Evidence
10 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-10).
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[1]research packet ji-packet.md (1 sources cited) [other_primary]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERDICT: VERIFIED — real identity: USS Dale (DD-353) — "the fourth USS Dale" [SECONDARY: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Dale_(DD-353)]
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-dale-dd353-pkt-ji-packet-md
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[2]NHHC, Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, 'Dale IV (DD-353)' [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- Dale IV entry, spec block and opening paragraph; verbatim transcription corroborated at https://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USN/ships/dafs/DD/dd353.html
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- The fourth USS Dale (DD-353), a Farragut-class destroyer, was launched 23 January 1935 by Brooklyn Navy Yard (sponsored by Mrs. E. C. Dale) and commissioned 17 June 1935, Commander W. A. Corn in command. DANFS spec block: dp. 1,500; 341'3" x 34'3" x 16'4"; 36 k.; cpl. 160; 5x 5", 8x 21" tt. Laid-down date is omitted by DANFS (carried from NavSource - see ev-04).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Limitations
- Establishes identity, builder, and launch/commission dates; says nothing about asbestos or materials. Live NHHC page returned 404 to direct retrieval on 2026-09-27; Wayback capture and the independent HyperWar transcription agree verbatim.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-dale-dd353-01
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[3]NHHC, DANFS, 'Dale IV (DD-353)' (service narrative) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- Service narrative, all paragraphs; corroborated verbatim by the Wayback NHHC capture
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Dale was moored at Pearl Harbor (Berth X-14, Destroyer Division Two nest: Aylwin, Farragut, Dale, Monaghan) during the 7 December 1941 attack and sortied under fire. Wartime service: screening Lexington (CV-2)/Yorktown (CV-5); overhaul at Mare Island (departed 11 May 1942); Aleutians 1943 (Amchitka; Battle of the Komandorski Islands 26 Mar 1943, screening the damaged Salt Lake City CA-25; Attu; Kiska); Makin; Marshalls; TF 58 raids; Marianas (Saipan, Guam, Philippine Sea); overhaul at Bremerton Navy Yard (Aug-Oct 1944); TF 38 logistics-group screen through Okinawa-era operations; decommissioned New York 16 October 1945; sold 20 December 1946. Twelve WWII battle stars.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Limitations
- Service history only. Documents two stateside navy-yard overhaul periods (Mare Island 1942; Bremerton 1944) whose work scope - including any insulation disturbance - is not described. Says nothing about asbestos, products, or individual exposure.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-dale-dd353-02
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[4]USS Dale (DD-353), 'Detailed report of offensive measures taken during Air Raid, December 7, 1941,' DD353/A4-3 Serial (0667), 28 Dec 1941 (HyperWar transcription) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Action report paragraphs 1-4
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Contemporaneous ship-specific primary document: the commanding officer's action report (Serial 0667, Pearl Harbor, T.H., 28 December 1941, CO Lt. Cmdr. A. L. Rorschach to CincPac) records Dale moored at Berth X-14 with boiler No. 3 lit for auxiliary power; sortie under attack; dive-bomber claim off the entrance buoys at 0907; no casualties or damage; port L.P. pinion bearings on the reduction gear wiped at 1410, limiting her to one engine pending tender assistance.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Limitations
- Official operational record corroborating machinery state (boiler lit) and a reduction-gear casualty. Contains no asbestos or materials information; no inference of asbestos content is drawn from boiler/engine activity. NARA's asbestos research guide separately cautions that operational records are not direct materials evidence.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-dale-dd353-03
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[5]NavSource Naval History, Destroyer Photo Index, 'USS DALE (DD-353)' [other_primary]
- Locator
- Operational and Building Data block; Machinery line (Wayback capture 2023-11-18; live navsource.org fetch failed this session)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NavSource operational and building data for this hull: laid down by New York Navy Yard 10 February 1934; launched 23 January 1935; commissioned 17 June 1935; decommissioned 16 October 1945; stricken 1 November 1945; sold 20 December 1946 and broken up for scrap. Machinery line: 42,800 SHP, Bethlehem turbines, 2 screws; 36.5 knots; crew 160.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Limitations
- Volunteer-maintained transcription of official register data - used to fill fields DANFS omits (laid down, stricken). Dates corroborated by secondary references. No asbestos or materials content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-dale-dd353-04
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[6]DANFS/NavSource class machinery data; Atlas shipyards.json records 'brooklyn-navy-yard' (tier 3), 'mare-island-naval-shipyard', 'puget-sound-naval-shipyard'; Fleischer WE et al., J Ind Hyg Toxicol 1946;28(1):9-16 [other_primary]
- Locator
- DANFS spec block and service narrative (overhaul periods); shipyards.json yard records; class machinery data per Farragut-class references (destroyerhistory.org 'goldplater' page, Friedman)
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Era/class inference: Dale was built 1934-35 at the New York Navy Yard with a Farragut-class high-pressure superheated-steam plant (first U.S. destroyer class with superheaters and economizers). Naval steam plants of this era used asbestos thermal insulation on boilers, turbines, and steam piping, and asbestos gaskets, packing, and fireproofing as standard. The builder yard (New York Naval Shipyard / Brooklyn) is tier 3 in the Atlas yard dataset with litigation and an era industrial-hygiene survey of pipe-covering operations (Fleischer et al., J. Ind. Hyg. Toxicol. 1946); Mare Island and Puget Sound documented-overhaul yards are also asbestos-documented in the dataset.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Limitations
- Class/era and builder-yard inference only - no source located states that asbestos was installed aboard this specific hull, and no quantity, location, or exposure finding is established. Yard-level documentation does not transfer to the hull.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-dale-dd353-05
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[7]U.S. GAO, Asbestos: Growth of Federal Claims, Court Cases, and Litigation Costs, HRD-88-53 (1988) [gao]
- Locator
- Appendix I, PDF p. 20 / printed p. 19, paragraphs on Johns-Manville shipyard claims
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- GAO documented asbestos-related claims arising from World War II work in public and private shipyards and described thermal insulation as a principal asbestos-containing product in those claims. Era-level shipbuilding context only.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Limitations
- GAO discusses WWII shipyards generally, not New York Navy Yard or Dale specifically. The underlying exposure allegations and product discussion cannot establish asbestos aboard DD-353 or exposure of her crew or builders.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-dale-dd353-06
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[8]National Archives, 'Researching Asbestos aboard US Naval Vessel up through 1961' + archive.org identifier sweep [other_primary]
- Locator
- Guide sections on RG 19 correspondence filing codes and ship engineering drawings; archive.org advancedsearch identifier:dd353* (0 hits)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- NARA's guided topic 'Researching Asbestos aboard US Naval Vessel up through 1961' identifies the retrieval route for hull-specific materials evidence: RG 19 Bureau of Ships correspondence by hull file code (DD353), class correspondence via the namesake hull (DD348 class), destroyer type correspondence (DD), General Information Books, and ship engineering drawings including insulation-and-lagging (S39) sheets. No DD-353 file, book, or drawing was retrieved in this batch; no hull-specific general-arrangement set is digitized on archive.org (identifier search dd353* returned zero).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Limitations
- A record-series lead, not proof that a DD-353 file survives or contains an asbestos specification. Retrieval and review remain open; WWII deck logs (RG 24) likewise unretrieved.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-dale-dd353-07
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[9]CourtListener API v4 search (authenticated via cl-auth-search.py): type=o and type=r queries for "USS Dale" and "DD-353" [court_record]
- Locator
- search_ledger sl-uss-dale-dd353-08 through -10; opinion cluster 1965350 (Robinson-Munoz); dockets 1245688 (MDL-875), 7961784 (Fishbeck), 60608073 (Sloane)
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- CourtListener authenticated sweep (API v4, fleet helper): "USS Dale" in opinions returned 1 hit - Robinson-Munoz v. United States, 819 F. Supp. 1136 (D.P.R. 1993), a 28 U.S.C. sec. 2255 petition arising from a 1990 Caribbean drug-interdiction boarding; the 'USS DALE' there is the guided-missile cruiser CG-19 (in commission 1963-1994), a same-name collision, not this hull (scrapped 1947) and not asbestos litigation. "USS Dale" in RECAP dockets returned 3 hits: the MDL-875 consolidated asbestos master docket (match location in docket text unresolved); Fishbeck v. Iran (D.D.C. 2018, personal-injury terrorism case, non-asbestos); and Sloane v. 3M Company (D.S.C. 2:21-cv-02893, 2021, personal-injury product-liability asbestos docket) - 'USS Dale' appears in indexed docket text but the vessel's role in the allegations is not retrievable from the public index. "DD-353" queries returned 0 opinion hits and 7 docket hits, all name/docket-number collisions (insurance, bankruptcy, trademark, patent, prisoner civil-rights, FOIA) - none asbestos and none vessel-related. "USS Dale" + asbestos queries returned 0 opinion hits and 1 docket hit (MDL-875 again).
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Limitations
- No qualifying asbestos litigation naming DD-353 was located in the retrieved index. Robinson-Munoz is a CG-19 collision. The MDL-875 and Sloane docket-text matches are archival leads only: match context, hull attribution (DD-353 vs. CG-19), and the vessel's role are unverified - a name match is not a case or an exposure allegation. Full-text docket review was not possible within fleet pacing budget; RECAP expansion remains open.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-dale-dd353-08
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[10]Batch-3338 source review and search ledger, 27 September 2026 [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-dale-dd353-01 through -11
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, abatement record, hull survey, specification excerpt, or adjudicated finding naming DD-353 was found in the official/authoritative sources searched (see search_ledger). The hull was scrapped in 1946-47; there is no museum or preservation record that could carry a modern ACM disclosure. The only sources naming DD-353 with asbestos are law-firm boilerplate ship lists, which are excluded.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Limitations
- A bounded search result, not a conclusion that asbestos was absent - a 1934-35 steam destroyer is era-consistent with asbestos materials. Undigitized RG 19 files, GIBs, S39 drawings, repair packages, and docket full-text review may contain relevant evidence.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-dale-dd353-09