Evidence
8 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-8).
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[1]DANFS, Daniel (DE-335) (builder, dates, convoy service, decommissioning; verbatim transcription - live NHHC page serves 404) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS entry, specifications block + service narrative
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS record for this hull: launched 16 November 1943 by Consolidated Steel Corp., Orange, Tex.; sponsored by Mrs. C. E. Daniel; commissioned 24 January 1944, Lt. Comdr. H. E. Waller, USNR, in command. Shakedown at Bermuda, arrived Norfolk 24 March 1944; school ship training destroyer escort nucleus crews in Hampton Roads until 31 May; convoy duty - two convoys to Naples, Italy, between 27 June and 27 September 1944; five escort voyages to ports in England and France between 23 October 1944 and 3 June 1945; arrived San Diego 29 July 1945, Pearl Harbor 9 August (plane guard for Corregidor CVE-58); sailed for the east coast 5 September, arrived Philadelphia 27 September; placed out of commission in reserve at Green Cove Springs, Fla., 12 April 1946. Namesake PFC Hugh Spencer Daniel, USMC, killed aboard USS Hornet (CV-8) at Santa Cruz 26 October 1942, posthumous Navy Cross. Specifications block: Edsall class; 1,200 tons; 306' length; 21 kt; complement 186.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1943-1946
- Population
- Consolidated Steel construction trades 1943-44; wartime crew (DANFS complement 186)
- Limitations
- DANFS documents service history and specifications, not materials or asbestos content. The DANFS text (Volume II era, published before striking) ends at the 1946 decommissioning - the 1971 strike and 1974 sale dates come from secondary compilations, not this source. Mirror transcription cited because the live NHHC page returns 404.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-daniel-de335-01
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[2]U.S.S. Daniel (DE 335), 'Record of History of U.S.S. Daniel (DE 335), Including War Record' - Commanding Officer to Secretary of the Navy (PUBINFO), Florida Group, 16th Fleet, Green Cove Springs, Fla., April 1946; Navy Dept. Ships Section, Office of Public Information stamp 15 April 1946; document 159028 [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource image 06335wh.jpg, panels: forwarding letter; Enclosure (A) commanding officers; Enclosure (B) ship's history
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- The ship's own war-history submission (enclosures A and B) records: built by Consolidated Steel Corporation; commissioned 24 January 1944 at Orange, Texas; February shakedown at Bermuda; by the first of April reported to Commander Operational Training Command, Atlantic Fleet, spending two months training pre-commissioning details for new destroyer escorts schooling at Norfolk; first half of June 1944 escorted a sea-going tug and floating dry dock from North Carolina to Bermuda without incident; July-September 1944 escorting fast troop convoys from the U.S. to Naples; October 1944-June 1945 operated in task groups escorting troop and supply convoys from New York to United Kingdom and French ports ('several hundred thousand troops were delivered without accident'); July 1945 refresher training at Guantanamo Bay under COTCLant, then through the Panama Canal to join the Pacific Fleet (reported 20 July 1945); V-J Day at Pearl Harbor; brief duty as plane guard for a carrier; sailed for San Diego 4 September 1945 with 50 about-to-be-discharged Army and Marine passengers; through the Canal to Philadelphia 'for our last availability'; reported to Commander Sixteenth Fleet at Green Cove Springs, Florida 24 October 1945 for inactivation; placed out of commission in reserve 12 April 1946. Enclosure A lists commanding officers: LCDR Harold E. Waller, USNR (24 Jan-30 May 1944); LCDR Elwood D. Boynton, USNR (30 May 1944-4 Oct 1945); LCDR Richard N. Billings, USNR (4 Oct 1945-12 Apr 1946).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1944-1946 (document April 1946)
- Population
- Wartime crew 1944-1946
- Limitations
- Primary document (the ship's own submission to the Navy Department), but the located copy is an image reproduction hosted by NavSource (06335wh.jpg), not authenticated against the NARA original. Minor variance vs. DANFS (war history reads sailed for San Diego 4 September 1945; DANFS reads 'sailed for the east coast' 5 September). Documents operations and custody, not materials or asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-daniel-de335-02
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[3]Bureau of Ships, 'Ships' Data, U.S. Naval Vessels, 1945' Vol. I (NAVSHIPS 250-010), destroyer-escort design table pp. 234-235 and DE roster pp. 242-243 (book pagination; shipscribe.com scan) [other_primary]
- Locator
- SDB1945v1.pdf, book pp. 234-235 (FMR design table; boilers 'None') and pp. 242-243 (roster row 75)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Official 1945 BuShips roster entry for this hull (roster row 75): 'DANIEL - DE335', group design FMR, built by Consolidated Steel Corp., Orange, Tex.; contract price of hull and machinery $1,539,000 (footnote: cost plus fixed fee); contract signed 7 August 1942; keel laid 30 August 1943; launched 16 November 1943; contract date of completion 7 February 1944; date of preliminary acceptance 24 January 1944; date of first commission 24 January 1944. The FMR design table lists 306' overall / 300' waterline, 36'7" extreme beam, 1,200-ton standard and 1,590-ton full-load displacement, 15 officers / 201 enlisted accommodations, 3x3"/50 main mounts; machinery 'F.M. diesel model 38D8-1/8', 6,000 shaft hp, 2 propellers; boiler columns read 'None' - 'FMR = Fairbanks Morse diesel reverse gear drive.'
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1945 edition
- Population
- Consolidated Steel Orange construction trades 1943-44; design complement
- Limitations
- Official program-state record (originally Confidential, declassified 1967) - confirms design group, builder, contract, and dates; it is a characteristics/roster publication, not a materials document, and does not speak to asbestos content. Scan OCR is noisy; the Daniel row was verified against the page image (contract price $1,539,000, not $1,639,000 as OCR renders). Accommodation figure (15+201) differs from the DANFS complement (186) - carried in gaps.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-daniel-de335-03
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[4]NavSource Online Destroyer Escort Photo Archive, USS Daniel (DE 335) page (specifications, building/operational data, NHHC photograph captions, commanding-officer roster) [other_primary]
- Locator
- navsource.net/archives/06/335.htm - specifications block; 'Building and Operational Data' list; photo captions (0633504, 0633503)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Disposition and reserve record for this hull from the NavSource archive (compiling NVR and NHHC material): keel laid 30 August 1943 by Consolidated Steel Corp., Orange, Tex.; decommissioned at Green Cove Springs, Fla., 12 April 1946 'after 2 years and 3 months of service'; struck from the Naval Vessel Register 15 January 1971; sold for scrapping 30 January 1974. NHHC photograph L45-71.01.01 caption documents the ship moored at Pier One, Brooklyn Navy Yard, New York Harbor, 10 March 1945, onloading munitions at NAD Earle, Leonardo Pier, N.J., then underway in company with USS Edsall (DE-129) and USS Stewart (DE-238) for the New London training area. A September 1960 photograph shows the ship mothballed alongside USS Merrill (DE-392) in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet at Green Cove Springs.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1943-1974
- Population
- Atlantic Reserve Fleet custody 1946-1971; disposal chain 1971-1974
- Limitations
- Secondary compilation (NavSource) citing NVR and NHHC imagery - the underlying NVR strike and sale entries are not publicly digitized; the dates are corroborated across independent compilations (uboat.net, NavalCoverMuseum). Documents custody and disposition, not materials or asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-daniel-de335-04
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[5]Johns-Manville Corp. v. United States, 13 Cl. Ct. 72 (Cl. Ct. 1987), vacated on other grounds, 855 F.2d 1571 (Fed. Cir. 1988) (CourtListener opinion 6929605; text verified via opinion mirrors) [court_record]
- Locator
- 13 Cl. Ct. 72, opinion text (test-shipyard and test-claimant paragraphs); 855 F.2d 1571 (Fed. Cir. 1988) introductory recital
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- Published Claims Court opinion documenting this hull's builder yard as a WWII-era asbestos-exposure site: in Johns-Manville's omnibus indemnity action against the United States (57 closed shipyard-worker asbestos claims), the court structured a test case on four test shipyards and 15 test claimants - 'two test shipyards were owned privately, the Consolidated Steel Corporation Shipyard ("Consolidated") in Orange, Texas, and Bethlehem Steel Corporation's Fore River Shipyard' - with three test claimants at Consolidated, Orange, and the complaint 'directed exclusively to exposures that occurred during or prior to World War II.' Consolidated Steel Orange built this hull 1943-44. The Claims Court found for the government on the merits; the Federal Circuit vacated and did not reach the merits (855 F.2d 1571).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- WWII exposure window; 1983-1988 litigation
- Population
- Consolidated Steel Orange shipyard workers, WWII era (3 of 15 test claimants)
- Limitations
- Yard-level, not hull-level: documents that asbestos-exposure claims of Consolidated Steel Orange shipyard workers were litigated as test claims - it does not establish asbestos content of any vessel built there, and the claimant exposures underlying the test structure were recited, not adjudicated; the trial opinion was vacated on appeal without the appellate court reaching the merits. Johns-Manville's recovery theories failed at trial; describe disposition exactly as reported.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-daniel-de335-05
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[6]Keri Heath, 'World War II-era vessels in Galveston to undergo asbestos abatement,' The Daily News (Galveston), 27 July 2020 [reputable_press]
- Locator
- galvnews.com article body (survey origin, contractor approval, Navy inspection recommendation)
- Finding type
- abatement_record
- Finding
- Class-mate abatement record: the Edsall-class museum destroyer escort USS Stewart (DE-238) at Seawolf Park, Galveston, was closed to the public from November 2019 after an asbestos survey - commissioned after mechanics preparing to work on the ship's 'boiler room' recommended one - reported a potential hazard; the environmental firm recommended abatement in the boiler room and some public areas; contractor Separation Systems Consultants received approval in late July 2020 to remove asbestos found in the vessels' public areas. The U.S. Navy still owned the donated hulls, and Navy inspections had recommended the survey. Stewart also operated in company with this hull on 10 March 1945 (NHHC photo L45-71.01.01).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 2019-2020
- Population
- Seawolf Park visitors and museum/abatement workers, 2019-2020
- Limitations
- Documents a different hull (DE-238): class-mate evidence that period ACM remained aboard a same-class Edsall DE into museum service - class-level corroboration, NOT a ship-specific finding for DE-335, which was scrapped in 1974. The 'boiler room' phrasing is the newspaper's; FMR Edsall-class ships carried no propulsion boilers, so the space's character on DE-238 is unresolved. Abatement scope covered public areas; quantities and full ACM inventory are not public.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-daniel-de335-06
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[7]BuShips Ships' Data 1945 Vol. I FMR design table (boilers 'None'; F.M. diesel 38D8-1/8) + Johns-Manville v. United States builder-yard record (13 Cl. Ct. 72) [other_primary]
- Locator
- SDB1945v1.pdf FMR design row (book pp. 234-235); 13 Cl. Ct. 72 test-claimant passages
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Era/yard inference: an Edsall-class destroyer escort built 1943-44 with the Fairbanks-Morse geared-diesel (FMR) plant - no boilers or steam propulsion - would have carried era-standard asbestos applications appropriate to a diesel ship: exhaust-system insulation and lagging, machinery gaskets and packing, electrical insulation, brake linings on winches and deck machinery, and deck coverings. Builder Consolidated Steel Corp. (Orange, Tex.) is documented at yard level as a WWII-era asbestos-exposure site (three of fifteen test claimants in Johns-Manville v. United States worked at Consolidated, Orange).
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1943-1946
- Population
- Consolidated Steel Orange construction trades 1943-44; wartime crew 1944-46
- Limitations
- Class/era and builder-yard inference only - NOT a hull-specific finding. The diesel plant means the largest asbestos categories of steam ships (boiler and steam-line insulation) do not apply to this hull's propulsion train; auxiliary-service applications (gaskets, packing, electrical, deck coverings) remain era-typical. Does not quantify material or establish any individual's exposure. Consolidated Steel Orange is not an Atlas shipyards.json entry - carried in gaps.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-daniel-de335-07
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[8]Batch-4238 search ledger (this record): DANFS transcription; ship-submitted war history (Navy doc 159028); BuShips Ships' Data 1945 Vol. I; NavSource archive; NARA digitized deck-log index; CourtListener exact-name and hull-number queries across opinion and RECAP indexes [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-daniel-de335-04 through sl-uss-daniel-de335-08
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located for DE-335: no hull ACM survey, abatement record, or hazmat disclosure exists for this scrapped hull, and no qualifying asbestos litigation names it. CourtListener exact-name searches returned only name collisions (USS Daniel Boone SSBN-629/626 collision and exposure-chart references; unrelated pro se and limitation actions) and 'DE-335' returned only numeric and docket-entry collisions; the closest asbestos-docket hit (Beamis v. Buffalo Pumps, D.R.I. 1:08-cv-00472) names USS Daniel Boone (SSBN-626) in a Portsmouth Naval Shipyard exposure chart - a submarine, not this 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 during 1943-46 construction and service - era materials are consistent but not ship-proven. The hull was scrapped in 1974, foreclosing later surveys. Does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-daniel-de335-08
