Evidence
8 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-8).
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[1]research packet ji-packet.md (2 sources cited) [other_primary]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERDICT: VERIFIED — real identity: USS Farragut (DD-348) — lead ship of her class [MIRROR: https://destroyerhistory.org/goldplater/index.asp?pid=34810]
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-farragut-dd348-pkt-ji-packet-md
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[2]DANFS, Farragut III (DD-348), revised entry by Mark L. Evans (18 June 2013; published 2017) - canonical NHHC URL returns 404 as of 2026-09-27; Wayback capture 2026-01-11 cited [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS 'Farragut III' entry, spec block + full service narrative + disposal paragraph
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NHHC DANFS record for this hull: laid down 20 September 1932 at Quincy, Mass., by Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp.; renamed Smith 15 July 1933; renamed Farragut 12 August 1933; launched 15 March 1934 (sponsor Mrs. James [Betsey C.] Roosevelt); commissioned 18 June 1934, Cmdr. Elliott Buckmaster. Spec block: displacement 1,365; length 341'3"; beam 34'3"; draft 8'8"; speed 36.5 knots; complement 160; armament 5 5-inch, 8 21-inch torpedo tubes. Developmental service 1934-39 incl. embarking President Roosevelt March-April 1935; DesRon 2 flagship San Diego; Pearl Harbor homeport October 1939. Moored East Loch Pearl Harbor during the 7 December 1941 attack, got underway with slight topside damage and no casualties. WWII service: Coral Sea, Guadalcanal/Eastern Solomons, Aleutians (Attu, Kiska blockade and bombardment), Tarawa, Kwajalein/Eniwetok, Hollandia, Saipan/Guam, Philippine Sea, Rota; Puget Sound Navy Yard overhaul August-October 1944; Ulithi-based oiler screening for Lingayen/Iwo Jima/Okinawa strikes; Okinawa radar picket May 1945; Ulithi-Okinawa convoy escort through 6 August 1945. Arrived New York Naval Shipyard 25 September 1945; decommissioned there 23 October 1945; stricken 28 January 1947; sold to Northern Metals Co. of Philadelphia for $19,019 on 14 August 1947; scrapped the following year. 14 battle stars. Documented yard periods also include Norfolk Navy Yard repairs (early 1935), Puget Sound Navy Yard work (2-3 May 1935), overhaul 18 October-22 December 1936 (yard unstated), Mare Island Navy Yard overhaul ending 7 September 1937, Pearl Harbor Navy Yard overhaul 2 October-6 December 1938, Mare Island availability 22 April-17 August 1939, Mare Island overhaul 14 July-22 September 1940, Pearl Harbor Navy Yard availability 5-9 August 1941, west coast overhaul early 1943 (yard unstated), and San Francisco brief overhaul September 1943 (yard unstated).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1932-1948
- Population
- Bethlehem Shipbuilding (Fore River) construction trades 1932-34; prewar and wartime crew (design complement 160)
- Limitations
- DANFS documents service history and specifications, not materials or asbestos content. The older DANFS text (transcribed at destroyerhistory.org) reads 'launched 16 March 1934'; the current NHHC entry reads 15 March 1934 and contemporaneous Boston Public Library launch photographs are dated 15 March 1934 - the discrepancy is carried in gaps. Live NHHC page returns 404; Wayback capture cited.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-farragut-dd348-01
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[3]USS Farragut (DD-348), 'Report on measures taken during raid on December 7, 1941,' serial DD348/A16-3, Pearl Harbor T.H., 13 December 1941, signed Lt. Cmdr. G.P. Hunter (verbatim HyperWar transcription; original listed in NHHC WWII Pearl Harbor action reports collection) [other_primary]
- Locator
- DD348/A16-3 action report body, items 1-4
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Contemporaneous ship-generated record for this hull: moored at buoy X-14 in a nest with DesDiv 2 destroyers (Aylwin, Dale, Monaghan) at the time of the Japanese attack; general quarters at 0758; main battery opened fire 0812; Farragut left the nest 0852 and proceeded down the channel under fire; strafed by a Japanese aircraft abreast Hickam Field at 0921 with 'no casualties' and 'slight damage to topside'; cleared the channel 0927. Commanded during the sortie by the engineering officer (Lt. E.J. Jones per the report; a bracketed note identifies Ensign M.M. Coleman).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1941-12
- Population
- Crew aboard during the 7 December 1941 attack and sortie
- Limitations
- Contemporaneous action report documenting the ship's status, movements, and battle damage - not a materials or asbestos record. Demonstrates the hull operated with a reduced/peacetime watch state at the time of the attack.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-farragut-dd348-02
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[4]General Information Book, Destroyer Number 348, U.S.S. Farragut - Office of the Superintending Constructor, U.S.N., Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation, Ltd., Fore River Plant, Quincy, Massachusetts, 1934 (digitized excerpt, Destroyer History Foundation) [other_primary]
- Locator
- GIB excerpt sections A-1 (general/dimensions/stability), propelling machinery tables, A-5 (ordnance)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Ship-specific 1934 General Information Book prepared under the Bureau of Construction and Repair for this hull. The digitized excerpt (11 pages) records: principal dimensions (length overall 341'3"; molded beam 34'2"; standard design displacement 1,500 tons; trial displacement 1,593.25 tons); propelling machinery - 4 Bethlehem Shipbuilding-built Bethlehem-Yarrow boilers (2 end-fired 3-drum, 2 side-fired 2-drum, with superheaters/desuperheaters/air heaters, 400 psi designed working pressure) and Bethlehem-built Curtis/Parsons geared turbines (2 high-pressure, 2 low-pressure double-flow, 2 astern in low-pressure casings); twin solid propellers, 10'9" diameter, design 392 rpm / 42,800 ihp; ordnance outfit (5-inch/38 main battery, .50-caliber secondary battery, quadruple torpedo tube mounts).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1932-1934 (construction); 1934 (publication)
- Population
- Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp. Fore River Plant construction trades 1932-34; Navy Bureau of Construction and Repair
- Limitations
- Documents the ship's machinery and equipment as built - the excerpt contains no insulation, lagging, packing, gasket, or other materials sections and does not establish asbestos content of any component. Sections covering insulation materials (if present in the complete GIB) were not digitized; the full NARA RG 19 copy is an archival lead.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-farragut-dd348-03
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[5]Rushworth, D.H., 'The Navy and Asbestos Thermal Insulation,' Naval Engineers Journal 117(2):35-48 (2005), doi:10.1111/j.1559-3584.2005.tb00336.x; plus Atlas shipyard dataset records 'bethlehem-shipbuilding' and 'fore-river-shipyard' (Quincy, MA; tier 3) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Rushworth 2005, NEJ 117(2):35-48 abstract and text; shipyards.json records 'bethlehem-shipbuilding' and 'fore-river-shipyard'
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Era inference: a Navy destroyer built 1932-34 with a four-boiler 400-psi steam plant would have carried period-standard asbestos thermal insulation on steam piping and machinery, and period-standard asbestos gaskets, packing, and fireproofing. Peer-reviewed Naval Engineers Journal scholarship documents that asbestos was used in U.S. Navy shipboard pipe and machinery thermal insulation and that the Navy's thermal-insulation specifications of the era could only be met with asbestos-containing products. Both Atlas yard records covering the builder yard document asbestos products at yard level (Bethlehem Shipbuilding record lists 85% magnesia block, Marinite board, Transite pipe covering, Aircell, Armabestos, Limpet spray, Unibestos, Raybestos cloth, welding blankets; Fore River record lists boiler/pipe/turbine insulation, fireproofing, gaskets, packing, asbestos wire insulation, asbestos cement).
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1932-1945
- Population
- Bethlehem/Fore River construction trades 1932-34; crew 1934-45 (class context)
- Limitations
- Class/era and builder-yard inference only - neither the Rushworth survey nor the yard records name this hull, and nothing here establishes ship-specific asbestos presence, quantities, or locations aboard DD-348. The ship-specific findings on file (GIB excerpt, action report, DANFS) are silent on insulation materials.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-farragut-dd348-04
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[6]Batch-3333 CourtListener sweep (API v4 via authenticated fleet helper), 2026-09-27: 'USS Farragut' opinions (3 hits), 'DD-348'/'DD348' opinions (0 hits), 'Farragut' + asbestos opinions (7 hits), 'USS Farragut' dockets (17 hits) [court_record]
- Locator
- CourtListener search results (type=o and type=r), classified individually in search_ledger
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- No qualifying asbestos litigation naming USS Farragut (DD-348) located. Every 'USS Farragut' opinion hit is a name collision: Ostrowski v. Pethick, 590 A.2d 1290 (Pa. Super. 1991) - sailor's vessel aboard 'the USS Farragut' on a 1988 Mediterranean deployment is DLG-6/DDG-37 (child-support/Soldiers' and Sailors' Civil Relief Act case, not asbestos); 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) - 'USS Farragut' is DDG-99, which supplied a translator in a Somali piracy prosecution (not asbestos). All 7 'Farragut' + asbestos opinion hits are place-name collisions (Farragut Houses, NYC streets, etc.). Of 17 'USS Farragut' docket hits, 3 are asbestos dockets in which the Farragut name is not tied to DD-348: Sclafani v. Air & Liquid Systems (C.D. Cal. 2:12-cv-03013) - decedent's ships were USS Morton and USS Rogers, 1960-63; Boesenhofer v. AECOM (E.D. Pa. 2:17-cv-01072) - PNSY boilermaker 1966-1997, post-dating DD-348's 1948 scrapping; Redman v. A.W. Chesterton (N.D. Cal. 3:08-cv-03013) - federal-officer-removal asbestos case over Navy-supplied marine equipment, hull role unverified. Remaining dockets are modern criminal/False Claims Act matters consistent with DDG-99 operations or unrelated. No hull-number ('DD-348') hits at all.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 2026-09-27 (sweep date); underlying records 1986-2025
- Limitations
- Sweep coverage: CourtListener search indexes are not exhaustive of state-court filings, MDL-875 ECF attachments, or pre-1980 asbestos complaints - absence of a located hit does not prove no pleading ever named the hull. 'Farragut' + asbestos docket-type sweep was blocked by fleet pacing at session end and is logged in gaps. Each classified hit is described at its actual posture; no hit was classified upward.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-farragut-dd348-05
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[7]Board of Veterans' Appeals, Citation Nr. 1417938, Docket No. 11-21 138 (decision 22 April 2014, Cleveland RO appeal) [other_primary]
- Locator
- BVA Citation 1417938, REMAND body (DD-214 recital 'USS Farragut (DLG 6)')
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- Name-collision documentation: a real asbestos-related veterans' claim names 'the USS Farragut' - the veteran alleged asbestos exposure serving in the boiler and engine rooms of the USS Farragut - but the decision states 'the Veteran's Form DD-214 shows that the Veteran served on the USS Farragut (DLG 6)' during service May 1971-April 1973. DLG-6/DDG-37 (commissioned 1960, decommissioned 1989) is a different hull than DD-348 (scrapped 1948). The Board remanded for exposure development; no merits adjudication of the asbestos claim is present.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- correction
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1971-1973 (service); 2014 (decision)
- Population
- Navy veteran, machinist repairman, aboard USS Farragut (DLG-6) 1971-73 - different hull
- Limitations
- Documents only that name-only 'USS Farragut' asbestos claims exist in VA adjudication records and that the named hull in this instance is DLG-6. Not evidence of any condition aboard DD-348; pleading-stage claim, remand only, no finding on exposure or causation.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-farragut-dd348-06
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[8]NARA holdings for this hull: Records of the Bureau of Naval Personnel muster rolls for Farragut (DD-348) (e.g., December 1943, catalog id 112302590, via DPLA); NARA 'U.S. Navy Ships - Index by Ship Name' lists Farragut (DD348) photographs; complete RG 19 General Information Book presumed at NARA (digitized excerpt at destroyerhistory.org covers sections A-1/A-4/A-5 only) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NARA catalog id 112302590 (muster rolls); archives.gov 'U.S. Navy Ships - Index by Ship Name' (Farragut DD348 photo entry); destroyerhistory.org GIB PDF
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- NARA holds ship-specific records for this hull: digitized Pearl Harbor-era muster rolls (Bureau of Naval Personnel records) and still photographs, and the complete General Information Book prepared by the Superintending Constructor at the Fore River Plant is an RG 19 holding. These records could verify crew population and - if the full GIB contains materials sections omitted from the digitized excerpt - potentially hull-level insulation specifications.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1934-1947 (records); leads identified 2026-09-27
- Population
- DD-348 crew 1934-1945 (muster rolls); construction records (RG 19)
- Limitations
- Archival leads only - records not retrieved in this session. Muster rolls and photographs contain no asbestos data; whether the full GIB itemizes insulation materials is unknown. Nothing here establishes asbestos presence aboard the hull.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-farragut-dd348-07