Evidence
8 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-8).
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[1]DANFS, Jaccard (DE-355) - Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, Naval History Division (verbatim HyperWar/ibiblio transcription; live NHHC page https://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/j/jaccard.html returns 404; Wayback capture 2024-05-24 verified same text) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS entry, specification block + service narrative (DE-355)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS record for this hull. Specification block: DE-355 - 1,350 tons; 306' length; 36'8" beam; 9'5" draft; 24 knots; complement 186; armament 2x5", 4x40mm, 10x20mm, 2 depth-charge tracks, 8 depth-charge projectors, 1 hedgehog; class John C. Butler. Namesake: Ensign Richard Alonzo Jaccard (b. 1 Jul 1918, Troy, Mo.; Naval Reserve 29 Oct 1940; commissioned Ensign 27 Sep 1941; Scouting Squadron 6 aboard Enterprise CV-6; Navy Cross for Midway attacks on Akagi, Kaga, Hiryu; killed 15 Sep 1942 aboard Wasp CV-7). Hull: launched by Consolidated Steel Corp., Ltd., Orange, Tex., 18 March 1944, sponsored by Mrs. C. R. Jaccard; commissioned 26 July 1944, Lt. Comdr. C. R. Hamilton in command. Service: shakedown Bermuda; Boston for electronic-equipment installation; Norfolk escort division; departed 21 October, Panama Canal, Hollandia 28 November 1944; Leyte 21 December, first air attack; eleven convoys escorted between Hollandia, Manus, Palaus, and Leyte; hunter-killer group west of the Philippines from 18 March 1945; submarine escort Subic Bay; Manila waters from 22 June; Manila-Okinawa escort from 30 August 1945; Philippines-China-Korea escort/mail duty early 1946; sailed for the U.S. 26 April 1946, arrived 16 June; decommissioned Puget Sound Navy Yard 30 September 1946; Pacific Reserve Fleet, Bremerton. One battle star for World War II.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1944-1946
- Population
- Consolidated Steel construction trades 1944; wartime crew (design complement 186)
- Limitations
- DANFS documents identity, namesake, construction, and service history - not materials or asbestos content. DANFS does not state the keel-laying date (carried from secondary compilations) and the entry predates the ship's striking and disposal (ends 'where she remains' at Bremerton). Mirror transcription cited because the live NHHC page returns 404; identical text verified in the 2024-05-24 Wayback capture of the NHHC page.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-jaccard-de355-01
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[2]Ship's official war history: letter, Commanding Officer USS Jaccard (DE-355) to Secretary of the Navy, serial 025, dated 29 September 1945, forwarding 'History of the U.S.S. JACCARD (DE 355)' enclosure per ALPAC 202, signed E. L. Patton (NavSource-hosted scan of the ship-submitted document) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource DE-355 page, 'Jaccard History' link, images/355/06355wh.jpg (cover letter + 2-page narrative, serial 025, 29 Sep 1945)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- The ship's own war's-end history submission for this hull records: commissioned Orange, Texas, 26 July 1944 under Lt. Comdr. C. R. Hamilton; departed Galveston 13 August 1944 for Bermuda shakedown under Task Group 23.1; post-shakedown availability at Navy Yard, Boston, 13-29 September 1944 (high-frequency direction finder and JSN-52 fire-control director installed); Escort Division 82 constituted at Norfolk with Doyle C. Barnes (DE-353, flag), Kenneth M. Willett (DE-354), Jaccard, Lloyd E. Acree (DE-356), McGinty (DE-365), and Mack (DE-358); departed Norfolk 21 October, reported to the Pacific Fleet 26 October 1944; convoy escort Hollandia-Leyte beginning 13 December 1944, under air attack while anchored in San Pedro Bay; eleven convoys escorted 13 December 1944-18 March 1945 between Hollandia, Manus, Leyte, Palau, and Mindoro, all arriving without loss; Task Group 70.7 hunter-killer operations off the west coast of the Philippines from 18 March 1945 with Seventh Fleet submarine escort out of Subic Bay; Philippine Sea Frontier material inspection 5 June 1945; San Fernando/Aparri picket and patrol duty under Task Group 75.7 from 22 June; detached to Manila 27 July; Manila-Okinawa convoy 30 August-5 September 1945; Lt. Comdr. E. L. Patton relieved Lt. Comdr. C. R. Hamilton as commanding officer 22 August 1945.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1944-1945
- Population
- Wartime crew, July 1944 - September 1945
- Limitations
- Primary document (ship-submitted history per wartime reporting directive) hosted as a scan on NavSource, a secondary site - the document itself is authoritative for events as the ship reported them; the scan is faint in places and a few figures and port names are only partially legible. The archival original (NARA/NHHC) was not retrieved this session.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-jaccard-de355-02
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[3]NavSource DE-355 building/operational data block and photo captions (NHHC photos NH 66357, NH 66358 via the Ted Stone Collection, Mariners Museum); corroborated by shipbuildinghistory.com Consolidated-Orange yard table (Colton compilation) and Wikipedia [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource DE-355 page building/operational data block; shipbuildinghistory.com/shipyards/emergencylarge/consolidatedorange.htm row DE-355
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Construction and disposition chronology for this hull: keel laid 25 January 1944 by Consolidated Steel Corp., Ltd., Orange, Tex. (contract date 7 August 1942 per the shipbuildinghistory yard table; 53 days on ways, 130 days in water, 183 days total); launched and christened 18 March 1944, sponsored by Mrs. C. R. Jaccard; commissioned 26 July 1944, Lcdr. C. R. Hamilton in command; decommissioned at Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton, 30 September 1946 after 2 years 2 months of service; struck from the Naval Vessel Register 1 November 1967; sunk as a target 4 October 1968. NavSource roster gives complement 14 officers / 201 enlisted; camouflage Measures 31/32 Designs 14D and 3D documented from NHHC-credited photographs at Boston September 1944 (NARA photo BS 73395 per usndazzle.com credit line).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1942-1968
- Population
- Construction trades, Consolidated Steel Orange, 1944; crew 1944-46
- Limitations
- Keel, stricken, and sinking dates derive from secondary compilations (NavSource, shipbuildinghistory.com, Wikipedia - concordant on the three dates; shipbuildinghistory's disposition cell reads 'Scrapped 1968' vs. NavSource/Wikipedia 'sunk as a target' - characterization conflict carried in gaps). DANFS omits the keel date and predates disposal; the Naval Vessel Register site does not cover pre-1987 disposals, so no NVR page exists. Volunteer/secondary compilations cited as the best located source, not official records.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-jaccard-de355-03
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[4]Bureau of Ships, Ships' Data, U.S. Naval Vessels, Vol. 1 (Jan 1945), DE design-group table row 6 (shipscribe.com scan); navypedia WGT-class boiler-block map (per Atlas class profile john-c-butler-class) [other_primary]
- Locator
- BuShips SDB 1945 v1 DE table group-6 row; john-c-butler-class.class.json member row DE-355 and class evidence ev-04/-05
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Era/design inference: DE-355 is a BuShips design-group-6 (WGT) destroyer escort - 2 'D' express boilers (435 psi / 750 F superheated; Combustion Engineering for the DE-339-372 block per the navypedia boiler map in the class profile), 2 Westinghouse geared steam turbines, 12,000 shp, 2 shafts, 24 kt, built 1944 at Consolidated Steel, Orange. Peak-era steam-plant construction implies period-standard asbestos applications: boiler and machinery insulation, steam-line lagging, gaskets, packing, fireproofing, and deck coverings; the class profile's Jack exhibit-list materials document the litigation theory that evaporator/distiller insulation on DEs was Navy-specified in this era.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1944-1968
- Population
- Construction trades (Consolidated Orange); crew 1944-46
- Limitations
- Class/era inference only - no hull-specific material schedule, survey, or contract document was located for DE-355. The boiler-builder block map (Combustion Engineering vs. Babcock & Wilcox by hull range) is compilation-level. This row adds context, not a ship-specific finding; it establishes no quantities and no exposure for any individual.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-jaccard-de355-04
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[5]Jack v. Borg-Warner Morse Tec LLC, W.D. Wash. No. 2:17-cv-00537 - pretrial/exhibit-list materials, ECF 738 att. 1 (identifies the era controlling Navy insulation-spec suite) [court_record]
- Locator
- CourtListener docket 6100500, ECF 738 attachment 1 (exhibit list) - per Atlas class profile john-c-butler-class ev-04
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Litigation materials in a case naming sister hull USS Brannon (DE-446, same class and same Consolidated/boiler block) identify the controlling Navy insulation-document suite for this era and class: 'Bureau of Ships Manual, Chapter 39, Thermal Insulation, NAVSHIPS 250000(39)' dated 24 August 1945; Navy Department Specification 32F3a 'Felt, Insulating, Asbestos' dated 15 October 1945; and BuEng Manual ch. 13 references - documents under which era DE insulation was specified and against which any hull-level material question for DE-355 would be checked.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1945 (specs); 2017-2021 (litigation)
- Population
- n/a (context row)
- Limitations
- Context/archival lead only: the Jack case concerns DE-446, not DE-355, and its materials are pretrial/exhibit-list level - allegation, not adjudicated fact. The spec documents themselves were not retrieved this session; the row records where hull-level asbestos specifications would be found.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-jaccard-de355-05
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[6]This record's search ledger (sl-uss-jaccard-de355-01 through -11) [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-jaccard-de355-01 through -11
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located for DE-355: no hull ACM survey, no abatement or hazmat disclosure (the hull was expended as a target in 1968, before modern survey practice), no museum record, and no CourtListener opinion naming 'USS Jaccard' or 'DE-355' as an exposure site located in the executed queries.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 2026-09-28
- Population
- n/a
- Limitations
- Absence of located record does not prove absence - era inference (ev-04) still applies. The hull's short active life (1944-1946) and sinking in 1968 mean no post-service survey or museum-era disclosure can exist; the negative finding covers only the repositories in the search ledger.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-jaccard-de355-06
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[7]CourtListener API v4 search - opinion index (type=o) and RECAP dockets (type=r), authenticated via fleet helper cl-auth-search.py [court_record]
- Locator
- CourtListener API v4 type=o queries 2026-09-28 via cl-auth-search.py (authenticated); type=r queries queued
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- CourtListener sweep for this hull: '"USS Jaccard"' in the opinion index (type=o) returned 0 results; '"Jaccard"' (unqualified) returned 186 opinion hits, all name collisions - the Mermod-Jaccard / Merwood, Jaccard & King / E. Jaccard Jewelry Co. commercial litigations and person-name cases (e.g., Jaccard v. Commonwealth, Va. 2004) - none referencing the vessel or asbestos; '"DE-355"' (type=o) returned 10 hits, all string collisions (docket-entry abbreviations such as 'DE 384'/'DE-176' and Spanish-language 'de' fragments) - none referencing the hull. RECAP-docket (type=r) queries for the name and hull number were pending against the fleet pacing budget at drafting time - see search_ledger for executed-vs-pending status.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 2026-09-28
- Population
- n/a
- Limitations
- PARTIAL SWEEP at drafting time: the fleet-wide request budget was spent mid-session; RECAP-docket queries are logged pending in the search ledger. Opinion-index results are a finding about indexed public dockets, not proof that no claims exist; dockets naming the hull without an indexed opinion would not have been reached by the opinion-index queries alone.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-jaccard-de355-07
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[8]NARA record groups for DE-355: RG 19 (BuShips contract specifications / General Information Books), RG 24 (deck logs 1944-46), the archival original of the 29 September 1945 war-history letter (serial 025), BuShips photo series (incl. BS 73395), and NHHC photo holdings NH 66357/66358 [other_primary]
- Locator
- NARA RG 19 / RG 24; war-history original per NavSource scan; photo credits NH 66357/66358 (NHHC) and BS 73395 (per usndazzle.com caption)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Hull-level material documentation for DE-355, if any exists, would sit in NARA RG 19 BuShips records (contract specifications and General Information Books for Consolidated Steel hull DE-355) and in the Navy insulation-spec suite identified via the Jack exhibit list (NAVSHIPS 250-000(39) ch. 39; Spec 32F3a). Deck logs (RG 24) and the war-history original would document yard availabilities and operating tempo. None were retrieved this session.
- Verification
- unverified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1944-1968 (records); 2026-09-28 (search)
- Population
- n/a
- Limitations
- Archival leads only - existence and content of hull-specific documents are unverified until retrieved; no claim about asbestos aboard is made from these leads.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-jaccard-de355-08
