Evidence
11 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-11).
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[1]research packet hs-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-hartley-de1029-pkt-hs-packet-md
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[2]DANFS, Hartley II (DE-1029), NHHC official page (live URL returns 404; verbatim text via Wayback capture 2024-12-10) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS entry, specifications block + service narrative (paragraphs headed II)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS record for this hull: spec block (dp. 1,280; l. 314'6"; b. 36'9"; dr. 9'3"; s. 25 k.; cpl. 170; a. 4 3", 1 ASW rkt, 1 dct, 6 dcp; cl. Dealey). Second ship of the name, named for Rear Admiral Henry Hartley. Laid down by New York Shipbuilding Co., Camden, N.J., 31 October 1955; launched 24 November 1956, sponsored by Mrs. Henry Hartley; commissioned 26 June 1957 at Philadelphia, Lt. Comdr. C. N. Crandall, Jr., in command. Caribbean shakedown; joined Escort Squadron 14, Newport, R.I., 28 January 1958; Mediterranean deployment May-October 1958 including Lebanon-crisis patrols; South American cruise February-May 1959; Monroe Shipyard, Chelsea, Mass., June 1960 for high-speed sonar dome; Fleet Sonar School training ship, Key West, to November 1960; NASA capsule-recovery work at Norfolk October 1961; East Coast support during the October 1962 Cuban missile crisis; Cuba surveillance patrols March 1963; Boston Naval Shipyard overhaul and modification (updated sonar + DASH) September 1963 - resumed duty 27 January 1964; 16 June 1965 collision - Norwegian freighter Blue Master struck her broadside entering Chesapeake Bay in heavy weather, bow nearly cutting her in half, no casualties, engineering spaces extensively damaged, reached Norfolk under tow after 19 hours; extensive repairs at Norfolk Navy Yard, returned to Newport early October 1965; Northern Europe cruise May 1967 (Copenhagen 23 June, Holy Loch), Mediterranean from 17 July 1967.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1955-1967
- Population
- New York Shipbuilding construction trades 1955-57; crew (complement 170) 1957-1972; Monroe Shipyard 1960; Boston Naval Shipyard 1963-64; Norfolk Navy Yard 1965
- Limitations
- DANFS documents service history and specifications, not materials or asbestos content. The published text's 'late in May 1987' for the Northern Europe sailing is a typographical error for 1967 (the ship decommissioned 1972; NavSource timeline confirms 1967) - logged in gaps. The narrative ends in 1967; decommissioning, striking, and the Colombian transfer are not covered by this entry. Live NHHC page 404s; Wayback capture cited.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-hartley-de1029-01
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[3]NHHC photo catalog NH 107508, 'USS Hartley' (live URL returns 404; verbatim caption via Wayback capture 2025-04-03) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- NHHC online image catalog entry, Description field
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Official U.S. Navy photograph NH 107508 from the collections of the Naval History and Heritage Command: '(DE-1029) Underway in harbor on 1 August 1957. The location may be Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.' Confirms hull identity and early Caribbean operations five weeks after commissioning.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1957-08-01
- Population
- Crew (complement 170), August 1957
- Limitations
- Confirms the vessel's existence, configuration, and 1 August 1957 Caribbean presence only; no information on materials or asbestos content. Location is qualified by NHHC itself ('may be Guantanamo Bay').
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-hartley-de1029-02
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[4]NavSource Online Destroyer Escort Photo Archive, USS Hartley (DE 1029) page - spec block and building/operational data table [other_primary]
- Locator
- navsource.net DE-1029 page, specifications block + 'Building and Operational Data' table + photo captions
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Secondary compilation for this hull carrying details absent from the DANFS narrative: SCB No. 72/1954-55 design type; propulsion 2 Foster-Wheeler boilers, 1 De Laval geared turbine, 20,000 shp, 1 shaft; complement 12 officers/161 enlisted; 'nearly cut in two (30" from her keel)' in the 16 June 1965 collision; placed in reduced operating status at Newport 2 July 1968; decommissioned and struck from the NVR 8 July 1972; transferred to Colombia the same day, renamed ARC Boyaca (DE-16); stricken 1994 (conflicts with the association's 1992 - see gaps). Photo captions include a 1976 Cartagena view and an official U.S. Navy photo (VIRIN DN-SN-82-09595) of Boyaca off Cartagena during UNITAS XX, 1 June 1979.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1955-1994
- Population
- Crew 1957-1972; Colombian Navy crew of Boyaca 1972-1990s
- Limitations
- Secondary compilation, not a primary record - used for the propulsion spec, the 1968/1972 dates DANFS omits, and Colombian-service pointers; each is consistent with but not independently confirmed by official sources located (the 1979 DVID photograph is itself an official U.S. Navy image). NavSource labels the class 'Courtney'; DANFS says 'cl. Dealey' - DANFS carried. Contains no asbestos information.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-hartley-de1029-03
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[5]U.S. Coast Guard Historian's Office, Disaster Files collection; Disasters Finding Aid entry 'Blue Master-Hartley Collision - 16 June 1965' [other_primary]
- Locator
- USCG Historian's Office Disaster Files; Disasters Finding Aid alphabetical listing (Blue Master-Hartley Collision - 16 June 1965)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- The USCG Historian's Office maintains Disaster Files covering significant merchant-vessel incidents since 1950; its Disasters Finding Aid lists a 'Blue Master-Hartley Collision - 16 June 1965' file - the federal marine-casualty record set (official documentation, photography, newsprint) for the collision that destroyed this hull's engineering spaces.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1965
- Population
- Crew aboard 16 June 1965 (incl. embarked Naval Reservists); marine casualty investigators
- Limitations
- Finding-aid entry confirms the file exists at the Historian's Office; contents were not retrieved. Marine casualty records document the collision investigation, not asbestos - but the file may contain damage-repair details relevant to reconstruction scope. Retrieval requires a Historian's Office request.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-hartley-de1029-04
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[6]Newport Dealeys (ship veteran association), 'Search for the Hartley' - documented site investigations of ARC Boyaca remains at Guatape, Colombia (2004, 2013, 2015) + collision file page (id18) [other_primary]
- Locator
- newportdealeys.org pages id43 ('Search for the Hartley'), id9/id18 (collision accounts)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Veteran-association field documentation of this hull's final disposition: sold to Colombia 8 July 1972 as ARC Boyaca (DE-16), Colombian service ~20 years (association states decommissioned 1992); disassembled and trucked to a mountain site on Lake Guatape for planned reassembly as a land-based museum; ~$4.5M reassembly cost left the project stalled; association members photographed the remains in situ May 2004, confirmed present March 2013, and in September 2015 reported the hulk removed (an internet photo trace dates the removal to June 2013) with houses being built on the site. Separately, the association's collision page (id18) compiles the official findings of fact plus first-person accounts of the 16 June 1965 Blue Master collision, including crew descriptions of the freighter's bow cutting through the starboard machinery spaces.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1972-2015
- Population
- Colombian Navy crew of Boyaca 1972-1990s; disassembly/transport workers 1990s-2013
- Limitations
- Private veteran-association documentation - firsthand and photo-based but unofficial; Colombian stricken year conflicts with NavSource's 1994 (carried in gaps); 'removed/scrapped on site' is inferred from the reported removal plus site redevelopment, not a disposal certificate. No asbestos information.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-hartley-de1029-05
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[7]DANFS spec block (cl. Dealey; propulsion era) + NavSource spec block (2 Foster-Wheeler boilers; 1 De Laval geared turbine; 20,000 shp; 1 shaft; SCB No. 72 design) + Atlas shipyards.json records (new-york-shipbuilding tier 1; boston-naval-shipyard tier 3; norfolk-naval-shipyard tier 2) [other_primary]
- Locator
- DANFS/NavSource spec blocks; shipyards.json yard records
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Era/design inference: a U.S. Navy steam-powered destroyer escort built 1955-57 to the SCB No. 72 Dealey design - two Foster-Wheeler boilers feeding one De Laval geared turbine - was constructed in the period when Navy specifications still called for asbestos-containing boiler and machinery insulation, steam-line lagging, valve and flange gaskets, machinery packing, and fireproofing (the Navy's asbestos-reduction policies postdate this hull's construction; the fleet-wide protection program was still being documented by GAO in 1979). Builder New York Shipbuilding is in the Atlas yard dataset (tier 1); the documented overhaul yard Boston Naval Shipyard is tier 3 and collision-repair yard Norfolk Naval Shipyard tier 2 in the same dataset.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1955-1972
- Population
- New York Shipbuilding construction trades 1955-57; crew 1957-72; yard workers at Monroe 1960, Boston NSY 1963-64, Norfolk NSY 1965
- Limitations
- Class/era inference only - no hull-specific material list, specification, survey, or sample was located for DE-1029. Asbestos presence aboard this hull is not ship-proven; the row establishes era consistency, not fact. Yard-dataset tiers describe yard-level asbestos documentation, not work done on this hull. NARA RG19 General Information Books and BuShips specifications are the un-pursued hull-level leads.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-hartley-de1029-06
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[8]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, HTTP 403)
- Finding type
- gov_survey
- Finding
- GAO documented the Navy's asbestos-protection program and its 1975/1979 insulation-removal policies, with fieldwork at Long Beach and Norfolk Naval Shipyards - Norfolk Navy Yard is the yard that performed this hull's 1965 collision reconstruction. The report frames the asbestos-handling posture of Navy shipyards in the era bracketing this hull's service and disposal.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1979
- Population
- Navy shipyard workers; asbestos program review
- Limitations
- Program-level documentation, not hull-specific, and it postdates Hartley's U.S. service (decommissioned 1972); the GAO policies covered in-service Navy work, not this hull's foreign transfer. Establishes the yard/program context only - says nothing about materials aboard DE-1029. Full text not retrieved (gao.gov blocks automated fetch, HTTP 403); content via product-page description.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-hartley-de1029-07
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[9]Source cross-check: DANFS (Wayback capture); NavSource DE-1029; Navypedia DEALEY table; Newport Dealeys id9/id43; helis.com Boyaca record; Wikipedia infobox vs. prose [other_primary]
- Locator
- Comparison across cited sources; Navypedia DEALEY table (navypedia.org); newportdealeys.org id9/id43
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Source discrepancies resolved or logged: (a) launch/commissioning dates - Navypedia reads launched 26 January 1957 / commissioned 30 July 1957; DANFS reads launched 24 November 1956 / commissioned 26 June 1957 (NavSource and the yorkship.org yard table concur with DANFS). DANFS carried. (b) Class label - NavSource spec block reads 'Courtney'; DANFS spec block reads 'cl. Dealey'. DANFS carried. (c) Colombian stricken - Newport Dealeys reports Boyaca decommissioned 1992 after ~20 years; NavSource summary reads stricken 1994; Wikipedia infobox reads 1994 while its own prose reads 1992. Carried as 'early 1990s - 1992/1994 conflict'. (d) DANFS text reads 'late in May 1987' for the Northern Europe sailing - typographical error for 1967 (ship decommissioned 1972; NavSource timeline confirms May-September 1967 North Atlantic/Mediterranean deployment and June 1967 'Blue Nose' Arctic transit).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- correction
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Limitations
- Correction row reconciles conflicting secondary dates against DANFS and internal consistency; it does not add asbestos information. Residual conflicts (1992 vs. 1994 Colombian strike) are carried in gaps rather than silently resolved.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-hartley-de1029-08
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[10]Batch-3961 search ledger (this record): NHHC DANFS + photo catalog; NavSource; USCG Historian's Office Disaster Files; NVR; Newport Dealeys association; CourtListener API v4; general web asbestos queries [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-hartley-de1029-01 through sl-uss-hartley-de1029-11
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, court finding, or docketed asbestos case naming USS Hartley or DE-1029 was found in the public sources searched (see search_ledger). The CourtListener exact-name sweep returned zero opinion and zero docket hits; every 'DE-1029' hit classified as a name collision (statute-fragment opinions; PACER docket-entry numbers). The only asbestos-themed web mentions are law-firm marketing ship-list entries (asbestos-ships.com, freeasbestostesting.com, shepardlawfirm.com), excluded as non-authoritative under 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 public record does not prove absence of asbestos aboard - era-consistent materials may have been present and undocumented, or removed undocumented during the Colombian era or the Guatape disassembly. Does not establish that asbestos is or is not present; does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-hartley-de1029-09
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[11]Independence Seaport Museum, J. Welles Henderson Archives - New York Shipbuilding Corporation collections (ISM NYSB.ISM + NYSB.Ward finding aids; NYS records 1895-1967: ~70 specification books, contract data sheets, ~6,500 photographs) + Camden County Historical Society NYS collection [other_primary]
- Locator
- Philadelphia Area Archives finding aids ISM_ISM.NYSB.ISM and ISM_ISM.NYSB.WARD (findingaids.library.upenn.edu); NARA record groups named
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Archival leads not retrieved (require reading-room or reproduction order; no spend authorized): (a) ISM's New York Shipbuilding collection holds specification books, contract data sheets, and construction photographs that may include yard hull 512 (Hartley) - the likeliest surviving hull-level material-spec source; (b) NARA RG 24 deck logs for the commissioned period 1957-1972; (c) BuShips/NAVSEA work packages and yard records for the Boston Naval Shipyard 1963-64 overhaul and Norfolk Navy Yard 1965 collision reconstruction (RG 19/RG 181); (d) USCG marine-casualty case file for the 16 June 1965 collision (Historian's Office Disaster Files); (e) DSCA/State Department foreign-transfer documentation for the 1972 sale to Colombia; (f) Colombian Navy records for ARC Boyaca (DE-16).
- Verification
- unverified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Limitations
- Leads only - none retrieved at research time. Any hull-level asbestos statement would likely come from the ISM specification books or the BuShips/yard work packages; until retrieved, the asbestos posture remains class/era inference.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-hartley-de1029-10