Evidence
8 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-8).
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[1]DANFS, Hulbert (DD-342) (namesake, build data, service narrative, disposition; verbatim transcription - live NHHC page serves 404) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS entry, specifications block + full service narrative
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS record for this hull: named for 1st Lt. Henry Lewis Hulbert, USMC (Medal of Honor; Navy Cross; killed Blanc Mont 1918). Clemson class; 1,190 tons, 314'5" x 30'8" x 9'3", 36 kt, complement 126, armament 4x4"/2x3"/12x21" tt. Launched by Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, Va. (transcription reads 28 June 1918 - documented typo for 1919, see gaps), sponsored by Mrs. V. C. Hulbert; commissioned 27 October 1920. June 1921 ordnance tests; Newport operations; Asiatic Station 1922-1929 (Chefoo; China civil-war patrols; civilian evacuations March 1927 and September 1928); plane guard for Langley and Saratoga 1929-30; fleet exercises 1930-34; decommissioned Philadelphia 17 October 1934. Converted to seaplane tender 1939-1940, recommissioned at New York Navy Yard 2 August 1940 (transcription reads 'AVP-6' - documented anomaly, see gaps). Pearl Harbor 7 December 1941: moored Submarine Base, opened fire ~0758, downed one torpedo plane; Hilo advance base 9 December; Kodiak June 1942 tending VP-43 over Kiska/Attu; Seguam Island landing party 30 August; aided torpedoed Casco at Atka; blown ashore Massacre Bay in severe storm 30 June 1943, hull seriously damaged; temporary repairs Dutch Harbor; Seattle 30 August for major overhaul; reclassified DD-342 1 December 1943; escort/plane-guard duty for new escort carriers 1944-45; decommissioned 2 November 1945; sold for scrap October 1946 to Ship Shape, Inc., Philadelphia. Two battle stars WWII.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Study period
- 1918-1946
- Population
- Norfolk Navy Yard construction trades 1918-1920; crew 1920-1934 and 1940-1945 (design complement 126)
- Limitations
- DANFS documents service history and specifications, not materials or asbestos content. Transcription anomalies (launch year '1918' vs. documented 1919; 'AVP-6' vs. documented AVP-19/AVD-6 chain) are carried in gaps rather than silently corrected. Mirror transcription cited because the live NHHC page returns 404.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-hulbert-avd6-01
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[2]NavSource Naval History destroyer index, USS Hulbert (DD-342/AVP-19/AVD-6) - operational/building data and period photo captions; corroborated by NavalCoverMuseum designation list [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource DD-342 destroyer index 'Operational and Building Data' block + photo caption records; navsource.net/archives/09/56/5606.htm (AVD index); navalcovermuseum.org/wiki/HULBERT_DD_342
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Building and designation record for this hull: built by Norfolk Navy Yard; laid down 18 November 1918; launched 28 June 1919 (NNSY launch-day photo caption, with sister DD-343 Noa); commissioned 27 October 1920; decommissioned 17 October 1934; reclassified Seaplane Tender AVP-19 on 15 November 1939 while in reserve; converted at New York Navy Yard circa 1939-40; recommissioned and reclassified Seaplane Tender, Destroyer AVD-6 on 2 August 1940; reverted to DD-342 on 1 December 1943; decommissioned 2 November 1945; stricken 28 November 1945; sold for scrap to Ship Shape, Inc., Philadelphia, 31 October 1946. Period photo captions document: collision with USS Hopkins (DD-249) at Guantanamo Bay dated June 1921 (secondary sources read early 1922 - conflict in gaps); bow grafted from USS Graham (DD-192) at Brooklyn Navy Yard 17 May 1922; grounding at Alexei Point, Massacre Bay 30 June 1943 with refloat by fleet tug Ute (AT-76) 21 July 1943.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Study period
- 1918-1946
- Population
- New York Navy Yard conversion/repair workers 1922 and 1939-40; Seattle overhaul yard workers 1943; crew 1920-1945
- Limitations
- NavSource is a volunteer-run photo/history archive, not an official repository - used here for designation dates (corroborated across NavalCoverMuseum and Wikipedia) and captioned period photographs (several credited to NNSY historian/archivist and NARA 80-G collection). Documents events and administrative designations, not materials or asbestos content. Collision-date caption (June 1921) conflicts with secondary compilations (early 1922); carried in gaps.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-hulbert-avd6-02
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[3]USS Hulbert (AVD-6), Report of Battle - Japanese Air Attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941 (action report AVD6/A16-3/P15, signed J.M. Lane, CO, dated 8 December 1941; HyperWar transcription) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Action report paragraphs 1-2 and 6 (HyperWar ships/logs/AVD transcription)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- The ship's own action report: moored berth S-3, Submarine Base, Pearl Harbor; 'this vessel brought down one Japanese torpedo bomber by .50 cal. AA fire ... at about 0758, December 7, 1941, and shared in bringing down a bomber at about 0820'; 'believed to have been the first ship in the fleet to open fire'; 'no personnel casualties or material damage aboard this vessel.'
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Study period
- 1941
- Population
- Ship's company at Pearl Harbor, 7 December 1941
- Limitations
- Contemporaneous operational record - documents the hull's location and conduct on 7 December 1941; contains no materials or asbestos information.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-hulbert-avd6-03
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[4]DANFS specifications block (Clemson class; 1,190 t; 36 kt) + NavSource machinery line (26,000 shp; Parsons-design turbines; 2 screws) + Atlas shipyard dataset records for norfolk-naval-shipyard (tier 2), brooklyn-navy-yard (tier 3), philadelphia-naval-shipyard (tier 3); NARA RG19 General Information Books archival lead [other_primary]
- Locator
- DANFS spec block; NavSource DD-342 'CLASS - CLEMSON / Machinery' line; shipyards.json records
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Era/yard inference: a Clemson-class flush-deck destroyer laid down 1918 and commissioned 1920 with a four water-tube boiler, geared steam-turbine plant would have carried period-standard asbestos boiler and steam-line insulation, turbine lagging, gaskets, packing, fireproofing, and deck coverings; her 1939-40 seaplane-tender conversion at the New York Navy Yard occurred inside the documented Navy asbestos-use era. Builder (Norfolk Navy Yard), conversion yard (New York/Brooklyn Navy Yard), and final decommissioning/disposal site (Philadelphia Navy Yard) are all documented yards in the Atlas shipyards dataset. NARA RG19 'General Information Books' per-vessel material specifications are an unretrieved archival lead for hull-level specs.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Study period
- 1918-1946
- Population
- Norfolk Navy Yard construction trades 1918-20; New York Navy Yard conversion trades 1939-40; Seattle overhaul yard 1943 (yard unspecified - gaps); crew 1920-1945
- Limitations
- Class/era and builder-yard inference only - NOT a hull-specific finding. No ship-specific document names any asbestos material aboard this hull; the yard-dataset entries document yard-level asbestos era conditions, not this hull's fittings. Does not quantify material or establish any individual's exposure. NARA GIB retrieval not performed.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-hulbert-avd6-04
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[5]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 that the Navy used asbestos insulation extensively aboard ships and did not begin substituting alternative insulation materials until the early 1970s - placing this hull's construction (1918-20), tender conversion (1939-40), and entire commissioned service (1920-1945) inside the documented asbestos-use era.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Study period
- 1979
- Population
- Navy shipyard workers; asbestos program review
- Limitations
- Program-level documentation; supports era context only, not any fact specific to this hull. Full report text not retrieved (gao.gov blocks automated fetch, HTTP 403) - content via product-page description.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-hulbert-avd6-05
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[6]Batch-3047 search ledger (this record): DANFS mirror; NavSource destroyer/AVD indexes; NavalCoverMuseum; ship's 1941 Pearl Harbor action report; NARA catalog (Report of Changes Oct 1944; WWII deck logs program); GAO HRD-80-2; CourtListener (throttled - partial sweep); law-firm/aggregator ship pages (excluded per sourcing rules) [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-hulbert-avd6-01 through sl-uss-hulbert-avd6-09
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific record located: no asbestos survey, abatement contract, materials inventory, hazmat disclosure, or docketed case naming the Hulbert was found in the public sources searched (see search_ledger). The ship was stricken and sold for scrap in 1945-46 - before modern asbestos documentation practice - and never became a museum, so the disclosure channel that produced ship-specific records for preserved hulls never existed for her. Open-web asbestos searches return only law-firm/aggregator listicles naming her (excluded per sourcing rules).
- 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 - era-standard applications are documented at class/era level. The hull no longer exists, so present-day ACM status is moot; whether original or conversion-era insulation contained asbestos is undocumented.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-hulbert-avd6-06
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[7]CourtListener API v4 opinion search (authenticated, fleet-paced helper): '"USS Hulbert" OR "U.S.S. Hulbert" OR "Hulbert" asbestos' - 23,690 ranked results, top-ranked results all generic asbestos dockets with no 'Hulbert' string in returned text (only the query echo); exact-phrase and hull-number sweeps throttled by fleet pacing - see ledger [court_record]
- Locator
- CourtListener API v4 search endpoint, type=o, via cl-auth-search.py helper
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- CourtListener litigation sweep, partially executed: the broad name+asbestos opinion query returned no result containing the string 'Hulbert' in its top-ranked page (the term 'asbestos' dominated ranking; the only 'Hulbert' occurrence in returned data was the query echo). Exact-phrase ('USS Hulbert'), hull-number ('DD-342', 'AVD-6', 'AVP-19'), and RECAP docket sweeps could not be completed - the shared fleet request budget was exhausted (helper-enforced pacing, ~114 req/hr). No qualifying asbestos litigation naming this hull was located; the sweep is an honest pending gap, not a clean negative.
- Verification
- unverified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Study period
- 2026-09-26
- Limitations
- Partial sweep only: the exact-phrase, hull-number, and docket-type queries were not completed under fleet pacing. 'Hulbert' is a low-collision name (no other U.S. Navy vessel of that name exists), so a positive opinion hit would be attributable to this hull with high confidence - but no such hit was located in the portion of the sweep that ran.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-hulbert-avd6-07
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[8]NARA holdings: 'Hulbert (AVD-6) - Report of Changes, October 1944' (Records of the Bureau of Naval Personnel muster-roll series, catalog ID 112309386, via DPLA) + NARA 1941-1959 deck-log program (DD-342 listed in the digitized flush-decker logbook set) [other_primary]
- Locator
- catalog.archives.gov/id/112309386 (via DPLA item record); archives.gov/research/military/logbooks/navy-deck-logs-1941-1959
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Ship-specific NARA holdings exist and are indexed but unreviewed: the Bureau of Naval Personnel 'Report of Changes' for this hull (October 1944) and World War II deck logs (1941-1959 deck-log program, which includes DD-342) are cataloged. These are personnel/operational records; no hull material specification, insulation schedule, or asbestos survey was located in NARA's public catalog. NARA RG19 General Information Books remain the hull-level material-spec lead.
- Verification
- unverified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Study period
- 1941-1945 (records); 2026-09-26 (located)
- Population
- Ship's company October 1944 (muster)
- Limitations
- Archival lead only: the cataloged records are muster/deck-log documents, not materials documentation; contents not reviewed. Existence of records does not imply asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-hulbert-avd6-08