Evidence
4 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-4).
-
[1]DANFS entry, USS Fresno II (CL-121), Vol. 2 p. 450 (1963) (hazegray transcription; live NHHC page 404) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS CL-121 entry, specifications block + full service narrative
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS record for this hull: launched 5 March 1946 by Federal Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., Kearny, N.J. (keel laid 12 February 1945 per BuShips Ships' Data 1945 dates table - DANFS omits); sponsored by Mrs. Ruth R. Martin; commissioned 27 November 1946, Capt. E. B. Strauss. Spec block: cpl. 623; cl. Juneau. Reclassified CLAA-121 on 18 March 1949. First operational cruise 13 January - 7 May 1947: Caribbean training plus Montevideo (presidential inauguration) and Rio de Janeiro. Northern-Europe/Mediterranean tour 1 August - 1 December 1947 (Plymouth base). Second overseas deployment 3 March - 19 June 1948: Amsterdam, Dublin, Bergen, Copenhagen (flagship for Admiral Richard L. Conolly per Online Library photo caption). Coastwise operations from Norfolk (Prince Edward's Island, Bermuda). Decommissioned at New York Naval Ship Yard 17 May 1949; reserve berthing at Bayonne, N.J. Sold for scrap 17 June 1966.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-18
- Study period
- 1945-1966
- Population
- Construction trades 1945-1946; crew 1946-1949
- Limitations
- DANFS documents construction, service history, and disposal - not materials or asbestos content. Mirror transcription cited because the live NHHC page returns 404; transcription is verbatim DANFS text. The 1963 entry predates the April 1965 striking; the stricken date is carried from the Online Library.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-fresno-cl121-01
-
[2]NHHC Online Library of Selected Images, USS Fresno (CL-121, later CLAA-121), 1946-1966 (official Naval Historical Center narrative + photo catalog) [other_primary]
- Locator
- https://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/OnlineLibrary/photos/sh-usn/usnsh-f/cl121.htm
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NHHC Online Library narrative for this hull: 'last of the three 6,000-ton Juneau class light cruisers'; built at Kearny, New Jersey; placed in commission late November 1946; South America cruise January - May 1947; European waters August - November 1947; second northern-Europe tour March - June 1948; western Atlantic for the rest of her active career; decommissioned May 1949 into the Atlantic Reserve Fleet; 'following a decade and a half in "mothballs", she was stricken from the list of Naval vessels in April 1965 and sold for scrapping in June 1966.'
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-18
- Study period
- 1946-1966
- Population
- Reserve-fleet custody personnel 1949-1966
- Limitations
- Official NHHC narrative page - corroborates DANFS and supplies the stricken month (April 1965) absent from the 1963 DANFS entry; contains no asbestos or materials content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-fresno-cl121-02
-
[3]U.S. Navy Bureau of Ships, Ships' Data U.S. Naval Vessels, Vol. 1 (1945), Light Cruisers (CL) tables - CL-121 machinery and dates rows; U.S. Navy, Bureau of Ships Technical Manual, NAVSHIPS 250-000, Chapter 39 'Thermal Insulation' (1960); Atlas shipyard dataset [other_primary]
- Locator
- SDB1945v1.pdf CL dates table (keel row: 'Feb. 12, 1945') + CL machinery table (CL-121 row); NAVSHIPS 250-000 ch. 39 pp. 39-11..39-13 (scan via Garlock bankruptcy repository); shipyards.json 'federal-shipbuilding-kearny', 'brooklyn-navy-yard'
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Era inference: Juneau-group construction (the further-modified Atlanta design) at Federal Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., Kearny, NJ - keel laid 12 February 1945 per the Ships' Data 1945 dates table - falls squarely in the documented Navy asbestos-insulation era. Ships' Data 1945 lists this hull's plant as 4 boilers, 2 Westinghouse geared steam turbines, 75,000 shp, 565 psi / 850 deg F; the 1960 BuShips Technical Manual insulation chapter enumerates the era-standard suite - 85%-magnesia (~15% asbestos) and amosite-fiber pipe covering, asbestos felt, chrysotile cloth/tape lagging, asbestos millboard, finishing cement, and molded asbestos block. Documented disturbance periods for this hull: builder yard period 1945-46 at Kearny (a photo in the Online Library shows her fitting out at the Federal yard in September 1946); decommissioning at New York Naval Ship Yard May 1949; and 16 years of reserve layup at Bayonne 1949-65 - the least-disturbed custody category.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-18
- Study period
- 1945-1949
- Population
- Construction trades 1945-1946; crew 1946-1949
- Limitations
- Class/era specification and yard-period inference only - no ship-specific asbestos record exists for this hull (ev-04); this row must not be read as establishing that asbestos products were or remain aboard. Does not quantify material; insulation disturbance at documented yard periods is inference from work scope, not a documented abatement record.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-fresno-cl121-03
-
[4]Batch-61 search ledger (this record): NHHC DANFS + Online Library; CourtListener ship-name and hull-number queries; NVR; museum/disclosure sweep [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-fresno-cl121-01 through sl-uss-fresno-cl121-05; atlanta-class.class.json ev-07
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: fresh CourtListener queries for this hull were BLOCKED (HTTP 429 - shared-IP 125/day cap exhausted mid-session); the class-profile's completed per-name CourtListener sweep of 2026-09-16 returned zero qualifying asbestos opinions for 'Fresno' hulls (the name is shared with the California city, a collision class noted in the class sweep). No hull ACM survey, abatement contract, scrapping hazmat disclosure, NVR entry (hull disposed of before live-register coverage), or museum record with asbestos data was found in the public sources searched (see search_ledger).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-18
- Study period
- 2026-09-18
- Limitations
- Absence of a located public record does not prove absence of asbestos aboard - it establishes only that no qualifying ship-specific documentation was found in the searched repositories. The fresh per-ship sweep is a partial sweep (blocked); corroboration rests on the class-level 2026-09-16 sweep. Does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-fresno-cl121-04