Evidence
9 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-9).
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[1]research packet fl-packet.md (1 sources cited) [other_primary]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERIFIED
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-dyson-dd572-pkt-fl-packet-md
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[2]DANFS, Dyson (DD-572), March 2016 edition - verbatim transcription hosted by Tin Can Sailors (destroyers.org); identical text confirmed against the 2019-07-19 Wayback capture of the live NHHC page (history.navy.mil .../danfs/d/dyson.html, now 404) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS Dyson (DD-572) entry - namesake paragraph, spec block, service narrative
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS record for this hull: launched 15 April 1942 by Consolidated Steel Corp., Orange, Tex., sponsored by Mrs. Charles Wilson Dyson (widow of Rear Admiral Charles Wilson Dyson, Navy Cross recipient and Bureau of Steam Engineering design chief); commissioned 30 December 1942, Commander R. A. Gano. East-coast/Caribbean escort; departed New York 14 May 1943; TF 36 Noumea/Espiritu Santo; Solomons operations from August 1943; Destroyer Squadron 23 'Little Beavers' - Cape Torokina, Battle of Empress Augusta Bay (1 Nov 1943), Buka bombardment (17 Nov), Battle off Cape St. George (24-25 Nov 1943); Solomons through March 1944 (Green Island, Kavieng sweeps, 31 POWs taken from Claudia Maru, Emirau); TF 58 fast-carrier screens Mar-Jun 1944 (Palau-Hollandia-Truk, Marianas, Philippine Sea); west coast overhaul, then TF 38 (Luzon, Formosa, China coast, Nansei Shoto); TF 78 Philippines Feb 1945 (Corregidor; aided mined Saunter AM-295, 26 Feb; Panay, Los Negros, Mindanao); Okinawa patrol/radar-picket/air-sea rescue from 16 May 1945 to war's end; arrived Washington DC 17 Oct 1945; DesRon 23 Presidential Unit Citation presented by SecNav Forrestal two days later; Charleston Naval Base - furnished electrical power to decommissioned destroyers; out of commission in reserve 31 March 1947; lent to the Federal Republic of Germany 17 February 1960, serving as Z-5. Spec block: 2,050 t; 375'11"; 35 kt; cpl. 329; 5x5"/38, 10x21" tt. Eleven battle stars plus the PUC.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1941-1960
- Population
- Consolidated Steel construction trades 1941-42; wartime crew (spec complement 329); reserve/overhaul workforce 1947-60
- Limitations
- DANFS documents service history and specifications, not materials or asbestos content. The 1963-published entry ends at the 1960 German loan - no stricken date or German-era detail. The hazegray transcription contains typos ('DD-672', 'cl. Fetcher', 'a. 6 6"'); the NHHC canonical text (5x5", cl. Fletcher) is the version relied on. Laid-down date is not stated in DANFS.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-dyson-dd572-01
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[3]NavSource Naval History photo index, USS Dyson (DD-572) - operational/building data block and photo captions; corroborated by the Consolidated Steel Orange yard table at shipbuildinghistory.com (yard hull 197) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource archives/05/572.htm - operational data block; caption lines for Charleston 27 Mar 1943 / May 1943 and Mare Island 17 Aug-29 Sep 1944 overhaul
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Per-hull building/disposition data: laid down 25 June 1941 by Consolidated Steel, Orange TX (shipbuildinghistory.com yard table gives contract award 9 Sep 1940, yard hull no. 197, same dates); launched 15 April 1942; commissioned 30 December 1942; decommissioned 31 March 1947; stricken 1 October 1974; to West Germany as Z-5/D-179 (NavSource reads 23 February 1960 - the Bundesmarine commissioning date, vs. DANFS's 17 February loan date); to Greece February 1982, cannibalized for spare parts. Photo captions document the hull at the U.S. Navy Yard, Charleston, S.C., 27 March 1943 and again May 1943 (post-shakedown availability), and in overhaul at Mare Island Navy Yard 17 August to 29 September 1944 (images dated 27 and 30 Sep 1944 at Mare Island). Spec block: 60,000 shp GE geared turbines, 2 screws; crew 273.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1941-1982
- Population
- Mare Island Navy Yard overhaul workforce Aug-Sep 1944; Charleston Navy Yard workforce 1943
- Limitations
- Volunteer-compiled secondary archive (not an official record) - dates corroborate DANFS and German-language sources except where noted; documents no asbestos information. Yard-period entries are photo-caption evidence (dates/places), not yard work-scope records. The 23 vs 17 February 1960 discrepancy resolves as commissioning vs loan dates (see gaps).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-dyson-dd572-02
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[4]German-language service record for Zerstörer 5 (D-179): de.wikipedia 'Zerstörer 5' article corroborated by fletcherfahrer.de (German Fletcher-veterans site) and Wikimedia Commons; Bundesarchiv BM 21 files for Z-5 (1978-82) indexed at Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek [other_primary]
- Locator
- de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zerstörer_5 (1959 Charleston overhaul paragraph; 1974/1976 stricken/purchase; Feb 1982 decommission passage); fletcherfahrer.de/z5.html; deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de item PLT5LL2OQCBFLX5PVW3XACUE7CNWBXFJ
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- German-era record for this hull: in 1959 the destroyer was fundamentally overhauled and modernized at Charleston Navy Yard - gun turret 3 removed, all 20mm AA and the forward torpedo mount removed, six 3-inch AA guns in twin mounts and German navigation equipment fitted, pole mast replaced by a tripod mast; conversion cost about US$5 million. Handed over on loan to the FRG 17 February 1960; commissioned into the Bundesmarine 23 February 1960 as Zerstörer 5 (D-179); departed Charleston 9 June 1960 for Flensburg; 3. Zerstörergeschwader; repeated refits (bridge enlarged, ASW torpedo tubes added, remaining torpedo mount removed 1973); stricken from the U.S. Navy list 1 October 1974 and purchased by the FRG about 1976 for ~375,000 DM; out of operational readiness 31 December 1981; departed Kiel 8 February 1982 via Brest/Lisbon/Augusta to Crete; decommissioned at Souda Bay 26 February 1982 and transferred to the Greek Navy as a spare-parts hulk.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1959-1982
- Population
- Charleston Navy Yard modernization workforce 1959; Bundesmarine crew 1960-81; Greek cannibalization workforce 1982ff
- Limitations
- Secondary compilations (de.wikipedia, veterans' site) - internally concordant with NavSource and Tin Can Sailors disposition lines. The 1959 Charleston modernization is documented as an event; whether it disturbed asbestos-containing insulation is inference, not documented - no work-scope or hazmat record was located. German-era material changes and the Greek cannibalization are undocumented for asbestos fate. Bundesarchiv BM 21 unit files (1978-82) exist per the DDB index but were not retrieved.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-dyson-dd572-03
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[5]Class/era inference - Fletcher-class machinery data (4 Babcock & Wilcox boilers, 2 GE geared turbines, 60,000 shp; destroyers.org class data block) + Destroyer History Foundation, 'Consolidated Shipbuilding, Orange, TX' yard page + shipbuildinghistory.com Consolidated Orange yard table [other_primary]
- Locator
- destroyerhistory.org/destroyers/orange/ (12 Fletcher hulls, ~20,000 peak employment); shipbuildinghistory.com/shipyards/emergencylarge/consolidatedorange.htm (hull 197 row); destroyers.org DD-572 class data block
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Era/design inference for this hull: a Fletcher-class destroyer built 1941-42 at Consolidated Steel's wartime Orange, TX yard - which built twelve Fletcher hulls and employed ~20,000 at peak (Destroyer History Foundation yard history) - with a four-boiler 60,000-shp steam plant would have carried period-standard asbestos boiler and steam-line insulation, turbine lagging, valve/flange gaskets, packing, fireproofing, deck coverings, and accommodation insulation. The documented 17 Aug-29 Sep 1944 Mare Island overhaul and the 1959 Charleston Navy Yard modernization were machinery-space-disturbing yard periods of the kind that cut and re-lagged steam-plant insulation.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1941-1960
- Population
- Consolidated Steel Orange construction trades 1941-42 (~20,000 peak yard employment); crew 1942-47; Mare Island 1944 and Charleston 1959 yard workforces
- Limitations
- Class/era and yard-level inference only - establishes no quantities, no product identities, and no exposure for any individual aboard. No ship-specific asbestos record exists for this hull. The Orange yard page documents employment and hull counts, not materials practice; no yard-level industrial-hygiene or asbestos study of Consolidated Orange was located (unlike Federal Kearny or Bath in the Atlas dataset).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-dyson-dd572-04
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[6]GAO, Navy Efforts To Protect Workers From Asbestos Exposure, HRD-80-2 (Oct 18, 1979) [gao]
- Locator
- GAO product page HRD-80-2
- Finding type
- gov_survey
- Finding
- GAO documented that the Navy used asbestos insulation extensively aboard ships and did not begin substituting alternative insulation materials until the early 1970s - placing DD-572's construction (1941-42) and entire U.S. commissioned service (1942-1947), plus the 1959 Charleston modernization, inside the documented asbestos-use era.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1979
- Population
- Navy shipyard workers; asbestos program review
- Limitations
- Program-level documentation; supports era context only, not any fact specific to this hull. Full report text not retrieved (gao.gov blocks automated fetch, HTTP 403) - content via product-page description.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-dyson-dd572-05
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[7]Batch-3544 search ledger (this record): DANFS via NHHC Wayback capture and Tin Can Sailors March 2016 transcription; NavSource; German-language service sources (de.wikipedia Zerstörer 5, fletcherfahrer.de, DDB Bundesarchiv index); destroyerhistory.org Orange yard page; shipbuildinghistory.com yard table; GAO HRD-80-2; NARA RG19 (not digitized); NVR (out of coverage); NPS NRHP (no designation); CourtListener authenticated sweeps; law-firm vessel-list pages (excluded per batch rules) [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-dyson-dd572-01 through -12
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, abatement contract, materials inventory, museum hazmat disclosure, scrapping hazmat record, or merits-stage litigation naming USS Dyson (DD-572) was found in the public sources searched (see search_ledger). The hull never became a museum and ended as a Greek cannibalization hulk in 1982 - the museum-disclosure channel that produced ship-specific records for preserved hulls does not exist here, and the foreign-transfer path left no U.S. scrapping-phase documentation. Law-firm vessel-list pages do carry the hull name (shepardlawfirm.com dedicated page; mesothelioma.com, mesolawcenter.com, mesotheliomaveterans.org destroyer tables) - all excluded as non-authoritative per batch rules.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 2026-09-27
- Limitations
- Absence of a located public record does not prove absence of asbestos aboard - era-consistent presence is expected for a 1941-42 steam destroyer; the finding is about documentation, not material fact. German-era and Greek-era material history is undocumented; the hull no longer exists.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-dyson-dd572-06
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[8]NARA Guide to Federal Records, RG 19 (Records of the Bureau of Ships) - General Information Books series and Ship GIB accessions; RG 24 deck logs; plus Bundesarchiv BM 21 'Einzelschiffe der Marine > Zerstörer > ZERSTÖRER 5 (D 179, Fletcher-Klasse)' press-material/chronicle files 1978-82 (indexed via Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek) [other_primary]
- Locator
- archives.gov RG 19 guide textual-records sections; deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de item PLT5LL2OQCBFLX5PVW3XACUE7CNWBXFJ (BM 21, ZERSTÖRER 5 D 179, 1978-1982)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Hull-level archival leads: NARA RG 19 holds per-vessel General Information Books carrying as-built material specifications (sister-class GIB excerpts - Benson DD-421/Mayo DD-422 and Gleaves DD-423/Niblack DD-424 - are digitized at destroyerhistory.org; no Fletcher-class or DD-572 GIB was located in digitized sources). WWII deck logs (RG 24) are the lead for the 1943 Charleston availability and 1944 Mare Island overhaul detail; the 1959 Charleston modernization would sit in BuShips/Charleston yard records. For the German era, Bundesarchiv BM 21 holds Zerstörer 5 (D-179) press-material and chronicle files covering 1978-82 (Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek index entry).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1941-1982
- Limitations
- Repository-level descriptions only; contents not examined for this hull. A DD-572 GIB's existence is unverified; physical/NARA-AIL or Bundesarchiv retrieval would be required. Neither repository's holdings establish any asbestos fact for this hull.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-dyson-dd572-07
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[9]CourtListener authenticated API v4 sweep via fleet helper cl-auth-search.py - exact-name and hull-number queries (see search_ledger for query strings and hit classification) [court_record]
- Locator
- CourtListener API v4 search endpoint (type=o opinions; type=r RECAP dockets) - response JSONs retained at .research/cl/
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- CourtListener litigation sweep complete for this hull (authenticated API v4 via fleet helper, 2026-09-27): all sweeps negative for asbestos litigation naming this vessel. Opinion index: "USS Dyson" = 0 hits, "U.S.S. Dyson" = 0 hits, "DD-572" = 0 hits. RECAP docket index: "USS Dyson" = 0 hits; "DD-572" = 4 hits, all classified as name collisions - Roberio v. Hall 1:03-cv-12624 (D. Mass., habeas corpus, 530), In re Katrina Canal Breaches Litigation 2:05-cv-04182 (E.D. La., torts to land, 240 - match inside a 47-page insurance-contract exhibit), Oliver v. United States 3:26-cv-00498 (S.D. Miss. 2026, mandamus/FTCA pro se complaint against named judges), BES Enterprises v. Natanzon 1:05-cv-10477 (D. Mass., fraud removal notice, 370). No hit is suit-nature 368 (asbestos personal injury) and none plausibly names the vessel.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 2026-09-27
- Limitations
- Sweep covers CourtListener's indexed opinion and RECAP-docket text only - PACER-only filings, state-court filings, and settled/unfiled claims are outside coverage. 'DD-572' token matches were classified from caption metadata, suit-nature codes, and matched-document snippets; document-level full-text review of each match was not performed (helper covers search only), but no hit is asbestos-coded or vessel-plausible. A clean sweep means no indexed asbestos litigation located, not that none was ever filed.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-dyson-dd572-08