Evidence
8 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-8).
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[1]DANFS, Honolulu II (CL-48) (builder, dates, specifications, service narrative; verbatim transcription - live NHHC page serves 404); cross-checked against HyperWar/ibiblio transcription [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS entry, specifications block + full service narrative
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS record for this hull: launched 26 August 1937 by the New York Navy Yard (HyperWar transcription reads '20 August' - rejected against the HazeGray transcription and the BuShips construction table, which agree on 26 August); commissioned 15 June 1938 (Capt. Oscar Smith). Overhaul at Puget Sound 1940; moored at Naval Station Pearl Harbor 7 December 1941, minor hull damage from a near miss; Aleutian operations (Kiska bombardment 7 August 1942; screened Adak landings 21 August); yard period at Mare Island; Tassafaronga 30 November 1942; New Georgia bombardments; torpedo hit starboard side at 0211 on 13 July 1943 in the Battle of Kolombangara - temporary repairs at Tulagi, arrived Pearl Harbor 16 August for overhaul, additional repairs at Mare Island, departed San Francisco 17 November; Saipan and Guam bombardments June 1944; Palau September 1944; Leyte bombardment 19-20 October - torpedo hit port side 20 October 1944; temporary repairs at Manus, sailed for Norfolk 19 November, arriving 20 December via Pearl Harbor and San Diego; remained at Norfolk for the duration of the war undergoing repairs; shakedown October 1945, then Newport training duty; arrived Philadelphia 8 January 1946, decommissioned there 3 February 1947 and joined the Reserve Fleet at Philadelphia; sold for scrapping (DANFS transcription reads 'On 17 November 1949'); eight battle stars.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-18
- Study period
- 1935-1947
- Population
- New York Navy Yard construction trades 1935-38; crew 1938-47; Puget Sound, Mare Island, Pearl Harbor, and Norfolk repair-yard workers 1940-45
- Limitations
- DANFS documents service history and specifications, not materials or asbestos content. DANFS gives no laid-down date (keel 10 September 1935 verified via BuShips Ships' Data 1945 and Navy Directory 1938 construction tables, ev-02) and no stricken date; the transcribed '17 November 1949' sale is internally suspect because a hull struck 1959 could not be sold in 1949 - flagged in gaps. The repeated torpedo-repair yard periods are documented events whose insulation-disturbance scope is inference. Mirror transcription cited because the live NHHC page returns 404.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-honolulu-cl48-01
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[2]U.S. Navy Bureau of Ships, Ships' Data U.S. Naval Vessels, Vol. 1 (1945), Light Cruisers (CL) construction and machinery tables + Navy Directory Jan 1938 'Vessels Under Construction' joint report (shipscribe.com scans, OCR-extracted) [other_primary]
- Locator
- SDB1945v1.pdf, CL section construction table pp. 50-51 and machinery table pp. 54-55; NVR1938-ships.pdf p.5 LIGHT CRUISERS table (OCR)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Official tabulations supply the dates DANFS omits: the BuShips CL construction table lists Honolulu (Navy Yard, New York) with keel laid 10 September 1935 and launched 26 August 1937; the Navy Directory Dec. 1, 1937 joint progress report independently carries the same keel date (OCR row 'Honolulu ... Sept. 10, 1935'); the CL machinery table lists this hull with 4 shafts, New-York-Navy-Yard Parsons-type geared turbines, 100,000 shp - the Brooklyn-class machinery suite.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-18
- Study period
- 1935-1945
- Population
- Construction yard workers 1935-38
- Limitations
- Official machinery/construction data only - contains no asbestos, insulation-material, or condition content. OCR extraction of scans; row identification by alphabetical CL row position (row ~24 = Honolulu) and by explicit name in the construction table.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-honolulu-cl48-02
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[3]U.S. Navy, Bureau of Ships Technical Manual, NAVSHIPS 250-000, Chapter 39 'Thermal Insulation' (1960) [other_primary]
- Locator
- BuShips TM ch.39, sections 39-11 through 39-13
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- The Navy's own insulation manual enumerates the asbestos material suite standard to steam plants of this hull's construction era: MIL-P-2781 pipe covering including 85% magnesia (~15% asbestos fiber) and amosite-fiber classes; roll asbestos felt MIL-I-15091; asbestos cloth/tape SS-C-466 (80-95% chrysotile) as lagging; asbestos millboard HH-M-351; asbestos finishing cement; molded asbestos block for high-temperature service.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-18
- Study period
- 1960 (manual); describes specifications representative of 1935-38 practice
- Population
- n/a
- Limitations
- Specification-level era documentation, not a hull record - the manual is 1959-60 vintage while this hull was built 1935-38; the same material family is documented for 1930s practice but the manual postdates construction by two decades. Does not quantify material aboard. Retrieved PDF is a scan hosted in the Garlock bankruptcy Daubert-appendix repository.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-honolulu-cl48-03
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[4]DANFS specifications block + damage/repair narrative (this record, ev-01) + BuShips Ships' Data machinery row (ev-02) + BuShips TM ch.39 era suite (ev-03) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- ev-01/-02/-03 synthesis; repair dates from DANFS service narrative
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Era inference for this hull: a Brooklyn-class cruiser built 1935-38 with the documented 8-boiler/100,000-shp steam plant would era-typically have carried asbestos boiler and fireroom insulation, steam-pipe and turbine lagging, gaskets and packing, deck covering, and bulkhead/cable insulation. The documented repair chain - Puget Sound overhaul (1940), Mare Island yard period (late 1942), Tulagi temporary repairs then Pearl Harbor overhaul (August-November 1943) plus Mare Island additional repairs, then Manus temporary repairs and Norfolk Navy Yard repair from December 1944 through war's end - repeatedly opened machinery and hull spaces where original-era material would have been disturbed.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-18
- Study period
- 1935-1947
- Population
- Construction trades 1935-38; crew 1938-47; Puget Sound, Mare Island, Pearl Harbor, Norfolk, and Philadelphia yard workers 1940-47
- Limitations
- Class/era inference only - NOT a hull-specific finding. The 1943 (Kolombangara) and 1944-45 (Leyte) torpedo reconstructions are documented events but their insulation scope is inference from work extent; no work package or abatement record for CL-48 is digitized. Does not quantify material aboard or establish any individual's exposure.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-honolulu-cl48-04
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[5]DANFS Honolulu II (CL-48) disposition paragraph (decommissioned 3 February 1947, Reserve Fleet at Philadelphia, sold for scrapping per transcription) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS disposition paragraph (both transcriptions)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Disposal documented, material status not: decommissioned at Philadelphia 3 February 1947 and joined the Reserve Fleet there; DANFS records the sale for scrapping (transcription reads 'On 17 November 1949'). No abatement disclosure, condition survey, or hazmat record from reserve lay-up through scrapping was located - the disposal record names dates only.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-18
- Study period
- 1947-onward
- Population
- Reserve-fleet and scrapping workers 1947-onward
- Limitations
- Documents custody and dates only. The transcribed 1949 sale year is internally suspect (a hull generally struck 1959 could not be scrapped 1949) and unresolved - flagged in gaps. Any insulation condition or removal at scrapping is undocumented.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-honolulu-cl48-05
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[6]CourtListener REST API v4 - class-level per-ship exact-phrase sweep 2026-09-16 (brooklyn-class profile sl-05) + per-ship query attempt 2026-09-18 [court_record]
- Locator
- search_ledger sl-uss-honolulu-cl48-05; brooklyn-class profile search_ledger sl-brooklyn-class-05
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- No qualifying asbestos litigation naming CL-48 located: a per-ship exact-phrase opinion sweep ('USS Honolulu' + asbestos) run 2026-09-16 across the class member names returned zero qualifying results. A fresh per-ship re-verification and RECAP/docket expansion on 2026-09-18 was blocked - the CourtListener API returned HTTP 429 (daily 125-request limit exhausted; ~44,400 s to reset), so opinion-level re-check and any docket-level coverage remain unexecuted.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-18
- Study period
- 2026-09-16; 2026-09-18
- Population
- n/a
- Limitations
- The 2026-09-16 sweep covered type=o opinions at class level only and predates this record by two days; docket-level (type=r) coverage and exact-name re-verification are deferred and logged as a gap. A negative result does not establish that no case exists - 'Honolulu' is also a place name.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-honolulu-cl48-06
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[7]This record's search ledger: NHHC DANFS probe; two independent DANFS transcriptions; BuShips Ships' Data 1945 and Navy Directory 1938 OCR; NVR coverage check; CourtListener attempts [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-honolulu-cl48-01 through -07
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No ship-specific asbestos documentation of any kind was located for CL-48: no insulation or material specification, no hull survey, no abatement contract or hazmat disclosure (including for the 1943 Pearl Harbor overhaul, the 1944-45 Norfolk repair, or the reserve/scrapping period), no qualifying litigation. All asbestos-relevant content in this record rests on class/era specification (BuShips TM ch.39), the documented uniform plant (Ships' Data), and documented repair events.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-18
- Study period
- 2026-09-18
- Population
- n/a
- Limitations
- Absence of a located record does not prove absence - the Pearl Harbor (1943) and Norfolk Navy Yard (1944-45) torpedo-reconstruction work packages (NARA RG 19) are the likeliest unmined primary records.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-honolulu-cl48-07
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[8]NARA Record Group 19 (Bureau of Ships series) - known holding class, not yet searched [other_primary]
- Locator
- NARA RG 19 (not yet searched)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Archival lead: NARA RG 19 BuShips damage and repair records for the 13 July 1943 Kolombangara torpedo hit (Tulagi temporary repairs, Pearl Harbor overhaul August-November 1943, Mare Island additional repairs) and the 20 October 1944 Leyte torpedo hit (Manus temporary repairs, Norfolk Navy Yard December 1944 - 1945) - the likeliest primary records of insulation/material disturbance on this hull. Not digitized; not consulted for this pass.
- Verification
- unverified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-18
- Study period
- n/a
- Population
- n/a
- Limitations
- Holding location inferred from standard records disposition; damage reports may sit in RG 19 war-damage series rather than construction correspondence.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-honolulu-cl48-08