Evidence
8 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-8).
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[1]DANFS, Hazelwood I (DD-107) (builder, dates, service narrative, disposal; verbatim transcription - live NHHC page serves 404) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS entry, specifications block + service narrative
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS record for this hull: (DD-107: dp. 1,060 t.; l. 314'5"; b. 31.9"; dr. 8'6"; s. 35 k.; cpl. 113; a. 4 4", 2 1-pdrs., 12 21" tt.; cl. Wickes). Laid down 24 December 1917 by Union Iron Works, San Francisco, Calif.; launched 22 June 1918; sponsored by Miss Marian L. Neitzel; commissioned 20 February 1919, Comdr. A. A. Corwin in command. Departed New York for the Mediterranean 15 April 1919 (Gibraltar 9 May; escort to Arizona BB-39); departed Malta 28 July, arrived New York 13 August; sailed for the Pacific via Cuba and Panama, arrived San Francisco 5 September; West Coast operations; decommissioned San Diego 7 July 1922; recommissioned 1 April 1925; Pacific Fleet training/readiness for five years; decommissioned San Diego 15 November 1930; sold to Learner and Rosenthal 30 August 1935.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Study period
- 1917-1935
- Population
- Union Iron Works construction trades 1917-1919; commissioned-service crew (design complement 113)
- Limitations
- DANFS documents service history and specifications, not materials or asbestos content. The entry's scrapping clause ('scrapped 14 April 1930') is internally impossible - it predates the 30 August 1935 sale and the 15 November 1930 decommissioning; treated as a source typo and carried in gaps. Mirror transcription cited because the live NHHC page returns 404.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-hazelwood-dd107-01
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[2]NPS National Register of Historic Places registration form, Union Iron Works Historic District, San Francisco - NRHP ref. 14000150 (listed 2014-04-17) [nps]
- Locator
- NRHP nomination Section 7-8 narrative ('The U.S. Navy Destroyer Plant at UIW') and appendix vessel list; NRIS ref. 14000150
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- The NPS-filed nomination documents this hull's build site: Union Iron Works operated the government-owned U.S. Navy Destroyer Plant (the 'Risdon Plant') at Potrero Point and was the principal West Coast warship yard of World War I, producing 66 destroyers; the nomination appendix 'List of Vessels Built at UIW 1884-1945' includes 'Hazelwood' in the World War I destroyer block (alongside Schley, Champlin, Mugford, Chew, Williams, Crane, Hart, Ingraham, Ludlow, Burns, Anthony, Sproston, Rizal, Mackenzie, Renshaw, O'Bannon, Hogan, Howard, Stansbury - the UIW-built Wickes-class group). The district is nationally significant for steel shipbuilding, period of significance 1884-1945.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Study period
- 1917-1919 (construction); nomination filed 2014
- Population
- UIW destroyer-plant workforce, 1917-1919
- Limitations
- Documents the builder yard and lists the vessel among WWI output - it does not name the hull number at that point, does not describe shipboard materials, and contains no asbestos statement about vessel construction (its only asbestos references concern later vinyl-asbestos floor tile in yard buildings). The WWII section of the same vessel list contains a second 'Hazelwood' - DD-531, built at the same yard under Bethlehem Shipbuilding naming.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-hazelwood-dd107-02
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[3]NavSource Destroyer Photo Index, USS Hazelwood (DD-107) - operational and building data (corroborated by destroyers.org disposition table and NavalCoverMuseum) [other_primary]
- Locator
- navsource.org/archives/05/107.htm 'Operational and Building Data'; web.archive.org capture of destroyers.org/Dispositions/dispositions.htm
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Compiled index record for this hull (class listing 'Wickes (Little)' - the Bethlehem-design group built at Union Iron Works and Fore River; machinery 24,200 shp geared turbines, 2 screws; crew 103): decommissioned San Diego 7 July 1922 and berthed there in reserve; recommissioned 1 April 1925; decommissioned 15 November 1930 and berthed until sale; reclassified Light Target Number 2 (IX-36) in 1930, reverted to DD-107 on 24 April 1931; stricken 5 June 1935; sold 3 August 1935 to Learner & Rosenthal and broken up for scrap. The destroyers.org (Tin Can Sailors) disposition table independently records stricken 06/05/35, 'Conversion to Light Target No. 2 (IX-36), cancelled,' sold 08/30/35.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Study period
- 1922-1935
- Population
- Commissioned-service and reserve crews 1919-1930
- Limitations
- Secondary compiled index, not an official record - the IX-36 reclassification and the 5 June 1935 stricken date do not appear in DANFS and rest on NavSource/destroyers.org/NavalCoverMuseum agreement. Sale date conflicts across sources (3 Aug vs 30 Aug 1935) are carried in gaps. No materials or asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-hazelwood-dd107-03
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[4]U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command photograph NH 53692, 'USS Hazelwood (Destroyer # 107) In harbor, circa 1919' (NHHC picture-data page, HyperWar Online Library mirror) [other_primary]
- Locator
- HyperWar Online Library picture-data page for NH 53692
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NHHC catalog record NH 53692 confirms a U.S. Navy photograph of this hull in harbor circa 1919 - an official records artifact independent of the text histories.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Study period
- circa 1919
- Limitations
- Photograph catalog entry only - establishes identity/appearance, not materials or asbestos. Mirror transcription; the corresponding live NHHC page was not located.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-hazelwood-dd107-04
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[5]DANFS specifications block (Wickes class; 35 kt) + NPS Union Iron Works Historic District nomination (WWI Navy destroyer plant) + Atlas shipyards dataset record 'bethlehem-shipbuilding' (Union Iron Works listed as alias) [other_primary]
- Locator
- DANFS specifications block; NRHP nomination Sections 7-8; shipyards.json record 'bethlehem-shipbuilding' (aliases include Union Iron Works)
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Era/yard inference: a Wickes-class ('Little'/Bethlehem design) destroyer built 1917-1919 at a government-contracted Navy destroyer plant, with a four-boiler steam plant and geared turbines, would have carried period-standard asbestos insulation, boiler and steam-line lagging, gaskets, packing, and fireproofing; the Atlas yard dataset documents asbestos products (magnesia block, lagging, gaskets/packing, asbestos sheets) across the Bethlehem Shipbuilding corporate family, though predominantly at other yards and later eras. NARA RG 19 'General Information Books' holding per-vessel material specifications are an archival lead for hull-level specs.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Study period
- 1917-1935
- Population
- UIW construction trades 1917-1919; crew 1919-1930
- Limitations
- Class/era and builder-yard inference only - no retrieved source names materials installed aboard this hull. The Atlas bethlehem-shipbuilding product documentation derives primarily from Sparrows Point/Quincy WWII-era evidence, not the Potrero yard's 1917-1919 output; NARA GIB retrieval not performed.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-hazelwood-dd107-05
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[6]Batch-3115 search ledger (this record): DANFS/NHHC and mirrors; NPS NRHP UIW Historic District nomination; NavSource/destroyers.org/NavalCoverMuseum; CourtListener opinion and RECAP sweeps; NARA catalog; San Francisco Maritime NHP finding aid (OAC) [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-hazelwood-dd107-01 through sl-uss-hazelwood-dd107-09
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, or adjudicated or pleaded case naming DD-107 was found in the public sources searched (see search_ledger). No Wickes-class hull survives to be surveyed; the hull was scrapped in 1935, roughly four decades before asbestos litigation and survey regimes produced most hull-level records.
- 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 - 1917-1919 Navy-contract construction is era-consistent with asbestos-bearing insulation. Does not establish that asbestos was or was not present; does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-hazelwood-dd107-06
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[7]Archival repositories: NARA RG 24 Entry 118 (ship logbooks incl. pre-1941, National Archives Identifier 581208) and RG 19 General Information Books; San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park collection HDC0345.01/SAFR 17494 (Bethlehem Steel Corp., Shipbuilding Division, San Francisco records, 213 boxes incl. specifications, bulk 1892-1956); U.S. Navy Bureau of Steam Engineering, General Specifications for Machinery for Vessels of the United States Navy (GPO, era editions, HathiTrust) [other_primary]
- Locator
- OAC finding aid ark:/13030/c8wd4632 (SAFR); NARA RG24 logbook series; HathiTrust catalog (Bureau of Steam Engineering, 1920 ed.)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Unretrieved hull-level and spec-level record sets: DD-107 deck logs (1919-1930) in NARA RG 24; Bureau of Ships General Information Books per-vessel outfit/materials entries (RG 19); the UIW/Bethlehem San Francisco yard's surviving business records incl. specifications at San Francisco Maritime NHP (SAFR); and the era controlling machinery spec (Bureau of Steam Engineering 'General Specifications,' insulation/lagging sections) at HathiTrust.
- Verification
- unverified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Study period
- archival
- Limitations
- Leads only - none retrieved or read; presence, absence, and content of asbestos language in them is unknown. No spend authorized in this batch.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-hazelwood-dd107-07
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[8]CourtListener API v4 sweeps 2026-09-26: opinion search "USS Hazelwood" (0 results); RECAP docket search "USS Hazelwood" (1 docket - In re Asbestos Products Liability Litigation (No. VI), MDL No. 875, J.P.M.L., doc. 8584 attachment group, Fordham plaintiffs' motion to vacate CTO-492, filed 2012-03-30) [court_record]
- Locator
- CourtListener docket 1245688 (MDL-875), document 8584 attachment group (search-index match)
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- Opinion index: zero hits for the exact ship phrase. Docket index: the phrase 'USS Hazelwood' appears in a discovery-stage deposition exhibit within an MDL-875 asbestos docket filing; the full document text is not retrievable from public storage, so the vessel reference's role is unverified. Temporal analysis favors a name collision with USS Hazelwood (DD-531) - a Fletcher-class destroyer in commission 1943-1965, built at the same Potrero yard under Bethlehem Shipbuilding naming - because DD-107 was scrapped by 1935, more than 75 years before the 2012 filing, and no plausible asbestos-era plaintiff could have served aboard her.
- Verification
- unverified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Study period
- 2012 (litigation document)
- Population
- Unverified from index
- Limitations
- Docket-text reference at deposition/discovery stage - an allegation context, never adjudicated; document body unavailable, so which hull the deponent named is unverified. Classified down (name collision / not qualifying for DD-107) on temporal grounds: the asbestos-litigation-era referent is overwhelmingly likely DD-531. Does not establish anything about materials aboard either hull.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-hazelwood-dd107-08