Evidence
10 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-10).
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[1]research packet crew-fi-packet.md (11 sources cited) [other_primary]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERIFIED
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-evans-dd552-pkt-crew-fi-packet-md
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[2]DANFS, Evans II (DD-552), NHHC (page stamp 'Published: Mon Nov 20 2023'; live URL returns 404 to automated fetchers - content via Wayback capture 20250202183730; verbatim transcription also at hazegray.org/danfs/destroy/dd552txt.htm via Wayback capture 20250421092721) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS entry, specifications block + service narrative (Wayback capture of canonical NHHC URL)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS record for this hull (spec block: dp. 2,050; l. 376'6"; b. 39'8"; dr. 17'9"; s. 35 k.; cpl. 273; a. 5 5", 10 21" tt., 6 dcp., 2 dct.; cl. Fletcher): second ship named for Rear Adm. Robley D. Evans; launched 4 October 1942 by Gulf Shipbuilding Co., Chickasaw, Ala., sponsored by Mrs. C. E. Isherwood; commissioned 11 December 1943, Cmdr. F. C. Camp in command; Majuro 29 March 1944; Marshalls antisubmarine patrols to 13 May; screened fueling/aircraft-replacement groups for the Saipan assault from 15 June and through the Marianas; Palaus from 26 August; Ulithi patrol/escort through 11 January 1945; Yap submarine-hunt/bombardment 11-13 January; Iwo Jima landings 19 February, bombardment and escort-carrier screen to 8 March; Okinawa escort-carrier screen from 21 March through the 1 April assault to 2 May; radar picket station with Hugh W. Hadley (DD-774) 10-11 May - more than a hundred aircraft attacked; four kamikazes struck; after engineering spaces flooded, power lost; crew saved the ship with portable extinguishers and bucket brigades, 32 killed and 27 wounded; towed to Kerama Retto 14 May; Presidential Unit Citation; towed to San Francisco and decommissioned 7 November 1945; sold 11 February 1947; five battle stars plus the PUC.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1941-1947
- Population
- Gulf Shipbuilding construction trades 1941-43; wartime crew (design complement 273); 32 killed, 27 wounded 11 May 1945
- Limitations
- DANFS documents service history, specifications, builder, and disposal dates - not materials or asbestos content. The entry omits a laid-down date and a striking date; both are carried from secondary compilations and logged in gaps. Live NHHC page returns 404 to automated fetchers (standing Batch-01 link-rot note); Wayback capture and verbatim hazegray transcription used.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-evans-dd552-01
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[3]NHHC Online Library of Selected Images, 'USS Evans (DD-552), 1943-1947' (Naval Historical Center photo record; ibiblio HyperWar mirror, page made 20 May 2003) [museum_official]
- Locator
- NHHC Online Library DD-552 page, narrative + photo captions 80-G-331077 et al.
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Official photo record for this hull: describes 'a 2050-ton Fletcher class destroyer built at Chickasaw, Alabama, ... commissioned in December 1943,' summarizes Marshalls patrol, Marianas and Palaus fueling-group escort, Yap bombardment, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa escort-carrier screening; records that on radar picket duty 10-11 May 1945 with Hugh W. Hadley 'she was the target of attacks by more than a hundred enemy aircraft,' took four kamikaze hits, and lost 32 men with 'nearly as many ... wounded'; states 'the end of the Second World War dictated that neither Evans nor Hugh W. Hadley were repaired,' decommissioned November 1945, sold for scrapping February 1947; both destroyer crews received Presidential Unit Citations. Photo 80-G-331077 shows casualties transferred aboard PCER-855 from Ringness (APD-100); captions name Cmdr. Robert J. Archer as commanding officer at Kerama Retto 17 May 1945; NARA-held views 80-G-204640 (22 December 1943, NAS Pensacola), 80-G-264260, 80-G-263742, and damage views 80-G-331019 through -331023 are listed.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1943-1947
- Population
- Wartime crew; casualties aboard PCER-855; Cmdr. Robert J. Archer (CO at Kerama Retto, May 1945)
- Limitations
- Official photo captions document construction, service, battle damage, casualty transfer, and the decision not to repair - not materials or asbestos content. No data-plate or engineering-space material photograph is listed for this hull.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-evans-dd552-02
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[4]Bureau of Ships, Preliminary Design Section, 'Destroyer Report: Gunfire, Bomb and Kamikaze Damage, Including Losses in Action, 17 October 1941 to 15 August 1945,' War Damage Report No. 51, Navy Department, 25 January 1947 (HyperWar/ibiblio transcription of official BuShips publication) [other_primary]
- Locator
- WDR-51 para. 2-67 (boiler-explosion discussion) and Section XII paras. 12-1, 12-2, 12-10, 12-11 (Hadley case narrative naming Evans)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Official BuShips engineering analysis names this hull: para. 2-67 - 'Several destroyers, including EVANS (DD552), GANSEVOORT (DD608) and BROWNSON, after suffering severe damage in way of a fireroom, have reported boiler explosions' (though no substantiated express-boiler explosion exists in Navy experience); Section XII (Hugh W. Hadley case) - 'HUGH W. HADLEY with EVANS (DD552) participated in a notable engagement with Japanese aircraft on 11 May 1945 while on radar picket duty northwest of Okinawa ... approximately 100 enemy planes were destroyed ... Both destroyers were severely damaged and immobilized by Kamikaze attacks'; EVANS reported narrowly avoiding a torpedo about 20 minutes before HADLEY was disabled and 'identified among her attackers ZEKE, VAL, OSCAR, JILL, KATE and TONY.' Documents fireroom/engineering-space battle damage to this hull.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1945 (report published 1947)
- Population
- Wartime crew in engineering spaces, 11 May 1945
- Limitations
- BuShips damage analysis documents battle damage to this hull's fireroom/engineering spaces - the shipboard areas that carried era-standard insulated fit - but never addresses insulation materials or asbestos content. Relevance is confined to establishing that the hull's engineering spaces were breached, flooded, and burned on 11 May 1945.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-evans-dd552-03
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[5]NARA 12th Naval District holdings index (usnavyresearch.com, private digitization vendor): 'USS EVANS DD552 War Damage Report, Okinawa, 11 May 1945, typed by Mare Island, eighty-five (85) photographs, two (2) plates' [other_primary]
- Locator
- usnavyresearch.com, 'War Damage Reports 12th Naval District, A-E,' line item 65 (USS EVANS DD552)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- A ship-specific Navy war damage report for this hull exists in NARA 12th Naval District records: an 85-photograph, 2-plate damage report on the 11 May 1945 Okinawa action, prepared ('typed') by Mare Island - consistent with the hull being towed to San Francisco and surveyed at Mare Island Naval Shipyard during July-November 1945 inactivation. Report content not retrieved; a damage survey of this kind typically itemizes damaged structure, machinery, and fittings and is the most likely ship-specific primary document on the hull's material condition.
- Verification
- unverified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1945
- Population
- Repair-survey personnel, Mare Island / 12th Naval District, 1945
- Limitations
- Holdings index is a private vendor's catalog of NARA records, not the document itself; the report's existence, scope, and preparing activity are taken from the index and remain unverified against the report text. Whether it contains insulation/asbestos-relevant detail is unknown. Mare Island berthing corroborated only by a Tin Can Sailors veteran memoir (secondary).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-evans-dd552-04
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[6]DANFS specifications block (Fletcher class; 35 kt; cpl. 273) + NavSource DD-552 building-data block ('Machinery, 60,000 SHP; Westinghouse Turbines, 2 screws; Speed, 38 Knots') + Atlas shipyard dataset + NPS NRHP 04000924 + Fletcher-class profile [other_primary]
- Locator
- DANFS spec block; NavSource DD-552 building data; shipyards.json (37 slugs - no gulf-shipbuilding entry); npgallery.nps.gov/AssetDetail/NRIS/04000924
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Era/yard inference: a Fletcher-class destroyer built 1941-43 at Gulf Shipbuilding Corp., Chickasaw, Alabama, with the class-standard plant (4 Babcock & Wilcox boilers; 2-shaft geared steam turbines; 60,000 shp - NavSource attributes Westinghouse turbines to this hull; class profile/BuShips Ships' Data 1945 records GE sets as class design) would have carried period-standard asbestos insulation, lagging, gaskets, packing, fireproofing, and deck coverings. The builder yard is documented at site level by NPS NRHP listing 04000924 (Chickasaw Shipyard Village Historic District, significance areas COMMUNITY PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT, INDUSTRY; significant years 1918-1922, period of significance through 1949 - covering the Gulf Shipbuilding era) but Gulf Shipbuilding is absent from the Atlas yard dataset and has no asbestos-specific record located. NARA RG19 'General Information Books' per-vessel material specifications are an archival lead for hull-level specs.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1941-1947
- Population
- Gulf Shipbuilding construction trades 1941-43; crew 1943-45
- Limitations
- Class/era and builder-yard inference only - NOT a hull-specific finding. Turbine maker for this hull is a secondary-source attribution (NavSource). The NRHP district documents the yard site, not hull materials. No bill of material, hull survey, or sampling study exists for DD-552. NARA GIB retrieval not performed.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-evans-dd552-05
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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 that the Navy used asbestos insulation extensively aboard ships and did not begin substituting alternative insulation materials until the early 1970s - placing this 1941-43-built hull (in commission December 1943 - November 1945, stricken November 1945, scrapped after February 1947) entirely inside the documented asbestos-use era, and entirely before the program era that would have generated survey or abatement records.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- context_only
- 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 - standing Batch-01 note) - content via product-page description.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-evans-dd552-06
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[8]NPS National Register of Historic Places, 'Chickasaw Shipyard Village Historic District,' NRIS 04000924, listed 3 September 2004 (Mobile County, Ala.; bounded by Jefferson St., Jackson St., Yeend Ave., and Chickasaw Creek, Chickasaw; 1,200 acres) [nps]
- Locator
- NPGallery asset page NRIS 04000924 (metadata, period/areas of significance)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- NPS documents the site where this hull was built: the Chickasaw shipyard district - begun in World War I by Tennessee Coal & Iron, acquired and expanded by Gulf Shipbuilding Corporation for World War II production - with significance areas including INDUSTRY and COMMUNITY PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT and a period of significance running through 1949, encompassing DD-552's 1941-43 construction. The registration form is held in NPGallery (assets 3113cac7-60e0-41e7-806e-7cec84027780 and e1581908-3e58-40a2-83f5-90570c5ad78b).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1917-1949; NRHP listing 2004
- Population
- Chickasaw shipyard workforce and village residents, 1917-1949
- Limitations
- Yard-site documentation only - NOT a hull record. The district nomination concerns the shipyard village's planning and industrial significance; it contains no hull-specific material data and makes no asbestos finding. Registration form is an image-scanned PDF; metadata and district description verified via NPS NRIS asset page and Federal Register listing notice (69 FR 51711 area, pending list 20 August 2004).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-evans-dd552-07
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[9]CourtListener API v4 opinion search for 'USS Evans': King v. United States, 19 Cl. Ct. 703 (1990); United States v. Boehm, 17 C.M.A. 530 (1968); 'DD-552' opinion query: no result [court_record]
- Locator
- CourtListener API v4 type=o results for 'USS Evans' (count 2) and 'DD-552' (count 0)
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- CourtListener sweep: the 'USS Evans' opinion index returns 2 hits, both non-qualifying name collisions - King v. United States (Cl. Ct. 1990, Navy personnel/BCNR promotion-retirement dispute; vessel reference incidental to service history) and United States v. Boehm (C.M.A. 1968, court-martial; any vessel reference incidental). Neither is asbestos litigation and neither is attributable to DD-552. The 'DD-552' hull-number opinion query returned no result. No qualifying asbestos litigation naming this hull was located in the opinion index. Docket-index (type=r) and remaining hull-number docket queries were blocked by the fleet pacing budget at research time - logged in the search ledger.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- correction
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 2026-09-27 sweep; opinions dated 1968 and 1990
- Limitations
- Opinion-index hits fully classified as non-qualifying collisions. Docket-index and hull-number docket queries incomplete at research time (fleet pacing budget); the no-qualifying-litigation finding is conditional on those sweeps. Collision discipline: 'Evans' is a common surname and three other commissioned USN hulls bore Evans names overlapping in litigation-relevant eras - DD-78 (1918-1940, to UK), Frank E. Evans DD-754 (1945-1969), and Evans DE-1023 (1957-1968); postwar 'USS Evans' allegations are more likely referable to DD-754 or DE-1023, and bare-name hits require hull attribution. DD-552's service ended 7 November 1945.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-evans-dd552-08
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[10]Batch-3523 search ledger (this record): NHHC DANFS (live/Wayback), hazegray transcription, NHHC Online Library captions, BuShips WDR-51, NavSource building data, NPS NRHP 04000924, Atlas shipyard dataset, usnavyresearch.com 12th ND WDR index, Tin Can Sailors memoir, open-web sweep, CourtListener via cl-auth-search.py [other_primary]
- Locator
- this record, search_ledger
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located for DD-552: no hull ACM survey, abatement contract, sampling study, hazmat disclosure, or museum documentation exists in the sources searched; the hull was stricken November 1945 and scrapped after sale February 1947, decades before the Navy's documented asbestos-control program era, so no abatement-era record was ever generated and no museum/survey phase exists. The ship-specific records located (DANFS, NHHC photo captions, BuShips WDR-51, NARA damage-report holdings index) document construction, service, battle damage, and disposal - not materials or asbestos content. CourtListener opinion sweep complete: 2 non-asbestos name collisions, no qualifying case; docket sweeps blocked at research time (fleet pacing) and logged.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Limitations
- Absence of a located public record does not prove absence of asbestos aboard - a 1941-43 steam destroyer of this class would be expected to carry era-standard insulated fit (ev-05), but that expectation is inference, not documentation. Unindexed dockets, unreported settlements, and state-court matters are not excluded by a negative sweep. The scrapping-era yard that dismantled the hull (buyer J.C. Beckwit per secondary source; yard unidentified) would hold the only likely remaining exposure-event documentation - not retrieved.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-evans-dd552-09