Evidence
11 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-11).
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[1]research packet zbw-packet.md (5 sources cited) [other_primary]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERIFIED
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-john-l-hall-ffg32-pkt-zbw-packet-md
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[2]DANFS, John L. Hall (FFG-32) ship entry and John Lesslie Hall, Jr. biographical entry (July 2015 edition); verbatim transcription via Tin Can Sailors (destroyers.org) - live history.navy.mil domain returns 404 [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- destroyers.org FFG-32 page, 'USS JOHN L. HALL FFG-32 Ship History - Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, July 2015'
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS record for this hull: laid down 5 January 1981 at Bath, Maine, by Bath Iron Works Corp.; launched 24 July 1981; sponsored by Dr. Susan H. Godson, niece and biographer of Adm. Hall; commissioned 26 June 1982, Cmdr. Andrew W. Fahy in command. Service narrative: September 1984 sailed to the Eastern Mediterranean after the Beirut U.S. Embassy Annex bombing; January 1986 detected and shadowed a Soviet surface action group near Cuba (relieved on station by Samuel Eliot Morison FFG-13); July-August 1987 Caribbean counter-narcotics deployment with embarked Coast Guard TACLET; September 1996 UNITAS 37-96 transit of the Chilean inland waterway; July 1998 embarked HSL-44 SH-60B assisted recovery of more than 2,000 lb of cocaine near Panama; September 2001 post-9/11 emergency recall and NORAD radar picket for Operation Noble Eagle; January 2003 embarked HSL-48 helicopter coordinated a go-fast interdiction with USCGC Diligence (4,265 lb cocaine); August-September 2005 sortied from Pascagoula ahead of Hurricane Katrina, then Ophelia; decommissioned at Mayport 9 March 2012, Cmdr. Richard M. Meyer in command. Cross-hull DANFS corroboration: the NHHC DANFS entry for Mississippi (CGN-40) separately records John L. Hall operating with guided-missile cruiser Ticonderoga (CG 47) in the surface action group for Operations Sentinel Lifeguard, Standoff IV, and Escort 1-96 in the Straits of Florida (25-28 February and 1-7 March 1996) after the Cuban shootdown of the Brothers to the Rescue aircraft. Namesake: Adm. John Lesslie Hall Jr. (1891-1978), WWII amphibious-force commander.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1978-2012
- Population
- Bath Iron Works construction trades 1981-82; ship's company across commission 1982-2012 (approx. 180-206)
- Limitations
- DANFS documents identity, construction, and service history - not materials or asbestos content. Transcription mirror cited because the live NHHC domain returns 404; canonical NHHC URL needs relocation. DANFS text reviewed does not mention the 1987-88 Avondale availability (see ev-07 and gaps). The Mississippi (CGN-40) cross-reference was verified via search-indexed NHHC text only - that page also 404s live.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-john-l-hall-ffg32-01
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[3]Naval Vessel Register (NAVSEA), JOHN L HALL (FFG 32) ship detail record (Wayback capture 2015-11-30 of nvr.navy.mil) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NVR ship detail table, JOHN L HALL (FFG 32) - dates block, dimensions block, hull material and propulsion lines
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Official NVR record for this hull: UIC 21057; class FFG 7; builder Bath Iron Wks Corp.; award 01/23/1978; keel 01/05/1981; launch 07/24/1981; delivery 06/18/1982; commission 06/26/1982; inactivation, decommission, and stricken all 03/09/2012; status 'Stricken, to be disposed of'; berth NAVSEA Inactive Ships On-site Maintenance Office, Philadelphia, PA. Dimensions: 453 ft overall; extreme beam 47 ft; light displacement 3,185 t / full 4,100 t. Hull material: 'Steel hull, aluminum superstructure.' Propulsion type: Gas Turbines; 1 propeller.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1978-2015 (register coverage)
- Population
- Crew and maintainers across commission 1982-2012
- Limitations
- NVR is a registry of dates, dimensions, and status - not a materials record; asbestos content is outside its scope. Capture is November 2015 (pre-disposal); the live JS-rendered NVR site no longer serves a detail page for this disposed hull.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-john-l-hall-ffg32-02
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[4]DVIDS image record, 'USS John L. Hall decommissioning,' VIRIN 120309-N-YR391-104 (U.S. Navy photo by PO2 Gary Granger Jr., released 2012-03-13) [other_primary]
- Locator
- DVIDS image page 540738, caption and IMAGE INFO block
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Official DoD imagery record documents the decommissioning ceremony of USS John L. Hall (FFG 32) at Naval Station Mayport on 9 March 2012, Cmdr. Richard Meyer commanding officer; caption notes the ship 'has been in service with the U.S. Navy since June 1982.'
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 2012-03-09
- Population
- Final crew and decommissioning-party attendees, March 2012
- Limitations
- Ceremony documentation only - no materials, hazmat, or disposal content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-john-l-hall-ffg32-03
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[5]Defense Logistics Agency / navy.mil release, 'Navy saves millions using DLA Disposition Services for ship recycling' (Jeff Landenberger, DLA Disposition Services, Feb 2023; verbatim republication at seawaves.com 2023-02-03) [other_primary]
- Locator
- navy.mil article 3287973 / dla.mil All News 'strong-partnership-ds' tag listing; seawaves.com republication 2023-02-03
- Finding type
- environmental_record
- Finding
- Official DLA release names the ex-John L. Hall (FFG 32) among five retired ships (with ex-Yorktown CG 48, ex-Samuel B. Roberts FFG 58, ex-Underwood FFG 36, ex-Nicholas FFG 47) being recycled under a DLA Disposition Services scrap-sales contract; winning bid $360,000 for the five-ship package; ships towed from Philadelphia and Puget Sound to Brownsville, Texas, for full dismantling with ~98% of removed materials expected to be recycled; DLA and Navy reviewed bidder technical proposals.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 2022-2023
- Population
- Shipbreaking/recycling workforce, EMR International Shipbreaking, Brownsville TX, 2022-2023
- Limitations
- Documents the disposal chain for this hull, not its hazardous-materials inventory - the release does not itemize asbestos or any specific hazmat, and the 98% recycling figure is program-level. navy.mil returned HTTP 403 to automated fetch at access time; content verified via search-indexed text and the verbatim SeaWaves republication.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-john-l-hall-ffg32-04
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[6]Port of Brownsville Vessel Arrival Chart, 16 December 2022 (port authority document); KVEO-TV/ValleyCentral reporting on EMR International Shipbreaking arrivals [other_primary]
- Locator
- Vessel Arrival Chart 12-16-2022 (tow line entry); valleycentral.com, 'Decommissioned USS Yorktown arrives for recycling in Rio Grande Valley'
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- The Port of Brownsville's official vessel-arrival chart dated 16 December 2022 lists 'O/T CAITLIN towing S/V USS JOHN L HALL' - ocean tug Caitlin delivering the hull - consistent with the reported departure under tow from Philadelphia 6 December 2022 and arrival 19 December 2022. KVEO (ValleyCentral) reported the company president identifying USS John L Hall (FFG-32) among the next former Navy ships to be dismantled by EMR International Shipbreaking Ltd. at the Port of Brownsville.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 2022-12
- Population
- Tow crew and Brownsville shipbreaking workforce, December 2022
- Limitations
- Arrival/dismantling logistics only - no hazmat or asbestos content. Port PDF returned 403 and KVEO page 429 to automated fetch; chart line and quotes verified via search-indexed text. Arrival date 19 December 2022 rests on NavSource compilation; the port chart establishes the tow was in progress as of 16 December.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-john-l-hall-ffg32-05
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[7]GAO HRD-80-2, 'Navy Efforts To Protect Workers From Asbestos Exposure' (published 1979-10-18, released 1979-10-22) [gao]
- Locator
- GAO product page highlights + report letter (Navy's 1975/1979 policy; 'little or no asbestos as thermal insulation' passage)
- Finding type
- gov_survey
- Finding
- Contemporaneous GAO review of Navy asbestos exposure control (fieldwork at Long Beach and Norfolk Naval Shipyards): per the Navy, 'although all ships contain some asbestos in such components as clutches and electric cables, most ships delivered in the last several years or now under construction have little or no asbestos as thermal insulation, which was the Navy's major use of asbestos aboard ships.' The Navy's October 1975 policy removed and replaced asbestos insulation only when damaged or removed for repairs; a January 1979 modification added selective replacement in high-maintenance areas. The Navy estimated no one-time fleet removal program (approx. $2 billion) and noted 'a few shipboard applications for which no acceptable substitute asbestos-free materials have been identified.' This hull was awarded January 1978 and built 1981-82 - squarely in the report's 'now under construction' window.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1979 (report); 1975-1979 (policy period)
- Population
- Navy shipyard workers (Long Beach, Norfolk) 1970s; construction-era crews generally
- Limitations
- Era/program-level record: names no hull and no class; cannot establish what was actually installed aboard FFG-32. Fieldwork yards were Long Beach and Norfolk, not Bath Iron Works - the report does not survey this hull's builder. gao.gov returns HTTP 403 to automated fetch; content verified via the product-page description and search-indexed PDF text (standing block since batch-01).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-john-l-hall-ffg32-06
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[8]NavSource Online, USS John L. Hall (FFG-32) photo archive and 'Building and Operational Data' chronology (volunteer-compiled from official records); corroborated by NVR overall-length figure (453 ft vs. 445 ft short-hull as built) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource FFG-32 'Building and Operational Data' entries (1987-09-15, 1988-11-02, 1994-04-01, 1995-09-01, 1999-12-17, 2005-08/09) and commanding-officer list (Pfaeffle note)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NavSource's hull chronology supplies detail beyond the retrieved DANFS text: on 15 September 1987 John L. Hall entered Avondale Shipyard, New Orleans, for an approximately 11-month upgrade availability - stern lengthening for LAMPS III/RAST operation, NTDS Link 11, and towed-array fit - returning to Mayport 2 November 1988; later administrative entries record reassignment to Destroyer Squadron 6 (April 1994), to Commander Western Hemisphere Group at Pascagoula (September 1995), back to DesRon 6 (December 1999), and the formal homeport change to Mayport after Hurricane Katrina damage at Pascagoula (September 2005). Its commanding-officer list notes Cmdr. Hermann O. Pfaeffle relieved in June 2010 after the ship struck a pier at Batumi, Georgia (April 2010). The NVR's 453-ft overall-length record (vs. the 445-ft short-hull as-built figure) corroborates the 1987-88 lengthening. Avondale is documented at yard level in the Atlas shipyards dataset (tier 2: asbestos litigation incl. Latiolais v. Huntington Ingalls, 5th Cir. 2019, and a NIOSH health-hazard evaluation) - the hull spent a prolonged industrial availability at a yard with documented asbestos conditions.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1987-2010
- Population
- Avondale yard trades and embarked ship's force, September 1987 - November 1988
- Limitations
- The availability rests on NavSource's compilation - DANFS (July 2015 text reviewed) does not mention it, and NHHC command-operation reports indexed for this hull are unretrieved while history.navy.mil is down. No source documents the asbestos scope of the 1987-88 work; Avondale's asbestos record is facility-level (predominantly insulation trades), not hull-material evidence for FFG-32. Direct fetch of navsource.org failed (connection refused); content verified via search-indexed text.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-john-l-hall-ffg32-07
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[9]Atlas shipyard dataset record 'bath-iron-works' (tier 2): OSHA health Inspection 101450294 (1987) with asbestos-standard citations and May 20, 1987 samples (80% bulk result Lab B24809; 1.71-f personal sample Lab B24801); 1942 Drinker pipe-covering-shop survey (PMID 21016030) [other_primary]
- Locator
- OSHA IMIS establishment.inspection_detail id=101450294; shipyards.json record 'bath-iron-works' ev-bath-iron-works-01/-02
- Finding type
- gov_survey
- Finding
- The builder yard carries contemporaneous-ish asbestos documentation: OSHA's May 1987 health inspection of Bath Iron Works recorded asbestos-standard citations with an 80-percent bulk sample and a 1.71-f personal sample - five years after this hull's delivery, establishing that asbestos materials and controls were still active at the builder yard in the mid-1980s FFG-7 production era. The yard's documented asbestos history extends to a 1942 industrial-hygiene survey of pipe-covering shop dust risk (Drinker, published 1946).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1942; 1987
- Population
- Bath Iron Works trades (1942 survey; 1987 inspection)
- Limitations
- Yard-level record, not a hull record - documents asbestos conditions at the builder in 1942 and 1987, not what was installed aboard FFG-32 during its 1981-82 construction. The 1987 OSHA samples postdate delivery and do not identify the vessels, tasks, or locations involved. No inference is made from yard findings to this hull's materials.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-john-l-hall-ffg32-08
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[10]FedBizOpps notice mirrored on GovWin: 'N4002711R0054SOLICITATIONNOTICENECO.DOCX' (published 2011-10-02) - solicitation N40027-11-R-0054, SSP SERM-005-12, 'USS JOHN L HALL (FFG 32) Inactivation Availability (IA),' small-business set-aside for holders of an Agreement for Boat Repair (Southeast Regional Maintenance Center) [other_primary]
- Locator
- GovWin document view 1861441 (notice abstract only)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- An official procurement notice confirms the Navy competitively solicited an inactivation availability for this hull ahead of its March 2012 decommissioning - the industrial event at which decommissioning-era systems shutdown, hazmat identification, and material offload work would have been scoped. Only the notice abstract is publicly visible; the RFP's work items (including any asbestos or hazardous-materials tasks) were not retrieved.
- Verification
- unverified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 2011-2012
- Population
- Availability bidders and SERMC planners, 2011
- Limitations
- Aggregator mirror of a federal notice - establishes that the solicitation existed, not its content. No asbestos work item is confirmed for this hull; treating hazmat scope as typical of inactivation availabilities would be inference. The original FBO posting is no longer publicly served.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-john-l-hall-ffg32-09
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[11]CourtListener API v4 authenticated sweep (cl-auth-search.py) + open-web sweep for ship-name asbestos mentions [court_record]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-john-l-hall-ffg32-03 through -05, -11
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located. CourtListener opinion index (type=o) returned zero hits for "USS John L. Hall", zero for "FFG-32", and zero for "John L. Hall" + asbestos; RECAP docket-index queries were blocked by fleet-wide request pacing at research time (see search_ledger). No docketed asbestos case naming this hull was located in any public source searched. The only open-web asbestos mentions of FFG-32 are non-authoritative law-firm/SEO ship lists (mesotheliomaveterans.org, mesothelioma.com, mesotheliomahope.com, freeasbestostesting.com, bellucklaw.com ship roster) that name the hull in boilerplate 'ships that contained asbestos' enumerations without any cited source - excluded per source rules; such list placement is marketing content, not documentation.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 2026-09-29
- Limitations
- Sweep is incomplete - the RECAP docket index and additional query variants could not be run within session (shared quota pacing); a docketed complaint naming the hull that is not indexed in opinion text could still exist. Absence of located litigation or documentation does not prove absence of asbestos aboard; SEO list-mentions carry no evidentiary weight in either direction.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-john-l-hall-ffg32-10