Evidence
7 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-7).
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[1]research packet le-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-foreman-de633-pkt-le-packet-md
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[2]DANFS, Foreman (DE-633) - verbatim NHHC page via Wayback capture 2014-07-14 (live NHHC page history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/f/foreman.html returns 404) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS entry, namesake paragraph + specification block + service narrative
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS record for this hull: launched 1 August 1943 by Bethlehem Steel Co., San Francisco, Calif.; sponsored by Miss Nadine Foreman; commissioned 22 October 1943, Lt. Cmdr. C. A. Manston, USNR. Specification block: 1,400 t; 306 ft; 37 ft beam; dr. 9'5"; 24 kt; complement 186; 3x3"/50, 3x21" tt., hedgehog, K-guns, depth-charge tracks; class Buckley. Service: Funafuti 28 January 1944, nine months convoy escort SW Pacific (northern Solomons, western New Guinea); Sydney upkeep from 29 September 1944; Leyte hospital-transport escort arriving 30 October; Manus/Hollandia/Eniwetok/Majuro/Ulithi escort duty; Kossol Roads station ship 9-19 March 1945; staged at Ulithi for the attack on Okinawa; sortied 21 March and arrived off Okinawa 25 March, five days fire-support bombardment; 27 March plane crashed close aboard, no casualties; 3 April direct bomb hit - bomb passed through the bottom and exploded about 30 feet below, all power and light lost, one fireroom flooded to the waterline, no men killed; reached Kerama Retto under own power for emergency repairs; full repairs Ulithi 17 April-29 May; Okinawa patrol from 3 June; kamikaze downed 11 June with a sister destroyer; East China Sea minesweeper escort from 29 June; Okinawa overhaul from 16 August; Buckner Bay escort duty; departed Wakayama 26 September with homeward-bound servicemen; San Diego 17 October; decommissioned Green Cove Springs 28 June 1946; five battle stars.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1943-1946
- Population
- Bethlehem Steel San Francisco construction trades 1943; wartime crew (DANFS complement 186)
- Limitations
- DANFS documents service history and specifications, not materials or asbestos content. It gives no laid-down date or striking date (entry predates the strike). Mirror capture cited because the live NHHC page returns 404.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-foreman-de633-01
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[3]"Ship's History of U.S.S. Foreman (DE-633)" - the ship's own war-history submission, scanned image hosted by NavSource (06633wh.jpg) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource DE-633 page, 'View the official War History' scan (06633wh.jpg), panels 1-4
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Ship-authored war history for this hull (primary document scan): built at Bethlehem Steel Corporation, San Francisco; commissioned 22 October 1943; shakedown at San Diego 5 November-10 December 1943; departed for Pearl Harbor 2 January 1944; escort operations Funafuti/Treasury Island/Green Island/Emirau/Guadalcanal/Bougainville/New Guinea through 1944; Lt. Cmdr. William J. Carey Jr., USNR relieved Manston 16 September 1944; details the 3 April 1945 bomb hit (bomb passed through the bottom, exploded about 30 feet below, No. 1 fireroom flooded to the waterline, no men killed; temporary repairs alongside a repair ship at Kerama Retto).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1943-1946
- Population
- Wartime crew
- Limitations
- Primary document hosted by a volunteer-run photo archive (NavSource); text read from the image scan - some lines are faint and only corroborated passages are relied on. Contains no materials or asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-foreman-de633-02
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[4]NavSource Destroyer Escort Photo Archive, USS Foreman (DE-633) - building/operational data and captioned photo archive (Wayback capture 2024-11-14) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource 06/633 page: building/operational data block; captions for images 0663305-0663308, 0663303-0663304, 0615504
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Volunteer-compiled record for this hull with attributed photo captions: keel laid 9 March 1943 at Bethlehem Steel Shipyard Corp., San Francisco; launched/christened 1 August 1943; commissioned 22 October 1943; decommissioned at Green Cove Springs, Fla. 28 June 1946; struck from the NVR 1 April 1965; sold and scrapped 1966. Photo captions: 12 July 1943 on the building way beside future USS Whitehurst (DE-634) at Bethlehem Steel's San Francisco yard (Bethlehem Steel photos P82-125a.4397n/.4398n, J. Porter Shaw Library, San Francisco Maritime NHP - collection verified as NPS SAFR 17161, Bethlehem Steel Corp. Shipbuilding Division Photographs 1920-1979); 11 August 1943 under construction (NARA photo NA 80G79876); August 1966 ex-Foreman and ex-Hopping (APD-51) at Port Everglades sheltering from Hurricane Faith while en route to scrappers in Baltimore.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1943-1966
- Population
- Construction trades 1943; scrappers 1966
- Limitations
- Secondary volunteer compilation - each caption is contributor-attributed and two cite institutional photo numbers, but the compiled dates (laid down 9 March 1943; struck 1 April 1965) are not independently primary-verified; alternative striking dates appear in other compilations (carried in gaps). No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-foreman-de633-03
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[5]Bureau of Ships, Ships' Data, U.S. Naval Vessels, Vol. 1 (Jan 1945), DE design-group table (design groups 2-3) + navypedia TE block map for boiler attribution [other_primary]
- Locator
- SDB1945v1 pp. 234-235 design-group table; navypedia us_de_te member table
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Class/era inference: the Buckley (TE) destroyer escort is one of only two DE designs with a full steam plant - two 'D' express-type boilers at 435 psi/750F superheat feeding GE turbo-electric machinery of 12,000 shp (BuShips Ships' Data 1945 groups 2-3). Per navypedia's per-block boiler-manufacturer map, DE-633-644 hulls carried Combustion Engineering boilers. A 1943 wartime steam ship of this description would have carried era-standard asbestos applications: boiler/fireroom insulation, steam-line lagging, gaskets, packing, fireproofing.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1942-1946
- Population
- Bethlehem San Francisco construction trades 1943; crew 1943-46; reserve-fleet caretakers 1946-65
- Limitations
- Class/era inference only - NOT a hull-specific finding. BuShips table documents design conditions, not materials; the boiler-manufacturer attribution is navypedia-sourced and unverified against contract documents. Establishes no quantities and no individual exposure.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-foreman-de633-04
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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 the Navy's asbestos-protection program: a 1975 standing policy removed asbestos insulation only when damaged or when 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 disturbed it. Foreman spent 1946-1965 in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet and was scrapped in 1966, so the program context bears on disposal-era disturbance rather than on any documented condition aboard.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1979
- Population
- Navy shipyard workers; asbestos program review
- Limitations
- Program-level documentation, not ship-specific; the report's fieldwork yards were Long Beach and Norfolk naval shipyards. Full text blocked to automated fetch (HTTP 403); content via product-page description.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-foreman-de633-05
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[7]Batch-4425 search ledger (this record): NHHC/DANFS verbatim (Wayback), ship's war-history scan, NavSource photo archive, NVR lookup, NARA catalog, archive.org DANFS Vol. II, CourtListener exact-name and hull-number queries [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-foreman-de633-01 through sl-uss-foreman-de633-09
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located for DE-633: no hull ACM survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, or docketed asbestos case names the vessel in the sources searched. CourtListener opinion-index sweeps: the single "USS Foreman" hit is a name collision (United States Steel foreman in an employment-practices case, Brown v. United States Steel Corp., 698 F. Supp. 1375, N.D. Ill. 1988); the seven "DE-633" hits are all identifier collisions (docket-entry numbers and reporter star pagination in unrelated cases). RECAP docket-index sweep was refused by the fleet pacing limiter and remains pending.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 2026-09-29
- Limitations
- Absence of a located public record does not prove absence of asbestos aboard - a 1943 steam-plant hull scrapped in 1966 is era-consistent with retained ACM, and disposal-era records (scrapping yard practices) are undocumented. Does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-foreman-de633-06
