Evidence
8 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-8).
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[1]research packet fu-packet.md (3 sources cited) [other_primary]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERIFIED (details mirror-sourced; primary DANFS slug 500)
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Limitations
- qualifier: VERIFIED (details mirror-sourced; primary DANFS slug 500)
- Evidence ID
- uss-doran-dd634-pkt-fu-packet-md
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[2]DANFS, Doran II (DD-634), official NHHC page via Wayback capture 2025-02-03 (live NHHC page serves 404; hazegray.org carries the same transcription with a bracketed spec-block correction) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS entry 'Doran II (DD-634)', specifications block + service narrative
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS record for this hull: namesake John James Doran (b. 6 Aug 1862 Boston; MoH for cutting cables at Cienfuegos, Cuba, 11 May 1898; d. 16 Feb 1904 as chief master-at-arms in Montgomery, Cruiser No. 9). Hull: launched 10 December 1941 by Boston Navy Yard; sponsored by Mrs. P. J. Hurley (namesake's sister); commissioned 4 August 1942, LCDR H. W. Gordon. Service: Norfolk 23 Oct 1942 screening transports for Safi, French Morocco landings 8 Nov; investigated beached French submarine 10 Nov; returned Norfolk 24 Nov. Three voyages New York/Norfolk-North Africa 12 Dec 1942-28 Apr 1943; sailed Norfolk 8 June, Oran 22 June, underway 5 July for Sicily invasion - screened transports off Scoglitti, fire support for 10 July landings; Bizerte-Sicily escort/patrol to 21 Aug; New York arrival 14 Sept. Five Boston/New York-UK convoy voyages 22 Oct 1943-1 May 1944; Norfolk 17 May 1944 to Mediterranean (Oran-Naples transport screen, exercises and ASW patrols off Oran/Gibraltar); New York 22 Aug; one Liverpool convoy 6 Oct-1 Nov; escorted Randolph (CV-15) to Canal Zone. Two Oran convoys 13 Jan-26 Apr 1945; Charleston, S.C. conversion to high-speed minesweeper; reclassified DMS-41 30 May 1945; Norfolk 2 July, San Diego training, Pearl Harbor, Okinawa 7 Oct; Yellow Sea mine sweeping; Shanghai escort/courier to 3 Jan 1946; Wakanoura Wan escorting MineRon 11 buoy-laying; Japanese waters to 11 March; Yokosuka-San Francisco arriving last day of month; out of commission in reserve San Diego 29 Jan 1947; reclassified DD-634 15 July 1955. Three battle stars WWII.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1941-1955
- Population
- Boston Navy Yard construction workforce 1941-42; wartime crew (class design complement 276)
- Limitations
- DANFS documents service history, not materials or asbestos content. The printed spec block in this official entry is anomalous - it carries Fletcher-class data (dp. 2,050; l. 376'6"; b. 39'7"; dr. 17'9"; s. 35 k.; cpl. 273; a. 5 5"; cl. Fletcher) for this Gleaves-class hull; hazegray's transcription flags it [sic]. Live NHHC page 404s; Wayback capture 2025-02-03 cited.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-doran-dd634-01
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[3]'History of USS Doran (DMS-41)' - three-page ship-authored history signed by LCDR Pemberton Southard, USN, Commanding, serial DMS-41/AJ2-7, dated 15 January 1946 'Care of Fleet Post Office, San Francisco' (cc: SecNav PubInfo, CinCPac PubInfo, AdComMinPac); J. Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University Digital Collections, Military History/Navy/WWII, Pemberton Southard Papers #0551, local id 0551-b5-fa [other_primary]
- Locator
- ECU Digital Collections item 35892, 3 pp.; esp. p.1 (construction, Torch, wolfpack, Casablanca raid), p.2 (Charleston conversion, Panama repairs, typhoon, Yellow Sea)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Contemporaneous ship-generated history of this hull, written aboard by the commanding officer: 'built in the Boston Navy Yard, and commissioned... 1942... a unit of the 1700 ton Bristol Class'; shakedown curtailed for the North African invasion (Southern Task Force, Safi; landing party sent ashore in a small boat to a driven-ashore Vichy submarine; 'remained continuously underway for 42 days without provisioning or anchoring'); winter 1942-43 fast-troopship convoys to Casablanca incl. advanced-picket radar service against a surfaced wolfpack and the only German air raid on Casablanca (1 January 1943); February 1943 stood by transport URUGUAY rammed by tanker SALAMONIE, escorted her to Bermuda; May 1943 Chesapeake workups for Sicily; 4 July 1943 submarine attack off Oran; Sicily patrol/fire support operating with HMS Abercrombie and USS Philadelphia ('H.M.S. DORAN'); bombed/strafed departing Bizerte during the heaviest raid of the war on that port; two-week New York overhaul; only loss of life an officer overboard in a gale en route to Portland; winter 1943-44 UK convoys via North Channel (Londonderry, Belfast, Greenock, Glasgow, Cardiff; Christmas 1943 hurricane south of Iceland); spring 1944 Mediterranean feints off southern France/northern Italy (division held in reserve during the southern-France invasion); 1944-45 Liverpool run ('first U.S. war vessel to visit that port'); flagship for slow Norfolk-Oran convoys to May 1945; Charleston conversion to DMS-41 'hasty... left many items incomplete or partially complete'; Panama ~3 weeks ship's-force repairs; San Diego V-J Day; October 1945 Okinawa typhoon ridden out at sea with rescue of a transport-plane crew (CO letter of commendation from ComMinPac); Sasebo-based Yellow Sea sweeping ('swept more mines and lost less gear than any other vessel present'); Shanghai courier Christmas 1945; Asiatic sweep completion and homeward passage; successive COs Gordon/Smith/Hutchins/Southard.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1942-1946
- Population
- Wartime and immediate postwar crew 1942-1946
- Limitations
- Ship-authored morale/public-relations narrative (cc list targets Navy public affairs); superlatives ('no vessel she had escorted had been lost by enemy action', 'first U.S. war vessel to visit [Liverpool]', 'more mines... less gear than any other vessel') are unverified crew-era claims, not adjudicated facts. No material/asbestos content. Corroborates DANFS on yard periods (Charleston conversion, New York overhaul) and adds Panama repair delay and the 42-days-underway detail DANFS lacks.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-doran-dd634-02
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[4]NavSource Destroyer Photo Index, USS Doran (DD-634/DMS-41) operational/building data block (compiled from Naval Vessel Register data); corroborated by NavSource minesweeper page (archives/11/0941.htm: 'Sold for scrap 1 September 1973 by the Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service') and uboat.net Allied Warships DD-634 [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource DD-634 'Operational and Building Data' block + CO/photo listings; navsource.net/archives/11/0941.htm disposition lines; uboat.net ship/1753
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Post-1947 disposition and build data beyond DANFS: laid down 14 June 1941 at Boston Navy Yard; machinery '50,000 SHP; Boston Navy Yard Turbines, 2 screws'; as-built crew 208; DMS-41 conversion 30 May 1945; reverted DD-634 15 July 1955; decommissioned 29 January 1947 at San Diego (Pacific Reserve Fleet); stricken 15 January 1972; sold to Zidell Explorations, Portland, OR for $121,001.19 on 27 August 1973 and broken up for scrap (DRMS sale recorded 1 September 1973 on the DMS page). Commanding officers listed: LCDR H. W. Gordon Jr. (1942-43), LCDR N. E. Smith (1943-45), LCDR C. H. Hutchins (1945), LCDR P. P. Southard (1945-). Photo records: ship at New York Navy Yard 23 January 1943; underway 10 July 1943 photographed from USS Ancon (NHHC 80-G-215094, NARA); at Arzew, Algeria 11 June 1944 with Cowie (DD-632) outboard of Biscayne (AVP-11).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1941-1973
- Population
- Reserve-fleet maintenance 1947-1972; Zidell Explorations dismantlement workforce 1973
- Limitations
- Secondary compilations consistent with NVR data; the underlying pre-1987 NVR disposal record is not digitized (NVR ship-detail page for DD-634 returns no record - register only covers post-1987 disposals). navsource.org unreachable to direct automated fetch; cited via 2025-05-04 Wayback capture. Two sale-date variants (27 Aug 1973 contract date vs 1 Sep 1973 DRMS execution) recorded, not reconciled. No asbestos survey or dismantlement hazmat record located.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-doran-dd634-03
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[5]ConvoyWeb (Arnold Hague convoy database, compiled from Admiralty records), vessel search 'DORAN' - 15 USS DORAN convoy listings [other_primary]
- Locator
- convoyweb.org.uk Hague search results for 'DORAN' (15 USS DORAN listings; 'BENDORAN' hits are a different British vessel)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Independent convoy-level documentation of this hull's wartime employment: UGF.1 (Oct 1942 Hampton Roads-Casablanca, the Operation Torch assault convoy - matches DANFS 'sailed from Norfolk 23 October 1942'); GUF.3 (Dec 1942 Oran-Hampton Roads); UGF.3 (Dec 1942), UGF.5 (Feb 1943), UGF.7 (Apr 1943) Hampton Roads-Casablanca/Gibraltar with returns GUF.5 (Feb 1943), GUF.7 (Apr 1943) - the 'three voyages' of Dec 1942-Apr 1943; UGF.9 (Jun 1943 Hampton Roads-Oran - the Sicily positioning voyage matching 'sailed from Norfolk again 8 June, arrived Oran 22 June'); UGF.11 (May 1944 Hampton Roads-Mediterranean ports - matches 'sailed from Norfolk 17 May'); GUF.11 (Jun 1944 Oran-Hampton Roads); CU.42 (Oct 1944 NYC-Liverpool) and UC.42A (Oct 1944 Liverpool-NYC) - the 'one convoy voyage to Liverpool 6 October to 1 November'; UGS.68 (Jan 1945 Hampton Roads-Gibraltar) and UGS.80 (Mar 1945 Hampton Roads-dispersed) - the 'two convoys to Oran' of 13 Jan-26 Apr 1945.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1942-1945
- Population
- Wartime crew 1942-1945
- Limitations
- Database lists convoy membership (as escort); it does not describe activity within each convoy and contains no material/asbestos data. It corroborates dates and theater assignments only. GUF.11's June 1944 grouping sits earlier than DANFS's 22 August return - listing preserved as found, not reconciled.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-doran-dd634-04
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[6]NARA Ship Plan Index (Cartographic Branch, College Park), RG 19 Records of the Bureau of Ships: DORAN DD-634 - Hull Series of Ship Engineering Drawings 1874-1976 (NAID 153714631) + Aperture Cards (NAID 175661069); DORAN DMS-41 - Hull Series (NAID 153715205) + Microfilm (NAID 175668919) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NARA Ship Plan Index rows for DORAN DD-634 and DORAN DMS-41 (archives.gov/research/cartographic/ship-index)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Ship-specific engineering-drawings holdings exist in NARA RG 19 for this hull in BOTH configurations: a DD-634 hull-series file unit and a separate DMS-41 hull-series file unit (i.e., conversion-era plans), plus aperture-card and microfilm sets. Hull-series plans are research-room retrievals, not digitized; no Booklet of General Plans for DD-634/DMS-41 was found among digitized copies (archive.org search negative). The DMS-41 file unit is the closest retrievable record of what the 1945 Charleston conversion physically changed aboard this hull.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1941-1946
- Population
- Potential researcher access; wartime yard engineering trades
- Limitations
- Index-level verification only (catalog.archives.gov record pages are JS-gated; NAIDs as listed on the NARA index page). Drawing sets typically itemize structure and arrangement; insulation/material callouts may or may not be present and are not established without retrieval. Establishes existence of hull-specific documentation, not asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-doran-dd634-05
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[7]Consolidated era inference - Bureau of Ships, Ships' Data U.S. Naval Vessels Vol. 1 (Jan 1945) destroyer machinery table (shipscribe.com scan) + Atlas shipyard dataset records (boston-naval-shipyard, charleston-naval-shipyard) + class profile benson-gleaves-class [other_primary]
- Locator
- SDB1945v1 DD machinery table (No. 421 class rows); shipyards.json records 'boston-naval-shipyard', 'charleston-naval-shipyard'; class-f benson-gleaves-class profile
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Era/design inference: DD-634 is a 1941-42 navy-yard-built destroyer of the peak Navy asbestos era, Gleaves/Bristol-group machinery - 4 high-pressure superheated boilers (575 psi/700 deg F class figures) and geared turbines of ~50,000 shp (NavSource 'Boston Navy Yard Turbines'; BuShips table lists 47,000 shp for class lead DD-421 - discrepancy unresolved). Typical period applications for this plant: boiler casing and fireroom insulation, steam-pipe and turbine lagging, valve/flange gaskets and packing, deck tile, accommodation insulation, fireproofing. Builder Boston Navy Yard and conversion venue Charleston (Naval Shipyard) are both documented yards in the Atlas dataset. Unlike sisters never converted, DD-634 has a documented mid-1945 DMS conversion yard period at 'the Charleston Yard' that the ship's own history describes as hasty and incomplete - yard work of exactly the type that disturbed machinery-space insulation.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1941-1973
- Population
- Boston Navy Yard construction trades 1941-42; Charleston yard conversion trades 1945; wartime and reserve-era crews 1942-1973
- Limitations
- Class/era and builder-yard inference only - no ship-specific finding. Typical applications establish typicality of design, not installation aboard this hull; no quantities, no individual exposure, and no product identification for DD-634. 'The Charleston Yard' is named in the ship's 1946 history; identification as Charleston Naval Shipyard is the reasonable reading but is not spelled out. Boiler manufacturer for this hull (B&W per class) is unverified at hull level.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-doran-dd634-06
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[8]CourtListener API v4 litigation sweep, 2026-09-27 (this record's search ledger); corroborated by class-profile sweeps 2026-09-16 [court_record]
- Locator
- search_ledger sl-uss-doran-dd634-06
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- No qualifying asbestos litigation located naming this hull. Exact-name sweeps: 'USS Doran' returned 0 hits in the opinion index (type=o) and 0 hits in the RECAP docket index (type=r). Hull-number sweeps: 'DD-634' produced 0 opinion hits and 4 RECAP docket hits, all identifier collisions - 'DD-634' appears as a document/claimant code string in unrelated mega-dockets (Arch Coal Inc., Bankr. E.D. Mo. 16-40120; Smith v. Oaks Orthopedic, N.D. Ill. 1:08-cv-01041; United States v. Kepke, N.D. Cal. 3:21-cr-00155; Lyondell Chemical Co., Bankr. S.D.N.Y. 09-10023); none name a vessel and none are asbestos cases. Conversion-designation sweeps: 'DMS-41' produced 0 opinion hits and 14 docket hits, all name collisions (DMS Oilfield Services, Dealer Management Systems antitrust MDL, Digital Media Solutions, Epipen MDL, Dairy Farmers of America, CDK Global, criminal dockets) - none asbestos, none vessel. Collision-check sweep 'Doran + asbestos' (type=o, 95 hits, top ~20 reviewed at snippet level): all surname/law-firm collisions (incl. asbestos defense firm Doran & Murphy LLP and party name Doran R. Smith); no vessel reference. The 2026-09-16 class-profile sweeps on 'USS Benson'/'USS Gleaves' likewise produced no asbestos-litigation hits. Law-firm 'Navy ship asbestos lists' do name USS Doran (DD-634) - excluded per source policy; such lists are marketing claims asserting no adjudicated fact.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 2026-09-27
- Population
- n/a
- Limitations
- Negative finding bounded by index coverage: RECAP/opinion indexes are not exhaustive, and un-digitized state or federal records are outside coverage; absence of located litigation does not mean none exists. 'Doran' is a common surname and 'DMS-41' collides with commercial 'DMS' entities - sweep noise is classified as collision, not evidence. Fleet pacing delayed sweep completion mid-session; all sweeps ultimately completed 2026-09-27.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-doran-dd634-07