Evidence
6 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-6).
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[1]DANFS, Kimberly I (Destroyer No. 80) - current NHHC entry (live page retrieved 2026-09-27 with browser user-agent; page published 2016-02-24); verbatim transcription cross-checked at hazegray mirror [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS Kimberly I entry, specifications block + service narrative (namesake bio on same page)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS record for this hull: named for Rear Admiral Lewis Ashfield Kimberly (born 22 April 1838, died West Newton, Mass., 28 January 1902; Asiatic/Pacific Station commander; Trenton, Samoa typhoon 1889); launched 14 December 1917 by Fore River Shipbuilding Co., Quincy, Mass.; sponsored by Miss Elsie S. Kimberly; commissioned 26 April 1918, Comdr. A. W. Johnson in command; cleared Boston 19 May 1918 escorting a convoy to the United Kingdom; spent remainder of WWI protecting ships bound for battle zones from the British Isles (Queenstown-based); departed Queenstown 26 December 1918, arrived Boston 8 January 1919; May 1919 lifeguard ship in New England waters for the NC-4 transatlantic flight (Lt. Comdr. Albert C. Read); maneuvers Newport then Boston Navy Yard for extensive repairs; joined Destroyer Force at Newport 18 April 1921, operated with submarines; wintered at Charleston, S.C.; arrived Philadelphia 29 March 1922; decommissioned 30 June 1922; hull sold to Boston Iron & Metal Co., Baltimore, Md., for scrapping. Specs: 1,060 tons; 315'5" x 31'8" x 8'6"; 35 kt; complement 100; 4 x 4", 2 x 1-pdrs., 12 x 21" torpedo tubes; class Wickes.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1917-1939
- Population
- Fore River construction trades 1917-18; USN crew (design complement 100)
- Limitations
- DANFS documents service history and design figures, not materials or asbestos content. DANFS omits the laid-down, stricken, and sale dates - laid down 21 June 1917, stricken 25 January 1937, sold 20 April 1939 carried from NavSource and the destroyers.org (Tin Can Sailors) disposition compilation, secondary sources consistent with each other; launch date conflict (DANFS 14 Dec vs NavSource 17 Dec 1917) logged in gaps.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-kimberly-dd80-01
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[2]DANFS specifications block (Wickes class; 35 kt, cpl. 100) + class machinery data (4 Yarrow water-tube boilers, 2-shaft geared steam turbines, ~24,600-27,000 shp per standard class compilations; Bethlehem 'Little' design variant per NavSource) + Atlas shipyard dataset, fore-river-shipyard record (tier 3, yard-level asbestos documentation) [other_primary]
- Locator
- DANFS spec block; shipyards.json 'fore-river-shipyard'; class machinery data (secondary compilations); PMC2604477 (era practice)
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Era/yard inference: this hull is a Wickes-class 'flush-decker' destroyer of the Bethlehem-design 'Little' variant, built 1917-18 at Fore River Shipbuilding Co., Quincy, with a four-boiler (Yarrow water-tube per class compilations), twin-shaft geared steam-turbine plant rated ~24,600-27,000 shp driving a 35-kt design speed. Marine steam plants of the WWI era carried period-standard insulation on boilers, steam drums, steam lines, and engine components, plus flange gaskets and machinery packing, for which asbestos was the standard marine material; the Atlas shipyard dataset rates fore-river-shipyard tier 3 with asbestos product documentation, though that yard record's dated references concentrate on later eras, not 1917-18.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1917-1939
- Population
- Fore River construction trades 1917-18; USN engineering crew 1918-1922; Philadelphia lay-up personnel 1922-1939; breaker-yard workers 1939
- Limitations
- Class/era and builder-yard inference only - no source names asbestos aboard this hull. Machinery detail (Yarrow boilers, geared turbines, shp ratings) comes from standard class compilations (NavSource, Conway's/Gardiner lineage), not a hull-specific document; the fore-river-shipyard dataset record's asbestos documentation does not establish 1917-18 material use on this hull. Peer-reviewed era context: Hedley-Whyte & Milamed (Ulster Med J 2008, PMC2604477) document US Navy asbestos specification in new submarines by 1922 - postdating this hull's construction but consistent with the same product categories. NARA RG 19 Bureau of Construction & Repair per-vessel material specifications are the open archival lead.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-kimberly-dd80-02
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[3]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 at program level that the Navy used asbestos insulation extensively aboard ships and did not begin substituting alternative insulation materials until the early 1970s - both this hull's 1917-18 construction and every yard period she underwent (Boston Navy Yard repairs 1919-21; Philadelphia Navy Yard decommissioning and lay-up 1922-1939) predate the substitution era.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1979 (report); hull era 1917-1939
- Population
- Navy and shipyard workers (program context)
- Limitations
- Program-level documentation; supports era context only, does not establish asbestos content of this hull. Full text not retrieved - gao.gov blocks automated fetch (HTTP 403); description via product page, consistent with prior batches' use of the same product-page citation.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-kimberly-dd80-03
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[4]Batch-3771 search ledger (this record): NHHC DANFS (live page + hazegray transcription), NavSource destroyer index, destroyers.org disposition compilation, NARA asbestos research guide, web sweep for hull-specific asbestos records; CourtListener exact-name and hull-number sweeps (see search_ledger for results) [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-kimberly-dd80-01 through sl-uss-kimberly-dd80-06
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, museum condition report, or material inventory naming Destroyer No. 80 / DD-80 was found in the public sources searched (see search_ledger). The hull was scrapped in 1939 - predating asbestos regulation and surviving-record practices - so no post-1970s documentation channel exists. NARA's own research guidance frames shipboard-asbestos documentation as a 1941-1961 Bureau of Ships records problem, postdating this hull's entire existence.
- 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 1917-18 steam plant is era-consistent with asbestos insulation. Does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility for any person, including Fore River construction trades, wartime crew, Philadelphia lay-up caretakers, and Boston Iron & Metal breaker-yard workers.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-kimberly-dd80-04
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[5]NARA, Logbooks of U.S. Navy Ships 1801-1940 (RG 24 Entry 118, NAID 581208; Archives I, Washington DC; Special List #44) + NARA asbestos research guide (RG 19) + NARA RG 19 Bureau of Construction & Repair records [other_primary]
- Locator
- archives.gov navy logbooks research page; archives.gov 'Researching Asbestos aboard US Naval Vessel up through 1961' guided topic
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Archival leads not yet pulled: (1) NARA RG 24 Entry 118 holds pre-1941 U.S. Navy logbooks (Special List #44, listable by ship name or number) covering this hull's 1918-1922 commissioned period - paper records at Archives I, not digitized; (2) NARA RG 19 Bureau of Construction & Repair / Bureau of Ships records (General Information Books, contract specifications, and the asbestos research guide's documented correspondence series) may hold Fore River construction material specifications - noting the guide's correspondence coverage runs 1940-1961, postdating this hull; (3) NHHC photographic holdings for DD-80 exist per the photo-archive structure of the DANFS system but no catalog numbers were printed on this entry.
- Verification
- unverified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1917-1939 records
- Limitations
- Leads only - none of these records was retrieved or reviewed; their content on this hull's materials is unknown and cannot be presumed.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-kimberly-dd80-05
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[6]CourtListener API v4 authenticated searches (type=o opinions and type=r dockets), 2026-09-27 [court_record]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-kimberly-dd80-04 through sl-uss-kimberly-dd80-06; collision detail: Volkswagenwerk v. McCurdy (Fla. 4th DCA 1976, court docket no. DD-80)
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- No qualifying asbestos litigation naming Destroyer No. 80 / DD-80 located. Sweeps and collision resolution: (1) '"USS Kimberly"' exact-name opinion search: 0 hits; (2) '"USS Kimberly" OR "U.S.S. Kimberly"' docket search (type=r): 0 hits; (3) '"DD-80"' hull-number opinion search: 3 hits, all collisions - Volkswagenwerk, etc. v. McCurdy (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1976) matched on the court's own docket number 'DD-80'; an untitled Texas Attorney General opinion (1963, docket C-173) and Vargas (Tex. App. 2015, PD-0229-15) matched on incidental 'DD-80' strings, zero ship references; (4) 'Kimberly asbestos' surname-collision check: 308 hits, first page all collisions - Kimberly-Clark Corp. product/worker-compensation litigation and persons named Kimberly, zero ship references. Temporal-resolution rule applied (per the Wainwright DD-62 precedent, batch-3592): any asbestos-era 'USS Kimberly' exposure allegation is temporally impossible for a hull scrapped in 1939 - the reference can only attach to USS Kimberly DD-521 (Fletcher class, commissioned 1943, transferred to Taiwan 1967), and no such allegation surfaced in any queried index.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 2026-09-27
- Limitations
- Litigation coverage is limited to CourtListener-indexed state/federal opinions and federal dockets; unindexed state trial-court filings and settled MDL-875 claimant records are not covered. The three DD-80 opinion hits were classified as collisions from returned metadata (court docket numbers and non-naval case contexts) without full-text pull. No search can prove the absence of all possible litigation.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-kimberly-dd80-06