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 (2 sources cited) [nhhc_danfs]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERIFIED
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-haynsworth-dd700-pkt-ge-packet-md
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[2]DANFS, Haynsworth (DD-700) (builder, dates, service narrative; verbatim transcription - live NHHC page serves 404) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS entry, specifications block + service narrative (hazegray destroy/dd700txt.htm via Wayback 2006-09-27 capture)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS record for this hull: launched 15 April 1944 by Federal Shipbuilding & Drydock Co., Kearny, N.J.; sponsored by Mrs. Haynsworth, widow of Comdr. Haynsworth; commissioned 22 June 1944, Comdr. Robert Brodie Jr. in command. Caribbean shakedown; escorted RMS Queen Mary (Churchill aboard) September 1944; Pacific via Canal Zone and Pearl Harbor; screened Fast Carrier Task Forces 38/58 against Japan - South China Sea raids, Luzon landings, Tokyo-area strikes (three picket boats sunk, 12 prisoners), Kyushu and Inland Sea strikes, Minami Daito Shima bombardment; crashed by a kamikaze 6 April 1945 off Okinawa, retired via Ulithi to Mare Island for repairs; training-ship duty at Treasure Island 17 July-5 September 1945; Pearl Harbor operations; Boston Reserve Fleet from April 1946; reserve-training operations from Algiers, La., March 1947-summer 1949; first 6th Fleet Mediterranean deployment September 1949-February 1950; decommissioned at Charleston 19 May 1950; recommissioned at Charleston 22 September 1950 (Comdr. Herbert F. Rommel); Mediterranean duty September 1951; round-the-world cruise November 1953-June 1954 including four months with the 7th Fleet; five Mediterranean deployments 1956-1960 incl. Suez-crisis standby and evacuation of U.S. nationals from Egypt; Operation Inland Seas (St. Lawrence Seaway opening) 1959; emergency food rations to flood-ravaged Africa late 1961; Mercury-Atlas 8 (Comdr. Walter Schirra) recovery ship off Cape Canaveral 3 October 1962; Cuban missile-crisis quarantine October 1962; Mediterranean/Red Sea/Gulf of Aden deployment February 1963; overhaul at New Orleans, La., and Orange, Tex.; arrived Galveston 28 February 1964 as Naval Reserve training ship, Reserve Destroyer Squadron 34. Three WWII battle stars. Specs block: dp. 2,200; l. 376'6"; b. 40'; dr. 15'8"; s. 34 k.; cpl. 336; armament 6x5", 16x40mm, 20x20mm, 2 dct, 6 dcp, 5x21" tt.; cl. Allen M. Sumner.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1944-1967 (narrative coverage)
- Population
- Federal Shipbuilding construction trades 1943-44; wartime and postwar crew (design complement 336)
- Limitations
- DANFS documents service history and specifications, not materials or asbestos content. Entry text ends mid-1967 (written circa 1968) and therefore does not cover the 1970 decommissioning, striking, or Taiwan transfer - those rest on secondary compilations (see ev-04). Live NHHC page returns 404; verbatim HazeGray transcription cited via Wayback capture. Kamikaze casualty count not given in DANFS; secondary sources conflict (carried in gaps).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-haynsworth-dd700-01
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[3]Poage v. Crane Co., 523 S.W.3d 496 (Mo. App. E.D. 2017) (CourtListener opinion 5448621); Missouri Supreme Court transfer denied 2017-08-22; cert. denied, Crane Co. v. Poage, U.S. No. 17-900, 2018-03-26 [court_record]
- Locator
- Opinion factual recital (service aboard USS Haynsworth 1954-1958; valve gasket/packing work); Point I causation analysis; judgment disposition; SCOTUS docket 17-900
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- Affirmed asbestos judgment naming this hull as the exposure site. James E. Poage joined the Navy April 1954 and served 1954-1958 as a machinist aboard USS Haynsworth (DD-700 was the first and only Navy ship of the name and the only one in service that window), where he helped maintain the ship's valves, a task requiring replacement of gaskets and packing; his widow alleged some of those gaskets and packing were Crane asbestos-containing products and that inhaled asbestos dust caused his mesothelioma (died May 2012). St. Louis jury returned $1.5M compensatory and $10M punitive verdicts (2015-07-02); judgment entered for $822,250 compensatory (after Section 537.060 joint-tortfeasor setoff) plus $10M punitive. The Missouri Court of Appeals (E.D.) affirmed the judgment in full on 2017-05-02, holding sufficient evidence supported the finding that Crane's asbestos-laden valves/gaskets directly caused or contributed to the injury; fellow Haynsworth machinist Tom Thompson testified to working alongside Poage in the ship's engine room. Missouri Supreme Court denied transfer 2017-08-22; U.S. Supreme Court denied certiorari 2018-03-26.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1954-1958 (exposure); 2011 diagnosis; 2015 trial; affirmed 2017; cert. denied 2018
- Population
- Navy machinist James E. Poage, aboard USS Haynsworth 1954-1958; fellow machinist Tom Thompson (testifying coworker)
- Limitations
- Adjudicated as to this plaintiff and defendant: the verdict and affirmed judgment establish that Poage was exposed to Crane's asbestos-containing gasket/packing products while performing valve maintenance aboard this hull 1954-1958 and that the exposure caused his mesothelioma - stronger than a pleading recital, but still not a hull-wide material inventory. The opinion does not quantify asbestos aboard, does not address other manufacturers' products aboard, and does not establish exposure for any other crewmember. Crane's alternative defense (no Crane-supplied products aboard) was rejected by the jury as a factual matter.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-haynsworth-dd700-02
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[4]Turner, et al. v. Anchor Packing Co., et al., E.D. La. C.A. No. 2:01-2767 (removed from 17th Jud. Dist. Ct., Parish of Lafourche; filed 2001-07-30): deposition of James Carl Turner taken 2001-08-09, filed as Exhibit B to Defendant Viacom's Response (CTO-205) opposing plaintiffs' Motion to Vacate Conditional Transfer Order, In re Asbestos Products Liability Litigation (No. VI), MDL No. 875 (J.P.M.L.), Doc. 3337 (filed 2001-11-19, 233 pp., scanned) [court_record]
- Locator
- MDL-875 Doc. 3337 (233-page scanned filing; OCR): brief pp.2-5 (summary/removal argument); Exhibit B, Turner deposition pp.17-20 (Haynsworth service Oct 1957, engine-room duties), pp.81-88 (marine turbine testimony, 'can't put that Westinghouse turbine on any ship'); Exhibit A petition paras. 4, 104
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- Discovery-stage record naming this hull by name and hull number. In his August 9, 2001 deposition, Turner (Navy machinist mate 1957-1977; lung cancer) testified he went 'aboard the USS HAYNSWORTH, DD-700' in October 1957 and stayed 'just over three years,' progressing from fireman to machinist mate second class to senior watch in the aft engine room; his stated duties included 'all types of repairs on steam lines, steam joints, insulation, removing and restoring insulation, removing insulation. Cleaning pumps and turbines.' He described four 600-psi boilers, two per fire room, and engine rooms of about 40 by 40 feet. The petition alleged exposure to asbestos-containing pipe covering, block, cement, mud, rope, gaskets, cloth, tape, and boiler materials during repair and tear-out activities; the Viacom/CBS filing establishes that the deposition prompted Westinghouse's federal-officer removal and the MDL-875 transfer dispute.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1957-1961 (described service); litigation 2001
- Population
- Navy machinist mate James C. Turner, aboard USS Haynsworth 1957-c.1960; engine-room crew
- Limitations
- Discovery-record stage, not adjudicated: sworn deposition testimony filed as a defense exhibit in a transfer/removal dispute; no court found the insulation Turner described to be asbestos-containing, and the exposure claim was never tried on the merits. Turner testified he could not attribute the Westinghouse marine turbines he worked on to any particular ship ('I can't put that Westinghouse turbine on any ship') - the turbine-manufacturer claim is not tied to this hull. The insulation removal/restoration work he described IS attributed to DD-700 by his own testimony, but asbestos content is framed by the petition, not by an identified product or analysis.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-haynsworth-dd700-03
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[5]NavSource Naval History, Destroyer Photo Index DD-700 USS Haynsworth (operational/building data and disposition compilation), cross-checked against generalstaff.org USN DD lineage table and usshaynsworth.com association chronology [other_primary]
- Locator
- navsource.org/archives/05/700.htm operational/building data block; navysite.de dd700.htm ('did not receive a FRAM'); usshaynsworth.com chronology
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Post-1967 disposition record (DANFS ends mid-1967): decommissioned and stricken from the Navy list 30 January 1970 (at Galveston, per the ship association); transferred/sold to the Republic of China 12 May 1970; towed from the United States 20 September 1970; commissioned in ROC Navy 6 October 1970 as Yue Yang (Yuen Yang), DD-5; reclassified DDG-944 on 1 January 1976 and DDG-905 on 1 October 1979; decommissioned by ROC Navy January 1999; sunk 13 October 2001. Secondary compilations also give keel-laying 16 December 1943 (not in DANFS text) and record that Haynsworth never received a FRAM modernization.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1967-2001
- Population
- USN crew to 1970; ROC Navy crew 1970-1999
- Limitations
- Secondary compilations, not digitized primary records: NVR excludes vessels disposed of before 1987, so no register extract exists for this hull. Sources conflict on ROC decommissioning day (6 vs 15 January 1999) and on the sinking's characterization (target vs artificial reef); romanization varies (Yue Yang vs Yuen Yang). All conflicts carried in gaps rather than silently reconciled. No FRAM means no documented modernization-era insulation-disturbance event, but also no modernization abatement record.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-haynsworth-dd700-04
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[6]Owens-Illinois, Inc., Industrial Health Survey of Federal Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., Kearny, NJ (Aug. 30-Sep. 2, 1944) - per Atlas shipyard dataset record 'federal-shipbuilding-kearny' (tier 2); plus DANFS specifications block and class-standard Sumner machinery plant (4 boilers, GE geared turbines, 60,000 shp) [other_primary]
- Locator
- shipyards.json record 'federal-shipbuilding-kearny' (ev-federal-kearny-ihs-1944); DANFS specs block
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Era/yard inference: a Sumner-class destroyer built at Kearny in 1943-44 with a four-boiler steam plant would have carried period-standard asbestos insulation, lagging, gaskets, packing, and fireproofing. The builder yard is documented at yard level in the Atlas dataset, including a contemporaneous Owens-Illinois industrial-health survey (Aug. 30-Sep. 2, 1944) of insulation work at the Kearny yard during the yard's continuous Sumner-class production run - DD-700 launched April 1944 and commissioned June 1944 while sister hulls (DD-701 et seq.) were still building at the same yard. The survey documents Johns-Manville Superex pipe covering and boiler insulation cut and fitted by yard insulators in confined shipboard spaces.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1943-1970
- Population
- Federal Shipbuilding construction trades 1943-44; crew 1944-1970
- Limitations
- Class/era and builder-yard inference only - the survey postdates this hull's own launch and commissioning by roughly two months and documents yard practice, not materials installed aboard DD-700 specifically. NARA RG19 'General Information Books' (per-vessel material specifications) not retrieved.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-haynsworth-dd700-05
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[7]u.s. navy research (usnavyresearch.net), 12th Naval District War Damage Reports index, F-J section, line 11 [other_primary]
- Locator
- usnavyresearch.net, 12th Naval District > War Damage Reports > US Naval Vessels > F-J, line 11
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- A ship-specific primary document exists at NARA but was not retrieved: 'USS HAYNSWORTH DD700 War Damage Report Okinawa, Ryukyu Islands 6 April 1945 typed by Mare Island - Twenty-eight (28) Photographs, One (1) plate' - the official Navy damage report for the kamikaze strike that sent the ship to Mare Island for repairs (April-May 1945). Such reports document structural and machinery damage and repair scope; whether this one describes insulation disturbance is unverified.
- Verification
- unverified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1945
- Limitations
- Index entry only - the report itself (a NARA-hold 12th Naval District record) was not retrieved or read. Presence in the index establishes the document exists and its scope (damage + temporary repairs), not its asbestos content. If insulation removal/replacement was documented, the report would be the strongest candidate ship-specific construction-era material record for this hull.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-haynsworth-dd700-06
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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
- Finding type
- gov_survey
- Finding
- GAO documented the Navy's extensive shipboard asbestos insulation use, with substitution not beginning until the early 1970s - the whole of DD-700's USN service life (1944-1970) falls inside the documented asbestos-use era, including her 1950 recommissioning and 1963-64 overhaul at New Orleans/Orange.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1979
- Population
- Navy shipyard workers
- Limitations
- Program-level era context only; not hull-specific evidence. Full text not retrieved (gao.gov serves HTTP 403 to automated fetch); content via product-page description, consistent with the Sumner class profile's use of the same source.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-haynsworth-dd700-07
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[9]Batch-3675 search ledger (this record): CourtListener opinion/docket sweeps; NARA digitized deck-log index; NVR; museum/association and registry compilations [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-haynsworth-dd700-01 through -10
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- Sweep results: no hull ACM survey, abatement contract, or materials inventory was located for DD-700 - the ship-specific asbestos record is litigation-derived only (Poage affirmed judgment; Turner discovery deposition). CourtListener exact-name queries return Poage (opinion) and the Turner deposition exhibit (MDL-875 docket) and nothing else; 'DD-700' opinion query returned zero. NARA's published digitized deck-log index contains no Haynsworth entry (series coverage 1941-1992 is partial). NVR has no record - pre-1987 disposals are excluded. No museum phase exists (hull sunk 2001 under ROC custody), so no museum hazmat disclosure channel applies.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 2026-09-27
- Limitations
- Absence of a located public record does not prove absence of asbestos aboard - litigation evidence for this hull is real but narrow (valve gaskets/packing adjudicated; engine-room insulation work deposed). The ROC Navy's 1970-1999 custody, any ROC-era abatement, and the pre-sinking material condition are undocumented in English-language sources.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-haynsworth-dd700-08