Evidence
8 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-8).
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[1]research packet mr-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-hartford-ix13-pkt-mr-packet-md
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[2]Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, 'Hartford I, 1859-1956,' Naval History and Heritage Command [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS Hartford I entry, full text (live NHHC URL 404 on 2026-09-29; cited via Wayback capture 2021-01-28; print text in DANFS Vol. III, 1968, mirrored at hazegray/losthistory.net)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS entry 'Hartford I, 1859-1956' (NHHC, dated 2015-09-28): screw sloop-of-war, 2,900 t, 225', 44' beam, 17'2" draft, 13.5 kts, complement 302, armed 20 x 9" Dahlgren smoothbores, 2 x 20-pdr Parrott rifles, 2 x 12-pdrs. Launched 1858-11-22 by Boston Navy Yard; commissioned 1859-05-27, Capt. Charles Lowndes. East India Squadron flagship 1859-61; Farragut's West Gulf Blockading Squadron flagship - passage of Forts Jackson and St. Philip 1862-04-24, Vicksburg batteries June 1862, Port Hudson 1863-03-14, Battle of Mobile Bay 1864-08-05. Asiatic Station flagship 1865-68; Asiatic patrol 1872-75; North Atlantic Station flagship (Luce) 1882; decommissioned Mare Island 1887-01-14; laid up/rebuilt Mare Island 1890-99; recommissioned 1899-10-02 as midshipman training ship; to Charleston as station ship 1912-10-24; out of commission 1926-08-20; moved to Washington Navy Yard 1938-10-18; towed to Norfolk Navy Yard 1945-10-19 and classified as a relic; sank at berth 1956-11-20 and was subsequently dismantled; major relics at National Navy Memorial Museum, Washington Navy Yard, and elsewhere.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1858-1957
- Population
- Crew and officers (302 per DANFS spec)
- Limitations
- Authoritative Navy historical summary. Contains no asbestos, insulation-material, or machinery-material statement - supports identity and service chronology only, no asbestos claim. DANFS gives no laid-down date and no stricken date.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-hartford-ix13-01
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[3]National Park Service, Boston National Historical Park, 'USS HARTFORD (1858)' article (sources: NHHC DANFS; Black & Bearss, The Charlestown Navy Yard 1842-1890, NPS 1993) [nps]
- Locator
- Article sections 'Building and Launching Hartford' through 'The End of Hartford'; page updated 2026-01-14
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- National Park Service (Boston National Historical Park) article 'USS HARTFORD (1858)': keel laid in the shipways of Shiphouse H at Charlestown Navy Yard 1858-01-01 after Congress selected the yard October 1857; launched 1858-11-22; after launch entered Dry Dock 1 where yard workers caulked the hull and installed steam boilers and an engine built by Boston firm Harrison Loring; commissioned 1859-05-27. Documents the 1882 collision with steamer Virginian at the yard, the 1894-1899 major rebuild at Mare Island, midshipman training service to 1912-10-24, station-ship duty at Charleston, final decommission 1926-08-20, transfer to Washington 1938-10-18 and Norfolk Navy Yard 1945-10-19, sinking at her berth 1956-11-20 with subsequent dismantling, and survival of component relics on display across the country.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1857-1957
- Population
- Charlestown Navy Yard construction workforce (1857-1859); Mare Island rebuild workforce (1894-1899)
- Limitations
- Official NPS park history naming builder, engine-builder, and refit timeline. Contains no asbestos or insulation-material statement - documents construction and refit events only, no asbestos claim. NPS dates sinkage and dismantling loosely ('sunk and dismantled on November 20, 1956'); NavSource/DANFS date sinking 1956-11-20 and dismantling to 1957.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-hartford-ix13-02
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[4]NavSource Online: Service Ship Photo Archive, 'USS Hartford (IX-13) ex USS Hartford (1859-1920)' [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource 09/46/46013 page, specifications and service chronology block (live site fetch failed 2026-09-29; cited via Wayback capture)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NavSource Service Ship Photo Archive (IX-13 page, Wayback capture 2024-05-27): Hartford-class screw sloop-of-war; engined by Harrison Loring, Boston; re-engined by Loring 1880 with horizontal back-acting engines built for the steamer Keywadin; re-engined 1898 with two compound engines, 2,000 ihp, two boilers, single propeller; as-built plant two horizontal double-piston-rod engines (62" x 10"), 1,024 ihp. War prize: steamer J.D. Clark, 1863-04-08. Rerigged as bark at Mare Island 1887 for training-ship service. Designated Miscellaneous Unclassified (IX-13) 1920-07-17. Receiving ship, Charleston Navy Yard, 1912 to 1926-08-20; decommissioned there 1926-08-20. Washington D.C. Navy Yard 1938-10-18; Norfolk Navy Yard 1945-10-19; reclassified as a relic; sank at berth 1956-11-20, dismantled at Portsmouth VA 1957. Armament by date listed (e.g., June 1864: one 100-pdr rifle, eighteen 9" smoothbores, one 30-pdr, three 13-pdr howitzers).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1858-1957
- Population
- Mare Island rebuild workforce (1894-1899); receiving-ship population Charleston 1912-1926
- Limitations
- Volunteer-curated naval archive; machinery and chronology details consistent with DANFS/NPS where they overlap and more granular on propulsion (1880 and 1898 re-enginings, boiler count). No asbestos or insulation-material statement - the 1898 re-engining is the hull's only asbestos-era plant event but no materials are specified. 'Laid down date unknown' here vs NPS-documented 1858-01-01; NPS date adopted.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-hartford-ix13-03
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[5]Gast v. New York Asbestos Mfg. Co., 105 F. 68 (C.C.E.D.N.Y. 1900); New York Asbestos Mfg. Co. v. Ambler Asbestos Air-Cell Covering Co., 102 F. 890, 43 C.C.A. 46 (3d Cir. 1900) [court_record]
- Locator
- 105 F. 68 (opinion text reciting 1881-1891 covering patents); 102 F. 890 at 43 C.C.A. 46 (opinion text describing asbestos air-cell covering trade)
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Era context for the hull's documented 1898 re-engining: federal court records show asbestos-bearing steam-pipe and boiler coverings were an established, competing commercial industry in the United States by the 1890s. Gast v. New York Asbestos Mfg. Co., 105 F. 68 (C.C.E.D.N.Y. 1900), adjudicates a steam-pipe-covering patent and recites prior art: the Martin 1881 steam-pipe covering, the Watson 1887 boiler covering using 'asbestus'-treated fireproof felt, and the Bradley 1888 nonconducting covering. New York Asbestos Mfg. Co. v. Ambler Asbestos Air-Cell Covering Co., 102 F. 890 (3d Cir. 1900), litigates unfair competition between two manufacturers of corrugated asbestos-paper 'air-cell' steam-pipe covering. Hartford's replacement compound engines and two boilers were installed 1898 at Mare Island, squarely inside the era these opinions document.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1881-1900 patents; 1898 rebuild
- Population
- Mare Island rebuild workforce (1898); engine-room crew of 1899-1926 period
- Limitations
- Era documentation only - these opinions name no vessel and prove only that asbestos steam-pipe/boiler coverings were commercially established before 1900. Whether such material was installed in this hull's 1898 rebuild is undocumented; era inference cannot establish ship-specific asbestos presence, quantity, exposure, or causation. The original 1859 plant predates this industry. CourtListener opinion-level URLs not retrieved this session (fleet pace limiter) - reporter citations verified from open sources.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-hartford-ix13-04
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[6]CourtListener API v4 search, query '"USS Hartford"', type=o, 0 results; docket leg (type=r) not completed [court_record]
- Locator
- search_ledger sl-uss-hartford-ix13-06 (completed, 0 results) and sl-uss-hartford-ix13-07 (blocked)
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- CourtListener API v4 opinion-index search for exact phrase "USS Hartford" returned 0 results on 2026-09-29 - no opinion in the CL corpus names this vessel, so no qualifying asbestos-litigation opinion exists against or naming this hull. The RECAP docket-index leg could not be completed this session (fleet pace budget); given the hull sank in 1956, decades before asbestos docketing existed, no asbestos docket naming it is expected. Name-collision warning for any future sweep: 'Hartford' collides with Hartford, Connecticut, Hartford Financial/Insurance entities, and the active Los Angeles-class submarine USS Hartford (SSN-768); name hits require case-level classification, not hull attribution. A 19th-century prize adjudication exists in the ship's history (steamer J.D. Clark, taken 1863-04-08) - prize proceedings are 'other litigation,' not asbestos.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 2026-09-29
- Limitations
- Opinion-index sweep completed with a clean 0-result; the docket (type=r) and 'IX-13' legs remain unrun, so this is a partial sweep - recorded as negative finding for the opinion index only, not a full-corpus claim. A 0-result means no opinion names the vessel; it does not prove no case ever touched the ship (19th-century prize proceedings predate digital indexes, and cases naming a hull indirectly would not match the exact phrase).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-hartford-ix13-05
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[7]Batch-4699 search ledger (this record): NHHC DANFS (Wayback), NPS Boston NHP article, NavSource IX-13 page (Wayback), NARA logbook index, NVR scope check, targeted asbestos web search, CourtListener sweep [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-hartford-ix13-01 through sl-uss-hartford-ix13-08
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no materials specification, insulation inventory, condition survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, or asbestos-litigation opinion naming USS Hartford (IX-13) was found in the public sources searched - DANFS, NPS park history, NavSource, and targeted web searching contain no asbestos or insulation-material statement for this hull, and the CourtListener opinion index returned 0 results for the exact ship name (see search_ledger).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 2026-09-29
- Limitations
- Absence of a located public record does not prove absence of asbestos aboard - a steam plant rebuilt in 1898 is era-consistent with asbestos lagging, and the hull was dismantled in 1957 before any survey regime existed, so no survey ever could have been produced. Does not establish presence or absence; does not establish or defeat any exposure claim or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-hartford-ix13-06
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[8]NARA logbook guidance page; NARA RG 19 and RG 181 record-group descriptions; digitized Hartford logbooks in National Archives Catalog (e.g., NAID 167171004) [other_primary]
- Locator
- RG 24 Entry 118 / NAID 581208 (digitized volumes incl. NAID 167171004, 167171184, 167171303); RG 19; RG 181
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Archival leads (unretrieved - no spend authorized): (a) NARA RG 24 (Bureau of Naval Personnel), Logbooks of U.S. Navy Ships 1801-1940, Entry A1 118-A (NAID 581208) - multiple Hartford logbooks digitized in the National Archives Catalog, including the 1862-01-19/1862-12-31 volume containing the 1862-04-24 Battle of New Orleans entry (NAID 167171004); (b) NARA RG 19 (Bureau of Construction and Repair / Bureau of Steam Engineering) - ship plans and machinery specifications including the 1894-1899 Mare Island rebuild and 1898 re-engining, the likeliest primary source for materials of the asbestos-era plant; (c) NARA RG 181 (Naval Districts and Shore Establishments) - Norfolk Naval Shipyard berthing, casualty, and 1957 dismantling records; (d) NHHC photographic collection - cataloged Hartford images (e.g., NH 59074) and museum artifact records for surviving relics.
- Verification
- unverified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1859-1957 records
- Limitations
- Record-group and catalog-level mapping only - logbooks are confirmed digitized but were not read for materials entries; existence of asbestos-specific documents in RG 19 rebuild files or RG 181 dismantling records is unknown until surveyed. Nothing in this row is an asbestos finding.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-hartford-ix13-07