Evidence
8 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-8).
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[1]research packet fd-packet.md (14 sources cited) [other_primary]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERIFIED
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-foote-dd511-pkt-fd-packet-md
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[2]DANFS, Foote III (DD-511) (builder, launch, commissioning, service narrative, decommissioning, battle stars; live NHHC page returns 404 - cited via Wayback Machine capture of 2025-12-09) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS 'Foote III (DD-511)' entry, specifications block + service narrative
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS record for this hull: spec block 'DD-511: dp. 2,050; l. 376'6"; b. 40'; dr. 17'9"; s. 37 k.; cpl. 273; a. 5 5", 10 21" tt, 6 dcp., 2 dct.; cl. Fletcher'. Launched 11 October 1942 by Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine; sponsored by Mrs. J. C. Aspinwall, granddaughter of Admiral Foote; commissioned 22 December 1942, Commander Bernard L. Austin in command. Casablanca convoy escort April-May 1943; Destroyer Squadron 23 Solomon Islands operations; torpedoed in the Battle of Empress Augusta Bay early 2 November 1943 - an enemy torpedo 'blew off her stern', 3 killed and 17 wounded; towed to Purvis Bay; arrived San Pedro 4 March 1944 under tow of merchant tanker SS Gulf Star and was 'repaired and modernized'; training ship out of San Francisco August-October 1944; Leyte, Mindoro, Lingayen Gulf operations; picket duty off Okinawa; arrived New York 17 October 1945; decommissioned 18 April 1946; four battle stars for World War II service.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1942-1946
- Population
- Bath Iron Works construction trades 1942; wartime crew (design complement 273)
- Limitations
- DANFS documents service history and specifications, not materials or asbestos content. The entry carries no laid-down date and ends at decommissioning - the 1972 striking and 1974 sale are not in the DANFS text (carried from NavSource, ev-03). Mirror capture cited because the live NHHC page returns 404.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-foote-dd511-01
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[3]Bureau of Ships, War Damage Report No. 50 (NAVSHIPS 50 (374)), 'Destroyer Report: Torpedo and Mine Damage and Loss in Action, 17 October 1941 to 7 December 1944', 1 May 1945 - USS Foote (DD-511) case narrative, Section 11 (report pp. 47-51); verbatim HyperWar transcription [other_primary]
- Locator
- WDR-50 Section 11 (USS FOOTE DD511), report pp. 47-51, incl. references (a)-(h)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Official BuShips damage-and-repair record for this hull: torpedo detonated on the rudder skeg at about frame 203 at 0301 on 2 November 1943, destroying all structure aft of frame 196; emergency temporary repairs at Purvis Bay alongside repair ship Whitney (AD-4) 4-23 November 1943 (damaged material aft of frame 182 removed, bulkheads shored watertight); floating drydock at Espiritu Santo 27 November 1943-21 January 1944 (all damaged structure aft of frame 182-1/2 cut away, new bulkhead installed, stern tubes and shafts aft of frame 161 removed, two fixed 'rudders' fitted); towed to U.S. Naval Drydocks, Terminal Island, arriving 4 March 1944, where 'permanent repairs together with authorized alterations were made'; returned to service 30 June 1944. The report's reference list includes the ship's own war damage reports and two June 1944 supplementary reports by the Commanding Officer, Naval Drydocks Terminal Island.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1943-1944
- Population
- Wartime crew at damage event (3 killed, 17 wounded per DANFS); repair-ship and drydock workers at Purvis Bay, Espiritu Santo, and Terminal Island 1943-44
- Limitations
- Official record of battle damage and repair scope - it documents that the entire stern section was removed and rebuilt in a Navy drydock in 1944, a major yard event, but says nothing about insulation, asbestos, or materials content. The 1944 rebuild period is carried as an event; any asbestos scope within it is inference only. Terminal Island Naval Drydocks is the 1944-era name of the facility renamed Long Beach Naval Shipyard in 1948.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-foote-dd511-02
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[4]NavSource Naval History, Destroyer Photo Index DD-511 USS Foote (operational and building data; photo captions sourcing BuShips War Torpedo Damage Report No. 50) [reputable_press]
- Locator
- navsource.net/archives/05/511.htm - 'Operational and Building Data' block
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Secondary compilation filling fields DANFS does not carry: built by Bath Iron Works, Bath, ME (yard number 200); laid down 14 April 1942; stricken from the Naval Vessel Register 1 October 1972; sold 2 January 1974 to Southern Scrap Material of New Orleans for $139,377.60 and broken up for scrap. Photo captions sourced to WDR-50 corroborate the damage narrative (temporary repairs at Espiritu Santo, stern cut at frame 182).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1942-1974
- Limitations
- NavSource is a secondary compilation reproducing official (NVR-style) data; the laid-down date, sale date, buyer and price rest on this compilation, not a located primary document. Sale price is NavSource-only. Carried for identity/disposition fields, not materials content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-foote-dd511-03
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[5]DANFS specifications block (Fletcher class; 37 kt) + Atlas shipyard dataset, Bath Iron Works record (ev-bath-iron-works-02: Drinker 1942 Harvard industrial-hygiene study of pipe-covering shop dust risk, PMID 21016030; documented yard products incl. Kaylo pipe covering, Foster Wheeler gaskets, asbestos felt, loose packing) [other_primary]
- Locator
- DANFS specifications block; shipyards.json record 'bath-iron-works' (ev-bath-iron-works-02)
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Era/yard inference: a WWII Fletcher-class destroyer with a four-boiler steam plant built April-December 1942 would have carried period-standard asbestos insulation, lagging, gaskets, packing, and fireproofing; builder Bath Iron Works is documented at yard level in the Atlas dataset (tier 2), including the contemporaneous 1942 Drinker study recording 'fairly serious dust risk' in the yard's pipe-covering shops - conducted while this hull was on the ways at Bath.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1942-1946
- Population
- Bath Iron Works construction trades 1942; crew 1942-46
- Limitations
- Class/era and builder-yard inference only - NOT a hull-specific finding. The 1942 Drinker study documents conditions in the yard's pipe-covering shops during the year Foote was built, but does not establish what was installed aboard hull 200 (DD-511). Does not quantify material or establish any individual's exposure.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-foote-dd511-04
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[6]GAO, Navy Efforts To Protect Workers From Asbestos Exposure, HRD-80-2 (Oct 18, 1979) [gao]
- Locator
- gao.gov/products/hrd-80-2 product page
- 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-511's construction (1942), entire commissioned service (1942-1946), reserve berth, and 1974 scrapping inside the documented asbestos-use era.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1940s-1970s program scope
- Population
- Navy shipbuilders and crews generally
- Limitations
- Program-level context, not hull evidence: the report addresses Navy-wide insulation practice and does not mention DD-511; gao.gov returns HTTP 403 to automated fetch so the product-page description is used. Does not establish materials aboard this hull.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-foote-dd511-05
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[7]CourtListener API v4 sweep (authenticated): '"USS Foote"' opinions 0 results, dockets 0 results; '"U.S.S. Foote"' 0; '"aboard the Foote"' 0; '"DD-511"' 0; '"DD 511"' 0; unquoted 'Foote asbestos' 1,959 hits reviewed as surname collisions [court_record]
- Locator
- CourtListener API v4 search, 2026-09-27 (queries in search_ledger)
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- No qualifying asbestos-litigation record naming this hull located on CourtListener on 2026-09-27: every exact-name and hull-number query returned zero across both opinions and dockets ('"USS Foote"' o/r, '"U.S.S. Foote"', '"aboard the Foote"', '"DD-511"', '"DD 511"'). The unquoted 'Foote asbestos' query returned 1,959 results in which 'Foote' appears only as a surname (parties, counsel, and judges - incl. a sitting W.D. La. judge) inside generic asbestos dockets; page review found no vessel reference. 'Foote' is a high-collision name: Foote Mineral Co. is itself a legacy asbestos defendant, and 'USS Foote' spans two hulls (DD-169, transferred to Britain 1940; this hull).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 2026-09-27
- Limitations
- CourtListener indexes published and RECAP-ingested content only; absence of a hit does not prove no case ever named the hull - state-court, unindexed, or settled matters are not covered. The sweep is recorded query-by-query in the search ledger.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-foote-dd511-06
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[8]Batch-3489 search ledger (this record): DANFS via Wayback capture; BuShips WDR-50 HyperWar transcription; NavSource DD-511 page; NVR (pre-1987 disposals not covered); VA BVA web index; general web asbestos sweep; CourtListener authenticated sweep [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-foote-dd511-01 through -15
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located for DD-511 in the public sources searched: no hull ACM survey, abatement record, materials inventory, or hazmat disclosure exists (none expected - hull scrapped 1974, no museum phase), and no asbestos-litigation opinion or docket naming the hull was located in indexed sources. The only asbestos-specific web hits are law-firm and content-site list pages that name the ship generically; one (navyshipexposure.com) itself states that ship-specific BuShips documentation for DD-511 'has not yet been published' - excluded as non-authoritative marketing content under batch rules.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 2026-09-27
- Limitations
- Absence of a located public record does not prove absence of asbestos aboard - it records only that no ship-specific documentation was found in the sources searched. Does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility. NARA RG 19 material specifications and the WDR-50 reference letters are unretrieved archival leads.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-foote-dd511-07