Evidence
8 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-8).
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[1]research packet jl-packet.md (6 sources cited) [other_primary]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERIFIED
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-fanning-dd385-pkt-jl-packet-md
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[2]DANFS/NHHC, 'Fanning II (DD-385)' updated entry (published 2017-11-16). Canonical URL https://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/f/fanning-ii.html returns 404 - verbatim text verified via Wayback capture 2025-02-01 (cited URL) and HyperWar/ibiblio transcription of the earlier DANFS edition [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS entry, specifications block + full service narrative + disposal paragraph (NHHC 'Fanning II (DD-385)', published 2017-11-16)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Official NHHC DANFS record for this hull: spec block reads displacement 1,490, length 341'2", beam 35'5", draft 17'2", speed 35 knots, complement 158, armament 5 5-inch and 12 21-inch torpedo tubes, class Dunlap. Laid down 10 April 1935 at Staten Island, N.Y., by United Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Corp.; launched 18 September 1936, sponsored by Miss Cora A. Marsh (great-great granddaughter of Lt. Fanning); commissioned at the New York Navy Yard, Brooklyn, 8 October 1937, Lt. Cmdr. Ellis H. Geiselman in command. At sea with TF 8 returning from Wake Island on 7 December 1941; Wake relief expedition; mid-January 1942 collision with Gridley (DD-380) in a rainstorm en route Tutuila - emergency repairs at Pago Pago, then 'returned to Pearl Harbor where her bow was restored'; TF 16 escort on the Doolittle raid (sailed 8 April 1942, returned 25 April); San Francisco repairs mid-1942; TF 11 Solomons/Guadalcanal late 1942-43; Russell Islands 20-25 February 1943; San Francisco overhaul from late September 1943; Aleutians; TG 58.4 Marshalls January 1944; detached to the Combined Far Eastern Fleet March-May 1944 (Saratoga/Illustrious strikes on Sabang 19 April and Soerabaja 17 May); escorted Baltimore (CA-68) carrying President Roosevelt to Adak and Kodiak July-August 1944; TG 30.2/TG 38.1 Marcus Island, Luzon, Leyte support and San Bernardino Strait action October 1944; TG 30.2 Iwo Jima assaults from 11-12 November, radar picket duty, 5 January 1945 strike sinking a small freighter that attempted to ram; teamed with Dunlap 24 January 1945 sinking three small cargo ships; radar picket/air rescue through 22 March; patrol and escort Eniwetok/Iwo Jima/Guam to war's end. Departed for the United States 19 September 1945, arriving Galveston, Tex., 23 October 1945; placed out of commission at Norfolk, Va., 14 December 1945; stricken from the Naval Register 28 January 1947; sold to Boston Metals Co., Baltimore, Md., the purchaser accepting custody at Claremont, Va., 6 January 1948; scrapped 24 February 1948. Four battle stars for World War II service.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1935-1948
- Population
- United Shipbuilding construction trades 1935-37; wartime crew (design complement 158)
- Limitations
- DANFS documents identity, service history, and disposal - not materials or asbestos content. The earlier DANFS transcription (HyperWar/ibiblio) reads 'cl. Gridley' in the spec block and lacks the laid-down and disposal detail present in the updated NHHC entry; the class-name variance is carried in gaps. Live NHHC page returned HTTP 404 on 2026-09-27 (standing NHHC link-rot defect); verbatim text verified against the Wayback 2025-02-01 capture of the canonical URL.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-fanning-dd385-01
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[3]Pearl Harbor Navy Yard Industrial Department ('Salvage') War Diary, 1 March 1942 - 15 November 1943 (NARA San Bruno record, hosted by NPS / USS Arizona Memorial, WWII Valor in the Pacific National Monument) [nps]
- Locator
- War Diary PDF: entries of 8 March 1942 (undock DD No. 1), 22 March 1942 (departed), 25-27 April 1942 (Berth 15, 20mm relocation), 6-8 August 1942 (Berth 13, davit installation)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Contemporaneous navy-yard diary entries naming this hull: 8 March 1942 'FANNING Undocked Dry Dock No. 1, to berth 17 for completion of work' (GRIDLEY appears in the same entry - both ships repairing after their January 1942 collision); 22 March 1942 'FANNING Departed after completion of repairs and alterations'; 25 April 1942 arrived Berth 15 'for relocation of two temporarily installed 20 m.m. guns to improve A.A. defense' (departed 27 April, relocation not undertaken 'due to limited time availability'); 6 August 1942 arrived Berth 13 'for installation of davits for 26' motor whale boat' (davit installed and ship departed 8 August). Documents drydocking in Pearl Harbor Navy Yard Dry Dock No. 1 and multiple repair/alteration events aboard this hull in 1942, corroborating the DANFS bow-restoration narrative.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1942
- Population
- Pearl Harbor Navy Yard workers and Fanning crew, March-August 1942
- Limitations
- The diary logs yard work events - it does not describe materials disturbed, fiber content, or asbestos, and does not establish individual exposure. Diary coverage begins 1 March 1942 (December 1941-February 1942 pages missing from the collection), so the docking date for the bow repair is not captured; only undocking (8 March) and departure (22 March) are recorded.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-fanning-dd385-02
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[4]Bureau of Construction and Repair, General Information book for USS Dunlap (DD-384) and USS Fanning (DD-385), RESTRICTED Serial No. 39, Office of Superintending Constructor U.S.N., United Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Corp., New York, N.Y., 1938 (Destroyer History Foundation scan) [other_primary]
- Locator
- GIB PDF pp.1-11 (title page; Sections A-1 through A-5 data sheets)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- A ship-specific Bureau of Construction and Repair General Information Book exists for DD-384/385: 'Information relative to construction and equipment and a description of electrical and other auxiliaries under the cognizance of the Bureau of Construction and Repair.' The 11-page scanned excerpt (title page plus data sheets) covers hull dimensions (1500 tons standard, 341'4" overall, frame spacing, benchmarks, ordnance and torpedo layout) and confirms United Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Corp. as builder. No insulation or material schedule appears in the scanned excerpt; the complete GIB (BuC&R records, NARA RG-19 context) may hold per-hull material specifications and is an open archival lead.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1938 (document); 1935-1937 (construction)
- Population
- United Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Corp. construction trades, 1935-38
- Limitations
- Scanned excerpt contains dimensional/ordnance data only - no insulation, lagging, or material schedule appears in the 11 pages reviewed, so the document does not itself establish asbestos content aboard this hull. Excerpt completeness unknown; the full-volume material schedule, if any, was not retrieved.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-fanning-dd385-03
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[5]GAO, 'Navy Efforts To Protect Workers From Asbestos Exposure,' HRD-80-2 (Oct 18, 1979) [gao]
- Locator
- GAO product page and report summary, 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 the whole of Fanning's service life (commissioned 1937, decommissioned 1945) and construction (1935-37) inside the documented asbestos-use era.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- report issued 1979; covers Navy asbestos-use era
- Population
- Navy ship and shipyard workers, era-wide
- Limitations
- Program-level finding; gao.gov returns HTTP 403 to automated fetches (standing defect) - the product-page description was used. GAO fieldwork yards were Long Beach and Norfolk naval shipyards; nothing in the report is specific to this hull.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-fanning-dd385-04
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[6]Dunlap-class technical data sourced to the BuC&R General Information Book for DD-384/385 (Destroyer History Foundation class page; footnote 1 = BuC&R GIB, footnote 3 = Friedman) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Dunlap-class 'General Information' and propulsion machinery block (destroyerhistory.org/goldplater/dunlapclass)
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Era/design inference: a 1935-37 Dunlap-class destroyer with 4 Foster Wheeler boilers (400 psi, 645 deg F superheated steam), GE geared turbines, 50,000 shp, 2 shafts, designed 36.5 knots, would have carried period-standard asbestos boiler and turbine insulation, steam-line lagging, valve and flange gaskets, machinery packing, fireproofing, and deck coverings. The two-ship class repeated the Mahan design 'to the extent that many sources list them as part of the Mahan class'; United Shipbuilding built both at Staten Island.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1935-1945
- Population
- Construction trades 1935-37; crew 1937-45
- Limitations
- Class/era inference only - no ship-specific material record located for DD-385, and this row is not a ship-specific finding. Propulsion figures derive from the GIB as carried by the Destroyer History Foundation (reputable specialist archive hosting the primary document), not independently verified against the full GIB volume.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-fanning-dd385-05
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[7]CourtListener API v4 sweeps (authenticated), queries 'USS Fanning', 'DD-385', and 'Fanning asbestos', 2026-09-27 [court_record]
- Locator
- CourtListener API v4 search, type=o and type=r, 2026-09-27
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- No qualifying asbestos litigation naming this hull located. 'USS Fanning' opinions: 1 hit - United States v. Walker, 39 M.J. 731 (N.M.C.M.R. 1994), a UCMJ drug case; the vessel reference (a 1990s-era sailor) is a name collision, most consistent with frigate FF-1076, not DD-385 scrapped in 1948. 'USS Fanning' dockets: 3 hits, all United States v. Toebbe espionage prosecutions (N.D.W. Va. 3:21-cr-00049 and related 4th Cir. appeal 22-4689) - other litigation, not asbestos. 'DD-385' opinions: 0 results. 'DD-385' dockets: 14 hits, all unrelated civil matters whose text collides on the numeric fragment (securities fraud, debt collection, MDL short-form complaint, civil forfeiture, admiralty in rem). 'Fanning asbestos' opinions: 474 loose-match hits; in the top-ranked results 'Fanning' appears only as a party/attorney surname or firm name - no ship connection.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 2026-09-27
- Population
- none located
- Limitations
- Covers CourtListener-indexed published opinions and RECAP dockets only; settled, sealed, or unindexed matters are invisible. A bare name match is not a case - every hit was classified; none is qualifying asbestos litigation naming DD-385. The 'Fanning asbestos' query is a loose OR-match and was not exhaustively reviewed beyond top-ranked results. DD-37 (flushdecker, scrapped 1934) and FF-1076 (frigate, 1971-1993) share the name Fanning.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-fanning-dd385-06
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[8]Batch-3370 search ledger (this record): NHHC DANFS (updated 2017 entry via Wayback; earlier edition via HyperWar/ibiblio); Pearl Harbor Navy Yard Industrial Department War Diary (NARA via NPS); BuC&R General Information Book DD-384/385 (1938); CourtListener API v4 ship-name and hull-number sweeps; NavSource photo index; Destroyer History Foundation class page [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-fanning-dd385-01 through sl-uss-fanning-dd385-09
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, insulation schedule, abatement contract, hull hazmat disclosure, or docketed asbestos case naming USS Fanning (DD-385) was found in the public sources searched (see search_ledger). The hull was scrapped in 1948, predating federal asbestos regulation - no preservation-phase documentation can exist.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 2026-09-27
- Limitations
- Absence of a located public record does not prove absence of asbestos aboard - a 1935-37 steam destroyer is consistent with retained era materials. Does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-fanning-dd385-07