Evidence
6 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-6).
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[1]DANFS, Fair (DE-35) - NHHC live-page text verified via Wayback capture 2025-12-09 (live URL 404s on access date); HyperWar/ibiblio print-edition transcription cross-checked [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS entry 'Fair (DE-35)', namesake paragraph + specifications block + service narrative (Wayback 2025-12-09 capture of history.navy.mil)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS record for this hull: namesake Lieutenant (jg) Victor Norman Fair, Jr., USNR (b. 15 Aug 1921, Lincoln County, N.C.; commissioned ensign 14 Mar 1941; died 9 Sep 1942 of wounds when Gregory (APD-3) was sunk by Japanese gunfire in the Solomons 5 Sep 1942). Specifications block: Evarts class, 1,140 t, 289'5" x 35'1" x 8'3", 21 kt, cpl. 156, 3x 3-inch guns. Launched 27 Jul 1943 by Mare Island Navy Yard, sponsored by Mrs. V. N. Fair, Jr. (the namesake's widow); commissioned 23 Oct 1943, Lt. D. S. Crocker USNR. Pacific service: convoy San Francisco-Pearl Harbor (arrived 9 Jan 1944); antisubmarine patrol off Tarawa; with Charrette (DD-581) sank a submarine the DANFS corpus identifies as I-21 in the early morning of 5 Feb 1944; Majuro patrol/escort 5 Mar-12 Jun; screened oilers fueling fleet units off the Marianas during the Saipan assault; Eniwetok patrol 1-14 Jul; logistics screen for Tinian and Guam; Pearl Harbor overhaul from 31 Aug; Eniwetok-Ulithi convoys until 19 Jan 1945; Eniwetok-Manus-Guam-Guadalcanal until 24 Mar; departed Ulithi 27 Mar guarding an LST convoy; Kerama Retto after the 1 Apr assault; fired on the 6 Apr kamikaze wave off Okinawa, splashing one; Chimu Wan patrol until 12 May; ten-day transport-area screen against aircraft and suicide boats; Saipan-Guam convoy; Okinawa local escort from 10 Jun; cleared Okinawa 5 Jul 1945. Decommissioned at Portland, Oreg., 17 Nov 1945; transferred to the Army 20 May 1947. Five battle stars for World War II service.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1943-1947
- Population
- Mare Island Navy Yard construction trades 1943; wartime crew (design complement 156 per DANFS spec block)
- Limitations
- DANFS documents service history and specifications, not materials or asbestos content. The live NHHC page corrects the print edition's year typos (reads 1945 where the HyperWar print transcription reads 1946 for the Jan-Mar and July events) but retains the 'I-21' submarine identification that modern compilations give as I-175 - carried in gaps. Mirror transcription at https://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USN/ships/dafs/DE/de35.html contains the original print-edition typos and a spec block mislabeled 'DE-36' with different beam/length figures.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-fair-de35-01
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[2]Bureau of Ships, 'Ships' Data, U.S. Naval Vessels, 1945' Vol. I (NAVSHIPS 250-010, letter of promulgation 15 April 1945, declassified), destroyer-escort roster row 109 (book pp. 244-245) [other_primary]
- Locator
- SDB1945v1.pdf PDF p. 132 = book pp. 244-245, 'DESTROYER-ESCORT VESSELS (DE)' roster, row 109
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Official BuShips roster row for this hull: 'Fair ... DE35', group design GMT; builder 'Navy Yard, Mare Island'; contract price of hull and machinery $1,649,400; contract signed Nov. 1, 1941; keel laid Feb. 24, 1943; ship launched July 27, 1943; date of first commission Oct. 23, 1943. Confirms the GMT (General Motors tandem-motor diesel-electric) design group assignment and the Mare Island build from an official 1945 Navy program roster.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1941-1943 (contract and build); 1945 edition
- Population
- Mare Island Navy Yard construction trades 1943
- Limitations
- Roster records 1945 program-state design group, builder, contract, and build dates - not materials or asbestos content. Two-up confidential-era scan (shipscribe.com); row read and cross-verified across the facing-page halves of book pp. 244-245 (PDF p. 132). Contract-signed ditto ('----do----') resolves to Nov. 1, 1941 per the Evarts (DE-5) row above it.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-fair-de35-02
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[3]HyperWar DE-35 ship-data sheet (Evarts class: diesel-electric tandem-motor drive, 6,000 h.p.; complement 15 officers/183 enlisted) + Atlas shipyard dataset, Mare Island Naval Shipyard record (documented asbestos products and era litigation at yard level) [other_primary]
- Locator
- HyperWar DE-35 data sheet specs block; shipyards.json record 'mare-island-naval-shipyard'
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Era/yard inference: an Evarts-class (GMT design group) destroyer escort built in 1943 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 boiler or steam-line lagging, because the GMT plant has no boilers or steam system. Builder Mare Island Naval Shipyard is documented at yard level in the Atlas dataset (asbestos-era products incl. Unibestos, Marinite, Kaylo, pump/valve packing, gaskets; Collins v. Plant Insulation Co. litigation involving a Mare Island welder; WWII peak employment 46,000). NARA RG 19 (Bureau of Ships) 'General Information Books' per-vessel material specifications are the archival lead for hull-level specs - not retrieved.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1943-1945
- Population
- Mare Island Navy Yard construction trades 1943 (yard level); crew 1943-1945
- Limitations
- Class/era and builder-yard inference only - NOT a hull-specific finding: no source names DE-35 for any asbestos material. The diesel-electric plant means the largest asbestos categories of steam ships (boiler and steam-line lagging) do not apply; does not quantify material, locate it aboard, or establish any individual's exposure. Yard-level documentation concerns the shipyard's workers and products, not this hull.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-fair-de35-03
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[4]NARA catalog file unit 'Fair (DE-35), 10/23/43-11/17/45' (National Archives Identifier 127356533), Navy muster-roll series, microfilm roll 1524, National Archives at College Park; digitized via Ancestry partnership [other_primary]
- Locator
- catalog.archives.gov id/127356533; microfilm roll 1524; digital objects include muster-roll images dated 23 Oct 1943 and 31 Dec 1943
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- NARA holds digitized muster rolls for this hull covering its entire commission period (Oct 1943 - Nov 1945): ship-specific crew-name rosters scanned from microfilm roll 1524 via the NARA-Ancestry partnership and freely viewable in the National Archives Catalog. WWII-era deck logs for this hull are not among NARA's digitized holdings (digitization has prioritized the Vietnam-era logs).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1943-10-23 to 1945-11-17
- Population
- All hands aboard DE-35, 1943-1945 (roster-level documentation)
- Limitations
- Muster rolls document crew assignments by name and date - personnel records, not materials or asbestos records. Useful for corroborating an individual's service aboard this hull; contains no asbestos information.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-fair-de35-04
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[5]Batch-4253 search ledger (this record): DANFS (live NHHC via Wayback + HyperWar transcription); BuShips Ships' Data 1945 Vol. I roster; NARA catalog (muster rolls, deck logs); Atlas shipyard dataset; web-index litigation leads; CourtListener sweep status as recorded in search_ledger [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-fair-de35-01 through sl-uss-fair-de35-10
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located for DE-35: no hull ACM survey, no abatement contract, no custodial or museum hazmat disclosure (the hull no longer exists - scrapped), and no asbestos case naming the vessel was located in the sources searched. Law-firm marketing list pages naming DE-35 exist (asbestos-ships.com, Shepard O'Donnell, mesotheliomahelp.org, freeasbestostesting.com) but carry only generic boilerplate with no ship-specific documentation - excluded as non-authoritative.
- 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 consistent with the class inference may have been present throughout the hull's 1943-1945 service and 1947-49 disposal. Does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-fair-de35-05
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[6]CourtListener API v4 authenticated searches (type=o opinions; type=r docket sweep attempted), 2026-09-28 [court_record]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-fair-de35-07 and sl-uss-fair-de35-08
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- No qualifying asbestos litigation naming USS Fair / DE-35 located. 'USS Fair' opinion sweep returned 1 hit, resolved as a name collision: United States v. Schoof, 34 M.J. 811 (N.-M. Ct. Mil. Rev. 1992) - an attempted-espionage court-martial in which the vessel named is USS FAIRFAX COUNTY (LST-1193), matched by tokenizer on 'USS FAIR-'; the hull searched here was scrapped by 1949 and the case is military justice, not asbestos. 'USS Fair' docket sweep (type=r) returned 0 hits. 'DE-35' opinion sweep returned 326 loose-relevance hits dominated by 'DE 35' docket-entry strings - the first page reviewed consists entirely of identifier collisions in unrelated litigation. The asbestos-qualified 'DE-35' opinion query returned 3 hits, all unrelated: TIG Insurance v. City of Elkhart (insurance dispute over a civil-rights settlement), Escobar v. Crosby (civil rights), and Valbruna Slater Steel Corp. v. Joslyn Manufacturing (CERCLA cost recovery) - 'DE-35' appears in each as docket-entry text, not as a vessel reference.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 2026-09-28
- Limitations
- Litigation coverage is limited to CourtListener-indexed state/federal opinions and federal dockets; unindexed state trial-court filings, settled MDL-875 claimant records, and non-US proceedings are not covered. The 'DE-35' raw sweep's 326 loose hits were screened at the first page only, though the asbestos-qualified query returned no vessel hit. No search proves the absence of all possible litigation.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-fair-de35-06