Evidence
7 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-7).
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[1]research packet kn-packet.md (2 sources cited) [other_primary]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERIFIED — real identity: USS Dennis (DE-405)
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-dennis-de405-pkt-kn-packet-md
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[2]DANFS, Dennis (DE-405) - updated NHHC long-form entry (Wayback capture 2026-01-10; live history.navy.mil page serves 404) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- NHHC DANFS 'Dennis (DE-405)' entry, namesake section + specifications block + full service narrative + disposition lines
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Official DANFS record for this hull: laid down 15 September 1943 at Houston, Texas, by Brown Shipbuilding Co.; launched 4 December 1943, sponsored by Mrs. Mattie P. (Newman) Dennis, mother of namesake RM3c Otis Lee Dennis (VS-6, USS Enterprise; killed 1 February 1942 over Kwajalein); commissioned 20 March 1944, Lt. Cmdr. Sigurd Hansen, DE-V(G), USNR. Specs block: 1,350 t; 306 ft; 36 ft 8 in; draft 9 ft 5 in; 24 kt; complement 186. Shakedown Bermuda; Boston Navy Yard; Panama transit; Pearl Harbor June 1944; convoy escort Eniwetok/Kwajalein; screened Belleau Wood (CVL-24); CarDiv22 at Manus; Morotai 15-27 September; Leyte screen from 12 October; Battle off Samar 25 October 1944 with TU 77.4.3 - two direct shell hits and fragment damage, five crew killed; rescued 425 survivors of St. Lo (CVE-63), six of White Plains (CVE-66), three of Petrof Bay (CVE-80); shared Presidential Unit Citation awarded TU 77.4.3; Hansen received the Navy Cross. Battle-damage repair at General Engineering & Dry Dock Co., Alameda, Calif., from late November 1944; Iwo Jima patrols February-March 1945; Sangamon (CVE-26) kamikaze rescue 4 May 1945 (67 survivors brought aboard); Ulithi radar picket 19-31 May; Third Fleet carrier screen to 26 June; convoy escort through war's end; patrol duty off Samar; rode out Typhoon X-Ray mid-September 1945. Arrived San Diego 6 November 1945; assigned Pacific Reserve Fleet effective 31 May 1946 and decommissioned (entry reads '31 June' [sic]); inactive 3 August 1946; stricken from the Naval Vessel Register 1 December 1972; sold for scrap 12 September 1973 to National Metal & Steel Corp., Terminal Island, Calif. PUC plus four battle stars.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1943-1973
- Population
- Brown Shipbuilding construction trades 1943-44; wartime crew (design complement 186)
- Limitations
- DANFS documents service history, dates, and specifications - not materials or asbestos content. Live NHHC page 404s; the 2026-01-10 Wayback capture is cited. The entry contains an impossible '31 June' decommissioning date and rescue counts differing from the legacy DANFS text - both conflicts carried in gaps rather than silently reconciled.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-dennis-de405-01
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[3]DANFS, Dennis (DE-405) - legacy edition (verbatim HyperWar/ibiblio transcription of the older Naval History Division text) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS entry, specifications block + service narrative
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Legacy DANFS record for this hull: launched 4 December 1943 by Brown Shipbuilding Co., Houston; sponsored by Mrs. J. L. Dennis; commissioned 20 March 1944, Lt. Cmdr. S. Hansen, USNR. Specs block identical (cpl. 186). Samar: 'Dennis rescued 434 survivors from the bombed St. Lo (CVE-63)' and shared the PUC awarded TU 77.4.3; arrived San Francisco 26 November 1944 for overhaul; Iwo Jima patrol to 8 March 1945; on 4 May 'saving 88 of the crew of Sangamon (CVE-26), a kamikaze victim'; radar picket duty at Ulithi 9 May-3 June; placed out of commission in reserve at San Diego 31 May 1946; PUC plus four battle stars.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1943-1946
- Population
- Wartime crew
- Limitations
- Legacy edition lacks laid-down date and the 1972/1973 striking and disposal lines; its rescue tallies (434 from St. Lo; 88 from Sangamon) differ in framing from the updated entry (425+6+3; 67 aboard + at least 20 to other vessels) - conflicts documented in gaps. No materials or asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-dennis-de405-02
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[4]NHHC H-Gram 036, 'Battle off Samar / 75th anniversary' (official NHHC publication; Wayback capture 2025-12-09 - live PDF serves 404) [other_primary]
- Locator
- H-Gram 036 body text, Taffy 3 escort passage
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Official NHHC publication corroborating this hull's Samar service: 'the other three destroyer escorts, Raymond (DE-431), Dennis (DE-405), and John C. Butler (DE-339), courageously did their best to hold the charging Japanese at bay' during the Battle off Samar, 25 October 1944.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1944 (event); publication circa 2019
- Population
- n/a
- Limitations
- Commemorative/historical publication; corroborates battle participation only - no materials, asbestos, or exposure content. Live PDF 404s; Wayback capture cited.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-dennis-de405-03
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[5]Destroyer Escort Historical Museum (USS Slater, Albany NY) online catalog: 'DC2021.27 - USS DENNIS (DE-405) Damage Control Book' [museum_official]
- Locator
- ussslater.pastperfectonline.com catalog record DC2021.27
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- A ship-specific primary artifact exists for DE-405: the Destroyer Escort Historical Museum catalog records a USS Dennis (DE-405) Damage Control Book, accession DC2021.27. Damage control books are the Navy booklets documenting hull structure and systems (including piping runs and insulation locations) and are the correct first pull for hull-level material documentation.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- artifact wartime; catalog current
- Population
- n/a
- Limitations
- Holding verified by catalog title/accession via search index; the PastPerfect page returns HTTP 403 to automated fetch, so contents were not inspected. A damage control book's presence does not itself establish asbestos content aboard; retrieval pending.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-dennis-de405-04
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[6]Bureau of Ships, Ships' Data U.S. Naval Vessels Vol. 1 (Jan 1945), DE design-group table (design group 6 / WGT) + navypedia WGT per-block boiler map [other_primary]
- Locator
- SDB1945v1 pp. 234-235 design-group table row 6; navypedia us_de_tev_wgt block map; class profile john-c-butler-class
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Era/design inference only: DE-405 was a BuShips design group 6 (WGT) destroyer escort - two 'D' express boilers (435 psi/750F), two Westinghouse geared steam turbines, 12,000 shp, 2 shafts, 24.3 kt. A two-boiler steam plant in 1943-44 construction implies era-standard asbestos applications: boiler and steam-line insulation, turbine lagging, gaskets, packing, fireproofing, deck coverings. Per the class profile's navypedia boiler-block map, DE-405 falls in the DE-402-424 block carried as Combustion Engineering boilers.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1943-1973
- Population
- Brown Shipbuilding construction trades 1943-44; crew 1944-46; reserve fleet 1946-72
- Limitations
- Class/era inference only - NOT a hull-specific finding. No ship-specific material schedule, survey, or contract document was located for DE-405; boiler-vendor attribution rests on a secondary compilation (navypedia), unverified against contract documents. Does not quantify material or establish any individual's exposure.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-dennis-de405-05
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[7]CourtListener API v4 authenticated searches (type=o opinions, type=r dockets, type=rd RECAP documents) + RECAP PDF of Haynes v. Air & Liquid Systems Corp., 1:16-cv-00607 (D. Del.), Doc. 117 [court_record]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-dennis-de405-07 through sl-uss-dennis-de405-11; Haynes Doc. 117 pp. 2-3 (service history recital)
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- No qualifying asbestos litigation naming USS Dennis (DE-405) located. (1) 'USS Dennis' in opinions: 0 hits. (2) 'USS Dennis' in dockets: 1 hit - Haynes v. Air & Liquid Systems Corp., 1:16-cv-00607 (D. Del., 'In re: Asbestos Litigation'), an asbestos PI action removed under 28:1442; RECAP full-text pinpoint resolved the match to Doc. 117, the 2017-07-21 Report & Recommendations (Fallon, J.) granting defendants' summary-judgment motions, in which the plaintiff's service was aboard USS Halsey Powell (DD-686) and 'USS Dennis J. Buckley' (DD-808, a Gearing-class destroyer) for six months in 1963 - a different hull; name collision, not this DE-405. (3) 'DE-405' in opinions: 14 hits, all non-vessel string collisions (criminal, civil-rights, contract, and Puerto Rico civil opinions matching docket/form/statute strings; none asbestos, none naval). (4) 'DE-405' in dockets: 136 hits, identifier collisions (docket-entry numbering and document references in unrelated dockets); narrowing to 'DE-405' AND asbestos returned 3 hits - all unrelated dockets (PI-other, bankruptcy, labor).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 2026-09-28
- Limitations
- Coverage is limited to CourtListener-indexed state/federal opinions, federal dockets, and RECAP documents; unindexed state trial-court filings and settled MDL-875 claimant records are not covered. The sole exact-name hit was resolved by full-text inspection to a different hull (DD-808). No search can prove the absence of all possible litigation, and no opinion- or docket-level finding for DE-405 exists to classify.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-dennis-de405-06