Evidence
9 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-9).
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[1]DANFS, Day (DE-225) (namesake biography, builder, launch/commissioning dates, WWII service narrative, battle stars; live NHHC page returns 404 as of 2026-09-28 - content verified via Wayback capture 2024-09-20 and verbatim transcription mirror) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS entry, namesake paragraph + specifications block + service narrative
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS record for this hull: namesake Chief Water Tender Francis Daniel Day, killed aboard USS Oklahoma (BB-37) at Pearl Harbor 7 December 1941 (posthumous Navy and Marine Corps Medal for assisting 15 crew to escape a flooded compartment); launched 14 October 1943 by Philadelphia Navy Yard, sponsored by Miss G. Day; commissioned 10 June 1944, Commander K. E. Read in command. Service narrative: departed New York 14 October 1944, arrived Hollandia, New Guinea 21 November; convoy escort Finschhafen-Morotai 9-20 December; Sansapor-Leyte screening from 26 December; escorted 56 tugs and tows to Lingayen Gulf fighting off three air attacks, arrived 14 January 1945; San Antonio-San Felipe Luzon operation; February 1945 San Pedro Bay patrol/convoy duty including screening minesweepers clearing Manila Bay and escorting the first post-occupation merchant convoy into Manila; Legaspi landings 1-4 April; command ship for Balabac Island minesweeping unit; Borneo invasion 7-12 June; Ulithi-Leyte convoys 22 July-22 August; departed Philippines 18 December 1945, arrived San Diego 9 January 1946; out of commission in reserve 16 May 1946. Two battle stars.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1943-1946
- Population
- Philadelphia Navy Yard construction workforce 1943-44; wartime crew (design complement 186 per DANFS)
- Limitations
- DANFS documents service history and the namesake, not materials or asbestos content. The NHHC digitization reads 'Detached from this duty at Leyte 4 January 1946' - an evident typo for 1945 (Lingayen landings were January 1945); carried as 1945 with the conflict noted in gaps. Live NHHC URL currently 404s; text verified against Wayback capture and the hazegray mirror.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-day-de225-01
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[2]Bureau of Ships, Ships' Data, U.S. Naval Vessels, Vol. 1 (1 January 1945) - destroyer-escort design-group table (pp. 234-235) and individual-ship table (p. 242, entry 79) [other_primary]
- Locator
- SDB1945v1 pp. 234-235 design-group table row 3 (TEV); p. 242 individual-ship table entry 79 (DAY, DE-225)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Official BuShips record names this hull: 'DAY DE225,' group TEV, built 'Navy Yard, Philadelphia,' contract price of hull and machinery $2,043,000 (cost-plus-fixed-fee), contract signed 7 August 1942. The TEV (turbine electric drive, 5-inch guns) design-group table specifies for Day's group: 306 ft oa, 1,450 tons standard / 1,810 full load, 23.6 kt trial speed, 2 shafts, G.E. turbo-electric engines 12,000 shp, 2 'D' express boilers at 435 psi / 750 deg F, no reduction gears, design accommodations 15 officers and 206 enlisted. A superheated-steam plant is documented aboard this hull by the per-ship group assignment.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1942-1945
- Population
- Philadelphia Navy Yard construction workforce; ship's engineering division (boiler/turbine watchstanders)
- Limitations
- Official Navy reference (declassified 1946-1967) naming the hull and its machinery group - documents the steam plant but says nothing about insulation materials or asbestos aboard; material content is not in this source. Scanned-image table read visually; digit-level transcription caution applies.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-day-de225-02
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[3]Ship-authored document: 'ALL IN A DAY'S WORK - WAR HISTORY OF THE U.S.S. DAY (DE-225),' submitted by the ship at war's end (NavSource scan) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource DE-225 archive, war-history scan 06225wh.jpg (5 pp.)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- The ship's own war history (crew-authored, end-of-war submission) records: commissioning party at Philadelphia Navy Yard 10 June 1944 under Cmdr. Kendall E. Read, USNR; shakedown in the Bermuda area; orders changed during a Bizerte escort assignment, rerouting via Aruba and the Panama Canal to the Pacific with an equator crossing (Shellback initiation) and Bora Bora; Hollandia arrival; Lingayen convoy air attacks (a plane splashed after a suicide-dive attempt on an oiler); escort of the first merchant convoy into Manila since the occupation on 1 March 1945; Balabac minesweep screen 'with the aid of several fighter planes'; Brunei Bay landings 7-12 June 1945; Cmdr. Read awarded the Legion of Merit for Philippine operations January-June 1945 (signed Admiral T. C. Kinkaid).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1944-1945
- Population
- Wartime crew 1944-45
- Limitations
- Ship-authored morale document - 'cannot be considered an official document of the United States Navy' per its own preamble; corroborates DANFS but contains no material, insulation, or asbestos information. Scanned image transcribed visually.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-day-de225-03
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[4]NavSource Destroyer Escort Photo Archive, USS Day (DE-225) - building/operational data, specifications block, commanding-officer roster, awards [other_primary]
- Locator
- navsource.net/archives/06/225.htm - 'Day (DE 225) Building and Operational Data' + specifications + CO roster
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Compiled vessel record for this hull: keel laid 15 July 1943 Philadelphia Navy Yard; launched/christened 14 October 1943 (sponsor Miss Katherine Day, youngest sister of the namesake); commissioned 10 June 1944 assigned Atlantic Fleet; transferred to Pacific 7th Fleet 1 November 1944; transferred to Pacific 19th Reserve Fleet 9 January 1946; decommissioned San Diego 16 May 1946 after 1 year 11 months and 83,283 miles steamed; inactivation completed 12 July 1946, assigned Submarine Group Two, San Diego Group, Pacific Reserve Fleet; struck from the Naval Vessel Register 30 June 1968; sunk as target off San Clemente Island, California, 1 March 1969. Spec block: TEV, 1,450/1,810 tons, 2 CE boilers, G.E. turbines with electric drive, 12,000 shp, 24 kt, complement 12/192. COs: Cmdr. Kendall E. Read USNR (1944-06-10 to 1945-11-15); Lcdr. Richard Albert Cutter USNR; Lcdr. John Forster Collingwood USNR (decommissioning).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1943-1969
- Population
- Decommissioning/reserve-period personnel 1946; disposal workforce 1968-69
- Limitations
- NavSource is a volunteer-compiled archive of official data, not itself a government record - the stricken date and sinking disposition derive from NVR data but the register page for this hull was not independently fetched (modern NVR does not cover 1968-stricken hulls). Sponsor's name ('Katherine Day') differs from DANFS ('Miss G. Day'); both are carried in gaps.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-day-de225-04
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[5]Era/design inference consolidated from BuShips Ships' Data 1945 TEV design-group spec (above) + Atlas shipyards.json Philadelphia Naval Shipyard record (yard tier 3, litigation-documented asbestos product identifications) [other_primary]
- Locator
- SDB1945v1 pp. 234-235 TEV row; shipyards.json 'philadelphia-naval-shipyard' record
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Era/design inference: a TEV-group destroyer escort with 2 superheated 'D' express boilers (435 psi/750 deg F) and G.E. turbo-electric drive, built at a Navy yard in 1943-44, would have carried period-standard asbestos applications - boiler and steam-line thermal insulation, turbine lagging, valve/flange gaskets, machinery packing, evaporator and auxiliary insulation, and interior fireproofing/deck coverings. The builder (Philadelphia Navy Yard/Philadelphia Naval Shipyard) is an Atlas tier-3 yard: published Pennsylvania appellate opinions identify named asbestos products in use at that yard across the era.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1943-1946 (construction/service era)
- Population
- Philadelphia Navy Yard construction trades 1943-44; engineering-division crew 1944-46
- Limitations
- Class/era and builder-yard inference only - no document located ties a specific asbestos product or quantity to hull DE-225. Yard-level litigation documents the workplace, not this ship's material bill. This row does not establish ship-specific exposure, dose, or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-day-de225-05
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[6]Jack v. Borg-Warner Morse Tec LLC, W.D. Wash. No. 2:17-cv-00537 - defendants' exhibit list, ECF 738 att. 1 (primary Navy insulation-document identifications) [court_record]
- Locator
- Jack v. Borg-Warner ECF 738 att. 1, exhibit-list items identifying Navy insulation specs
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- The exhibit list in this destroyer-escort asbestos case (naming USS Brannon, DE-446, John C. Butler class) identifies the era's controlling Navy insulation documents relied on in DE litigation: 'Bureau of Ships Manual, Chapter 39, Thermal Insulation, NAVSHIPS 250000(39), dated 24 August 1945'; 'Navy Department Specification, Felt, Insulating, Asbestos, 32F3a, dated 15 October 1945'; 'General Specifications for Machinery - Subsection S39-1, Navy Department, Bureau of Engineering, dated 3 Feb 1939'; 'Instructions Relative to Heat Insulation' (BuEng Manual ch. 13). These are the document suite a hull-level material inquiry for a steam DE would pull first.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1939-1945 (spec documents); litigation 2017-2019
- Population
- n/a (document-identification lead)
- Limitations
- Era context via a sister-class docket, identified from the John C. Butler class profile's evidence row and not re-retrieved this session - the underlying specification documents themselves were not pulled for DE-225. Exhibit-list identification only; says nothing about what was installed aboard Day.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-day-de225-06
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[7]National Archives - 'Logbooks of the U.S. Navy Ships and Stations, 1941-1978' (NAID 594258), RG 24 records of the Bureau of Naval Personnel [other_primary]
- Locator
- catalog.archives.gov NAID 594258 series search 'Day DE-225' = 0 digitized hits (2026-09-28)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- USS Day's 1944-1946 deck logs are the primary-source lead for daily operations, anchorage details, and any recorded material events; NARA catalog search for digitized holdings of this hull returned no digitized items, consistent with the VA digitization project's focus on Vietnam-era logs - the 1944-46 logs exist in the textual series at Archives II (College Park) but require a pull.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1944-1946
- Population
- Wartime crew 1944-46
- Limitations
- Archival lead only - deck logs document movements and noteworthy events; they rarely describe insulation materials and none were reviewed for this record.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-day-de225-07
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[8]CourtListener API v4 authenticated search (ships-batch helper, fleet-paced) [court_record]
- Locator
- search_ledger sl-uss-day-de225-06/07
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- Litigation sweep (partial): exact-phrase opinion search '"USS Day"' (type=o) returned zero hits on 2026-09-28. Remaining queries - '"DE-225"' opinions, '"USS Day"'/'"DE-225"'/'"U.S.S. Day"' docket (type=r) searches - could not be completed: the fleet-shared CourtListener request budget was spent for the window and the helper stood down per pacing rules. No qualifying asbestos litigation naming this hull was located in the completed portion of the sweep.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 2026-09-28 (search date)
- Population
- n/a
- Limitations
- Sweep is partial: one opinion query completed clean (0 results); hull-number and docket-index queries remain unrun, so absence of litigation is NOT fully established - docket-text mentions in particular are not ruled out. 'Day' is a high-collision term requiring exact-phrase or hull-number queries; completed query used exact phrase.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-day-de225-08
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[9]Batch-4144 search ledger (this record): DANFS/NHHC, BuShips Ships' Data 1945, ship-authored war history, NavSource, NARA catalog, CourtListener partial sweep [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-day-de225-01 through sl-uss-day-de225-09
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, abatement contract, material schedule, hazmat disclosure, museum record (hull sunk 1969), or completed litigation hit naming USS Day (DE-225) was found in the public sources searched (see search_ledger).
- 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 1943-44 steam DE is an era-consistent candidate for asbestos insulation, and the hull was sunk in place as a target, foreclosing post-service survey. Does not establish that asbestos is or was present; does not establish or defeat any exposure claim or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-day-de225-09
