Evidence
5 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-5).
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[1]DANFS, Galveston II (CL-93/CLG-3), Vol. 3 (1968) (builder, launch, construction suspension, Talos conversion and trials, Vietnam service; verbatim transcription - live NHHC page serves 404) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS entry, specifications block + full service narrative
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS record for this hull: launched 22 April 1945 by William Cramp & Sons Shipbuilding Co., Philadelphia, Pa.; construction suspended when nearly complete 24 June 1946 and the hull assigned to the Philadelphia Group, Atlantic Reserve Fleet. Reclassified CLG-93 on 4 February 1956, then CLG-3 on 23 May 1957; commissioned at Philadelphia 28 May 1958, Capt. J. B. Colwell in command - the Navy's first ship to carry the Talos guided missile (two Talos launchers). Builder's trials Virginia Capes June 1958; San Juan training/evaluation January 1959; fired the first Talos missile ever shot at sea 24 February 1959; special yard period Philadelphia Naval Shipyard from 17 March; shakedown/acceptance trials July; Charleston/Galveston port visits early 1960; PNSY yard period 25 March-fall 1960; Talos technical evaluation under Operational Technical Evaluation Force from January 1961 incl. record long-range and two-missile salvo shots; fire-control radars removed at Bayonne, N.J., then PNSY overhaul 30 August 1961-23 July 1962 (Talos fire-control modifications). Transited the Canal for San Diego, joined Cruiser-Destroyer Flotilla 9 Pacific Fleet 24 August 1962; WestPac October 1963-April 1964 as flotilla flagship; overhaul October 1964-February 1965; Vietnam June-December 1965 - gunfire support at Chu Lai and the Vung Tuong Peninsula, air defense for 7th Fleet carriers, SAR in the Gulf of Tonkin; modernization overhaul 31 July-4 November 1966; assigned Atlantic Fleet early 1967 (1968 DANFS edition - later service and disposal supplied by NHHC Online Library, ev-02).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-18
- Study period
- 1944-1975
- Population
- Cramp Shipbuilding construction trades 1944-46; Philadelphia Naval Shipyard conversion trades 1956-58 and yard periods 1960-62; crew 1958-70
- Limitations
- DANFS documents service history and specifications, not materials or asbestos content. Mirror transcription cited because the live NHHC page returns 404; the 1968 edition ends at the 1967 Atlantic assignment - decommission/stricken/sold come from NHHC Online Library and secondary sources (ev-02, gaps). No laid-down date in the DANFS text (carried from secondary: 20 February 1944 - see gaps).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-galveston-cl93-01
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[2]NHHC Online Library of Selected Images, 'USS Galveston (CLG-3, previously CL-93), 1946-1975' narrative (Philadelphia Naval Shipyard reconstruction, Talos service, Vietnam, disposal; via ibiblio HyperWar mirror) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NHHC Online Library page narrative for CLG-3 (reconstruction paragraph, Vietnam service, disposal paragraph)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NHHC Online Library narrative for this hull: under the Navy's FY1956 shipbuilding and conversion program the never-commissioned light cruiser Galveston (CL-93), in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet since mid-1946, was taken out of 'mothballs' and turned over to the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard for reconstruction as a guided missile ship; redesignated CLG-93 February 1956 as work began, received definitive hull number CLG-3 May 1957; commissioned May 1958 as the Navy's first Talos ship, extensively modified especially aft of amidships (magazines, launcher, associated radars); first three years largely Talos testing off the East Coast and Caribbean; shipyard work mid-1961 to mid-1962 incl. new search radars; Pacific Fleet from 1962; first WestPac deployment 1963-64; second WestPac June-December 1965 incl. Vietnam combat - 5- and 6-inch gunfire ashore, air defense in the Gulf of Tonkin, SAR; temporary Atlantic/Mediterranean term March-August 1967 (Sixth Fleet, Six Day War period); returned to the Pacific September 1967; third 7th Fleet deployment from about a year later with more Vietnam combat; returned January 1969; final Mediterranean cruise May-October 1969; inactivation then decommissioned May 1970; second Reserve Fleet stay just over three years; stricken December 1973; sold for scrapping May 1975.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-18
- Study period
- 1956-1975
- Population
- Philadelphia Naval Shipyard conversion trades 1956-58; crew 1958-70
- Limitations
- NHHC publication hosted on the ibiblio HyperWar mirror; supplies the conversion yard (Philadelphia Naval Shipyard) and post-1967 history the 1968 DANFS lacks. Narrative only; no materials or asbestos data. Day-level stricken/sold (21 December 1973; 16 May 1975, National Metal and Steel Corp.) from NavSource/secondary - see gaps.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-galveston-cl93-02
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[3]U.S. Navy, Bureau of Ships Technical Manual, NAVSHIPS 250-000, Chapter 39 'Thermal Insulation' (1960) + DANFS/NHHC conversion narratives + Atlas shipyard dataset [other_primary]
- Locator
- NAVSHIPS 250-000 ch. 39 (scan via Garlock bankruptcy repository); DANFS/NHHC conversion narratives; shipyards.json records
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Era inference: Cleveland-class construction (4 boilers, 4 GE geared steam turbines, ~100,000 shp) begun 1944 at Cramp Shipbuilding falls squarely in the documented Navy asbestos-insulation era; the 1960 BuShips Technical Manual insulation chapter enumerates the era-standard suite - 85%-magnesia and amosite pipe covering, asbestos felt, chrysotile cloth/tape lagging, asbestos millboard, finishing cement, molded block. This hull's disturbance history is the class's most unusual: ~90%-complete construction suspended June 1946, a decade in reserve, then Philadelphia Naval Shipyard reconstruction 1956-58 (after-body rebuilt for Talos magazines/launcher/radars) plus PNSY yard periods March-October 1960 and August 1961-July 1962 and a July-November 1966 modernization overhaul - multiple deep yard penetrations of the original construction-era material.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-18
- Study period
- 1944-1970
- Population
- Cramp Shipbuilding construction trades 1944-46; Philadelphia Naval Shipyard conversion trades 1956-58 and 1960-62 yard periods; modernization overhaul trades 1966; crew 1958-70
- Limitations
- Class/era specification and yard-period inference only - no ship-specific asbestos record exists for this hull (ev-05); this row must not be read as establishing that asbestos products were or remain aboard. Does not quantify material; the 1946 suspension state and each yard period's insulation scope are undocumented - how much original material survived the suspended build and the 1956-58 reconstruction is unknown.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-galveston-cl93-03
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[4]VA Board of Veterans' Appeals decision, Citation Nr 1749503 (decided 2017) - service aboard USS Galveston (CLG-3) recited in a herbicide-exposure claim [other_primary]
- Locator
- BVA decision 1749503, service-history recitation paragraphs
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- A VA BVA decision recites that the veteran served aboard USS Galveston (CLG-3) in approximately summer-fall 1965 as a radio telephone operator with a gunfire support team, and describes claimed boots-on-ground and inland-waterway transits (Mekong Delta, Chu Lai, Operation Market Time, Operation Starlite August 1965) - consistent with this hull's documented 1965 Vietnam deployment. The claim at issue is herbicide (Agent Orange) exposure, not asbestos.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-18
- Study period
- 1965; 2009-2017 (claim history)
- Population
- One veteran claimant; CLG-3 service summer-fall 1965
- Limitations
- Not an asbestos record: the decision concerns herbicide exposure and corroborates only the hull's 1965 Vietnam operations. A benefits-adjudication context record, not a finding about the vessel's materials.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-galveston-cl93-04
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[5]Batch-51 search ledger (this record): NHHC DANFS + Online Library; CourtListener ship-name, designation, and hull-number queries (blocked - rate-limited); NVR; museum/disclosure sweep; BVA sweep [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-galveston-cl93-01 through sl-uss-galveston-cl93-06
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: all three CourtListener queries for this hull ('USS Galveston', 'CL-93', 'CLG-3') hit the 125/day API cap before running and are logged as blocked, not as negative results; the class-profile's completed 2026-09-16 'USS Galveston' + asbestos sweep returned zero; the BVA-located CLG-3 decision (ev-04) is a herbicide claim, not asbestos. No hull ACM survey, abatement contract, conversion hazmat disclosure, NVR entry (hull sold 1975, before live-register coverage), or museum record with asbestos data was found in the public sources searched.
- 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. The litigation sweep is INCOMPLETE for this hull - all batch CourtListener queries were throttled; 'no result' applies only to the class-profile's single-variant sweep. Does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-galveston-cl93-05