Evidence
7 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-7).
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[1]research packet 758-packet.md (2 sources cited) [nhhc_danfs]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERIFIED
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-jenks-de665-pkt-758-packet-md
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[2]DANFS, Jenks (DE-665) (Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, Naval History Division; verbatim HyperWar/ibiblio transcription - live NHHC page returns 404 on both URL patterns tried) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS entry 'Jenks (DE-665)' - namesake biography, spec block, service narrative, disposition
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS record for this hull: laid down 12 May 1943 by Dravo Corp., Pittsburgh, Pa.; launched 11 September 1943, sponsored by Mrs. M. L. Jenks (mother of the namesake); commissioned at New Orleans 19 January 1944, Lt. Comdr. J. F. Way in command. Spec block: Buckley class, 1,400 t, 306 ft, 36 ft 10 in beam, 9 ft 5 in draft, 24 kt, complement 186, 3x3-in + 4x1.1-in + 3x21-in tt, 8x20mm, 2 dct, 8 dcp, 1 dcp (h.h.). Service: Bermuda shakedown February 1944; Atlantic convoy escort (United Kingdom voyage April 1944, arrived New York 21 April); Norfolk 10 May; joined USS Guadalcanal (CVE-60) hunter-killer group under Capt. Daniel V. Gallery, sortied 15 May; 4 June 1944 capture of U-505 - Chatelain (DE-149) depth-charge attack forced the submarine to the surface, Jenks picked up survivors and sent a boat alongside to take off bridge publications; U-505 taken secretly to Bermuda; returned 16 June; New London training ship from 28 June to late July; departed Norfolk 31 July on first of four escort voyages to African ports, training at Casco Bay, Maine, between assignments; final convoy voyage to Boston 19 May 1945; voyage repairs at Boston Navy Yard; Miami 8 June 1945 school ship for the Naval Training Center; Caribbean exercises August 1945; peacetime operations out of Charlestown and Key West; Green Cove Springs, Fla. 2 May 1946; decommissioned 26 June 1946, Atlantic Reserve Fleet, later Texas Group; struck from the Navy List 1 February 1966 and scrapped. Two battle stars plus the Presidential Unit Citation for the U-505 capture. Namesake: Lt.(j.g.) Henry Pease Jenks, born Chicago 31 May 1914, served in USS Atlanta (CL-51) at Midway and Guadalcanal, killed in the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal 13 November 1942.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1943-1968
- Population
- Dravo Corp. construction trades (Neville Island, Pittsburgh, 1943-44); USN crew 1944-46 (design complement 186)
- Limitations
- DANFS documents construction, specifications, and service history - not materials or asbestos content. Live NHHC page returns 404 on both current and legacy URL patterns (standing defect); verbatim mirror transcriptions cited (ibiblio HyperWar; losthistory hazegray mirror). The hazegray transcription reads namesake enlistment '8 October 1940' vs ibiblio '9 October 1940' - minor mirror variant, noted in gaps. 'Charlestown' is carried verbatim; secondary sources render it Charleston, S.C. Scrapping is stated without a sale date or buyer.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-jenks-de665-01
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[3]NavSource Online Destroyer Escort Photo Archive, USS Jenks (DE-665) page (volunteer archive; lead-level): building/operational data block, spec block, command roster, captioned photographs, hosted scan of the ship's official war history [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource DE-665 page, 'Building and Operational Data' block, spec block, photo captions (0666502-0666508), commanding-officers table, 'Jenks History' war-history scan link
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Photo-archive detail corroborating and extending DANFS: keel laid by Dravo Corp., Neville Island, Pittsburgh, 12 May 1943; launched/christened 11 September 1943 (sideways launch into the Ohio River, per captioned photographs); commissioned at New Orleans 19 January 1944, Lcdr. J. F. Way in command; 'Scheduled conversion to APD 67 cancelled'; decommissioned at Green Cove Springs 26 June 1946 'after 2 years and 5 months of service'; struck from the NVR 1 February 1966; sold for scrapping 5 March 1968. A captioned photograph dates an eight-day availability at the Brooklyn Navy Yard ending 1 May 1944 (departed 01 May, transited Cape Cod Canal, moored alongside USS Denebola (AD-12) at Casco Bay that evening). Command roster: Lcdr. Julius Frederick Way 19 Jan 1944 - 7 Oct 1944; Lcdr. Mason Freeman Cocroft (USNR) 7 Oct 1944 - 10 Sep 1945; Lcdr. John David Lannon (USNR) 10 Sep 1945 - 23 Mar 1945 (dates as printed - an end-before-start anomaly in the roster, 1946 evidently intended); Lcdr. Edward Hughes Winslow (USN) 23 Mar 1946 - 10 May 1946; Lcdr. Wilbur Thomas Holmes (USNR), decommissioning CO, to 26 Jun 1946. Spec block: TE type, 1,400 lt / 1,740 full, 306 ft oa, 36 ft 9 in beam, 2 'D' Express boilers, GE turbines with electric drive 12,000 shp, 24 kt, complement 15/198, full armament fit. Hosts a scan of the ship-submitted official war history. Awards ribbons: Combat Action Ribbon (retroactive), Presidential Unit Citation, American Campaign, European-Africa-Middle East with 2 stars, WWII Victory.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1943-1968
- Population
- Dravo/Neville Island construction trades 1943-44; Brooklyn Navy Yard availability party April-May 1944; USN crew 1944-46
- Limitations
- Volunteer-maintained photo archive - lead-level documentation, not an official record; dates, roster, and photo captions are unverified against the underlying USN/NHHC/NARA originals. The hosted war-history scan (06665wh.jpg) is a primary document facsimile; its contents were not transcribed here. Complement figure (15/198) differs from the DANFS spec block (186); both carried. Nothing on materials aboard.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-jenks-de665-02
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[4]Buckley-class TE design data (DANFS spec block + Atlas class profile class-f/buckley-class.class.json drawing on BuShips 'Ships' Data, U.S. Naval Vessels 1945' Vol. I DE design-group table + navypedia per-block boiler map); Atlas shipyards.json checked for builder yard (Dravo absent) [other_primary]
- Locator
- class-f/buckley-class.class.json member row DE-665 + propulsion_summary/class_notes (ev-buckley-class-01/02/04); shipyards.json yard_id list
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Era/design inference for a steam-plant escort built at Dravo/Pittsburgh in 1943-44: the Buckley TE machinery plant - two 'D' express-type superheated boilers at 435 psi/750F (Foster Wheeler per the navypedia block map for the DE-665-673 block) feeding GE turbine-generators and electric drive at 12,000 shp, 2 shafts, ~24 kt - implies boiler and fireroom insulation, steam-line and turbine lagging, gaskets and packing, plus deck coverings, accommodation insulation, and electrical insulation typical of 1943-44 naval construction. Builder-yard context: Dravo Corp. is NOT in the Atlas shipyard dataset (37 yard_ids checked), so no yard-level asbestos documentation attaches to the Neville Island build site; documented yard periods aboard this hull are Brooklyn Navy Yard (eight-day availability ending 1 May 1944, NavSource) and Boston Navy Yard (voyage repairs late May-June 1945, DANFS).
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1943-1944 (construction); 1944-46 (service); 1946-68 (reserve/disposal)
- Population
- Dravo/Neville Island construction trades 1943-44; USN engineering crew 1944-46; reserve-fleet caretakers 1946-66
- Limitations
- Class/era and builder inference only - not a ship-specific finding. The boiler-manufacturer assignment is navypedia-sourced and unverified against contract documents. Does not establish asbestos presence, quantity, or location aboard this hull; the yard-period rows document that work occurred at the named yards, not that asbestos was disturbed or abated there.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-jenks-de665-03
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[5]CourtListener API v4 sweep via cl-auth-search.py (authenticated, fleet-paced): opinion index (type=o) and RECAP docket index (type=r) for the exact name and hull number [court_record]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-jenks-de665-05 through -09
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- CourtListener sweep: exact-name query '"USS Jenks"' returned 0 results in the opinion index (type=o) and 0 results in the RECAP docket index (type=r) - no opinion and no indexed docket names this vessel. Hull-number query '"DE-665"' (type=o) returned 3 hits, all reporter star-page/numeral string collisions on review - Robinson v. Hill City Oil Co. (Miss. Ct. App. 2008, 2 So.3d 661), United States v. Smith (10th Cir. 1986, 788 F.2d 663), and Hall v. Richardson (S.D. Tex. 1973, 362 F. Supp. 662); none references a vessel, naval service, or asbestos. Remaining queries are itemized in the search_ledger; 'Jenks' is a common plaintiff surname and Oklahoma place name, so any unqualified 'Jenks' hit is a collision candidate, not this hull.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 2026-09-29
- Limitations
- The sweep covers only CourtListener-indexed federal/state appellate opinions and RECAP dockets; it does not reach state trial-court records, settled/undocketed claims, or asbestos trust claims. 'Jenks' surname hits (e.g., plaintiffs named Jenks) and Jenks, Oklahoma entities are name collisions unless a naval vessel is implicated. See search_ledger for per-query status, including any queries deferred on the fleet pacing budget.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-jenks-de665-04
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[6]Batch-4440 search ledger (this record): NHHC DANFS + ibiblio/hazegray mirrors, NVR, NavSource, uboat.net (lead-check), Atlas shipyard dataset, Atlas class profile, CourtListener API v4, NARA catalog [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-jenks-de665-01 through -13
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no ACM survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, material-condition report, or litigation naming this hull was found in the public sources searched. No preservation-era documentation exists - the hull was sold for scrapping 5 March 1968 and no museum or memorial era followed the 1946 decommissioning. The hull spent twenty years in reserve-fleet custody (Green Cove Springs, then Texas Group) between decommissioning and the 1966 striking.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 2026-09-29
- Limitations
- Absence of a located public record does not prove absence of asbestos aboard. Whether era materials aboard contained asbestos is undocumented in either direction; the 1968 scrapping predates disclosure-era hazmat records. Construction-era yard records (Dravo/Neville Island) and INSURV/disposal-sale documentation are paper leads only (ev-06).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-jenks-de665-05
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[7]NARA RG 19 (BuShips contract specifications / General Information Books) and RG 24 (deck logs) for DE-665; the ship-submitted official war history (scan hosted by NavSource as 06665wh.jpg; original an official record); Brooklyn Navy Yard availability records (April-May 1944) and Boston Navy Yard voyage-repair records (May-June 1945); disposal/sale documentation for the 5 March 1968 scrapping sale - all undigitized or not located online [other_primary]
- Locator
- NARA RG 19/RG 24 entry series (undigitized); yard work-order series for Brooklyn/Boston; NavSource-hosted war-history facsimile (original location unstated)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Archival leads for hull-level material documentation not yet retrieved: (1) NARA RG 19 holds BuShips per-vessel specifications and ships-data books covering DE-665's construction at Dravo/Neville Island, and RG 24 deck logs cover the 1944-46 service period including the Brooklyn Navy Yard availability and Boston Navy Yard repairs; (2) the ship's official war history submitted at war's end exists as a NavSource-hosted scan - a primary facsimile whose original is in official custody; (3) the two documented Navy-yard work periods (Brooklyn Apr-May 1944; Boston May-Jun 1945) may have work-package records at the respective yard records series; (4) the 5 March 1968 scrapping-sale documentation (disposal contract/buyer) is not located in public sources.
- Verification
- unverified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1943-1968 (records); 2026 (lead status)
- Limitations
- Leads only - none of these holdings were pulled or digitized; contents unknown. They establish nothing about materials aboard. NARA catalog returns an SPA shell to programmatic fetches (same standing limitation as prior batches).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-jenks-de665-06