Evidence
7 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-7).
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[1]research packet eb-packet.md (5 sources cited) [nhhc_danfs]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERIFIED.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-hamilton-dd141-pkt-eb-packet-md
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[2]DANFS, Hamilton II (DD-141) - builder, dates, specifications, service narrative, striking/sale; verbatim transcription (live NHHC page returns 404; canonical text verified against Wayback capture 20250219180640 of history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/h/hamilton-ii.html) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS entry 'Hamilton II', specifications block + full service narrative
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS record for this hull: launched 15 January 1919 by the Mare Island Navy Shipyard, sponsored by Miss Dolly Hamilton Hawkins (great-grand-niece of namesake Lt. Archibald Hamilton); commissioned 7 November 1919, Lt. Comdr. R. G. Coman in command. Specs: 1,090 t; 314'5" x 31'9" x 8'8"; 35 kts; complement 113; 4x4", 3x.30cal, 12x21" tt; class Wickes. San Diego-based Destroyer Squadron 17; decommissioned San Diego 20 July 1922; recommissioned 20 January 1930; Scouting Force East Coast/Norfolk/Newport; Grand Banks Patrol 1939-41; converted to fast minesweeper June 1941, reclassified DMS-18 17 October 1941; Atlantic/Caribbean convoy and ASW 1942-43 (rescued 39 Gannet survivors 9 June 1942); Operation Torch November 1942; Brooklyn Navy Yard availability from 26 December 1942; Pacific from December 1943: Kwajalein, Seeadler Harbor, Aitape, Saipan, Guam, Palaus (116 mines in Rossol Passage; Navy Unit Commendation), Leyte, Lingayen Gulf, Iwo Jima; returned to U.S. West Coast 8 April 1945 after 100,000+ miles; drydock Richmond, Calif. for overhaul but reclassified AG-111 (miscellaneous auxiliary) 6 May 1945 and taken out of drydock; experimental minesweeping out of Santa Barbara; decommissioned San Diego 16 October 1945; hulk sold to Hugo Neu of New York for scrapping 21 November 1946. Nine battle stars for World War II.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Study period
- 1918-1946
- Population
- Mare Island Navy Yard construction trades 1918-19; crews 1919-1922 and 1930-1945 (design complement 113)
- Limitations
- DANFS documents service history and specifications, not materials or asbestos content. Transcription cited because the live NHHC page returns 404; canonical text verified via Wayback. Hazegray transcription contains OCR-type variants ('AC-111' for AG-111, 'Hugo New' for Hugo Neu, '1 July' where canonical NHHC reads 9 July for the Eniwetok-to-Guam leg) - canonical NHHC text controls where they differ. The Richmond drydock yard is not named.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-hamilton-dd141-01
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[3]NavSource Mine Warfare Vessel Photo Archive, DMS-18 Hamilton (ex-Destroyer No. 141) - operational/building data, specifications, and NVR cross-check note [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource archives/11/0918.htm 'Operational and Building Data' + specifications block + photo captions; companion page archives/05/141.htm
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NavSource ship-specific data sheet: laid down 8 June 1918 by Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, CA; launched 15 January 1919; commissioned 'USS Hamilton, Destroyer No. 141' 17 November 1919 (conflicts with DANFS 7 November - carried in gaps); designated DD-141 17 July 1920; decommissioned 20 July 1922 San Diego, Pacific Reserve Fleet; recommissioned 20 January 1930; reclassified/converted to High Speed Minesweeper DMS-18 '17 October 1940' (conflicts with DANFS conversion June 1941/reclassification 17 October 1941 - carried in gaps); reclassified Miscellaneous Auxiliary AG-111 6 May 1945 with the note 'Naval Vessel Register of 1 January 1949 lists reclassification to AG-111 as June 1945'; decommissioned 16 October 1945 San Diego; struck from the Naval Register 1 November 1945; sold for scrap 21 November 1946 to Hugo Neu of New York. DMS-configuration specs: 1,090 t, 314'5" x 31'4" x 11'4", 32.5 kts, complement 149, armament three 3"/50 DP mounts and one twin 40mm. Propulsion: three Normand boilers, two 26,000 shp New York Shipbuilding Co. (Parsons-design) turbines, Mare Island single-reduction gears, two shafts. Photo caption documents a short refit at Norfolk Navy Yard completed ~20 September 1942 that replaced the four 4"/50 low-angle guns with dual-purpose 3"/50 mounts.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Study period
- 1918-1946
- Population
- Crew 1919-1945 (DMS complement listed as 149); Norfolk Navy Yard refit workforce Sept 1942
- Limitations
- NavSource is a volunteer-maintained index of official data (NVR, DANFS, Navy photos), not itself an official publication; used here for machinery detail DANFS omits and for the NVR-1949 cross-check. Its commissioning date (17 Nov) and DMS reclassification year (1940) conflict with DANFS (7 Nov; June/October 1941) - DANFS is carried in the record fields and the conflicts are in gaps. Direct fetch of navsource.org was unstable from this environment; content verified via search-index capture of the same page.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-hamilton-dd141-02
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[4]Naval History and Heritage Command, Online Library of Selected Images: USS Hamilton (Destroyer # 141, later DD-141, DMS-18 & AG-111), 1919-1946 [other_primary]
- Locator
- NHHC Online Library page usnsh-h/dd141.htm, narrative block + photo captions NH 67681, NH 107421, NH 107423-KN
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- NHHC Online Library page for this hull (verbatim mirror at ibiblio/HyperWar of the official history.navy.mil photo-archives page): documents service as a torpedo test ship at Newport, R.I. during the 1930s (forward 4" gun temporarily replaced by a fifth triple torpedo-tube mount per NavSource photo caption), the late-1930s modification for stabilization-tank trials that replaced the forward boiler and left a unique three-smokestack profile, Grand Banks/Neutrality Patrol employment after September 1939, conversion to a high-speed minesweeper in mid-1941 as DMS-18, two years of Atlantic/Caribbean ASW and the Morocco invasion, and the 1944-45 Pacific pre-invasion minesweeping sequence ending with AG-111 reclassification, October 1945 decommissioning, and November 1946 sale for scrapping.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Study period
- 1919-1946
- Population
- Interwar and wartime crew; Newport Torpedo Station test personnel 1930s
- Limitations
- Curatorial photo-archives summary - corroborates the DANFS narrative and adds configuration detail (three-stack profile; torpedo test-ship role) but addresses no materials or asbestos content. Mirror cited because the live NHHC page is part of the Online Library set that does not always resolve.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-hamilton-dd141-03
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[5]DANFS specifications block (Wickes class; 1,090 t; 35 kts) + NavSource machinery line (3 Normand boilers; 2 Parsons-design turbines, 26,000 shp) + Atlas shipyard dataset record 'mare-island-naval-shipyard' (yard evidence_tier 2; documented products incl. Unibestos, Marinite, Transite, Kaylo, packing, gaskets) [other_primary]
- Locator
- DANFS spec block; NavSource DMS-18 specifications; shipyards.json record 'mare-island-naval-shipyard'
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Era/yard inference: a Wickes-class flush-deck destroyer built 1918-19 at Mare Island Navy Yard with a Normand-boiler / Parsons-turbine steam plant would have carried period-standard asbestos boiler and steam-line lagging, gaskets, packing, and fireproofing - the standard steam-plant insulation categories of WWI-era naval construction. The builder yard is documented at yard level in the Atlas dataset (evidence_tier 2) with asbestos products including Unibestos, Marinite boards, Transite, Kaylo, pump/valve packing, gaskets, and refractory materials. NARA RG 19 (Bureau of Ships ship plans/specifications) and RG 181 (Mare Island Navy Yard records) are archival leads for hull-level material specifications; retrieval not performed.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Study period
- 1918-1945
- Population
- Mare Island construction trades 1918-19; engineering-rated crew (boiler/machinery spaces) 1919-1945
- Limitations
- Class/era and builder-yard inference only - no ship-specific finding. The Mare Island yard citations in the dataset (1998 EIS/EIR; Collins v. Plant Insulation, Cal. App. 2010) postdate this hull's 1918-19 construction by decades and do not describe this hull's materials. No WWI-era yard product record was located. This row adds context, not evidence that asbestos was aboard this specific hull.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-hamilton-dd141-04
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[6]Batch-3147 search ledger (this record): CourtListener API v4 authenticated search + official-source sweep (DANFS/NHHC, NavSource, NHHC Online Library) [court_record]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-hamilton-dd141-04, -05, -07, and -08
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: the CourtListener opinion AND docket (RECAP) indices both return zero hits for the exact phrase 'USS Hamilton' (authenticated v4 queries run 2026-09-26, count 0 each), and no ACM survey, abatement record, hazmat disclosure, or docketed case naming DD-141/DMS-18/AG-111 was found in the official sources searched. The hull was scrapped in 1946-47, predating modern survey and asbestos-litigation practice; law-firm 'ship list' marketing pages name the vessel but are excluded as non-authoritative under batch rules.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Study period
- 2026-09-26
- Limitations
- Absence of a located public record does not prove absence of asbestos aboard - 1918-19 steam-plant construction makes era-standard insulation plausible (see ev-04, inference only). CourtListener coverage was partial at research time: exact-name queries succeeded in both opinion and docket indices (0 hits each), while hull-number queries ('DD-141', 'DMS-18', 'AG-111') were blocked by the fleet-wide pacing budget - logged as blocked in the search ledger. Hull-number queries remain open. Does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-hamilton-dd141-05
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[7]NARA archival leads (not retrieved): RG 19 Bureau of Ships plans & specifications; RG 181 Mare Island Navy Yard records; WWII-era deck logs for DD-141/DMS-18 (NARA II, College Park / digitized deck-log series) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NARA RG 19 / RG 181 / deck-log series - not digitized at hull level; retrieval pending
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Archival leads for hull-level material detail that the public record does not supply: Bureau of Ships construction plans and Booklet of General Plans-type documents for DD-141 (NARA RG 19), Mare Island Navy Yard construction and repair records (NARA RG 181), and the ship's deck logs and wartime war diaries (which document yard availabilities, including the April 1945 Richmond drydock whose yard name DANFS omits). None retrieved; no digitized hull-level material specification for DD-141 was located online.
- Verification
- unverified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Study period
- 1918-1946 (records); 2026-09-26 (search)
- Limitations
- Lead only - these repositories are not digitized to hull level online and were not pulled. Nothing in this row is evidence of asbestos aboard; it marks where ship-specific material records would exist if they survive.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-hamilton-dd141-06