Evidence
8 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-8).
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[1]research packet ij-packet.md (8 sources cited) [other_primary]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: USS Edward C. Daly DE-17 → VERIFIED
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-edward-c-daly-de17-pkt-ij-packet-md
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[2]DANFS, Edward C. Daly (DE-17) (1969 ed., Vol. 2, pp. 328-329: namesake biography, builder, dates, service narrative, disposal; verbatim transcription - live NHHC page serves 404) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS entry 'Edward C. Daly' - namesake biographical note + DE-17 specification block + service narrative (losthistory.net hazegray mirror)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS record for this hull: originally intended for transfer to Great Britain; launched 21 October 1942 by Mare Island Navy Yard as BYARD (BDE-17), sponsored by Mrs. John H. McQuilkin; retained for the U.S. Navy and named 19 February 1943; commissioned 3 April 1943, Comdr. G. A. Parkinson, USNR, in command. Spec block: dp. 1,140 t.; l. 289'5"; b. 35'1"; dr. 8'3"; s. 21 k.; cpl. 156; a. 3 3", 2 depth charge tracks, 8 depth charge projectors, 1 hedgehog; cl. EVARTS. Service: San Diego to Pearl Harbor 22-28 May 1943 (first escort vessel to visit the base; visited by Admirals Nimitz and Spruance); convoy escort Pearl Harbor-west coast; August 1943 Funafuti/Ellice Islands occupation; October 1943 rescue of a downed patrol bomber's crew at Samoa; San Francisco repairs; Alaskan waters from 27 November 1943 as guard and weather ship for planes flying the Attu-Paramushiro great-circle route; San Francisco overhaul from 19 January 1945; escorted carrier HMS Ranee to Guam; air-sea rescue between Iwo Jima and Saipan, continued postwar for occupation-support planes; returned to the U.S. 19 October 1945; decommissioned San Pedro 20 December 1945; sold 8 January 1947. Namesake Coxswain Edward C. Daly (b. 27 April 1914, Pink Hill, N.C.; enlisted 13 February 1934) killed 7 December 1941 aboard USS Downes (DD-375) at Pearl Harbor; posthumous Navy Cross.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1914-1941 (namesake); 1942-1947 (hull)
- Population
- Mare Island Navy Yard construction trades 1942-43; wartime crew (design complement 156-198)
- Limitations
- DANFS documents service history and specifications, not materials or asbestos content. DANFS omits the laid-down date (NavSource supplies 1 April 1942 - see ev-03). Its 'sold 8 January 1947' conflicts with the Wikipedia infobox's '18 March 1947' - carried in gaps. Mirror transcription cited because the live NHHC DANFS page returns 404; no ibiblio dafs/DE transcription exists for this hull.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-edward-c-daly-de17-01
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[3]Bureau of Ships, "Ships' Data, U.S. Naval Vessels 1945" Vol. I, NAVSHIPS 250-010 (April 1945; shipscribe.com scan of textless 2-up original), List of Naval Vessels + DE design section [other_primary]
- Locator
- SDB1945v1.pdf: DE alphabetical roster 'DALY, EDWARD C. DE17' at book p.243 (PDF p.131); GMT design block in List of Naval Vessels at book p.10 (PDF p.15); DE design table at book pp.234-235 (PDF p.127) row 'GMT'
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Official BuShips April 1945 roster names this hull directly: 'DALY, EDWARD C. DE17' appears in the destroyer-escort alphabetical roster under the GMT design group with builder 'Navy Yard, Mare Island' (contract value column reads $1,649,400, contract signed November 1941). The List of Naval Vessels section places DE-17 in the GMT-design block (DE5 EVARTS through DE50 ENGSTROM), and the DE design section defines the class officially: 'GMT = Diesel electric tandem motor drive - short hull,' characteristics 283'6" waterline length, 1,140 tons standard / 1,430 tons full load, 2-shaft GM diesel model 16-278A engines delivering 6,000 shp with boilers 'None,' ~21 knots, 15 officers and 183 enlisted.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1941 (contract); 1942-1945 (construction/service); 1945 edition
- Population
- Mare Island Navy Yard construction trades 1942-43; wartime crew (15 officers, 183 enlisted per design table)
- Limitations
- OCR of a textless 2-up scan; the roster reflects the April 1945 program state and design tables record official characteristics, not materials. The boilers 'None' entry establishes the ship had no steam plant - relevant to bounding the plausible asbestos-material set - but the document does not state what insulation materials were installed aboard this or any hull.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-edward-c-daly-de17-02
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[4]NavSource Online Destroyer Escort Photo Index, DE-17 USS Edward C. Daly (ex-HMS Byard BDE-17) - date lines and NARA/U.S. Navy photo captions [other_primary]
- Locator
- navsource.org/archives/06/017.htm - 'Building and Operational Data' date lines + photo-caption blocks (0601702, 0601714, 0601715, 0601704, 0601712/19-N-79880-81)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NavSource date lines and photo captions for this hull: keel laid 1 April 1942 as Byard BDE-17 by Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo; launched and christened 21 October 1942 (sponsor Mrs. John H. McQuilkin, wife of the lieutenant superintending the yard's destroyer-escort program); retained and named 19 February 1943; commissioned 3 April 1943 by the Captain of the Yard, Comdr. G. A. Parkinson USNR in command; drydocked in floating dock YFD-22 at Adak 1 March 1944 (U.S. Navy photo 80-G-221595); escorted between Aleutian islands and served as weather/homing ship for Attu-Paramushiro bombing missions through 1944 (photo 80-G-265350, 17 February 1944, Bering Sea); in overhaul at Mare Island 19 January - 3 March 1945 (BuShips collection photos 19-N-79880/-79881, NARA); decommissioned at San Pedro 20 December 1945 'after 2 years and 8-1/2 months of service'; struck from the NVR 8 January 1946; sold 8 January 1947, scrapped. Nickname 'The Daly Double'; call sign NWOJ.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1942-1947
- Population
- Mare Island construction trades 1942-43; wartime crew 1943-45; YFD-22 drydock crew Adak 1944; Mare Island overhaul workforce Jan-Mar 1945
- Limitations
- NavSource is a volunteer-run archive republishing official Navy data and NARA-held photos - used here for the laid-down date (absent from DANFS), the YFD-22 drydock event, and the Mare Island overhaul window; it is not a materials record and documents no asbestos content. Direct fetch is blocked by the site; content verified via the navsource.net mirror and Google index snippets.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-edward-c-daly-de17-03
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[5]Bureau of Ships, "Ships' Data, U.S. Naval Vessels 1945" Vol. I, DE design section (GMT design table) + Atlas shipyard dataset, Mare Island Naval Shipyard record (tier 2; Collins v. Plant Insulation appellate case; documented yard asbestos products) [other_primary]
- Locator
- SDB1945v1.pdf GMT design table (book pp.234-235) and roster row (book p.243); shipyards.json record 'mare-island-naval-shipyard' (ev-mare-island-01 EIS/EIR; ev-mare-island-02 Collins)
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Class/era inference: DE-17 sits in the April 1945 BuShips roster's GMT-design (Evarts-class) block, built by Navy Yard Mare Island. An Evarts-class destroyer escort built 1942-43 with a diesel-electric plant (GM 16-278A diesels, tandem-motor electric drive, 6,000 shp, ~21 kt; boilers 'None' in the official design table) would have carried era-standard asbestos applications appropriate to a diesel-electric ship - exhaust insulation, gaskets and packing, electrical insulation, brake linings, and deck coverings - but no boilers or steam lagging. Builder Mare Island Naval Shipyard is documented at yard level in the Atlas dataset (evidence_tier 2): asbestos products documented there include Unibestos, Marinite, Transite, Kaylo, Careytemp, Gold Bond, Super 66, pump/valve packing, gaskets, bonnet insulation, and refractory materials, and the yard is a verified defendant-side exposure site in Collins v. Plant Insulation Co., 185 Cal. App. 4th 260 (2010) - a welder's mesothelioma case spanning Mare Island employment 1976-1994.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1942-1945 construction/era
- Population
- Mare Island Navy Yard construction trades 1942-43; wartime crew 1943-45
- Limitations
- Class/era and builder-yard inference only - NOT a hull-specific finding. No material schedule, insulation specification, or hull survey for DE-17 is public; the diesel-electric plant means the largest asbestos categories of steam ships (boiler and steam-line insulation) do not apply; yard-level documentation describes the shipyard workforce environment (including a 1976-94 exposure window long after this hull was scrapped) and does not establish what was installed aboard this hull; does not quantify material or establish any individual's exposure.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-edward-c-daly-de17-04
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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 (full text blocked, HTTP 403)
- Finding type
- gov_survey
- Finding
- GAO documented the Navy's extensive shipboard asbestos insulation use with substitution not beginning until the early 1970s - DE-17's entire 1942-43 construction and 1943-45 USN service fall inside the documented asbestos-use era.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1979
- Population
- Navy shipyard workers (program scope)
- Limitations
- Program-level era context only; not hull-specific. GAO full text returns HTTP 403 to automated fetches - content via product-page description (standing limitation shared with batch-01 records). Does not establish that any particular material was installed aboard this hull.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-edward-c-daly-de17-05
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[7]CourtListener API v4 authenticated search sweep (opinion index type=o; RECAP docket index type=r attempted) for this vessel's exact name, short name, and hull number [court_record]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-edward-c-daly-de17-03, -04, -05
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- CourtListener sweep (authenticated API v4, 2026-09-28), opinion index: 'Edward C. Daly' returned 2 opinions, both name collisions - Manos v. Trans World Airlines, Inc., 295 F. Supp. 1170 (N.D. Ill. 1969) and 324 F. Supp. 470 (N.D. Ill. 1971), an air-crash wrongful-death consolidation in which 'Edward C. Daly' is a deceased passenger whose administrator sued Boeing and TWA - not the vessel, not asbestos. 'USS Daly' returned 0 opinions - the short name surfaces in no published opinion, so the Fletcher-class USS Daly (DD-519, in commission 1943-1960) does not appear at opinion level either. 'DE-17' returned 2,131 opinions - all string collisions: Spanish-language Puerto Rico opinions citing statute numbers ('Ley Num. ... de 17'), docket-entry-number references, and one attorney-surname 'Daley' in a patent case; no vessel or asbestos content in the reviewed result set. RECAP docket index: 'Edward C. Daly' returned 0 dockets - the exact name appears in no indexed docket. 'USS Daly' and 'DE-17' docket queries could not be completed - the fleet-wide pacing budget was repeatedly spent across spaced retries and each attempt returned the pacing-standdown signal; deferred as open items rather than retried into a throttle (search_ledger sl-uss-edward-c-daly-de17-05).
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 2026-09-28 (sweep)
- Limitations
- Sweep result, not a merits finding: the completed queries support 'no published opinion names this vessel' and 'no indexed docket names the exact name'; the 'DE-17' result is collision-dominated (a hull-number string that matches statute and docket numbering) - a 2,131-hit set cannot be exhaustively reviewed, but the returned results contain no vessel or asbestos content. 'USS Daly' and 'DE-17' docket-level queries are the deferred open items; if a future hit appears it requires hull attribution - USS Daly (DD-519) is the collision hull, not DE-17.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-edward-c-daly-de17-06
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[8]Batch-4082 search ledger (this record): losthistory/hazegray DANFS transcription; live NHHC page (404); BuShips Ships' Data 1945 Vol. I (shipscribe.com PDF, OCR'd); NVR (not held); NavSource/navsource.net date lines and photo captions; navypedia GMT-class roster; GAO product page; CourtListener opinion query; Atlas shipyard dataset [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-edward-c-daly-de17-01 through -09
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located for DE-17: no hull ACM survey, abatement contract, museum hazmat disclosure, or donation-condition document exists - the hull was sold for scrap in January 1947, before the asbestos litigation era, leaving no museum pathway and no surviving-hull survey. No qualifying asbestos litigation located naming the vessel: the completed CourtListener opinion queries returned only air-crash name collisions ('Edward C. Daly') and zero results ('USS Daly'); remaining queries deferred under fleet pacing (ev-06). The Naval Vessel Register does not hold the hull (disposed pre-1987 exclusion). Law-firm asbestos-ship listicles enumerate the hull but are excluded per batch source rules.
- 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 could have been installed at build and removed at scrapping with no surviving public documentation; does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility. The scrapping buyer is undocumented in located sources (sister Mare Island Evarts hulls went to National Metal and Steel Corp., Terminal Island - whether DE-17 did is unverified).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-edward-c-daly-de17-07