Evidence
9 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-9).
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[1]DANFS, Enright (DE-216), NHHC ship-history entry (live page serves 404; canonical text verified verbatim via Wayback capture 2021-04-14, published 2016-04-13; bracketed Ecuador-disposition addendum per Bauer & Roberts 'Register of Ships of the U.S. Navy 1775-1990' and Jane's carried via losthistory.net/hazegray verbatim transcription) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- NHHC DANFS 'Enright (DE-216)' entry - spec block + namesake paragraph + full service narrative; Wayback capture 2021-04-14; addendum text via losthistory.net/hazegray/danfs/escorts/de216.txt
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS record for this hull (spec block: dp. 1,400; l. 306'; b. 36'10"; dr. 9'5"; s. 24 k.; cpl. 186; a. 3 3", 3 21" tt, 8 dcp, 1 dcp.(hh.), 2 dct.; cl. Buckley). Namesake: Ensign Robert Paul Francis Enright (b. Bradford, Pa., 28 Sep 1916; Naval Reserve 20 Jul 1940; commissioned ensign 14 Mar 1941; killed in action 6 Jun 1942 aboard Hammann DD-412, sunk in the Battle of Midway). Launched 29 May 1943 by Philadelphia Navy Yard; sponsored by Mrs. Katherine L. Enright; commissioned 21 September 1943, Lt. Comdr. A. Wildner in command; reclassified APD-66 on 21 January 1945. Two convoy-escort voyages to Argentia, Newfoundland, 15 November-9 December 1943; six voyages to British ports and one to Oran over the next year. On 16 April 1944, westward bound, struck by a merchantman of her convoy - 65-foot hole in her port quarter, all living spaces flooded, 12-degree list; brought safely back to New York and repaired in a month. Converted to a high-speed transport at Boston Navy Yard early 1945; sailed from Norfolk 7 April for Pacific duty; Pearl Harbor training 2 weeks; convoy to Eniwetok and Ulithi; off Okinawa 11 June; antisubmarine screen around Okinawa until 24 July (2-week July absence escorting a Leyte convoy); mail runs among southern Philippines and to Brunei Bay, Borneo. Cleared Leyte Gulf 21 August 1945 escorting a supply convoy to a Tokyo Bay rendezvous; occupation transport voyages to Japan and China; sailed Manila 2 December, arrived Norfolk 11 January 1946; decommissioned into reserve at Green Cove Springs, Fla., 21 June 1946. One battle star for WWII. Bracketed addendum: transferred to Ecuador 14 July 1967, renamed escort destroyer Veinticinco de Julio (E-12); stricken from the US Navy Register 31 March 1978; renamed frigate Moran Valverde (D-01) in 1976 or 1977, pennant changed to DD-03 then DD-02; purchased outright by Ecuador 30 August 1978; deleted 1989.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Study period
- 1943-1989
- Population
- Philadelphia Navy Yard construction trades 1943; wartime crew (design complement 186) and embarked troops through 1946
- Limitations
- DANFS documents namesake, construction, service chronology, reclassification, striking, and foreign transfer - not materials or asbestos content. DANFS does not print a keel-laying date (22 February 1943 carried from NVR/NavSource) and does not name the colliding vessel or the New York repair facility (association-hosted war history supplies both - carried as association-sourced detail, not official). Wayback/mirror citation because the live NHHC page returns 404.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-enright-apd66-01
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[2]Naval Vessel Register, ENRIGHT (APD 66) ex-DE 216 detail page (NAVSEA official register; live URL serves the JS record shell; full data table read via Wayback capture 2016-10-25, page 'Last Updated: 02/15/2002') [other_primary]
- Locator
- NVR SHIPSDETAIL_APD_66 page, Wayback capture 2016-10-25 (3 captures 2016-2024; data table populated)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NVR official register record for this hull: UIC 02916; class 'APD 37' (Charles Lawrence class - the official grouping for converted Buckley-hull APDs); status 'Disposed of through the Security Assistance Program (SAP), transferred, cash sale, ex-US fleet hull foreign military sale case number assigned' with date status changed 08/01/1978; builder 'Naval Shipyard Philadelphia'; award date 06/08/1942; keel date 02/22/1943; launch date 05/29/1943; delivery date 09/30/1943; commission date 09/21/1943; decommission date 06/21/1946; stricken date 03/31/1978; dimensions 306 ft oa / 300 ft wl, extreme beam 37 ft, waterline beam 36 ft, max navigational draft 9 ft; steel hull, steel superstructure; 2 propellers; custodian ECUADOR.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Study period
- 1942-1978
- Limitations
- Official register data fielded as disposition/status dates: the NVR status-change date 08/01/1978 records the SAP disposal action and sits between DANFS's stricken date (31 March 1978) and outright-purchase date (30 August 1978) - all three official dates are carried, not reconciled. NVR documents dates/dimensions/status, not materials or asbestos content; pre-1987 disposal records are populated incrementally per the NVR itself.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-enright-apd66-02
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[3]NavSource Online Amphibious Photo Archive, USS Enright (APD-66) ex-DE-216 page (chronology, APD spec block, campaign/award tables, Ecuador disposition) + Destroyer Escort Photo Index DE-216 (navsource.org/archives/06/216.htm: keel 22 February 1943, DE spec block, CO list, collision narrative) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource APD-66 page chronology + spec block + campaign table + disposition lines; DE-216 index 'Building and Operational Data', CO list, and photo captions NH 75610 / 0621605-07
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NavSource record for this hull: Buckley class DE / Charles Lawrence class APD; laid down 22 February 1943 Philadelphia Navy Yard; launched 29 May 1943; commissioned 21 September 1943 LCDR A. Wildner; converted at Boston Navy Yard, Boston, MA; redesignated APD-66 21 January 1945; decommissioned 21 June 1946 Green Cove Springs FL; Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Florida Group; transferred to Ecuador, renamed BAE Veinticinco de Julio (E-12), later BAE Moran Valverde (D-01) ca. 1976-77, renumbered D-03 then D-02; struck from the Naval Register 31 March 1978; purchased outright by Ecuador 30 August 1978; deleted by the Ecuadorian Navy 1989, presumed broken up. DE spec block: TE turbo-electric, 1,400 t lt/1,740 t fl, 306 ft oa, 24 kt, complement 15 officers/198 enlisted, 2 'D' Express boilers/GE turbines electric drive 12,000 shp. APD spec block: 2,130 t fl, beam 37 ft, draft 12 ft 7 in limiting, 23.6 kt trial, range 6,000 nm at 12 kt, ship's company 12/192 plus troops 12/150, 4 LCVP, armament one 5-inch/38 DP, three twin 40 mm, six single 20 mm, two depth charge tracks; propulsion 'two Combustion Engineering "D" Express boilers, 435psi 750 deg; two General Electric turbines (turbo-electric drive); two propellers, 12,000 shp'. Campaign table: Okinawa Gunto operation 10-30 June 1945; Occupation and China service 19-29 November 1945. One battle star. DE index photo captions: NH 75610 christening at Philadelphia Navy Yard 29 May 1943; collision narrative (Portuguese freighter S. Thome, USS Burke DE-215 and USS Weber DE-675 assisting, SF3/c Carl Augustus Mims lost, Brooklyn Navy Yard entered 17 April 1944, 30 days availability) keyed to the association war history.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Study period
- 1943-1989
- Population
- Crew 1943-1946 (186 DE / 12 officers+192 enlisted APD per spec blocks); embarked troops to 12/150; Ecuadorian Navy crews 1967-1989
- Limitations
- Volunteer-compiled secondary archive consistent with DANFS/NVR on the carried facts; the APD spec block is a generic Charles Lawrence-class compilation - its Combustion Engineering boiler attribution conflicts with the navypedia block map's Babcock & Wilcox assignment for the Philadelphia NYd hull block including DE-216 (both secondary; logged in gaps). NavSource APD page prints the Ecuador transfer as '14 June 1967' against DANFS and its own DE index '14 July 1967' - July carried per DANFS. Ecuadorian-era detail is documented only at this level in the sources searched.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-enright-apd66-03
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[4]NARA Special List 44, named-vessel logbook inventory, archives.gov [other_primary]
- Locator
- archives.gov SL44 'Enright (DE-216)' row (9/21/1943-12/31/1945); ussenright.org documents page
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- NARA's named-vessel logbook inventory lists 'Enright (DE-216)' with coverage 9/21/1943-12/31/1945 - deck logs spanning commissioning through the war's end (Atlantic convoy escort, the April 1944 collision and repair, the Boston APD conversion, Okinawa, and occupation/China service). The ship-association site ussenright.org hosts scanned ship documents (commissioning-day deck log page, official collision correspondence, ship journal of Ivan McCombs Jan-Dec 1945) - access copies consistent with the NARA record series.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Study period
- 1943-1945 (logbook coverage)
- Limitations
- Archival leads only - the NARA holding is undigitized/unpulled and nothing is asserted from its contents; the association-hosted scans are unofficial copies, useful as access points, not as citations in their own right. Retrieval not performed.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-enright-apd66-04
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[5]Bureau of Ships, Ships' Data, U.S. Naval Vessels, Vol. 1 (Jan 1945), DE design-group table (shipscribe.com scan) + NavSource APD-66 spec block + Atlas class file buckley-class.class.json (background) [other_primary]
- Locator
- SDB1945v1 DE design-group table (TE type, groups 2-3); NavSource APD-66 spec block; buckley-class.class.json ev-buckley-class-01/-02/-04 (background)
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Era/design inference: this hull is a 1943 Philadelphia Navy Yard-built Buckley-class (TE) destroyer escort with a full steam plant - BuShips Ships' Data 1945 design groups 2-3 document the type at 2 'D' express-type boilers (435 psi/750 F superheat) feeding GE turbine-generators/electric motors, 12,000 shp, 2 shafts; NavSource's APD-66 spec block reads 2 Combustion Engineering 'D' Express boilers while the navypedia block map assigns Babcock & Wilcox to the Philadelphia NYd hulls including DE-216 (both secondary, conflicting - logged in gaps). Steam escorts of the 1942-43 DE program carried era-standard asbestos in boiler and machinery insulation, steam-line lagging, valve and flange gaskets, machinery packing, electrical insulation, deck coverings, and brake linings; the early-1945 Boston Navy Yard APD conversion added troop berthing/messing and four LCVP davits (work that disturbs existing insulation and adds new lagging/coverings).
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Study period
- 1943-1946
- Population
- Philadelphia Navy Yard construction trades 1943; New York repair trades April-May 1944; Boston Navy Yard conversion trades Jan-Mar 1945; crew and embarked troops 1943-46
- Limitations
- Class/era and builder-yard inference only - no ship-specific asbestos record supports 'documented aboard this hull' wording; establishes no quantities, no locations, and no individual exposure. Boiler manufacturer is secondary-sourced and internally conflicted (NavSource spec block Combustion Engineering vs. navypedia block map Babcock & Wilcox), unverified against contract documents.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-enright-apd66-05
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[6]In re Brooklyn Navy Yard Asbestos Litigation, 971 F.2d 831 (2d Cir. 1992) + Atlas shipyards.json records for philadelphia-naval-shipyard (tier 3), boston-naval-shipyard (tier 3), and brooklyn-navy-yard (tier 3) [court_record]
- Locator
- 971 F.2d 831 (2d Cir. 1992); shipyards.json yard_id philadelphia-naval-shipyard / boston-naval-shipyard / brooklyn-navy-yard; DANFS narrative + ussenright.org history (collision repair at Brooklyn Navy Yard from 17 April 1944)
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- Yard-level context for the three Navy yards tied to this hull: builder Philadelphia Naval Shipyard is tier-3 in the Atlas dataset with litigation-documented product rows (Eagle-Picher Super 60, Onecote cement, Thermasil pipe covering and block, Unibestos, Cary block, Kaylo, Garlock asbestos sheet gaskets and packing, Johns-Manville pipe insulation, et al.); the conversion yard Boston Naval Shipyard is tier-3 (John Crane gaskets and sealing materials documented via In re John Crane, Inc., Tex. App. 2003); and the probable April-May 1944 collision-repair yard New York Naval Shipyard (Brooklyn Navy Yard) is tier-3 with Kaylo pipe-insulation use established in In re Brooklyn Navy Yard Asbestos Litigation, 971 F.2d 831 (2d Cir. 1992). This hull's presence at the builder and at Boston for conversion is official (DANFS/NVR); the Brooklyn repair attribution is association-sourced (DANFS reads only 'repaired in New York').
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Study period
- 1943-1945 (yard events); yard-level litigation through 2003
- Population
- Philadelphia Navy Yard trades 1943; New York Naval Shipyard trades 1944; Boston Navy Yard trades 1945
- Limitations
- Yard-level records only - they document conditions/litigation at the builder, conversion yard, and probable repair yard, not aboard this hull. The Brooklyn Navy Yard repair attribution rests on the association war history; DANFS names only 'New York'. No element of this row is evidence of asbestos aboard DE-216/APD-66.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-enright-apd66-06
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[7]GAO, Navy Efforts To Protect Workers From Asbestos Exposure, HRD-80-2 (Oct 18, 1979) - program-level context via class file [gao]
- Locator
- GAO HRD-80-2 (Oct 1979); class file ev-buckley-class-06
- Finding type
- regulatory
- Finding
- GAO documented that the Navy's standing asbestos-removal policy dates from 1975 (remove asbestos insulation only when damaged or required for repairs, modified 1979 to selective replacement in high-maintenance areas). This hull left physical U.S. custody by transfer to Ecuador in July 1967 (it remained on the U.S. register until 1978) - before any standing Navy asbestos-control program and before disposal hazmat documentation practices - so the hull is consistent with era materials retained in place through its U.S. service life, reserve layup, and transfer; no U.S.-custody abatement or disposal material record is expected to exist.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Study period
- 1975-1979 policy era vs. 1943-1967 physical U.S. custody of this hull (register to 1978)
- Limitations
- Program-level context only - GAO HRD-80-2 does not name this hull or class; it bounds what documentation could exist, it does not establish that asbestos was or was not aboard. gao.gov returns 403 to automated fetches; product-page description relied on per BATCH-01 standing note.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-enright-apd66-07
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[8]CourtListener API v4 opinion and docket searches (authenticated via cl-auth-search.py, 2026-09-26) [court_record]
- Locator
- CourtListener type=o ('USS Enright' count=0; 'APD-66' count=0; 'DE-216' count=27 all collisions; 'Enright' asbestos count=71 all collisions); type=r ('USS Enright' count=0; 'DE-216' count=413 all collisions; 'Enright' asbestos count=330 surname noise)
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- Litigation sweep complete - no qualifying asbestos case names this hull: '"USS Enright"' type=o = 0 hits; '"USS Enright"' type=r (RECAP docket index) = 0 hits; '"APD-66"' type=o = 0 hits; '"DE-216"' type=o = 27 hits, all identifier collisions (Puerto Rico judicial-administration entries, exhibit/form and docket-entry numbers - none reference a vessel); '"DE-216"' type=r = 413 docket hits, all collisions of the same kind; '"Enright" asbestos' type=o = 71 hits, all collisions (Judge William B. Enright sitting on the JPML/MDL-875 panel; attorneys and firms named Enright; party surnames); '"Enright" asbestos' type=r = 330 docket hits of surname/mass-docket noise (e.g., Enright v. Celotex Corp., W.D.N.Y. 1:87-cv-00663 - a plaintiff surname, not the ship).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Study period
- sweep run 2026-09-26
- Limitations
- Opinion-index coverage complete for the exact name and both hull numbers, plus the RECAP docket index for the exact name; surname-bearing queries return claimant/judge/attorney noise by construction and cannot be exhaustive at hundreds of raw hits - the sampled hits are name collisions, not vessel references. A litigation absence in indexed opinions/dockets does not exclude unindexed dockets, unreported settlements, or filings in non-covered jurisdictions.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-enright-apd66-08
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[9]Batch-2451 search ledger (this record): NHHC DANFS (Wayback-verified + hazegray/losthistory transcription), Naval Vessel Register APD-66 detail page, NavSource DE/APD archives, NARA Special List 44, CourtListener sweeps (complete), marketing-list sweep [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-enright-apd66-01 through sl-uss-enright-apd66-11
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located for DE-216/APD-66: no asbestos survey, abatement contract, disposal hazmat disclosure, museum documentation, or docketed asbestos case naming the vessel was found in the public sources searched (see search_ledger). The hull transferred to Ecuador in July 1967 and was deleted/scrapped there in 1989 - before the Navy's documented asbestos-control program era (GAO HRD-80-2: standing removal policy dates from 1975) and before disposal hazmat documentation practices - so no U.S.-custody abatement or disposal-phase material record is expected to exist; the Ecuadorian service period and 1989 scrapping are undocumented in the sources searched.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Study period
- 2026-09-26
- Limitations
- Absence of a located public record does not prove absence of asbestos aboard - a 1943 steam-plant hull is consistent with retained era materials through its U.S. service life and foreign transfer. Does not establish that asbestos is or is not present; does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-enright-apd66-09