Evidence
8 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-8).
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[1]research packet gy-packet.md (3 sources cited) [other_primary]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERDICT: VERIFIED (mirror-sourced; out-of-sequence hull)
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Limitations
- qualifier: VERDICT: VERIFIED (mirror-sourced; out-of-sequence hull)
- Evidence ID
- uss-colhoun-dd85-pkt-gy-packet-md
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[2]DANFS, Colhoun I (DD-85) (builder, dates, service narrative, loss; verbatim transcription - live NHHC page not located) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS entry 'Colhoun I' (DD-85), specifications block + full service narrative
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS record for this hull: launched 21 February 1918 by Fore River Shipbuilding Co., Quincy, Mass., sponsored by Miss A. Colhoun; commissioned 13 June 1918, Commander B. B. Wygant in command; Atlantic Fleet convoy escort New York-European ports 30 June-14 September 1918; New London underwater-sound experiments from 10 November 1918; carried 194 troops off stranded transport Northern Pacific (Fire Island) to Hoboken 1 January 1919; reduced commission Philadelphia Navy Yard 1 December 1919; overhaul at Norfolk Navy Yard and reserve at Charleston, S.C.; decommissioned Philadelphia 28 June 1922; towed to Norfolk Navy Yard 5 June 1940 and converted to a high-speed transport; recommissioned as APD-2 on 11 December 1940; Norfolk-Caribbean training; arrived Noumea, New Caledonia, 21 July 1942; carried units of the 1st Marine Raider Battalion in the initial assault landings on Guadalcanal 7 August; transport and antisubmarine service; hit in a Japanese air raid at 1400 on 30 August 1942 (boats/after davits wrecked, diesel fire; foremast down, two 20mm and one 4-inch gun blown off, engineering spaces damaged; two further hits killed all men in the after deckhouse); tank lighters from Guadalcanal rescued the crew; sank at 09 deg 24' S, 160 deg 01' E; 51 killed and 18 wounded; one battle star for World War II. Spec block: dp. 1,060; l. 315'5"; b. 31'9"; dr. 9'2"; s. 35 k.; cpl. 100; a. 4 4", 12 21" tt.; cl. Wickes.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1917-1942
- Population
- Fore River construction trades 1917-18; crew 1918-22 and 1940-42 (design complement 100); embarked 1st Marine Raider Battalion troops August 1942
- Limitations
- DANFS documents service history and specifications, not materials or asbestos content. The entry gives no laid-down date and no Naval Register strike date; 'Calhoun' in the sinking sentence is a DANFS typographical error; its 'landings on Guadalcanal' wording conflicts with the USMC monograph's Tulagi landing site (see ev-uss-colhoun-dd85-04). Verbatim hazegray/losthistory.net transcription cited because no live NHHC page was located.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-colhoun-dd85-01
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[3]U.S. Naval Historical Center, Online Library of Selected Images: 'USS Colhoun (Destroyer No. 85, later DD-85 and APD-2), 1918-1942' - NHC ship page with photo captions (NH 43019, NH 43022, NH 60479, NH 97775-97777) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NHC Online Library ship page narrative + photo captions NH 43019, NH 43022
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NHC ship page narrative for this hull: a 1,060-ton Wickes-class destroyer built at Quincy, Massachusetts; commissioned June 1918; escorted Atlantic convoys; November 1918 underwater-sound duties; reduced commission December 1919; decommissioned June 1922 and laid up eighteen years at the Philadelphia Navy Yard; taken to Norfolk Navy Yard June 1940 and converted to a high-speed transport with the new hull number APD-2, recommissioned December 1940; arrived in the south Pacific July 1942; 'helped land U.S. Marines on Tulagi on 7-8 August'; transport and patrol service; 30 August 1942 hit by Japanese bombers off Guadalcanal and 'soon sank off Lunga Point with the loss of 51 crewmembers.' Photo captions identify her as Fore River builder's hull no. 280 on the ways 1 October 1917 and fitting out 19 March 1918. The page title itself documents the designation sequence 'Destroyer No. 85, later DD-85 and APD-2'.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1917-1942
- Population
- Wartime crew; yard workers
- Limitations
- Official NHC image-collection page (HyperWar mirror): documents identity, builder's number, and operational history; contains no materials or asbestos information. Its 'Tulagi' landing-site wording differs from DANFS's 'Guadalcanal' phrasing - documented in ev-uss-colhoun-dd85-04.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-colhoun-dd85-02
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[4]Navy Department, Ships' Data, U.S. Naval Vessels, 1 October 1919 (GPO), destroyer tables pp. 75-79 (shipscribe.com digitization of the official publication) [other_primary]
- Locator
- SDB 1919 destroyer tables: dimensions/trial row (p. ~75), machinery row 'Colhoun (85): 2 propellers, Curtis geared turb., 4 Yarrow, 27,540 sq ft, 27,700 shp' (p. 76), battery/builder row (p. 78), contract/keel/launch/commission dates row (p. 79)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Official Ships' Data Book entries naming this hull (Colhoun, official no. 85): cost-plus-10-percent contract signed 16 December 1916 under the act of 29 August 1916; keel laid 19 September 1917; launched 21 February 1918; preliminary acceptance 12 June 1918; commissioned 13 June 1918; built by Fore River S.B. Co., Quincy, Mass.; trial displacement 1,220 tons; trial speed 34.65 knots; complement table lists 106; battery 4 x 4-inch/50 cal + 3-inch/23 cal AA + four triple 21-inch torpedo tubes; machinery: two propellers, Curtis geared turbines, four Yarrow oil-burning boilers, total heating surface 27,540 sq ft, 27,700 shaft horsepower on trial.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1916-1919
- Population
- Fore River construction trades 1917-18; crew (~100-106)
- Limitations
- Official design/construction data naming this hull - authoritative for dates and machinery, but says nothing about insulation materials or asbestos; material content remains era inference. The Ships' Data complement figure (106) differs from the DANFS spec block (100); both carried, conflict noted in gaps.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-colhoun-dd85-03
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[5]Zimmerman, The Guadalcanal Campaign (Historical Section, Division of Public Information, HQ USMC, 1949), chs. I-II - official USMC operational monograph [other_primary]
- Locator
- Zimmerman ch. I (task organization, Transdiv 12 listing) and ch. II (Tulagi landing narrative)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Official USMC campaign monograph places this hull in the assault force: 'The 1st Raider Battalion, in the four destroyer transports of Transport Division 12, had been picked up at Noumea'; the TG 62.2 order of battle lists 'Transdiv 12: [C]olhoun, Gregory, Little, McKean (the destroyer transport group)'; the Raiders landed at Beach Blue, Tulagi at 0800 on 7 August 1942 (one Raider was killed by an accidental discharge aboard Little). This establishes that Colhoun's DANFS 'initial assault landings on Guadalcanal' describes the Guadalcanal-campaign Tulagi landing.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1942
- Population
- 1st Marine Raider Battalion embarked; APD crews
- Limitations
- Confirms ship assignment and the Tulagi landing site; contains no materials or asbestos information. The HyperWar transcription OCRs the ship name as 'Calhoun' in the Transdiv 12 listing - the four flush-deck APDs of TransDiv 12 (Colhoun APD-2, Gregory APD-3, Little APD-4, McKean APD-5) are independently documented.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-colhoun-dd85-04
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[6]Ships' Data 1919 machinery row for this hull (4 Yarrow oil-burning boilers; Curtis geared turbines) + Atlas shipyard dataset records for fore-river-shipyard (tier 3) and norfolk-naval-shipyard (tier 2) [other_primary]
- Locator
- SDB 1919 destroyer machinery table (ev-03); shipyards.json records 'fore-river-shipyard' and 'norfolk-naval-shipyard'
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Era/yard inference: a Wickes-class steam destroyer built 1917-18 with four oil-fired Yarrow boilers and Curtis geared turbines would have carried period-standard asbestos insulation, boiler and steam-line lagging, gaskets, packing, and fireproofing. The builder yard (Fore River Shipyard, Quincy) is documented at yard level in the Atlas dataset (tier 3, documented products incl. boiler/pipe/turbine insulation, fireproofing, gaskets, packing); the 1940 APD conversion and interwar overhaul occurred at Norfolk Naval Shipyard (Atlas tier 2; documented products incl. Thermobestos, Marinite, pipe insulation, boiler/turbine insulation, gaskets, packing).
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1917-1942
- Population
- Fore River construction trades 1917-18; Norfolk Navy Yard conversion workers 1940; crew 1918-22 and 1940-42
- Limitations
- Class/era and yard-level inference only - no ship-specific asbestos finding exists for this hull. The Atlas yard records' documented evidence largely postdates this hull's 1917-18 construction and 1940 conversion; nothing establishes which materials were actually installed aboard or disturbed during conversion. No ACM quantity, location, or exposure data.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-colhoun-dd85-05
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[7]Batch-3817 search ledger (this record): NHHC DANFS (live page not located; verbatim mirror cited), NHC Online Library, Ships' Data 1919, USMC Guadalcanal monograph, NARA deck-log digitization index, CourtListener opinion/docket sweeps [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-colhoun-dd85-01 through sl-uss-colhoun-dd85-08
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, museum record (hull is a war loss), or docketed case naming USS Colhoun (DD-85/APD-2) was found in the public sources searched (see search_ledger). Hull disambiguation: DANFS's separate 'Colhoun II' (DD-801) entry documents the same-name Fletcher-class destroyer (launched 10 April 1944 by Todd Pacific, Seattle; sunk by kamikazes off Okinawa 6 April 1945) - a distinct hull not consolidated here; no surfaced CourtListener hit names either Colhoun vessel.
- 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 - a sunk-in-action WWI-era steam destroyer generates almost no post-service documentation trail. Does not establish that asbestos is or is not present; does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-colhoun-dd85-06
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[8]NARA, Records of the Bureau of Naval Personnel, RG 24, Entry 118 - U.S. Navy deck logs (through 1940 at DC; 1941 and later at College Park); NHHC WWII action-report/war-diary holdings [other_primary]
- Locator
- archives.gov logbooks page (RG 24 Entry 118); digitized-log index sampled (brohan.org mirror of NARA catalog series NAID 594258) - no Colhoun entry found
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Archival leads not retrieved: Colhoun deck logs for 1918-22 (DC) and 1941-August 1942 (College Park, RG 24 Entry 118) - the WWII-era logs include officer lists and daily remarks; a commanding-officer action report for the 30 August 1942 loss may exist in NARA RG 38 WWII action reports; NHHC's Online Library holds the NH-numbered photo series. These records could contain yard-work, machinery, or materials detail not indexed by any public asbestos source.
- Verification
- unverified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1918-1942
- Population
- Crew 1918-22, 1940-42
- Limitations
- Leads only - not retrieved or verified; the digitized-deck-log index sampled did not surface a Colhoun entry, so digitization status is unconfirmed; contents unknown, no asbestos finding implied.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-colhoun-dd85-07