Evidence
8 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-8).
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[1]DANFS, Foote II (DD-169) (verbatim transcription - live NHHC page returns 404) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS entry, specifications block + full service narrative (losthistory.net/hazegray mirror of NHHC DANFS)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS record for this hull: spec block reads 'DD-169: dp. 1,060; l. 314'5"; b. 31'8", dr. 9'2" s. 35 k.; cpl. 101; a. 4 4", 12 21" tt., 1 dcp.; cl. Wickes'. Launched 14 December 1918 by Fore River Shipbuilding Co., Quincy, Mass.; sponsored by Mrs. Lelia F. Cady; commissioned 21 March 1919, Lt. Comdr. D. H. Stuart in command. Sailed Boston 3 May 1919 for the Newfoundland observation station supporting the Navy seaplanes' first transatlantic crossing; returned Boston 22 May; Naval Forces European Waters from 27 August 1919 - Adriatic September-December, then Italian and French ports; Boston 12 February 1920, reserve 24 February for repairs at Boston and Charleston; summer 1921 Narragansett Bay target practice at 50 percent complement; decommissioned at Philadelphia 6 July 1922. Recommissioned 2 July 1940; patrol out of Charleston, S.C.; sailed 7 September for Halifax; decommissioned and transferred to the Royal Navy 23 September 1940 in the destroyers-for-land-bases exchange. As HMS Roxborough: Western Approaches convoy escort; western Atlantic escort out of Halifax from March 1942; returned to the Tyne 10 January 1944 and lay in reserve; transferred to Russia 1 August 1944; returned to Great Britain 7 February 1949 after Russian service as 'Zhostkpi' (sic - Zhostkiy).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Study period
- 1918-1949
- Population
- Fore River construction trades 1918-19; USN crew 1919-1922 and 1940 (design complement 101); RN crew 1940-1944; Soviet crew 1944-1949
- Limitations
- DANFS documents service history and specifications, not materials or asbestos content. DANFS omits the laid-down date and the Navy-list striking date (carried from secondary compilations - see ev-02). Mirror transcription cited because the live NHHC page returns 404; transcription carries 'Zhostkpi,' an OCR/typographical error for Zhostkiy.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-foote-dd169-01
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[2]NavSource Destroyer Photo Index DD-169; historyofwar.org 'USS Foote (DD-169)/HMS Roxborough'; naval-history.net (Lt Cdr G.B. Mason RN Rtd) 'HMS Roxburgh (I07)' service history [reputable_press]
- Locator
- navsource.org/archives/05/169.htm (operational/building data + extended narrative); historyofwar.org article spec table and narrative; naval-history.net/xGM-Chrono-11US-HMS_Roxburgh.htm (Mason chronology)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Secondary corroboration filling gaps DANFS does not carry: laid down 7 August 1918 (all three sources); stricken from the Navy list 8 January 1941 (NavSource). RN career detail: commissioned at Halifax 23 September 1940 still named Foote; formally renamed Roxborough 2 or 4 October 1940 (Mason self-inconsistent); defect repair return to Halifax October 1940; Devonport refit completed 18 March 1941; 2nd then 4th Escort Groups; Clyde refit 27 July-22 September 1941; WLEF Halifax; Charleston, S.C. refit 12 January-26 March 1942; grounding off Chebogue 24 June 1942 with repairs at Norfolk, Va. until 9 September; January 1943 convoy HX222 storm crushed the bridge structure - eleven dead including the commanding officer (Lt.Cdr. A.C. Price, RN, per uboat.net dated 15 January 1943) and 1st Lieutenant; ship brought into St. John's by a junior RCNVR officer on hand steering; Charleston repairs to mid-April/May 1943. Soviet transfer dated 10 August 1944 by NavSource and Mason (DANFS reads 1 August); Soviet name Doblestny per Mason vs Zhostkiy per NavSource; historyofwar.org notes the same two names attach to ex-USS Maddox (DD-168)/HMS Georgetown - a documented source confusion. Returned to Britain at Rosyth 7 February 1949; passed to BISCO and arrived Dunston on Tyne for breaking up; scrapped 14 May 1949 (historyofwar.org; NavSource header reads 'returned to Great Britain September 8 1952').
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Study period
- 1918-1949
- Population
- RN and RCNVR crew 1940-1944; Charleston and Norfolk yard workers during 1942-43 refits
- Limitations
- Secondary compilations, not primary documents - used only for data points DANFS omits and flagged where they conflict (Soviet transfer date and name; renaming date; disposal dates). Mason's 'ANNAPOLIS-Class' label is his internal Town-class grouping convention, not a U.S. class designation; his 'US/UK Lend Lease Agreement' wording for the transfer is loose - the instrument was the 2 September 1940 destroyers-for-bases exchange of notes (ev-04).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-foote-dd169-02
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[3]Imperial War Museums collections, object 205137133 (photograph A 2783): 'HMS Roxborough, British Town Class Destroyer. January 1941. The ex-USA destroyer (USS Foote)' [museum_official]
- Locator
- IWM collections object 205137133 / image A 2783
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- IWM official catalog record for a January 1941 photograph (A 2783) explicitly identifying this hull in RN service: 'HMS Roxborough, British Town class destroyer ... the ex-USA destroyer (USS Foote)'. Confirms the Foote-to-Roxborough identity and Town-class assignment in Royal Navy service.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Study period
- 1941
- Population
- RN crew, January 1941
- Limitations
- Confirms identity and period only - a catalog record for a photograph, not a materials or condition survey; no asbestos information. iwm.org.uk returned HTTP 403 to automated fetch; the record's existence and title are confirmed via the museum's indexed catalog listing, but object-level metadata beyond the title was not inspected.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-foote-dd169-03
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[4]UK Treaty Series No. 21 (1940): Exchange of Notes between the UK and U.S. Governments - United States Destroyers and Naval and Air Facilities for the United States in British Transatlantic Territories, Washington, September 2, 1940 [other_primary]
- Locator
- UK Treaty Series 1940 TS0021, notes dated 2 September 1940; FDR message to Congress 3 September 1940 (American Presidency Project) corroborates 50 destroyers
- Finding type
- regulatory
- Finding
- The official treaty instrument under which this hull was transferred: the 2 September 1940 exchange of notes granting the U.S. 99-year leases on naval/air base sites (Newfoundland, Bermuda, Bahamas, Jamaica, St. Lucia, Trinidad, Antigua, British Guiana) in return for U.S. naval and military equipment - the 'destroyers for bases' agreement. DANFS records DD-169 decommissioned and transferred at Halifax 23 September 1940 under this exchange; she was one of fifty over-age destroyers transferred.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Study period
- 1940
- Limitations
- Program-level instrument - the exchange of notes does not name individual hulls. Establishes the legal framework and timing of the transfer, not any fact about materials aboard this ship. 'Lend-Lease' framing in some secondary sources is loose: the agreement predates the March 1941 Lend-Lease Act.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-foote-dd169-04
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[5]DANFS specifications block (Wickes class; 35 kt) + secondary machinery data (4 boilers, 2-shaft Parsons turbines, 27,000 shp design - historyofwar.org/NavSource class table) + Atlas shipyard dataset, fore-river-shipyard record (tier 3; documented asbestos products incl. boiler, pipe, turbine insulation, fireproofing, gaskets, packing); NARA RG19 General Information Books archival lead [other_primary]
- Locator
- DANFS spec block; shipyards.json records 'fore-river-shipyard' and 'bethlehem-shipbuilding'; NARA RG19 lead
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Era/yard inference: a WWI-program Wickes-class steam destroyer built 1918-19 with a four-boiler, two-shaft Parsons-turbine plant (27,000 shp design) would have carried period-standard asbestos boiler and steam-line insulation, turbine lagging, gaskets, packing, and fireproofing; builder Fore River (Bethlehem, Quincy) is documented at yard level in the Atlas dataset (tier 3) with asbestos products including boilers, pipes, turbines, fireproofing materials, gaskets, and packing. NARA RG19 'General Information Books' per-vessel material specifications are an unretrieved archival lead for hull-level specs.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Study period
- 1918-1949
- Population
- Fore River construction trades 1918-19; USN/RN/Soviet crews 1919-1949
- Limitations
- Class/era and builder-yard inference only - NOT a hull-specific finding. Yard-level asbestos documentation postdates or does not specifically cover this 1918 build; machinery figures are from secondary class compilations, not the ship's specifications book. Does not quantify material or establish any individual's exposure.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-foote-dd169-05
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[6]GAO, Navy Efforts To Protect Workers From Asbestos Exposure, HRD-80-2 (Oct 18, 1979) [gao]
- Locator
- GAO product page 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 DD-169's construction (1918-19) and entire service life (1919-1949, three navies) inside the documented asbestos-use era.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Study period
- 1979
- Population
- Navy shipyard workers; asbestos program review
- Limitations
- Program-level documentation; supports era context only, not any fact specific to this hull. Full report text not retrieved (gao.gov blocks automated fetch, HTTP 403) - content via product-page description.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-foote-dd169-06
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[7]DANFS specifications block: 'cl. Wickes' (DD-169); Hopkins class = DD-6 Hopkins and DD-7 Hull, Harlan & Hollingsworth, 1899-1903 (navypedia/historyofwar.org class listings) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS spec block 'cl. Wickes'; navypedia.org/ships/usa/us_dd_hopkins.htm and historyofwar.org Hopkins-class page (DD-6/DD-7 roster)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Metadata correction: the PRIMARY/VERIFY-side listing for this hull records class 'Hopkins.' The authoritative DANFS spec block reads 'cl. Wickes.' The Hopkins class was a two-ship Bainbridge sub-class - DD-6 Hopkins and DD-7 Hull, built by Harlan & Hollingsworth 1899-1903, coal-fired turtleback destroyers a design generation and fifteen hull numbers removed from DD-169. The Wickes-class identification is retained; 'Hopkins' is a metadata error, not a different hull - DANFS, NavSource, uboat.net, and historyofwar.org all carry DD-169 as Wickes class.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- correction
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Study period
- 1918-1919
- Limitations
- Corrects the class string only. The underlying hull identity (DD-169, Fore River-built, launched 14 December 1918) is consistent across all sources - the error is confined to the class field.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-foote-dd169-07
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[8]Batch-3174 search ledger (this record): DANFS mirror; NavSource; historyofwar.org; naval-history.net (Mason RN histories); uboat.net; IWM collections; UK Treaty Series 1940 TS0021; GAO HRD-80-2; CourtListener (see sl-07/sl-08 for final sweep status) [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-foote-dd169-01 through sl-uss-foote-dd169-09
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located for DD-169 in the public sources searched (see search_ledger): no asbestos survey, abatement record, materials inventory, or hazmat disclosure, and no asbestos-litigation reference to the hull in indexed web sources. The CourtListener sweep could not be completed - the authenticated helper was blocked by the fleet-wide request budget for the duration of the session (sl-07/sl-08) - so litigation coverage is a logged gap, not an asserted negative. The hull was transferred to the Royal Navy in September 1940 and broken up in Britain in 1949 - decades before asbestos documentation practice - and never entered a U.S. preservation pipeline, so the museum-disclosure channel that produced ship-specific records for preserved hulls does not exist here.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Study period
- 2026-09-26
- Limitations
- Absence of a located public record does not prove absence of asbestos aboard - era-standard applications are documented at class/era level (ev-05, ev-06). The hull no longer exists, so present-day ACM status is moot; nothing here establishes or defeats any claim of exposure or legal eligibility. VERIFY's Tier-1 placement for this hull is unexplained by anything located in this sweep - see report.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-foote-dd169-08