Evidence
10 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-10).
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[1]research packet im-packet.md (6 sources cited) [other_primary]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: USS Eisner DE-192 → VERIFIED
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-eisner-de192-pkt-im-packet-md
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[2]DANFS, Eisner (DE-192) - namesake biography, specifications block, name-assignment history, and service narrative (verbatim text verified via Wayback capture 2024-05-24; the live NHHC page returns 404) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- NHHC DANFS 'Eisner (DE-192)' entry - specifications block; namesake paragraph; naming-history paragraph; service narrative
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS record for this hull: named for Jacques Rodney Eisner (born Red Bank, N.J. 1918-07-25; enlisted Naval Reserve 1940-10-07; midshipman 1941-03-06; Lt. (j.g.) killed in action at the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal 1942-11-13 while serving in San Francisco (CA-38)). The name Eisner was assigned to DE-269 on 1943-02-23, canceled and reassigned to DE-28 on 1943-06-14, and again canceled and reassigned to DE-192 on 1943-07-14 (DE-269 became HMS Domett; DE-28 was renamed Emery). Eisner (DE-192) was launched 1943-12-12 by Federal Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., Kearny, N.J., sponsored by Mrs. Lester Eisner, Jr.; commissioned 1944-01-01, Lt. Comdr. D. McVickar, USNR, in command. On 1944-02-15 she became flagship for Commander, Escort Division 55; after a convoy run to Galveston and back to Norfolk she was assigned to TF 63 for transatlantic escort - two Mediterranean voyages then five to British and French ports. She sailed from New York 1945-06-09 for Eniwetok, escorted convoys between Eniwetok and Ulithi, screened Achernar (AKA-53) to Wake Island with the repossession force, and continued patrol/escort duty out of Eniwetok until 1945-12-15. Placed out of commission in reserve at Mayport, Fla., 1946-07-05; transferred to the Netherlands under the Mutual Defense Assistance Program 1951-03-01, serving as HNMS De Zeeuw. Specifications block: dp. 1,240; l. 306'; b. 36'8"; dr. 11'8"; s. 21 k.; cpl. 186; a. 3 3", 3 21" tt., 8 dcp., 1 dcp. (hh.), 2 dct.; cl. Cannon.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1943-1951
- Population
- Federal Shipbuilding construction trades 1943-44; USN crew January 1944 - July 1946 (design complement 186 per DANFS)
- Limitations
- DANFS documents identity, builder, dates, and service narrative - not materials or asbestos content. The entry contains no laid-down date (carried from NavSource, ev-02) and no stricken date (entry predates the 1967 return/1968 disposal). Its phrase 'the day after European hostilities ended' sits oddly against the 9 June 1945 departure it narrates; the date itself is carried as written. Live NHHC page 404s (standing NHHC link problem) - verbatim text verified from the 2024-05-24 Wayback capture of the canonical URL.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-eisner-de192-01
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[3]NavSource Online, Destroyer Escort Photo Archive, USS Eisner (DE 192) - building and operational data, specifications, commanding-officer list, awards display, photo captions [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource DE-192 page - 'Building and Operational Data', 'Specifications', 'Commanding Officers', awards ribbon block
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NavSource record for this hull: keel laid 1943-09-23 by Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Corp., Port Newark, N.J. (the laid-down date DANFS omits); launched/christened 1943-12-12 (sponsor Mrs. Lester Eisner, Jr.); commissioned 1944-01-01 (Lcdr D. McVickar, USNR); decommissioned 1946-07-05 at Green Cove Springs, Fla. after 2 years 6 months; transferred (MAP) to Netherlands 1951-03-01, renamed MNLMS De Zeeuw (F-810); struck from the NVR 1951-03-07; returned to U.S. custody 1967-12-15; sold and scrapped February 1968. Design type listed as DET (diesel-electric tandem motor drive, long hull, 3" guns); complement 15 officers / 201 enlisted. Commanding officers: Lcdr Donald McVickar (comm. 1944-01 to 1944-10), Lcdr Douglas H. Lay (1944-10 to 1946-05), Lt.(jg) James M. Considine (1946-05 to 1946-07-05, decomm.). Call sign NFEU. Ribbon display lists American Campaign Medal, European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal, WWII Victory Medal - no battle star shown. Photo record includes a Royal Netherlands Navy photo of De Zeeuw (F810) c.1961 from Jane's Fighting Ships 1961-62.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1943-1968
- Population
- USN crew January 1944 - July 1946; RNN crew 1951-1967
- Limitations
- Volunteer-compiled archival photo/data index - a secondary compilation, not an official publication; it supplies the keel-laying date, the Green Cove Springs decommissioning site, and the 1951-03-07 NVR strike that DANFS lacks, all consistent with DANFS's narrative. Its ribbon list omits the single WWII battle star that Wikipedia credits - carried in gaps, unverified. Documents identity and dates, not materials.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-eisner-de192-02
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[4]Royal Netherlands Navy service record for ex-DE-192: seaforces.org F810 HNLMS De Zeeuw data sheet + Ten Anker webmagazine no. 32 (2025-08-11) quoting the Dutch naval register (Minister of Defence decree no. 741704/729330) [other_primary]
- Locator
- seaforces.org F-810 HNLMS De Zeeuw page (status block); tenanker.com issue 32 PDF, 'Hr. Ms. De Zeeuw' entry (decree no. 741704/729330; Hamburg scrap sale)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Dutch-service record for this hull: transferred from the U.S. Navy 1951-03-01 (MDAP); commissioned into the Koninklijke Marine as Hr.Ms. De Zeeuw (F810) on 1951-05-03 by ltz. F. J. Kroesen; first arrival Den Helder 1951-07-08; years of squadron exercises as one of six ex-Cannon-class Van Amstel-class frigates (with Van Amstel ex-Burrows, De Bitter ex-Rinehart, Van Ewijck ex-Gustafson, Dubois ex-O'Neill, Van Zijll ex-Stern); paid off for the last time 1964-08-28 (ltz. F. F. Brinkman); removed from the naval strength 1967-10-23 under Minister of Defence decree no. 741704/729330 (seaforces reads decommissioned 1967-10-24); returned to the U.S. government (loans received under the mutual-aid framework) 1967-12-15; the Dutch register-derived account records the U.S. selling De Zeeuw and De Bitter for scrap to a firm in Hamburg (scrapping February 1968 per NavSource/seaforces).
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1951-1968
- Population
- Royal Netherlands Navy crew 1951-1967
- Limitations
- Secondary compilations of the Dutch naval register, not an official RNN archive pull - the Ministerial decree number is quoted via Ten Anker's transcription. One-day discrepancy on the Dutch strike date (23 vs 24 October 1967) is logged in gaps. Documents dates and custody chain, not materials aboard; Dutch-era refits/material changes and the Hamburg breaking are undocumented.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-eisner-de192-03
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[5]Bureau of Ships, 'Ships' Data, U.S. Naval Vessels, 1945,' Vol. I, NAVSHIPS 250-010 (15 April 1945) - List of Naval Vessels roster and Destroyer-Escort Vessels design-group characteristics table (shipscribe.com scan; OCR-verified) [other_primary]
- Locator
- SDB1945v1.pdf - List of Naval Vessels DE roster (PDF p.15: 'DET design' header over the DE-162-197 block incl. DE-192 EISNER) and DE design-group characteristics table (PDF p.127: DET row - GM 16-278A, 6,000 shp, 2 shafts, boilers 'None')
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- The official April 1945 BuShips roster lists DE-192 EISNER inside the 'DET design' block spanning DE-162 LEVY through DE-197 ROCHE (the TE design group begins at DE-198). The volume's destroyer-escort design-group characteristics table defines DET as 'diesel electric tandem motor drive, long hull': 2 shafts, General Motors diesel model 16-278A, 6,000 shp, and the boilers column reads 'None' for the DET group (also for the GMT and FMR diesel groups; only the TE/TEV/WGT turbine groups carry boilers). This hull is therefore officially documented as the diesel-electric DET design - no propulsion boilers, no steam plant.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- April 1945 edition
- Population
- Cannon/DET design program
- Limitations
- Design-group assignment, not materials documentation - the table records official characteristics, not insulation or asbestos content; its evidentiary value here is negative-capacity (a design with boilers 'None' does not carry boiler/steam-line asbestos categories). Textless 2-up scan; roster entry and design-table DET row verified by OCR (roster PDF p.15; DE design table PDF p.127).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-eisner-de192-04
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[6]Era/design inference drawn from BuShips 'Ships' Data' 1945 Vol. I DET design table + DANFS construction dates + Atlas shipyard dataset 'federal-shipbuilding-kearny' record (tier 2: Superex pipe covering, Kaylo insulation, Monokote fireproofing, Garlock gaskets; Owens-Illinois Industrial Health Survey of the Kearny yard 1944-08-30 to 1944-09-02) [other_primary]
- Locator
- SDB1945v1.pdf DE design table (boilers 'None' for DET); shipyards.json record 'federal-shipbuilding-kearny'; cannon-class.class.json class_notes (background only)
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Era/design inference: a DET-design destroyer escort built September 1943 - January 1944 at Federal Shipbuilding & Drydock, Kearny/Port Newark, would have carried the era-standard asbestos set appropriate to a diesel-electric ship - exhaust-system insulation, gaskets and packing, electrical insulation, brake linings, and deck coverings. The design narrows the inference: the official BuShips table records boilers 'None' for the DET group, so the largest asbestos categories of steam ships (boiler and steam-line lagging) do not apply to this hull's propulsion plant. The builder is documented at yard level in the Atlas dataset (tier 2) with named asbestos products and a contemporaneous Owens-Illinois industrial-health survey documenting insulator work with asbestos pipe covering at this yard in August-September 1944.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1943-1968
- Population
- Federal Shipbuilding construction trades 1943-44; USN crew 1944-46; RNN crew 1951-67
- Limitations
- Class/era and builder-yard inference only - NOT a hull-specific finding. The Owens-Illinois yard survey (1944-08-30/09-02) postdates this hull's delivery (1944-01-01 commissioning) by roughly eight months - it documents same-era yard practice, not this hull's construction or materials. No hull-level material schedule, insulation specification, survey, or abatement record was located; the NARA RG19 BuShips 'General Information Books' are the standing archival lead. Does not quantify material or establish any individual's exposure.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-eisner-de192-05
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[7]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 the Navy's extensive shipboard asbestos insulation use with substitution not beginning until the early 1970s - this hull's September 1943 - January 1944 construction falls 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 level)
- Limitations
- Program-level era context only; not hull-specific. gao.gov returns HTTP 403 to automated fetches - content via the product-page description; full-text pull remains an open lead.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-eisner-de192-06
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[8]NARA catalog holdings for this hull: 'USS EISNER - War History' (naId 77640184, RG 38 WWII War Diaries series 4697018, Fold3 digitized); monthly war diaries 1944-07 through 1945-08 (same series); deck-log file unit 'Eisner (DE-192), 1/1/44-7/5/46' (naId 183472468, Ancestry/FamilySearch digitized); muster rolls (Bureau of Naval Personnel series) [other_primary]
- Locator
- catalog.archives.gov search 'Eisner' 'DE-192': naId 77640184 (War History, roll A2047); naId 183472468 (deck logs, roll 1451); war-diary file units 7/44-8/45
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Ship-specific primary records for this hull exist and are digitized in the National Archives Catalog: a wartime 'War History' volume and monthly war diaries covering July 1944 - August 1945 (RG 38, Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, scanned via Fold3, e.g. NAC object 77640184), and the full deck-log run 'Eisner (DE-192), 1/1/44-7/5/46' (naId 183472468) whose title's end date corroborates the 1946-07-05 decommissioning. These are hull-level primary records - operational logs and history, not material specifications.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1944-1946
- Limitations
- Holdings verified in the catalog but contents unreviewed - deck logs and war diaries record operations, and any insulation/material references they might contain are unexamined. The hull-level material-specification lead (RG 19 BuShips General Information Books) is not among the located digitized holdings and remains unretrieved.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-eisner-de192-07
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[9]CourtListener API v4 search sweep for this hull: queries 'USS Eisner' (type=o opinions, type=r RECAP dockets), 'DE-192' (type=o and type=r), and '"Eisner" asbestos' (type=o) - pending; every attempt across the session returned the fleet-wide pacing limiter's stand-down response (shared ~114/hr budget exhausted by concurrent fleet sessions), so no query executed [court_record]
- Locator
- cl-auth-search.py attempts at ~12:05, ~12:10, ~12:15, ~12:25, ~12:40 session time - all returned 'fleet-wide request budget is momentarily spent' (exit 2), no HTTP request made
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- PENDING - CourtListener sweep could not be executed this session. Required queries: exact-phrase 'USS Eisner' (opinions and RECAP dockets) and hull-number 'DE-192' (opinions and dockets). No result of any kind was returned - neither hit nor clean zero - because the fleet-wide request pacing limiter blocked every attempt. Logged as pending/blocked in the search ledger, not as a negative finding.
- Verification
- unverified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 2026 (search)
- Population
- n/a (search sweep)
- Limitations
- This row records an unexecuted sweep, not an absence of litigation. 'Eisner' is a moderate-collision surname (executive/estate-name litigation incl. Disney-era Eisner matters), and 'DE-192' collides with star-pagination and docket-number noise - both require per-case review when the sweep runs. No inference about the hull's litigation surface should be drawn from this row.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-eisner-de192-08
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[10]Batch-4107 search ledger (this record): NHHC DANFS (live 404; Wayback capture 2024-05-24 of the canonical URL); NavSource DE-192 photo index; seaforces.org + Ten Anker Dutch-service sources; BuShips 'Ships' Data' 1945 Vol. I (OCR-verified roster + DET design table); NARA catalog ship-specific holdings; CourtListener name/hull queries (blocked by pacing); competitor/aggregator lead-check [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-eisner-de192-01 through sl-uss-eisner-de192-11
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, government document, or docketed case naming USS Eisner (DE-192) / Hr.Ms. De Zeeuw (F810) was found in the public sources searched (see search_ledger). The CourtListener litigation sweep specifically could not be executed (fleet pacing limiter) - it is logged pending and is NOT among the bases for this negative finding.
- 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 - it records that the sources searched contain no ship-specific asbestos documentation. The hull's 30-month USN career ended in reserve (1946) and foreign transfer (1951); sixteen years of Dutch custody and the 1968 Hamburg breaking are undocumented for materials; crew-era exposure was never adjudicated or documented for this hull in the sources searched.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-eisner-de192-09