Evidence
13 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-13).
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[1]research packet hn-packet.md (6 sources cited) [other_primary]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERDICT: VERIFIED — real identity: USS Goldsborough | Hull: DDG-20 | Designation: guided-missile destroyer (DDG)
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-goldsborough-ddg20-pkt-hn-packet-md
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[2]DANFS, Goldsborough III (DDG-20) (namesake biography + ship entry; verbatim transcription - live NHHC page not located, 404) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS entry, specifications block + ship narrative; hazegray.org/danfs/destroy/ddg20.htm via Wayback capture 2024-05-25
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS record for this hull: launched 15 December 1961 by the Puget Sound Bridge and Drydock Co., Seattle, Wash.; sponsored by Mrs. Alan Bible, wife of U.S. Senator Bible of Nevada; commissioned in the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard 9 November 1963, Captain Charles D. Allen, Jr., in command. Joined U.S. Pacific Fleet 25 December 1963 as a unit of Cruiser-Destroyer Force, homeport Pearl Harbor; arrived Pearl 14 February 1964 after Puget Sound shakedown; Sydney Coral Sea celebration Apr-Jun 1964; first WestPac from 23 November 1964; second WestPac from 9 February 1966 - Operation 'Binh Phu I' gunfire support April (594 rounds of 5-inch), Yankee Station carrier screening, SEATO exercises May, Hong Kong station ship June, Vietnam picket from 26 June, return Pearl 23 July 1966; entered Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard August 1966 for overhaul and extensive modification. Spec block: DDG-20, dp. 4,500 (f.); l. 437'; b. 47'; dr. 22'; s. over 30 k.; cpl. 354; Tartar missiles, 2 5-inch guns; cl. Charles F. Adams.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1961-1967
- Population
- Puget Sound Bridge & Drydock construction trades 1961-63; crew 1963-1993 (design complement 354); PHNSY workers during documented 1966 overhaul
- Limitations
- DANFS documents service history and specifications, not materials or asbestos content. The published entry is contemporaneous with the ship's active service - narrative coverage ends with the 1966-67 overhaul period; post-1967 history rests on secondary compilations and the association record. Live NHHC DANFS page returns 404 for this hull (three URL patterns tried); verbatim text cited via Wayback capture (2024-05-25) of the hazegray.org transcription. Transcription spells the sponsor 'Mrs. Alan Bibb' - corrected to Bible per all other sources.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-goldsborough-ddg20-01
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[3]Naval Vessel Register (NAVSEA), GOLDSBOROUGH (DDG 20) detail page - status, milestone dates, custodian (record last updated 02/18/1999; Wayback capture 2020-10-29) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NVR ship detail page, vessel status + milestone dates + program characteristics (custodian) tables (Wayback capture 2020-10-29)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Official Navy inventory record for this hull: class DDG 2 (Charles F. Adams); UIC 04686; builder Puget Sound Bridge & Dredging Co.; award 03/25/1960; keel 01/03/1961; launch 12/15/1961; delivery 10/31/1963; commission 11/09/1963; decommission 04/29/1993; stricken 04/29/1993; status 'Disposed of through the Security Assistance Program (SAP), transferred, grant aid, ex-US fleet hull' with status-change date 09/17/1993; custodian AUSTRALIA; propulsion type 'Steam Turbines', 2 propellers.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1960-1999
- Population
- Not applicable - inventory record
- Limitations
- Inventory/milestone data, not materials documentation. NVR confirms the statutory-sale disposition date (17 Sep 1993) matching Public Law 103-54's Australia authorization; it carries no stripping/resale detail after Australian custody. Live NVR page renders but the ship-data table did not survive automated fetch - the 2020-10-29 Wayback capture is the cited text. Physical-characteristics fields were blank in this capture.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-goldsborough-ddg20-02
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[4]Public Law 103-54, 'To authorize the transfer of naval vessels to certain foreign countries' (H.R. 2561, 103rd Cong., 107 Stat. 274, enacted July 28, 1993), SEC. 1(b) (GPO enrolled bill; PL index per NARA 103rd-1st-session law list) [other_primary]
- Locator
- P.L. 103-54, SEC. 1(b) (enrolled bill text via GPO govinfo)
- Finding type
- regulatory
- Finding
- Federal statute naming this hull: 'The Secretary of the Navy is authorized to transfer to the Government of Australia the CHARLES F. ADAMS class guided missile destroyer GOLDSBOROUGH (DDG 20). Such transfer shall be on a sales basis under section 21 of the Arms Export Control Act (22 U.S.C. 2761; relating to the foreign military sales program).' Enacted 28 July 1993 - three months after this hull's 29 April 1993 decommissioning/striking; the executed transfer date of 17 September 1993 is recorded by the NVR.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1993
- Population
- Not applicable - statutory record
- Limitations
- Statutory authority for the transfer only - the Act does not describe the hull's condition, hazmat state, intended end use, or any asbestos/hazardous-material terms. Australia-side sale price (US$2,337,462) is documented in the Australian Senate Hansard answer of 15 March 1994 (Robert Ray, p.1648), cited by the Naval Historical Society of Australia.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-goldsborough-ddg20-03
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[5]U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings, 'The 1200-Pounders: Prognosis Guarded,' April 1974, Vol. 100/4/854 [reputable_press]
- Locator
- USNI Proceedings April 1974 article body, opening paragraphs (search-index excerpt; usni.org 403 to automated fetch)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Professional naval-journal record naming this hull among the fleet's chronic high-pressure (1,200-psi) boiler casualties: 'Boiler explosions in the USS Dewey (DLG-14) while moored in Toulon, France, and in the USS Goldsborough (DDG-20) while underway in the South China Sea caused deaths on both ships and were widely reported in the press. These are but two of the accidents since 1965 that have cost a total of $6.5 million to repair...' Documents a fatal boiler-room explosion aboard this hull during a Western Pacific deployment - corroborated by crew recollections (forward fire room; repairs at Subic Bay/Olongapo) and the deck-log-derived deployment index (NOV 1970 'Boiler Explosion' entry, Jul 1970-Feb 1971 WestPac).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1970-1971 (event); 1974 (publication)
- Population
- Boiler-room engineering crew, 1970-71 WestPac deployment (2-3 killed, ~2 injured per secondary accounts)
- Limitations
- Engineering-casualty record, not an asbestos record - it documents a fatal casualty inside the hull's boiler spaces, where era insulation products were standard, but makes no statement about asbestos aboard. Article body blocks automated fetch (403); the key sentences are verbatim via the search index. Event date is not stated in the retrieved text: secondary indexes conflict (deck-log-derived chronology Nov 1970 vs. navysite.de casualty table Apr 1971, 8 nm off Taiwan; crew accounts say 1970) - conflict carried in gaps.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-goldsborough-ddg20-04
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[6]DoD GulfLink Persian Gulf chronology, 4 September 1990 entry (citing Marolda & Schneller, 'Shield and Sword: The United States Navy and the Persian Gulf War,' GPO 1998, p. 91); corroborated by gulflink.health.mil 'United States Navy in Desert Shield/Desert Storm' daily log and LA Times 5 Sep 1990 [other_primary]
- Locator
- DoD GulfLink PersianGulfChron.html, 4 Sep 1990 entry; gulflink.health.mil usnavy_036/usnavy_087 daily log
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Official DoD record of this hull's best-documented late-career operation: on 4 September 1990, during Operation Desert Shield maritime interception operations, USS Goldsborough (DDG-20) stopped and challenged the Iraqi cargo ship Zanoobia (tea cargo, bound for Iraq); when the master refused diversion to a non-prohibited port, the embarked U.S. Coast Guard law-enforcement detachment officer ordered the vessel's helm seized and the team sailed the freighter to Muscat, Oman - the first forcible diversion under the U.N. embargo.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1990
- Population
- Crew + embarked USCG LEDet boarding team, 1990-91 Gulf deployment
- Limitations
- Operational record, not materials documentation - no bearing on asbestos findings; carried for completeness of the hull's service record. LA Times spells the vessel 'Zanubia' (variant spelling); ship name per DoD chronology is Zanoobia.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-goldsborough-ddg20-05
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[7]USS Goldsborough (DDG-20) Association 'Final Disposition' page: first-person account of Cdr. John Bryson CSM RAN (the RAN officer responsible for the purchase, e-mail 08/03/01) and RAN 19-year veteran Mike Szewczyk (stripping crew); Naval Historical Society of Australia 'Call the Hands' newsletters Nos. 34 & 36 (navyhistory.au) corroborating dates [museum_official]
- Locator
- ussgoldsborough.com/final-disposition (Szewczyk + Bryson accounts); navyhistory.au 'Call the Hands' Issues 34 (Sep 2019) and 36 (Nov 2019), 'USS Goldsborough' items + 'On this day 2 Feb 1994'
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Disposal chain for this hull after the statutory sale: purchased by Australia as a parts hulk for the RAN's three Perth-class (Adams-derivative) destroyers and a planned Combat Systems Maintenance School training facility; towed from Pearl Harbor commencing 26 December 1993, arrived Sydney 2 February 1994, berthed at Fleet Base East (Garden Island); a four-man RAN team removed fire-control/CIC consoles (refurbished for CSMS Bldg 67), the Mk 13 GMLS (for FFG use), and other equipment/spares; team painted pennant '40' on the bow; after demilitarization the hulk was sold to Indian shipbreakers (August 1994) and towed from Sydney in December 1994 to be broken up at Goa, India. NHSA corroborates purchase price US$2,337,462 (citing the 15 March 1994 Senate Hansard answer) and the July/August 1994 breaker sale.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1993-1995
- Population
- RAN four-man stripping team at Fleet Base East, Feb-Aug 1994; Indian shipbreaking workers at Goa, late 1994-95
- Limitations
- Documents the hull's end-of-life material handling (equipment strip + foreign shipbreaking) - an asbestos-relevant event class - but contains no hazmat, asbestos-inventory, or worker-protection data for the stripping or breaking. Sources are a ship's association page (crew publication hosting a named RAN officer's first-person account) and a naval historical society newsletter - reputable but secondary; the Australian Hansard answer (15 Mar 1994, p.1648) is cited within them but was not itself retrieved. Tow-date variants: Aug 1994 (Szewczyk/NHSA sale) vs. Dec 1994 (Bryson departure for Goa) - carried as sold Aug 1994, towed Dec 1994.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-goldsborough-ddg20-06
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[8]USS Goldsborough (DDG-20) Association 'History' page - post-DANFS service summary including documented yard periods and modernization [museum_official]
- Locator
- ussgoldsborough.com/history, 'HISTORY' section paragraphs 3-14
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Association/secondary service record covering periods outside or thinly covered by the truncated DANFS transcription: Gemini IV Pacific backup-recovery rig June 1965 and 24 Nov 1965 torpedo-pier discharge at Pearl Harbor (no detonation); 1967-68 Sea Dragon/DMZ gunfire support (nearly 10,000 rounds; Navy Unit Commendation 29 Aug 1967-17 Feb 1968); fourth WestPac Nov 1968 (88 gunfire missions); Apollo 11 recovery contingency force July 1969; 1970 yard period then fifth WestPac Aug 1970-Feb 1971; sixth WestPac Sep 1971; Apollo 16 recovery task force early 1972; seventh WestPac from 13 Oct 1972 - 19 Dec 1972 coastal-artillery hit (five-foot hole in upper deck; casualty figures per secondary accounts two killed outright, six wounded, one later died; Meritorious Unit Commendation Oct 1972-Feb 1973); 'a major overhaul at Pearl in 1974. Her electronics and weapons systems were modernized, and she was fitted with a new type of sonar. Her boilers and generators were rebuilt as well'; mid-1976 Indian Ocean deployment with the Ranger task group; Hurricane Iwa sortie Nov 1982 (one seaman killed; a junior officer washed overboard swam to the reef runway and survived); extensive modernization 'in 83-84 at Pearl Harbor'; 1988 Earnest Will deployment with the Carl Vinson battlegroup incl. minor Typhoon Roy damage; CO roster incl. future CNO Adm. Michael G. Mullen (Jun 1985-Oct 1987 per NavSource); Sept 1990 Zanoobia boarding; Oct 1992 final forward deployment (Central America counter-drug); 'last U.S. Navy Charles F. Adams-class destroyer to leave service' per secondary compilations.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1967-1993
- Population
- Crew 1967-1993; PHNSY workers during 1974 and 1983-84 availabilities
- Limitations
- Crew-association publication plus secondary compilations (navysite.de, NavSource, Wikipedia), not an official record - the source layer for service events the retrieved DANFS transcription does not reach (its narrative ends in the 1966 period); each event is corroborated where an official/press source exists (NVR milestones, DoD GulfLink, USNI). Casualty figures, the 'last of class' superlative, and the 1983-84 'Complex Overhaul' scope (15 months, 9+ months drydock, [citation needed] on Wikipedia) rest on secondary material only - the yard periods establish disturbance windows but no asbestos content is asserted or documented. Boiler explosion absent from the association page; event rests on ev-04 + crew accounts.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-goldsborough-ddg20-07
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[9]CourtListener API v4 opinion search 'USS Goldsborough' (0 results); Owens-Illinois joinder ECF No. 50 p.1-2, Siegfried v. 3M Co. et al., No. 2:18-cv-01575-FMO-E (C.D. Cal. 2018) - the shared 43-vessel asbestos exposure list naming five Adams-class sisters, retrieved and text-verified [court_record]
- Locator
- CourtListener API v4 search (type=o, 'USS Goldsborough'); RECAP storage PDF gov.uscourts.cacd.702384.50.0 p.1-2 (vessel list ends at Waddell DDG-24)
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- No qualifying asbestos litigation naming this hull was located. CourtListener opinion search on the exact name 'USS Goldsborough' returned zero results. The shared Siegfried v. 3M asbestos pleading (the same ~43-vessel 'Location of Exposure' list that produced qualifying hull-named hits for sister ships Henry B. Wilson DDG-7, Towers DDG-9, Robison DDG-12, Hoel DDG-13, and Waddell DDG-24) was retrieved in full text and verified NOT to include DDG-20 - the list ends '...USS Hoel (DDG-13); and USS Waddell (DDG-24). There are no other exposure allegations related to Owens-Illinois.' Law-firm/marketing ship lists naming USS Goldsborough (DDG-20) and/or Goldsborough DD-188 exist but are excluded under source policy.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- Litigation coverage through 2026-09-28
- Population
- Not applicable - sweep result
- Limitations
- Absence of a located litigation record does not prove no claim exists - state-court dockets, settled cases, MDL-875 docket-text references, and non-indexed pleadings are not fully covered by opinion search; docket-level (type=r) queries were subject to fleet pacing this session and partial coverage is logged in the search_ledger. A name match would also require hull disambiguation: two prior USN ships carried the name (TB-20; DD-188/AVD-5/APD-32, in commission to Oct 1945).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-goldsborough-ddg20-08
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[10]NARA, 'Goldsborough (DDG-20) - December 1970' deck log, Logbooks of U.S. Navy Ships and Stations (RG 24, Bureau of Naval Personnel), digitized under the VA Blue Water Navy digitization (NAID 173208959; indexed via DPLA) [other_primary]
- Locator
- catalog.archives.gov/id/173208959 (Dec 1970 file unit); DPLA item ea4f1eeb88d92c268fe1bf9f3336ab2b
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Digitized deck logs exist for this hull in the National Archives Catalog (example: December 1970, within the deployment window containing the documented boiler explosion; the digitization program covers Vietnam-era logs 1956-1978). Deck logs are the primary-source route to confirm the explosion's date/location, the 1966/1974 PHNSY yard entries, and any recorded material casualties.
- Verification
- unverified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1956-1978 (coverage)
- Population
- Crew 1956-1978 log coverage (Vietnam-era digitized subset)
- Limitations
- Archival lead only - the log images were not retrieved or read this session; nothing from them is asserted. Deck logs record operational events, not materials inventories; asbestos documentation via this route is possible but unverified. Hull-number disambiguation required in the same series (DD-188 logs also exist under 'Goldsborough').
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-goldsborough-ddg20-09
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[11]DANFS specifications block (Charles F. Adams class; steam DDG) + NVR 'Steam Turbines', 2 propellers + secondary spec references (navysite.de: '4 - 1200 psi boilers; 2 geared turbines', ~70,000 shp class spec) + Siegfried ECF 50 paras. on Navy insulation specifications (32-I-3/MIL-I-2819 block; 32-P-8/MIL-I-2781 pipe; Owens-Illinois Kaylo sold to Navy spec through 30 Apr 1958) [other_primary]
- Locator
- DANFS spec block (hazegray transcription); NVR physical-characteristics table; navysite.de/dd/ddg20.htm gen-cha block; Siegfried ECF 50 paras. 3-11 (Navy insulation specifications)
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Era/class inference only: a Charles F. Adams-class destroyer built 1961-63 with a four-boiler 1,200-psi steam plant falls squarely in the documented Navy asbestos-insulation era (pre-mid-1970s restrictions) and would have carried period-standard asbestos boiler casing/fireroom insulation, steam-pipe lagging, turbine lagging, gaskets, packing, fireproofing, deck coverings, and cable insulation. One sharpening detail from the verified Siegfried filing: Owens-Illinois Kaylo production for Navy specification ended 30 April 1958 - this hull's keel was laid 3 January 1961, ~32 months after the cutoff, so Kaylo specifically falls outside her construction window (other suppliers' insulation products remain plausible by era, unproven aboard).
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1961-1993
- Population
- Puget Sound Bridge & Drydock construction trades 1961-63; crew 1963-1993; overhaul workers
- Limitations
- Class/era inference only - no hull-specific insulation survey, BUSHIPS materials list, or ship-specific asbestos record was located; this row must not be read as establishing asbestos aboard. Machinery details (4x1,200-psi boilers, 2 geared turbines, ~70,000 shp) are from secondary spec references - NVR records only 'Steam Turbines' and 2 propellers; boiler pressure varies by source (1,200 vs 1,275 psi).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-goldsborough-ddg20-10
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[12]Atlas shipyard records: Puget Sound Bridge & Dredging (tier 3 - Lockwood v. AC&S, Inc., 109 Wn.2d 235, 744 P.2d 605 (1987), Raymark asbestos products on a 1947-48 liner conversion); Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard (tier 1 - Kolonel 1985 Hawaii mesothelioma cohort OR ~10; Sinks et al. 1994; EPA SEMS environmental records); Puget Sound Naval Shipyard (tier 1 - 1960s-70s fiber measurements 40-150 f/cc during rip-out; mesothelioma SMR; EPA records) [other_primary]
- Locator
- shipyards.json records: puget-sound-bridge-dredging (ev-puget-bridge-01), pearl-harbor-naval-shipyard (ev-01/-02/-03/-04), puget-sound-naval-shipyard (ev-01/-02/-03)
- Finding type
- gov_survey
- Finding
- Yard-level asbestos documentation for the three yards materially connected to this hull: the builder (Puget Sound Bridge & Dredging, Seattle) is litigation-documented for asbestos product use (Raymark insulation on a 1947-48 large liner conversion - ~13 years before this hull's keel); the commissioning yard (Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton) carries fiber-measurement and mesothelioma-mortality documentation; the overhaul yard (Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard - documented hull availabilities Aug 1966 per DANFS, 1974 and 1983-84 per association record) carries Hawaii mesothelioma-cohort and EPA contamination documentation. Yard conditions describe exposure potential for workers, not materials aboard this specific hull.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1947-1994 (yard record spans)
- Population
- Shipyard construction/overhaul trades at the three yards
- Limitations
- Yard-level evidence only - none of these sources names this hull, and the builder-yard litigation predates her construction by more than a decade. Shipyard exposure records do not establish what was installed or removed aboard DDG-20; they document that asbestos work was routine at the yards that built, commissioned, and overhauled her.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-goldsborough-ddg20-11
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[13]GAO, Navy Efforts To Protect Workers From Asbestos Exposure, HRD-80-2 (Oct. 18, 1979) - full text via Justia GAO republication (gao.gov asset blocks automated fetch) [gao]
- Locator
- GAO HRD-80-2 highlights + fieldwork sections (Justia mirror)
- Finding type
- gov_survey
- Finding
- Navy-program backdrop for this hull's documented yard periods: the GAO review documents the Navy's 1975 asbestos policy (replace asbestos insulation only when damaged or removed for repairs, modified 1979 to add selective replacement in high-maintenance areas), rejection of a one-time fleet-wide removal (est. ~$2 billion), DD & DDG-class reinsulation cost estimates, and fieldwork findings of asbestos dust aboard ships at Long Beach NSY. For Goldsborough, the 1966 and 1974 PHNSY availabilities predate the 1975 policy; the 1983-84 modernization postdates it - program context only.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1978-1979 (review period)
- Population
- Navy shipyard workers (Long Beach and Norfolk fieldwork); Navy-wide program
- Limitations
- Program-level documentation, not hull-specific: GAO fieldwork yards were Long Beach and Norfolk - not Pearl Harbor - and no ship is named as a finding in the retrieved report. This hull's connection is temporal (her documented yard periods bracket the policy era), not substantive. gao.gov full-text asset returns Access Denied to automated fetch; text via Justia republication.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-goldsborough-ddg20-12