Evidence
8 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-8).
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[1]research packet kb-packet.md (1 sources cited) [other_primary]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERIFIED (mirror-sourced).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Limitations
- qualifier: VERIFIED (mirror-sourced).
- Evidence ID
- uss-falgout-de324-pkt-kb-packet-md
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[2]DANFS, Falgout (DE-324) (namesake, builder, dates, service narrative, striking and disposal bracketed note; verbatim transcription - live NHHC page serves 404) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS entry, namesake biography + specifications block + service narrative + bracketed disposition note
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS record for this hull: named for Seaman Second Class George Irvin Falgout (b. 1922 Raceland, La.; KIA 12 November 1942 aboard USS San Francisco CA-38 in the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal; posthumous Navy Cross). Spec block: Edsall class; 1,200 tons, 306', beam 36'7", draft 8'7", 21 kt, complement 186, three 3"/50, 8 depth-charge projectors, hedgehog, 2 depth-charge tracks. Launched 24 July 1943 by Consolidated Steel Corp., Ltd., Orange, Tex.; sponsored by Mrs. H. J. Guidry, sister of the namesake; commissioned 15 November 1943, Lt. Cmdr. H. A. Meyer, USCG, in command (Coast Guard-manned). Rescued 11 survivors of torpedoed tanker SS Touchet 4 December 1943; Bermuda shakedown; eight Atlantic convoy-escort voyages Norfolk/New York to North African ports 3 February 1944 - 2 June 1945. On 20 April 1944 her Mediterranean convoy came under heavy German air attack - an ammunition ship blown up and a destroyer sunk (the convoy is identifiable as UGS-38 and the ships as SS Paul Hamilton and USS Lansdale DD-426 per the DANFS Lansdale entry); Falgout screened the convoy on to Bizerte. On the homeward passage one escort was torpedoed 3 May and another torpedoed and sunk 5 May (secondary accounts identify USS Menges DE-320 and USS Fechteler DE-157 - not named in DANFS); Falgout brought the convoy home without losing a merchantman; captured four downed German aviators on the third voyage. Balboa, C.Z., 26 June - 13 December 1945 (goodwill visits, submarine training); Charleston; Green Cove Springs reserve berthing; in commission in reserve 9 May 1946; out of commission in reserve 18 April 1947. On loan to the Coast Guard 24 August 1951 - 21 May 1954, in commission as ocean station vessel WDE-424 out of Tacoma, Wash. Reclassified DER-324 28 October 1954; converted to radar picket escort; recommissioned 30 June 1955, Lt. Cmdr. Walter P. Smiley in command; Seattle-based radar picket, Continental Air Defense Command Early Warning System; based at Pearl Harbor from 19 March 1959, Pacific Barrier. [Bracketed note: struck from the Navy list 1 June 1975; sunk as a target off Southern California 12 January 1977.] One battle star for World War II service.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1943-1977
- Population
- Consolidated Steel construction trades 1943; Coast Guard-manned wartime crew 1943-47; USCG ocean-station crew 1951-54; USN crew 1955-69 (design complement 186)
- Limitations
- DANFS documents service history and specifications, not materials or asbestos content. The published DANFS narrative stops at 1962 (written before the ship's 1966-69 Vietnam Market Time rotations and 1969 decommissioning); post-1962 service is corroborated by ev-02/ev-03/ev-04. Mirror transcription cited because the live NHHC page returns 404. The UGS-38 convoy identification rests on cross-referencing DANFS entries (Lansdale DD-426), not on the Falgout entry itself.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-falgout-de324-01
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[3]Command History, USS Passumpsic (AO-107), Calendar Year 1968 (OPNAV Report 5750-1), hosted at history.navy.mil (NHHC command-operation-reports archive, Vietnam section) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Passumpsic AO-107 CY1968 command history, chronological-history log pp.2-4 of PDF (January day 17 and February day 4 UNREP entries)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Primary command-history record naming this hull in Vietnam service: the USS Passumpsic (AO-107) CY-1968 command history's chronological log records underway replenishment of 'USS FALGOUT (DER 324)' on 17 January 1968 (with USS Chandler DD-717 and USS Impervious MSO-449) and again on 4 February 1968 (with USS Inflect MSO-456, USS Evans DD-754, USCGC Winnebago WHEC-67, USS Jamestown AGTR-3, USS Impervious MSO-449), immediately following the log entry 'Enroute Market Time Operations Area to provide combat support' - corroborating Falgout's documented 1966-1969 Operation Market Time rotations off Vietnam (Vietnam Service Medal with seven stars per NavSource ribbon display).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1968-01 to 1968-02 (documented events); 1966-1969 (Market Time window)
- Population
- USN crew aboard DER-324, Market Time patrol stations, early 1968
- Limitations
- Documents this hull operating with Market Time (TF 115) units in early 1968; does not document aboard materials, asbestos content, or exposure. OCR of the scanned PDF is noisy; day/month attribution (17 January and 4 February 1968) follows the log's month pagination. The 1966-69 Market Time window and TEE SHOT V mother-ship detail (Qui Nhon Bay) rest on secondary compilation, not this primary document.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-falgout-de324-02
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[4]U.S. Coast Guard Historian's Office, 'The Long Blue Line: Ocean Station - Coast Guard's support for the Korean War 70 years ago!' (history.uscg.mil) + USCG cutter index entry 'FALGOUT (1951-USCG) DE-324; WDE-424' [other_primary]
- Locator
- history.uscg.mil Long Blue Line article (ocean station DE-conversion paragraph); USCG cutter index (webcutters list)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Official USCG historical publication documenting this hull's Coast Guard period: when the Navy transferred destroyer escorts for ocean-station duty during the Korean War buildup, 'The first ex-DEs to join the fleet were CGC Koiner and CGC Falgout'; the cutters were re-armed with depth-charge racks and antiaircraft guns and retrofitted with a stern shelter for weather-balloon storage before shakedown under Navy supervision. The USCG Historian's cutter index lists this vessel as 'FALGOUT (1951-USCG) DE-324; WDE-424' - consistent with DANFS's loan dates (24 August 1951 - 21 May 1954) and Tacoma homeport.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1951-1954
- Population
- USCG crew, ocean-station service out of Tacoma 1951-54
- Limitations
- Documents the loan program and this hull's place in it (first two conversions with Koiner); does not document materials disturbed or installed during the re-arming/retrofit, asbestos content, or crew exposure. The USCG site's image-tag index also renders the hull as 'WDE-324' in some views - the WDE-424 designation is carried per DANFS and the USCG cutter index text; discrepancy logged in gaps.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-falgout-de324-03
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[5]U.S. Navy, Flag Officer Biographies: Vice Admiral Samuel Gravely Jr. (navy.mil BioDisplay) [other_primary]
- Locator
- navy.mil BioDisplay article 2236270 (assignments paragraph)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Official Navy biography confirms the command assignment: Vice Admiral Samuel L. Gravely Jr., the first African-American admiral, 'was the commanding officer of the USS Falgout (DER-324)' - secondary compilations (NavSource) date the tour 31 January 1962 - 7 June 1963, during the hull's Pearl Harbor-based Pacific Barrier period.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1962-1963
- Population
- USN crew under Cmdr. Gravely, 1962-63 (dates per secondary compilation)
- Limitations
- Documents a personnel assignment, not materials or asbestos. Command dates come from secondary compilation; the official bio confirms the command without dates. No bearing on exposure documentation.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-falgout-de324-04
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[6]HyperWar 'Ships of the U.S. Navy, 1940-1945' DE-324 spec block (Edsall class: geared Fairbanks-Morse diesel drive, twin screws) + DANFS spec block + NavSource DE-324 building/operational data (conversion and inactivation at Mare Island NSY) + Atlas shipyard dataset, mare-island-naval-shipyard record (tier 2, documented ACM products) [other_primary]
- Locator
- HyperWar DE-324 spec block (propulsion line); NavSource building/operational data (1954-55 conversion, 1969 decommissioning lines); shipyards.json record 'mare-island-naval-shipyard' (Consolidated Steel absent - see gaps)
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Era inference narrowed by plant type: DE-324 is diesel - four Fairbanks-Morse geared diesels (FMR design) plus diesel generators, no propulsion boilers or steam system - so the boiler/steam-lagging categories that dominate steam-ship asbestos profiles do not apply. Era inference is limited to exhaust/engine insulation, gaskets and packing, electrical insulation, brake/clutch linings, and deck coverings. NavSource's compiled building/operational data additionally carries the laid-down date (24 May 1943) that DANFS omits, the conversion site (Mare Island NSY), and the 10 October 1969 inactivation site (Mare Island NSY / Naval Ship Inactive Maintenance Facility). Two ship-specific yard events add context: the 1954-55 DER conversion and the 1969 inactivation were both performed at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, a yard with documented asbestos product use in the Atlas dataset (Unibestos, Marinite, Transite, Kaylo, Careytemp, packing/gaskets); the conversion's material scope on this hull is not documented. Builder Consolidated Steel Corp., Orange, Tex. is NOT in the Atlas shipyards.json dataset, so no yard-level asbestos documentation attaches to the 1943 construction period.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1943-1969
- Population
- Consolidated Steel construction trades 1943; Mare Island NSY conversion workforce 1954-55 and inactivation workforce 1969; engine-room crew all periods
- Limitations
- Class/era inference only - NOT a hull-specific finding. The diesel plant narrows rather than eliminates inferred categories; whether conversion yard work disturbed or added ACM aboard is undocumented; does not quantify material or establish any individual's exposure. Mare Island yard documentation is yard-level, not hull-level.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-falgout-de324-05
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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 the Navy's extensive shipboard asbestos insulation use with substitution not beginning until the early 1970s - this hull's 1943 construction and all commissioned service periods (1943-47, 1951-54 USCG, 1955-69) fall inside the documented asbestos-use era, as does the 1954-55 conversion at Mare Island Naval Shipyard.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1979 (report); era reviewed WWII-1970s
- Population
- Navy shipyard workers (program level)
- Limitations
- Program-level era context only; does not name this hull or any vessel. Full text not retrieved (gao.gov returns HTTP 403 to automated fetch); content via product-page description - same standing limitation as prior batches.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-falgout-de324-06
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[8]Batch-4226 search ledger (this record): NHHC/DANFS transcription; HyperWar 'Ships of the U.S. Navy' spec block; NavSource photo archive (via Wayback); USCG Historian's Office; navy.mil flag bio; NHHC-hosted Passumpsic CY1968 command history; NARA deck-log series lead; CourtListener exact-name and hull-number queries [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-falgout-de324-01 through sl-uss-falgout-de324-19
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located for DE-324: no hull ACM survey, no abatement or hazmat disclosure for any custody period (USN 1943-47/1955-69, USCG 1951-54, reserve fleets, disposal), and no qualifying asbestos litigation naming USS Falgout, DE-324, or DER-324 in CourtListener searches (hits classified in the search ledger; 'Falgout' is a common Louisiana surname generating extensive name collisions). Hull sunk as a target 1977 - no surviving-hull survey path exists.
- 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 during 1943-77 service - era materials are consistent with the design's documented equipment but not ship-proven. Does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility. Coast Guard-custody (1951-54) and disposal-period (1969-77) material records were not located in U.S. sources.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-falgout-de324-07