Evidence
9 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-9).
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[1]research packet kt-packet.md (1 sources cited) [nhhc_danfs]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: verdict: **VERIFIED
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-doneff-de49-pkt-kt-packet-md
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[2]DANFS, Doneff (DE-49), revised NHHC entry published 2017-10-13 (namesake, construction, full service narrative, disposal; Wayback capture 2026-01-28 - live NHHC page serves 404) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- Wayback capture of NHHC DANFS entry, spec block + service narrative + disposal paragraph
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Revised DANFS record for this hull: namesake Ensign John Lincoln Doneff (born 1920-02-12, Newark, Ohio; USNA Class of 1943, commissioned Ensign 1942-06-19; joined USS Pensacola (CA-24) 1942-07-16; killed in action at Tassafaronga 1942-11-30). BDE-49, originally slated for Great Britain under Lend-Lease, laid down 1942-04-01 at Philadelphia Navy Yard; launched 1942-07-24; retained by U.S. Navy, redesignated DE-49 1943-01-25; named Doneff 1943-03-04; commissioned at building yard 1943-06-10 (Lt. Cmdr. Louis C. Mabley, DE-V(G)). Service: Bermuda shakedown June-July 1943; CinCLant 08-17; Panama Canal 08-30; San Diego 09-09; availability at Los Angeles Shipbuilding Corp. yard, San Pedro, 1943-09-10 to 09-27; Adak 10-06; fifteen months Aleutian escort (Chernofski, Dutch Harbor, Attu, Shemya, Amchitka, Kiska, Massacre Bay); two FAW-4 plane-guard tours between Attu and the Kuriles (April-May, 1944-08-01 to 08-21); on 1944-05-18 a Japanese Betty (G4M) missed the ship with two bombs. Departed Dutch Harbor 1945-01-13; Mare Island Navy Yard overhaul 1945-01-19 to 02-25, then Bay-area checks through 03-03. Pearl Harbor exercises and repairs March; convoy PD-345-T to Eniwetok (arrived 03-28); Guam-based patrols, submarine and transport escorts, Station 28, medical and rescue runs April-June; ASW patrol stations northeast of Guam from 06-22 (Hedgehog attack 07-01 evaluated as fish); Saipan-Eniwetok convoys; SOK-25 to Okinawa 08-06 to 08-12 (recovered overboard sailor from Kochab (AKS-6)); OKS-20 to Saipan arrived 08-19; 08-25 sailed with USS Mayrant (DD-402) for Marcus Island, patrolled during surrender emissary conference 08-27, detached 08-28; TU 94.6.3 escort, then Marcus station guardship through 09-15; Guam overhaul; arrived San Pedro 10-26; decommissioned there 1945-12-22; stricken from the List of Naval Vessels 1946-01-21; towed to San Diego by tug ATR-24 1946-11-15/16; scrapped at the Terminal Island (Calif.) Naval Shipyard by 1947-01-09. Spec block: class Evarts; dp. 1,140; l. 289'5"; b. 35'1"; dr. 8'3"; s. 21 knots; cpl. 156; a. 3 3-inch, 9 20mm, 8 dcp, 1 dcp (Hedgehog), 2 dct.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1942-1947
- Population
- Philadelphia Navy Yard construction trades 1942-43; LA Shipbuilding Corp. yard workforce Sept 1943; Mare Island overhaul workforce Jan-Feb 1945; wartime crew (design complement 156); Terminal Island shipbreaking workers 1946-47
- Limitations
- DANFS documents service history and specifications, not materials or asbestos content. This is the revised NHHC entry (2017), verified via a 2026-01-28 Wayback capture because the live page returns 404 - it supersedes the 1968 DANFS transcription (which places decommissioning at San Diego, not San Pedro, and omits the redesignation date, LA Shipbuilding availability, striking, tow, and scrapping-site detail); the decommission-location conflict is carried in gaps.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-doneff-de49-01
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[3]NavSource Online, Destroyer Escort Photo Archive, USS Doneff (DE-49) building and operational data + specifications block (NavSource Naval History compilation of official records and U.S. Navy/NHHC photo captions) [other_primary]
- Locator
- navsource.net/archives/06/049.htm - 'Doneff (DE 49) Building and Operational Data' + 'Specifications' + 'Commanding Officers' blocks; photo captions 0604910/0604911/0604903/0604904
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Compilation record for this hull corroborating and extending the official record: keel laid 1942-04-01 as BDE-49 at Philadelphia Navy Yard; launched 1942-07-24; retained by U.S. Navy and named Doneff 1943-03-04; commissioned 1943-06-10; decommissioned 1945-12-22 (after 2 years 6.5 months); struck from the NVR 1946-01-21; sold for scrapping 1947-01-09 to National Metal and Steel Corp., Terminal Island, Los Angeles. Photo-caption record places the ship in overhaul at Mare Island Navy Yard 1945-01-19 to 03-03 (official photos off Mare Island 1945-02-26: U.S. Navy photo DE-49-1439-45 and NHHC 19-LCM-80086, the latter confirming her final WWII configuration in Measure 22 camouflage). CO succession per caption data: Lcdr. L. C. Mabley; Lcdr. Thomas Albert Graham, USNR (1944-05-29 to 1945-10-04); Lt. Stewart Bolling Hobbs, USNR (decommissioning CO). Specs: GMT type (diesel-electric tandem motor drive, short hull); 4 GM Model 16-278A diesels, electric drive, 6,000 shp, 2 screws; 19 kts; range 4,150 nm at 12 kts; complement 15 officers/183 enlisted.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1942-1947
- Population
- Philadelphia Navy Yard construction trades 1942-43; Mare Island workforce Jan-Mar 1945
- Limitations
- Volunteer-maintained compilation of official records and Navy photo captions, not itself a primary document. Keel-laying, striking, and sale-recipient data are now independently corroborated by the revised DANFS entry (ev-01). Conflicts: decommissioning at San Diego (vs. San Pedro in revised DANFS); speed 19 kts and complement 198 (vs. DANFS 21 knots/156); Mare Island 'until 3 March' spans post-overhaul yard presence rather than the repair window proper (DANFS: emerged 02-25). Contains no asbestos information.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-doneff-de49-02
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[4]HyperWar 'Ships of the U.S. Navy, 1940-1945' compilation (official 1945 Navy list data), DE-49 USS Doneff entry [other_primary]
- Locator
- ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USN/ships/DE/DE-49_Doneff.html (specifications list)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Official-list compilation corroborating this hull's configuration: Evarts-class destroyer escort; diesel-electric drive with tandem-motor drive, 6,000 h.p.; complement 15 officers, 183 enlisted; speed 21 knots; displacement 1,436 tons; armament 3x3"/50, 9x20mm, hedgehog, depth-charge tracks and K-gun projectors.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1943-1945
- Population
- Wartime crew (listed complement 198)
- Limitations
- Period official-list data confirming propulsion type, complement and rated speed (aligns with the DANFS 21-knot figure, not the NavSource 19-knot figure - conflict carried in gaps). Contains no materials or asbestos information.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-doneff-de49-03
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[5]Library of Congress, Veterans History Project, William B. Darnton Collection, AFC/2001/001/65348 (oral history video interview, collected 2007-11-20/2008-02-11) [other_primary]
- Locator
- LOC item record AFC/2001/001/65348, 'service_history' block (unit_of_service 'USS Doneff (DE 49)')
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Federal archival record documenting a crew member of this hull: William B. Darnton, U.S. Navy, highest rank Lieutenant, unit of service 'USS Doneff (DE 49)', service location Aleutian Islands, service dates 1941-1945; 50-minute oral-history video interview held by the Veterans History Project, American Folklife Center.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1941-1945 (service); 2007-2008 (interview)
- Population
- William B. Darnton (USN officer aboard DE-49, Aleutians)
- Limitations
- Documents that a named officer served aboard this hull in the Aleutians; the interview's content regarding materials, machinery spaces, or any hazardous exposures has not been reviewed and cannot be assumed. Contains no asbestos information at the catalog level.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-doneff-de49-04
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[6]DANFS specifications block (Evarts class; diesel-electric) + Atlas shipyard dataset records 'philadelphia-naval-shipyard' (tier 3), 'mare-island-naval-shipyard' (tier 2), 'long-beach-naval-shipyard' (tier 1, aliases incl. Terminal Island Naval Shipyard); Taylor v. Celotex Corp., 393 Pa. Super. 566 (1990); Junge v. Garlock, Inc., 427 Pa. Super. 592 (1993); Gross v. Johns-Manville Corp., 410 Pa. Super. 486 (1991) [other_primary]
- Locator
- DANFS/NavSource specifications blocks; shipyards.json records 'philadelphia-naval-shipyard', 'mare-island-naval-shipyard', 'long-beach-naval-shipyard'
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Era/yard inference: an Evarts-class destroyer escort built 1942-43 at a U.S. Navy yard would have carried era-standard asbestos applications appropriate to a diesel-electric ship - engine and exhaust insulation, gaskets and packing, electrical insulation, brake linings, and deck coverings - but no boilers or steam-line lagging. Builder Philadelphia Naval Shipyard is documented as a tier-3 asbestos-era yard in the Atlas dataset (published Pennsylvania appellate opinions identify asbestos products used at the yard incl. Unibestos, Kaylo, Thermasil, Eagle-Picher Super 60, Garlock gaskets/packing); the 1945 overhaul yard, Mare Island Naval Shipyard, is dataset-documented at tier 2; the scrapping site, Terminal Island Naval Shipyard (a documented alias of the tier-1 Long Beach Naval Shipyard dataset record), is a WWII-era naval shipbuilding/breaking site.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1942-1947
- Population
- Philadelphia Navy Yard construction trades 1942-43; LA Shipbuilding availability workforce Sept 1943; Mare Island overhaul workforce Jan-Feb 1945; Terminal Island shipbreaking workforce 1946-47; crew 1943-45
- Limitations
- Class/era and yard-level inference only - NOT a hull-specific finding. The diesel-electric plant means the largest asbestos categories of steam ships (boiler and steam-line insulation) do not apply; the yard-level product identifications describe the yards, not this hull; does not quantify material or establish any individual's exposure.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-doneff-de49-05
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[7]U.S. GAO, Navy Efforts To Protect Workers From Asbestos Exposure, HRD-80-2 (18 October 1979), product page and linked report [gao]
- Locator
- GAO HRD-80-2 product page highlights; report pp. 13-14 for Navy response and ship-class insulation estimates
- Finding type
- gov_survey
- Finding
- GAO reviewed Navy ship asbestos use and removal practices and reports the Navy's 1975 policy for removing and replacing insulation that was damaged or had to be removed for repairs, modified in 1979 to include selective replacement in high-maintenance areas. The report supplies Navy-wide policy context, not a Doneff-specific inspection or finding; the ship was scrapped three decades before the report period.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1975-1979
- Population
- Navy shipyard workers and Navy ships covered by the GAO review
- Limitations
- Program-level source, not specific to Doneff or its yards. Does not establish asbestos presence, product type, amount, location, condition, or exposure aboard this hull. No class-specific quantity is attributed to Doneff. gao.gov has intermittently blocked automated full-text fetches (batch-01 standing note); product-page content cited.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-doneff-de49-06
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[8]Batch-4346 search ledger (this record): NHHC/DANFS (revised entry via Wayback); NavSource and HyperWar compilations; LOC Veterans History Project; CourtListener exact-name and hull-number queries [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-doneff-de49-05 through sl-uss-doneff-de49-09
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located for DE-49: no hull ACM survey, no abatement contract or hazmat disclosure, and no qualifying asbestos case names the vessel; the hull was scrapped in 1947 so no museum-level disclosure path exists. CourtListener 'USS Doneff' opinion search returned zero results; three 'USS Doneff' docket hits are unrelated matters (C.D. Cal. trademark case, In re Vioxx MDL, D. Del. bankruptcy); sixteen 'Doneff' opinion hits are surname collisions (workers'-compensation and civil litigants named Doneff); a 'DE-49 Doneff' hull-number query returned zero results.
- 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 - era materials consistent with the 1942-43 build are a reasonable inference but not ship-proven; does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-doneff-de49-07
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[9]NARA 'Researching Asbestos aboard U.S. Naval Vessel up through 1961' guided topic - Bureau of Ships RG 19 General Information Books (Entry P 9, Item S-68, 1907-1961); RG 24 'Logbooks of the U.S. Navy Ships and Stations, 1941-1978' (NAID 594258); NHHC official photographs 80-G-439181 and 19-LCM-80086 (NARA, College Park) [other_primary]
- Locator
- archives.gov guided-topic 'Expanding Research'/'General Information Books' sections; catalog.archives.gov/id/594258 (series record)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Open archival leads for this hull: NARA's asbestos research guide identifies Bureau of Ships RG 19 General Information Books (Entry P 9, Item S-68) as the record series for ship arrangements, systems, construction and maintenance - the likeliest repository of hull-level material specifications; WWII deck logs for DE-49 should exist in RG 24 series NAID 594258 (digitization status unverified - WWII-era logs are outside NARA's completed Vietnam-era digitization batches, and the catalog API was not accessible from this environment); NHHC holds official photographs of this hull (80-G-439181 at Finger Bay, Adak, April 1944; 19-LCM-80086 off Mare Island 1945-02-26) at NARA College Park.
- Verification
- unverified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1943-1947 (records); 2026-09-28 (search)
- Limitations
- Leads only - no GIB volume, deck log, or work-package content has been retrieved or reviewed for this hull; it is unverified whether a Doneff-specific GIB survives or whether any record in these series addresses asbestos aboard DE-49.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-doneff-de49-08