Evidence
5 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-5).
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[1]Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, "Dent (Destroyer No. 116)" entry, as transcribed by the Destroyer History Foundation and sourced to NHHC/DANFS [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- destroyerhistory.org USS Dent page, full narrative + "Dent earned five stars on her Asiatic-Pacific campaign ribbon" + sources line ("Naval History & Heritage Command including Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships")
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS record for this hull (Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, via Destroyer History Foundation transcription, sourced to NHHC): launched 23 March 1918 by William Cramp and Sons, Philadelphia, Pa.; sponsored by Miss A. W. Collins, great-granddaughter of Captain Dent; commissioned 9 September 1918. WWI convoy escort to Ireland (19 Sept-8 Nov 1918); 1919 Trepassey Harbor station for the first transatlantic NC flying-boat crossing; Pacific Fleet service, South America cruise 1921; reserve 1922; recommissioned 1930 as plane guard/reserve trainer; screened Saratoga (CV-3) to Pearl Harbor, 8 December 1941; Aleutians convoy/patrol duty from Dutch Harbor, 1942; converted to high-speed transport at Seattle, WA, reclassified APD-9, 7 March 1943; Central Solomons landings (New Georgia, Rendova, Vella Lavella, Cape Torokina/Bougainville) 1943; grounded on an uncharted shoal off Cape Sudest, December 1943, requiring repairs in Australia; Emirau Island and Aitape landings, 1944; underwater demolition team support and Saipan/Tinian patrol during the Marianas campaign, 1944; Amphibious Training Force duty at San Diego, Nov 1944-Oct 1945; decommissioned at Philadelphia, Pa., 4 December 1945; sold 13 June 1946. Five battle stars, Asiatic-Pacific campaign ribbon.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Study period
- 1917-1946
- Population
- Wartime and peacetime crew, 1918-1945; William Cramp and Sons construction trades, 1917-1918
- Limitations
- DANFS documents service history, dates, and specifications-adjacent facts only, not shipboard materials or asbestos content. Live history.navy.mil DANFS page could not be retrieved directly in this session (TLS certificate verification failure on automated fetch); this transcription mirror, which cites NHHC/DANFS as its source and matches the independently retrieved NHHC photo-caption summary on all substantive service-history points, was used instead. Does not establish anything about hazardous materials aboard.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-dent-dd116-01
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[2]Naval History and Heritage Command, "USS Dent (Destroyer # 116, later DD-116, and APD-9), 1918-1946," Online Library of Selected Images caption page [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- ibiblio.org mirror of history.navy.mil NHHC photo-caption page, first paragraph
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Official NHHC "USN Ships" photo-caption page (Naval History and Heritage Command, formerly Naval Historical Center) states: "USS Dent, a 1090-ton Wickes class destroyer, was built at Camden, New Jersey. She was commissioned in September 1918..." This NHHC-authored page independently confirms commissioning month, WWI convoy escort, 1919 NC flying-boat support, Pacific deployment and 1922 reserve, 1930 recommissioning, Pearl Harbor screening of Saratoga, Aleutians service, Seattle conversion to APD-9 (7 March 1943), Central Solomons through Marianas operations, and decommissioning/sale (Philadelphia, fall 1945; decommissioned December 1945; sold June 1946) - but gives the builder location as Camden, New Jersey, conflicting with the fuller DANFS narrative's Philadelphia, Pa.
- Verification
- disputed
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Study period
- 1918-1946
- Limitations
- This page is an NHHC-authored image-index caption, not the full DANFS entry, and conflicts with the fuller DANFS narrative on builder location only (Camden, NJ vs. Philadelphia, Pa. - William Cramp and Sons operated at Philadelphia; no Cramp facility at Camden was identified). All other service-history facts on this page corroborate the DANFS narrative. The conflict is carried in gaps rather than silently resolved. This source does not address shipboard materials or asbestos.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-dent-dd116-02
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[3]NHHC photo-caption page tonnage/class identification (ev-02) + DANFS narrative construction/propulsion context (ev-01); no independent boiler-count or shaft-horsepower figure for this hull located in an approved source [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- NHHC caption page paragraph 1 (tonnage/class); DANFS narrative (construction/conversion references)
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Class/era inference: Dent was a Wickes-class flush-deck destroyer built 1917-18 (NHHC-documented at 1,090 tons) with oil-fired water-tube boilers and geared steam turbines, a WWI-era steam-propulsion configuration whose period-standard construction would be expected to include asbestos-containing boiler insulation, steam-line lagging, gaskets, and packing, consistent with contemporaneous U.S. Navy destroyer practice of the period.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Study period
- 1917-1946
- Population
- William Cramp and Sons construction trades, 1917-1918; wartime and peacetime crew, 1918-1945
- Limitations
- Class/era inference only, not a ship-specific finding - no source located names asbestos, describes shipboard materials, or documents an inspection/survey of this hull. Does not establish that asbestos-containing material was installed, remained aboard, or was present at any specific date. No specific shp/boiler-count figure is asserted because none was located in an approved source.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-dent-dd116-03
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[4]Batch-3124 search ledger (this record): DANFS/NHHC (destroyerhistory.org and ibiblio.org mirrors), NPS/NRHP search, NVR-adjacent web search, NARA deck-log finding aids, GAO/Federal Register search [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-dent-dd116-01 through sl-uss-dent-dd116-08
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, abatement record, industrial-hygiene report, or docketed litigation naming this hull was found among the official/authoritative sources searched (DANFS/NHHC, NPS, Naval Vessel Register-adjacent search results). This hull was scrapped in 1946 and is not preserved as a museum ship, so no museum-era hazmat disclosure is possible.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Study period
- 2026-09-26
- Limitations
- Absence of a located public record does not prove absence of asbestos aboard this hull during its 1918-1946 service life or its 1943 conversion; it establishes only that no such record was found among the sources searched in this pass. Does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility. CourtListener litigation sweep is separately tracked in ev-05 and was not completed in this pass.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-dent-dd116-04
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[5]CourtListener API v4, accessed via the fleet-rate-limited authenticated helper (cl-auth-search.py); queries: "\"USS Dent\"" (type=opinion, type=docket/RECAP); "\"DD-116\"" (type=docket/RECAP); "\"APD-9\"" (type=opinion) [court_record]
- Locator
- Tool output, CourtListener searches executed 2026-09-26 (see search_ledger sl-uss-dent-dd116-05 through sl-uss-dent-dd116-09)
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- CourtListener litigation sweep for this hull, run through the mandated fleet-rate-limited helper script (cl-auth-search.py) after the fleet-wide budget cleared mid-session: exact-name query "USS Dent" returned zero hits against both the opinion index (type=o: count 0) and the RECAP/docket full-text index (type=r: count 0, document_count 0). A separate bare hull-number query "DD-116" against RECAP returned 18 dockets/52 documents, but inspection of the returned case identified them as name collisions with unrelated real-estate/LLC litigation (e.g., "Tucker v. East Side DD", S.D.N.Y. 1:11-cv-04907, a Fair Labor Standards Act wage case naming LLC entities like "East Side DD 104 LLC" - the ship's hull number, not the vessel) - non-qualifying. A follow-up "APD-9" opinion-index query returned 5 results, none Navy- or asbestos-related on inspection (top matches: J.R. v. Hansen, 803 F.3d 1315 (11th Cir. 2015), a disability-commitment case; People v. Rainey, 2019 IL App (1st) 160187, a criminal appeal) - the string "APD-9" coincidentally matches unrelated docket/citation text in these opinions, not the vessel's wartime designation. Classified as name collision, non-qualifying.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Study period
- 2026-09-26
- Limitations
- Zero hits on the exact ship name across both opinion and RECAP indices is a genuine no-result, not proof litigation never existed - CourtListener's coverage is not exhaustive of all state-court or settled/sealed federal matters. Both the "DD-116" bare-hull-number query and the "APD-9" wartime-designation query surfaced only unrelated litigation on inspection (real-estate LLC entities; a disability-commitment case; a criminal appeal) and are correctly excluded as name collisions, consistent with the batch protocol's collision-classification requirement - none is treated as a hit.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-dent-dd116-05