USS Halloran (DE-305)

Evidence

13 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-13).

1. [1]research packet jz-packet.md (25 sources cited) [nhhc_danfs]

   Finding type

   vessel_history

   Finding

   Identity packet verdict: VERIFIED — real identity: USS *Halloran* — https://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USN/ships/dafs/DE/de305.html (loaded sanctioned mirror), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Halloran (loaded, L20: "Name | USS *Halloran*")

   Verification

   verified

   Role

   supporting

   Documentation level

   ship_specific

   Evidence ID

   uss-halloran-de305-pkt-jz-packet-md

2. [2]DANFS, Halloran (DE-305), April 2016 edition - verbatim transcription by Tin Can Sailors (destroyers.org); corroborated by the HyperWar/ibiblio transcription of the older edition; live NHHC page returns 404 [nhhc_danfs]

   Locator

   destroyers.org/ships/de-305 namesake + spec block + 'Ship History' + 'Disposition' sections (DANFS April 2016); ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USN/ships/dafs/DE/de305.html (older-edition transcription)

   Finding type

   vessel_history

   Finding

   DANFS record for this hull: first ship named for Ensign William Ignatius Halloran, USNR (born 23 July 1915 at Cleveland, Ohio; enlisted Naval Reserve as apprentice seaman 14 August 1940; commissioned Ensign 12 June 1941; assigned Naval Air Station San Pedro, then USS Arizona; lost aboard Arizona at Pearl Harbor 7 December 1941). Spec block: dp. 1,140; l. 289'5"; b. 35'1"; dr. 8'3"; s. 21 k.; cpl. 156; a. 3 3", 4 1.1", 9 20mm., 2 dct., 8 dcp., 1 dcp. (h.h.); cl. Evarts. Laid down by Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, Calif., 21 June 1943; launched 14 January 1944, sponsored by Mrs. L. J. Halloran, mother; commissioned 27 May 1944, Lt. Comdr. J. G. Scripps in command. Shakedown; convoy escort from California 31 July, Pearl Harbor 9 August; Eniwetok 16-24 August; escort screen for fast oiler replenishment group to the Western Pacific, based Manus then Ulithi until 29 November (fuel to fleet units off Palau, Yap, Luzon); at Ulithi 20 November witnessed torpedoing of oiler Mississinewa and searched with Rall for a suspected midget submarine. 5-7 December screened two escort carriers to Manus; 14 December tanker escort to Eniwetok; Pearl Harbor 24 December. 22 January 1945 escort screen for the Iwo Jima amphibious task force; Saipan-area patrol; barrier patrol during the landings 19 February to 28 February; convoy via Saipan and Tulagi to Espiritu Santo, arriving 15 March. Departed 25 March; arrived off Okinawa 9 April; antisubmarine barrier patrols; repelled six Japanese aircraft 12 April (one splashed, two damaged); narrowly missed by torpedo 20 April; assistance to stricken Isherwood; Saipan escort; resumed barrier patrols 30 May; 21 June suicide plane splashed 75 yards away but an exploding bomb 'killed three men' and damaged hull and superstructure. Repairs at Kerama Retto; patrol off Ie Shima 5-13 July; tactical command of LST escort screen to the Philippines; Leyte Gulf 17 July; patrols at San Pedro Bay, Leyte, and Lopez Bay, Luzon; departed Philippines for the United States 10 September; San Diego 29 September; Charleston, S.C. 11 October; 'decommissioned at Charleston 2 November 1945' (April 2016 edition); struck from the Navy List 28 November 1945; sold 7 March 1947. Three battle stars for World War II service.

   Verification

   verified

   Role

   supporting

   Documentation level

   ship_specific

   Accessed

   2026-09-28

   Study period

   1943-1947

   Population

   Mare Island Navy Yard construction trades 1943-44; wartime crew (DANFS spec cpl. 156)

   Limitations

   DANFS documents service history and specifications, not materials or asbestos content. Two internal/external divergences carried in gaps: the HyperWar transcription of the older edition reads decommissioned '2 November 1946' (the April 2016 edition and every other source read 1945) and the printed casualty line reads 'three men' where the ship's own war-history letter records four killed and eighteen wounded. Live NHHC page 404s in both URL formats tried; verbatim transcriptions cited (Tin Can Sailors = April 2016 edition; HyperWar = older edition). Bracketed inserts in the HyperWar mirror (midget-sub claim, casualty names) are the transcriber's annotations, not DANFS text, and are not relied on.

   Atlas source

   true

   Evidence ID

   ev-uss-halloran-de305-01

3. [3]Bureau of Ships, 'Ships' Data, U.S. Naval Vessels' 1945, Vol. I (NAVSHIPS 250-010), Destroyer-Escort Vessels roster row 145 for HALLORAN, DE-305 (shipscribe.com scan; local OCR of book pp. 246-247) [other_primary]

   Locator

   NAVSHIPS 250-010 Vol. I DE roster row 145, HALLORAN DE-305 (book pp. 246-247; shipscribe scan PDF p. 133)

   Finding type

   historical_record

   Finding

   Contemporaneous official BuShips roster row for this hull: HALLORAN, official number DE-305, design group GMT; builder 'Navy Yard, Mare Island'; contract price $3,180,000; contract signed Aug. 7, 1942 (ditto chain within the table - the same date uboat.net compiles as 'Ordered 7 Aug 1942'); keel laid June 21, 1943; launched Jan. 14, 1944; preliminary-completion and acceptance columns blank/dash; date of first commission May 27, 1944.

   Verification

   verified

   Role

   supporting

   Documentation level

   ship_specific

   Accessed

   2026-09-28

   Study period

   1942-1944

   Population

   Mare Island Navy Yard construction trades, 1943-44

   Limitations

   Official contemporaneous build roster - documents identity, builder, contract, and dates; contains no insulation or materials information and says nothing about asbestos. Page is an image scan read by OCR at 300 dpi; the keel/launch/commission dates corroborate DANFS and NavSource exactly. The contract-signed cell is a ditto chain resolved to Aug. 7, 1942 from the rows above; the price figure ($3,180,000) is the navy-yard accounting figure shared by other navy-yard DE rows.

   Atlas source

   true

   Evidence ID

   ev-uss-halloran-de305-02

4. [4]Bureau of Ships, 'Ships' Data, U.S. Naval Vessels' 1945, Vol. I (NAVSHIPS 250-010), Destroyer-Escort Vessels design-group characteristics + machinery tables and design-group legend (shipscribe.com scan; local OCR of book pp. 234-235) [other_primary]

   Locator

   NAVSHIPS 250-010 Vol. I DE design-group characteristics + machinery tables (book pp. 234-235; shipscribe scan PDF p. 127); destroyerhistory.org/de/evartsclass (design section)

   Finding type

   historical_record

   Finding

   Official design-group documentation for this hull's type: the legend defines 'GMT = Diesel electric tandem motor drive - short hull' and states 'All DE's fall into one of the above design groups'; the GMT characteristics row reads 289'5" overall / 283'6" waterline, ~35'2" beam, 1,140 tons standard / 1,430 full load, ~19 knots; the machinery table gives 'G. M. diesel model 16-278A', 6,000 shp, 2 propellers, and 'None' in the boilers and steam-condition columns - the official record that the GMT plant has no steam system. Destroyer History Foundation class page concurs (steam-turbine 12,000 shp plant designed out for lack of reduction gears; four 1,500-hp diesels substituted; GMTs built at Boston, Mare Island, Philadelphia, and Puget Sound navy yards).

   Verification

   verified

   Role

   context

   Documentation level

   class_or_era

   Accessed

   2026-09-28

   Study period

   1945 (publication); 1942-45 (data)

   Population

   Evarts/GMT-group construction trades 1942-44; USN and RN crews of GMT hulls

   Limitations

   Class/design documentation for the whole GMT group, not a per-hull material schedule - establishes plant type, accommodations, and that the design has no boilers, not insulation content or asbestos. Table OCR'd from a scanned page; individual cell values may be partially garbled (beam reads ~35'2" here, 35'1" in DANFS, 35'0" extreme in NavSource).

   Atlas source

   true

   Evidence ID

   ev-uss-halloran-de305-03

5. [5]USS Halloran (DE-305), Serial 0159, Commanding Officer to the Secretary of the Navy (via distribution list incl. ComDesPac, CominCh, CortDiv 61), 19 September 1945, enclosure (A), 'Ship's History, May 27, 1944 to Sep. 19, 1945' - contemporaneous ship-submitted war history (NavSource-hosted scan) [other_primary]

   Locator

   navsource.net/archives/06/images/305/06305wh.jpg - USS Halloran (DE-305) Serial 0159, 19 Sep 1945, Enclosure (A), first paragraph of ship's history + signature block

   Finding type

   historical_record

   Finding

   The ship's own war-history letter, written aboard while still in commission: commissioned 27 May 1944 at Mare Island; shaken down at San Diego; sailed from San Francisco 31 July 1944 escorting a task group servicing the fast carrier task force; operated off Palau, the Philippines, and southeast of Formosa until 14 December 1944; assigned to expeditionary forces at Pearl Harbor (10 January 1945); operated at Iwo Jima in the outer antisubmarine and antiaircraft screen and 'arrived at Iwo Jima on D day, escorting an LST group'; convoyed the 27th Infantry Division from Espiritu Santo to Okinawa, arriving 9 April 1945 as part of expeditionary forces; operated in the outer antisubmarine and antiaircraft screen at Okinawa until 13 July 1945 'which was one of heavy and incessant suicide plane attacks on ships of the outer screen'; credited one plane shot down and one assist 12 April 1945; on 21 June 1945 an additional plane shot down close aboard, and 'Shrapnel from its bomb-burst killed four men and wounded eighteen, caused numerous superficial damage and disrupted radio, radar, and gyro equipment'; operated under Commander, Philippine Sea Frontier, 18 July-10 September 1945, assisting minesweeping operations in Lopez Bay, Luzon, and destroying 48 mines; underway 10 September 1945 to Pearl Harbor to report to Commander Destroyers, Pacific Fleet.

   Verification

   verified

   Role

   supporting

   Documentation level

   ship_specific

   Accessed

   2026-09-28

   Study period

   1944-05-27 to 1945-09-19

   Population

   DE-305 officers and crew, May 1944 - September 1945

   Limitations

   Contemporaneous operational record - the strongest ship-specific service document for this hull, but it records operations and battle damage, not materials or asbestos content. Divergences from DANFS carried in gaps: it counts four killed (DANFS prints 'three men'), credits one plane down plus an assist on 12 April (DANFS: one splashed, two damaged of six attackers), and dates the Philippines departure to Pearl Harbor (DANFS compresses the trip to 'for the United States 10 September' via San Diego 29 September). A period typewritten letter read by OCR; minor OCR noise possible. NavSource-hosted reproduction of a RG-era serial-letter copy - provenance is the image itself; the archival original is a NARA lead.

   Atlas source

   true

   Evidence ID

   ev-uss-halloran-de305-04

6. [6]NavSource Online Destroyer Escort Photo Archive, USS Halloran (DE-305) page - specifications, building/operational data, commanding officers, awards, flag hoist NJRG, photo captions with NHHC/NARA/Vallejo Naval & Historical Museum credits [other_primary]

   Locator

   navsource.net/archives/06/305.htm - specifications block, 'Building and Operational Data', commanding-officers table, awards display, photo-caption table

   Finding type

   vessel_history

   Finding

   Compiled archive record for this hull: Class Evarts, Type 'GMT (diesel-electric tandem motor drive, short hull, 3" guns)'; displacement 1,140 light / 1,430 full; length 283'6" wl / 289'5" oa; beam 35'0" extreme; draft 11'0" limit; propulsion 4 GM Model 16-278A diesel engines with electric drive, 6,000 shp, 2 screws; speed 19 kts; range 4,150 nm at 12 kt; armament 3 x 3"/50 Mk22, 1 x 1.1"/75 quad, 9 x 20mm, 1 Hedgehog Mk10, 8 Mk6 DCP, 2 Mk9 DCT; complement 15 officers / 183 enlisted; radio call sign NJRG. Building/operational data: keel 21 June 1943 Mare Island Navy Yard; launched and christened 14 January 1944, sponsor Mrs. L. J. Halloran; commissioned 27 May 1944, Lcdr. J. G. Scripps, USNR; decommissioned 2 November 1945 at the Charleston Navy Yard 'after 1 year and 5 months of service'; struck from the NVR 28 November 1945; sold 7 March 1947, scrapped. Commanding officers: Lcdr./Cmdr. James G. Scripps, USNR (27 May 1944 - 18 Oct 1945, commissioning CO); Lt. W. H. Thompson, USNR (18 Oct 1945 - 11 Dec 1945, decommissioning CO). Awards displayed: Combat Action Ribbon (retroactive); American Campaign Medal; Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal w/ 3 stars; World War II Victory Medal. Photo captions credit: Vallejo Naval & Historical Museum for keel-laying DE-305-4571-44 (honorary keel layers John R. Saroyan, Paint Lab, and Ross E. Morris, Industrial Lab) and stern-view departure DE-305-3343-44; National Archives for christening DE-305-3369-44; U.S. Navy photos DE-305-3344/3345/3346/3348-44 (underway off Mare Island 7 June 1944); U.S. Naval Historical Center photo NH 83888 (port broadside off Mare Island Navy Yard 7 June 1944); a late-1945 photo alongside troop ship General W. H. Gordon (AP-117) credited to a USCG photographer.

   Verification

   verified

   Role

   supporting

   Documentation level

   ship_specific

   Accessed

   2026-09-28

   Study period

   1943-1947

   Population

   Wartime USN crew (NavSource complement 15 officers / 183 enlisted); Mare Island fitting-out personnel 1944

   Limitations

   Compiled volunteer archive, not a contemporaneous record - build/decommission dates concur with DANFS (its '2 November 1945 ... after 1 year and 5 months' independently confirms the April 2016 edition against the HyperWar '1946' artifact). Contributed photo captions are lead-level detail; 'struck from the NVR' is NavSource's modernization of DANFS's 'Navy List'. Spec-block figures mix design values (19 kt) with per-hull data. No asbestos or materials information.

   Atlas source

   true

   Evidence ID

   ev-uss-halloran-de305-05

7. [7]uboat.net Allied Warships, USS Halloran (DE 305) - warship file: build dates, commanding officer, convoy-exercise notable events (compiled secondary reference) [other_primary]

   Locator

   uboat.net/allies/warships/1313.html - warship data block, 'Commands listed' table, 'Notable events' entries 7 Aug 1944 and 14 Aug 1944

   Finding type

   historical_record

   Finding

   Compiled record corroborating the hull: 'Ordered 7 Aug 1942' (concurring with the NAVSHIPS roster contract date); laid down 21 Jun 1943, launched 14 Jan 1944, commissioned 27 May 1944, end of service 2 Nov 1945; 'Decommissioned 2 November 1945. Stricken 28 November 1945. Sold 18 March 1947 and broken up for scrap.' Commanding officer James George Scripps, USNR, 27 May 1944 - 18 Oct 1945. Notable-events table documents convoy exercises off Pearl Harbor 7-9 August 1944 in which Halloran escorted convoy SP-5 from San Francisco (transports Joseph K. Toole, Makiki, Malcolm M. Stewart, Permanente; Cushman K. Davis joined at sea) and anti-submarine exercises with USS Seahorse, Carlson, and Lamberton 14 August 1944.

   Verification

   verified

   Role

   context

   Documentation level

   ship_specific

   Accessed

   2026-09-28

   Study period

   1942-1947

   Population

   USNR officers and crew, 1944-1945

   Limitations

   Compiled secondary reference - dates concur with DANFS/NavSource except the sale date: 'Sold 18 March 1947' conflicts with DANFS/NavSource/NavalCoverMuseum's 7 March 1947 (carried in gaps; no buyer named in any source). No asbestos or materials information.

   Atlas source

   true

   Evidence ID

   ev-uss-halloran-de305-06

8. [8]Consolidated era/design inference - NAVSHIPS 250-010 GMT design-group legend + machinery table (diesel-electric; boilers/steam columns 'None') + Destroyer History Foundation Evarts-class design history + Atlas shipyard dataset 'mare-island-naval-shipyard' record (tier-2 asbestos-era yard) [other_primary]

   Locator

   NAVSHIPS 250-010 Vol. I DE design-group legend + machinery table (book pp. 234-235; PDF p. 127); destroyerhistory.org/de/evartsclass; shipyards.json 'mare-island-naval-shipyard'

   Finding type

   asbestos_application

   Finding

   Era/design inference for a diesel-electric escort built at Mare Island Navy Yard in 1943-44: the GMT machinery plant - four General Motors 16-278A diesels with electric tandem-motor drive, 2 shafts, 6,000 shp - has NO propulsion boilers and no steam system (official BuShips table marks the GMT group's boiler/steam columns 'None'), so the heavy steam-ship asbestos categories (boiler insulation, steam-line lagging) do not apply. Era-standard applications for a diesel-powered escort of this vintage: diesel-exhaust insulation and lagging, machinery gaskets and packing, electrical insulation, brake linings on winches and windlass, fireproofing, deck coverings, and accommodation insulation. Builder context: Mare Island Naval Shipyard is a tier-2 asbestos-era yard in the Atlas dataset (named products incl. Unibestos, Marinite, Transite, Kaylo, Careytemp, Gold Bond, Super 66, pump/valve packing, gaskets, bonnet insulation, refractory materials - see ev-08).

   Verification

   inferred

   Role

   supporting

   Documentation level

   class_or_era

   Accessed

   2026-09-28

   Study period

   1943-1947

   Population

   Mare Island Navy Yard construction trades 1943-44; USN crew 1944-45; Charleston Navy Yard decommissioning workforce 1945

   Limitations

   Class/era and builder-yard inference only - NOT a hull-specific finding. No Evarts-class material survey, BuShips insulation spec extract, or bill of materials was located for this hull; whether the yard-documented products were installed in this hull is unverified. Does not establish asbestos presence, quantity, or location aboard this hull, and does not establish or defeat any individual's exposure claim.

   Atlas source

   true

   Evidence ID

   ev-uss-halloran-de305-07

9. [9]Atlas shipyard dataset (shipyard-exposure-map shipyards.json): 'mare-island-naval-shipyard' record (evidence_tier 2) - Dept. of the Navy / City of Vallejo, Final EIS/EIR for Disposal and Reuse of Mare Island Naval Shipyard (April 1998), DTIC ADA344388/ADA344389, SCH# 94093029; and Collins v. Plant Insulation Co., 185 Cal. App. 4th 260 (2010) (welder at Mare Island 1976-1994; mesothelioma; verdict against product supplier) [other_primary]

   Locator

   shipyards.json 'mare-island-naval-shipyard' (evidence ev-mare-island-01/-02); DTIC ADA344388 (EIS/EIR full text); Collins v. Plant Insulation Co., 185 Cal. App. 4th 260 (2010)

   Finding type

   environmental_record

   Finding

   The yard that built this hull - Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo (keel 21 June 1943 through commissioning 27 May 1944, and the fitting-out period photographed in U.S. Navy photos DE-305-3343 through -3348) - is a documented asbestos environment at yard level in the Atlas dataset: the Navy's 1998 disposal/reuse EIS documents asbestos-containing material in shipyard buildings and lists asbestos among industrial wastes (Appendix J IR01), and the yard record carries a verified appellate litigation citation (Collins v. Plant Insulation Co., mesothelioma after Mare Island welding work 1976-1994) plus a product list naming Unibestos, Marinite, Transite, Kaylo, Careytemp, Gold Bond, Super 66, pump and valve packing, gaskets, bonnet insulation, and refractory materials.

   Verification

   verified

   Role

   context

   Documentation level

   context_only

   Accessed

   2026-09-28

   Study period

   1943-44 (this hull's yard window); 1998/2010 (yard documentation)

   Population

   Mare Island Naval Shipyard facility workforce (yard-level documentation periods); DE-305 construction trades 1943-44 (this hull's window)

   Limitations

   Yard-level documentation - establishes that the builder facility contained asbestos materials and litigation in documented periods; it does NOT establish that asbestos was installed in this specific hull, does not identify products aboard DE-305, and the litigation citation post-dates this hull's construction by three decades. Charleston Navy Yard (the decommissioning site) is likewise a dataset yard; no decommission-period work scope is documented for this hull.

   Atlas source

   true

   Evidence ID

   ev-uss-halloran-de305-08

10. [10]GAO, 'Navy Efforts To Protect Workers From Asbestos Exposure,' HRD-80-2 (Oct. 18, 1979) - product page [gao]

    Locator

    GAO product page HRD-80-2 (full text blocked, HTTP 403)

    Finding type

    gov_survey

    Finding

    GAO documented the Navy's extensive use of asbestos insulation aboard ships, with substitution not beginning until the early 1970s - DE-305 (built 1943-44, scrapped 1947) falls entirely inside the documented Navy asbestos-use era.

    Verification

    verified

    Role

    context

    Documentation level

    context_only

    Accessed

    2026-09-28

    Study period

    1979

    Population

    Navy shipyard workers (program-level)

    Limitations

    Program-level era context only. Full text not retrieved (gao.gov returns HTTP 403 to automated fetches); content via product-page description. Says nothing about this specific hull or about diesel-escort applications specifically.

    Atlas source

    true

    Evidence ID

    ev-uss-halloran-de305-09

11. [11]NARA Special List 44 - Named Vessels, row 'Halloran (DE-305)' (deck-log coverage 5/27/1944 - 11/2/1945); NARA Ship Plan Index, row 'HALLORAN | DE-305 | 19 | Microfilm | 175669302' (RG 19 Bureau of Ships microfilm) [other_primary]

    Locator

    archives.gov/research/military/logbooks/special-list-44-named, 'Halloran (DE-305) | 5/27/1944 | 11/2/1945'; archives.gov/research/cartographic/ship-index, 'HALLORAN | DE-305 | 19 | Microfilm | 175669302'; digitized-log index (archives.gov/research/military/logbooks/navy-online) - no Halloran entry

    Finding type

    historical_record

    Finding

    Two official NARA indexes identify ship-specific holdings for this hull: (1) Special List 44 indexes Halloran's deck logs for the entire commission, 27 May 1944 through 2 November 1945 (RG 24-era logbooks, Archives II - NOT in the digitized deck-log catalog, which lists no Halloran entry); (2) the Ship Plan Index lists 'HALLORAN, DE-305, RG 19, Microfilm, NAID 175669302' - Bureau of Ships microfilm of ship engineering drawings. The deck logs could document repair/availabilities aboard; the plan microfilm and any BuShips General Information Book (RG 19) are the standard paths to per-hull material specifications.

    Verification

    verified

    Role

    archival_lead

    Documentation level

    ship_specific

    Accessed

    2026-09-28

    Study period

    1944-1945

    Population

    DE-305 crew 1944-45 (deck-log subjects)

    Limitations

    The indexes verify holdings exist; the logbooks and microfilm were not retrieved or reviewed. An indexed record does not establish that a material schedule survives or identifies asbestos; deck logs record operational events, not insulation schedules - asbestos mentions are possible but unverified.

    Atlas source

    true

    Evidence ID

    ev-uss-halloran-de305-10

12. [12]CourtListener API v4 sweep (opinion index type=o and RECAP docket index type=r) for exact name and hull number via cl-auth-search.py (authenticated, fleet-paced) - per search_ledger [court_record]

    Locator

    CourtListener API v4 results 2026-09-28: 'USS Halloran' o=0, r=0; 'DE-305' o=22 (all collisions, both pages reviewed); 'Halloran asbestos' o=58 (pages 1-2 reviewed = 40 collisions; page 3 pending)

    Finding type

    litigation_documented

    Finding

    No qualifying asbestos litigation names this hull. Opinion sweep '"USS Halloran"' (type=o): 0 hits. RECAP docket sweep '"USS Halloran"' (type=r): 0 hits. Hull-number sweep '"DE-305"' (type=o): 22 hits, all reviewed across both pages - every hit is a string collision (reporter pin-cites and 'DE 305'-style docket-entry citations inside unrelated cases: Timm v. Goodyear - an asbestos-caption motorcycle-products suit whose DE-305 match is a document-entry citation, not a vessel reference; Larsen v. Union Bank; In re MidSouth Golf; Janky v. Batistatos; Las Cuevas Development; Borowski; In re Checking Account Overdraft Litigation x3; Jones v. Jeld-Wen; Cockrum v. Johnson; EPIC v. Presidential Advisory Comm.; three Puerto Rico Supreme Court decisions 1911-1951; Pizzuti v. United States; U.S. v. MacDonald; Mision Industrial v. Junta de Planificacion). Supplemental '"Halloran" asbestos' (type=o): 58 hits; the 40 hits reviewed across the first two pages are all surname/law-firm collisions (parties named Halloran or O'Halloran; the Connecticut asbestos-defense firm Halloran & Sage appearing in attorney fields of asbestos cases e.g. In re General Dynamics Asbestos Cases, MacHnik v. Buffalo Pumps, Despres v. Ampco-Pittsburgh, Brown v. CBS, Norris v. Babcock & Wilcox, Krebs v. Johns-Manville); the final results page (18 hits) was pending against the fleet-wide pacing budget at drafting.

    Verification

    partial

    Role

    negative_finding

    Documentation level

    ship_specific

    Accessed

    2026-09-28

    Study period

    2026-09-28

    Limitations

    Sweep coverage is the CourtListener opinion + RECAP docket indexes; state-court dockets not mirrored, PACER-only filings, and settled/undocketed claims are outside it. 'No result' does not prove no claim was ever filed - it proves no indexed opinion or docket names the hull. 'Halloran' collides with a surname and with the Halloran & Sage law firm, so bare-surname hits carry no vessel signal; the final 'Halloran asbestos' page and a bare-'Halloran' docket variant were pending at drafting - see search_ledger for interim status.

    Atlas source

    true

    Evidence ID

    ev-uss-halloran-de305-11

13. [13]Batch-4213 search ledger (this record): DANFS transcriptions (NHHC 404); NAVSHIPS 250-010 scan (BuShips official); ship-submitted war-history letter; NavSource archive page; uboat.net; NavalCoverMuseum; Destroyer History Foundation; NARA Special List 44 + Ship Plan Index + digitized-log index; GAO product page; Atlas shipyard dataset; CourtListener sweeps; general web sweep [other_primary]

    Locator

    search_ledger rows sl-uss-halloran-de305-01 through sl-uss-halloran-de305-16

    Finding type

    historical_record

    Finding

    No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located for DE-305: no hull ACM survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, material-condition report, or docketed asbestos case names this hull. The hull was sold and scrapped in 1947 - decades before the museum-donation and hazmat-disclosure era that produced records for preserved hulls - and no Evarts-class hull survives anywhere as a museum ship, so the class also lacks a preserved-sister abatement record. The only 'asbestos' hits naming USS Halloran (DE-305) in general web search are law-firm marketing listicles that enumerate every WWII hull (mesotheliomahelp.org, elslaw.com, shepardlawfirm.com) - non-authoritative and excluded by batch rules.

    Verification

    verified

    Role

    negative_finding

    Documentation level

    ship_specific

    Accessed

    2026-09-28

    Study period

    2026-09-28

    Limitations

    Absence of a located record is not proof of absence aboard - 1943-44 escort construction at Mare Island falls inside the documented Navy asbestos-use era and the builder yard is a documented asbestos environment; that is era/yard inference, not a hull finding. NARA deck logs (Special List 44), RG 19 plan microfilm (NAID 175669302), the ship's 1945 serial-letter original, and any Mare Island General Information Book or construction correspondence are unsurveyed leads. Does not establish that asbestos was or was not present aboard; does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility.

    Atlas source

    true

    Evidence ID

    ev-uss-halloran-de305-12