Evidence
9 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-9).
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[1]research packet ge-packet.md (3 sources cited) [other_primary]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERIFIED
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-hank-dd702-pkt-ge-packet-md
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[2]DANFS, Hank (DD-702) (builder, dates, specifications, service narrative, battle stars; verbatim transcription - live NHHC pages serve 404) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- destroyerhistory.org DANFS transcription (index.asp?pid=70202&r=70200) - spec block + full service narrative
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS record for this hull: launched 21 May 1944 by the Federal Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., Kearny, N.J.; sponsored by Mrs. William Edwin Hank, widow of Lt. Comdr. Hank; commissioned 28 August 1944, G. M. Chambers in command. Spec block: Allen M. Sumner class; dp 2,200; l. 376'6"; b. 40'; dr. 15'8"; s. 34 k.; cpl. 336; a. 6 5", 12 40mm., 11 20mm., 10 21" tt. Caribbean shakedown to 18 October 1944; Pacific via Panama Canal - Pearl Harbor 6 December, Ulithi 28 December; screened TF 38 (South China Sea raids January 1945) and TF 58 (Tokyo strikes 16-17 February; Iwo Jima; Okinawa); radar picket 11 April 1945 - kamikaze 'Zeke' deflected by AA fire killed three sailors, crashed close aboard; repairs at Ulithi; picket duty off Okinawa from 1 May; June replenishment San Pedro Bay; TF 38 strikes July; 18 July anti-shipping sweep across entrance to Tokyo Bay with DesRon 62 and Cruiser Division 18; 9 August - with Borie fought off five kamikazes (Borie hit, 48 dead and 66 wounded; Hank 1 missing, 5 wounded); Tokyo Bay 10 September 1945 for the occupation; to Charleston via Eniwetok, Pearl Harbor, San Diego, Panama Canal after 30 December. Postwar: reserve training out of New Orleans; Sixth Fleet September 1949-January 1950; sailed 6 September 1950 for Korea - UN Blockade and Escort Force off Wonsan, Wonsan and Hungnam evacuations December 1950, Eighth Army support Seoul/Inchon January-February 1951; Norfolk 9 June 1951; yard overhaul at Norfolk; eastern Mediterranean during 1956 Suez crisis; Project Mercury training 1960; designated recovery ship for Scott Carpenter's 24 May 1962 orbital flight; Cuban Missile Crisis blockade/surveillance with Independence October 1962; designated Naval Reserve Training Ship October 1963, home port Philadelphia; repairs at Sun Shipbuilding & Drydock Co., Chester, Pa., 1964; reserve training cruises into 1967. Four battle stars WWII, four Korea.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1944-1967 (entry coverage)
- Population
- Federal Shipbuilding & Drydock construction trades Jan-Aug 1944; wartime, Korean, and reserve-training crews 1944-1972 (DANFS design complement 336)
- Limitations
- DANFS documents service history and specifications, not materials or asbestos content; the entry predates the 1972 decommissioning/transfer and does not cover final disposition. Verbatim destroyerhistory.org transcription cited because the live NHHC pages return 404 (standing link-rot defect since batch-01); hazegray.org carries an identical transcription (automated fetch failed). 'Yard overhaul at Norfolk' does not name the yard.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-hank-dd702-01
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[3]NavSource Destroyer Photo Index, DD-702 USS Hank - class/configuration line, operational/building data block, machinery line, decommission/stricken/transfer/fate lines, namesake biography [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource DD-702 page (Wayback capture 2024-05-24) - 'Operational and Building Data' block, 'Fate' line, machinery line, namesake caption
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NavSource index data for this hull: 'CLASS - ALLEN M. SUMNER. As Built.'; displacement 3,218 t full; 376'6" x 40'10" x 14'2"; armament as built 6 x 5"/38AA (3x2), 12 x 40mm, 11 x 20mm, 10 x 21" tt (2x5); machinery 60,000 shp General Electric geared turbines, 2 screws; speed 36.5 knots; crew 336. Laid down by Federal Shipbuilding, Kearny NJ, 17 January 1944; launched 21 May 1944; commissioned 28 August 1944; decommissioned 1 July 1972; stricken 1 July 1972; 'To Argentina July 1 1972, renamed Segui'; fate: stricken and broken up for scrap in 1983. The 'As Built' class marker indicates no FRAM conversion - consistent with the DANFS narrative (Naval Reserve Training Ship from October 1963; no modernization entry) and with navypedia's Segui-class table describing only the later-arriving Argentine units as FRAM II-modified.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1944-1983
- Population
- Federal Kearny construction trades Jan-Aug 1944; New York Navy Yard workforce at commissioning; crew 1944-1972; Argentine Navy crew as ARA Segui 1972-1983
- Limitations
- NavSource is a secondary compilation indexing official records, not a primary document; all dates agree with DANFS and navypedia. 'As Built' is NavSource's configuration label, not a materials statement - it supports the no-FRAM finding but says nothing about insulation. Wayback capture cited because navsource.org does not respond to automated fetch.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-hank-dd702-02
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[4]Navypedia - ALLEN M. SUMNER-class member table (us_dd_a_m_sumner.htm) and SEGUI-class Argentine destroyer table (arg_dd_segui.htm) [other_primary]
- Locator
- navypedia us_dd_a_m_sumner.htm member table row DD-702; arg_dd_segui.htm class table
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Navypedia member table confirms this hull's data: DD-702 Hank, yard no. 387, Federal Kearny, laid down 1/1944, launched 21.5.1944, commissioned 8/1944, fate 'to Argentina 7.1972 (Segui)'. The Argentine SEGUI-class table lists Segui (ex-Hank), D25, Federal Kearny, Argentine commission 1.7.1972, 'deleted 1983' - alongside Bouchard (ex-Borie, D26) and Piedra Buena (ex-Collett, D29) - and notes 'last two ships modified under FRAM II', i.e., the FRAM-modified units were the later transfers, not this hull.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1972-1983 (Argentine phase)
- Population
- Argentine Navy crew 1972-1983
- Limitations
- Secondary reference consistent with DANFS and NavSource on all dates. Post-transfer Argentine records (modifications, maintenance, scrapping conditions) are outside U.S. documentation channels and are not detailed here; 'deleted 1983' is the fleet-list disposition, not a hazmat record.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-hank-dd702-03
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[5]Destroyer History Foundation - USS Hank (DD-702) vessel page (narrative + namesake biography reproducing Navy Cross citation) and Sumner class page [other_primary]
- Locator
- destroyerhistory.org/sumner-gearingclass/usshank/ narrative; ns_hank/ namesake page (Navy Cross citation text)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Specialized destroyer-history reference adding detail beyond DANFS for this hull: laid down 17 January 1944 alongside sister John W. Weeks (DD-701); commissioned 28 August at New York Navy Yard under Comdr. George M. Chambers; trials on Long Island Sound during the September 1944 hurricane; DesRon 62 / DesDiv 124 with Weeks, Wallace L. Lind (DD-703), Borie (DD-704); decommissioned 1 July 1972, 'sold to Argentina' entering service as ARA Comodoro Segui (D-25); Falkland Islands War service 1982; sold for scrap 1983. Namesake: Lt. Comdr. William Edwin Hank (b. Norfolk Va. 25 September 1902, USNA '25), commanding officer of USS Laffey (DD-459), Navy Cross at Cape Esperance 12 October 1942 and posthumously for the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal 12-13 November 1942 where Laffey was lost.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1944-1983
- Population
- crew 1944-1972; reunion-association veterans
- Limitations
- Secondary historical compilation (DANFS-derived narrative plus reunion-association material); adds no materials or asbestos information. Its launch-day sentence reads '21 June' against the 21 May figure in DANFS, navypedia, NavSource, and its own class data - treated as a typo, carried in gaps. 'Sold' vs 'lent' transfer-instrument discrepancy carried in gaps.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-hank-dd702-04
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[6]Atlas shipyard dataset, 'federal-shipbuilding-kearny' record (tier 2): Owens-Illinois Industrial Health Survey of Federal Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., Kearny NJ (Aug. 30-Sep. 2, 1944; Heathman v. Owens-Corning exhibit) + yard product records (Johns-Manville Superex pipe covering 1940-48; Owens-Illinois Kaylo 1948-58; W.R. Grace Monokote 1950s+; Garlock gaskets 1930-75) [other_primary]
- Locator
- shipyards.json record 'federal-shipbuilding-kearny' (evidence row ev-federal-kearny-ihs-1944; products pd-federal-kearny-01 through -04)
- Finding type
- environmental_record
- Finding
- Builder-yard context: Federal Shipbuilding & Drydock, Kearny NJ, where this hull was laid down 17 January 1944, launched 21 May 1944, and delivered for the 28 August 1944 commissioning, is documented at yard level as an asbestos site - an Owens-Illinois industrial health survey of the yard conducted 30 August-2 September 1944, within days of this hull's delivery and inside the same wartime production regime, documented insulators cutting and fitting Johns-Manville Superex asbestos pipe covering and boiler insulation in confined spaces, with dust counts measured during cutting/fitting operations. Yard product records period-bound the documented materials: Superex pipe covering 1940-48 overlaps this hull's build window; Kaylo (1948-58) and Monokote (1950s+) postdate it.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1944 (hull build and yard survey same window)
- Population
- Federal Shipbuilding & Drydock insulators/pipefitters and construction trades, wartime peak incl. this hull's Jan-Aug 1944 build
- Limitations
- Yard-level documentation only - establishes that the builder was a documented asbestos site during this hull's exact construction week, not that specific materials went aboard DD-702. Manufacturer-conducted survey (Owens-Illinois) introduced as litigation exhibit. Read as context for ev-06, not as ship-specific evidence.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-hank-dd702-05
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[7]DANFS/NavSource specifications (Allen M. Sumner class; 60,000 shp GE geared turbines; 4 Babcock & Wilcox boilers per class design) + navypedia class technical block + NARA RG19 General Information Books archival lead [other_primary]
- Locator
- navypedia class technical block; NavSource DD-702 machinery line; DANFS service narrative (1951 overhaul, 1964 Sun Ship repairs); NARA RG19 archival lead
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Era/yard inference: an Allen M. Sumner-class destroyer built January-August 1944 at a wartime commercial yard with a 60,000-shp geared steam-turbine plant (4 Babcock & Wilcox boilers, 2 GE turbines) would have carried the period-standard insulated fit - boiler and steam-line insulation, turbine lagging, gaskets and packing, fireproofing, bulkhead/compartment insulation, and deck coverings - the insulated-steam-plant configuration documented as asbestos-bearing across the WWII destroyer fleet. This hull received no FRAM modernization (NavSource 'As Built'; navypedia Segui-class note) and saw two documented yard-level industrial events after construction: the 1951 post-Korea 'yard overhaul at Norfolk' (yard not further specified) and the 1964 repairs at Sun Shipbuilding & Drydock, Chester Pa. (an Atlas-documented asbestos yard); maintenance scope during 1963-1972 reserve-training service out of Philadelphia is undocumented. NARA RG19 'General Information Books' per-vessel material specifications are the archival lead for hull-level specs.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1944-1972
- Population
- Federal Kearny construction trades 1944; Norfolk overhaul workforce 1951; Sun Shipbuilding workforce 1964; engineering crew 1944-1972
- Limitations
- Class/era and builder-yard inference only - NOT a hull-specific finding; no source documents an asbestos product aboard DD-702. NARA GIB retrieval not performed. Does not quantify material or establish any individual's exposure. The 1951 and 1964 yard events are documented as events; their asbestos scope is undocumented.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-hank-dd702-06
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[8]Lemen RA, Landrigan PJ. 'Sailors and the Risk of Asbestos-Related Cancer.' Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021;18(16):8417. PMID 34444165 [other_primary]
- Locator
- IJERPH 2021;18(16):8417, ship-construction passages
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Peer-reviewed review documenting that chrysotile and amphibole asbestos were used extensively in ship construction of the era - insulation, joiner bulkhead systems, pipe coverings, boilers, machinery parts, bulkhead panels - and that sailors both worked and lived at their exposure site. Establishes the era-level background against which a 1944 commercial-yard steam destroyer must be read.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 20th-century naval construction era
- Population
- Naval/merchant sailors generally (era context)
- Limitations
- Fleet-era epidemiology review; does not name this hull or class. Cannot be read as evidence of asbestos aboard DD-702 - included as background context only.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-hank-dd702-07
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[9]CourtListener API v4 authenticated search sweep (opinion index type=o and RECAP docket index type=r) for this vessel's exact name and hull number [court_record]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-hank-dd702-07 through -10
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- Complete sweep with zero qualifying hits (2026-09-27, authenticated via cl-auth-search.py): "USS Hank" returned 0 opinions (type=o) and 0 dockets (type=r); "DD-702" returned 0 opinions and 2 dockets - both name collisions screened out: Aido Mobility LLC v. Starbucks Corp., 1:20-cv-00663 (N.D. Ill., patent infringement, 'DD-702' incidental in patent-exhibit text) and SEC v. Zavodchikov, 2:16-cv-00845 (D.N.J., securities fraud, exhibit text match). No qualifying asbestos litigation naming this hull located in either index.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 2026-09-27
- Population
- none identified
- Limitations
- CourtListener indexes opinions and PACER dockets, not state trial filings, VA claims, asbestos trust claims, or settled/unreported matters - absence here does not prove no claim was ever filed. 'Hank' is a high-collision personal name (not queried bare); a name-only hit for 'USS Hank' still requires screening, and exposure aboard this hull must fall inside the August 1944-July 1972 U.S. service window (post-1972 the hull was Argentine ARA Segui).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-hank-dd702-08