Evidence
9 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-9).
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[1]NPS National Historic Landmark nomination, USS Kidd (DD-661), NRHP ref. 83000502 (nomination circa 1983-85; NHL designated 1986-01-14) [nps]
- Locator
- NPS NHL nomination form, items 4-5 (owner, location), 7 (description incl. machinery data), 8 (significance)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NPS NHL nomination record for this hull: 'USS Kidd (DD-661) Is a World War II Fletcher class destroyer. She was built by the Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Company, Kearny, New Jersey. She was launched February 28, 1943, and was commissioned April 23, 1943.' Machinery data: 4 Babcock & Wilcox boilers, 2-shaft General Electric turbines, 35 knots maximum speed, crew 273 wartime. 'On April 11, 1945, during the invasion of Okinawa, USS Kidd was struck by a Japanese kamikaze and lost 38 dead and 55 wounded. USS Kidd received four battle stars for her World War II service.' 'USS Kidd is the only surviving World War II destroyer that was not modernized during the post war period.' Owner of record: State of Louisiana, Louisiana Naval War Memorial Commission.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-19
- Study period
- 1943-1945; nomination circa 1983-1985
- Population
- Construction trades 1942-43; wartime crew (~273); museum visitors/staff
- Limitations
- NPS nomination documents construction, service significance, and machinery fit - not asbestos content. No laid-down date is given in the nomination; hull-specific materials specifications were not located; the nomination's integrity findings are about modernization status, not insulation content. Its 'four battle stars' WWII count conflicts with the museum's eight - carried in gaps. URL serves the PDF on GET (verified 2026-09-19); HEAD requests return 404.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-kidd-dd661-01
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[2]USS Kidd Veterans Museum official pages: Ship History; USS KIDD Overhaul 2024/25 announcement (2024-04-24); ship statistics block (usskidd.com) [museum_official]
- Locator
- usskidd.com ship-history page; /plan-your-visit/uss-kidd-overhaul-2024-25/; statistics block (keel laid, launched, commissioned, final decommissioning)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Operator record for this hull: keel laid October 16, 1942 (statistics block); one of four destroyers launched February 28, 1943 in a record fourteen minutes; commissioned April 23, 1943; decommissioned December 10, 1946; recommissioned March 28, 1951; decommissioned for the last time June 19, 1964; stricken 1975 (museum's date); arrived under tow at Baton Rouge May 23, 1982; opened to the public August 27, 1983; presented as the only Fletcher-class destroyer restored to WWII (August 1945) configuration, moored in a cradle that rises and falls with the Mississippi. Overhaul page (2024-04-24): extracted from cradle by T&T Salvage for tow to Thoma-Sea Marine Constructors (TMC), Houma, LA - 'USS Kidd's last overhaul was in 1962'; hull repairs plus cradle refurbishment; museum site banner confirms 'The USS KIDD is currently in Houma undergoing repairs' with return tied to the next high-water cycle (earliest spring 2027).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-19
- Study period
- 1943-present; overhaul 2024-2026
- Population
- Museum visitors/staff; restoration and shipyard workers 2024-26
- Limitations
- Museum materials document custody, configuration, and overhaul scope; neither the museum release nor any linked coverage discloses an asbestos survey, removal, or abatement component - no ACM finding should be read into or out of that silence. The museum's battle-star count (twelve: eight WWII, four Korea) and stricken year (1975) conflict with DANFS/NPS and secondary compilations respectively - conflicts carried in gaps.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-kidd-dd661-02
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[3]DANFS, Kidd II (DD-661) - verbatim transcription carried by globalsecurity.org mirror (live NHHC page 404; hazegray.org unreachable; ibiblio dafs path 404) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS entry narrative paragraphs (postwar inactivation, 1962 assignment, decommissioning, awards line)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS record for this hull: launched 28 February 1943 by Federal Shipbuilding & Drydock Co., Kearny, N.J., sponsored by Mrs. Isaac C. Kidd; commissioned 23 April 1943, Comdr. Allan Roby in command. Postwar: 'On 1 August 1945, Kidd sailed to Pearl Harbor and returned to San Diego 24 September 1945 for inactivation. She decommissioned 10 December 1946 and entered the Pacific Reserve Fleet.' 'Kidd arrived Norfolk 5 February 1962 and joined Task Force Alfa for ASW exercises. On 24 April she was assigned to the Naval Destroyer School at Newport.' 'Kidd decommissioned 19 June 1964, entered the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, and at present is berthed at Philadelphia.' 'Kidd received four battle stars for World War II service and four battle stars for Korean service.'
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-19
- Study period
- 1943-1964
- Population
- Wartime and postwar crew (design complement 273 wartime)
- Limitations
- DANFS documents service history and specifications, not materials or asbestos content. Transcription mirror cited because the live NHHC page returns 404 and hazegray.org is unreachable this session; mirror text matches the DANFS boilerplate pattern and the NPS-verified core dates. The 4+4 battle-star count is the Navy record - the museum's 8+4 count conflicts and is carried in gaps.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-kidd-dd661-03
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[4]NPS NHL nomination machinery data (4 B&W boilers, 2-shaft GE turbines) + Atlas shipyard dataset, Federal Shipbuilding-Kearny record incl. Owens-Illinois Industrial Health Survey of Federal Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., Kearny, NJ (Aug. 30 - Sep. 2, 1944) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NPS nomination item 7 (machinery data); shipyards.json record 'federal-shipbuilding-kearny' (toxicdocs.org survey scan)
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Era/yard inference: a WWII Fletcher-class destroyer built 1942-43 with a four-boiler/60,000-shp steam plant would have carried period-standard asbestos boiler and steam-line insulation, turbine lagging, gaskets, packing, fireproofing, and deck coverings; builder Federal Shipbuilding & Drydock (Kearny) is documented at yard level in the Atlas dataset - including the 1944 Owens-Illinois industrial-health survey documenting insulator work with asbestos pipe covering (Johns-Manville Superex) and boiler insulation in confined shipboard spaces at the yard.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-19
- Study period
- 1942-1964
- Population
- Federal Shipbuilding construction trades 1942-43; crew 1943-64
- Limitations
- Class/era and builder-yard inference only - NOT a hull-specific finding. The 1944 yard survey postdates this hull's February 1943 launch and documents yard practice, not materials installed aboard DD-661. Does not quantify material or establish any individual's exposure.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-kidd-dd661-04
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[5]GAO, Navy Efforts To Protect Workers From Asbestos Exposure, HRD-80-2 (Oct 18, 1979) [gao]
- Locator
- GAO product page HRD-80-2
- Finding type
- gov_survey
- Finding
- GAO documented that the Navy used asbestos insulation extensively aboard ships and did not begin substituting alternative insulation materials until the early 1970s - placing DD-661's construction (1942-43) and entire commissioned service (1943-1964) inside the documented asbestos-use era.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-19
- Study period
- 1979
- Population
- Navy shipyard workers; asbestos program review
- Limitations
- Program-level documentation; supports era context only, not any fact specific to this hull. Full report text not retrieved (gao.gov blocks automated fetch) - content via product-page description.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-kidd-dd661-05
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[6]CourtListener exact-name results for 'USS Kidd': United States v. Jordan (references USS KIDD DDG-993, a different hull); United States v. Del Prado-Montero (post-1981 Kidd-class destroyer context); Baton Rouge criminal dockets referencing the museum site; Smargisso (N.D. Cal.) asbestos wrongful-death docket - resolved non-qualifying by ev-uss-kidd-dd661-07 [court_record]
- Locator
- CourtListener search results, 'USS Kidd' exact-name query set (classified 2026-09-15; re-check blocked 2026-09-19)
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- Verified name collisions: CourtListener 'USS Kidd' hits refer to later hulls - USS KIDD (DDG-993, in service 1981-1998) and possibly USS KIDD (DDG-100, 2007-) - or to the Baton Rouge museum as a location in unrelated criminal matters. The asbestos-docket 'USS Kidd' references (Smargisso; MacQueen) were resolved by prior full-text review as museum-archive citations, not exposure aboard - see ev-uss-kidd-dd661-07. No qualifying case names DD-661.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- correction
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-09-19
- Study period
- 2026-09-15 / 2026-09-19
- Limitations
- None of these records documents DD-661; carried as a correction row because exact-name searches return them. Re-verification was not possible this session: CourtListener returned HTTP 429 (API v4) and 403 (Atom feed; document fetches) on 2026-09-19 - the classification stands on the prior verified review; a fresh docket sweep is an open gap.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-kidd-dd661-06
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[7]Smargisso v. Air & Liquid Systems Corp. (N.D. Cal.), expert report, ECF No. 132-3; MacQueen v. Union Carbide Corp. (E.D. Pa., MDL-875 remand), ECF No. 27 [court_record]
- Locator
- Smargisso ECF 132-3 (Crane Master Parts Book recital); MacQueen ECF 27 paras. 29-31 (U.S.S. Kidd museum library exhibit descriptions)
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- Prior full-text review (2026-09-15) resolved the 'USS Kidd'/'DD-661' docket references: in both asbestos dockets the hull appears only as the MUSEUM ARCHIVE holding technical reference material used as litigation exhibits - the Smargisso expert report cites 'a copy of the Crane Company Master Parts Book... found in the engineering log room onboard USS KIDD (DD 661) the museum ship berthed in Baton Rouge' (the exposure ship in that case was USS HOLLISTER, DD-788), and the MacQueen filing twice cites the 'U.S.S. Kidd (DD-661) ship museum' library as the source of attached technical manuals (a Warren Pumps DD-445-class manual; a Troy Laundry extractor manual). Neither docket alleges exposure aboard this hull. NON-QUALIFYING as exposure-site litigation at the discovery stage; the museum library is a recurring evidentiary repository for other vessels' cases.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- correction
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-19
- Study period
- 2013 (MacQueen filing); Smargisso litigation era
- Population
- Museum archival holdings cited by litigants; no plaintiff service aboard this hull
- Limitations
- Resolves the indexed references' context only; proves the museum library holds period Navy technical literature used in asbestos litigation, not that this hull carried or lacked specific materials. Discovery-stage documents; recitals of exhibit provenance, not findings of fact. Re-pull for re-verification blocked this session (CourtListener 429/403).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-kidd-dd661-07
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[8]NARA, 'Researching Asbestos aboard US Naval Vessel up through 1961' (archives.gov guided topic) [other_primary]
- Locator
- archives.gov guided topic, 'Beginning Research' and 'Bureau of Ships General, Confidential, and Secret Correspondence' sections (DD661 worked example; series entry list)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- NARA's official asbestos-research guidance uses THIS HULL as its worked example: 'For example, the USS Kidd (DD 661) is a Fletcher-class Destroyer. The hull designation and filing code designation for the Kidd would be "DD661." If you need to research machinery that was included aboard the Kidd, but was not well covered in the correspondence files specific to the Kidd, then you can move on to the class correspondence of the Fletcher-class destroyers... search for the hull number of the ship that bears the classes' namesake [USS Fletcher DD 445 - filing code "DD445 Class"].' The page maps the RG 19 (Bureau of Ships) research path: hull-specific correspondence (DD661), class correspondence (DD445 Class), type correspondence (DD), and builder-yard correspondence (private yards under 'QM/CompanyName'; e.g., QM/Bath Iron Works - Federal Shipbuilding would file under QM/Federal Shipbuilding). Relevant series enumerated: RG 19 Entries A1 1266-A through -P (General Correspondence 1940-45), UD 1017-A (Confidential General Correspondence 1946), UD 1001-1013+ (Unclassified General Correspondence 1947-61).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-19
- Study period
- Records span 1940-1961; guidance page current
- Population
- Researchers/veterans documenting shipboard asbestos; potential correspondents: BuShips-DD661 files
- Limitations
- Archival-lead documentation only: the page establishes that hull-specific and class correspondence series exist at NARA and how they are filed - it does not itself establish what was installed aboard DD-661, and no retrieval from those series was performed. NARA states it cannot perform this research; files are not digitized.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-kidd-dd661-08
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[9]Batch-276 search ledger (this record): NPS NHL nomination 83000502 (GET-verified); official museum pages incl. overhaul announcement; DANFS via globalsecurity mirror; CourtListener blocked (429/403) with prior verified classification carried; 2024-26 overhaul coverage (museum, WAFB, Waterways Journal x3, The Advocate, KATC, WBRZ, 225batonrouge) reviewed for hazmat disclosure [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-kidd-dd661-04 through sl-uss-kidd-dd661-12
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located for DD-661: no hull ACM survey, no museum hazmat/abatement disclosure (including in all 2024-26 drydock/overhaul coverage reviewed - the overhaul scope is described as hull-steel replacement, watertightness welding, camouflage repaint, and cradle refurbishment), and no qualifying asbestos case names this hull; all CourtListener 'USS Kidd' hits classify as name collisions (DDG-993/DDG-100 era), location references, or museum-archive citations.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-19
- Study period
- 2026-09-19
- Limitations
- Absence of a located public record does not prove absence of asbestos aboard - the museum's unmodernized WWII configuration is itself consistent with retained era materials, but that is not a ship-specific documentation finding. Does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility. The CourtListener re-sweep was blocked this session (see sl-09 through sl-11); the litigation classification rests on the prior verified review plus this session's independent web search (no qualifying hit surfaced).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-kidd-dd661-09