Evidence
8 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-8).
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[1]DANFS, Conner II (DD-582) - Naval History Division transcription (live NHHC page returns 404; verbatim HyperWar/ibiblio mirror cited) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS entry, specifications block + full service narrative
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS record for this hull: launched 18 July 1942 by Boston Navy Yard, sponsored by Miss T. L. Conner, commissioned 8 June 1943 (Lt. Comdr. W. E. Kaitner); spec block - 2,060 tons, 376'6", 39'8" beam, 13' draft, 36 kt, complement 273, Fletcher class. WWII service: Wake Island raid 5-6 Oct 1943; Gilberts invasion Nov 1943; Nauru bombardment 8 Dec 1943; TF 58 screening - Marshalls (Kwajalein, Majuro), Truk, Marianas, Palaus, Yap, Ulithi, Woleai raids Jan-Apr 1944; Hollandia; Philippine Sea 19-20 Jun 1944 (plane-rescue duty); repairs at Eniwetok; protected torpedoed Canberra (CA-70) 13 Oct 1944; Surigao Strait 25-26 Oct; Mindoro Dec 1944; Lingayen Gulf landings 9-10 Jan 1945; cleared for overhaul at Puget Sound Navy Yard 29 Jan 1945; back at Leyte 16 May 1945; Brunei Bay and Balikpapan fire support Jun-Jul 1945; seizure of Japanese hospital ship Tachibana Maru 2-6 Aug 1945; occupation service Jinsen-Tsingtao-Shanghai 8 Sep-21 Dec 1945; decommissioned and placed in reserve at Long Beach 5 Jul 1946. 12 battle stars.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1942-1946
- Population
- Boston Navy Yard construction trades 1942-43; wartime crew (design complement 273); overhaul workforce at Puget Sound Navy Yard early 1945
- Limitations
- DANFS documents construction, specifications, and service history - it says nothing about materials or asbestos content. The DANFS entry ends at 1946 decommissioning; the Greek transfer is covered by the companion NHC Online Library record (ev-02). DANFS does not give a laid-down date for this hull. Live NHHC page returned 404 on 2026-09-27; verbatim mirror transcription cited.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-conner-dd582-01
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[2]Naval Historical Center (NHHC predecessor), Online Library of Selected Images, 'USS Conner (DD-582), 1943-1959' photo-caption page (verbatim HyperWar/ibiblio mirror of NHC material) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NHC Online Library photo-caption page (NARA photo 80-G-276724 catalog entry)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NHC record for this hull, covering postwar disposition beyond the DANFS entry: built at Boston Navy Yard; commissioned June 1943; WWII service summary consistent with DANFS; 'Following more than thirteen years in "mothballs", USS Conner was loaned to Greece in September 1959. Renamed Aspis and formally sold to Greece in 1977, she was part of that Nation's navy until stricken in the early 1990s.'
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1943-1990s
- Population
- Hellenic Navy crews 1959-1991
- Limitations
- Establishes transfer chain (loan Sept 1959, sale 1977, Greek stricken early 1990s) but not day-level dates, sale mechanics, or any materials/abatement information. Secondary sources (NavSource, corroborated by seaforces/helis) supply the day dates (15 Sep 1959 transfer, 1 Sep 1975 USN striking) carried in record fields; the laid-down day-level conflict is noted in gaps.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-conner-dd582-02
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[3]Bureau of Ships, 'Destroyer No. 582 - Booklet of General Plans' (BuShips plan No. 577291; 13 sheets; formerly CONFIDENTIAL, declassified under Executive Order 13526, NARA project NW 47327, 2019; scanned at archive.org) [other_primary]
- Locator
- archive.org item dd582bogp1959v2, cover page (Corrected-to-Suit-Ship table) and sheets 2-13
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- The hull's own official U.S. Navy plan booklet. Cover-page 'Corrected to Suit Ship' table documents this hull's yard availabilities: Boston Navy Yard 6 July 1943; Puget Sound Navy Yard 3 April 1945 (the DANFS-documented wartime overhaul); Long Beach Naval Shipyard, Terminal Island, California 7 August 1959 (pre-transfer availability during reactivation from reserve for Greek loan, approved by the yard's Design Superintendent). Sheets cover outboard/inboard profiles, bridges, superstructure deck, main deck, platforms, hold, and hull sections.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1943-1959
- Population
- Long Beach Naval Shipyard workers, 1959 availability; Puget Sound Navy Yard workers, 1945 overhaul
- Limitations
- Arrangement/general-plan drawings: document the hull's compartment layout and the yard availabilities where work was performed, but carry no insulation or materials schedule - no asbestos content is stated or refuted. The 1959 Long Beach correction date evidences a pre-transfer yard period at Long Beach Naval Shipyard (a yard with documented asbestos exposure at yard level, see related_shipyards), but the booklet does not describe the work scope.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-conner-dd582-03
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[4]NavSource Naval History, Destroyer Photo Index DD-582 USS Conner (volunteer-maintained photographic/history archive; Wayback capture 2024-05-26) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource DD-582 'Operational and Building Data' block + 'On Greek Service' photo captions
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NavSource operational/building data for this hull: laid down Boston Navy Yard April 16 1942; launched July 18 1942; commissioned June 8 1943; decommissioned July 5 1946; stricken (USN) September 1 1975; to Greece September 15 1959, renamed HS Aspis (D 06); stricken (Greece) 1991; sold for scrap 1997, scrapped near Piraeus (photo series 'a few days prior to her scrapping at Perama, a city close to Piraeus, May 3 1997'). Machinery line lists Allis-Chalmers turbines, 60,000 shp, 2 screws, 38 kt, crew 273. Radio call sign NEQU.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1942-1997
- Population
- Hellenic Navy crews 1959-1991; Greek scrapping workforce, Perama 1997
- Limitations
- Secondary reference work (volunteer archive), not a primary source - its laid-down day (April 16) conflicts with Wikipedia and the archive.org item metadata (April 6); carried at month level with the conflict in gaps. Greek-era dates corroborate the NHC caption and are consistent across secondary sources. No materials or asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-conner-dd582-04
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[5]DANFS specifications block (Fletcher class; 60,000-shp four-boiler steam plant) + Atlas shipyard dataset records for boston-naval-shipyard and puget-sound-naval-shipyard [other_primary]
- Locator
- DANFS spec block; shipyards.json records 'boston-naval-shipyard' and 'puget-sound-naval-shipyard'
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Era/yard inference: a WWII Fletcher-class destroyer built 1942-43 at Boston Navy Yard with a four-boiler steam plant would have carried period-standard asbestos insulation, lagging, gaskets, packing, fireproofing, and deck coverings. Builder yard (Boston Naval Shipyard) is documented at yard level in the Atlas dataset (tier 3; a litigation product-identification record for John Crane gaskets/sealing materials at the yard). The 1945 overhaul yard (Puget Sound Naval Shipyard) is among the best-documented asbestos yards in the dataset: a 1970 internal industrial-hygiene study (DTIC AD0715808, Mangold/Beckett/Bessmer) measured 40-150 fibers/cm3 during insulation rip-out, and a peer-reviewed follow-up (PMID 1065583) documents amosite and chrysotile exposure during ship overhaul, rip-out, and installation work, 1962-1972.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1942-1959
- Population
- Boston Navy Yard construction trades 1942-43; crew 1943-46; Puget Sound Navy Yard overhaul workforce 1945; Long Beach Naval Shipyard workforce 1946/1959
- Limitations
- Class/era and builder-yard inference only - NOT a hull-specific finding. The Puget Sound studies postdate this hull's April 1945 overhaul by 17-27 years and document the yard's trade environment, not this ship's materials. Does not quantify material aboard or establish any individual's exposure.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-conner-dd582-05
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[6]GAO, 'Navy Efforts To Protect Workers From Asbestos Exposure', HRD-80-2 (Oct 18, 1979) [gao]
- Locator
- gao.gov product page HRD-80-2
- Finding type
- gov_survey
- Finding
- Navy-program-level context: GAO documents that the Navy did not begin substituting non-asbestos insulation materials until the early 1970s - after this hull's entire U.S. Navy career (1943-1946) and its reserve/transferred period. WWII-era steam vessels of this type were built within the Navy's documented peak asbestos-use era.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- through 1979
- Population
- Navy shipyard workforce program-wide
- Limitations
- Program-level finding about Navy-wide materials policy - says nothing about this specific hull. GAO full text returns HTTP 403 to automated fetch; product-page description used. Does not establish asbestos presence aboard DD-582.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-conner-dd582-06
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[7]Hellenic Navy, official 'History of the Hellenic Navy' page (postwar reconstruction / American military aid section) [other_primary]
- Locator
- hellenicnavy.gr History of the Hellenic Navy, postwar fleet reconstruction paragraph
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Recipient navy's official record corroborating this hull's transfer cohort: 'During the period 1958-1960, 6 vehicle carriers, 4 Destroyers (of Fletcher-type) the Aspis, Velos, Lonchi, Sfendoni ... were also given by the US.' Aspis is ex-USS Conner (DD-582); Velos is ex-USS Charrette (DD-581, also Boston Navy Yard built); Lonchi is ex-USS Hall (DD-583); Sfendoni is ex-USS Aulick (DD-569).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1958-1960 (transfer window)
- Population
- Hellenic Navy crews of the four transferred Fletcher-type destroyers
- Limitations
- Confirms the transfer cohort and Greek service framing only - no dates beyond the 1958-1960 window, no material-condition or abatement information for the hull under Greek custody (1959-1997), and no scrapping detail.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-conner-dd582-07
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[8]CourtListener API v4 sweep, authenticated via cl-auth-search.py (fleet pacing limiter): "USS Conner" and "DD-582", type=o opinions and type=r dockets [court_record]
- Locator
- CourtListener API v4 search, 2026-09-27: q="USS Conner" type=o (count=0); q="DD-582" type=o (count=0); q="USS Conner" type=r (count=1 - Conner v. Waterman, non-qualifying); q="DD-582" type=r blocked (sl-uss-conner-dd582-07)
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- Litigation sweep, near-complete: the CourtListener opinion index returns zero hits for both the exact name "USS Conner" and the hull number "DD-582" (type=o, count=0 each). The exact-name docket search ("USS Conner", type=r) returns a single hit - Conner v. Waterman, No. 2:17-cv-00948 (E.D. Wis., filed 2017-07-11, terminated 2019-06-20), a 42:1983 prisoner civil-rights/conditions-of-confinement case in which 'Conner' is plaintiff Eric D. Conner's surname, not the vessel: NON-QUALIFYING name collision. No qualifying asbestos litigation naming this hull was located. The hull-number docket query ("DD-582" type=r) could not be run - fleet pacing budget spent across repeated attempts.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- litigation index as of 2026-09-27
- Limitations
- Near-complete sweep: 3 of 4 planned queries ran; only "DD-582" type=r (dockets) did not run - the least likely surface for vessel references since hull numbers rarely appear in docket text. Opinion-index coverage is complete for name and hull number; docket coverage is complete for the vessel name. No hit is qualifying asbestos litigation. 'Conner' surname collisions screened (Conner v. Waterman prisoner case; Conner v. Alfa Laval, Inc., 842 F. Supp. 2d 791 (E.D. Pa. 2012) - plaintiff served aboard USS Yorktown). The first USS Conner (DD-72) left USN service October 1940, before the asbestos-litigation exposure window - postwar references resolve to DD-582.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-conner-dd582-08