Evidence
7 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-7).
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[1]research packet kn-packet.md (3 sources cited) [other_primary]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERIFIED — real identity: USS Eversole (DE-404), first of two Navy ships of the name
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-eversole-de404-pkt-kn-packet-md
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[2]DANFS, Eversole I (DE-404), Jeremiah D. Foster, 6 June 2019 (NHHC; retrieved via Wayback Machine capture 2025-12-09 - live NHHC page unreachable at access time) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS 'Eversole I (DE-404)' entry: specifications block, namesake biography, and service narrative; commanding-officer table
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS record for this hull: laid down 15 September 1943 at Houston, Texas, by Brown Shipbuilding Co.; launched 3 December 1943, sponsored by Mrs. Sarah R. Eversole, mother of the namesake; commissioned 21 March 1944 at her building yard, Lt. Cmdr. George E. Marix in command. Post-commissioning repairs at Todd's Dry Dock Co., Galveston (26-30 March 1944); shakedown Great Sound, Bermuda (April-10 May); post-shakedown overhaul Boston Navy Yard (12-19 May); escorted transport Arlington with Dennis (DE-405) to Colon (arrived 28 May); Panama Canal transit 29 May; San Diego and Pearl Harbor (arrived 19 June); convoy escort Pearl Harbor-Eniwetok-Majuro (July); screened ComCarDiv 22 escort carriers (Sangamon, Chenango, Suwannee, Santee) to Manus (9-13 August); screened TF 77.1 for Morotai landings (from 15 September); screened TG 77.4.1 through the Battle of Leyte Gulf (23-26 October); after refueling at Leyte, departed after midnight and was torpedoed by Japanese submarine I-45 at approximately 0228 and sunk; 139 wounded survivors recovered by Richard S. Bull (DE-402) screened by Whitehurst (DE-634), which destroyed I-45; stricken from the Navy Register 27 November 1944; two battle stars for WWII service. Specifications block: displacement 1,350; length 306'; beam 36'8"; draft 9'5"; speed 24 knots; complement 186; class John C. Butler.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1943-1944
- Population
- Brown Shipbuilding construction trades 1943-44; Todd's Dry Dock repair workers (Galveston, March 1944); Boston Navy Yard overhaul workers (May 1944); wartime crew (design complement 186)
- Limitations
- DANFS documents service history and specifications, not materials or asbestos content. The narrative sequence (arrived Leyte evening of 28 October, departed just after midnight, torpedoed at approximately 0228) implies a 29 October loss, and its commanding-officer table ends Marix's command 29 October - conflicting with the official USN chronology's 28 October; carried in gaps, not reconciled. Live NHHC page was unreachable at access time (history.navy.mil returned 404 sitewide for DANFS paths); verbatim retrieval via Wayback Machine capture of the canonical URL.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-eversole-de404-01
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[3]United States Naval Chronology, World War II (Naval History Division, Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, Navy Department; GPO, 1955), entry for 28 October 1944 [other_primary]
- Locator
- Chronology entry under '10/28 Sat.' (Leyte area)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Official Navy Department war chronology records for 28 October 1944: 'United States naval vessel sunk: Destroyer escort EVERSOLE (DE-404), by submarine torpedo, Leyte area, P. I., 10 d. 18'N., 127 d. 37'E.' The same chronology block records I-45 sunk that day by destroyer escort Whitehurst (DE-634) at 10 d. 10'N., 127 d. 28'E.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1944-10-28
- Population
- Wartime crew
- Limitations
- Establishes the official casualty date (28 October) and reported sinking position; gives no casualty count and no materials information. The 28 October date conflicts with the 1946 Navy Department release and the DANFS narrative sequence (29 October) - carried in gaps. Position is the reported sinking position, not a surveyed wreck site.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-eversole-de404-02
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[4]Navy Department, Office of Public Information, Ship's Section - 'History of USS Eversole (DE-404)' (release stamped received April 1946; page image hosted by NavSource) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Single-page release, pp. 1-3 (NavSource image 06404wh.jpg, stamped 'San Francisco Public Library APR 18 1946')
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Contemporaneous official Navy public-information release (April 1946) summarizing this hull's history and loss from the commanding officer's account: 'Fatally damaged by a pair of Japanese torpedoes, the USS EVERSOLE (DE 404) was settling to the bottom of the South Pacific when the enemy submarine surfaced to strafe and bomb the surviving personnel.' Loss narrative: hit 'in early morning of October 29, 1944' while steaming out of Leyte Gulf to rejoin her task group; first torpedo struck at 0228, a second about two minutes later; abandoned at 0240; sank within half an hour. 'Seventy-seven men were reported dead and 136 survivors were rescued. Every one of the men saved was injured, three of them dying later.' Rescuer identified in the release as 'USS BULL (DE 693)' with Whitehurst (DE 634) covering and making the hedgehog attacks that sank the submarine. Also confirms: commissioned 21 March 1944, built at Brown Shipbuilding Company, Houston, Texas; christened by Mrs. Sarah R. Eversole.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1944-10 (loss); 1946-04 (publication)
- Population
- Wartime crew at loss: 77 dead, 136 rescued per this release
- Limitations
- A public-affairs summary, not the raw loss report: it reads 'October 29' (vs. the official chronology's 28 October), identifies the rescue ship as 'Bull (DE 693)' (vs. DANFS's Richard S. Bull, DE-402 - a different ship), rounds top speed to 'about 30 knots' (design 24 knots), and gives casualty figures (77 dead / 136 rescued) that differ slightly from the modern DANFS entry (139 survivors). All conflicts are carried in gaps; the release is cited for what it is - the closest-to-event official narrative located. No materials or asbestos content is addressed.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-eversole-de404-03
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[5]DANFS specifications block (John C. Butler class; 24 kt; WGT steam plant) + Atlas class profile john-c-butler-class (BuShips design group 6 block map; Combustion Engineering 'D' express boilers for Brown Shipbuilding hulls DE-402-424) [other_primary]
- Locator
- HyperWar 'Ships of the U.S. Navy 1940-1945: DE-404' data block; class-f worktree john-c-butler-class.class.json (propulsion_summary, member_vessels entry for DE-404)
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Era/class inference: a John C. Butler-class destroyer escort built 1943-44 carried the WGT (geared-turbine) design's full steam plant - 2 'D' express boilers (Combustion Engineering for the Brown Shipbuilding block DE-402-424 per the class profile's block map) and 2 geared steam turbines at 12,000 shp - the machinery configuration that drove period-standard asbestos applications aboard WWII steam escorts: boiler and turbine insulation, steam-line lagging, gaskets and packing, fireproofing, and deck coverings. Brown Shipbuilding Co. (Houston) is not represented in the Atlas shipyard dataset, so unlike sister-yards' records no yard-level corroborating document is carried for the builder.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1943-1944
- Population
- Brown Shipbuilding construction trades 1943-44; crew March-October 1944
- Limitations
- Class/era inference only - NOT a hull-specific finding. No material schedule, General Information Book entry, or hull survey was retrieved for DE-404; whether asbestos-containing material was actually installed aboard this hull is unestablished by any located source. Does not quantify material or establish any individual's exposure.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-eversole-de404-04
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[6]Batch-4304 search ledger (this record): NHHC/DANFS (Wayback retrieval); official USN WWII chronology; 1946 Navy Department release; NVR; NPS; NARA catalog [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-eversole-de404-01 through sl-uss-eversole-de404-07
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record exists for DE-404: the hull was a total war loss in October 1944, seven months after commissioning, leaving no postwar service, museum custody, donation transfer, or scrapping period in which a hull ACM survey or abatement record could have been generated. No hull survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, or wreck-survey record naming this hull was located in authoritative sources.
- 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 almost certainly went down with the hull undocumented; this finding describes the state of the public record only. It does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure (builder-yard trades, repair-yard workers, or the 7-month wartime crew) or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-eversole-de404-05
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[7]NARA Still Pictures holdings cited in DANFS captions (BuShips photographs BS-132125 and BS-132126, Boston Harbor 20 May 1944); commanding officer's war history/loss report per NavSource reference; class-level Navy insulation specification suite (per john-c-butler-class.class.json archival leads: NAVSHIPS 250-000(39), BuShips spec 32F3a 'Felt, Insulating, Asbestos' 1945) [other_primary]
- Locator
- DANFS Eversole I entry photo captions (BS-132125, BS-132126); NavSource DE-404 page war-history link (image 06404wh.jpg); class-f john-c-butler-class.class.json evidence rows
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Archival leads located but not retrieved: (1) NARA Still Pictures Division holds Bureau of Ships photographs BS-132125 and BS-132126 documenting this hull at Boston, 20 May 1944 (cited in DANFS captions); (2) the commanding officer's wartime history/loss report for DE-404 exists as a record (the April 1946 Office of Public Information release at ev-03 is a derived summary quoting Lt. Cmdr. Marix) - NARA RG 19/RG 38 and deck logs (RG 24) are the candidate repositories; (3) at class level, the John C. Butler class profile records Navy insulation-specification leads (NAVSHIPS 250-000(39) Thermal Insulation; spec 32F3a asbestos felt) that would govern this hull's build-era materials if retrieved.
- Verification
- unverified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1944-1946
- Limitations
- Leads only - none of these documents was pulled and none is known to contain hull-level asbestos itemization for DE-404 specifically. Deck logs for a ship sunk in 1944 cover only March-October 1944 and do not address materials content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-eversole-de404-06
