Evidence
12 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-12).
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[1]research packet lw-packet.md (2 sources cited) [other_primary]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERIFIED. Queue name/hull match; dates consistent with DANFS-incorporating article and hullnumber — real identity: USS Julius A. Furer; hulls: DEG-6 (later FFG-6, 30 Jun 1975)
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-julius-a-furer-deg6-pkt-lw-packet-md
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[2]DANFS, Julius A. Furer (DEG-6) entry (published 24 Jul 2015; live NHHC page returns 404 - Wayback capture 2025-12-09 cited) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS Julius A. Furer (DEG-6) entry, specifications block + full text (short entry)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS record for this hull: specification block reads '(DEG-6: dp. 3,426 t.; l. 414'6"; b. 44'1"; dr. 24'6"; s. 27.2 k.; cpl. 248; a. 1 5", 1 Tar. mis., 1 DASH; cl. Brooke)'; namesake biography of Rear Admiral Julius Augustus Furer (born 9 October 1880, Mosel, Wis.; died 6 June 1963) - 'naval constructor, inventor, administrator, and author': Navy Cross for the WWI 110-foot submarine-chaser program; Legion of Merit (30 June 1945) as WWII Coordinator of Research and Development; author of 'Administration of the Navy Department in World War II' (published 1960); ship 'launched 22 July 1966 by the Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine; and sponsored by Mrs. Julius A. Furer, widow of Rear Admiral Julius A. Furer. Commissioned 11 November 1967.'
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1963-1967
- Population
- Crew 1967-1989 (DANFS design complement 248); Bath Iron Works construction trades 1965-67
- Limitations
- DANFS documents identity, specifications, namesake, and build/commission dates - it contains no post-commissioning operational history and no materials or asbestos information. Live NHHC page 404s - verbatim Wayback capture (2025-12-09) cited.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-julius-a-furer-deg6-01
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[3]NavSource Online: Destroyer Escort Photo Archive, USS Julius A. Furer (DEG 6) page - specifications block and Building and Operational Data [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource DEG-6 page, specifications block + 'Building and Operational Data' section
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NavSource data sheet for this hull: class Brooke (SCB No. 199B / 1962-1963, 6 ships); 2,620 tons standard / 3,400 tons full; 414'6" oa; propulsion 2 Foster Wheeler 1,200-psi boilers, 1 Westinghouse geared turbine, 35,000 shp, 1 shaft; 27 kts; complement 17 officers / 219 enlisted; armament 1 Mk22 Mod 0 launcher (16 Tartar/Standard-MR SAMs), 1 5"/38 Mk30 gun, 1 Mk16 ASROC launcher (8-cell), 6 Mk32 torpedo tubes, SH-2 LAMPS helicopter. Building/operational milestones: contract awarded to Bath Iron Works Corp. 24 May 1963; keel laid 12 July 1965 at Bath; launched/christened 22 July 1966 sponsored by Mrs. Julius A. Furer; commissioned at Boston Naval Shipyard 11 November 1967, Cmdr. Peter A. Stark, Jr. in command; reclassified frigate FFG-6 on 30 June 1975; decommissioned 31 January 1989, leased to Pakistan, renamed PNS Badr (D-161); struck from the NVR 2 January 1994; returned to U.S. Navy at Singapore 29 March 1994 and sold for scrapping to Trusha Investments Pte. Ltd. c/o Jacques Pierot, Jr. & Sons Inc., New York, for $660,600.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1963-1994
- Population
- Crew 1967-1989; Pakistani crew 1989-1993; scrapping workforce 1994
- Limitations
- Secondary compiled archive (volunteer photo/data archive mirroring official ship data sheets and MARAD disposition records) - cited for the Pakistan lease identity, sale price/broker detail, complement split, and propulsion detail that DANFS omits. Its '29 March 1994' entry conflates Pakistan's December 1993 return of the ship with the March 1994 sale; the stricken date agrees with NVR. No asbestos or materials content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-julius-a-furer-deg6-02
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[4]Naval Vessel Register, JULIUS A FURER (FFG 6) (ex-DEG 6) detail page (UIC 04699; Wayback capture 2012-02-24) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NVR FFG6 detail page, status/builder/dates block
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NVR record for this hull: builder Bath Iron Wks Corp.; award date 05/24/1963; keel 07/12/1965; launch 07/22/1966; delivery 11/03/1967; commission 11/11/1967; decommission 01/31/1989; stricken 01/02/1994; status 'Disposed of by Navy title transfer to the Maritime Administration,' status changed 03/28/1994; register class field 'FFG 1' (the register groups the six Brooke-class ships under the FFG-1 class heading).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1963-1994
- Limitations
- Official register dates and disposition only - no materials, asbestos, or hazmat fields. Stricken 01/02/1994 (2 January) conflicts with Wikipedia's '2 February 1994' - NVR carried as authoritative; conflict logged in gaps. Hull was disposed before the current live NVR site's coverage; archived 2012 capture cited.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-julius-a-furer-deg6-03
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[5]MARAD Vessel History Database, JULIUS A. FURER (record 6046) + Form MA-20 Record of Ship Sales status card (contract MA-12866) [marad_nrc]
- Locator
- vesselhistory.marad.dot.gov record 6046; status card image /cards/6046_AF.jpg
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- MARAD record for this hull: 'Year Built 1967; Shipyard Bath Iron Works Corporation; Naval Combatant, FFG Guided Missile Frigate; Fate: Sold - No Further Info.' The attached Form MA-20 status card records: JULIUS A. FURER (FFG-6), type Frigate (Navy Design); awarded to Trusha Investments Pte. Ltd., date 3-9-94, purchase price $660,600.00; contract no. MA-12866; tons LSW 2,935; LOA 414'06", breadth 44'02.25", depth 30'; location of vessel Singapore; acquisition pursuant to Section 510(i) of the Merchant Marine Act, 1916, as amended by Public Law 101-595 (enacted Nov. 16, 1990).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1994
- Population
- Scrapping workforce, Singapore disposal chain, 1994
- Limitations
- Primary disposal record documenting the 1994 sale chain at Singapore - contains no asbestos, hazmat, or environmental fields; says nothing about breaking location, conditions, or materials handling. The MA-20 award date (9 March 1994), NVR status-change (28 March), and NavSource sale date (29 March) describe the same March 1994 disposal sequence with minor date spread - logged in gaps.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-julius-a-furer-deg6-04
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[6]B.V. Bureau Wijsmuller v. United States, 1976 A.M.C. 2514 (S.D.N.Y. 1976) (arbitration motion denied); same case merits decision, 487 F. Supp. 156 (S.D.N.Y. Sept. 20, 1979, Haight, J., No. 76 Civ. 2494-CSH), CourtListener opinion 2125618; affirmed, Second Circuit, May 1, 1980 (docket 79-6263) [court_record]
- Locator
- 487 F. Supp. 156 (opinion factual recital: grounding 30 June 1974, four tugs); 1976 A.M.C. 2514; 2d Cir. summary affirmance 5/1/80
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- Published federal admiralty opinions name this hull: Dutch salvor B.V. Bureau Wijsmuller sued the United States under the Public Vessels Act (46 U.S.C. sec. 781 et seq.) for salvage services to USS JULIUS A. FURER after she grounded on a sandbar off the Dutch coast (west of Den Helder) on 30 June-1 July 1974 during a STANAVFORLANT deployment; the commander's signature on a Lloyd's Open Form did not bind the United States to London arbitration (1976 decision); on the merits the court fixed a salvage award after a bench trial (1979), affirmed by the Second Circuit (1 May 1980). Four Wijsmuller tugs refloated the ship; secondary compilation records only minor propeller-blade damage.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1974 (casualty); 1976-1980 (litigation)
- Population
- Wijsmuller salvage crews (Dutch tugs, June-July 1974); ship's crew during casualty
- Limitations
- Admiralty salvage litigation, NOT asbestos litigation - documents the grounding/salvage event and the ship's 1974 NATO-deployment posture only; says nothing about materials aboard, insulation disturbance, or any exposure. Merits opinion verified on CourtListener (opinion 2125618); the similarly-named B.V. Bureau Wijsmuller v. United States, 702 F.2d 333 (2d Cir. 1983), is a DIFFERENT case (M/V Pioneer Commander grounding off Scotland, 1977) and is not about this hull.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-julius-a-furer-deg6-05
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[7]Cdr. Bruce R. Linder, USN, 'The Garcias and Brookes: One Last Look,' U.S. Naval Institute Naval History, Vol. 3 No. 2 (April 1989), incl. class data table sourced to Combat Fleets of the World 1988/89 [reputable_press]
- Locator
- Naval History April 1989 article text + 'The Brookes and Garcias' data table
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Contemporaneous professional account of the class at retirement names this hull: the class table lists 'FFG-6 Julius A. Furer | Bath Iron Works | in service 1967 | decommissioning 1989.' Article documents that Garcia- and Brooke-class escorts were built around innovative 1,200-psi pressure-fired ('P-fired') boilers giving ~70% more power than predecessors on a compact single-shaft steam plant; 'inordinately high maintenance costs' and the P-fired boilers are named as the reason the classes were retired early at ~21.8 years average age; Pakistan, Turkey, and Brazil interest in leasing the retiring ships is noted.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1966-1989
- Population
- Class crews (6 Brooke-class ships)
- Limitations
- Class-level professional-press account (ship appears by name in the class table); documents engineering-plant character and retirement rationale, not asbestos or materials content. Written April 1989, so disposal outcomes are prospective.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-julius-a-furer-deg6-06
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[8]NavSource DEG-6 specifications block (plant detail) + GAO HRD-80-2 (Navy asbestos-program timeline for insulation substitution) + USNI April 1989 class article (pressure-fired boiler design) + Atlas shipyards.json Bath Iron Works record (yard-level asbestos documentation) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource DEG-6 specifications block; GAO product page HRD-80-2; USNI Naval History Apr 1989; shipyards.json 'bath-iron-works'
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Era/class inference: a steam-powered guided-missile escort built 1965-67 at Bath Iron Works with two 1,200-psi pressure-fired Foster Wheeler boilers and a 35,000-shp geared turbine was completed in the peak years of Navy asbestos use; era-standard applications included boiler casing and fireroom insulation, steam-pipe lagging, turbine lagging, valve and flange gaskets and packing, bulkhead/overhead fireproofing, deck coverings, and cable insulation. The Navy did not begin substituting alternative insulation materials until the early 1970s. Builder Bath Iron Works is documented at yard level in the Atlas shipyard dataset (tier 2: 1942 pipe-covering-shop dust-risk study; 1987 OSHA inspection recording asbestos-standard citations and bulk/personal sample results; supplier asbestos litigation). The class's documented reputation for heavy boiler-plant maintenance (USNI, April 1989) implies frequent disturbance of machinery-space insulation across the service life, but no hull-specific disturbance record was located.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1965-1994
- Population
- Bath Iron Works construction trades 1965-67; engineering crew 1967-89; overhaul/availability yard workers; Pakistani crew 1989-93
- Limitations
- Class/era and builder-yard inference only - no hull-specific insulation survey, specification extract, or work package located. Names era-standard applications, not confirmed installed materials on this hull; establishes no quantity and nothing about conditions during Pakistan service or the 1994 breaking. Yard-level findings document the builder's asbestos era, not this vessel's fitout.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-julius-a-furer-deg6-07
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[9]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 asbestos-protection program during this ship's service era: standing policy (1975) removed asbestos insulation only when damaged or required for repairs, modified 1979 to selective replacement in high-maintenance areas - meaning original-era insulation typically remained in place for decades unless a yard period disturbed it.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1979
- Population
- Navy shipyard workers; asbestos program review
- Limitations
- Program-level documentation; GAO fieldwork was at Long Beach and Norfolk Naval Shipyards, not this ship's yards. Supports era context for why insulation persisted aboard, not any fact specific to this hull; full text not retrieved (gao.gov blocks automated fetch, HTTP 403) - description via product page.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-julius-a-furer-deg6-08
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[10]Archival leads: NARA RG 24 deck logs (USS Julius A. Furer DEG/FFG-6, 1967-1988); NHHC ship command operation reports (not located digitized for this hull); BuShips/NAVSEA SCB 199B specifications and per-vessel General Information Books; MARAD disposal file for contract MA-12866; Bath Iron Works hull records [other_primary]
- Locator
- NARA RG 24 (Navy deck logs, per NARA holdings description); NHHC command-operation-reports collection; MARAD vessel-history record 6046
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Hull-level records that could contain ship-specific materials or hazmat data: NARA Record Group 24 deck logs for the commission period; BuShips/NAVSEA SCB 199B design specifications and per-vessel General Information Books; the MARAD disposal file behind status card 6046 (contract MA-12866 may carry sale conditions or hazmat disclosures); NHHC command-operation-reports collection (no digitized Furer PDFs located); Boston Naval Shipyard fitting-out records (commissioning yard).
- Verification
- unverified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1963-1994
- Limitations
- Leads only - contents not examined; presence of asbestos-related entries in any of these records is unknown.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-julius-a-furer-deg6-09
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[11]Batch-4566 search ledger (this record): CourtListener API v4 opinion searches for exact name and hull numbers; single hull-naming hit B. v. Bureau Wijsmuller v. United States, 487 F. Supp. 156 (S.D.N.Y. 1979) [court_record]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-julius-a-furer-deg6-08 and -12 through -14; OCR review of gov.uscourts.nysd.428768 document 2-17 (59 pages) via archive.org
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- No qualifying asbestos litigation naming this hull was located in CourtListener opinion or RECAP docket indexes (queries: "Julius A. Furer" opinions = 3 hits - the Wijsmuller salvage merits opinion (admiralty, naming this hull) plus two clusters of Stevens Technical Services v. United States, 913 F.2d 1521 (11th Cir. 1990), which cite Wijsmuller as salvage precedent in an unrelated case about USNS Sealift Antarctic - name collisions; "DEG-6" = 11 hits, all name collisions (docket/degree artifacts in unrelated state and federal cases 1910-2011, none maritime); "FFG-6" = 0 hits; "Julius A. Furer" RECAP dockets = 1 hit - George v. A.W. Chesterton Company, S.D.N.Y. 1:14-cv-04511 (filed 2014-06-23, terminated 2014-08-22; nature of suit 368 P.I.: Asbestos; plaintiff Richard A. George, Weitz & Luxenberg) - full-text review of the 59-page removal attachment (ECF 2-17) confirms 'Julius A. Furer' appears only as Rear Admiral Furer, the ship's namesake, inside a scanned naval-research-history exhibit; the hull is never named - name collision). No asbestos survey, abatement contract, or hazmat disclosure naming this hull was located in any source searched (see search_ledger).
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 2026-09-29
- Limitations
- CourtListener coverage is opinions + RECAP dockets, not all state/federal filings; unindexed complaints and settled MDL-875 claims would not appear. Absence of a located public record does not prove absence of asbestos aboard - a 1965-67 steam plant is era-consistent with extensive ACM.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-julius-a-furer-deg6-10
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[12]navysite.de, USS Julius A. Furer (FFG-6) history page - operational service chronology compilation (secondary) [other_primary]
- Locator
- navysite.de FFG6.HTM, 'History' chronology section
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Secondary operational chronology for this hull: precommissioning training at Fleet Training Center Newport and final acceptance work at Bath; Caribbean shakedown incl. Guantanamo Bay; May 1968 assignment to the search for USS Scorpion (SSN-589); first Mediterranean Sixth Fleet deployment 1968 (plane guard, hunter-killer and amphibious work; Palma, Valletta, Livorno, Venice, Messina); Mediterranean deployment 1972; LAMPS helicopter capability added about 1973; homeport Charleston, S.C., Destroyer Squadron 20; STANAVFORLANT deployment January-June 1974 with northern-European port calls; grounding on the Haaksgrunden Bank west of Den Helder early 1 July 1974 during a medical-evacuation maneuver, refloated by Wijsmuller tugs with minor propeller damage; Bicentennial International Naval Review/Operation Sail, New York, July 1976; Mediterranean deployment October 1976-April 1977 incl. screen duty for USS Franklin D. Roosevelt (CV-42); U.S. delegation to the Silver Jubilee naval review June-July 1977; West Africa-Indian Ocean cruise late 1977 (off Victoria, Seychelles, 13 January 1978); Mediterranean return transit 1979; Mediterranean deployment 1982 during the Lebanon crisis incl. August 1982 escort of M/V Nereus (Beirut to Port Said) and West German hospital ship M/V Flora (Beirut to Larnaca); Mediterranean-Indian Ocean deployment 1984 (turnover with USS Ainsworth at Port Suez; concurrent with USS Stark at Muscat, Oman, 11-13 August 1984); final years Charleston-based with increasing maintenance/upkeep periods.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1967-1989
- Population
- Crew 1967-1989
- Limitations
- Secondary volunteer-compiled chronology - individual deployment details not re-verified against primary records (deck logs, command operation reports); milestone anchors (1974 grounding, 1975 reclassification, 1989 decommissioning/lease) corroborated by DANFS/NVR/NavSource/court record. Compilation dates grounding 'early 1 July 1974'; the federal opinion fixes the casualty at 30 June-1 July 1974. No asbestos or materials content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-julius-a-furer-deg6-11