Evidence
9 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-9).
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[1]research packet kj-packet.md (6 sources cited) [other_primary]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERIFIED — real identity: Greiner; hull DE-37; destroyer escort, Evarts class (diesel-electric; 1,140 std tons; 19 knots) [VIA-WP] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Greiner
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-greiner-de37-pkt-kj-packet-md
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[2]DANFS, Greiner (DE-37), NHHC ship-history page (namesake paragraph, builder, dates, service narrative, striking; Wayback capture 2024-05-24 - live NHHC page serves 404; identical verbatim transcription at losthistory.net/hazegray/danfs/escorts/de37.htm, DANFS Vol. 3 (1968) p.156) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS entry DE-37, namesake paragraph + specifications block + service narrative (Vol. 3, 1968, p.156)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS record for this hull: namesake Lt. (j.g.) Kenneth Frederick Greiner, USNR (b. Hibbing, Minn., 27 April 1910; killed in enemy action at NAS Dutch Harbor 4 June 1942 during the Japanese attack on the Aleutians). Originally intended for Great Britain under Lend-Lease; launched as BDE-37 20 May 1943 by Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton, Wash.; commissioned 18 August 1943, Lt. Comdr. F. S. Dowd in command. Shakedown California-Washington coast; Pearl Harbor 31 October 1943; sailed 23 December for Tarawa as flagship of Escort Squadron 28; ~1 year Gilberts-Marshalls escort duty; rescued 13 men from a downed PBM 26 January 1944; shelled Kusaie Island 1 June 1944; repairs Pearl Harbor July-October 1944; December patrols around Wotje, Mili, Jaluit, Maloelap; plane-guarding/screening escort carriers Gilberts-Marshalls; Okinawa 29 June-3 July 1945; returned via Kerama Retto, Ulithi, Eniwetok, Pearl Harbor, arriving San Francisco 28 July 1945; decommissioned Oakland 19 November 1945; stricken from the Navy List 5 December 1945; 'sold to J. G. Berkwit & Co. 10 February 1945, and resold in 1947' (the printed 1945 sale year is impossible - the ship was in commission until November 1945; carried in gaps). Three battle stars for World War II service. Specification block: 1,140 t; 289'5" x 35'1" x 8'3"; 21 k.; complement 156.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1942-1947
- Population
- Puget Sound Navy Yard construction trades 1942-43; wartime crew (DANFS complement 156)
- Limitations
- DANFS documents namesake, builder, dates, and service narrative - it contains no materials or asbestos information. Live NHHC page returned 404 on 2026-09-28; the Wayback capture of the NHHC page is cited with a verbatim hazegray transcription as corroboration. The '10 February 1945' sale year is a DANFS error (hull in commission until November 1945) - NavSource reads 10 February 1946; carried in gaps rather than silently corrected.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-greiner-de37-01
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[3]Bureau of Ships, Ships' Data, U.S. Naval Vessels, Vol. 1 (15 April 1945), NAVSHIPS 250-010 - DE register row 139 for this hull + DE design-group table row for GMT (shipscribe.com scan, OCR) [other_primary]
- Locator
- SDB1945v1.pdf scan pp.246-247 (DE register row 139 'GREINER DE37') and pp.234-235 (DE design-group table, GMT row)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Official BuShips register row 139 (register p.246-247) names this hull: 'GREINER ... DE37', design group GMT; built by Navy Yard, Puget Sound; contract price $1,649,400; contract signed 1 November 1941 (ditto of preceding Navy-yard DE rows); keel laid 7 September 1942 ('do' ditto); launched 20 May 1943; date of first commission 18 August 1943. The GMT design-group table row (pp.234-235) fixes the type plant: 289 ft 5 in oa, 1,140 t standard (1,430 t full load), ~21.5 kt trial, accommodations 15 officers / 183 enlisted, 2 propellers, 4 G.M. diesel engines model 16-278A at 6,000 hp, boiler columns 'None' - a diesel-electric tandem-motor drive with no steam plant; armament 3 x 3-inch/50 D.P., 1 quad AA mount.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1941-1945
- Population
- Puget Sound Navy Yard construction trades 1942-43; wartime crew (design accommodations 15 officers / 183 enlisted)
- Limitations
- Contemporaneous official register (scan read by OCR; register entries transcribed from the page image and consistent with DANFS on every overlapping field). Documents contract/dates/design plant - no materials or asbestos information. The register predates the war's end and records no disposition. Contract price/date are ditto-carried from the preceding Navy-yard DE rows; independent confirmation of the 1 November 1941 contract date for this hull not separately located.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-greiner-de37-02
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[4]NavSource Online DE photo archive, USS Greiner (DE 37) page (navsource.org/archives/06/037.htm) - building/operational data via search-index snippet; page itself blocked to automated fetch at session time [other_primary]
- Locator
- navsource.org/archives/06/037.htm search-index snippet (fetch blocked at session time)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NavSource compilation for this hull (search-index snippet, not fetched directly): keel laid 7 September 1942 as BDE-37 by Puget Sound Navy Yard; launched/christened 20 May 1943, sponsor Mrs. Cecily Reddin (yard cafeteria worker, wife of PSNY outside machine shop employee Edmond O. Reddin); commissioned 18 August 1943, Lcdr. F. S. Dowd USNR; decommissioned Oakland, Cal. 19 November 1945; struck from the NVR 5 December 1945; sold 10 February 1946 to J. G. Berkit & Co., scrapped at National Metal & Steel Corp., Terminal Island, Los Angeles, Cal. Lcdr. Loren Hall Kiser, USN, decommissioning CO.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1942-1947
- Population
- Scrapping workers, National Metal & Steel Corp., Terminal Island, 1946-47
- Limitations
- Volunteer-compiled secondary source - not primary documentation. All overlapping dates agree with DANFS and the BuShips register; it supplies the sponsor, the decommissioning CO, and the scrapping chain (1946 sale, National Metal & Steel, Terminal Island) that DANFS lacks or misprints. Buyer spelled 'Berkit' here vs 'Berkwit' in DANFS - same firm, spelling conflict carried in gaps.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-greiner-de37-03
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[5]BuShips SDB-1945 GMT design-group table (pp.234-235: 4 x GM 16-278A diesels, 6,000 hp, boiler columns 'None') + Atlas shipyard dataset, 'puget-sound-naval-shipyard' record (tier 1; DTIC AD0715808; PMID 1065583) [other_primary]
- Locator
- SDB1945v1.pdf pp.234-235 (GMT row); shipyards.json record 'puget-sound-naval-shipyard'
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Era/yard inference: a GMT-type destroyer escort built 1942-43 would have carried era-standard asbestos applications appropriate to a diesel-electric ship - exhaust insulation, gaskets and packing, electrical insulation, brake linings, fireproofing, and deck coverings - but no boilers or steam-line lagging (the BuShips design table records 'None' in the GMT boiler columns). Builder Puget Sound Navy Yard is documented at yard level in the Atlas dataset (tier 1): pulmonary abnormalities in 21% of pipe coverers/insulators and 40-150 f/cc during rip-out (DTIC AD0715808, 1970); amosite/chrysotile exposure during overhaul rip-out and installation with preformed magnesia block ~15% asbestos (PMID 1065583, 1962-1972 study period); EPA Superfund-listed site WA2170023418.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1942-1947
- Population
- Puget Sound Navy Yard construction trades 1942-43; wartime crew 1943-45
- Limitations
- Class/era and builder-yard inference only - NOT a hull-specific finding. The diesel-electric plant means the largest asbestos categories of steam ships (boiler and steam-line insulation) do not apply. The cited PSNY studies postdate this hull's 1942-43 construction by two to three decades and document overhaul-era exposures, not construction; no wartime PSNY materials documentation for this hull was located. Does not quantify material or establish any individual's exposure.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-greiner-de37-04
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[6]GAO, Navy Efforts To Protect Workers From Asbestos Exposure, HRD-80-2 (Oct 18, 1979) [gao]
- Locator
- GAO product page HRD-80-2 (full text blocked to automated fetch, HTTP 403; content via product-page description)
- Finding type
- gov_survey
- Finding
- GAO documented the Navy's asbestos-protection program posture: standing policy from 1975 removed asbestos insulation only when damaged or required for repairs, modified 1979 to selective replacement in high-maintenance areas. Context for this hull's timeline: DE-37 decommissioned November 1945, stricken December 1945, and sold for scrapping in 1946-47 - the hull left Navy custody roughly three decades before the GAO-described program-era reviews and before any Navy asbestos survey regime existed.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1979
- Population
- Navy shipyard workers (program review population, not this hull)
- Limitations
- Program-level documentation, not ship- or class-specific; fieldwork yards were elsewhere (Long Beach, Norfolk). DE-37 was scrapped before the period GAO surveyed, so this row frames why no modern Navy survey or abatement record for the hull should be expected - it is not evidence about this hull's materials.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-greiner-de37-05
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[7]Batch-4275 search ledger (this record): DANFS via NHHC Wayback capture and hazegray transcription; BuShips SDB-1945 register (OCR); NavSource snippet; CourtListener API v4 opinion and RECAP docket sweeps; Atlas shipyard dataset; excluded-source web check [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-greiner-de37-01 through -10 (including -06a/-06b)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no hull ACM survey, no abatement contract or disposal hazmat disclosure, and no docketed asbestos litigation naming USS Greiner or DE-37 was found in the public sources searched (see search_ledger). The only asbestos-bearing pages naming the hull are law-firm marketing pages (asbestos-ships.com dedicated page; shepardlawfirm.com, freeasbestostesting.com, and mesotheliomaveterans.org list entries), which are excluded sources under batch rules and assert no documentable ship-specific fact - the asbestos-ships.com page additionally misprints the stricken date as 19 December 1945 and the sale year as 1947.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 2026-09-28
- Limitations
- Absence of a located public record does not prove absence of asbestos aboard - the hull's 1942-43 construction is consistent with era materials, and no scrapping-environmental record exists from 1946-47. Does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-greiner-de37-06
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[8]CourtListener API v4 litigation sweep for USS Greiner / DE-37 (authenticated, 2026-09-28) [court_record]
- Locator
- CourtListener API v4 type=o and type=r queries; search_ledger rows sl-uss-greiner-de37-05, -06, -06a, -06b
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- CourtListener sweeps located no qualifying asbestos litigation naming this hull: opinion search '"USS Greiner"' returned 0 results; RECAP docket search '"USS Greiner"' returned 0 results; opinion search '"DE-37"' returned 262 loosely-matched results (first 20 reviewed - every hit is a docket-entry-number collision ('[DE 37]') in unrelated civil litigation; no vessel or asbestos reference). A RECAP docket query for the hull number and a surname-plus-asbestos docket query were attempted repeatedly but blocked by the saturated fleet-wide pacing budget through most of the session. No complaint, opinion, or docket naming the hull was located.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 2026-09-28
- Population
- n/a
- Limitations
- Negative sweep covers CourtListener's indexed corpus only - unindexed state-court pleadings, settled asbestos trust claims, and non-digitized filings are outside its scope. A no-hit sweep does not prove no plaintiff ever alleged exposure aboard this hull.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-greiner-de37-07
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[9]NARA Record Group 24 (deck logs) and RG 19 (BuShips General Information Books) holdings for DE-37 - not retrieved [other_primary]
- Locator
- NARA RG 24 deck-log series; RG 19 General Information Books
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Untapped primary repositories for this hull: NARA deck logs (RG 24) covering the 1943-45 commissioned period; BuShips General Information Books (RG 19) which, where extant for DEs, carry per-vessel material specifications; and the Puget Sound Navy Yard contract/build file (contract dated 1 November 1941 per the SDB register). None retrieved this session.
- Verification
- unverified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1941-1945 (records)
- Population
- n/a
- Limitations
- Lead only - presence of a usable DE-37 entry in these holdings is unverified. GIB coverage of Navy-yard-built DEs is incomplete.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-greiner-de37-08