Evidence
6 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-6).
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[1]research packet hc-packet.md (2 sources cited) [other_primary]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERIFIED
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-furse-dd882-pkt-hc-packet-md
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[2]DANFS, Furse (DD-882) (builder, dates, service narrative, striking; verbatim transcription - live NHHC page https://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/f/furse.html serves 404 to automated fetch; Wayback capture 2025-02-02 confirms identical old-volume text) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS entry, specifications block + full service narrative (ibiblio/HyperWar transcription of DD-882 entry)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS record for this hull: named for Lt. John Houseal Furse (died aboard USS Illinois 30 September 1907 of injuries received fighting a storm); launched 9 March 1945 by Consolidated Steel Corp., Ltd., Orange, Tex.; sponsored by Miss Eugenia A. Furse, the namesake's sister; commissioned 10 July 1945, Cmdr. D. A. Harris in command; reclassified DDR-882 18 March 1949. Norfolk departure 7 November 1945 for occupation duty - Tokyo Bay 22 December, courier Nagoya-Wakayama, training out of Kobe - then plane guard to JTF 1 carriers during Operation Crossroads (Bikini atomic tests, summer 1946). San Diego 12 August 1946; west-coast training and a further Far East tour; Atlantic Fleet transfer April 1949 (Newport, R.I., 21 April 1949). Annual Sixth Fleet Mediterranean tours 1949-1960 (except 1951, 1959); Norfolk homeport from January 1951; U.S. representative at the funeral of King Gustav V of Sweden (1950); Operational Development Force ASW work from 1952; evacuation of Americans from Israel and Egypt during the 1956 Suez Crisis; two Mediterranean tours 1957; NATO northern-waters operations summer 1958. Transferred to the Spanish Navy 31 August 1972 and struck from the Navy list 2 June 1975. Specifications block: displacement 2,425; length 390'6"; beam 41'1"; draft 18'6"; 35 kt; complement 367; armament 6x5", 5x21" tt., 6 dcp., 2 dct.; Gearing class.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1944-1975
- Population
- Consolidated Steel construction trades 1944-45; crews 1945-72 (design complement 367)
- Limitations
- DANFS documents service history and specifications, not materials or asbestos content. The entry renders the Spanish name 'Gavina' - a misspelling of the documented Spanish name Gravina (D-62); carried in gaps. Mirror transcription cited because the live NHHC page returns 404; Wayback capture confirms the canonical page text is identical.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-furse-dd882-01
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[3]NavSource Naval History, USS Furse (DD-882/DDR-882) - operational and building data, commanding-officer list, photo captions incl. Philadelphia Navy Yard 'Beacon' FRAM clippings; NavSource FRAM Special Feature register [other_primary]
- Locator
- navsource.org/archives/05/882.htm operational/building data block + photo captions; navsource.org/archives/05/helpers/fram.htm FRAM register row '882 Furse Philadelphia 10/63' and Furse 'Beacon' clipping entries
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NavSource record for this hull corroborates official milestones and adds construction and yard detail not in DANFS: laid down 23 September 1944 by Consolidated Steel, Orange, Texas; launched 9 March 1945; commissioned 10 July 1945; 'Completed FRAM upgrade October 1963' - FRAM register lists Furse at Philadelphia Navy Yard, 10/63, and PNY 'Beacon' newspaper clippings document arrival announced 7 January 1963, coins installed under the mast 19 April 1963, ASROC launcher installation 24 May 1963, and post-FRAM trials off Philadelphia 24 September 1963 (ASROC installation is consistent with FRAM I configuration). Decommissioned 31 August 1972; loaned to Spain, renamed Gravina (D-62); sold to Spain 17 May 1978; stricken 2 June 1975; 'stricken May 17 1991 and scrapped' (Spanish striking date varies by source - see gaps). Machinery: 60,000 shp; General Electric geared turbines; 2 screws; crew 336 (conflicts with DANFS 367). Callsign NBHY; tactical voice callsign STAIRCASE (c. 1968). Commanding officers include CDR Newton H. Morgan (June 1965-September 1967) and CDR Michael T. Greeley (September 1967-August 1969).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1944-1991
- Population
- Consolidated Steel trades 1944-45; Philadelphia Naval Shipyard workers January-October 1963 (FRAM); crews 1945-72
- Limitations
- NavSource is a volunteer photographic-history archive, not a Navy publication - cited for construction date, the documented 1963 Philadelphia FRAM conversion (a major insulation-disturbance-class yard availability), commanding officers, and disposal detail that DANFS does not carry. It does not address asbestos content or abatement scope; the crew figure conflicts with DANFS (carried in gaps); Spanish striking date differs from es.wikipedia's 30 September 1991.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-furse-dd882-02
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[4]DANFS specifications block (Gearing class) + NavSource machinery data (60,000 shp, GE geared turbines, 2 screws) + gearing-class.class.json (class-f profile, background) [other_primary]
- Locator
- DANFS specifications block; NavSource machinery line and FRAM register; gearing-class.class.json evidence rows ev-gearing-class-04/12
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Era/class inference for this hull: a Gearing-class destroyer built September 1944-July 1945 at Consolidated Steel, Orange, Texas, with a high-pressure superheated steam plant (4 Babcock & Wilcox boilers class-standard; GE geared turbines; 60,000 shp) falls inside the Navy's documented peak asbestos-insulation era - boiler casing and fireroom insulation, steam-pipe lagging, turbine lagging, valve/flange gaskets and packing, fireproofing, and accommodation/deck materials were standard for the class and era. The January-October 1963 FRAM conversion at Philadelphia Naval Shipyard and a secondary-reported winter-1967 Boston Naval Shipyard overhaul are documented class-typical insulation-disturbance events in the pre-substitution era. Class-level litigation context: internal class-file research reports the 2018 Goodrich omnibus opinion (E.D. Va., naming sister ship USS Corry DD-817) recites a Sumner/Gearing forced-draft-blower-turbine engineering drawing specifying amosite felts and asbestos cloths and a 30.3-ton partial tally of asbestos insulation/lagging in fire and engine rooms - litigation recitals at class level, not a Furse finding.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1944-1972
- Population
- Consolidated Steel construction trades 1944-45; Philadelphia NSY FRAM workers 1963; Boston NSY workers 1967 (secondary-reported); crews 1945-72
- Limitations
- Class/era inference only - no ship-specific materials document, survey, or litigation naming DD-882 was located. This row contextualizes; it never becomes a ship-specific finding. The Goodrich recitals are litigation-record assertions in a sister-ship case, unverified at this record level pending full-text pull of the opinion. Does not quantify material aboard.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-furse-dd882-03
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[5]Negative-finding sweep across DANFS/NHHC, NavSource, NVR (SHIPS_DETAIL_DD_882 shell - pre-1987 disposals not listed), Spanish-service references, and open web search for litigation and abatement records naming this hull [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger sl-uss-furse-dd882-01 through -09
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No ship-specific asbestos survey, abatement record, ACM inventory, materials report, or disposal hazmat record for DD-882 was located in the public sources searched, and no qualifying asbestos litigation naming this hull was identified. The hull left U.S. custody in 1972 (loan, then sale to Spain; scrapped 1991) - it is not preserved, so no museum stewardship record or domestic abatement trail exists. Web search returned only law-firm marketing pages listing the ship in hull-number tables and a class-pattern generator page that self-describes its Furse equipment list as a 'class-pattern reference' - none are qualifying sources and none name a case.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1944-1991
- Limitations
- A negative finding is bounded by the sources searched: Spanish Navy era records (Ministerio de Defensa), NARA deck logs/ship records (not digitized for this hull at query level checked), and PACER/RECAP dockets that could not be swept this session (CourtListener fleet pacing) remain open. Absence of a located record is not proof no asbestos was aboard - it is the honest result for a scrapped, foreign-transferred hull with no museum or domestic disposal record.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-furse-dd882-04
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[6]CourtListener API v4 litigation sweep (type=o opinions and type=r RECAP dockets) for 'USS Furse', 'DD-882'/'DDR-882', and 'Furse' + asbestos [court_record]
- Locator
- CourtListener API v4 search '"Furse" asbestos' type=o (HTTP 200, count=1, non-qualifying collision); residual queries blocked - cl-auth-search.py exit 2 (pacing, not quota exhaustion)
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- Partial litigation sweep: one CourtListener opinion-index query executed - '"Furse" asbestos' returned exactly 1 hit, City of Plainview v. Ferguson (Tex. Crim. App., police-misconduct criminal appeal, 2015-02-18 - unrelated to the vessel and not an asbestos claim - NAME COLLISION, not qualifying). Seven other attempts ('USS Furse', 'DD-882'/'DDR-882' variants, type=o and type=r) returned the fleet-wide pacing stand-down (helper exit 2) across the session and were not executed. No qualifying asbestos litigation naming USS Furse or DD-882 was identified. The non-CourtListener sweep (open web search) surfaced only law-firm marketing hull lists and a self-described class-pattern generator page - no case names.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 2026-09-28 (sweep attempt)
- Limitations
- The CourtListener sweep is a partial negative, not a completed one: one opinion query ran and returned no qualifying hit (one surname collision); the exact-name and hull-number queries on both the opinion and RECAP docket indexes remain pending on fleet pacing. Residual queries: '"USS Furse"' type=o and type=r; '"DD-882" OR "DDR-882"' type=o and type=r. 'Furse' is a low-collision term (ship name and uncommon surname) so exact-name hits, if any, likely resolve to this hull.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-furse-dd882-05