Evidence
13 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-13).
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[1]research packet je-packet.md (1 sources cited) [nhhc_danfs]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: **VERIFIED
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-farragut-dd300-pkt-je-packet-md
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[2]Department of the Navy, Naval History and Heritage Command, Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, 'Farragut II (Destroyer No. 300)' (2016 revision; canonical history.navy.mil URL verified via Wayback capture 2025-12-09; verbatim text also mirrored at destroyers.org/ships/dd-300) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- Farragut II entry: namesake paragraph, specification block, and service-history narrative
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- The Navy's DANFS entry identifies Farragut as Destroyer No. 300 (DD-300), Clemson class, second ship of the name (Adm. David Glasgow Farragut), with specification block: displacement 1,190; length 314'4"; beam 31'8"; draft 9'4"; speed 35 knots; complement 95; armament 4 4-inch, 12 21-inch torpedo tubes. It reports keel laid 4 July 1918 at San Francisco by Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp.; launched 21 November 1918, sponsored by the wife of Capt. Templin M. Potts (President, Board of Inspection and Survey, Pacific); commissioned 4 June 1920 under Cmdr. Pierre L. Wilson; Mare Island Navy Yard departure 2 July 1920; DD-300 designation 17 July 1920; reserve status at San Diego to 31 March 1922 after Puget Sound Navy Yard repairs; Fleet Problems I-IX (1923-1929) including Panama/Caribbean and Hawaiian operations; tow by oiler Neches (AO-5) 4 April 1923 after engine trouble; President Harding's Seattle naval review 27 July 1923; the 8 September 1923 Honda Point disaster in which Farragut (DesDiv 31, DesRon 11) touched bottom but backed clear with minor damage while seven squadron-mates wrecked (23 dead), then repairs alongside tender Melville (AD-2) and the La Playa marine railway; the 27 January 1926 gun No. 2 cartridge explosion off Point Loma (two dead of wounds; court of inquiry attributed to an undetected broken firing-pin fragment, no negligence found); flagship of DesDiv 31 under Cmdr. Roscoe C. MacFall 1926-27; decommissioned San Diego 1 April 1930; stricken 22 July 1930; scrapped with materials sold 31 October 1930 per the London Naval Treaty.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1918-1930
- Population
- Bethlehem Shipbuilding (Union Iron Works) construction trades 1918-1920; USS Farragut crew 1920-1930 (design complement 95)
- Limitations
- DANFS documents identity, construction, service, and disposal; it does not identify asbestos, installed insulation, equipment brands beyond class-level references, individual exposure, or a crew roster, and it does not name the purchaser of the scrapped materials. The live NHHC domain returns HTTP 404 to automated fetches from this machine (standing defect); the cited text is a Wayback capture of the canonical page. The older hazegray/losthistory DANFS transcription reads 'launched 21 November 1919' - the 1918 date is carried per the current NHHC entry and the official 1921 data book.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-farragut-dd300-01
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[3]Bureau of Construction and Repair, Navy Department, 'Ships' Data, U.S. Naval Vessels, July 1, 1921' (shipscribe.com scan of the Google Books digitization), destroyer first-line tables, FARRAGUT DD-300 row [other_primary]
- Locator
- SDB 1921 destroyer (DD) tables: construction/dates spread p. 97 row 89; armament/builder spread p. 96 row 89; machinery spread p. 94 row 89; vessel list p. 13 (Pacific Fleet station)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- The official Bureau of Construction and Repair 'Ships' Data, U.S. Naval Vessels' (July 1, 1921 edition) carries per-hull table rows naming FARRAGUT DD-300 (row 89 of the destroyer table): construction table - contract 6 December 1917, keel laid 4 July 1918, launched 21 November 1918, preliminary acceptance and first commission 4 June 1920; armament/builder table - four 4-inch/50-caliber guns, one 3-inch/23-caliber AA, four 21-inch triple torpedo tubes; builder Bethlehem S.B. Corp., San Francisco (ditto to the Farenholt row); contract price 'cost+fee'; authorizing act 6 October 1917; machinery table - 2 shafts, 'G.E. Curtis geared turb.' (footnote: cruising turbine on port shaft), 4 Yarrow oil-burning boilers, 27,500 shp designed, 27,750 shp on trial; list of naval vessels - Farragut DD-300, Pacific Fleet.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1917-1921 (data as of 1921-07-01)
- Population
- Bethlehem San Francisco construction trades; commissioned crew
- Limitations
- Official per-hull data naming this ship: confirms builder, contract/act dates, keel/launch/commission dates (settling the 1918-vs-1919 launch conflict in favor of 1918), machinery plant (4 Yarrow boilers, G.E. Curtis geared turbines), and armament as built. It does not specify insulation materials, asbestos content, or crew exposure. Rows were read by OCR and visual inspection of the scan; figure transcriptions should be rechecked against the image for any derived use.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-farragut-dd300-02
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[4]National Archives, Special List 44, Named Vessels: Navy Logbooks index, 'Farragut (DD-300)' row [other_primary]
- Locator
- Named-vessels table, 'Farragut (DD-300)' row, begin 6/4/1920 end 4/1/1930
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NARA Special List 44 (Named Vessels) indexes Farragut (DD-300) Navy deck logs continuously from 4 June 1920 through 1 April 1930 - exactly matching the DANFS commission and decommission dates. Adjacent Farragut rows in the index belong to other hulls: Torpedo Boat No. 11/Coast Torpedo Boat No. 5 (1906-1919 runs) and Farragut (DD-348) (1934-1945 runs); those rows are excluded from attribution to DD-300.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1920-1930
- Population
- USS Farragut crew 1920-1930
- Limitations
- A logbook index with begin/end dates, not inspection of the logs themselves. It corroborates the commissioned-service endpoints; it does not document materials, asbestos, work details, or exposure. Log contents (RG 24) were not retrieved.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-farragut-dd300-03
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[5]National Archives, Cartographic Branch, Ship Plan Index, 'FARRAGUT DD-300' rows [other_primary]
- Locator
- Ship Plan Index table: FARRAGUT DD-300 - Alphabetical Ship Drawings NAID 53484151; Microfilm NAID 175669109
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- NARA's Ship Plan Index lists FARRAGUT DD-300 under RG 19 in two series: Alphabetical Ship Drawings (NAID 53484151) and Microfilm of Ship Engineering Drawings (NAID 175669109). These are cataloged leads for hull-level material research - insulation drawings (S39 lagging/insulation series) or piping drawings (S48) for this hull, if present, would sit in such series. The same index lists FARRAGUT DD-348, DLG-6/DL-6, and TB-11 rows under separate NAIDs; those are other hulls and are not attributed to DD-300.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1918-1930 (record coverage)
- Limitations
- The index establishes that drawing series are cataloged for this hull, not that any drawing identifies asbestos or insulation materials. Contents were not retrieved or inspected; catalog existence does not establish what any sheet contains.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-farragut-dd300-04
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[6]Naval History and Heritage Command, Online Library of Selected Images, USS Farragut (DD-300) pages (verbatim HyperWar/ibiblio transcription mirrors of the official picture-data pages) [museum_official]
- Locator
- DD-300 photo index page and captions for NH 54084, NH 66732, NH 82561, NH 84679, NH 70922, NH 98012-98017, NH 64681-64686; DANFS caption for NARA 19-N-3074
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- NHHC's photographic catalog maintains a USS Farragut (DD-300) image set, including NH 54084 (running trials in the Santa Barbara Channel, 22 May 1920), NH 66732 (high-speed trials), NH 82561 (underway c.1925, Chamberlain album), NH 84679 (tow from Neches AO-5, 4 April 1923), NH 70922 (heavy seas), NH 98012-98017 (Chamberlain album views including a drydock view c.1925), and NH 64681-64686 (Equator-crossing ceremonies, July 1928); the NHHC DANFS page also captions BuShips/NARA photograph 19-N-3074 (33.5 knots on trials, 22 May 1920). These records corroborate the hull's identity and activities; they contain no materials identification.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1920-1928 (photo dates)
- Population
- USS Farragut crew in view
- Limitations
- Photograph captions identify the hull, dates, and visible activity; exterior/interior photos do not identify insulation materials or asbestos content. Cited via the HyperWar mirror because live NHHC URLs return 404 to automated fetches.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-farragut-dd300-05
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[7]U.S. Navy, Commander Naval Surface Force Atlantic / USS Farragut (DDG-99) official site, 'Past Ships: USS Farragut DD-300' [other_primary]
- Locator
- Past Ships page, 'USS FARRAGUT DD-300' paragraph
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- The official U.S. Navy 'Past Ships' page maintained for the current USS Farragut (DDG-99, Commander Naval Surface Force Atlantic site) summarizes DD-300: a 1,190-ton Clemson-class destroyer built at San Francisco, commissioned June 1920, designated DD-300 when hull numbers were implemented a month later; nearly two years in reserve at San Diego; regular U.S. Fleet operations from March 1922; narrowly escaped destruction when seven DesRon 11 destroyers wrecked at Honda Point 8 September 1923; Caribbean fleet-maneuver visits 1924 and 1927; Pacific crossing mid-1925 during the Battle Fleet's New Zealand/Australia visit; central-Pacific exercises 1928; decommissioned April 1930 and scrapped later that year under a general destroyer-force realignment.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1918-1930
- Population
- USS Farragut crew 1920-1930
- Limitations
- Official Navy historical summary; corroborates the DANFS narrative at summary level. Adds no materials, asbestos, or exposure information, and compresses the disposal chain ('scrapped later in that year') relative to DANFS's scrapped/materials-sold-31-October-1930 sequence.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-farragut-dd300-06
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[8]SDB 1921 DD-300 machinery row (4 Yarrow boilers, G.E. Curtis geared turbines) + DANFS specifications block (Clemson class) + Atlas shipyard dataset record 'bethlehem-shipbuilding' (yard-level asbestos product documentation) [other_primary]
- Locator
- SDB 1921 machinery table p. 94 row 89; shipyards.json record 'bethlehem-shipbuilding' (aliases include Union Iron Works)
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Era/yard inference: a Clemson-class flush-decker built 1918-1920 at Bethlehem Shipbuilding's San Francisco (Union Iron Works) plant with the four Yarrow oil-burning boilers and geared steam turbines documented in the official 1921 data book would have carried period-standard asbestos thermal insulation - era magnesia block/lagging, boiler and steam-line insulation, gaskets, packing, and related products. The builder group is documented at yard level in the Atlas dataset (bethlehem-shipbuilding, tier 3), whose product list includes 85% magnesia block, lagging, gaskets, packing, asbestos cement, asbestos cloth, and fireproofing materials; the dataset's aliases expressly cover Union Iron Works.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1918-1930
- Population
- Bethlehem San Francisco (Union Iron Works) construction trades 1918-1920; Navy crew 1920-1930
- Limitations
- Class/era and builder-yard inference only - no ship-specific finding of asbestos aboard DD-300. The yard dataset's product documentation anchors largely to WWII-era litigation and employment figures for other Bethlehem plants (Quincy/Sparrows Point); it evidences the builder group's asbestos product environment, not installation on this 1918 hull or at the San Francisco plant specifically. Hull-level insulation schedules (NARA drawing series NAID 53484151) were not retrieved.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-farragut-dd300-07
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[9]National Archives, 'Researching Asbestos aboard US Naval Vessel up through 1961' [other_primary]
- Locator
- General Information Books (RG 19 Entry P 9) and Cartographic Branch (S39/S48) sections
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- NARA's asbestos research guide ('Researching Asbestos aboard US Naval Vessel up through 1961') identifies RG 19 destroyer General Information Books (Entry P 9, 1907-1961) and ship engineering drawings, including the S39 insulation/lagging and S48 piping series, as the record groups to investigate materials aboard a particular ship - the applicable map for any future hull-level verification of DD-300.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- n/a (research guide)
- Limitations
- A general research guide whose correspondence coverage centers on 1941-1961 - after this hull's 1930 decommissioning and disposal - though the GIB series begins 1907 and could overlap this hull's era. The guide does not state that a Farragut GIB or S39/S48 drawing exists; no such document was inspected and no material finding follows from this lead.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-farragut-dd300-08
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[10]CourtListener API v4 search results: 'USS Farragut' opinions - Ostrowski v. Pethick, 590 A.2d 1290, 404 Pa. Super. 392 (1991); United States v. Hasan, 747 F. Supp. 2d 642 (E.D. Va. 2010); United States v. Dire, 680 F.3d 446 (4th Cir. 2012); 'USS Farragut' dockets - 17 hits incl. Boesenhofer v. AECOM (E.D. Pa.), Sclafani v. Air & Liquid Systems (C.D. Cal.), Redman v. A.W. Chesterton (N.D. Cal.); 'DD-300' opinions - 14 NY family-law collisions [court_record]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-farragut-dd300-11 through -15; opinion clusters 2390418 (Ostrowski), 2476901 (Hasan), 800805 (Dire); dockets 2:17-cv-01072, 2:12-cv-03013, 3:08-cv-03013
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- CourtListener authenticated API v4 sweep for this hull. Exact-name opinions '"USS Farragut"' (type=o): 3 hits, all non-qualifying - Ostrowski v. Pethick, 590 A.2d 1290 (Pa. Super. 1991) (family/support litigation; 'Farragut' is a place/name reference, not the ship); United States v. Hasan, 747 F. Supp. 2d 642 (E.D. Va. 2010) and United States v. Dire, 680 F.3d 446 (4th Cir. 2012) - the Somali piracy prosecution arising from the April 2010 attack on USS Nicholas; the Farragut reference is to DDG-99, which responded. Exact-name dockets '"USS Farragut"' (type=r): 17 hits, none qualifying for DD-300 - 3 are asbestos personal-injury dockets in which 'USS Farragut' appears in indexed filing text (Boesenhofer v. AECOM, E.D. Pa. 2:17-cv-01072; David Sclafani v. Air and Liquid Systems Corp., C.D. Cal. 2:12-cv-03013; Redman v. A.W. Chesterton Co., N.D. Cal. 3:08-cv-03013) with no hull number attributable at the docket level - pleading-stage allegations at most, and the asbestos-era name more plausibly points to DD-348 or DLG-6/DDG-37; the remainder are maritime-smuggling criminal dockets consistent with DDG-99 interdiction operations, United States v. Hasan (the piracy matter), and United States v. BAE Systems Southeast Shipyards (False Claims Act suit concerning Mayport - DDG-99's homeport). Hull-number opinions '"DD-300"' (type=o): 14 hits, all New York family-law/citation-fragment collisions (e.g., In re Elijah ZZ., Nicholson v. Scoppetta), none naval or asbestos. Hull-number dockets '"DD-300"' (type=r): 16 hits, all unrelated civil matters (bankruptcy, securities, civil-rights, insurance dockets where 'DD-300' matches form/exhibit/docket-fragment text), none naval or asbestos. Supplemental '"Farragut" asbestos' opinions (type=o): 7 hits, all place-name collisions (Farragut Houses NYCHA abatement litigation, St. Louis school-desegregation Farragut school, HUD/housing matters), none referring to any Navy vessel. No qualifying asbestos litigation naming DD-300 was located.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1980-present (indexed case law)
- Limitations
- Sweep limited to queries completed under the fleet-wide CourtListener pacing budget; see search_ledger for per-query disposition. Docket-type results match on indexed filing text whose snippets are not returned in the search payload - the three asbestos-PI dockets could not be hull-attributed without pulling underlying filings (logged as an open lead); per litigation-stage discipline a complaint's vessel list would classify as an allegation in any case. 'Farragut' is a high-collision name (the Admiral, four other Navy hulls, streets/schools/place names); a bare-name hit is never qualifying without hull attribution. A negative result does not prove the ship lacked asbestos or that no unindexed case exists.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-farragut-dd300-09
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[11]VA Board of Veterans' Appeals decision, Citation Nr. 1417938 (Docket No. 11-21 138), remand decision [court_record]
- Locator
- BVA 1417938, Introduction (service May 1971-April 1973; boiler/engine-room exposure allegation aboard 'the USS Farragut')
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- VA Board of Veterans' Appeals decision index surfaces one 'USS Farragut' asbestos claim: BVA Citation 1417938, docket no. 11-21 138 (2014), in which the veteran asserted asbestosis from boiler- and engine-room service aboard the USS Farragut - but his active duty ran May 1971 to April 1973, squarely within the commission of guided-missile frigate DLG-6 (later DDG-37), the only Farragut then in service; DD-300 was scrapped in 1930-31. Classified as a name collision, not qualifying for this hull.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1971-1973 (alleged exposure); 2014 (decision)
- Population
- Unnamed veteran (service aboard DLG-6/DDG-37 era)
- Limitations
- The decision names the ship by name only; service dates (1971-73) attribute it to DLG-6/DDG-37, not DD-300. Even for the correct hull it is an unadjudicated allegation in a remand - no finding of exposure. Recorded to document the collision so it is not later misread as this hull.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-farragut-dd300-10
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[12]Johns-Manville Corp. v. United States, 12 Cl. Ct. 1 (1987) (pleadings-stage order) and 13 Cl. Ct. 72 (1987) (trial opinion, Nettesheim, J., No. 465-83C); trial decision vacated on 28 U.S.C. 1500 jurisdictional grounds, Johns-Manville Corp. v. United States, 855 F.2d 1571 (Fed. Cir. 1988) [court_record]
- Locator
- 855 F.2d 1571 procedural recital; 13 Cl. Ct. 72 findings on insulation products (indexed opinion transcription); 12 Cl. Ct. 1 complaint-allegation recital of Government specifications
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- A published federal trial opinion documents that U.S. Government ship construction, conversion, and repair specifications were incorporated into supply contracts, prohibited deviation, and 'required that asbestos be used in the materials Johns-Manville supplied' for Government ships; the companion trial findings describe Navy asbestos insulation products including '85 percent Magnesia' pipe covering (approximately 85 percent magnesium carbonate and 15 percent asbestos fiber), asbestos cement, asbestos cloth, and marine bulkhead panels applied in engine and boiler rooms. This documents Navy asbestos-product specifications as a service-era fact; the retrieved product findings principally address World War II procurement, after this hull's 1930-31 scrapping.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- specifications at issue spanned the 20th century; retrieved findings chiefly WWII-era
- Limitations
- The trial decision was vacated on jurisdictional grounds, so its findings are a historical account of documents discussed at trial, not an affirmed merits judgment; the 12 Cl. Ct. 'required' statement recites complaint allegations. Retrieved excerpts center on WWII-era procurement - whether the described specifications were in force during this hull's 1918 construction and 1920-1930 service is not established by the retrieved text. The opinion does not name Farragut or identify her suppliers, machinery, repairs, or crew tasks. A Government specification does not show purchase or installation on this hull.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-farragut-dd300-11
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[13]Batch-3292 bounded public-source search ledger (this record): NHHC DANFS, SDB 1921, NARA Special List 44 and Ship Plan Index, NHHC photo catalog, USFF official page, VA BVA index, CourtListener [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-farragut-dd300-01 through sl-uss-farragut-dd300-*
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No ship-specific asbestos documentation - no survey, abatement contract, insulation specification, sampling result, hazmat disclosure, or adjudicated finding - names USS Farragut (DD-300) in the public sources searched and recorded in the search ledger. The hull was disposed of in 1930-31, predating the Navy's documented asbestosis investigations, hazmat-conditioned disposal documentation, and the asbestos-litigation era; the surfaces that generate such records (museum abatement disclosures, NDRF/MARAD hazmat files, MDL-875 dockets) do not exist for this hull.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1917-1931 (hull lifespan); searches run 2026-09-27
- Limitations
- A negative search result is limited to the named public indexes and queries actually completed; it does not prove the ship lacked asbestos, that an unindexed record does not exist, or that any person was or was not exposed. NARA's cataloged DD-300 drawing series (NAID 53484151, NAID 175669109) and RG 24 deck logs were not inspected.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-farragut-dd300-12