Evidence
10 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-10).
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[1]research packet gx-packet.md (8 sources cited) [nhhc_danfs]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERIFIED
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-fiske-dd842-pkt-gx-packet-md
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[2]DANFS, Fiske II (DD-842) (specifications block, builder, dates, service narrative; verbatim hazegray transcription via Wayback - live NHHC page serves 404) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- hazegray.org/danfs/destroy/dd842txt.htm via Wayback capture 2024-12-04 (specifications block + full narrative)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS record for this hull (second Fiske, DD-842; cl. Gearing; dp. 2,425; l. 390'6"; b. 41'1"; dr. 18'6"; s. 35 k.; cpl. 367; a. 6 5", 10 21" tt., 6 dcp., 2 dct.): launched 8 September 1945 by Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine; sponsored by Mrs. F. E. Ribbentrop; commissioned 28 November 1945, Comdr. C. H. Smith in command; engineering school ship for Destroyer Force, Atlantic, out of Portland, Maine; three Mediterranean cruises with the 6th Fleet from Newport before Korea; 1948 rescue of 10 men from a sinking coastal freighter in the Windward Passage; departed Newport 3 January 1951 for the 7th Fleet at Sasebo (Korean War screening, shore bombardment, escort); returned Newport 8 August 1951 completing a round-the-world cruise; decommissioned 1 April 1952 for radar-picket conversion; recommissioned 25 November 1952; NATO Operation Mariner north of the Arctic Circle fall 1953; annual 6th Fleet radar-picket tours from 1954; homeported Mayport, Fla., from August 1960; NATO exercises north of the Arctic Circle fall 1960; Caribbean patrol at end of 1960; two battle stars for Korean War service.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1945-1961 (entry written before final disposition)
- Population
- Bath Iron Works construction trades 1945; Atlantic Fleet crew (design complement 367)
- Limitations
- DANFS documents service history and specifications, not materials or asbestos content. The hazegray transcription misprints the DDR-842 reclassification as '18 July 1962' (1952 per NavSource and the entry's own narrative sequence - carried in gaps) and compresses the commissioning sentence. Mirror transcription cited because the live NHHC page returns 404.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-fiske-dd842-01
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[3]Naval Historical Center, Online Library of Selected Images, 'USS Fiske (DD-842, later DDR-842 and DD-842), 1945-1980' (NHHC history text, verbatim ibiblio mirror) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NHHC Online Library ship page, prose history paragraphs (full text)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NHHC history text for this hull: 2,425-ton Gearing-class destroyer built at Bath, Maine; commissioned late November 1945; radar-picket conversion April-November 1952 as DDR-842; Cuban Missile Crisis duty with a carrier striking force autumn 1962; 'underwent a second major conversion during February-November 1964. Emerging from the New York Naval Shipyard in her new FRAM I configuration' as a modern ASW ship redesignated DD-842; Santo Domingo patrol during the Dominican Republic crisis 1965; Vietnam operations March-June 1966 (search and rescue, carrier escort, shore bombardment); Mediterranean/Indian Ocean/Persian Gulf 1967 via Cape of Good Hope; Sixth Fleet 1968-1969; northern Europe mid-1970; Indian Ocean/Persian Gulf 1973 then Naval Reserve Force; Mediterranean 1974; 'placed out of commission in June 1980 and leased to Turkey. Renamed Piyale Pasa.'
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1945-1999
- Population
- Crew 1952-1980; yard workers at New York Naval Shipyard Feb-Nov 1964 (FRAM I)
- Limitations
- Official NHC/NHHC narrative; confirms the FRAM I yard (New York Naval Shipyard, Brooklyn) and both conversion windows but names no 1952 conversion yard, gives only 'June 1980' for decommissioning, and says 'leased' to Turkey while index sources read transferred/sold 5 June 1980 - carried in gaps. No materials or asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-fiske-dd842-02
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[4]NavSource Destroyer Photo Index, DD-842/DDR-842 USS Fiske - operational/building data block, machinery line, fate line, and NHC photo captions [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource page 05/842.htm via Wayback capture 2024-10-15 (operational/building data block; photo captions NH 102956, Boston Naval Shipyard entries)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NavSource index data for this hull: laid down by Bath Iron Works, Bath ME 9 April 1945; launched 8 September 1945; commissioned 28 November 1945; decommissioned 1 April 1952, recommissioned 25 November 1952; reclassified DDR-842 18 July 1952; reverted to DD-842 1 April 1964; FRAM upgrade completed January 1965; decommissioned 6 June 1980; stricken 6 August 1987; to Turkey 5 June 1980, renamed Piyale Pasa; 'heavily damaged when she ran aground in late 1996'; scrapped 1999. Machinery line: 60,000 shp Westinghouse turbines, 2 screws, 36.8 kt. NHC photo captions document this hull drydocked at Boston Naval Shipyard 19 March 1946 and present there May 1960.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1945-1999
- Population
- Crew and yard workers across all availabilities
- Limitations
- Volunteer-compiled index (authoritative-adjacent, not an official record): the 5 vs 6 June 1980 transfer/decommission one-day conflict is carried in gaps; 'Westinghouse turbines' conflicts with the class-level General Electric fit (gaps); the 'ran aground in late 1996' line may conflate an August 1996 grounding of TCG Yavuz in which Piyale Pasa was the accompanying unit (UPI report) - attribution unresolved (gaps).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-fiske-dd842-03
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[5]U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Board of Veterans' Appeals decision, Citation Nr. 1713640, Docket No. 11-16 888 (Denver RO; decided 26 April 2017) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Decision text, Findings/Reasons and Bases - service-history recital para. (DD842 dates; Mekong River list quote) and VA physician opinion paras.
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- Adjudicated VA decision naming this hull: records review confirms the veteran served aboard USS Fiske (DD-842) from 20 August 1971 to 18 August 1972; the surviving spouse's claim for service connection for the veteran's cause of death (lung cancer, died April 2009) was DENIED. The VA physician opined the veteran 'probably was exposed to asbestos during his Navy career' - a career-wide inference - but found 'no clinical evidence of significant asbestos exposure': no asbestosis on imaging (no pleural plaques or parenchymal opacities) and PFTs showing obstructive disease with normal DLCO; death attributed to a 100-125 pack-year smoking history. The decision also recites the VA herbicide ships list entry: 'the ship list only lists USS Fiske once, from June 16-21, 1966 when it operated on the Mekong River.'
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1971-1972 (service aboard); 2010-2017 (adjudication)
- Population
- U.S. Navy veteran aboard USS Fiske (DD-842) 1971-1972; surviving spouse claimant
- Limitations
- Merits-level NEGATIVE for this claimant, not exposure evidence: an adjudicated denial on causation grounds (smoking), not a finding about materials aboard this hull. The 'probable exposure' remark covered the veteran's entire 1959-1982 Navy career and was not attributed to DD-842 specifically. Administrative benefits adjudication - establishes service aboard this hull 1971-72 and the absence of clinical asbestos markers in this claimant; establishes nothing about ACM presence or other crewmembers' exposure.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-fiske-dd842-04
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[6]U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Board of Veterans' Appeals decision, Docket No. 250213-516481 (remanded; decided 1 April 2025) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Decision text, 'Reasons for Remand' - service-history recital (Fiske dates and Damage Control Assistant role)
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- Second adjudicated VA decision naming this hull: the record confirms the veteran served aboard USS Fiske (DD-842) from 21 September 1969 to 19 February 1971 as Damage Control Assistant; he contended prostate cancer was related to in-service exposure to aqueous film forming foam (AFFF) and potassium bicarbonate (PKP) firefighting agents aboard Fiske (plus engineering duties aboard USS Southerland DD-743 and USS Mount Vernon LSD-39). Prostate cancer was service-connected under the PACT Act herbicide presumption (ship within Guam territorial waters); the appeal was REMANDED on effective-date and herbicide-verification questions.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1969-1971 (service aboard); 2020-2025 (adjudication)
- Population
- U.S. Navy officer (Damage Control Assistant) aboard USS Fiske (DD-842) 1969-1971
- Limitations
- Non-asbestos record: the exposure contention aboard this hull was AFFF/PKP firefighting agents, not asbestos - no asbestos claim was adjudicated here. Included for completeness of the naming-this-hull adjudication sweep; documents a Damage Control Assistant's service aboard DD-842 1969-71 only.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-fiske-dd842-05
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[7]CourtListener API v4 authenticated search sweep (opinion index type=o and RECAP docket index type=r) for this vessel's exact name and hull number [court_record]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-fiske-dd842-05 through -08
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- Authenticated opinion-index query '"USS Fiske"' returned 0 opinions (2026-09-28). The RECAP docket index for '"USS Fiske"' returned exactly 1 docket - United States v. QTC Medical Services, Inc., C.D. Cal. 2:14-cv-08961, a False Claims Act qui tam against a VA contract medical-examination provider (filed 2014, terminated 2019); 'USS Fiske' appears in the indexed 332-page amended-complaint/exhibit text, NOT as an asbestos exposure site - other litigation, not qualifying. The remaining staged queries ('DD-842'/'DDR-842' opinion index; 'DD-842'/'DDR-842' RECAP docket index) could not be completed - the fleet-wide pacing budget was spent across spaced retries through the session; those queries are deferred as open items rather than retried into a throttle. See search_ledger for per-query status.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 2026-09-28
- Population
- none identified
- Limitations
- CourtListener indexes opinions and PACER dockets, not state trial filings, VA claims, asbestos trust claims, or settled/unreported matters - absence here does not prove no claim was ever filed. 'Fiske' is a low-collision ship name but a common surname; the DE-143 hull (sunk August 1944) predates the asbestos-litigation exposure window, so any post-1945 'USS Fiske' exposure allegation attributable to a Navy ship refers to this hull. Hull-number ('DD-842'/'DDR-842') coverage remains incomplete pending a pacing window (see search_ledger).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-fiske-dd842-06
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[8]Consolidated era/yard inference - DANFS specifications (Gearing class; 60,000-shp four-boiler geared steam plant) + Atlas shipyard dataset Bath Iron Works record (1942 Drinker industrial-hygiene study, PMID 21016030; 1987 OSHA inspection) + NHHC-documented FRAM I yard period + NARA RG19 General Information Books archival lead [other_primary]
- Locator
- DANFS spec block; shipyards.json record 'bath-iron-works'; NHHC Online Library narrative (FRAM yard)
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Era/yard inference only: a Gearing-class destroyer built April-November 1945 at Bath Iron Works with a 60,000-shp four-boiler geared steam plant would have carried period-standard asbestos insulation, lagging, gaskets, packing, fireproofing, and deck coverings. Builder Bath Iron Works is documented at yard level in the Atlas dataset (tier 2): the 1942 Drinker study recorded 'fairly serious dust risk' at roughly 10x the safe threshold in the yard's pipe-covering shops, and a 1987 OSHA inspection recorded asbestos-standard citations. This hull underwent two major mid-life yard periods under era practices that disturbed machinery-space insulation: the radar-picket conversion April-November 1952 (yard not DANFS-confirmed; veteran recollection places it at Boston Naval Shipyard) and the FRAM I conversion at New York Naval Shipyard February-November 1964 (NHHC). NARA RG19 'General Information Books' per-vessel material specifications are the archival lead for hull-level specs.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1945-1980
- Population
- Bath Iron Works construction trades 1945; conversion-yard workers 1952 and 1964; crew 1945-1980
- Limitations
- Class/era and builder-yard inference - NONE of this is a ship-specific finding: no material callout, survey, or work order for DD-842 was located. Yard-level findings do not establish what was installed aboard this hull; the 1942 Drinker study predates this hull's build by three years. NARA GIB and deck-log retrieval not performed.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-fiske-dd842-07
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[9]Goodrich v. Air & Liquid Systems Corp., Omnibus Opinion and Order, ECF No. 171, E.D. Va. No. 4:17-cv-00009 (Sept. 28, 2018) [court_record]
- Locator
- E.D. Va. 4:17-cv-00009, ECF No. 171 (Omnibus Opinion and Order), evidence-review sections reciting the class drawing and weight report
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Class-level litigation recital: the Goodrich omnibus opinion recites 'an engineering drawing for the insulation and lagging of forced draft blower turbines for the class of destroyers (DD 692, USS Allen M. Sumner class), within which the USS Harlan Dickson fell, specifies the use of amosite felts and asbestos cloths' and quotes a report estimating 'a partial tally of the weight of the asbestos-containing thermal insulation and lagging products in the fire ... and engine rooms of a ship belonging to the USS Allen M. Sumner (DD 692) and USS Gearing (DD 710) classes of destroyers' at 30.3 tons. Fiske is a Gearing-class hull built to the lengthened-Sumner design, so both recitals sit within this hull's class context.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1944-1949 construction era; 2018 (opinion)
- Population
- Gearing/Sumner-class crews and yard workers (class context)
- Limitations
- Litigation-record recitals from a different plaintiff's case (USS Harlan Dickson exposure), not adjudicated classwide quantities and NOT a ship-specific finding for DD-842 - the underlying drawing and report were not retrieved and their figures are carried only as class context. Class membership prioritizes research; it never becomes a ship finding.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-fiske-dd842-08
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[10]GAO, Navy Efforts To Protect Workers From Asbestos Exposure, HRD-80-2 (Oct. 18, 1979) [gao]
- Locator
- gao.gov product page HRD-80-2 (title and description)
- Finding type
- gov_survey
- Finding
- GAO documented the Navy's asbestos-protection program during the final decade of this hull's service: standing policy since 1975 removed asbestos insulation only when damaged or required for repairs, modified in 1979 to selective replacement in high-maintenance areas - meaning original-era insulation typically remained in place for decades unless a yard period (e.g., this hull's 1952 radar-picket conversion or 1964 FRAM I) disturbed it.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1975-1979 (policy window overlapping this hull's final service years)
- Population
- Navy shipyard workers, program-wide
- Limitations
- Program-level document; GAO fieldwork yards were Long Beach and Norfolk Naval Shipyards - neither is a documented Fiske yard. No hull-specific content. gao.gov returns HTTP 403 to automated fetches; the product-page description was used (standing limitation since batch-01).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-fiske-dd842-09