escorting two convoys to Pearl Harbor; antisubmarine patrol off Pago Pago, Samoa; February-March 1942 joined a carrier task force for air raids on New Guinea; April-May 1942 escorted four Pearl Harbor-San Francisco convoys, continuing to Midway on the last; returned via San Diego and Balboa and joined the escort of a convoy to Wellington, New Zealand; 12 August-8 September 1942 out of Noumea screening oilers fueling carrier task forces; a month escorting New Zealand-to-South Pacific convoys from Auckland; a month of local escort and patrol at Noumea; sailed 11 December 1942 for Balboa as flagship, Commander Southeast Pacific Force; patrolled South American ports until 10 August 1944; East Coast overhaul; 4 September 1944-11 April 1945 guarded six transatlantic convoys to ports in the United Kingdom and France; arrived Philadelphia June 1945; decommissioned 23 October 1945; scrapped 29 March 1946; received two battle stars for World War II service.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1934-1946
- Population
- Fore River construction trades 1934-36; crew 1936-45 (as-built complement 194)
- Limitations
- Transcription carries two apparent typos: launch '16 October 1935' (NavSource as-built table and a dated launch photograph read 15 October 1935) and Philadelphia arrival '16 June 1946' (impossible; secondary sources read 15 June 1945) - corrected values carried in record fields and flagged in gaps. DANFS documents service history and construction data, not materials or asbestos content. Live NHHC DANFS page returns 404 (standing NHHC link rot); transcription mirror cited.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-clark-dd361-01
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[3]Naval Historical Center, Online Library of Selected Images, 'USS Clark (DD-361), 1936-1946' (HyperWar/ibiblio mirror of official NHHC page) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Online Library entry text + photo captions NH 97965, NH 66260, 19-N-45346, 80-G-302261, 80-G-K-14467
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NHHC Online Library record for this hull: a 1,805-ton Porter-class destroyer built at Quincy, Massachusetts, commissioned May 1936; served in the Atlantic, Caribbean, and Pacific in the late 1930s-early 1940s 'often in her designed role as flagship of a squadron or division of smaller destroyers' (photo 80-G-K-14467 shows Clark as Destroyer Squadron Three flagship, San Diego, October 1941); steamed to Australia March-April 1941; after December 1941 escorted convoys between the West Coast, Hawaii, and the south Pacific; screened aircraft carriers on the New Guinea air strikes of March 1942; guarded French Frigate Shoals during the early-June Battle of Midway; protected shipping during the Guadalcanal Campaign and was one of the carrier Enterprise's escorts during the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal in mid-November 1942; moved to the Panama Canal Zone in December 1942 as Southeast Pacific Force flagship, operating along the South American coast until August 1944; after overhaul escorted six transatlantic convoy round-trips September 1944-April 1945; decommissioned at Philadelphia October 1945; scrapped 1946.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1936-1946
- Population
- Crew 1936-45; Southeast Pacific Force flag staff 1942-44
- Limitations
- Summary-level official text; documents operations, not materials or asbestos content. Its 1,805-ton displacement figure is the standard/design figure (NavSource lists 2,597 tons full). Wording on the Midway period (French Frigate Shoals picket duty vs. presence at the main battle) is preserved as written.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-clark-dd361-02
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[4]NavSource Naval History, Destroyer Photo Index, USS Clark (DD-361) (content verified via Wayback capture 2024-05-25; live host declines automated fetch) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource DD-361 page, 'Operational and Building Data' block + as-built specification table + namesake box
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NavSource building and operational data for this hull: built by Bethlehem Steel, Quincy, MA (yard no. 1452); laid down 2 January 1934; launched 15 October 1935 (launch-photograph caption corroborates the date); commissioned 20 May 1936; decommissioned 23 October 1945; stricken 16 November 1945; fate 'Cut up at Philadelphia Navy Yard beginning 29 March 1946.' As-built specifications: 2,597 tons full; 381 ft overall; armament 8 x 5-inch/38 AA (4x2), 8 x 1.1-inch AA (2x4), 8 x 21-inch torpedo tubes (2x4); Bethlehem turbines, 2 screws, 50,000 shp, 37 knots; crew 194. Namesake Rear Admiral Charles E. Clark (Ossipee at Mobile Bay; Oregon's Cape Horn dash, 1898).
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1934-1946
- Population
- Construction workforce (Fore River, Quincy) 1934-36; crew 1936-45
- Limitations
- Volunteer-compiled archival index, not an official record; used to corroborate construction, strike, and disposal dates consistent with DANFS. The stricken date (16 November 1945) rests on this source alone - the available DANFS transcription carries no stricken line. Turbine builder listed as 'Bethlehem' here vs. 'Parsons' in some secondary class references; carried as Bethlehem per this as-built table.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-clark-dd361-03
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[5]Porter-class specifications (Destroyer History Foundation, sourced to Bureau of Construction and Repair General Information Book for USS Porter, Bauer & Roberts, and Friedman) + Atlas shipyard dataset records for fore-river-shipyard and philadelphia-naval-shipyard (evidence tier 3) [other_primary]
- Locator
- destroyerhistory.org Porter-class 'General Information' specifications block (footnotes 1-3); shipyard-exposure-map shipyards.json records
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Class/era inference: a Porter-class destroyer built 1934-36 with a plant of 4 Babcock & Wilcox boilers (400 psi, 645F) and geared steam turbines, 50,000 shp, 2 shafts, would have carried the period-standard asbestos fit - boiler and steam-line insulation, turbine lagging, gaskets, packing, fireproofing, and compartment insulation. Builder-yard context: Fore River Shipyard (Quincy) is Atlas tier 3 with documented asbestos products (boilers, pipes, turbines, fireproofing materials, gaskets, packing, asbestos wire insulation, asbestos cement, asbestos-containing paint); disposal at Philadelphia Naval Shipyard is likewise an Atlas tier-3 asbestos-documented yard.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1934-1946
- Population
- Fore River construction trades 1934-36; crew 1936-45; Philadelphia Navy Yard shipbreakers 1946
- Limitations
- Class/era and builder-yard inference only - no ship-specific finding. Does not establish that any asbestos product was installed aboard this specific hull, in what locations, or in what quantity; the ship-specific negative finding is ev-uss-clark-dd361-07.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-clark-dd361-04
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[6]Dyer v. United States, 827 F. Supp. 339 (E.D. Pa. 1993), Civ. A. No. 93-CV-1748 (Joyner, J.) [court_record]
- Locator
- Opinion, Part I 'History of the Case' (repair dates and Pennsylvania Shipbuilding employment)
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- Name-collision correction for the only 'USS Clark' opinion hit: plaintiff John Dyer, a pipe-fitter employed by Pennsylvania Shipbuilding Company, alleged permanent hearing loss from repair work performed aboard 'the USS Clark' 15 September-22 December 1987; the court resolved Federal Tort Claims Act vs. Public Vessels Act jurisdiction (claim dismissed as time-barred under the PVA). The vessel in question is USS Clark (FFG-11), the Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigate in commission 1980-2000 - the only commissioned USS Clark in 1987; DD-361 was scrapped in 1946. The claim is also non-asbestos (acoustic trauma).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- correction
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1987-1993 (litigation); vessel service 1980-2000 (FFG-11)
- Population
- 1987 Pennsylvania Shipbuilding repair worker (different hull)
- Limitations
- Classified down per litigation-stage discipline: a jurisdictional opinion in a non-asbestos personal-injury case naming a different hull. Recorded so the 'USS Clark' opinion hit is not misattributed to DD-361; establishes nothing about materials or exposure aboard this hull.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-clark-dd361-05
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[7]CourtListener API v4 authenticated sweep: opinion index (type=o) and RECAP docket index (type=r), 2026-09-27 [court_record]
- Locator
- CourtListener v4 search results sets (queries verbatim in search_ledger)
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- CourtListener sweep for this hull: '"USS Clark" asbestos' (opinions) returned 0; '"USS Clark"' (opinions) returned 1 - Dyer v. United States (name collision with FFG-11, non-asbestos; see ev-05); '"DD-361"' (opinions) returned 0; '"USS Clark" asbestos' (dockets) returned 0; '"USS Clark"' (dockets) returned 1 - United States v. QTC Medical Services, 2:14-cv-08961 (C.D. Cal.), a non-asbestos government contract action (name collision); '"DD-361"' (dockets) returned 4 - all non-asbestos coincidental string matches (banking, bankruptcy, patent matters). No qualifying asbestos litigation naming this hull was located.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- through 2026-09-27 (index coverage)
- Limitations
- Negative finding is a search result, not proof no claim was ever filed: CourtListener indexing does not cover all state-court filings, unindexed federal dockets, or settled/unreported matters. 'DD-361' string hits were reviewed by case caption and classified non-qualifying without full-text retrieval.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-clark-dd361-06
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[8]Cross-source asbestos documentation check (DANFS transcription, NHHC Online Library, NavSource, CourtListener, NARA catalog-visible series) - no qualifying ship-specific record [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger sl-uss-clark-dd361-01 through -10
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located for DD-361: no asbestos survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, or adjudicated exposure finding naming this hull exists in the public sources searched. The outcome is consistent with the hull's timeline - decommissioned October 1945 and cut up at Philadelphia Navy Yard beginning March 1946, decades before asbestos survey/abatement recordkeeping existed, and never preserved as a museum or memorial that might have generated a hazmat disclosure.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1934-1946 (record universe); searched 2026-09-27
- Limitations
- Negative finding reflects public-source coverage, not proof of absence: construction-era material specifications (if they survive) would sit in non-digitized NARA holdings (see ev-uss-clark-dd361-08). Does not imply the ship carried no asbestos - only that no ship-specific record was located; class/era inference is carried separately (ev-uss-clark-dd361-04).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-clark-dd361-07
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[9]National Archives: Record Group 24 'Logbooks of U.S. Navy Ships and Stations, 1941-1992' (WWII deck-log series); RG 19 Bureau of Ships General Information Books; RG 181 Philadelphia Naval Shipyard records [other_primary]
- Locator
- archives.gov 'Logbooks of the US Navy at the National Archives' (RG 24, Entry 118 series description and Special List 44)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Archival leads not yet retrieved: (1) Clark's WWII deck logs (December 1941-October 1945) exist in NARA RG 24's 'Logbooks of U.S. Navy Ships and Stations' series and could document the San Diego (1941) and East Coast (1944) overhaul periods and 1945 inactivation work; (2) RG 19 Bureau of Ships per-vessel General Information Books - the class specifications cited for the Porter class derive from USS Porter's GIB, and a Clark GIB (if it survives) would list hull-specific materials including insulation; (3) RG 181 Philadelphia Naval Shipyard records could document the scope of the 1946 breaking.
- Verification
- unverified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1934-1946 (record creation)
- Limitations
- Leads only - no retrieval performed and holdings are not confirmed for this specific hull. A General Information Book, if extant, is the most likely source of ship-specific insulation/materials data; deck logs rarely name construction materials.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-clark-dd361-08