Evidence
11 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-11).
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[1]research packet ix-packet.md (3 sources cited) [other_primary]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERIFIED (only the laid-down date is UNVERIFIABLE from loaded
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-hunt-dd194-pkt-ix-packet-md
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[2]DANFS, 'Hunt I (DD-194)' (verbatim transcription via hazegray.org DANFS mirror; live NHHC page not located - returns 404 on all tested slugs) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- Specifications block and service narrative, paragraphs 1-2
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS identifies Hunt as a Clemson-class destroyer launched by Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., Newport News, Va., on 14 February 1920, sponsored by Miss Virginia Livingston Hunt, and commissioned 30 September 1920, Lt. Roswell H. Blair in command. The specifications block lists displacement 1,215 tons, length 314'5", beam 31'9", draft 9'4", speed 35 knots, complement 101, armament 4 x 4-inch, 1 x 3-inch, 12 x 21-inch torpedo tubes. DANFS records Atlantic Fleet training and torpedo trials out of Newport, R.I., basing at Charleston, S.C. from 3 December 1920, entry into the Philadelphia Navy Yard 6 June 1922, and decommissioning 11 August 1922.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Limitations
- Documents identity, builder, dates, and design specification, not asbestos composition, installed products, or occupational exposure. The 101 figure is the DANFS design complement, not an actual muster. The entry omits the laid-down date and the striking date. Live NHHC page could not be located; verbatim transcription mirror verified via Wayback capture 2024-12-09.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-hunt-dd194-01
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[3]DANFS, 'Hunt I (DD-194)' (verbatim transcription via hazegray.org DANFS mirror) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- Service narrative, paragraphs 2-4
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS records U.S. Coast Guard custody of the ship from 13 September 1930 to 28 May 1934; recommissioning at Philadelphia and departure 26 January 1940 for Neutrality Patrol in the Caribbean Sea; escort of submarine Searaven from the Panama Canal Zone toward Cape Canaveral 3 April 1940; gunnery practice in Cuban waters; Norfolk arrival 17 April 1940; and Chesapeake Bay maneuvers and east-coast training cruises. It then records that Hunt was one of the 50 'overage fourstacker destroyers' exchanged with the British for American bases in the British West Indies, departing Newport 3 October 1940, reaching Halifax, Nova Scotia, 5 October, embarking 100 English officers and bluejackets for ship-handling instruction on 6 October, and decommissioning from the U.S. Navy and commissioning in the British Navy as HMS Broadway on 8 October 1940.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Limitations
- Documents custody, yard, and transfer events, not materials or asbestos. The Philadelphia Navy Yard 1922 period and the 1939-1940 recommissioning work are documented events; DANFS does not describe materials removed or installed. The recommissioning date itself is not stated in DANFS (NavSource reads 18 December 1939).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-hunt-dd194-02
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[4]DANFS, 'Hunt I (DD-194)' + Naval Historical Center, 'Destroyers Transferred to Great Britain as a Result of the Destroyers for Bases Agreement' (archived faq59-24a.htm) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS service narrative, paragraphs 4-6; NHC transfer list, Hunt (DD-194) row
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS records the ship's Royal Navy career as HMS Broadway: arrival Belfast 24 October 1940 and assignment to the 11th Escort Group, Western Approaches Command; the 9 May 1941 capture of German submarine U-110 between Iceland and Greenland together with destroyer Bulldog and corvette Aubrietia, with recovery of 'documents of great value and importance' before the prize sank under tow; continued Atlantic convoy escort in 1942-1943; the destruction of U-89 northeast of the Azores on 12 May 1943 with frigate Lagan and aircraft from escort carrier Biter; a September 1943 Belfast refit followed by service as an aircraft target ship at Rosyth until the end of the European war; May 1945 occupation duty in northern Norway including charge of a convoy of German submarines from Narvik to Trondheim; and scrapping in the postwar reduction of the British Navy. The NHHC Destroyers for Bases transfer list (sourced from Hague, Naval Institute Press 1990) gives pennant H-90, convoy OB318 for the U-110 action, convoy HX 237 for the U-89 action dated 14 May 1943, and 'allocated for scrapping in Mar. 1948.'
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Limitations
- Documents Royal Navy service and disposal, not asbestos. The NHC list dates the U-89 sinking 14 May 1943 where DANFS reads 12 May 1943 - carried in gaps. UK scrapping records are outside the reviewed U.S. sources; no shipbreaking materials survey located. The Enigma-machine significance of the U-110 boarding is widely documented but DANFS says only 'documents of great value and importance' - that wording is carried.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-hunt-dd194-03
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[5]U.S. Coast Guard Historian's Office, Historic Ships list and Cutters bibliography (history.uscg.mil) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Historic Ships list, HUNT entry; Cutters/General bibliography, Coast Guard Magazine citations
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- The U.S. Coast Guard historian's office lists 'HUNT (1931-USCG); CG DESTROYER CG-18' in its Historic Ships register, and its cutter bibliography indexes contemporaneous Coast Guard Magazine coverage: 'Destroyers Selected: Hunt, Welborn C. Wood, George E. Badger, & Herndon Taken Over by Coast Guard' (Oct 1930, p.5), 'The Coast Guard Destroyer Hunt' (Aug 1931, p.18), and '....Hunt' (Nov 1932, p.54). This corroborates the DANFS custody window 13 September 1930 - 28 May 1934, during which the ship served Prohibition-era anti-smuggling patrol duty (the 'Rum Patrol').
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Limitations
- Confirms Coast Guard service and designation, not materials. The register's '1931' tag versus the DANFS custody start of 13 September 1930 (loan date; secondary compilations read USCG commissioning 8 October 1930) is a minor discrepancy carried in gaps. Coast Guard Magazine articles were indexed, not retrieved.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-hunt-dd194-04
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[6]Naval Historical Center, 'Destroyers for Bases Agreement, 2 September 1940' (Hull-Lothian notes; 54 Stat. 2406-2408), archived faq59-24.htm [other_primary]
- Locator
- Agreement text, Hull reply paragraph ('fifty United States Navy destroyers')
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- The Destroyers for Bases executive agreement of 2 September 1940 (54 Stat. 2406-2408), published by the Naval Historical Center, records the exchange under which 'fifty United States Navy destroyers generally referred to as the twelve hundred-ton type' were transferred to Great Britain in return for 99-year leases on naval and air bases in British possessions. Hunt's inclusion is ship-specific via DANFS and the NHC transfer list (ev-02, ev-03).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Limitations
- Program-level instrument. It documents why and when the hull left U.S. custody - relevant because it bounds the U.S. records trail at October 1940 - but says nothing about shipboard materials, condition surveys, or hazardous materials at transfer.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-hunt-dd194-05
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[7]National Archives, Cartographic Ship Plan Index, HUNT DD-194 entries [other_primary]
- Locator
- HUNT DD-194 rows, RG 19, Alphabetical Ship Drawings NAID 53484303 and Microfilm NAID 175669415
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- NARA's Ship Plan Index lists HUNT DD-194 in Record Group 19 under Alphabetical Ship Drawings (NAID 53484303) and Microfilm (NAID 175669415). These collections are leads for examining ship-specific plans, including any insulation (S39) and piping (S48) drawings held for this hull.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Limitations
- The index establishes holdings, not drawing contents. No Hunt drawing, material schedule, or General Information Book was retrieved or reviewed; the index is not evidence of asbestos aboard. Whether a DD-194 GIB survives within RG 19 Entry P 9 (destroyer GIBs) is undetermined.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-hunt-dd194-06
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[8]National Archives, 'Researching Asbestos aboard US Naval Vessel up through 1961' (last reviewed 2022-03-02) [other_primary]
- Locator
- General Information Books; Cartographic Branch (S39/S48); Other Records and their usefulness
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- NARA's research guide for asbestos aboard U.S. naval vessels identifies the record series relevant to documenting this hull: RG 19 destroyer General Information Books (Entry P 9, Item S-68) and Hull-series ship engineering drawings under S-codes including S39-Insulation and Lagging and S48-Piping. The guide cautions that deck logs and muster rolls 'provide no direct evidence of asbestos' and cannot identify materials used.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Limitations
- A research guide, not a Hunt material record. It establishes where ship-specific asbestos documentation would live and that personnel records cannot supply it; it does not show that any Hunt S39/S48 drawing or GIB exists or that the ship contained asbestos.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-hunt-dd194-07
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[9]Atlas shipyard dataset 'newport-news-shipbuilding' record; underlying PMIDs 7471040 (Tagnon et al. 1980) and 6931936 (Blot et al. 1980) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Atlas shipyards.json yard record; PubMed records
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Yard-level context: the builder, Newport News Shipbuilding (Newport News, Va.), is documented in the Atlas shipyard dataset for asbestos-containing products at the yard (Kaylo insulation, Unibestos, Johns-Manville products, raw asbestos mud) and in peer-reviewed Tidewater, Virginia shipyard-worker epidemiology (mesothelioma excess among area shipyard workers; smoking-adjusted lung cancer RR 1.7 for pre-1950 yard employment). This is consistent with era-wide U.S. shipyard asbestos use but postdates this hull's 1918-1920 construction.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Limitations
- Yard-level and era inference only. The epidemiology documents later-period (WWII-era) yard exposure and multi-yard Tidewater scope; it cannot establish what materials were installed on DD-194 in 1918-1920 or aboard during any period. No hull-specific conclusion.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-hunt-dd194-08
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[10]CourtListener authenticated API v4 search responses via fleet helper cl-auth-search.py; Westberry v. American Steel & Wire Corp., 3:10-cv-01179 (M.D. Fla.), RECAP docket 14306111, ECF No. 2 [court_record]
- Locator
- Opinion searches count 0 both queries; docket searches sl-08 through sl-10; Westberry ECF No. 2 (16-page amended complaint)
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- Authenticated CourtListener API v4 sweep completed: exact-name opinion query "USS Hunt" returned count 0; hull-number opinion query "DD-194" returned count 0; hull-number docket query "DD-194" returned 11 hits, all name collisions in non-asbestos, non-vessel contexts (civil rights, copyright, contract, habeas dockets). Exact-name docket query "USS Hunt" returned 1 hit: Westberry v. American Steel & Wire Corp., No. 3:10-cv-01179 (M.D. Fla., filed 2010-12-23, terminated 2011-05-10), suitNature 368 P.I. Asbestos, in which the phrase 'USS Hunt' appears in the indexed amended-complaint text (ECF No. 2, originally filed in Duval County, Fla. state court). No qualifying asbestos litigation naming DD-194 was found.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Limitations
- The Westberry hit is a pleading-stage asbestos docket containing the bare phrase 'USS Hunt' with no hull number; its vessel role (exposure site vs. worksite list entry) is unverified from the index. Hull attribution to DD-194 is implausible: this hull left U.S. Navy service 8 October 1940, so a plaintiff's Navy service in a 2010-era complaint falls in the service window of the later USS Hunt (DD-674, Fletcher class, commissioned 1943). Classified as probable name collision / other-hull reference, not qualifying litigation for DD-194; the complaint text was not retrieved for confirmation. Opinion coverage is complete; docket coverage limited to indexed text.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-hunt-dd194-09
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[11]Negative result across reviewed repositories; see search_ledger sl-01 through sl-09 [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-01 through sl-09
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record was located for USS Hunt (DD-194): no hull survey, bill of materials, insulation specification, abatement contract, or exposure finding appears in the official sources and indexes searched (DANFS/NHHC, NARA Ship Plan Index, NARA asbestos guide, USCG historian lists, CourtListener opinion index). Asbestos presence aboard this hull remains unknown.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Limitations
- A bounded search result, not proof of absence. Era practice makes period asbestos insulation plausible for a 1918-1920 steam destroyer, but plausibility is not a ship-specific record. NARA plan holdings, any surviving DD-194 GIB, RN custody/condition documents, and UK 1948 shipbreaking records were not obtained.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-hunt-dd194-10