Evidence
7 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-7).
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[1]research packet ig-packet.md (1 sources cited) [nhhc_danfs]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERIFIED
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-huse-de145-pkt-ig-packet-md
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[2]DANFS, Huse (DE-145) (specifications block, namesake note, and full service narrative; verbatim text via Wayback capture 2025-01-20 - live NHHC page serves 404; mirror at losthistory.net/hazegray) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS entry 'Huse (DE-145)', specifications block + service narrative
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS record for this hull: launched by Consolidated Steel Corp., Orange, Tex. 23 March 1943; sponsored by Mrs. L. M. Humrichouse, daughter of Vice Admiral Huse; commissioned 30 August 1943, Lt. Comdr. W. A. Sessions in command. Atlantic convoy escort (Casablanca; Africa Nov 1943-Feb 1944), ASW patrol off Gibraltar with Royal Navy units, then escort carrier Croatan's hunter-killer group: U-856 destroyed by gunfire with USS Champlin 7 April 1944; U-488 sunk 26 April 1944; U-490 finished off by gunfire just after midnight 12 June 1944. Repairs/training at Brooklyn (11 May-3 June 1944; from 2 October 1944); rejoined Croatan 25 March 1945 (two of her sister ships scored a kill on U-880 16 April 1945); operated out of Argentia to 14 May 1945. Pacific transit July-August 1945 (Panama Canal; San Diego 7 Aug; en route Pearl Harbor when Japan capitulated 15 Aug); returned to Norfolk 28 September 1945; arrived Green Cove Springs 19 January 1946; decommissioned 27 March 1946; Atlantic Reserve Fleet. Recommissioned 3 August 1951; sonar-training ship Key West from 15 January 1952; Labrador cold-weather operation May 1952; Newport-based ASW training; NROTC northern-Europe cruise summer 1955; Vanguard test/nose-cone recovery ops off Puerto Rico May 1957; NATO exercises northern Europe Sep-Oct 1957; Key West sonar ops 1958-1959. Naval Reserve Training program March 1960; New Orleans home port 6 July 1960; Cuban Missile Crisis quarantine support October 1962; Gulf/Caribbean reserve training through 1965; decommissioned June 1965 into Atlantic Reserve Fleet at Norfolk. Five battle stars for WWII. Spec block: dp. 1,200; l. 306'; b. 36'7"; dr. 8'7"; s. 21 k.; cpl. 186; cl. Edsall.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1943-1965
- Population
- Consolidated Steel Corp. construction trades (Orange, TX, 1943); wartime and postwar crew (design complement 186 per DANFS)
- Limitations
- DANFS documents service history and specifications, not materials or asbestos content. The entry predates disposal (ends 'at Norfolk, Va., where she remains') and does not state the laid-down date, the day-level final decommissioning date, the striking date, or the sale record - those come from NavSource/NHHC photo page (ev-02, ev-03). Live NHHC page returns 404 as of 2026-09-28; verbatim transcription cited via Wayback capture of 2025-01-20.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-huse-de145-01
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[3]Naval Historical Center (NHHC), Online Library of Selected Images, 'USS Huse (DE-145), 1943-1974' ship page (ibiblio/HyperWar transcription of the official NHHC page) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- NHHC Online Library page 'USN Ships--USS Huse (DE-145)', narrative paragraphs
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NHHC ship page for this hull: 1200-ton Edsall-class escort built at Orange, Texas; commissioned late August 1943; WWII Atlantic convoy escort and ASW with Croatan's hunter-killer group (helped sink U-856 and U-488 in April 1944 and U-490 in June); Pacific transit August 1945; decommissioned at Green Cove Springs, Florida, March 1946; recommissioned August 1951 for Atlantic/Caribbean ASW operational and training service; 1955 northern-Europe training cruise and 1957 NATO exercises; Naval Reserve Training ship March 1960 mainly at New Orleans; October 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis quarantine operations; decommissioned for the last time June 1965; Atlantic Reserve Fleet until stricken from the Naval Vessel Register in August 1973; sold for scrapping in June 1974. Named for Vice Admiral Harry McL. P. Huse (1858-1942).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1943-1974
- Population
- Crew 1943-1965
- Limitations
- NHHC summary gives month-level dates only; it corroborates NavSource's day-level specifics (stricken 1 Aug 1973; sold 24 June 1974) at month level. Contains no materials or asbestos information.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-huse-de145-02
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[4]NavSource Online, Destroyer Escort Photo Archive, DE-145 USS Huse - Building and Operational Data (compiled from DoD bid lists, Navy press releases, NVR extracts; primary-document images hosted on-page) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource DE-145 page, 'Building and Operational Data' block + photo caption 0614507 (11 June 1974 DoD bid list)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Day-level build/disposal detail for this hull not present in DANFS: keel laid 11 January 1943 at Consolidated Steel Corp., Orange, Tex.; decommissioned 30 June 1965 at the South Gate Annex, Norfolk Naval Shipyard, Portsmouth, Va. after 13 years 10 months service; struck from the NVR 1 August 1973; sold for scrapping 24 June 1974 to Aardvark International Corp., Chester, Pa., for $55,916.00; the Department of Defense bid list for scrapping DEs 145 and 152 (Huse and Peterson) is dated 11 June 1974 (uboat.net's 'sold 11 June 1974' reflects the bid-list date).
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1943-1974
- Population
- Construction trades (1943); crew; Norfolk Naval Shipyard decommissioning crew (1965); scrapping-yard workers (Chester, PA, 1974)
- Limitations
- NavSource is a volunteer-compiled archive, not an official repository; its timeline transcribes primary sources (NVR extracts, DoD bid list, 8th Naval District press release - images hosted on the page) but those scans were not independently verified. NHHC corroborates the month-level facts (stricken Aug 1973, sold June 1974). No materials or asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-huse-de145-03
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[5]Fleischer WE, Viles FJ Jr, Gade RL, Drinker P. 'A health survey of pipe covering operations in constructing naval vessels.' J Ind Hyg Toxicol. 1946 Jan;28:9-16. PMID 21016030 [other_primary]
- Locator
- J Ind Hyg Toxicol 28:9-16 (1946), PubMed PMID 21016030 (survey design, materials, and results)
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Era documentation (1946 USPHS/Harvard survey, PubMed-indexed): amosite asbestos was a standard ingredient of pipe covering used on U.S. Navy vessels, with asbestos cloth and asbestos cement also in naval use; chest X-rays of 1,074 pipe coverers at two government Navy yards and two Navy contract yards found 3 asbestosis cases, all in men with more than 20 years of pipe-covering exposure. Establishes that asbestos thermal insulation and allied products were standard Navy construction materials during this hull's 1943 build era and documents construction-trade exposure conditions at Navy yards and contract yards like Consolidated Steel's.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- WWII-era construction; survey published 1946
- Population
- WWII naval-vessel construction pipe coverers at two Navy yards and two contract yards (1,074 X-rayed)
- Limitations
- Class/era evidence only - the study does not name DE-145 or Consolidated Steel, Orange (yards are anonymized A-D); it documents construction-trade exposure and Navy-standard materials, not installation aboard any specific hull. As a diesel-electric escort this ship carried no boilers or steam propulsion, so the thermal pipe-covering scope aboard would have been narrower than on steam combatants. Does not establish presence, quantity, or condition of asbestos aboard DE-145.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-huse-de145-04
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[6]CourtListener API v4 litigation sweep, 2026-09-28: "USS Huse" (type=o, type=r) and "DE-145" (type=o, type=r) [court_record]
- Locator
- CourtListener API v4 search, q='"USS Huse"' type=o/r (0/0); q='"DE-145"' type=o (34) and type=r (798) - all docket-entry collisions
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- Litigation sweep: "USS Huse" returned zero opinions and zero dockets. "DE-145" returned 34 opinions and 798 dockets, all matching 'DE 145' as a docket-entry citation (e.g., '(DE 145)' = docket entry 145 in unrelated federal orders) rather than the vessel - sampled snippets confirm the collision class (e.g., Salgado v. City of West Miami, S.D. Fla., order taxing costs 'DE 145'; Lima v. MH & WH, E.D.N.C., motions 'DE 137, 142'). No qualifying asbestos litigation, and no litigation of any kind naming this hull, was located. DE-145 was the only U.S. Navy vessel named Huse (DANFS), so had any exact-name hit existed it would be unambiguous.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 2026-09-28
- Limitations
- Negative finding bounded by index coverage: CourtListener's holdings for older district asbestos dockets and unindexed state filings are incomplete, so absence here does not prove no suit was ever filed. The 'DE-145' queries cannot exclude docket-entry collisions by phrase alone; classification rests on snippet review of the result set.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-huse-de145-05
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[7]Batch-4055 search ledger (this record): NHHC DANFS + NHHC Online Library page; NavSource DE-145 archive; Naval Vessel Register ship-details lookup; MARAD Vessel History Database; VA BVA full-text search; CourtListener API v4 ship-name and hull-number sweep; PubMed era documentation [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-huse-de145-01 through sl-uss-huse-de145-08
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, abatement contract, museum hazmat disclosure, material specification, VA BVA decision, or docketed case naming DE-145 was found in the public sources searched (see search_ledger). The hull was sold for scrapping in June 1974, so no present-day survey is possible.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 2026-09-28
- Limitations
- Absence of a located public record does not prove asbestos absent aboard - the 1943 Navy construction era makes some asbestos use plausible, and diesel-electric propulsion narrows but does not eliminate likely applications. This record asserts neither presence nor absence aboard the hull and speaks to no claim of individual exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-huse-de145-06