Evidence
8 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-8).
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[1]research packet le-packet.md (14 sources cited) [other_primary]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERIFIED
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-george-w-ingram-de62-pkt-le-packet-md
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[2]DANFS, George Washington Ingram (DE-62) entry (namesake biography, spec block, service narrative, striking) - NHHC page text via Wayback 2024-05-24 capture; live NHHC URL returns 404; verbatim hazegray transcription cross-checked at losthistory.net/hazegray/danfs/escorts/de62.txt [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS entry, spec block + service narrative (NHHC Wayback 2024-05-24; hazegray transcription)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS record for this hull: laid down 6 February 1943 by Bethlehem-Hingham Shipyard, Inc., Hingham, Mass.; launched 8 May 1943; sponsored by Mrs. James L. Ingram; commissioned 11 August 1943, Lt. Comdr. Ernest R. Perry in command. Bermuda shakedown; New York-Algiers convoy escort Oct-Dec 1943; five round-trip crossings to Northern Ireland 26 Dec 1943-12 Jul 1944; escorted slow convoy to Plymouth Nov-Dec 1944 (NHHC web text reads convoy OK-1; hazegray transcription reads CK-4 - see gaps); on 20 December U-870 attacked the convoy NE of the Azores, sinking LST-359 and damaging Fogg (DE-57); reached New York 12 Jan 1945; escorted a captured Italian submarine Portsmouth NH to New London; redesignated APD-43 on 23 February 1945 and converted to a high-speed transport at Tompkinsville, N.Y.; departed New York after V-E Day via Panama Canal and San Diego to Pearl Harbor (arrived 20 Jun); UDT-26 embarked; Jinsen Korea landings 8 Sep 1945; Taka Bar China 26 Sep; UDT-26 surveyed Peking River approaches 29 Sep-1 Oct for III Marine Amphibious Corps; landings at Chefoo and Tsingtao; departed Tsingtao 17 Oct; arrived San Diego 11 Nov; decommissioned 15 Jan 1947; Pacific Reserve Fleet Bremerton; struck 1 Jan 1967. Spec block: dp 1,400; l. 306'; b. 37'; dr. 12'7"; s. 23.5 k.; cpl. 186; a. 3 3", 4 1.1", 8 20mm., 3 21" tt., 8 dcp., 1 dcp. (h.h.), 2 dct.; cl. Buckley.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1943-1967
- Population
- Bethlehem-Hingham construction trades 1943; wartime and postwar crew (design complement 186 as DE; APD complement unverified); Tompkinsville yard workers 1945
- Limitations
- DANFS documents identity, service history, and specifications - not materials or asbestos content. The Tompkinsville conversion is documented as an event but its work scope is not described; the NHHC text contains OCR-type artifacts ('17-870' for U-870). Live NHHC page returns 404 (standing fleet-wide link rot per BATCH-01 report); archived capture and verbatim transcription cited.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-george-w-ingram-de62-01
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[3]Official 'War History of the USS George W. Ingram (APD-43)' - five-page narrative submitted by the ship at war's end, prepared by Charles A. Beird, Lieutenant (jg), USNR, Public Information Officer; scan hosted by NavSource [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource-hosted five-page scan, pp. 2-5 (construction/namesake; Atlantic convoy record; conversion at U.S. Naval Frontier Base Staten Island; UDT-26 Pacific operations)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Ship-produced contemporaneous record for this hull: namesake George W. Ingram cited by CINCPAC 'for prompt and efficient action and utter disregard of personal danger in the effort to repel the attack on the Naval Air Station, Kaneohe Bay, Oahu, Territory of Hawaii, by Japanese forces on December 7, 1941'; commissioned as DE-62 August 1943; approximately 135,000 miles steamed; escorted 'more than 500 troop and supply-laden ships' on twelve Atlantic crossings; December 1944 convoy escort duty including Fogg and Ira Jeffery - Fogg torpedoed, 'her stern was blown off and 15 members of her crew were killed'; conversion 'accomplished in record time at the U.S. Naval Frontier Base, Staten Island, N.Y.' with new troop space, facilities for four Higgins boats, and armament changes; escorted USS Antetam to the Pacific, transiting the Panama Canal 5 July 1945; UDT-26 (~100 officers and men) embarked; V-J Day found her approaching Okinawa; Seventh Fleet / TF 78; Jinsen, Tientsin, Chefoo, Tsingtao operations; original crew approximately 200 officers and men.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1943-1945
- Population
- Crew ~200 officers and men (original complement per the war history); UDT-26 ~100 embarked; Tompkinsville conversion workers
- Limitations
- Ship-produced public-information narrative - authoritative for events and the conversion venue (named 'U.S. Naval Frontier Base, Staten Island') but promotional in tone; contains no materials, insulation, or asbestos content; mileage and escort totals are the ship's own unverified figures. Conversion work scope named only in general terms (troop spaces, boat davits, armament).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-george-w-ingram-de62-02
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[4]NavSource Online Destroyer Escort Photo Archive, USS George W. Ingram (DE-62/APD-43) pages - registry chronology, TE spec block, commanding officers; NavSource APD page https://www.navsource.net/archives/10/04/04043.htm [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource DE-62 page chronology + spec block; APD-43 page chronology
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Registry chronology corroborating DANFS for this hull: keel laid 6 February 1943 by Bethlehem Steel Corp., Hingham, Mass.; launched 8 May 1943, sponsored by Mrs. James L. Ingram; commissioned 11 August 1943 (Lcdr. Ernest R. Perry); converted at Tompkinsville, N.Y. (Staten Island); decommissioned 15 January 1947 at San Diego; mothballed Pacific Reserve Fleet, Bremerton; struck from the Naval Register 1 January 1967; transferred to Taiwan 16 May 1967, renamed Kang Shan (PF-43, hull renumbered 343 on 19 September 1967), stricken 1978, scrapped 1979. Spec block: Buckley class, TE type - 2 'D' Express boilers, GE turbines with electric drive, 12,000 shp, 2 screws, 24 kts; complement 15 officers / 198 enlisted. Escort Division 12 context: division mates Fogg (DE-57), Gantner (DE-60), Foss (DE-59), Lee Fox (DE-65), Ira Jeffery (DE-63).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1943-1979
- Population
- Wartime/postwar crew (15 officers + 198 enlisted per NavSource); ROCN crew 1967-1978
- Limitations
- NavSource is a private registry/photo-archive compilation - secondary to DANFS; its DE-62 page mistypes the redesignation as 'APD 42' (its own APD-43 page reads APD-43; DANFS reads APD-43). Complement figure (15/198) conflicts with the DANFS spec block (186) - logged in gaps. 'Columbia River Group' layup wording on the APD page conflicts with its own 'Bremerton, Wash.' chronology line - Bremerton carried per DANFS.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-george-w-ingram-de62-03
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[5]HyperWar APD-43 page (Charles Lawrence class header; APD spec block) + fleet Buckley-class profile (class-f worktree) + USS Slater museum DE-modification material (ussslater.org) - DE-to-APD conversion pattern and TE design data [other_primary]
- Locator
- HyperWar APD-43 class header + spec block; Buckley class profile member_vessels row DE-62 (navypedia TE block); ussslater.org 'Modifications of Destroyer Escorts'
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Class/era design documentation: Buckley-class (TE) destroyer escorts converted to high-speed transports comprise the Charles Lawrence APD class - the conversion stripped torpedo tubes and one 3-inch gun, added four LCVP/Higgins-boat davits and an enlarged troop deckhouse, and retained the DE turbo-electric plant (2 'D' Express-type boilers, GE turbo-electric drive, 12,000 shp, 2 shafts, ~23-24 kt). A 1943 steam-plant escort of this design, with a 1945 yard conversion, would have carried period-standard asbestos applications: boiler insulation, steam-line lagging, turbine insulation, valve and flange gaskets, machinery packing, fireproofing, and deck coverings.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1943-1947
- Population
- Bethlehem-Hingham construction trades 1943; Tompkinsville conversion workers 1945; crew 1943-47
- Limitations
- Class/era and design inference only - not a ship-specific finding. No hull material schedule, conversion work package, contract document, or survey located (NARA RG19 General Information Books and Boston/BuShips work orders are the archival leads). Does not establish asbestos presence, quantity, or exposure aboard this hull.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-george-w-ingram-de62-04
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[6]CourtListener API v4 (authenticated batch pipeline, 2026-09-29): opinion + RECAP docket sweeps on "George W. Ingram" (7 o / 2 r), "George Washington Ingram" (0 o / 1 r), "APD-43" (3 o / 20 r), "DE-62" (143 o / 2,841 r), plus asbestos-qualified docket queries "DE-62" asbestos (22 r), "APD-43" asbestos (0 r), "George W. Ingram" asbestos (1 r) - all hits are name/token collisions [court_record]
- Locator
- CourtListener v4 search endpoint, type=o and type=r; result JSONs retained alongside this record (cl-de62-*.json)
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- Litigation sweep for this hull: no opinion or docket names the vessel; no asbestos litigation located. Name sweeps: "George W. Ingram" opinions (7) are all party-name collisions (e.g., Mrs. George W. Ingram Jr. v. Associated Pipeline Contractors, E.D. La. 1965 - pipeline injury; estate, criminal, and divorce matters 1853-1965); dockets (2) are bankruptcy cases matching a personal name; "George Washington Ingram" returned 0 opinions and 1 bankruptcy docket (a debtor's personal name, E.D. Mich.). Hull-number sweeps: "APD-43" opinions (3) are oil-and-gas lease cases matching 'APD' = Application for Permit to Drill (NRDC v. Kempthorne, D.D.C. 2007; Barlow & Haun; Century Exploration, Fed. Cl.); "APD-43" dockets (20) are the same acronym collisions with zero asbestos nature-of-suit; "DE-62" opinions (143) and dockets (2,841) are all '[DE 62]' ECF docket-entry citations - zero asbestos/navy/vessel content flagged on review. Bounding queries: "DE-62" asbestos returned 22 dockets - every one is a 'DE 62' docket-entry cross-reference (incl. the sole asbestos-NOS hit, Cole v. BASF, S.D. Fla. 2022, where 'DE 62' cites a stricken motion); "APD-43" asbestos returned 0; "George W. Ingram" asbestos returned 1 (Motors Liquidation Co. bankruptcy, S.D.N.Y. - creditor-name collision).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 2026-09-29 (sweep date)
- Limitations
- A no-hit sweep does not prove the hull never appeared in litigation: unindexed state-court filings and non-digitized records fall outside coverage, and the 2,841 "DE-62" bulk docket hits were triaged by metadata review plus the targeted asbestos-qualified query rather than full-text review of every document. Nothing here establishes or defeats an exposure claim.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-george-w-ingram-de62-05
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[7]Batch-4423 search ledger (this record): NHHC DANFS (live 404; Wayback canonical + hazegray transcription); ship's official war-history scan; NavSource DE-62 and APD-43 pages; NVR probe (no register entry - pre-1987 disposal); CourtListener opinion and docket sweeps; NARA deck-log/RG19 leads; marketing-list sweep (elslaw.com, simmonsfirm.com list 'USS George W. Ingram' - banned sources, presence only) [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-george-w-ingram-de62-01 through sl-uss-george-w-ingram-de62-09
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no hull ACM survey, abatement contract, disposal hazmat disclosure, museum record, or docketed asbestos case naming DE-62 or APD-43 was found in the public sources searched (see search_ledger). The hull was transferred to the Republic of China in 1967 and scrapped in 1979 - a foreign-transfer disposal completed before modern hazmat documentation regimes, and no surveyable artifact exists.
- 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 escort converted to an APD in 1945 is era-consistent with ACM, and twenty years of reserve layup plus foreign scrapping left no modern documentation. Does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-george-w-ingram-de62-06
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[8]DANFS spec block ('cl. Buckley') + NHHC page title 'George Washington Ingram (DE-62)' + NavSource APD-43 page ('Buckley Class Destroyer Escort / Charles Lawrence Class High-speed Transport') - designation and class reconciliation [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS spec block and page title; NavSource DE-62 and APD-43 chronologies; HyperWar APD-43 header
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Designation reconciliation for the consolidation target: one physical hull. Laid down and commissioned as Buckley-class destroyer escort George W. Ingram (DE-62); redesignated APD-43 on 23 February 1945 during conversion to a high-speed transport - the same hull, not a second ship. The PRIMARY record's expansion to 'George Washington Ingram' matches the NHHC DANFS page title (the namesake's full name; the narrative and the ship's own war history use 'George W. Ingram'). PRIMARY's Clemson-class metadata is incorrect: Clemson-class APDs were WWI flush-deck destroyer conversions, while this hull is a 1943 Buckley (TE) destroyer escort whose conversion is grouped with the Charles Lawrence class of DE-derived APDs (per HyperWar and NavSource class labels; DANFS spec block reads 'cl. Buckley'). NavSource's DE-62 page mistypes the redesignation as 'APD 42' - a transcription error; APD-43 is correct.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- correction
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1943-1945 (designations)
- Limitations
- The Charles Lawrence class label rests on secondary compilations (HyperWar page header, NavSource) - DANFS does not name a post-conversion class; correction is made to the hull type (Buckley TE, not Clemson flush-deck), which is DANFS-verified. The APD subclass label is carried as the standard secondary-source grouping.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-george-w-ingram-de62-07
