Evidence
7 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-7).
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[1]DANFS, Idaho II (Battleship No. 24) entry (rewritten Robert J. Cressman, 28 Sep 2007) - builder, dates, yard periods, Greek transfer and loss (Wayback capture of official page; live NHHC page 404) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS Idaho II entry, full text (Wayback capture 2014-01-10 of history.navy.mil/danfs/i1/idaho-ii.htm)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Official hull history: laid down 12 May 1904 at Philadelphia by William Cramp & Sons; launched 9 Dec 1905; commissioned Philadelphia Navy Yard, League Island, 1 Apr 1908. DANFS documents an unusually yard-intensive career - repair periods at Philadelphia Navy Yard Jul-Sep 1908, Oct 1908-Feb 1909, May-Jul 1909 (incl. drydocking), Oct 1909-Jan 1910, Apr-Jul 1910, Oct 1910, Apr-May 1911, Sep-Dec 1911, Dec 1911-Jan 1912, Feb-Aug 1912 (roughly six months of repairs after the starboard engine broke down at Guantanamo), Dec 1912, Apr 1913 - plus a Norfolk Navy Yard visit 14-17 Sep 1908 installing the new cage mainmast. Placed in Atlantic Reserve Fleet 27 Oct 1913; recommissioned 16 Mar 1914; sold to intermediary Fred J. Gauntlett 8 Jul 1914; formally transferred to the Royal Hellenic Navy 30 Jul 1914 at Villefranche and renamed Lemnos. Served in the Crimean expedition and off Constantinople/Smyrna (1919-22); 'ineffective' by early 1930s, harbor duty at Salamis; damaged by Luftflotte 4 Ju 87 dive bombers at Salamis 23 Apr 1941, beached; hulk scrapped after WWII.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-18
- Study period
- 1904-1941
- Population
- Cramp's construction trades 1904-08; Philadelphia NYd repair workers 1908-14; Norfolk NYd workers 1908; USN crew 1908-14; Royal Hellenic Navy crew 1914-41
- Limitations
- Ship-specific official history establishing construction, an exceptionally heavy Navy-yard repair record (all relevant to material-disturbance analysis), the foreign transfer, and the 1941 loss - but the entry contains no asbestos, insulation, or abatement content whatsoever.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-idaho-bb24-01
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[2]Naval Historical Center, Online Library, 'Mississippi Class (Battleships 23 & 24), 1904 Building Program' (ibiblio/HyperWar mirror of official page) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- NHHC Online Library ship-type page bb23cl.htm
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Official class page confirms both class members built at the William Cramp & Sons shipyard, Philadelphia; that Mississippi and Idaho were 'the only U.S. Navy battleships ever to be transferred to a foreign power' (sold to Greece July 1914); that both received cage mainmasts and then cage foremasts (1910) in the standard pre-dreadnought modernization pattern; and that they were 'the first American-built battleships to be lost to hostile air attack' (April 1941).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-18
- Study period
- 1904-1941
- Population
- n/a
- Limitations
- Class-level official page; statements apply to both hulls. No asbestos or insulation content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-idaho-bb24-02
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[3]DANFS 'US Battleships' index, BB-23/24 specification block (ibiblio transcription of official figures) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USN/ships/danfs/BB/index.html, BB-23-24 block
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Official-style specification block for BB-23/24: builder Wm. Cramp and Sons, Philadelphia; keel 5/12/04, commissioned 4/1/08 (BB-24, Capt. S. W. B. Diehl); designed complement Off.: 94, Enl.: 710; engines by Cramp, vertical 3-expansion reciprocating; 8 Babcock & Wilcox boilers; 10,000 ihp; coal 1,800t; 17 knots.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-18
- Study period
- 1908
- Population
- Crew (~804 designed)
- Limitations
- Designed figures from the DANFS compilation index; operational complements varied - the DANFS spec block gives 836 and secondary sources give 744 (discrepancy in gaps). No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-idaho-bb24-03
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[4]U.S. Navy, Bureau of Ships Technical Manual, NAVSHIPS 250-000, Chapter 39 'Thermal Insulation' (1960, page date 15 April 1959) [other_primary]
- Locator
- BuShips TM ch.39, sections 39-11 through 39-13
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- The BuShips Technical Manual insulation chapter enumerates the asbestos material suite standard to Navy steam plants of this ship's era family: 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) lagging; asbestos millboard HH-M-351; asbestos finishing cement; molded asbestos block. The same magnesia/asbestos insulation family was era-standard at this hull's 1904-08 construction, and the documented 1908-14 Philadelphia Navy Yard repair periods - including roughly six months of engine repairs in 1912 - are disturbance events in which such insulation would have been worked.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-18
- Study period
- 1960 (manual); describes specifications representative of 1904-14 work
- Population
- n/a
- Limitations
- Specification-level documentation of era-standard materials; the manual postdates this hull's U.S. service by decades but describes the insulation family in continuous Navy use from the magnesia era forward. Does not name this hull, does not quantify material aboard, and does not establish what was installed, disturbed, or retained on this ship. Retrieved PDF is a scan hosted in the Garlock bankruptcy Daubert-appendix repository.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-idaho-bb24-04
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[5]Batch-108 search ledger (this record): NHHC/DANFS entries (Wayback + ibiblio index); NHHC Online Library class page; Navypedia class page; NavSource photo index; CourtListener API + site-index sweeps; NARA catalog identifier check; NVR check [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-idaho-bb24-01 through -13
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no insulation survey, abatement contract, museum hazmat disclosure, or docketed asbestos case naming BB-24 (or Greek Lemnos) was found in the public sources searched. 'USS Idaho' collides with BB-42 (the hull asbestos-marketing pages mean), SSN-799 (commissioned 2026), and a States Steamship merchant vessel 'USS IDAHO' named in Broussard v. Huntington Ingalls (E.D. La.) - every hit reviewed was a name collision or non-qualifying. CourtListener was blocked on 2026-09-18, but an authenticated API re-sweep on 2026-09-20 (search_ledger sl-12/-13) covered opinions, RECAP dockets, and RECAP full text and confirmed the negative: zero qualifying hits, both literal 'USS Idaho' documents verified as collisions (merchant vessel; game product).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-18
- Study period
- 2026-09-18
- Limitations
- Absence of a located public record does not prove absence of asbestos aboard - 1904-08 construction plus the heavy 1908-14 yard repair record is consistent with era-standard asbestos materials. Litigation negative now rests on an authenticated CourtListener sweep (2026-09-20) across opinion and docket/full-text indexes; residual caveat: RECAP coverage of pre-PACER-era dockets is incomplete, so ancient unindexed filings cannot be excluded.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-idaho-bb24-05
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[6]GlobalSecurity BB-23 Mississippi class unit page + hazegray.org legacy DANFS transcription (bb24.htm) - both carrying the swapped Greek-name error [other_primary]
- Locator
- globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ship/bb-23-unit.htm; hazegray.org/danfs/battlesh/bb24.htm (unreachable from this machine, content via search snippet); navsource.net/archives/01/24.htm
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Legacy secondary sources swap the sisters' Greek names: globalsecurity's BB-23 class page states BB-24 Idaho 'served as coastal defense ship KILKIS' and assigns LEMNOS to BB-23 - the reverse of the correct mapping - and the older (pre-Cressman) hazegray DANFS transcription repeats 'Kilkis' for Idaho. The Cressman-rewritten DANFS entry, Navypedia (BB-24 = Limnos), and Wikipedia concur Idaho (BB-24) became Lemnos and Mississippi (BB-23) became Kilkis. Separately, NavSource dates the sinking '10 April 1941'; DANFS, ww2db, and Wikipedia concur on 23 April 1941 - the DANFS date is carried.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- correction
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-18
- Study period
- 2026-09-18
- Limitations
- Correction based on concordance of the authoritative rewritten DANFS entry plus multiple secondary sources; globalsecurity/hazegray citations are themselves the error carriers, used here only to document the discrepancy.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-idaho-bb24-06
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[7]NARA Record Group 19 (Bureau of Construction and Repair) / RG 181 (naval shipyard records) - known holdings, not yet searched; NARA Identifier 78116592 (plans for Idaho BB-24, per NavSource attribution) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NARA catalog id 78116592; RG 19 / RG 181 (not yet searched)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Archival leads: NARA Identifier 78116592 resolves at catalog.archives.gov as plans for Idaho (BB-24) per NavSource attribution; BuC&R specification books for Battleship No. 24 (RG 19) would itemize era insulation requirements, and Philadelphia Navy Yard repair records (RG 181) for the documented 1908-14 yard periods - including the 1912 six-month engine repair - are the likeliest hull-level work records. Undigitized; not consulted for this pass.
- Verification
- unverified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-18
- Study period
- n/a
- Limitations
- Holding attribution via NavSource (secondary); the NARA catalog ID resolves but is JS-rendered and its contents were not verified beyond existence. Specific RG 19/RG 181 series and box numbers not identified.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-idaho-bb24-07