Evidence
7 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-7).
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[1]DANFS, Gregory I (DD-82/APD-3) (builder, dates, WWI and WWII service narrative, loss, striking; verbatim transcription - live NHHC page serves 404, canonical hazegray.org unreachable; identical text at ibiblio.org/hyperwar APD mirror) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS entry, specifications block + service narrative
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS record for this hull (namesake: Rear Adm. Francis Hoyt Gregory, 1789-1866): laid down 25 August 1917 (per NavSource compiled building data - DANFS omits the laying date) at the Fore River Ship Building Co., Quincy, Mass.; launched 27 January 1918 (DANFS transcription prints '1915' - an impossibility against the August 1917 laying; corrected year carried per NavSource and standard references); sponsored by Mrs. George S. Trevor; commissioned 1 June 1918, Comdr. Arthur P. Fairfield in command. Sailed for Brest 25 June 1918; convoy escort between French and Allied ports; patrol squadron at Gibraltar from 2 November 1918; passengers/supplies to the Adriatic and Austrian-armistice duties; relief missions western Mediterranean from 28 April 1919, including with USS Arizona to Smyrna, Constantinople, Batum; reached the U.S. 13 June 1919. Reserve at Tompkinsville, Brooklyn Navy Yard, Philadelphia Navy Yard; Charleston, S.C., from 4 January 1921; entered Philadelphia Navy Yard 12 April 1922; decommissioned 7 July 1922. Converted to high-speed transport; recommissioned 4 November 1940 as APD-3; Transport Division 12 with Little, Colhoun, McKean. Departed Charleston January 1942 for Pearl Harbor; Hawaiian exercises; San Diego repairs; departed Noumea 31 July 1942 with TF 62; Marines ashore in first assault waves 7 August 1942; a month of patrol and transport duties in Iron Bottom Sound. Night of 4-5 September 1942, returning toward Tulagi with Little after transferring a Marine Raider battalion to Savo Island: silhouetted by a Navy pilot's flares at 0100 on 5 September, engaged by Japanese destroyers Yudachi, Hatsuyuki, Murakumo; two boilers burst, dead in the water within ~3 minutes; abandon ship ordered by Lt. Comdr. H. F. Bauer (lost, posthumous Silver Star); sank stern-first ~40 minutes after firing began; all but 11 of the crew survived; struck from the Navy List 2 October 1942; two battle stars. Specifications: dp. 1,191; l. 314'4"; b. 30'11"; dr. 9'2"; s. 34.75 k.; a. 4 4", 12 21" tt.; cpl. 141; cl. Wickes.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1917-1942
- Population
- Fore River Shipbuilding construction trades 1917-18; WWI crew; embarked troops (APD-3 era); wartime crew to loss 1942 (design complement 141)
- Limitations
- DANFS documents construction, service, loss, and disposal - not materials or asbestos content. Transcription defects noted rather than silently corrected: 'launched 27 January 1915' (impossible; 1918 carried per NavSource/standard references) and 'On 27 January 27' (i.e., 27 January 1942 departure). Mirror transcription cited because the live NHHC page returns 404 and hazegray.org is unreachable from this host.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-gregory-dd82-01
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[2]Naval Historical Center / NHHC Online Library of Selected Images, 'USS Gregory (DD-82, later APD-3), 1918-1942' (verbatim ibiblio/HyperWar mirror of the NHC page) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Online Library page narrative + captions NH 84722, NH 97781-83, NH 97836
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Official Navy photographic record for this hull: described as 'a 1060-ton Wickes class destroyer... built at Quincy, Massachusetts'; commissioned June 1918; convoy escort France-England to November 1918, Gibraltar patrol, post-Armistice Mediterranean/Black Sea diplomatic and relief duty; decommissioned at the Philadelphia Navy Yard July 1922; 'after nearly two decades in reserve, Gregory was recalled to active duty and converted to a high speed transport,' recommissioned as APD-3 November 1940; landed Marines in the 7 August 1942 Guadalcanal-Tulagi invasion; sunk by Japanese destroyers off Lunga Point on the night of 4-5 September 1942. Captioned photographs: NH 84722 (in a European port, circa 1919); NH 97781/97782/97783 (APD-3 in port, circa early 1942, pattern camouflage); NH 97836 (practice landings, Fiji Islands, 30 July 1942, with USS Little). The page also records that in July 1992 'a sunken U.S. Navy high-speed transport was discovered and briefly examined on the sea floor some miles off Lunga Point... this ship is either USS Gregory or her sister, USS Little.'
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1918-1942; wreck note 1992
- Population
- Crew and embarked troops at documented events, 1918-1942
- Limitations
- Photographic/narrative documentation establishes identity, configuration change, and loss site - not materials or asbestos content. The 1992 wreck identity is unresolved between Gregory and Little (see also ev-05 for the 2015 survey). Live NHHC Online Library URLs are unreliable (standing link-rot per BATCH-01); verbatim ibiblio mirror cited.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-gregory-dd82-02
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[3]Office of Naval Intelligence, Combat Narratives: 'The Landing in the Solomons, 7-8 August 1942' (Publications Branch, ONI, 1943; NHHC 2017 official reprint via govinfo; transcription at ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USN/USN-CN-Solomons) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Combat Narrative order of battle (Transport Squadron YOKE / APDs) and Chapter 13, 'The Landings in the Tulagi Area, August 7'
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Official wartime U.S. Navy publication naming this hull: the transport organization lists the four destroyer transports 'Colhoun, Lt. George B. Madden. Little, Lt. Comdr. Gus B. Lofberg, Jr. McKean, Lt. Comdr. John D. Sweeney. Gregory, Lt. Comdr. Harry F. Bauer'; Chapter 13 records 'the main body of the [First Raider] battalion had mustered in the embarking areas of the four destroyer transports, Little, Colhoun, Gregory, and McKean' for the 7 August 1942 Tulagi-area landings, with Little acting as control vessel at the line of departure.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1942
- Population
- Embarked First Raider Battalion troops and Gregory crew, August 1942
- Limitations
- Documents this hull's operational role in the 7 August 1942 landings - not materials or asbestos content. The companion ONI volume 'Miscellaneous Actions in the South Pacific, 8 August 1942-22 January 1943' (which covers the September loss) was not located in digitized transcription on HyperWar; the loss narrative is carried from DANFS (ev-01).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-gregory-dd82-03
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[4]DANFS specifications block (Wickes class; 1,191 t; 34.75 kt) + class design references for the Bethlehem/Fore River 'Little'-type plant (4 Yarrow boilers, Curtis turbines) + Atlas shipyard dataset, Fore River Shipyard record (yard tier 3; asbestos products documented incl. boiler/pipe/turbine insulation, gaskets, packing, fireproofing, asbestos cement, electrical insulation; Raybestos-Manhattan welding blankets in litigation-era product records) [other_primary]
- Locator
- DANFS specifications block; shipyards.json record 'fore-river-shipyard'; class design references for Bethlehem-design boiler/turbine fit; NavSource APD-3 compiled specifications (2 Yarrow boilers, 2 Fore River Curtis geared turbines, 27,000 shp post-conversion)
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Era/yard inference: a 1917-18 Fore River-built destroyer with a four-boiler saturated-steam plant would have carried period-standard heat insulation on boilers, steam drums, steam lines, and turbines, and era-standard gaskets, packing, and lagging; insulation products of this period were commonly manufactured with asbestos fiber. The builder yard (Fore River Shipyard, Quincy) is documented at yard level in the Atlas dataset (tier 3) with asbestos products including boiler/pipe/turbine insulation, gaskets, packing, fireproofing, asbestos cement, and electrical insulation. The 1940 APD conversion (two forward boilers and stacks removed; armament stripped for boats and troop spaces) would have disturbed original-era materials; the conversion yard and material scope are undocumented.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1917-1942
- Population
- Fore River construction trades 1917-18; conversion-yard workers 1940 (yard undocumented); crew 1918-1942
- Limitations
- Class/era and builder-yard inference only - NOT a hull-specific finding. The Fore River yard-level product documentation is litigation-era material from later decades (e.g., a 1967-70 pipefitter-apprentice record) and postdates this hull's 1917-18 construction by decades; it documents yard practice generally, not materials installed aboard DD-82. No hull material specification was located. NARA RG19/RG181 holdings (booklets of general plans, yard specification files) are the archival lead; retrieval not performed. Does not quantify material or establish any individual's exposure.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-gregory-dd82-04
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[5]Ocean News & Technology feature on the 2015 Vulcan Inc. (R/V Petrel/M/Y Octopus) Iron Bottom Sound sonar-mapping expedition [reputable_press]
- Locator
- ON&T May feature story, Iron Bottom Sound mapping results summary
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- A January-March 2015 Vulcan Inc. expedition (AUV sonar mapping plus ROV work from Octopus) located 29 wreck locations and 7 debris fields in Iron Bottom Sound; 6 wrecks were positively identified and 11 tentatively identified - including USS Little (APD-4), Gregory's sister and companion in the fatal 4-5 September 1942 action. The remaining 12 wreck locations were unidentified. Combined with the unresolved 1992 APD find (ev-02), Gregory's own wreck remains not conclusively identified.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 2015 (survey)
- Limitations
- Trade-press account of a private survey - program-level wreck inventory, not a hull identification for Gregory; establishes the wreck-status context only. No materials or asbestos information.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-gregory-dd82-05
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[6]United States Navy Memorial, Navy Log ship entry 'Gregory' (APD-3) with Lost At Sea log [museum_official]
- Locator
- navylog.navymemorial.org/gregory - ship entry and Lost At Sea log
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- The U.S. Navy Memorial's ship log records APD-3 Gregory 'Date Lost: Saturday, September 5, 1942 - Night Battle near Lunga Point' and recites the loss narrative; its Lost at Sea log for the ship lists 17 sailors. Corroborates the 5 September 1942 loss date carried in this record against secondary sources that date the loss 4 September.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1942
- Population
- Gregory crew lost 5 September 1942 (per memorial log)
- Limitations
- Institutional memorial log, not a casualty-of-record list: the 17-name Lost at Sea count exceeds DANFS's 'all but 11 of Gregory's crew survived' (11 lost) - the discrepancy (attached personnel vs. crew, or later deaths) is unresolved and carried in gaps. No materials or asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-gregory-dd82-06
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[7]Batch-3785 search ledger (this record): DANFS mirrors; NHHC Online Library; ONI combat narrative; Naval Vessel Register; Atlas shipyard dataset; Navy Memorial log; wreck-survey coverage; CourtListener attempt log [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-gregory-dd82-01 through sl-uss-gregory-dd82-10
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located for DD-82 in the sources searched: no hull ACM survey or material specification, no abatement or material-removal record (impossible - the hull sank in action in 1942 and was never raised), no custodian disclosure (no preserved remnant exists), and no qualifying litigation naming this hull located in the repository searches completed. The hull predates the era of asbestos health documentation: it was lost in combat in 1942, before the asbestos-survey era and before the exposure window behind most asbestos litigation.
- 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-consistent materials would be expected on a 1917-18 steam plant, but that is inference (ev-04), not documentation. The CourtListener sweep is recorded in the search ledger: the exact-name search returned no results on both the opinion and docket indexes (sl-05), and every hull-number hit was a name/string collision (sl-06). Does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-gregory-dd82-07