Evidence
7 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-7).
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[1]DANFS, Gatling (DD-671) (builder, dates, service narrative; live NHHC page returns 404 - Wayback capture 2025-02-04 cited) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS entry 'Gatling (DD-671)', specifications block + full service narrative
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS record for this hull: laid down 3 March 1943 by Federal Ship Building & Dry Dock Co., Kearny, N.J.; launched 20 June 1943, sponsored by Mrs. John W. Gatling; commissioned 19 August 1943 at New York Navy Yard. Specifications block: dp. 2,050; l. 376'5"; b. 39'7"; dr. 17'9"; s. 35 k.; cpl. 329; a. 5 5", 10 40mm., 10 21" tt.; cl. Fletcher. Service: TF 58 carrier screening Jan 1944 - Aug 1945 (Marshalls, Truk, Emirau, Palaus, Hollandia, Marianas 10 Jun - 5 Jul; Philippine Sea; Palaus/Yap/Ulithi/Bonins/Philippines); rescued 300+ USS Princeton survivors 24 Oct 1944 (4 Navy-Marine Corps Medals, 16 Bronze Stars to crew); Dec 1944 typhoon rescues (100+ men); Iwo Jima escort/bombardment Feb-Mar 1945; overhaul at San Francisco Apr 1945 (yard not named); Tokyo Bay 3 Sep 1945. Decommissioned 16 Jul 1946, Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Charleston, S.C.; recommissioned 4 Jun 1951 at Charleston; Philadelphia Naval Shipyard modernization Aug 1952; Operation Mainbrace (NATO) fall 1952; TF 77 off Korea Jun 1953; around-the-world return via Suez to Philadelphia; subsequent Atlantic/Mediterranean/Caribbean operations; returned to Rhode Island home base 11 Oct 1959; decommissioned 2 May 1960, Atlantic Reserve Fleet, berthed at Norfolk. Eight WWII battle stars, one Korean battle star.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1943-1960
- Population
- Federal Shipbuilding construction trades 1943; wartime and postwar crew (design complement 329)
- Limitations
- DANFS documents service history and specifications, not materials or asbestos content. The narrative dates the Battle of the Philippine Sea '19 and 20 July' - the battle was fought 19-20 June 1944; carried as a source defect in gaps. The entry's text ends with the hull 'berthed at Norfolk' (pre-striking vintage); stricken/sale milestones rest on secondary compilations (ev-02). Live NHHC page 404; Wayback capture cited.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-gatling-dd671-01
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[2]NavSource Destroyer Photo Index DD-671 USS Gatling - operational/building data and fate (Wayback capture 2024-05-25; live page not fetchable) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource DD-671 page, 'Operational and Building Data' and 'Fate' blocks
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NavSource milestone record for this hull: laid down by Federal Shipbuilding, Kearny NJ, 3 March 1943; launched 20 June 1943; commissioned 19 August 1943; decommissioned 16 July 1946; recommissioned 4 June 1951; decommissioned 2 May 1960; stricken 1 December 1974; sold 22 February 1977 to Union Minerals & Alloys, New York, and broken up for scrap. Machinery block: 60,000 SHP; General Electric geared turbines; 2 screws; speed 38 knots; crew 273. Consistent with uboat.net and NavalCoverMuseum compilations on all milestone dates.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1943-1977
- Population
- Atlantic Reserve Fleet custodial crews 1946-51, 1960-74; Union Minerals & Alloys shipbreaking workers 1977
- Limitations
- NavSource is a secondary compilation, not a primary registry - the Naval Vessel Register does not include vessels disposed before 1987, so the stricken/sale milestones cannot be checked against NVR directly. Dates are consistent across three independent compilations (NavSource, uboat.net, NavalCoverMuseum) and Wikipedia. No asbestos content documented.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-gatling-dd671-02
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[3]Fletcher-class technical data (4 Babcock & Wilcox boilers, 2 GE geared steam-turbine sets, 60,000 shp; navypedia class page + BuShips Ships' Data 1945 per class profile) + Atlas shipyard dataset, Federal Shipbuilding-Kearny record (incl. Owens-Illinois industrial-health survey of the yard, Aug. 30 - Sep. 2, 1944) [other_primary]
- Locator
- navypedia us_dd_fletcher.htm machinery block; shipyards.json record 'federal-shipbuilding-kearny' (ev-federal-kearny-ihs-1944)
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Era/yard inference: a WWII Fletcher-class destroyer with a four-boiler steam plant would have carried period-standard asbestos insulation, lagging, gaskets, packing, and fireproofing; the builder yard (Federal Shipbuilding & Drydock, Kearny) is documented at yard level in the Atlas dataset - including a 1944 Owens-Illinois industrial-health survey of insulation work conditions at the yard, which recorded Johns-Manville Superex pipe covering and boiler insulation work in confined shipyard spaces.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1943-1974
- Population
- Federal Shipbuilding construction trades 1943; crew 1943-60
- Limitations
- Class/era and builder-yard inference only - NOT a hull-specific finding. The 1944 yard survey (Aug. 30 - Sep. 2, 1944) postdates this hull's August 1943 commissioning by more than a year and documents yard practice, not materials aboard DD-671. Does not quantify material or establish any individual's exposure.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-gatling-dd671-03
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[4]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 that the Navy used asbestos insulation extensively aboard ships and did not begin substituting alternative insulation materials until the early 1970s - placing this hull's 1943 construction and both commissioned service periods (1943-46, 1951-60) entirely inside the documented asbestos-use era.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1979
- Population
- Navy shipyard workers; asbestos program review
- Limitations
- Program-level documentation; supports era context only, not any fact specific to this hull. Full report text not retrieved (gao.gov blocks automated fetch, HTTP 403) - content via product-page description, same limitation as the class file.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-gatling-dd671-04
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[5]CourtListener API v4 sweeps, 2026-09-27: "USS Gatling" type=o (0 hits); "USS Gatling" type=r (0 hits); "DD-671" type=o (0 hits); "DD 671" type=o (0 hits); bare "Gatling" type=o (1,713 hits, surname collisions); "Gatling asbestos" type=o (8 hits, all non-qualifying) [court_record]
- Locator
- CourtListener API v4 search endpoint; query set logged in search_ledger sl-03 through sl-07
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- No qualifying asbestos litigation names this hull. Exact-name searches returned zero opinions and zero dockets; hull-number searches returned zero opinions. All eight 'Gatling asbestos' hits classified as collisions: Gatling v. Eaton Corp., 807 A.2d 283 (Pa. Super. 2002) and Gatling v. Uniroyal Inc. (Pa. C.C.P. Philadelphia 2001) are plaintiff-surname cases (Edward Gatling, Budd Company pressman, 1974-80 exposure allegation - no vessel); the two Daley v. A.W. Chesterton opinions (Pa. Super. 2009; Pa. 2012) cite Gatling v. Eaton as precedent only; Brockenborrugh, Hall, Rail Freight Fuel Surcharge, and Miller v. Holzmann are unrelated surname/text collisions.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 2026-09-27
- Limitations
- Search-index coverage only: unindexed dockets, settled-without-opinion cases, and state filings outside CourtListener coverage are not excluded by this result. A 'DD-671' docket (type=r) query could not be run before session end (fleet pacing limiter) - carried in gaps. Absence of located litigation is not evidence of absence of exposure.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-gatling-dd671-05
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[6]Batch-3646 search ledger (this record): DANFS via Wayback; NavSource; Atlas shipyard dataset; Fletcher class profile; CourtListener exact-name/hull sweeps; GAO HRD-80-2; NARA deck-log availability check [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-gatling-dd671-01 through sl-uss-gatling-dd671-09
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located for DD-671: no hull ACM survey, no abatement contract or remediation record, no disposal/waste manifest for the 1977 scrapping, and no qualifying asbestos litigation names this hull. The hull was broken up in 1977 - no museum, reserve-fleet, or surviving-fabric record can produce a future survey.
- 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 - era-standard applications are documented at class/era level (ev-03, ev-04). Does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility. NARA RG 19 (BuShips) vessel material specifications and RG 24 deck logs remain unretrieved archival leads.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-gatling-dd671-06
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[7]Union Minerals and Alloys Corporation shipbreaking operation at the former Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company site, Kearny, NJ (NavSource sale record for this hull + NHHC photograph 555767 caption documenting Navy ships awaiting UMAC scrapping at Kearny, June 1974) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource DD-671 'Fate' line; Wikipedia 'Union Minerals and Alloys Corporation' (NHHC photo 555767 caption); wikimapia Federal Shipbuilding former-site history
- Finding type
- environmental_record
- Finding
- Scrapping context: this hull was sold 22 February 1977 to Union Minerals & Alloys, whose shipbreaking yard occupied the former Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company site at Kearny, New Jersey - the hull was demolished at the facility where it was built. Shipbreaking of asbestos-era hulls in this period involved torch-cutting through insulated spaces; no hull-specific environmental, abatement, or worker-protection record for DD-671's demolition was located.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1977
- Population
- Union Minerals & Alloys shipbreaking workers, Kearny NJ, 1977
- Limitations
- Context only: the Kearny site attribution for UMAC's yard is documented (NHHC photo caption, secondary compilations) but the specific demolition record for this hull is not. 1977 predates NESHAP asbestos demolition-enforcement maturity; no inference is made about asbestos handling or worker exposure during scrapping. Not a ship-specific asbestos finding.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-gatling-dd671-07