Evidence
7 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-7).
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[1]DANFS, Corry II (DD-463), May 2018 edition (verbatim transcription hosted by Tin Can Sailors, destroyers.org) + earlier DANFS transcription (HyperWar/ibiblio) - live NHHC page serves 404 [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS entry, May 2018 edition (destroyers.org ship page, 'USS CORRY DD-463 Ship History' section) + HyperWar transcription specifications block
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS record for this hull: laid down 4 September 1940 at Charleston, S.C., by Charleston Navy Yard; launched 28 July 1941, sponsored by Mrs. Jean C. Corry (niece of the namesake, Lt. Cmdr. William M. Corry Jr., Medal of Honor); commissioned 18 December 1941, Lt. Cmdr. Eugene C. Burchett in command; shakedown Casco Bay. Spec block (earlier ed.): dp. 1,630; l. 348'1"; b. 36'1"; dr. 15'8"; s. 35k.; cpl. 208; a. 4 5", 5 21" tt.; cl. Bristol. 1942: Radio Washington ops at Annapolis, Queen Elizabeth escort, Newfoundland patrol under TF 22, Caribbean escort (rescued 4 survivors of torpedoed SS Ruth off Trinidad); screened Ranger (CV-4) for the Casablanca landings; repair periods at Boston Navy Yard (June 1942 and through 8 April 1944). 1943: North Africa escort, British Home Fleet service (Norway raid cover, Iceland, Russia-bound convoy cover). 1944: TG 21.16 hunter-killer ops; sank U-801 by gunfire 17 March, took 47 survivors. Normandy: sailed 20 April in TG 27.9 for the U.K.; on 6 June took fire-support station ~4,000 yards off Utah Beach near Saint-Marcouf; at 0633 'fouled a mine almost directly amidships' - forward engine room and fire rooms flooded, all power lost, broke amidships; abandon ship ~0639; survivors shelled in the water ~2 hours; rescued by Fitch (DD-462), Hobson (DD-464), Butler (DD-636), PT-199. Casualties: 6 enlisted dead, 1 officer and 15 enlisted missing, 1 officer and 32 enlisted injured. Four battle stars: North Africa (8-11 Nov 1942), Norway raid (2-6 Oct 1943), TG 21.16 ops incl. U-801 (16 Feb-31 Mar 1944), Normandy (6 Jun 1944). Stricken from the Navy Register 29 July 1944.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1941-1944
- Population
- Charleston Navy Yard construction trades 1940-41; wartime crew (design complement 208)
- Limitations
- DANFS documents identity, service history, and loss - not materials or asbestos content. DANFS records a mine as cause of loss while noting German records and crew belief favor shore-battery shellfire (Saint-Marcouf/Crisbecq 210mm battery); the Navy's initial loss reports also attributed shellfire - the conflict is carried in gaps rather than reconciled. Casualty total (6 dead + 16 missing) differs from the 24-dead figure in NavSource and memorial sources - carried in gaps. Mirror transcriptions cited because the live NHHC page returns 404.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-corry-dd463-01
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[2]U.S. Navy, 'Action Report and Report of Loss of Ship' for USS Corry (DD-463), no serial, 19 June 1944 (declassified SECRET; transcription hosted by uss-corry-dd463.com memorial site) plus the two initial loss reports of 9 June 1944 [other_primary]
- Locator
- Loss report cover + para. 1 (mission/station) and loss narrative; initial loss reports (2 items, 9 June 1944)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Declassified primary record for this hull's loss: the commanding officer's formal report states the ship, assigned Fire Support Unit 3 (Task Unit 125.8.3) in station #3 about 4,000 yards off Utah Beach, 'STRUCK MINE AND SANK' on 6 June 1944; the cover index and report text record the same. The two initial loss reports (9 June 1944, ComNavEu to Admiral Stark, and subject 'Sinking of') instead attribute the loss to '2 x 6"-8" projectiles from a land battery' at about 0630, sinking in 3-4 fathoms 5,000 yards offshore - documenting the mine-vs-shellfire conflict in contemporaneous official records.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1944
- Population
- Wartime crew aboard at loss (24 lost per memorial sources; DANFS figure differs - see gaps)
- Limitations
- Documents the loss event and the contemporaneous official disagreement over its cause; contains no materials or asbestos information. The hosted text is a transcription on a veterans' memorial site of a declassified Navy record - underlying originals sit in NARA; transcription fidelity is assumed, not re-verified against the archival original.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-corry-dd463-02
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[3]Narrative by Lt. Comdr. George D. Hoffman, USN (commanding officer at loss), 'Sinking of USS Corry' (HyperWar transcription of Navy oral narrative) [other_primary]
- Locator
- HyperWar transcription, narrative paragraphs on Normandy loss
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- First-person commanding-officer account for this hull: commissioned 18 December 1941; escort of Ranger; British Home Fleet service including Spitzbergen relief and the Altenfjord watch with HMS Anson covering the Murmansk convoy; sank U-801 with gunfire 17 March 1944 (47 prisoners); at Normandy led boat waves down the boat lane with Fitch and Hobson, exchanged fire with shore batteries from before H-hour, and 'at 0633, about three minutes after the H hour, we hit a mine' - 'The ship broke in two. The forward fire room, forward engine room and afer fire room flooded immediately, keel was broken, main deck was severed'; abandon ship ordered; survivors shelled in the water up to an hour and a half; rescued by Fitch, Hobson, PT-199, and Butler.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1941-1944
- Population
- Wartime crew 1941-44; 47 POWs aboard March 1944
- Limitations
- Eyewitness narrative of the loss and service history - the engineering-space destruction (forward fireroom, forward engine room, after fireroom flooded; keel broken) is documented but is a casualty narrative, not a materials record; it does not mention insulation or asbestos. The CO favors the mine explanation while noting the crew believed they were hit by the shore battery - conflict carried in gaps.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-corry-dd463-03
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[4]French Ministry of Culture, maritime archaeology of the Normandy landings - 'Locating remains from the US Navy' and 'Support and escort forces' pages (NHHC Underwater Archaeology Branch 2000-2002 survey; postwar salvage record) [other_primary]
- Locator
- archeologie.culture.gouv.fr/epaves-debarquement/en/page/locating-remains-us-navy (final paragraph); /en/support-and-escort-forces (destroyers and escort vessels section); /en/les-rois-de-la-ferraille (salvage regime)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Official French government archaeological record on this hull's postwar disposition: the NHHC Underwater Archaeology Branch (Neyland, Voulgaris, Schmidt) surveyed 47 km2 off Utah Beach, Pointe du Hoc, Omaha Beach, and the Banc du Cardonnet in 2000-2002 with side-scan sonar, magnetometer, multibeam echo sounder, and ROV; 'the remains of the destroyer USS Corry, heavily scrapped after the war, were searched for without success in the Banc de Saint-Marcouf.' The companion page records the Corry 'extensively scrapped after the war' ('largement ferraille apres-guerre') amid the French State salvage regime that ran in the Baie de Seine from November 1944 through the early 1990s.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1944-1990s (salvage); 2000-2002 (NHHC survey)
- Population
- Postwar salvage divers/workers in Baie de Seine (unspecified for this hull)
- Limitations
- Documents that the hull was heavily salvaged postwar and that a systematic NHHC survey failed to relocate identifiable remains - no intact hull exists to survey. Says nothing about asbestos; does not rule out dispersed remnants, and does not itself name the salvor or dates of the Corry-specific salvage.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-corry-dd463-04
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[5]DANFS specifications block (Bristol class; 35 kt) + Atlas shipyard dataset, Charleston Naval Shipyard record (yard-level documented asbestos products, tier 2) + Benson/Gleaves class profile (4 superheated boilers, geared turbines, ~50,000 shp); NARA RG19 General Information Books archival lead [other_primary]
- Locator
- DANFS specifications block; shipyards.json record 'charleston-naval-shipyard'; class profile benson-gleaves-class
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Era/yard inference: a Bristol-group (1941-repeat Gleaves) destroyer built 1940-41 at Charleston Navy Yard with a four-boiler superheated-steam plant would have carried period-standard asbestos insulation, lagging, gaskets, packing, and fireproofing; builder Charleston Naval Shipyard is documented at yard level in the Atlas dataset (tier 2) with products including magnesia pipe insulation, asbestos cement, boiler external coatings (15% asbestos), gaskets and packing, thermal insulation for steam systems, and fireproofing; NARA RG19 'General Information Books' per-vessel material specifications are an archival lead for hull-level specs.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1940-1944
- Population
- Charleston Navy Yard construction trades 1940-41; crew 1941-44
- Limitations
- Class/era and builder-yard inference only - no ship-specific finding exists for this hull; this row adds context, not an independent ship-specific record. The hull was destroyed in 1944 and extensively salvaged, so no in-service material condition can be verified on the hull itself. NARA GIB retrieval not performed.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-corry-dd463-05
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[6]CourtListener search sweep 2026-09-27 (opinion + RECAP docket indexes): "USS Corry" o:0 / r:1 (Goodrich); "Corry" "DD-463" o:0 / r:throttled; "Corry" "DD 463" o:0 / r:0; "aboard the Corry" OR "aboard USS Corry" o:0 / r:1 (McAllister). Both docket hits resolve to DD-817, not this hull [court_record]
- Locator
- CourtListener API v4 (cl-auth-search.py); Goodrich docket 6360247 ECF 154 R&R recital; McAllister docket 6650803 ECF 357 ruling recital (service history)
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- No qualifying asbestos litigation naming this hull located. Both docket hits are name collisions resolving to the Gearing-class third Corry (DD/DDR-817, in commission 1946-1981): (1) Goodrich v. Air & Liquid Systems Corp., 4:17-cv-00009 (E.D. Va., filed 2017-02-02, terminated 2019-03-06) - the magistrate judge's Report and Recommendation (ECF No. 154, adopted 27 September 2018) recites plaintiff Harry L. Goodrich served aboard 'the USS Corry (DDR-817)' ~Sept 1959-Jun 1961; (2) McAllister v. Air & Liquid Systems Corp., 3:18-cv-00361 (M.D. La., filed 2018-03-29, terminated 2020-08-31) - the 14 Aug 2020 summary-judgment ruling (ECF No. 357) recites that machinist's mate James T. McAllister Jr. (USN June 1964-1972) served aboard 'the CORRY, a destroyer' after USS Sturgeon (SSN-637) until his 1972 discharge - the only USS Corry afloat in that window was DD-817. DD-463 was sunk 6 June 1944; any unqualified 'USS Corry' in a postwar-era asbestos pleading refers to DD/DDR-817 (or, for pre-1930 service, DD-334).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 2026-09-27
- Limitations
- A negative result bounds the public index, not the world: unindexed state-court or settled matters cannot be excluded. Collision classifications rest on each docket's own service-window recital (1959-61 and 1964-72 respectively), not on inference; neither names DD-463. Consistent with the hull's 1944 loss predating the asbestos-litigation era and offering no postwar exposure window. The 'Corry' 'DD-463' RECAP query was throttled out under fleet pacing (six retries); its opinion twin and both 'DD 463' variants returned zero - residual risk is confined to docket text mentioning the bare hull number, which the name-form hits do not suggest exists.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-corry-dd463-06
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[7]NARA holdings (unretrieved): RG 19 Bureau of Ships General Information Books (per-vessel material/insulation specifications); RG 24 deck logs USS Corry (DD-463) 1941-1944; BuShips war-damage/loss files underlying the declassified Action Report [other_primary]
- Locator
- NARA RG 19 GIB series; RG 24 deck-log series (DD-463, 1941-1944)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Archival leads that could carry hull-level material specifications or equipment lists for this hull were identified but not retrieved: the BuShips General Information Book for DD-463 (RG 19), wartime deck logs (RG 24), and the original loss-report file. Retrieval was not authorized for this batch.
- Verification
- unverified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1940-1944 (record coverage)
- Limitations
- Leads only - nothing in this record rests on them; contents unverified. A GIB, if it survives for this hull, could move the record from class/era inference toward ship-specific specification evidence.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-corry-dd463-07