Evidence
6 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-6).
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[1]research packet he-packet.md (1 sources cited) [nhhc_danfs]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERDICT: VERIFIED
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-fairfax-dd93-pkt-he-packet-md
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[2]DANFS, Fairfax (DD-93) - specifications block and service narrative (verbatim text recovered via Wayback capture of official NHHC page history.navy.mil/danfs/f1/fairfax.htm; no live NHHC DANFS page located) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS 'Fairfax' entry - namesake paragraph, DD-93 specifications block, service narrative
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS record for this hull: launched 15 December 1917 by Mare Island Navy Yard, sponsored by Mrs. H. George; commissioned 6 April 1918, LCDR S. C. Hooper in command. WWI: Hampton Roads 6 June 1918, convoy escort out of Newport News; departed for Brest escorting a troop convoy 16 October; rescued 86 survivors of torpedoed USS Lucia (NOTS) 18 October; arrived Brest 27 October; escorted George Washington (President Wilson to Peace Conference) from the Azores December 1918; Norfolk 8 January 1919; Azores station for the Navy seaplanes' first aerial Atlantic crossing May 1919. Decommissioned at Philadelphia 19 June 1922, reserve. Recommissioned 1 May 1930: Naval Reserve training Newport/Camden 1930-32, San Diego 1932-33, FDR Presidential Review March 1933, Special Service Squadron (Balboa/Coco Solo) October 1935-March 1937, Annapolis midshipman cruises summers 1935/1937/1938/1939/1940, 1939 World's Fair, Neutrality Patrol. Arrived Halifax 21 November 1940; decommissioned 26 November and transferred to Great Britain under destroyers-for-bases. HMS Richmond commissioned RN 5 December 1940: Western Approaches (Liverpool), Newfoundland Force June-October 1941, Murmansk run February-March 1942, Greenock December 1942-August 1943, Royal Canadian Navy St. John's until December 1943, reserve in the Tyne; transferred to Russian Navy 16 July 1944 as 'Jivoochyi'. Spec block: dp. 1,090; l. 314'5"; b. 31'8"; dr. 9'; s. 35 k.; cpl. 100; a. 4 4", 2 3", 12 21" tt; cl. Wickes.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1917-1944 (DANFS text)
- Population
- Mare Island Navy Yard construction trades 1917-18; WWI and interwar crew (design complement 100); RN/RCN crews 1940-43; Soviet crew 1944-49
- Limitations
- DANFS documents service history and specifications, not materials or asbestos content. Entry ends at the July 1944 Soviet transfer - return (June 1949) and scrapping come from the NHHC photo-history page and secondary compilations (ev-02). DANFS does not state the laid-down date (10 July 1917, secondary sources) or the striking date (8 January 1941, secondary sources) - carried in gaps. No live NHHC DANFS page located; verbatim official text cited via Wayback capture.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-fairfax-dd93-01
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[3]Naval History and Heritage Command, Online Library photo-history page: 'USS Fairfax (Destroyer # 93, later DD-93), 1918-1940' (NHHC content mirrored at ibiblio/HyperWar) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NHHC Online Library, USN Ships photo page for USS Fairfax (Destroyer #93/DD-93), summary paragraphs; photo captions NH 70607, NH 54129
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- NHHC photo-feature record for this hull, corroborating the full service arc including post-DANFS disposition: 1,090-ton Wickes-class destroyer built by Mare Island Navy Yard, California; commissioned April 1918; convoy duty in the Atlantic then Brest approaches from October 1918; postwar East Coast/Caribbean operations including May 1919 Azores support of the NC trans-Atlantic flight; out of commission June 1922-May 1930 at the Philadelphia Navy Yard; Naval Reserve training 1930-33 incl. San Diego 1932-33; Neutrality Patrol from September 1939; decommissioned November 1940 and transferred to the United Kingdom as one of fifty destroyers traded for basing rights; as Richmond served in the British and Canadian Navies as convoy escort until late 1943; six months in reserve; leased to the Soviet Union (renamed Zhyivuchi); returned June 1949 and broken up in Scotland.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1918-1949
- Population
- Crews across three navies 1918-1949
- Limitations
- NHHC photo-feature corroborates service history and final disposition, not materials or asbestos content. Its 'leased to the Soviet Union ... June 1944' wording conflicts with the DANFS 'transferred ... 16 July 1944' - the DANFS date is carried and the phrasing difference logged. Page carries photo captions including the 15 December 1917 Mare Island launch-preparation views.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-fairfax-dd93-02
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[4]Fleischer W.E., Viles F.J. Jr., Gade R.L., Drinker P., 'A Health Survey of Pipe Covering Operations in Constructing Naval Vessels,' J Ind Hyg Toxicol 1946 Jan;28:9-16 (PMID 21016030; U.S. Public Health Service, published by permission of the U.S. Navy) + DANFS DD-93 specifications block + Atlas shipyard dataset 'mare-island-naval-shipyard' (tier 2) [other_primary]
- Locator
- PubMed record PMID 21016030 (bibliographic); DANFS specifications block; shipyards.json 'mare-island-naval-shipyard'/'philadelphia-naval-shipyard' records
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Era/class inference: Fairfax was built 1917-18 at Mare Island Navy Yard to the Wickes-class flush-deck design - four boilers and geared steam turbines on two shafts (DANFS speed figure 35 k; machinery details per class design data). U.S. Navy steam-vessel insulation practice documented for the era cohort: the USPHS/Navy 1946 survey of pipe-covering operations in naval-vessel construction states amosite asbestos felt and pipe covering 'is' an important ingredient of pipe covering on U.S. Navy vessels, with 'much asbestos cloth and asbestos cement' likewise used, and ties the practice to light-weight refractory insulation needs dating to the Washington Treaty construction era. Typical applications for a steam destroyer of this type: boiler and steam-drum insulation, steam-line lagging, valve and flange gaskets, machinery packing, electrical insulation. Builder yard Mare Island Naval Shipyard is a documented asbestos-exposure site in the Atlas shipyard dataset (tier 2), and her 1922-30 layup yard Philadelphia Naval Shipyard is tier 3 - though the yards' dated product records (1965-94 litigation records; 1998 EIS) postdate this hull's construction and layup windows.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1917-1949
- Population
- Mare Island construction trades 1917-18; Philadelphia Navy Yard personnel during 1922-30 layup; engineering crews all periods; breakers at Grangemouth 1949
- Limitations
- Class/era and builder-yard inference only - NOT a hull-specific finding. No primary source documents asbestos installed aboard this hull; the Fleischer survey addresses 1940s construction yards and its Washington-Treaty remark ties documented practice to 1922-onward construction - i.e., after Fairfax's 1917-18 build. As-built vs. refit-era insulation (1922-30 layup, 1940-41 British refit) is indistinguishable in the record. Yard dataset rows document later-era yard products, not this vessel.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-fairfax-dd93-03
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[5]CourtListener API v4 sweeps (authenticated, fleet-paced helper): opinion index queried by exact ship name and hull number; RECAP docket index queried by exact ship name [court_record]
- Locator
- CourtListener API v4 search endpoint results (type=o: 'USS Fairfax' count=2, 'DD-93' count=14; type=r: 'USS Fairfax' count=4)
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- No qualifying asbestos litigation naming this hull located. Opinion index 'USS Fairfax' (2 hits): both Navy-Marine Corps Court of Military Review court-martial opinions (United States v. Schoof, 34 M.J. 811 (1992); United States v. Honeycutt, 6 M.J. 751 (1978)) naming USS FAIRFAX COUNTY (LST-1193), a different and later ship, in non-asbestos drug/UCMJ contexts - name collisions. Opinion index 'DD-93' (14 hits): all identifier collisions on 'DD Form 93' (Record of Emergency Data, the military beneficiary-designation form) in NSLI beneficiary interpleaders, family-court, and UCMJ cases - none names the vessel. Docket index 'USS Fairfax' (4 hits): United States v. Fields (E.D. Okla. criminal), Oaks v. Commissioner of Social Security (E.D. Tenn. SSDI), Kevin Godfrey v. 3M Company (D.S.C. 2:23-cv-00630 - an MDL-2873 AFFF/PFAS member case, non-asbestos product liability), Log Cabin Republicans v. United States (C.D. Cal.) - all other litigation or name collisions; none names DD-93 and none is asbestos litigation.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 2026-09-28 (sweep)
- Limitations
- Sweep covers CourtListener indexed opinions and RECAP dockets only - PACER-level pleading text, state-court filings, and settled/unreported claims are outside its coverage. The 'Fairfax' name is high-collision (USS Fairfax County LST-1193, Fairfax County entities); the one asbestos-adjacent hit (Godfrey v. 3M, D.S.C.) is AFFF/PFAS litigation and any 'Fairfax' reference in it is not attributable to DD-93. Hull-number docket sweep 'DD-93' could not be completed - fleet-pacing throttle (see search_ledger sl-07). Absence of docketed claims does not prove no exposure claims were ever made.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-fairfax-dd93-04
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[6]Batch-3858 search ledger (this record): NHHC DANFS (via Wayback capture of official page); NHHC Online Library photo feature; NavSource DD-93 index; PubMed era literature; CourtListener/PACER ship-name and hull-number sweeps; RN/Soviet secondary service histories (naval-history.net, forposterityssake, uboat.net) [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-fairfax-dd93-01 through sl-uss-fairfax-dd93-10
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located for DD-93: no hull ACM survey, no abatement contract, no museum or custodian hazmat disclosure (the hull was demolished in 1949, predating asbestos survey and regulatory regimes), and no qualifying asbestos case naming the vessel was found in the public sources searched (see search_ledger).
- 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 - the 1917-18 Navy steam-plant construction era is consistent with era-standard asbestos materials, and a hull demolished in 1949 would never have been subject to asbestos survey or abatement documentation. Does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-fairfax-dd93-05