Evidence
6 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-6).
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[1]DANFS, Gleaves (DD-423) (builder, dates, service narrative; verbatim transcription - live NHHC page serves 404; 2004 Wayback capture of history.navy.mil/danfs/g5/gleaves.htm carries identical text) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS entry, specifications block + service narrative
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS record for this hull: launched by Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine, 9 December 1939 (sponsored by granddaughters Evelina Gleaves Van Metre and Clotilda Florence Cohe); commissioned 14 June 1940 at Boston Navy Yard, Lt. Comdr. E. H. Pierce. Spec block: dp. 1,630; 348'4" x 36'1" x 13'6"; 37 kt; cpl. 276; 4x5" guns; class Gleaves. Service: Atlantic/Caribbean shakedown; convoy duty from June 1941 (Iceland, Ireland, North Africa); 11-12 May 1942 convoy lost seven ships to a wolfpack despite escorts; Sicily landings - accepted surrender of Ustica garrison with Plunkett 5 August 1943, repelled five E-boats at Palermo; Salerno September 1943; Anzio January 1944; May 1944 hunt for U-616 (survivors recovered 17 May); southern-France landings August 1944 (Ranger escort, shore bombardment); San Remo actions 1-2 October 1944 (Oneglia harbor shipping; destroyed or drove off explosive-laden German motor boats, capturing a sixth with operators); Franco-Italian frontier fire support until February 1945 return; New York outfitting, Caribbean training; departed Guantanamo 30 June 1945, Pearl Harbor 4 August; Saipan and Nagasaki occupation duty; Philippine Sea typhoon rescue/salvage September-October 1945; smallpox-vaccine dash from Adak to SS Adabelle Lykes 24-25 November 1945; Magic-Carpet lift of 300 veterans Aleutians-Seattle arriving 10 December 1945; Charleston 18 January 1946; decommissioned there 8 May 1946; reserve at Philadelphia, then Orange, Texas (entry written 1967). Five battle stars for WWII.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1938-1967
- Population
- Bath Iron Works construction trades 1938-40; wartime crew (design complement 276)
- Limitations
- DANFS documents service history and specifications, not materials or asbestos content. Internal chronology has three date anomalies carried in gaps ('31 March 1942' precedes the May 1942 convoy battle it follows in narrative order; 'February 1946' homeward departure is a typo for 1945; '10 December 1946' Magic-Carpet arrival is a typo for 1945). Mirror transcription cited because the live NHHC page returns 404.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-gleaves-dd423-01
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[2]ConvoyWeb (Arnold Hague convoy database, compiled from Admiralty records), vessel search 'GLEAVES' [other_primary]
- Locator
- convoyweb.org.uk Hague search results for 'GLEAVES' (18 convoy listings)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Independent convoy-level documentation of this hull's wartime employment: the Hague database lists USS Gleaves in 18 convoys - HX.154/164/171/178/185 and ON.18/30/49/62/79/92 (1941-42 North Atlantic escort cycles), AT.16/18 (1942 troop convoys), UGS.4 + GUS.4 and UGF.2 + GUF.2 (1942-43 North Africa shuttle - UGF.2 is the November 1942 Operation Torch assault convoy), UGF.8A (May 1943 Hampton Roads-Oran, the Sicily-invasion positioning voyage), GUS.29 (Jan 1944 Port Said-Hampton Roads), GUF.19 (Jan 1945 Oran-Hampton Roads). ON.92 is the convoy that lost seven ships to a wolfpack 11-12 May 1942 - matching the DANFS passage - and UGF.8A May 1943 independently confirms that the DANFS 'departed 10 May' for Sicily reads 1943, not 1942.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1941-1945
- Population
- Wartime crew 1941-1945
- Limitations
- Database lists convoy membership (as escort); it does not describe activity within each convoy and contains no material/asbestos data. It corroborates dates and theater assignments only.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-gleaves-dd423-02
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[3]NavSource Destroyer Photo Index, USS Gleaves (DD-423) - operational/building data block (compiled from Naval Vessel Register data); corroborated by uboat.net Allied Warships DD-423 entry [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource DD-423 'Operational and Building Data' block (stricken/sold/fate lines); NVR ship-detail lookup returned no record for DD-423
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Post-1967 disposition (DANFS ends at 1967): stricken from the naval register 1 November 1969; sold 29 June 1972 and broken up for scrap. NavSource lists laid down 16 May 1938 (Bath Iron Works) and commanding officers Pierce/Winecoff/Gurnette/Klee. The hull was never converted to DMS, never recommissioned, and was not preserved - this corrects the class-profile worktree file (class-f benson-gleaves-class) which lists DD-423's disposition as 'preserved.'
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- correction
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1969-1972
- Population
- Reserve-fleet maintenance and 1972 dismantlement workforce
- Limitations
- Secondary compilations consistent with NVR data; the underlying pre-1987 NVR disposal record is not digitized (NVR ship-detail page for DD-423 absent - register only covers post-1987 disposals). navsource.org unreachable to automated fetch at check time; data confirmed via search index and independent secondary sources. Scrapping buyer/yard not documented. No asbestos survey or dismantlement hazmat record located for this hull.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-gleaves-dd423-03
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[4]NARA Catalog file unit 'Plans for the Destroyer USS Gleaves (DD-423), 1874-1976' (NAID 158896600), Alphabetical Series of Ship Engineering Drawings 1789-1967, RG 19 Records of the Bureau of Ships; digitized as 'USA - DD-423 USS Gleaves Booklet of General Plans (1945)' (archive.org item dd423bogp1945) plus July 1941 Boston Navy Yard post-availability BOGP scan (researcheratlarge.com) [other_primary]
- Locator
- archive.org/details/dd423bogp1945, plate 01 cover/title page (title block + accommodation tables); researcheratlarge.com/Ships/DD423/BOGP/ (1941 issue index)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- A ship-specific engineering-drawings file unit for DD-423 exists in NARA RG 19 and is partially digitized. The June 4, 1945 Booklet of General Plans title block identifies Bath Iron Works Corp'n (hull No. 177) as builder and Gibbs & Cox, Inc., New York, for design and engineering; its 'corrected to suit ship' register documents availability events at Bath (14 October 1940), Boston Navy Yard (7 July 1941), and Navy Yard New York (4 June 1945) - the latter matching DANFS's 'period of outfitting at New York' in early 1945. The July 1941 BOGP revision reflects a documented Boston Navy Yard availability. Title-page tables give accommodation berthing for ~269 and complement ~243 as fitted in 1945.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1939-1945
- Population
- Design/drafting (Gibbs & Cox, BuShips); shipyard planning trades 1940-1945
- Limitations
- General-arrangement plans only; material/insulation callouts (if present in the machinery-space plates) are hand-lettered and not legible at obtainable scan resolution - asbestos content is NOT established by this source. The full RG 19 file unit at College Park may hold machinery, piping, and insulation drawings for DD-423 not yet digitized; that pull is the open archival lead. BOGP complement figure partially legible (~243); not used for the record's complement field.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-gleaves-dd423-04
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[5]Consolidated era inference - Bureau of Ships, Ships' Data U.S. Naval Vessels Vol. 1 (Jan 1945) destroyer machinery table (shipscribe.com scan) + Atlas shipyard dataset Bath Iron Works record (evidence_tier 2) + class profile benson-gleaves-class [other_primary]
- Locator
- SDB1945v1 DD machinery table (No. 421 class rows); shipyards.json record 'bath-iron-works'
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Era/design inference: DD-423 is a 1938-40 Bath-built destroyer of the peak Navy asbestos era, with 4 Babcock & Wilcox superheated boilers (575 psi/700 deg F class figures) and geared steam turbines of ~50,000 shp (DANFS-type figure; BuShips table lists 47,000 shp for lead Benson DD-421 - discrepancy unresolved). Typical period applications for this plant: boiler casing and fireroom insulation, steam-pipe and turbine lagging, valve/flange gaskets and packing, deck tile, accommodation insulation, fireproofing. Builder Bath Iron Works is documented at yard level in the Atlas dataset (Kaylo pipe covering, Foster Wheeler gaskets, asbestos felt, loose packing, vinyl floor tiles, adhesives). Unlike 30+ class sisters, DD-423 had no 1944-45 DMS conversion yard period; her documented availabilities were routine (Boston 1941, New York 1945).
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1938-1972
- Population
- Bath Iron Works construction trades 1938-40; wartime and reserve-era crews/maintenance personnel 1940-1972
- Limitations
- Class/era and builder-yard inference only - no ship-specific finding. Typical applications establish typicality of design, not installation aboard this hull; no quantities, no individual exposure, and no product identification for DD-423. Turbine manufacturer for this hull (Westinghouse vs. Bethlehem per builder) is unverified at hull level.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-gleaves-dd423-05
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[6]CourtListener API v4 litigation sweep, 2026-09-27 (this record's search ledger); corroborated by class-profile sweeps 2026-09-16 [court_record]
- Locator
- search_ledger sl-uss-gleaves-dd423-04/05/06
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- No qualifying asbestos litigation located naming this hull. Exact-name sweeps: 'USS Gleaves' returned 0 hits in the opinion index (type=o) and 0 hits in the RECAP docket index (type=r). Hull-number sweeps: 'DD-423' produced 1 opinion hit (Behn v. Timmons, Fla. 1st DCA 1977 - 'DD-423' is that court's docket number; a custody appeal; identifier collision, not qualifying) and 14 RECAP docket hits, all unrelated case types except the MDL-875 master asbestos docket (IN RE: Asbestos Products Liability Litigation (No. VI), J.P.M.L., MDL No. 875) whose aggregate indexed text contains the string 'DD-423' at an unresolvable position - asbestos-docket identifier match, vessel reference unverified. The 2026-09-16 class-profile sweeps on 'USS Benson'/'USS Gleaves' likewise produced no asbestos-litigation hits. Law-firm 'Navy ship asbestos lists' do name USS Gleaves (DD-423) - excluded per source policy; such lists are marketing claims asserting no adjudicated fact.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 2026-09-27
- Population
- n/a
- Limitations
- Negative finding bounded by index coverage: RECAP/opinion indexes are not exhaustive, and un-digitized state or federal records are outside coverage; absence of located litigation does not mean none exists. The MDL-875 'DD-423' string match cannot be resolved to a vessel reference without document-level review of a 6,000+-entry mega-docket (displayed snippet is a Spiegelberg v. A.W. Chesterton tag-along bundle; 'DD-423' is plausibly a document/form code rather than a hull number). 'Gleaves' is also a surname; no asbestos-opinion hits surfaced under it during the exact-name sweeps.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-gleaves-dd423-06