Evidence
10 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-10).
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[1]research packet if-packet.md (10 sources cited) [nhhc_danfs]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERIFIED — real identity: USS Farquhar (the SECOND ship of the name); hull DE-139; type: Edsall-class destroyer escort — https://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USN/ships/dafs/DE/de139.html ("The second Farquhar (DE-139)"; "cl. Edsall")
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-farquhar-de139-pkt-if-packet-md
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[2]DANFS, Farquhar II (DE-139) (builder, dates, service narrative, striking and sale; live NHHC page returns 404 - verbatim transcriptions via HyperWar/ibiblio (1969 edition) and Tin Can Sailors destroyers.org (citing DANFS July 2015)) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS entry, specifications block + service narrative (ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USN/ships/dafs/DE/de139.html; destroyers.org/ships/de-139 transcription citing DANFS July 2015; losthistory.net/hazegray/danfs/escorts/de139.txt - 1969 ed., Vol. 2 p.394)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS record for this hull: second ship named for Rear Admiral Norman von Heldreich Farquhar; launched 13 February 1943 by Consolidated Steel Corp., Ltd., Orange, Tex.; sponsored by Miss S. B. Carton, great-granddaughter of the Admiral (current edition; the 1969 edition reads 'Garton'); commissioned 5 August 1943, Lt. Comdr. L. E. Rosenberg, USNR. Arrived Norfolk 3 October 1943; three convoy-escort voyages to Casablanca with New York replenishment/repair between; 3 April 1944 hunter-killer group around Core (CVE-13); June 1944 ASW training at Bermuda with Wake Island (CVE-65) group; 2 August 1944 rescued 186 survivors of torpedoed sister Fiske (DE-143), landed them at Boston via Argentia; September 1944 South Atlantic patrols with Mission Bay (CVE-59) group (Bahia, Dakar, Capetown); six-day submarine hunt off the Cape Verde Islands 30 September; December 1944 rescued 10 aviators off Cuba; 3 February 1945 rescued downed pilot off Florida; April 1945 Argentia North-Atlantic hunter-killer operations; 6 May 1945 sank U-881 with 13 shallow-set depth charges - post-war evaluation made her the last American ship to sink a submarine in the Atlantic in WWII. Pacific: Pearl Harbor 8 August 1945 (current edition), Eniwetok 5 September, Ponape surrender 10 September with Hyman (DD-732), station ship, Kwajalein January 1946. Decommissioned in reserve Green Cove Springs, Fla., 14 June 1946. Struck 1 October 1972; sold for scrapping to Southern Scrap Material Corp., New Orleans, 26 February 1974 (current edition). One battle star for WWII.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1942-1974
- Population
- Consolidated Steel construction trades 1942-43; wartime crew (DANFS design complement 186); Atlantic Reserve Fleet caretakers 1946-1972
- Limitations
- DANFS documents service history and specifications, not materials or asbestos content. Sponsor name diverges between editions (1969 'Garton' vs. July-2015 'Carton'); sale date diverges (1969 bracketed note 'sold 21 March 1974' - the custody-removal date per NavSource - vs. current edition 'sold 26 February 1974'); both carried in gaps. Live NHHC page returns 404; verbatim mirror transcriptions cited instead.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-farquhar-de139-01
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[3]Bureau of Ships, Ships' Data, U.S. Naval Vessels, Vol. I (1945), Destroyer-Escort Vessels roster row for FARQUHAR, DE-139 (shipscribe.com scan; local OCR of book pp. 244-245) [other_primary]
- Locator
- SDB1945v1 DE roster row 111, FARQUHAR DE-139 (book pp. 244-245; shipscribe scan PDF p. 132; pdftoppm+tesseract local OCR)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Contemporaneous official BuShips roster row for this hull (roster no. 111): FARQUHAR, official number DE-139, design group FMR; builder Consolidated Steel Corp., Orange, Tex. ('-do-' under Falgout); price of building (hull and machinery) $1,988,000; contract signed 10 January 1942; keel laid 14 December 1942; launched 13 February 1943; completion 20 June 1943; preliminary acceptance 5 August 1943; commission 5 August 1943.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1942-1943
- Population
- Consolidated Steel Corp. construction trades, Orange, Tex., 1942-43
- Limitations
- Official contemporaneous build roster - documents identity, builder, contract, and dates; contains no insulation or materials information and says nothing about asbestos. The scanned two-page spread carries the date columns on the facing page offset one row from the name columns; row alignment was verified against independently documented dates (keel 1942-12-14, launch 1943-02-13, commission 1943-08-05 per DANFS/NavSource) before these values were carried.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-farquhar-de139-02
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[4]Bureau of Ships, Ships' Data, U.S. Naval Vessels, Vol. I (1945), Destroyer-Escort Vessels design-group table, group 4 / FMR (shipscribe.com scan; local OCR of book pp. 234-235) [other_primary]
- Locator
- SDB1945v1 DE design-group table, group-4/FMR row (book pp. 234-235; shipscribe scan PDF p. 127)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Official BuShips design-group table: design group 4 (symbol FMR - 'Fairbanks Morse diesel reverse gear drive' per the table footnote) - 306 ft oa, 300 ft wl, beam 36 ft 7 in; 1,200 t standard / 1,590 t full load; ~21 kt; machinery F.M. model 38D8-1/8 geared diesel engines, 6,000 shp, 2 shafts; boilers 'None'; 2 diesel ship's-service generators (100 kW, 450 V A.C.); accommodations 15 officers + 201 enlisted; armament 3 x 3 in/50 cal. D.P. Documents that the FMR design carried a diesel plant with no boilers or steam system.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1945 (publication)
- Population
- FMR-design crews (design accommodations 15 officers + 201 enlisted)
- Limitations
- Class/design documentation for the whole FMR group (85 Edsall-class hulls), not a per-hull material schedule - establishes plant type and accommodations, not insulation content or asbestos. Table OCR'd from a scanned page; individual cell values partially garbled (engine-count cell reads ambiguously - NavSource's per-hull spec block reads 4 engines).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-farquhar-de139-03
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[5]NavSource Destroyer Escort Photo Archive, USS Farquhar (DE-139) page (specs, building/operational data, awards, flag hoist NDQC; live fetch 2026-09-28) [other_primary]
- Locator
- navsource.net/archives/06/139.htm building-and-operational-data block + specifications
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NavSource compiled record for this hull: keel laid 14 December 1942 by Consolidated Steel Corp., Ltd., Orange, Tex.; launched and christened 13 February 1943, sponsor Miss S. B. Carton, great-granddaughter of Admiral Farquhar; commissioned 5 August 1943, Lcdr. L. E. Rosenberg, USNR; decommissioned 14 June 1946 at Green Cove Springs, Fla. after 2 years 11 1/3 months service; struck from the NVR 1 October 1972; sold for scrapping to Southern Scrap Material Corp., New Orleans, La., 26 February 1974; removed from U.S. Navy custody 21 March 1974. Specs: Edsall class, type FMR; 1,200 t light / 1,590 t full; 306 ft oa; 4 Fairbanks-Morse Mod. 38D8-1/8 geared diesel engines, 4 diesel-generators, 6,000 shp, 2 screws; 21 kt; 9,100 nm at 12 kt; complement 8/201. Awards: Combat Action Ribbon (retroactive); American Campaign Medal; Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal; European-Africa-Middle East Campaign Medal with one star; WWII Victory Medal.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1942-1974
- Population
- Wartime crew (NavSource complement 8 officers/201 enlisted)
- Limitations
- Compiled secondary archive, not a contemporaneous record - dates concur with DANFS/SDB where they overlap, and its split of the 1974 disposal into contract sale (26 Feb) and custody removal (21 Mar) resolves the 1969-vs-2015 DANFS divergence. Contributed photo captions are unattributed detail. No asbestos or materials information.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-farquhar-de139-04
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[6]Consolidated era/design inference - BuShips SDB 1945 design-group-4 machinery row (no boilers; F.M. diesel) + GAO HRD-80-2 era context + Atlas class-pattern precedent for diesel-powered escorts [other_primary]
- Locator
- SDB1945v1 pp. 234-235 group-4 row (machinery, 'None' in boiler columns); cf. uss-edsall-de129 ev-05 and cannon-class profile ev-cannon-class-03 (same diesel-DE application set)
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Era/design inference: an Edsall-class (FMR) destroyer escort built 1942-43 would have carried era-standard asbestos applications appropriate to a diesel-powered escort - exhaust-system insulation and lagging, gaskets and packing, electrical insulation, brake linings on winches and windlass, fireproofing, and deck coverings. Because the FMR plant has no boilers or steam lines (SDB 1945 design-group-4 machinery row), the largest asbestos categories of steam ships (boiler and steam-line insulation) do not apply to this design.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1942-1974
- Population
- Consolidated Steel construction trades 1942-43; crew 1943-46; reserve-fleet maintenance 1946-72
- Limitations
- Class/era and design inference only - NOT a hull-specific finding. No insulation schedule or material list for DE-139 was located; this establishes era-consistent expectation for the type, not that any specific material went aboard this hull. Does not quantify material or establish any individual's exposure. Builder yard (Consolidated Steel, Orange, Tex.) is not in the Atlas shipyards dataset - no yard-level asbestos documentation is attached.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-farquhar-de139-05
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[7]Keri Heath, 'World War II-era vessels in Galveston to undergo asbestos abatement', Galveston Daily News, 27 July 2020 (citation re-verified in class-f gato-class profile, accessed 2026-09-16, and in uss-stewart-de238 ev-01) [reputable_press]
- Locator
- galvnews.com article_c2c77857, 27 Jul 2020
- Finding type
- abatement_record
- Finding
- Documented asbestos aboard a preserved Edsall-class sister hull: the Galveston Daily News reported asbestos in public areas of USS Stewart (DE-238) and USS Cavalla (SS-244) at Seawolf Park, with contractor Separation Systems Consultants approved to proceed with abatement; the Galveston Park Board cited U.S. Navy inspection recommendations that an asbestos survey be conducted. USS Stewart is a Brown Shipbuilding-built Edsall-class hull (DE-238) - class-level corroboration that Edsall-class construction carried asbestos-containing material.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 2020
- Population
- Museum staff/volunteers and Seawolf Park visitors; abatement crews
- Limitations
- Evidence about a sister hull (DE-238), NOT this hull: different builder (Brown Shipbuilding, Houston vs. Consolidated Steel, Orange) and a museum-hull lifecycle DE-139 never had (DE-139 was scrapped 1974). Documents asbestos aboard one Edsall-class ship as delivered/preserved; establishes nothing about DE-139's materials, quantity, or any individual exposure.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-farquhar-de139-06
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[8]GAO, Navy Efforts To Protect Workers From Asbestos Exposure, HRD-80-2 (Oct 18, 1979) [gao]
- Locator
- GAO product page HRD-80-2 (full text blocked, HTTP 403)
- Finding type
- gov_survey
- Finding
- GAO documented the Navy's extensive shipboard asbestos insulation use with substitution not beginning until the early 1970s - DE-139 (built 1942-43) falls inside the documented asbestos-use era for Navy ship construction.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1979
- Population
- Navy shipyard workers
- Limitations
- Program-level era context only. Full text not retrieved (gao.gov returns HTTP 403 to automated fetches); content via product-page description. Says nothing about this specific hull or any diesel-escort application specifically.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-farquhar-de139-07
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[9]CourtListener API v4 opinion and docket sweeps for 'USS Farquhar' / 'DE-139' (via fleet-paced authenticated helper cl-auth-search.py) [court_record]
- Locator
- CourtListener API v4 search, type=o and type=r, 2026-09-28 (cl-auth-search.py authenticated helper)
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- No qualifying litigation located. Exact-name sweeps: 'USS Farquhar' returned 0 opinions and 0 RECAP dockets (both run 2026-09-28; batch-3295's identical sweeps on 2026-09-27 also returned 0). Hull-number sweep: 'DE-139' returned 44 opinion-index hits, all reviewed as identifier-string collisions - 'DE 139'/'DE-139' in these opinions are docket-entry-number citations inside unrelated orders (e.g., Retirement Committee of DAK Americas v. Smith, E.D.N.C.; Anderson v. Aparicio, E.D.N.Y.; Castillo v. Cessna, S.D. Fla.); no snippet references a vessel. 'DE-139' type=r docket-text sweep was blocked by the fleet-wide pace limiter (6 stand-downs over ~45 min) - logged as blocked in the search ledger, not as a result.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 2026-09-28
- Limitations
- Negative litigation finding only - absence of a docketed case does not establish absence of exposure or asbestos aboard; it records that no public court record links this hull to asbestos claims. Coverage gap: the 'DE-139' docket-text index was not exhausted (throttled); hull-number strings in docket text are overwhelmingly document-entry citations (same pattern as 'DE-238' in the Stewart record), and the zero exact-name results on both indexes bound the risk of a missed qualifying case.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-farquhar-de139-08
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[10]Batch-4048 search ledger (this record): DANFS transcriptions (two editions); NavSource archive page; BuShips Ships' Data 1945 Vol. 1 (local OCR); GAO product page; NARA digitized deck-log inventory; Naval Vessel Register; VA/BVA web search; general web sweep; CourtListener sweeps (see sl-04 through sl-06) [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-farquhar-de139-01 through sl-uss-farquhar-de139-12
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located for DE-139: no asbestos survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, material schedule, or museum documentation exists for this hull - it was sold for scrapping in February 1974, pre-dating the museum-donation and hazmat-disclosure era that produced records for sister hull Stewart (DE-238). The only 'asbestos' hits naming USS Farquhar (DE-139) in general web search are law-firm marketing listicles that enumerate every WWII hull - non-authoritative and excluded by batch rules.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 2026-09-28
- Limitations
- Absence of a located record is not proof of absence aboard - 1942-43 escort construction falls inside the documented Navy asbestos-use era, and sister-hull DE-238 carried documented asbestos. Deck logs (RG 24) and BuShips construction records (RG 19, incl. any General Information Book) at NARA are unsurveyed leads. Does not establish that asbestos was or was not present aboard; does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-farquhar-de139-09