Evidence
8 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-8).
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[1]research packet ll-packet.md (5 sources cited) [nhhc_danfs]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERIFIED — real identity: USS Jobb — [M] https://ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USN/ships/DE/DE-707_Jobb.html
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-jobb-de707-pkt-ll-packet-md
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[2]DANFS, Jobb (DE-707) (Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships; verbatim hazegray DANFS transcription via losthistory.net mirror - live NHHC page returns 404 on all current and legacy URL patterns; hazegray.org itself does not resolve) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS entry 'Jobb' - namesake biography, spec block, service narrative, bracketed transcriber's note
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS record for this hull: namesake Pharmacist's Mate Third Class Richard Patrick Jobb (born McCormick, Wash., 17 March 1920; enlisted 28 February 1942; killed 26 January 1943 near the Namara River, Guadalcanal, after rushing 150 yards through enemy fire to aid a patrol's wounded; posthumous Silver Star). Spec block: Rudderow class; 1,450 t; 306 ft; 36 ft 10 in beam; 9 ft 8 in draft; 24 kt; complement 186; 2x5in, 4x40mm, 10x20mm, 3x21in tt, 2 dct, 8 dcp, 1 dcp (hh). Laid down by Defoe Shipbuilding Co., Bay City, Mich., 20 December 1943; launched 4 March 1944, sponsored by Mrs. S. L. Jobb (mother); commissioned at New Orleans 4 July 1944, Lt. Comdr. Herbert M. Jones in command. Service: Bermuda shakedown; Atlantic hunter-killer patrol group; hurricane forced her back to Norfolk 13-15 September 1944; sailed 23 October via Panama Canal and Bora Bora to Humboldt Bay, New Guinea (21 November); convoy escort to Leyte Gulf 28 November; screened a slow tow convoy to Mindoro from 12 December, shooting down at least two attackers in the following days' raids; Hollandia 28 December; convoy to newly assaulted Lingayen Gulf 8 January 1945; struck a reef in the Philippines 16 January - repairs at Leyte Gulf then propeller work at Manus; February 1945 Philippine convoy escort (Palawan, Mindoro, Mindanao); departed Morotai 4 June for the Brunei Bay, Borneo landings (patrolled 10 June); resupply convoy from Morotai; repairs at Leyte from 8 July; antisubmarine patrol Philippines-Ulithi to war's end; Okinawa 23 August 1945, then occupation duty between island bases; Pearl Harbor 31 December; San Francisco 9 January 1946; San Diego - decommissioned 13 May 1946, Pacific Reserve Fleet, berthed at Stockton, Calif. 'Jobb received three battle stars for World War II service.' Transcriber's note (per Bauer & Roberts, Register of Ships of the U.S. Navy 1775-1990, p. 234): contract reallocated before construction from the Philadelphia Navy Yard on 9 October 1942; stricken from the Navy Register 1 November 1969; sold October 1970.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1943-1970
- Population
- Defoe Shipbuilding construction trades (Bay City, 1943-44); USN crew 1944-1946 (design complement 186); reserve-fleet custody/inactivation workers 1946-1947
- Limitations
- DANFS documents namesake, construction, specifications, and service history - not materials or asbestos content. Entry was written while the ship was still in reserve ('At present she is berthed at Stockton, Calif.'), so post-1970 disposition rests on the bracketed transcriber's note from Bauer & Roberts. Live NHHC page returns 404 on all patterns tried - verbatim mirror transcription cited; hazegray.org does not resolve from this machine, so the losthistory.net mirror of the hazegray transcription is used.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-jobb-de707-01
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[3]NavSource Online Destroyer Escort Photo Archive, USS Jobb (DE 707) page (volunteer archive; lead-level): specifications block, building/operational data, awards, commanding officers, captioned photographs (Wayback capture 2025-05-13 - navsource.org does not resolve from this machine) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource DE-707 page - 'Specifications', 'Building and Operational Data', awards block, CO table, captions 0670701-0670703
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Photo-archive chronology corroborating and extending DANFS: keel laid 20 December 1943 by Defoe Shipbuilding Co., Bay City; launched/christened 4 March 1944, sponsor Mrs. S. L. Jobb; commissioned 4 July 1944 at Naval Station New Orleans, Lcdr. Herbert M. Jones; decommissioned 13 May 1946 at San Diego 'after 1 year and 10 months of service having steamed 89,786 nautical miles'; inactivation completed 30 January 1947 at San Diego; struck from the NVR 1 November 1969; sold for scrapping October 1970. Spec block: Rudderow class, TEV (turbo-electric drive, long hull, 5-inch guns); 1,450 t light / 1,810 t full; 2 CE boilers, G.E. turbines with electric drive, 12,000 shp, 2 screws; 24 kt; complement 12 officers / 192 enlisted. Awards: Combat Action Ribbon (retroactive), American Campaign Medal, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal w/ 3 stars, WWII Victory Medal, Navy Occupation Medal (Asia clasp), Philippine Liberation Ribbon w/ 1 star. COs: Lcdr. Herbert Mason Jones USNR (Jul 1944-Mar 1945); Lcdr. Norman L. Field USNR (Mar 1945-Jan 1946); Cmdr. H. M. Edwards USNR (Jan-Mar 1946); Lt.(jg) Richard F. Johnson USNR (Mar-May 1946). Photos: 4 March 1944 side launch at Defoe; 9 January 1946 San Francisco Bay 'homeward bound pennant' (USN photo NH 79817 via NHHC).
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1943-1970
- Population
- USN crew 1944-1946
- Limitations
- Volunteer-maintained photo archive - lead-level, unverified against USN/NHHC/NARA originals. Its '13 - 15 December 1945' date for the two Mindoro aircraft kills conflicts with the DANFS narrative sequence (the tow convoy and raids occurred 12-15 December 1944; by late December 1945 the ship was at Pearl Harbor en route home) - carried as a NavSource typo in gaps. Complement (12/192) differs from both DANFS (186) and the BuShips TEV design accommodations (15/206) - all three carried with attribution. Nothing on materials aboard.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-jobb-de707-02
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[4]Bureau of Ships, 'Ships' Data, U.S. Naval Vessels' Vol. 1 (January 1945), pp. 234-235 TEV design-group row + vessel table; navypedia 'TEV destroyer escorts (RUDDEROW)' boiler-block map (us_de_tev); NavSource DE-707 spec block ('2 CE boilers') [other_primary]
- Locator
- SDB1945v1 pp. 234-235 (TEV design-group row, accommodations 15/206); navypedia us_de_tev machinery block map; NavSource DE-707 spec block
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Era/design inference for a TEV-group destroyer escort built at Defoe/Bay City in 1943-44: the BuShips Ships' Data design table (p. 234, design group 3 = 'TEV = Turbine electric drive, 5 in. guns') specifies for the class 306 ft oa, 1,450 t standard / 1,810 t full load, 23.6 kt, and a full superheated-steam plant - 2 'D' express-type boilers at 435 psi / 750 deg F feeding GE turbo-electric machinery at 12,000 shp on 2 shafts - one of only two DE designs so equipped (with the Butler WGT class), so the heavy steam-ship asbestos categories apply at design level: boiler and fireroom insulation, steam-line lagging between fireroom and turbo-generators, turbine lagging, valve/flange gaskets, machinery packing, fireproofing, and deck coverings. Boiler manufacturer for this hull's block: the navypedia block map assigns Combustion Engineering boilers to 'DE230, 231, 684-686, 706-709' (covering DE-707), consistent with NavSource's '2 CE boilers' spec line for this hull. Documented repair events with plausible but unverified materials significance: Leyte Gulf repairs January 1945 (reef strike) and July 1945, and propeller work at Manus - venues identified but no work-order or material detail public.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1943-44 (construction); 1945 (repair events); 1944-1946 (service)
- Population
- Defoe construction trades 1943-44; USN engineering/fire-room crew 1944-1946; repair personnel at Leyte and Manus 1945
- Limitations
- Class/era inference only - not a ship-specific finding; no member-level asbestos record exists for this hull. The boiler-manufacturer attribution is navypedia-sourced (NavSource-concurring) and unverified against contract documents. Establishes no quantities, no locations, and no exposure for any individual. BuShips table is design-group data (group 3 covers all TEV hulls), not a hull-level material schedule.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-jobb-de707-03
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[5]CourtListener API v4 sweep (opinion index type=o; RECAP docket index type=r) for exact name 'USS Jobb' and hull number 'DE-707' via cl-auth-search.py (authenticated, fleet-paced) [court_record]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-jobb-de707-05 through -08
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- CourtListener sweep (partial): exact-phrase opinion search '"USS Jobb"' (type=o) returned 0 results on 2026-09-29 - no opinion naming this vessel located. The hull-number opinion query '"DE-707"' and the RECAP-docket queries for name and hull number could not be completed: the fleet-shared CourtListener request budget (~114/hr across all sessions) returned 'momentarily spent' on spaced retries through the session and the helper stood down per pacing rules. No qualifying asbestos litigation naming this hull was located in the completed portion of the sweep.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 2026-09-29
- Limitations
- Sweep is partial: one opinion query completed clean (0 results); the hull-number opinion query and both RECAP-docket queries remain unrun, so absence of litigation is NOT fully established - docket-text mentions in particular are not ruled out. 'Jobb' is a rare surname (low collision surface) but any future hit still requires collision classification rather than automatic attribution. The sweep does not cover state-court records, asbestos-trust claims, or non-U.S. jurisdictions.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-jobb-de707-04
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[6]Batch-4487 search ledger (this record): NHHC DANFS + hazegray/losthistory mirrors, BuShips Ships' Data 1945, navypedia TEV block map, NavSource via Wayback, NVR, BGSU Historical Collections of the Great Lakes, NARA catalog, Atlas shipyard dataset, CourtListener API v4 partial sweep [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-jobb-de707-01 through -12
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no ACM survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, material-condition report, museum record, or docketed case naming this hull was found in the public sources searched. The hull had no preservation era - sold for scrapping October 1970 after strike 1 November 1969 - so no museum or memorial disclosure can exist. The only public asbestos claims about this hull are law-firm marketing pages (asbestos-ships.com runs a templated 'USS Jobb DE-707' page asserting unsourced boilerplate exposure claims) - excluded per source rules and logged in the report, not evidence.
- 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 - a 1943-44 steam-plant hull with documented repair periods would have carried era-standard materials, which is why the class/era inference row exists. Does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility. Scrapping-era records (buyer, dismantling site) are not located in public sources.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-jobb-de707-05
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[7]Archival leads for hull-level material documentation not yet retrieved: (1) BGSU Historical Collections of the Great Lakes Defoe Shipbuilding Company holdings (finding-aid agent 525: six-plus collections incl. Defoe-Navy correspondence, shipyard layout and building schedules, and 'The Defoe Rollover' employee periodical 1942-44) - note the HCGL vessel registry holds sister-hull entries DE-0708 (Parle, Defoe hull 00281) and DE-0709 (Bray, hull 00282) but NO DE-0707 entry was located (item scan + title queries, 2026-09-29); (2) NARA RG 19 BuShips contract specifications/ships' data and General Information Books for DE-707; RG 24 deck logs 1944-1946 (series NAID 594258, 'Logbooks of U.S. Navy Ships and Stations, 1941-1978' - not digitized; VA digitization focused on Vietnam-era logs); (3) Navy/MARAD disposal-sale file for the October 1970 scrapping sale; (4) San Diego inactivation/reserve-fleet records 1946-1947 [other_primary]
- Locator
- BGSU finding-aid agent 525 + HCGL registry item scan (434600-434660: DE-0699, DE-0708, DE-0709 present; DE-0707 absent); NARA RG 19/RG 24 series (undigitized); Navy disposal-sale records
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Primary holdings likely to contain hull-level material information exist but were not pulled: BGSU HCGL's Defoe Shipbuilding collections are the builder-yard paper record for the hull's construction (Defoe yard hull 00280 per the navypedia yard-number column); NARA RG 19/RG 24 hold the contract specifications and the full 1944-46 deck-log run covering the two Leyte repair periods and the Manus work; the 1970 disposal-sale file would name the scrapping buyer. None are digitized in public sources.
- Verification
- unverified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1943-1970 (records); 2026 (lead status)
- Limitations
- Leads only - none of these holdings were retrieved or digitized; contents unknown. They establish nothing about materials aboard. The HCGL registry's absence of a DE-0707 entry is itself a located negative (sisters 00281 and 00282 are registered; Jobb's Defoe hull 00280 is not). NARA catalog returns an SPA shell to programmatic fetches (standing limitation).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-jobb-de707-06
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[8]Jack v. Borg-Warner Morse Tec LLC, W.D. Wash. No. 2:17-cv-00537 - defendants' exhibit list, ECF 738 att. 1 (primary Navy insulation-document identifications) [court_record]
- Locator
- Jack v. Borg-Warner Morse Tec LLC, ECF 738 att. 1 (W.D. Wash.)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- The exhibit list in a sister-class destroyer-escort asbestos case (naming USS Brannon, DE-446, John C. Butler class) identifies the era's controlling Navy insulation documents relied on in DE litigation: 'Bureau of Ships Manual, Chapter 39, Thermal Insulation, NAVSHIPS 250000(39), dated 24 August 1945'; 'Navy Department Specification, Felt, Insulating, Asbestos, 32F3a, dated 15 October 1945'; 'General Specifications for Machinery - Subsection S39-1, Navy Department, Bureau of Engineering, dated 3 Feb 1939'; 'Instructions Relative to Heat Insulation' (BuEng Manual ch. 13). These are the document suite a hull-level material inquiry for a steam DE would pull first.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1939-1945 (documents); 2017-2018 (docket)
- Limitations
- Era context via a sister-class docket, identified from the batch-4144 Day record's evidence row and not re-retrieved this session - the underlying specification documents themselves were not pulled for DE-707. Exhibit-list identification only; says nothing about what was installed aboard Jobb.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-jobb-de707-07