Evidence
8 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-8).
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[1]research packet id-packet.md (5 sources cited) [nhhc_danfs]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: USS Jacob Jones DE-130 → VERIFIED (hull-keyed against DD-130)
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-jacob-jones-de130-pkt-id-packet-md
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[2]DANFS, Jacob Jones III (DE-130), Vol. 3 pp.485-486 (1968) + bracketed disposition note per Bauer & Roberts, Register of Ships of the U.S. Navy 1775-1990, p.224 (verbatim transcription - live NHHC page at history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/j/jacob-jones-iii.html serves 404) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS entry, specification block + service narrative (losthistory.net/hazegray transcription)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS record for this hull: third Jacob Jones; laid down 26 June 1942 by Consolidated Steel Corp., Ltd., Orange, Tex.; launched 1 November 1942; sponsored by Mrs. L. W. Hesselman; commissioned 29 April 1943, Lt. Comdr. Walton B. Hinds in command; shakedown Bermuda; first ASW attack 7 August 1943; convoy escort to Casablanca and return (TF-64); ASW training with Hammann (DE-131) and Robert E. Peary (DE-132) at Casco, Maine; Convoy UGS-19; ten days repairs at Brooklyn Navy Yard November 1943; 64-ship Norfolk-Casablanca convoy; service with Card (CVE-11) January-March 1944; twelve months of North Atlantic convoy escort (Londonderry, Moville, Liverpool, Southampton, Plymouth, Le Havre, Cherbourg); 20 Atlantic crossings total; Brooklyn Navy Yard overhaul June 1945; Pearl Harbor August 1945; Green Cove Springs October 1945; decommissioned 26 July 1946, Atlantic Reserve Fleet, berthed Orange, Tex.; stricken 2 January 1971; sold 22 August 1973.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1942-1973
- Population
- Consolidated Steel construction trades 1942-43; wartime crew (design complement per spec block); reserve-fleet caretakers 1946-1971
- Limitations
- DANFS documents construction and service history - not materials or asbestos content. Spec block complement (186) conflicts with NavSource (209) and BuShips FMR accommodations (216) - carried in gaps. Mirror transcription cited because the live NHHC page returns 404. The bracketed strike/sale note derives from Bauer & Roberts, not the 1968 DANFS text.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-jacob-jones-de130-01
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[3]Bureau of Ships, Ships' Data, U.S. Naval Vessels 1945, Vol. I (NAVSHIPS 250-010): DE roster row 'Jones, Jacob - DE130', group design FMR, builder Consolidated Steel Corp., Orange, Tex. (book pp. 248-249); DE design-group characteristics table, group 4 = FMR (book pp. 234-235) [other_primary]
- Locator
- SDB1945v1.pdf PDF pp.127,134 (book pp.234-235 design table FMR row; book pp.248-249 roster row DE130)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Contemporaneous official roster entry for this hull: 'Jones, Jacob - DE130' carries group design FMR and builder 'Consolidated Steel Corp., Orange, Tex.' in the April 1945 BuShips Ships' Data destroyer-escort roster; the row reads contract price $1,988,000, contract signed January 10, 1942, keel laid June 26, 1942, launched November 29, 1942, preliminary completion April 9, 1943, first commission April 29, 1943. The companion design-group table defines FMR as 'Fairbanks Morse diesel reverse gear drive' - 2 propellers, 4 F.M. diesel engines model 38D8-1/8, 6,000 shaft horsepower, boiler columns None, ship's service generators 2 x 100 kW diesel; group-4 characteristics: 305 ft oa / 300 ft wl, beam 36 ft 7 in, standard displacement 1,200 tons, full load 1,590 tons, design complement accommodations 15 officers / 201 enlisted, armament 3 x 3-inch/50 D.P.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1945 (publication); construction data 1942-1943
- Population
- Design/contract data for the FMR group incl. this hull
- Limitations
- Official contemporaneous record of hull, design group, builder, contract, and design characteristics - not materials or asbestos content. OCR of the scanned volume was used for extraction; the roster's launch date (November 29, 1942) conflicts with DANFS and NavSource (1 November 1942) - two official sources in conflict, carried in gaps; one acceptance-column year digit is ambiguous in the scan (reads 1944, which postdates the commission date and is presumed a scan artifact or roster typo). Does not establish hull-specific installed materials; accommodations (15/201) differ from the DANFS complement figure (186) - carried in gaps.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-jacob-jones-de130-02
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[4]NavSource Online Destroyer Escort Photo Archive, USS Jacob Jones (DE-130) page (specifications, building and operational data, commanding officers, awards; Internet Archive capture 2025-01-20) [other_primary]
- Locator
- navsource.org/archives/06/130.htm (Wayback capture 2025-01-20), specifications block + building and operational data
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- NavSource record for this hull: class Edsall, type FMR (geared diesel, Fairbanks-Morse reverse gear drive); keel laid 26 June 1942 by Consolidated Steel Corp., Ltd., Orange, Tex.; launched and christened 1 November 1942, sponsor Mrs. L. W. Hesselman; commissioned 29 April 1943 at the City Docks, Orange, Tex., Lcdr. Walton B. Hinds, USNR; decommissioned at Green Cove Springs, Fla. 26 July 1946 after 3 years and 3 months of service; struck from the NVR 2 January 1971; sold for scrapping 22 August 1973. Specifications: 1,200 tons light / 1,590 full; 306 ft oa; four Fairbanks-Morse Mod. 38d81/8 geared diesel engines, 6,000 shp, two screws; 21 kt; complement 8 officers / 201 enlisted. Awards: American Campaign Medal; EAME Campaign Medal w/1 star; WWII Victory Medal.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1942-1973
- Population
- Wartime crew (NavSource complement 209); Orange and Green Cove Springs reserve personnel
- Limitations
- NavSource is a volunteer-compiled archive drawing on official records - authoritative secondary, not a primary document; dates corroborated against DANFS where overlapping (laying, launch, commissioning, decommissioning, striking, sale). Complement (209) conflicts with DANFS (186) - carried in gaps. Live navsource.org was unreachable from the research machine; the 2025-01-20 Internet Archive capture is cited.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-jacob-jones-de130-03
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[5]Bureau of Ships Ships' Data 1945 FMR design-group characteristics (book pp. 234-235) + GAO HRD-80-2 era documentation + Atlas shipyard dataset check (Consolidated Steel Orange absent) [other_primary]
- Locator
- SDB1945v1.pdf PDF p.127 (book pp.234-235, FMR group row); shipyards.json yard_id check 2026-09-28
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Era/design inference: an Edsall-class (FMR-design) destroyer escort built 1942-43 would have carried era-standard asbestos applications appropriate to a diesel-driven ship - exhaust insulation, gaskets and packing, electrical insulation, brake linings, and deck coverings - but no boilers or steam-line lagging, since the FMR plant (four Fairbanks-Morse 38D8-1/8 diesel engines, reverse gear drive, ~21 kt) has no steam system. The BuShips design table assigns no boilers to the FMR group, and the roster places DE-130 in that group.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1942-1973
- Population
- Consolidated Steel construction trades 1942-43; commissioned crew 1943-46
- Limitations
- Class/era and design inference only - NOT a hull-specific finding. No hull-level material schedule, insulation specification, or survey was located for DE-130; the geared-diesel plant means the largest asbestos categories of steam ships do not apply; does not quantify material or establish any individual's exposure. Builder Consolidated Steel Corp., Orange, Tex. is not in the Atlas shipyard dataset - no yard-level asbestos record carried.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-jacob-jones-de130-04
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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 (full text blocked, HTTP 403)
- Finding type
- gov_survey
- Finding
- GAO documented the Navy's extensive shipboard asbestos insulation use during the era in which this hull was built, with substitution not beginning until the early 1970s - DE-130's 1942-43 construction and her 1943-46 USN commission fall entirely inside the documented asbestos-use era, and her reserve-fleet period (1946-1971) precedes the substitution era.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1979
- Population
- Navy shipyard workers (program-level)
- Limitations
- Program-level era context only. Full text not retrieved (gao.gov returns HTTP 403 to automated fetch); content via product-page description, same limitation as prior batch records. Does not document this hull, her crew, or her materials.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-jacob-jones-de130-05
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[7]CourtListener API v4 opinion (type=o) and RECAP docket (type=r) searches, authenticated via cl-auth-search.py fleet helper, 2026-09-28 [court_record]
- Locator
- cl-auth-search.py queries '"USS Jacob Jones"' type=o (count 0), '"DE-130"' type=o (count 74), '"USS Jacob Jones"' type=r (count 1)
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- Completed litigation sweep - no qualifying litigation names this hull. Opinion index '"USS Jacob Jones"': 0 hits. Opinion index '"DE-130"': 74 hits, every reviewed result a 'DE 130' PACER docket-entry number citation in unrelated litigation (insurance, bankruptcy, criminal, construction dockets; e.g., State Farm v. Kugler, S.D. Fla., citing 'DEs 129, 130, 133...') - identifier collisions, none referencing any vessel. RECAP docket index '"USS Jacob Jones"': 1 hit, Boy Scouts of America bankruptcy (Bankr. D. Del., docket 16854880) - the match resolves to law-firm names containing 'Jones' in the docket text (Pachulski Stang Young & Jones; Jones Day); no 'Jacob Jones' and no vessel reference - token collision.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1943-present (litigation corpus indexed by CourtListener)
- Limitations
- Sweep completed at the opinion and docket-index levels; RECAP document-level full text within the 74 docket-entry collision hits was not individually reviewed. 'Jacob Jones' is a high-collision name (common personal name; three Navy hulls bore it - DD-61, DD-130, DE-130); no hit named any vessel. Unindexed state-court and trust-claim exposure records are outside this corpus.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-jacob-jones-de130-06
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[8]Batch-4039 search ledger (this record): NHHC/DANFS transcription; NavSource and BuShips Ships' Data 1945 records; NVR detail check; CourtListener opinion + RECAP sweeps; VA BVA corpus check; Atlas shipyard dataset check [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-jacob-jones-de130-01 through sl-uss-jacob-jones-de130-10
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located for DE-130: no hull ACM survey, abatement contract, disposal hazmat disclosure, museum record, or ship-specific industrial-hygiene document; no qualifying asbestos litigation or VA decision names this hull; the Naval Vessel Register carries no detail entry (pre-1987 disposal); the hull was sold for scrapping in 1973, foreclosing any extant-hull survey.
- 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 absence of asbestos aboard - era materials consistent with the FMR design are a reasonable inference, not a ship-proven fact. Does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility. NARA RG 19 BuShips records for this hull (material specifications, General Information Books) and NARA WWII deck-log holdings for DE-130 remain unretrieved archival leads.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-jacob-jones-de130-07