Evidence
7 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-7).
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[1]research packet ep-packet.md (4 sources cited) [nhhc_danfs]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERIFIED
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-dunlap-dd384-pkt-ep-packet-md
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[2]DANFS, USS Dunlap (DD-384) (builder, launch/commission/decommission/sale dates, service narrative, six battle stars, specifications block; verbatim transcription - live NHHC page serves 404) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS entry, specifications block + full service narrative
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS record for this hull: launched 18 April 1936 by United Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Corp., New York, N.Y.; sponsored by Mrs. Robert H. Dunlap; commissioned 12 June 1937; specs 1,490 tons, 341'2", 36 knots, complement 158, 6 5-inch and 12 21-inch torpedo tubes, spec block carries 'cl. Gridley'; Pearl Harbor home port April 1940; at sea with TF 8 on 7 December 1941; Marshals/Wake raids 1942; South Pacific from December 1942; Battle of Vella Gulf 6-7 August 1943 (three Japanese destroyers sunk by the six-destroyer task group); San Diego overhaul then Aleutians late 1943; Marshalls strikes and British Eastern Fleet operations 1944 incl. Soerabaja strike 17 May; escorted Baltimore (CA-68) carrying President Roosevelt July-August 1944; Wake and Marcus Island bombardments; Leyte operations October 1944; Iwo Jima bombardments November 1944-January 1945 and occupation support from 19 March 1945; Bonin Islands surrender signed aboard 3 September 1945; arrived Norfolk 7 November 1945 and decommissioned 14 December 1945; sold 31 December 1947. Six battle stars.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1935-1947
- Population
- United Shipbuilding & Dry Dock construction trades 1935-37; wartime crew (design complement 158)
- Limitations
- DANFS documents service history and specifications, not materials or asbestos content. The transcription omits laid-down and stricken dates (both carried from secondary compilations - see gaps). Mirror transcription cited because live NHHC DANFS pages for this hull return 404.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-dunlap-dd384-01
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[3]General Information Book, USS Dunlap (DD-384) and USS Fanning (DD-385), Bureau of Construction and Repair / Office of the Superintending Constructor USN, United Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Corp., New York, N.Y., 1938 (scanned BuShips document hosted by the Destroyer History Foundation) [other_primary]
- Locator
- GIB scan pp.1-11: cover (builder/date), Section A-1 incl. propelling-machinery tables (pp.8-9), Section B protection, Section A-5 ordnance
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Contemporaneous per-vessel Navy document (Serial No. 35, 1938) covering DD-384 and DD-385. Confirms builder identity exactly as DANFS ('United Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Corp., New York, N.Y.'). Propelling machinery data for this hull: 4 Foster Wheeler Corp. water-tube boilers, designed working pressure 400 lbs at superheater outlet; 2 General Electric impulse turbine units (H.P., L.P., cruising, astern); 2 propellers by Morse Drydock Co., 11'3" diameter, designed 21,400 shaft H.P. per shaft at 366 RPM. Hull data: length overall 341'2-3/8", standard displacement 1,500 tons. Torpedo battery 3 quadruple 21-inch mounts. Also references the separate furnished booklets 'Main Propulsion Turbines and Gears', 'Booklet of Inclining Experiment Data', and 'Damage Control Book'.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1938
- Population
- Designers, builders, and crew relying on the 1938 ship's information book
- Limitations
- The scanned sections (A-1 hull measurements and propelling-machinery summary, B protection/fire-fighting, A-5 ordnance) document machinery and structure only - no insulation, lagging, or asbestos material is specified anywhere in the scan. This row establishes that a high-pressure steam plant existed aboard this hull; it does not document what insulating materials covered it. The complete GIB held in NARA RG19 'General Information Books' is an unretrieved archival lead for possible hull-level material specifications.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-dunlap-dd384-02
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[4]Naval Historical Center Online Library, 'USS Dunlap (DD-384), 1937-1947' photo index (official photo captions incl. BuShips camouflage drawing for 'DD-384 (Dunlap) class' and the ship off Mare Island Navy Yard 10 May 1942) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NHC Online Library DD-384 index page; captions 19-N-30007 and 80-G-109637
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NHC Online Library page for this hull: 'a 1490-ton destroyer ... built at New York, New York. Commissioned in June 1937 ... decommissioned in December 1945 and was sold for scrapping in December 1947.' Photo captions include 19-N-30007 'USS Dunlap (DD-384) off the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 10 May 1942' (Bureau of Ships Collection, National Archives) and 80-G-109637, a BuShips camouflage Measure 32 Design 9D drawing dated 10 May 1944 'for destroyers of the DD-384 (Dunlap) class' - contemporaneous official use of the Dunlap class designation.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1937-1947
- Population
- Wartime crew; Mare Island yard workers (presence documented only)
- Limitations
- Photo captions document presence off the Mare Island yard on one date (10 May 1942) but not the scope of any work performed there; no asbestos or insulation content appears in any caption. The 'Dunlap class' caption usage conflicts with the DANFS spec block's 'cl. Gridley' - carried in gaps. Mirror cited because the live NHHC gallery structure no longer serves this page.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-dunlap-dd384-03
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[5]DANFS specifications block + 1938 GIB machinery tables (this hull) + period-standard destroyer insulation practice; NARA RG19 General Information Books archival lead [other_primary]
- Locator
- DANFS spec block; GIB propelling-machinery tables (p.8 of scan)
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Era/design inference: a 1,500-ton treaty-era destroyer built 1935-37 with a 400-psi Foster Wheeler water-tube boiler plant and GE impulse turbines (ship-specific machinery per the 1938 GIB) would have carried period-standard asbestos thermal insulation, steam-line lagging, gaskets, packing, and fireproofing per standard Navy machinery specifications of the era. No hull-level material schedule was located, and the builder yard (United Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Corp., Staten Island) is not in the Atlas shipyard dataset, so even yard-level corroboration is unavailable.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1935-1945
- Population
- Construction trades 1935-37; crew 1937-45
- Limitations
- Class/era inference only - it cannot support 'documented aboard this hull' wording. The GIB proves the steam plant's existence but not its insulation; the only ship-specific asbestos statement possible is that no ship-specific asbestos record was located. NARA RG19 full-text retrieval not performed.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-dunlap-dd384-04
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[6]CourtListener API v4 sweep for this hull: "USS Dunlap" (opinions and RECAP dockets) [court_record]
- Locator
- CourtListener API v4 search, queries '"USS Dunlap"' (o+r) and '"DD-384"' (o+r), 2026-09-27
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- CourtListener sweep (authenticated, fleet-paced helper; exact name AND hull number, both indexes): "USS Dunlap" returned 0 hits in the opinion index and 0 hits in the RECAP docket index; "DD-384" returned 0 hits in the opinion index and 6 RECAP docket hits, all reviewed and classified as name collisions - unrelated dockets where the token 'DD-384' matched Bates/exhibit numbering (W.D.N.Y. bankruptcy; Social Media MDL and California v. Meta, N.D. Cal.; an environmental matter in D. Mont.; ASCAP antitrust and NYT v. Microsoft, S.D.N.Y.). No published opinion and no indexed docket names this hull in an asbestos or any other posture. No other U.S. Navy vessel has borne the name Dunlap, so the exact-name zero is a substantive negative for hull-naming litigation.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- litigation index coverage through 2026-09-27
- Population
- Indexed federal/state opinions and RECAP dockets naming 'USS Dunlap' or 'DD-384'
- Limitations
- Covers indexed opinion and RECAP-docket text only - state-court complaints and unindexed filings are outside coverage. Supplementary variants ("U.S.S. Dunlap", "Dunlap" + asbestos) were deferred when the fleet-shared request quota saturated mid-session; 'U.S.S. Dunlap' is punctuation-equivalent to the completed exact-phrase query, so the gap is cosmetic rather than substantive. The DD-384 docket hits were classified by docket metadata/nature-of-suit review, not full-text reading.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-dunlap-dd384-05
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[7]Batch-3369 search ledger (this record): DANFS mirror, NHC Online Library photo index, 1938 GIB scan, secondary compilations (NavSource, uboat.net, NavalCoverMuseum), Atlas shipyard dataset, CourtListener [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-dunlap-dd384-01 through -08 (incl. -04b, -04c)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No ship-specific asbestos documentation located for DD-384 in any repository searched: no ACM survey exists or can exist post-scrapping; the 1938 GIB contains no insulation-material entry; the NHC photo captions carry no hazmat content; and no qualifying asbestos litigation naming the hull was found. 'No ship-specific record located' is reported as a first-class negative result rather than inferred upward from class or era.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 2026-09-27 (search date); coverage 1935-1947
- Population
- None - record-level finding
- Limitations
- Absence of a located record is not proof asbestos was absent - it reflects the record set searched (indexed litigation, digitized Navy histories/photos, the surviving GIB sections, the yard dataset). Undigitized NARA holdings (RG19 full GIB, yard work packages) may contain hull-level material specifications.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-dunlap-dd384-06