Evidence
14 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-14).
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[1]research packet hy-packet.md (4 sources cited) [other_primary]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: MISMATCH (queue name/hull pairing wrong)
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- correction
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-cronin-de107-pkt-hy-packet-md
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[2]Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, 'Cronin' entry, Vol. 2 p.209 (1969 ed. + bracketed supplement) - live NHHC page and ibiblio mirror return 404; verbatim transcription via losthistory.net/hazegray mirror (transcribed by Michael Hansen) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS 'Cronin' entry, DE-107 paragraph + bracketed supplement; hazegray.org canonical transcription host is offline (all URLs fail), losthistory.net mirror served full text
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS entry 'Cronin' (Vol. 2, p.209, covering both hulls of the name): namesake Cornelius Cronin, Chief Gunner, USN Medal of Honor for service in USS Richmond at Mobile Bay 5 August 1864. 'CRONIN (DE-107) was transferred to France under lend lease 23 January 1944 and renamed ALGERIEN. She was returned to the United States and retransferred to France under the Mutual Defense Assistance Program 21 April 1952.' Bracketed supplement (Conway's 1922-46 p.272 and 1947-95 p.99, Jane's 1963-64 p.88, Bauer & Roberts Register of Ships of the U.S. Navy 1775-1990 p.222): frigate ALGERIEN (F-701) renamed frigate OISE (F-701) August 1962; returned to the US Navy May 1964; stricken from French records the following year; built by Dravo Corp. of Wilmington, Del.; laid down 13 May 1943; launched 27 November 1943; commissioned into the US Navy 22 January 1944; stricken from the Navy Register 14 May 1952.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1943-1965
- Population
- Dravo Wilmington construction trades 1943-44; French crews 1944-1964
- Limitations
- DANFS documents identity, namesake, build/transfer/striking chronology - no asbestos, insulation, or materials information and supports no asbestos claim. Its bracketed Bauer & Roberts line 'Commissioned into the US Navy: 22 January 1944' conflicts with uboat.net ('transferred to the Free French upon completion') and the French official caption ('admis au service actif le 23 janvier 1944, transfere a la marine francaise le meme jour') - conflict carried in gaps and the reconciliation row (ev-11).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-cronin-de107-01
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[3]Bureau of Ships, Ships' Data, U.S. Naval Vessels, 1945 edition, Vol. I - 'Vessels Transferred to Foreign Governments Under Lend Lease' roster (shipscribe.com scan of the official publication) [other_primary]
- Locator
- SDB 1945 Vol. I, book p.352 (= PDF p.186), 'TRANSFERRED TO FRANCE' block, row 'ALGERIEN DE107 ... 23 Jan 1944'; textless 2-up scan - rendered page read directly (300 dpi) plus tesseract OCR cross-check
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Contemporaneous official BuShips roster documents this hull's transfer: 'Ships' Data, U.S. Naval Vessels, 1945' Vol. I (SHIPS 8(A) I / NAVSHIPS 250-010, promulgated 15 April 1945), 'VESSELS TRANSFERRED TO FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS UNDER LEND LEASE - TRANSFERRED TO FRANCE' table lists 'ALGERIEN | DE107 | Destroyer-escort vessel | 23 Jan 1944' - second row of the six-hull France block (SENEGALAIS DE106 2 Jan 1944; ALGERIEN DE107 23 Jan 1944; TUNISIEN DE108 11 Feb 1944; MAROCAIN DE109 20 Feb 1944; HOVA DE110 18 Mar 1944; SOMALI DE111 9 Apr 1944). Official U.S. Navy record that the hull left U.S. custody under Lend-Lease on 23 January 1944 under her French name.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1944-01-23
- Population
- U.S. and French transfer crews January 1944
- Limitations
- Contemporaneous official roster naming this hull by her French name - establishes the transfer date and custody chain only; contains no asbestos or materials data and no commissioning detail (it records the transfer, not a USN commissioning ceremony).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-cronin-de107-02
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[4]ImagesDefense / ECPAD (Service d'information et de relations publiques des armees, French Ministry of Defense) photo record FFL 131, 'Louis Jacquinot visite l'escorteur l'Algerien', Algiers 15 June 1944 [other_primary]
- Locator
- ImagesDefense notice FFL 131 - caption text, date 15/06/1944, lieu Alger-Algerie, personnes Catroux/Auboyneau/Jacquinot/Lemonnier; note 'Voir reportage MARINE 317'
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- French Ministry of Defense official audiovisual archive (ECPAD / ImagesDefense) record FFL 131: photograph series 'Louis Jacquinot visite l'escorteur l'Algerien (ex. destroyer d'escorte americain)', taken 15 June 1944 at Algiers, showing the CFLN/GPRF navy commissioner Louis Jacquinot with Gen. Catroux and Adm. Lemonnier aboard Algerien. The archive caption states: 'L'Algerien est mis sur cales aux chantiers navals Dravo de Wilmington ... le 13 mai 1943, sous le nom de Cronin (DE 107). Il est admis au service actif le 23 janvier 1944, transfere a la marine francaise le meme jour et rebaptise. Ce batiment est, ainsi que 5 autres destroyers d'escorte de type Cannon, rearme par les ex. FNFL.' Documents the ship in Free French service at Algiers in June 1944 and records the French official history of her build and same-day transfer.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1944
- Population
- FNFL crew, June 1944; French naval command party aboard
- Limitations
- Official French archival photo caption - documents presence and the French institutional record of build/transfer; the caption errs geographically ('Wilmington en Caroline du Nord' - the yard was Wilmington, Delaware), noted in the reconciliation row. The live page returned HTTP 404 to automated fetch this session; full caption text captured via the indexed record. No asbestos or materials content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-cronin-de107-03
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[5]NavSource Online: Destroyer Escort Photo Archive, DE-107 Cronin / M.N. Algerien (F-1) page (compiled archival data + contributed photos) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource DE-107 page - class/type/spec block, 'Operational and Building Data' block, fate line, photo credits
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- NavSource Destroyer Escort Photo Archive page 'Cronin (DE-107) / M.N. Algerien (F-1)': class Cannon, type DET (diesel-electric tandem motor drive, long hull, 3in guns); displacement 1,240 t std / 1,620 t full; dimensions 306 ft oa; armament 3x3in/50, 1 twin 40mm, 8x20mm, 3x21in TT, Hedgehog Mk10, 8 DCT, 2 DCR; machinery 4 GM Mod. 16-278A diesel engines with electric drive, 6,000 shp, 2 screws; 21 knots; crew '15/201'; laid down Dravo, Wilmington Del. 13 May 1943; launched 27 November 1943; to France 23 January 1944; renamed Algerien; renamed Oise; stricken (USN) 14 May 1952; fate: stricken May 1965, sold November 1965, broken up for scrap. Two 1952-53 photos of Algerien contributed by Louis Le Coent.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1943-1965
- Population
- Dravo Wilmington construction trades 1943; French crews 1944-1964
- Limitations
- Volunteer-compiled archival reference, not an official record - figures corroborated where they match DANFS/BuShips/navypedia (build dates, transfer, stricken, machinery). 'Crew: 15/201' (216) diverges from navypedia's French-roster 186 - complement carried as a range in the registry field. No asbestos or materials content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-cronin-de107-04
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[6]Navypedia, 'SENEGALAIS destroyer escorts (1944)' / French Cannon-class roster and technical data (fr_es_cannon.htm); netmarine.net fleet lists flot1956.htm and flot1962.htm [other_primary]
- Locator
- navypedia fr_es_cannon.htm member table row 1 + technical-data block; netmarine.net/bat/listes/flot1956.htm and flot1962.htm (ALGERIEN F701 rows)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Navypedia French escort roster (fr_es_cannon) documents this hull in Marine Nationale service: 'Algerien (ex-DE107 Cronin), 1963- Oise' - pennant F01, from 1950 F701; builder Dravo, Wilmington; laid 5.1943; launched 27.11.1943; in service 1.1944; 'returned 5.1964'. French-class technical data for the F01-F06 group: displacement 1,253 std / 1,602 full t; length 93.3 m oa; machinery 4 General Motors diesel-generators, 2 electric motors; 6,000 hp; 21 kt; complement 186. Netmarine fleet-list snapshots corroborate the ship in the active French fleet as F701 in 1956 and 1962 lists (91 m, 1,650 t, 6,000 CV, 150 h, 19 nds).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1944-1964
- Population
- Marine Nationale crews 1944-1964 (French roster complement 186)
- Limitations
- Secondary compilations - navypedia shows the rename as '1963- Oise' while the DANFS supplement and uboat.net read (August) 1962; carried in gaps. French fleet lists document in-service status in listed years, not detailed operations. No asbestos or materials content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-cronin-de107-05
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[7]Secondary French naval-history compilations: netmarine.net ship/fleet pages and alamer.fr page (both cited by Wikipedia; alamer.fr currently offline, netmarine per-ship history page unreachable by automated fetch); fr.wikipedia 'Algerien (destroyer d'escorte)' [other_primary]
- Locator
- fr.wikipedia article body (Saigon/Toulon/Ecole des Ecouteurs/Algeria/June-1963 claims); en.wikipedia 'French frigate Algerien' (Dragoon claim citing alamer.fr index.php?NIUpage=35&Param1=556)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- French-service operational milestones as compiled in secondary naval-history sources (unverified against primary records this session): participation in the Operation Anvil-Dragoon landings of 15 August 1944 (en.wikipedia, citing the alamer.fr ship page - offline); convoy escort between metropolitan France and French North Africa; deployment to Saigon for operations in early 1946; return to Toulon May 1946; assignment to the Ecole des Ecouteurs S/M (antisubmarine listeners' school) from 1947; Algerian-coast service from 1955; renamed Oise June 1963 'en raison de l'independance de l'Algerie'; disarmed 1964 and scrapped 1965 (fr.wikipedia, citing netmarine).
- Verification
- unverified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1944-1965
- Population
- FNFL/Marine Nationale crews 1944-1964
- Limitations
- All operational specifics in this row are secondary-compilation claims awaiting primary verification - the SHD Marine dossier for ALGERIEN (fonds TT Y, TTY 27-28: deck logs, navigation logs, operations reports, chronological message registers, nominal lists, 1944-1946) is the authoritative lead. The June 1963 rename date conflicts with DANFS's August 1962. None of this content asserts asbestos information; included to bound what is claimed versus proven about the French career.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-cronin-de107-06
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[8]Class/design inference - BuShips Ships' Data 1945 DET-design grouping (DE-99 through DE-113) + navypedia DET machinery data + Atlas shipyards.json (Dravo Wilmington absent) + GAO HRD-80-2 era finding [other_primary]
- Locator
- SDB 1945 Vol. I roster DET grouping; navypedia us_de_det.htm machinery block; shipyards.json yard_id list (no Dravo/Wilmington entry); https://www.gao.gov/products/hrd-80-2
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Era/design inference: DE-107 is a Cannon-class (DET = diesel-electric tandem) destroyer escort built at Dravo, Wilmington in 1943 - four GM 16-278A diesel-generator sets driving two shafts through electric motors, with no boilers and no steam plant. The heavy asbestos categories of steam warships (boiler insulation, steam-line lagging) therefore do not apply to this hull; the era-consistent application set for a diesel-electric escort is exhaust-system insulation, gaskets and packing, electrical insulation, winch/windlass brake linings, and deck coverings, inside the documented Navy asbestos era (GAO HRD-80-2). Builder-yard inference: Dravo's Wilmington yard built 15 Cannon-class hulls for this contract block; the yard is not in the Atlas shipyards.json dataset (yard-level documentation gap logged).
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1943-1965
- Population
- Dravo Wilmington construction trades 1943-44; FNFL/Marine Nationale crews 1944-1964
- Limitations
- Class/era and builder-yard inference only - NOT a hull-specific finding. The diesel-electric plant means the largest asbestos categories of steam ships do not apply; this row establishes era plausibility, not installed materials. Establishes no quantity, no location, no individual exposure, no causation.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-cronin-de107-07
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[9]U.S. General Accounting Office, 'Navy Efforts To Protect Workers From Asbestos Exposure,' HRD-80-2 (published 18 October 1979) [gao]
- Locator
- GAO product page description; full text blocked to automated fetch (HTTP 403) - usage consistent with Batch-01 and the Cannon class profile
- Finding type
- gov_survey
- Finding
- Program-level context: GAO's 1979 report on Navy asbestos protection conveys the Navy's statement that 'thermal insulation for machinery, equipment and piping systems has been the major application of asbestos' and that substitution of asbestos-free materials did not begin until the early 1970s - placing this hull's 1943 construction squarely inside the documented asbestos-use era for U.S. Navy ships.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1979 (report); practices described span the construction era
- Population
- Navy shipyard workers and ship crews (program context)
- Limitations
- Navy-wide program-level context only - the report's fieldwork covered Long Beach and Norfolk Naval Shipyards and its quoted language describes the fleet generally; it names no DE-107 or Dravo record and establishes nothing about materials aboard this hull.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-cronin-de107-08
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[10]Delaware DNREC Division of Watershed Stewardship, 'PCB Mass Loading from Hazardous Substance Release Sites to Surface Waters of the Christina River Basin, Delaware' - Dravo Shipyard appendix entries; Riverfront Wilmington official history page for Dravo Plaza [other_primary]
- Locator
- DNREC Overall Report TOC/appendix index: Appendix 11 'Dravo Shipyard' (11-A, 11-B); https://riverfrontwilm.com/about-us-2/dravo-plaza/ (yard employment/300 ships figures)
- Finding type
- environmental_record
- Finding
- Builder-yard site context: the former Dravo Shipyard on the Christina River, Wilmington, Delaware, appears in the Delaware DNREC 'PCB Mass Loading from Hazardous Substance Release Sites to Surface Waters of the Christina River Basin' study (Contract 06-374-MS-A) as Appendix 11 - 'Dravo Shipyard' (11-A Amer Industrial Technologies, Inc.; 11-B Harbor Associates) - i.e., the yard site that built this hull is a state-inventoried hazardous-substance release site investigated for PCB mass loading to the Christina River. The yard (opened as Betts, Harlan & Hollingsworth 1837; Dravo from 1927; wartime expansion to ~11,000 workers building 200 ships 1940-45) is now the Riverfront Wilmington/Dravo Plaza public space.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1943 (build window); site investigation 2000s
- Population
- Dravo Wilmington construction/workforce (WWII peak ~11,000)
- Limitations
- Site-level environmental record for the builder yard, addressing PCBs - NOT asbestos, and not this hull. Included because the builder yard is otherwise undocumented in the Atlas dataset; it establishes that the construction site was later a state-investigated contaminated site, nothing more.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-cronin-de107-09
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[11]CourtListener API v4 searches: '"USS Cronin"' type=o (0 hits); '"DE-107"' type=o (62 hits, all docket-citation/identifier collisions); '"Cronin" asbestos' type=o (123 hits, surname/firm-name collisions, 0 vessel references); '"USS Cronin"' type=r docket sweep (pacing-blocked at collection - fleet rate budget spent; logged honestly rather than retried) [court_record]
- Locator
- CourtListener search results, queries as listed; DE-704 collision documented via DANFS 'Cronin' entry (covers both hulls) and shepardlawfirm.com DE-704 list page (marketing page noted for collision attribution only, not cited as evidence)
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- CourtListener sweep (authenticated API v4, 2026-09-28): '"USS Cronin"' (type=o) returned 0 hits - no published opinion contains that exact phrase. '"DE-107"' (type=o) returned 62 hits, all identifier collisions - 'DE 107'/'DE-107' occurs inside docket-entry citations and unrelated matter text (Cutino v. Untch, U.S. v. Fiorentino, In re Mohorne, U.S. v. $307,970 in U.S. Currency, et al.); zero asbestos mentions and zero vessel references in screened results. '"Cronin" asbestos' (type=o) returned 123 hits, all surname/firm-name collisions - Corr Cronin Michelson Baumgardner & Preece (a Seattle defense firm appearing across asbestos dockets) and attorneys/parties named Cronin (Fagg v. Bartells Asbestos Trust, Bowman v. A-Best, Brooks v. Stone Architecture, et al.); no screened result references any vessel. Classification: NO qualifying asbestos litigation located for DE-107. Collision risk is structural: a second, operationally distinct USS Cronin (DE-704/DEC-704, Buckley class, commissioned 5 May 1944, sunk as target 1971) is the only USN-commissioned Cronin and is the referent of asbestos-marketing ship-list pages (e.g., shepardlawfirm.com 'USS Cronin | DE 704'); DE-107's crew was French throughout, making U.S. asbestos-docket naming implausible.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- correction
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- sweep 2026-09-28
- Population
- none - no qualifying plaintiff/service linkage located
- Limitations
- Sweep result, not a merits finding: opinion-index coverage supports 'no published opinion names USS Cronin', but pleadings naming the hull without a published opinion would not surface at type=o, and the type=r docket sweep was pacing-blocked this session - unscreened in-document mentions cannot be ruled out. Any 'USS Cronin' hit is presumed a DE-704 collision unless the hull number is explicit; the marketing list reference is collision attribution, not asbestos evidence for either hull.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-cronin-de107-10
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[12]Cross-source reconciliation: DANFS (Bauer & Roberts bracket) vs. BuShips SDB 1945 roster vs. ImagesDefense caption vs. uboat.net vs. navypedia vs. NavSource vs. fr/en.wikipedia compilations [other_primary]
- Locator
- Row-by-row as listed; locators are the per-row citation values of ev-01 through ev-06
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Source discrepancies resolved or logged: (a) Commissioning - Bauer & Roberts via DANFS reads 'Commissioned into the US Navy: 22 January 1944'; uboat.net reads 'transferred to the Free French upon completion' and 'Commissioned 23 Jan 1944' into the FNFL; the French MoD caption reads 'admis au service actif le 23 janvier 1944, transfere a la marine francaise le meme jour'; the BuShips 1945 roster records only the 23 January 1944 transfer. Treated as a nominal one-day USN commission question - the prompt-level fact (never commissioned as 'USS Algerien'; Algerien was a French name from transfer) is unaffected; the 22/23 January conflict is carried in gaps rather than silently reconciled. (b) Oise rename - DANFS supplement and uboat.net read (August) 1962; navypedia reads '1963- Oise'; fr.wikipedia reads June 1963 - conflict carried. (c) ImagesDefense caption locates the builder yard at 'Wilmington en Caroline du Nord' - the yard was Wilmington, Delaware; logged as a caption error. (d) alabordache.fr stub lists 'admission au service actif: 1943' - inconsistent with every other source (January 1944); logged as a data error. (e) Complement - navypedia French-roster figure 186 vs. NavSource '15/201' (=216, matching the DANFS design complement carried for sister DE-766); carried as a range. (f) 'France acquired 14 October 1946' (en.wikipedia infobox) marks the FNFL-to-Marine Nationale administrative transition, not a second transfer - phrased as such. (g) Sold-for-scrap date - NavSource 'sold November 1965'; uboat.net 'sold to be broken up 11 November 1965'; en.wikipedia 'sold for scrapping November 1965' - consistent at month level.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- correction
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1943-1965
- Limitations
- Reconciles publication-level discrepancies among official, archival, and secondary sources; none of the sources contains asbestos information, and none of the variances affects the identity or the custody timeline that the asbestos record depends on.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-cronin-de107-11
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[13]Batch-4001 search ledger (this record): DANFS via losthistory.net/hazegray mirror; BuShips Ships' Data 1945 Vol. I Lend-Lease roster (shipscribe.com); NavSource DE-107 page; navypedia French roster; ImagesDefense/ECPAD photo record; SHD finding aid MV_TT_Y; netmarine fleet lists; DNREC Dravo site record; NVR check; CourtListener name/hull/asbestos sweeps; general-web asbestos-mention check [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-cronin-de107-01 through sl-uss-cronin-de107-15
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located for DE-107: no asbestos survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, materials schedule, court finding, or docketed asbestos case naming this hull was found in the public sources searched (see search_ledger). The custody pattern explains the absence: the hull transferred on completion to the Free French, served 1944-1964 under the French flag, and was scrapped in France in 1965-66 - there was no U.S. crew era, postwar USN overhaul or mothball program, or museum phase under which asbestos documentation would typically be generated in English-language public sources; French refit/disposal records of the period are not digitized in the sources reviewed.
- 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 1943 Dravo-built diesel-electric escort is era-consistent with asbestos-containing exhaust insulation, gaskets, packing, electrical insulation, brake linings, and deck coverings. This row records that no ship-specific documentation was located; it does not establish presence or absence, exposure, or legal eligibility, and the SHD/NARA archival leads are unsurveyed.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-cronin-de107-12
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[14]Service historique de la Defense, 'Repertoire numerique detaille - sous-serie TT Y, Batiments' finding aid (MV_TT_Y_BATIMENTS.pdf), entries TTY 27 and TTY 28; NARA Guide to Federal Records RG 24/RG 19 [other_primary]
- Locator
- SHD finding aid, TTY series entries 'TTY 27 ALGERIEN, destroyer d'escorte' and 'TTY 28 ALGERIEN'; https://www.archives.gov/research/guide-fed-records/groups/024.html and /019.html
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Archival leads (not retrieved - research-room or reproduction order; no spend authorized): (a) SHD Marine (Service historique de la Defense), fonds TT Y, cartons TTY 27 and TTY 28, 'ALGERIEN, destroyer d'escorte' - the official finding aid lists journaux de bord (1944-1945), journaux de navigation (1944-1945), correspondance depart (1944), registres chronologiques des communications (1944-1945), registres des messages secrets (1944-1946), comptes rendus d'activite (1944), comptes rendus et rapport de mission (1944), comptes rendus d'operations (1944), compte rendu d'exercices (1944), compte rendu de tir (1944), rapport de prise de commandement (1944), recapitulatif des mouvements (1944-1945), 'etude sur les escorteurs' (1944), and personnel correspondence including nominal lists (1944); (b) NARA RG 24 'Logbooks of U.S. Navy ships and stations, 1801-1946' - any DE-107 deck-log coverage would span at most the January 1944 build/transfer window; (c) NARA RG 19 (BuShips/BuC&R) construction records and any DE-107 General Information Book (Dravo Wilmington contract documentation); (d) Lend-Lease transfer instruments (1944) and the April 1952 MDAP retransfer documentation.
- Verification
- unverified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1944-1946 records
- Limitations
- Finding-aid/collection-level mapping only - the SHD dossier exists (verified from the published inventory) but was not read; whether it contains any materials/insulation information is unknown. Nothing in this row is an asbestos finding.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-cronin-de107-13