Evidence
6 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-6).
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[1]DANFS, Jouett II (DD-396) (builder, dates, service narrative, disposal; verbatim transcription - live NHHC page serves 404) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS entry, specifications block + service narrative
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS record for this hull: laid down 26 March 1936 by Bath Iron Works Corp., Bath, Maine; launched 24 September 1938 (sponsor Mrs. J. R. Todd); commissioned at Boston 25 January 1939, Comdr. G. W. Clark in command. Neutrality patrol 1939-40; escorted Tuscaloosa (CA-37) carrying President Roosevelt February 1940; Pearl Harbor duty April 1940-April 1941; Rear Admiral Ingram's South Atlantic force at Trinidad from May 1941 - at Port of Spain 7 December 1941; antisubmarine patrols Brazil-Africa; Ascension Island escort March 1942; Charleston repairs December 1942-January 1943; hosted Brazilian President Vargas January 1943; with Moffett (DD-362) sank U-128 off Bahia May 1943 (joined search 14 May); with Omaha (CL-4) sank blockade runners Rio Grande and Bergenlund (5 January 1944); Charleston repair March 1944; Normandy - screened Omaha Beach transport area 8-21 June 1944; Firth of Clyde convoys; Oran 21 July 1944; southern France landings - command ship Convoy Control Group off Delta assault area 15 August-3 September; Toulon patrol; Cape Ferrat gunfire support; San Remo mines destroyed 9 October; Charleston repairs from January 1945; decommissioned Philadelphia Naval Shipyard 1 November 1945; scrapped there in 1946. Three battle stars for World War II. Specifications: 1,850 tons; 390'11" x 36'11" x 11'4"; 38 knots; complement 235; armament 8 x 5-inch, 2 x 1.1-inch, 9 x 21-inch torpedo tubes; class Somers.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1936-1946
- Population
- Bath Iron Works construction trades 1936-38; wartime crew (design complement 235)
- Limitations
- DANFS documents service history and specifications, not materials or asbestos content. DANFS spec block (9 torpedo tubes, cpl 235) differs from NavSource as-built data (12 tt., crew 294) - variances carried in gaps. Mirror transcription cited because the live NHHC page returns 404.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-jouett-dd396-01
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[2]NavSource Destroyer Photo Index, USS Jouett (DD-396) - operational/building data block and commanding-officer list (secondary compilation reproducing Navy List milestones) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource DD-396 page, 'Operational and Building Data' block
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Milestone cross-check and stricken date: NavSource's data block for this hull records laid down 26 March 1936 at Bath Iron Works; launched 24 September 1938; commissioned 25 January 1939; decommissioned 1 November 1945; stricken 28 November 1945; 'Broken up for scrap at Philadelphia Navy Yard in 1946.' Machinery block: 52,000 shp, General Electric geared turbines, 2 screws; class-standard references list four Babcock & Wilcox boilers. All dates agree with DANFS except the stricken date, which DANFS omits.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1936-1946
- Limitations
- NavSource is a volunteer secondary compilation, not a primary record - the stricken date (28 November 1945) derives from the Navy List/Naval Vessel Register lineage but the underlying entry was not directly retrieved. No asbestos information of any kind; crew figure (294) conflicts with DANFS (235).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-jouett-dd396-02
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[3]DANFS specifications block (Somers class; steam-era destroyer) + NavSource machinery block (4 B&W boilers, GE geared turbines, 52,000 shp - class standard) + Atlas shipyard dataset, Bath Iron Works record (1942 Drinker industrial-hygiene study, PMID 21016030; OSHA Inspection 101450294, 1987) [other_primary]
- Locator
- DANFS specifications block; NavSource DD-396 machinery block; shipyards.json record 'bath-iron-works' (ev-bath-iron-works-01, -02)
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Era/yard inference: a Somers-class destroyer built 1936-38 with a four-boiler Babcock & Wilcox high-pressure steam plant and geared turbines would have carried period-standard asbestos insulation, lagging, gaskets, packing, fireproofing, and deck coverings. The builder yard is documented at yard level: Dr. Philip Drinker's 1942 Harvard study of Bath Iron Works recorded 'fairly serious dust risk' in pipe-covering shops at roughly ten times the safe threshold, and OSHA's 1987 BIW health inspection recorded asbestos-standard citations - the same yard that built this hull three to six years earlier. NARA RG 19 'General Information Books' holding per-vessel material specifications are an archival lead for hull-level specs.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1936-1946
- Population
- Bath Iron Works construction trades 1936-38; crew 1939-45
- Limitations
- Class/era and builder-yard inference only - no ship-specific finding is made for this hull; the yard-level studies document conditions at the yard, not material aboard DD-396. Does not establish asbestos presence, quantity, or crew exposure aboard this specific ship.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-jouett-dd396-03
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[4]CourtListener API v4 sweep, 2026-09-27: "USS Jouett" (type=o), "Jouett" asbestos (type=o), "DD-396" (type=o), "Jouett" (type=r dockets) [court_record]
- Locator
- CourtListener opinion/docket search results (search_ledger sl-uss-jouett-dd396-03 through -06 and sl-uss-jouett-dd396-09)
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- Litigation sweep for this hull returned zero qualifying hits. "USS Jouett" opinions: 1 hit - United States v. Simmons, 20 M.J. 567 (Navy-Marine Corps Court of Military Review 1985), a military-justice review filed 39 years after this hull was scrapped; the vessel reference resolves to USS Jouett (CG-29, in commission 1966-1994), a name collision. "Jouett" + asbestos opinions: 1 opinion (2 clusters) - In re Asbestos Products Liability Litigation (No. VI), Barnes v. Various, 770 F. Supp. 2d 736 (E.D. Pa. 2011), an MDL-875 removal/remand decision whose decedent (James Clyde Barnes) matches the USS Jouett Association memorial entry for CG-29 (RMC James C. Barnes, aboard 1985-1988, died April 2008); his alleged exposure window (Long Beach Naval Shipyard 1969-1989) postdates DD-396's scrapping by 23 years - name collision with CG-29, not qualifying for this hull. "DD-396": 0 hits. "Jouett" dockets: 20 hits, all surname collisions (bankruptcies and civil suits against persons named Jouett; Jouett Square apartments) - none maritime or asbestos. Supplementary "Jouett" + Navy opinion sweep: 6 hits - the two collisions above plus Jouett v. United States, 28 Ct. Cl. 257 (1893, surname; a Navy officer's pay claim), D'Arco v. United States, 441 F.2d 1173 (Ct. Cl. 1971, matched on 'Navy' only), and Kilmer Village Corp. v. United States, 153 F. Supp. 393 (Ct. Cl. 1957, other litigation) - none naming this hull.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 2026-09-27 (sweep date); alleged-exposure windows in colliding cases 1969-1989
- Limitations
- Null covers only indexed published opinions and RECAP dockets; unindexed dockets, settled matters, and state-court filings are invisible to this sweep. Barnes's verbatim 'Jouett' sentence was not re-verified in full text (CourtListener fleet pacing); the CG-29 attribution rests on the date-impossibility reasoning documented here and the decedent's memorial-page service window, not on a read of the contested passage. Absence of qualifying litigation is a finding about the public record, not about whether asbestos was aboard.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-jouett-dd396-04
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[5]Batch-3381 search ledger (this record): DANFS/NHHC (live 404; HyperWar transcription), NavSource photo index, NARA deck-log/muster-roll finding aids, CourtListener name + hull sweeps, general web sweep for ship-specific asbestos records (law-firm list pages only - excluded per source rules) [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-jouett-dd396-01 through -08
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, museum documentation, or docketed case naming USS Jouett (DD-396) was found in the public sources searched (see search_ledger). The hull was scrapped at Philadelphia Navy Yard in 1946 - predating both the asbestos-litigation era and the museum/insurance survey regimes that generate most ship-specific records in this dataset.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 2026-09-27
- Limitations
- Absence of a located public record does not prove absence of asbestos aboard - a 1936-38 steam-plant destroyer sits squarely in the peak Navy asbestos era, and class/era inference (ev-03) is consistent with period-standard asbestos use. Does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-jouett-dd396-05
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[6]NARA finding aids: Navy deck logs (post-1940 records at Archives II, College Park; digitization prioritized Vietnam-era logs under the Blue Water Navy/VA agreement) + RG 19 General Information Books (per-hull machinery/material specifications) [other_primary]
- Locator
- archives.gov deck-log digitization status page; NARA RG 24 PI-123 134 finding aid
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Archival leads for hull-level records: (1) NARA RG 19 General Information Books contain per-vessel material/machinery specifications that could include insulation callouts for this hull; (2) Jouett WWII-era deck logs are held at Archives II, College Park, and are not among the digitized sets published in the National Archives Catalog (scanning prioritized Vietnam-era logs); (3) muster rolls for this hull's 1939 commissioning window fall at the tail of RG 24 'Muster Rolls of Ships and Shore Establishments, 1898-1939' (NAID 572847). None retrieved.
- Verification
- unverified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1939-1945 records; 2026-09-27 (check date)
- Population
- N/A - archival leads
- Limitations
- Existence of the record series is verified from NARA finding aids; the Jouett-specific contents have not been pulled and may not be digitized. Establishes nothing about materials aboard this hull until examined.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-jouett-dd396-06