Evidence
8 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-8).
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[1]research packet gi-packet.md (1 sources cited) [nhhc_danfs]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERIFIED (name, hull, class, namesake all confirmed on DANFS primary)
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-hyman-dd732-pkt-gi-packet-md
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[2]DANFS, Hyman (DD-732), NHHC (builder, dates, namesake biography, WWII/Korea/Cold War service narrative through 1967; live page serves 404 - Wayback capture 2023-05-08 and HazeGray/losthistory verbatim transcriptions used) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS entry, specifications block + namesake biography + full service narrative (live page 404; Wayback capture https://web.archive.org/web/20230508165743/https://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/h/hyman.html; transcription cross-check https://losthistory.net/hazegray/danfs/destroy/dd732txt.htm)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS record for this hull: Allen M. Sumner-class destroyer laid down 22 November 1943 by Bath Iron Works Corp., Bath, Maine; launched 8 April 1944; commissioned 16 June 1944. Namesake Lt. Comdr. Willford Milton Hyman, USN (USNA 1924), commanding officer of USS Sims (DD-409), lost with his ship at the Coral Sea 7 May 1942, posthumous Navy Cross. Shakedown off Bermuda and Casco Bay; sailed Boston 18 September 1944 via Canal Zone and San Diego to Pearl Harbor (12 October). Iwo Jima: sailed 27 January 1945 with the expeditionary force; fire-support off the landing beaches from 19 February; antisubmarine sweep 23 February; fought off air attack 24 February; to Leyte Gulf 2 March. Okinawa: Southern Attack Force from 27 March, arrived 1 April; attacked by kamikazes west of Ie Shima 6 April - a damaged aircraft crashed near her torpedo tubes, its engine exploding on the main deck; 10 killed, over 40 wounded; emergency repairs at Kerama Retto 7 April; one engine to San Francisco, arrived 16 May 1945; ready for sea late July. At Pearl Harbor on surrender day 15 August 1945; received surrenders at Kusaie 8 September and Ponape 11 September (Capt. Momm, division commander, military governor of Ponape); station ship to December. Casco Bay 16 April 1946; Caribbean ASW training; Mediterranean deployments 1947 (Feb-Aug), 1948-49 (U.N. Palestine support), 1951, 1953, 1957-58, 1960, 1962, 1964-65 (11th). Naval Reserve training out of Algiers, La., 1949-50. Korea: departed Newport 2 October 1951; Wonsan bombardment 6-19 November; plane guard for Australian carrier Sydney; gunnery duel with Kalmo Pando batteries 24 November (minor shrapnel damage); TF-77 Sea of Japan interdiction; round-the-world return to Newport 21 April 1952. Project Mercury station ship west of the Azores April 1961; Cuban quarantine November 1962; Costa Rica March 1963 for the Kennedy visit; Mercury recovery group for Maj. L. Gordon Cooper's flight May 1963; Cuban surveillance 1964; Boston Naval Shipyard April 1964; Naval Reserve training assignment from March 1965; damaged by Hurricane Betsy mid-September 1965, then located the sunken chlorine barge in the Mississippi River near Baton Rouge 17 September; hull repairs at Orange, Texas; Naval Reserve training into 1967.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1943-1967
- Population
- Bath Iron Works construction trades 1943-44; wartime and postwar crew (design complement 336); Naval Reserve trainees 1965-69
- Limitations
- DANFS documents service history and specifications, not materials or asbestos content. Entry predates the ship's 1969 decommissioning and 1970 disposal; disposition comes from secondary compilations (ev-02). Mirror transcriptions carry OCR year errors (1945 rendered 1946, 1965 rendered 1967-era artifacts); the NHHC Wayback text was used for dates. Repair yards for the 1945 San Francisco availability, the October 1962 repair period, and the 1965 Orange, Texas hull repairs are not named in the entry.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-hyman-dd732-01
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[3]NavSource Naval History, USS Hyman DD-732 page (post-DANFS disposition, CO roster, call signs) + Tin Can Sailors destroyer history (destroyers.org, The Tin Can Sailor October 2002) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource DD-732 page operational/building data + commanding officers block; destroyers.org/ships/dd-732 history and disposition lines
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Post-DANFS disposition (two agreeing secondary compilations): Naval Reserve training ship operating out of New Orleans from 1965; decommissioned and stricken 14 November 1969; sold 13 October 1970 to Southern Scrap Material Co., New Orleans (Tin Can Sailors records the price as $66,989.00) and broken up for scrap. NavSource additionally records: flag hoist/radio call sign NHWC; commanding officers through CDR Samuel C. Gamache (13 July 1968 - 14 November 1969).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1965-1971
- Population
- Crew and Naval Reserve trainees to 14 November 1969; scrapping-yard workers 1970-71 undocumented
- Limitations
- Secondary-compilation data (NavSource corroborated by Tin Can Sailors / National Association of Destroyer Veterans), not a primary register record; the Naval Vessel Register does not cover this pre-1987 disposal. Stricken-day conflict (14 vs 16 November) is carried in gaps. No disposal hazmat, scrapping asbestos-handling, or material-condition documentation located for the 1970 sale and breakup.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-hyman-dd732-02
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[4]Dammers & Van Der Heide Shipping & Trading (Antilles) Inc. v. Steamship Joseph Lykes, 300 F. Supp. 358 (E.D. La. 1969), CourtListener opinion 8788938; affirmed sub nom. Petition of United States, 425 F.2d 991 (5th Cir. 1970) [court_record]
- Locator
- Opinion findings of fact 18-19 (300 F. Supp. at 362-363)
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- Published federal admiralty opinion names this hull in findings of fact: consolidated actions arose from Hurricane Betsy striking the port of New Orleans the night of 9-10 September 1965; 'USS HYMAN' was moored at the Naval Base (finding 18, barges 'moored upriver from the USS HYMAN and the USNS KELLER') and the drifting WINGED ARROW 'struck a moored submarine astern of the HYMAN, thereafter colliding with both the HYMAN and the KELLER' (finding 19). The only court record located naming this hull; NOT asbestos litigation - admiralty collision/exoneration matters. Independently corroborates the DANFS statement that Hyman was 'damaged by the same hurricane' and the subsequent Orange, Texas hull-repair period.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1965 (event); 1969-1970 (litigation)
- Population
- Crew aboard during the September 1965 hurricane period (Naval Reserve training crew, New Orleans)
- Limitations
- Admiralty litigation over vessel breakaways and collisions during Hurricane Betsy - no asbestos claim, exposure allegation, or materials finding; the hull appears as a struck moored vessel, not as a party or exposure site. Trial-level findings affirmed on appeal (425 F.2d 991) on Act-of-God/fault grounds. Documents hurricane collision damage aboard this hull, nothing about asbestos.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-hyman-dd732-03
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[5]NHHC Photo NH 107139, USS Hyman (DD-732) underway early/mid-1950s (official U.S. Navy photograph caption) + DANFS specifications block + Atlas shipyard dataset, Bath Iron Works record (1942-era Drinker pipe-covering shop dust study; 1987 OSHA asbestos citations) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NHHC photo-data page NH 107139 (caption); DANFS specifications block; shipyards.json record 'bath-iron-works'
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Era/yard inference: a Sumner-class destroyer built 1943-44 at Bath Iron Works with a four-boiler steam plant would have carried period-standard asbestos insulation, lagging, gaskets, packing, and fireproofing; builder Bath Iron Works is documented at yard level in the Atlas dataset (tier 2), including a 1942-era Harvard industrial-hygiene study of pipe-covering shop dust risk (PMID 21016030) and 1987 OSHA asbestos citations. NHHC's photo caption documents the ship's circa-early-1950s configuration (40mm/20mm battery retained) persisting into the mid-1950s; no FRAM or other major modernization is documented for this hull. Documented insulation-disturbance windows: May-July 1945 San Francisco battle-damage repair; October 1962 repair period; April 1964 Boston Naval Shipyard availability; October 1965 Orange, Texas hull repairs.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1943-1971
- Population
- Bath Iron Works construction trades 1943-44; repair-yard workers 1945, 1962, 1964-65; crew 1944-69
- Limitations
- Class/era and builder-yard inference only - no ship-specific asbestos finding exists for this hull; this row adds context, not an independent ship-specific finding. The NHHC caption is a configuration observation, not a materials record; absence of a documented FRAM modernization does not prove era insulation was undisturbed (four repair availabilities are documented). NARA RG19 'General Information Books' per-vessel material specifications are an unretrieved archival lead.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-hyman-dd732-04
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[6]GAO, Navy Efforts To Protect Workers From Asbestos Exposure, HRD-80-2 (Oct 18, 1979) [gao]
- Locator
- GAO product page HRD-80-2 (product description)
- Finding type
- gov_survey
- Finding
- GAO documented the Navy's extensive shipboard asbestos insulation use with substitution not beginning until the early 1970s - this hull (built 1943-44, in service to November 1969, scrapped from October 1970) falls entirely inside the documented asbestos-use era.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1979
- Population
- Navy shipyard workers (program level)
- Limitations
- Program-level era context only; does not name this hull or any vessel. Full text not retrieved (gao.gov returns HTTP 403 to automated fetches); content via product-page description. Fieldwork yards were elsewhere - noted as context, not hull evidence.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-hyman-dd732-05
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[7]CourtListener API v4 sweep: "USS Hyman" opinions (1 hit, non-asbestos) and RECAP dockets (0); "DD-732" opinions (0) and dockets (1, name collision); "Hyman" asbestos opinions (159 hits, all name collisions) - see search_ledger [court_record]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-hyman-dd732-02 through sl-uss-hyman-dd732-05, sl-uss-hyman-dd732-07
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- No qualifying asbestos litigation naming this hull was located in the CourtListener sweep: "USS Hyman" returned one published opinion (Dammers v. Steamship Joseph Lykes, E.D. La. 1969 - admiralty, Hurricane Betsy collisions; classified other-litigation, ev-03) and zero RECAP dockets; "DD-732" returned zero opinions and one docket (In re Lyondell Chemical Company, Bankr. S.D.N.Y. 09-10023 - the 'DD-732' string matched an address/code fragment in a 914-page service affidavit; NAME COLLISION, unrelated to the vessel); "Hyman" + asbestos returned 159 opinion hits, all plaintiff/party-name collisions (Hyman v. United States, Hyman Stone, George Hyman Construction, et al.) with no reference to the vessel. A Board of Veterans' Appeals text sweep (va.gov vetapp corpus, web-indexed) returned no decision naming this hull. No docketed asbestos case naming DD-732 or USS Hyman was found.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 2026-09-27
- Limitations
- Absence of a located litigation record does not prove no asbestos claim has ever named this hull - CourtListener coverage is incomplete for state courts, and RECAP docket full-text is uneven. Queries run through the fleet-paced authenticated helper; the '"aboard the Hyman"' phrasing variant was deferred when the shared pacing budget was exhausted mid-session - logged in the search ledger, not silently dropped.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-hyman-dd732-06
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[8]Batch-3705 search ledger (this record): NARA RG 24 deck logs for USS Hyman (1944-1969); BuShips RG 19 'General Information Books' hull-level material specifications; NHHC ship command-operation reports index; NARA digitized-log catalog [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-hyman-dd732-08 through sl-uss-hyman-dd732-10
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Unretrieved archival leads for hull-level material/exposure data: NARA RG 24 deck logs for USS Hyman (1944-1969; digitized availability not confirmed - catalog probe returned no digitized Hyman deck-log items); BuShips RG 19 'General Information Books' per-vessel material specifications are a known archival lead for hull-level specs; no NHHC command-operation report index entry for Hyman (DD-732) was located for the 1965-69 Naval Reserve training period.
- Verification
- unverified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1944-1969 (records); 2026-09-27 (search)
- Limitations
- Leads only - none of these records was retrieved or reviewed in this session; their existence is inferred from the record groups' known scope. Deck-log digitization status for this hull is unverified.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-hyman-dd732-07