Evidence
10 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-10).
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[1]research packet if-packet.md (7 sources cited) [other_primary]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERIFIED — real identity: USS Doherty; hull DE-14; type: Evarts-class destroyer escort — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Doherty (page incorporates the public-domain DANFS entry; namesake John Joseph Doherty; "Evarts class destroyer escort")
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-doherty-de14-pkt-if-packet-md
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[2]DANFS, Doherty (DE-14) (namesake biography, launch/commissioning/service narrative, striking-era disposition; verbatim transcription - live NHHC page returns 404) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS entry 'Doherty' - namesake paragraph, specs block, and service narrative
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS record for this hull: namesake Ensign John Joseph Doherty, born 26 February 1919 in Charlestown, Mass.; enlisted Naval Reserve 1 March 1940; aviation cadet 9 July 1940; Bombing Squadron 6 aboard Enterprise (CV-6); reported missing in action 1 February 1942 during the Marshall Islands raid; posthumous Secretary of the Navy letter of commendation and the Distinguished Flying Cross. The hull: originally intended for transfer to Great Britain; launched 29 August 1942 as Berry (BDE-14) by Mare Island Navy Yard; retained for U.S. Navy use; assigned the name Doherty 6 January 1943; commissioned 6 February 1943, Lt. Comdr. A. Jackson Jr., USNR, in command. Escorted a convoy to Cold Bay, Alaska 23 April-11 May 1943; escort duty between the west coast and Pearl Harbor 23 May-15 September 1943; Alaskan waters from 15 September 1943 - merchant-ship escort and occasional plane-guard duty for Army bomber strikes over the Kuriles; returned to San Francisco for overhaul 28 September 1944; San Diego training; submarine-exercise training vessel at Pearl Harbor 2 December 1944-5 February 1945; arrived Guam 16 February 1945; escort, patrol, and air-sea rescue between Guam and Okinawa for the rest of the war; departed Guam 12 October 1945; arrived San Pedro 28 October; decommissioned 14 December 1945; sold 26 December 1946. Specs block: displacement 1,140; length 289'5"; beam 35'1"; draft 8'3"; speed 21 kt; complement 156; armament 3x3-in, 8 depth-charge projectors, 1 hedgehog, 2 depth-charge tracks; class Evarts.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1942-1946
- Population
- Mare Island Navy Yard construction trades 1942-43; crew 1943-45
- Limitations
- DANFS documents service history and specifications, not materials or asbestos content. The transcription does not state the laid-down date or the stricken date (28 February 1942 and 8 January 1946 respectively, from consistent secondary sources - carried in gaps). Mirror transcription cited because the live NHHC page returns 404; canonical NHHC URL remains unlocated (standing NHHC link-rot noted in BATCH-01-REPORT).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-doherty-de14-01
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[3]HyperWar transcription of 'Ships of the U.S. Navy, 1940-1945: Destroyer Escorts' - DE-14 USS Doherty specifications page (compiled from official Navy data) [other_primary]
- Locator
- DE-14 USS Doherty specification block, Ships of the U.S. Navy 1940-45: Destroyer Escorts section
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Specification record for this hull: Evarts-class destroyer escort; displacement 1,436 tons; length 289'5"; beam 35'1"; draft 11'10"; speed 21 knots; diesel-electric drive with tandem-motor drive, 6,000 h.p.; armament 3x3"/50, 1x2 40mm or 1 1.1", 9 20mm, 1 hedgehog, 2 depth-charge tracks, 8 K-gun projectors; complement 15 officers + 183 enlisted; commissioned 1943.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1943-1945
- Population
- Crew 1943-45
- Limitations
- Secondary transcription of official-era data (HyperWar/ibiblio compilation); establishes the diesel-electric plant (no steam boilers aboard this class), which bounds the era-inference product list. Contains no asbestos information. Complement here (198) is the class design figure and conflicts with DANFS's 156 - DANFS is carried; conflict noted in gaps. Draft (11'10") also varies from the DANFS spec block (8'3") - carried in gaps.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-doherty-de14-02
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[4]Ship-submitted 'Ship's History - U.S.S. DOHERTY (DE-14)' forwarded by Commander in Chief, U.S. Pacific Fleet and Pacific Ocean Areas to the Secretary of the Navy (Serial 52248, December 1945 received stamp) + rough-draft press release (CinCPac Serial 35896, received 12 August 1945) - scans of official records hosted on the NavSource DE-14 archive page [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource DE-14 archive, scans 06014wh.jpg (Ship's History + CinCPac forwarding letter) and 06014pr.jpg (August 1945 press-release rough draft)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Primary ship-submitted record for this hull: commissioned 6 February 1943 at Mare Island Navy Yard; first commanding officer Lt. Comdr. Alexander Jackson Jr., USNR, of New Orleans. Through 22 April 1943: shakedown training, post-shakedown repairs, one coastal escort operation; escorted the Attu task force to Cold Bay, Alaska. Escort operations Pearl Harbor-west coast to 15 September 1943, then Adak Harbor in the Aleutians - Lt. Robert W. Johnson, USNR, of Miami having relieved Jackson 11 July 1943 - duties primarily merchant-vessel escort and occasional plane-guard duty for Army bomber strikes over the Kurile Islands; the press-release draft states 75 ships were convoyed during the Aleutian tour. Lt. James Lamb McIntire of Philadelphia relieved Johnson 6 May 1944. Relieved of Aleutian duties 21 September 1944; routine overhaul at Hunters Point, San Francisco, completed 17 November 1944; five days refresher training San Diego; Pearl Harbor, where Lt. Walter Joseph O'Brien, USNR, of River Forest, Illinois, assumed command 24 December 1944; training ship for submarine combat exercises until departing 5 February 1945 escorting four ships to Guam. Seven months western Pacific: escort, patrol, air-sea rescue Guam-Okinawa; ordered to the United States for decommissioning 6 October 1945; departed Guam 12 October on her last voyage. The forwarding letter is signed by direction of CinCPac; the press-release draft (written aboard by ship personnel for the Fleet Home Town News program, August 1945) adds that Doherty had covered over 100,000 miles in the Pacific since commissioning.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1943-1945
- Population
- Crew 1943-45; embarked/commanding officers (Jackson, Johnson, McIntire, O'Brien)
- Limitations
- Official record set (CinCPac-forwarded ship's history and PR-office draft) reaching the public via NavSource scans rather than a .mil host - content is the ship's own wartime writing and contains a documented namesake error ('killed in action at Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941' vs. DANFS's missing-in-action 1 February 1942 Marshall Islands raid - carried in gaps). These documents narrate operations; they contain no materials or asbestos content. War-diary page referenced by NavSource for 15 May 1945 rescue is the same record family (NARA RG 24 lineage).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-doherty-de14-03
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[5]Durrance V., 'Crapped Out' parts I-II, Jimmy Doolittle Air & Space Museum Foundation News, Vol. XIX No. 4 (2001) and Vol. XX No. 1 (2002) - firsthand account by a rescued B-29 crewmember; plus Doherty war-diary page for 15 May 1945 captioned on the NavSource archive [other_primary]
- Locator
- 0601417a.pdf/0601417b.pdf 'Crapped Out' articles (rescue passage, Part II); NavSource DE-14 page war-diary caption (15 May 1945)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Air-sea-rescue episode naming this hull: on patrol off Guam 15 May 1945, Doherty picked up the surviving crew of B-29 no. 773 ('Crapped Out,' Crew 21), ditched southwest of Guam after the 14 May Nagoya bombing mission; the crew had spent a night adrift in rafts, one man badly injured. Doherty's commanding officer ordered the floating wreck sunk by gunfire as a navigation hazard - per Durrance, the first time the ship fired at a real target - and delivered the rescued airmen dockside at Guam on the night of 15/16 May 1945. NavSource captions a page of Doherty's war diary for 15 May 1945 as the day she rescued the bomber crew.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 14-16 May 1945
- Population
- B-29 Crew 21 (rescued); Doherty crew (rescuers)
- Limitations
- Firsthand memoir published in a museum foundation newsletter (secondary publication of a participant account) plus NavSource's war-diary caption - not an official finding; casualty and pick-up counts in the memoir are the author's recollection. Documents an operational event only; no materials or asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-doherty-de14-04
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[6]Fleischer WE, Viles FJ Jr, Gade RL, Drinker P, 'A Health Survey of Pipe Covering Operations in Constructing Naval Vessels,' J. Ind. Hyg. Toxicol. 1946;28:9-16 - as documented and critiqued in Kelly RJ, 'When errors become etched in stone: The U.S. Navy's deeply flawed, never retracted World War II asbestos epidemiology study,' NEW SOLUTIONS 36(2):138-150 (2026), DOI 10.1177/10482911261446696 [other_primary]
- Locator
- Kelly 2026, NEW SOLUTIONS 36(2):138-150 (discussion of Fleischer et al. 1946); underlying study J. Ind. Hyg. Toxicol. 28:9-16
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Era/class inference: the contemporaneous 1946 industrial-hygiene survey documents that asbestos-containing pipe covering and insulation were standard in U.S. naval vessel construction during WWII, including shipboard installation work. As a 1942-43 Mare Island-built destroyer escort, Doherty was constructed in the same program and period. For this diesel-electric class (4 GM 16-278A engines, electric drive - no steam boilers), era-consistent asbestos applications are diesel exhaust and muffler lagging, engine-room thermal/acoustic insulation, machinery gaskets and packing, electrical cable insulation, bulkhead/fire insulation, deck coverings, and galley/accommodation insulation - not boiler or steam-drum insulation.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1942-1945 (construction and service era); 1946 (study)
- Population
- WWII naval vessel construction trades (pipe coverers and insulators); era crews (class context)
- Limitations
- Class/era inference only - the study surveyed pipe-covering operations across anonymized yards and does not name this hull, this class, or Mare Island specifically; the 2026 critique documents the study's existence, content, and flaws but is a secondary source for the original. Asbestos presence aboard this specific hull is inferred from era practice, not ship-proven; does not establish quantity, condition, or any individual exposure.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-doherty-de14-05
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[7]Atlas shipyards.json record 'mare-island-naval-shipyard' (evidence tier 2): Collins v. Plant Insulation Co., 185 Cal. App. 4th 260 (2010) - Mare Island welder mesothelioma verdict affirmed in part; plus Navy/City of Vallejo Final EIS/EIR for Mare Island disposal and reuse (April 1998), DTIC ADA344388/ADA344389, documenting ACM in shipyard buildings [court_record]
- Locator
- shipyard-exposure-map/client/src/data/shipyards.json, yard_id 'mare-island-naval-shipyard' and 'hunters-point-naval-shipyard' rows
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- Builder-yard context: the Atlas yard dataset documents asbestos-containing products at Mare Island Naval Shipyard (Unibestos, Marinite, Transite, Kaylo, Careytemp, packing, gaskets, bonnet insulation, refractories) and a verified appellate record of a Mare Island welder's mesothelioma (Collins v. Plant Insulation Co., 2010). Doherty was built at Mare Island in 1942-43. The same dataset documents asbestos products at Hunters Point Naval Shipyard (tier 3), where this hull underwent a routine overhaul completed 17 November 1944.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1942-1943 (construction window); 1944 (Hunters Point overhaul); 1976-1994 (Collins exposure); 1998 (EIS/EIR)
- Population
- Mare Island Naval Shipyard workers (yard-level, various periods); Hunters Point shipyard workers
- Limitations
- Yard-level documentation, not hull-level: the Collins exposure period (1976-1994 at Mare Island) postdates Doherty's construction by three decades, and the EIS/EIR documents buildings ashore, not vessel materials. Establishes that the builder and overhaul yards used asbestos products; does not establish asbestos content of this hull or disturbance during the 1944 availability. Citation URL is a case-text mirror of the appellate opinion per the yard dataset's own citation.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-doherty-de14-06
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[8]NARA Record Group 181.3.3, Records of the Mare Island Navy Yard (San Francisco holdings); also NARA RG 19 (Bureau of Ships) General Information Books per-vessel material specifications - same archival lead carried for other hulls [other_primary]
- Locator
- archives.gov RG 181 guide, section 181.3.3 (Mare Island Navy Yard textual records and engineering plans)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Archival lead for possible hull-level material documentation: NARA holds Mare Island Navy Yard records in RG 181 (San Francisco regional holdings), including Department of Construction and Repair records and 1940 engineering plans/ship mechanical drawings; BuShips RG 19 'General Information Books' per-vessel material specifications are the standard archival lead for hull-level construction specs. These holdings may contain material specifications applicable to this hull, but no pull was performed.
- Verification
- unverified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 2026-09-28
- Limitations
- Lead only - no retrieval performed, and the catalog description does not confirm hull-specific material schedules for DE-14 survive in the indexed series. RG 181 Mare Island construction correspondence may hold contract/supervisor documentation; RG 19 GIB coverage of small combatants is not confirmed for this hull. A catalog.archives.gov API search for 'DE-14 Doherty' returned no directly usable digital object.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-doherty-de14-07
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[9]CourtListener API v4 search (authenticated via cl-auth-search.py, fleet-paced), 2026-09-28 [court_record]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-doherty-de14-09 through -12
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- Litigation sweep: exact-name CourtListener opinion search returned zero results - "USS Doherty" (type=o, opinion full text): 0 hits. No qualifying asbestos litigation naming this hull was located in the completed index sweep. RECAP docket-index and hull-number ('DE-14') queries were deferred when the shared fleet pacing budget was repeatedly spent across spaced retries; logged as open items rather than retried into a throttle (search_ledger sl-uss-doherty-de14-10 through -12). 'Doherty' is a common surname, so unqualified name queries were not run - exact-name and hull-number phrases are the discriminators.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 2026-09-28
- Limitations
- Negative result limited to the CourtListener opinion index as of 2026-09-28; the RECAP docket index and 'DE-14' hull-number variants are deferred open items, and PACER dockets, state-court filings, trust claims, and settled/unreported matters are outside index coverage. A zero result does not prove no claim was ever filed - it means no indexed opinion names this hull. Law-firm marketing pages list this hull on standard target rosters but are not evidence of any docketed case.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-doherty-de14-08
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[10]Batch-4049 search ledger (this record): hazegray DANFS transcription; HyperWar spec page; NavSource photo archive including ship-submitted history, press-release draft, and war-diary scans; Doolittle museum newsletter memoirs; NARA RG 181 guide and catalog API; Atlas shipyards.json; NPS Mare Island NHL page; CourtListener API v4 [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-doherty-de14-01 through -13
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, building specification, or docketed case naming USS Doherty (DE-14) was found in the public sources searched (see search_ledger). The hull was sold for scrap 26 December 1946, so no museum-era survey or extant-material record can exist.
- 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 construction or service - era inference (ev-05) remains consistent with period practice but is not ship-proven. Does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility. Ship-specific asbestos documentation status: unknown.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-doherty-de14-09
