Evidence
15 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-15).
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[1]research packet crew-manus-c-packet.md (27 sources cited) [nhhc_danfs]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERIFIED — real identity: USS Knox
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-knox-ff1052-pkt-crew-manus-c-packet-md
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[2]DANFS, 'Knox II (DE-1052)' (Naval History and Heritage Command ship-history entry; read via Wayback capture 2016-03-04; live history.navy.mil URL 404s under current scheme) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS entry: namesake biography + building data + specification block
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS 'Knox II (DE-1052)' entry for this hull: namesake Commodore Dudley Wright Knox (USNA 1896; Officer in Charge, Office of Naval Records and Library; Curator, Navy Department; author of 'A History of the United States Navy', 1936); the first Knox (APA-46) was named for Knox counties in nine states - a different hull. Building/specification block (pre-completion): displacement 2,624; length 414 ft 6 in; beam 44 ft; draft 18 ft; speed 27.4 k; complement 247; armament one 5-in gun, ASROC, DASH drone, four 21-in torpedo tubes; class Knox. Laid down 5 October 1965 by Todd Shipyards Corp., Seattle, Wash.; launched 19 November 1966, sponsored by Mrs. Peter A. Sturtevant, granddaughter of Commodore Knox.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- through 1968 (entry predates completion; no post-launch service narrative)
- Population
- Todd Shipyards construction trades 1965-69; crew from 1969
- Limitations
- Entry is a pre-completion stub: it contains no commissioning text and no service history, so all post-1966 milestones rest on NVR and secondary sources. Its specification block predates completion and conflicts with NVR figures (carried in gaps). DANFS documents history and specifications, not materials or asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-knox-ff1052-01
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[3]Naval Vessel Register, ship detail page for KNOX (FF 1052) (read via Wayback capture 2024-07-26; live NVR detail page is empty for this disposed hull) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NVR ship-detail page: milestones table + physical characteristics block
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Naval Vessel Register detail record 'KNOX (FF 1052) (ex - DE 1052)': builder Todd Shipyards Corp., contract award 22 July 1964; keel laid 10/05/1965; launched 11/19/1966; delivered 03/28/1969; commissioned 04/12/1969; decommissioned 02/14/1992; stricken 01/11/1995; status 'Disposed of in support of Fleet exercises' (last updated 09/05/2007; disposition effective 08/07/2007). Characteristics: overall length 437 ft, waterline length 415 ft, extreme beam 47 ft, max navigational draft 25 ft (draft limit 17 ft listed), light displacement 3,200 t, full displacement 4,163 t; hull steel with aluminum superstructure; propulsion 'Steam Turbines'; accommodations 17 officers / 240 enlisted.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1964-2007
- Population
- crew 1969-1992 (NVR accommodations 17 officers / 240 enlisted)
- Limitations
- NVR is authoritative for milestones, dimensions, and disposition status but carries no service narrative, no materials/asbestos content, and no yard-period detail. Draft is listed both as 25 ft max navigational and 17 ft 'limit' - the 25 ft figure matches DANFS-consistent class data. Disposed-hull pages are removed from the live register; archived capture cited.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-knox-ff1052-02
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[4]U.S. Navy / Naval History and Heritage Command, 'Ships Eligible for the Vietnam Service Medal / Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal' official list (713-ship compilation), entry 'KNOX DE-1052' [other_primary]
- Locator
- NHHC VSM/AFEM eligibility list, K-section
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Official Navy ship-eligibility list compiled by NHHC for the Vietnam Service Medal / Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal expressly includes 'KNOX DE-1052' among the qualifying ships - corroborating this hull's documented participation in the surface support force for Operation Eagle Pull (Phnom Penh evacuation, 12 April 1975) and Operation Frequent Wind (Saigon evacuation, 29-30 April 1975) during its October 1974 WestPac deployment.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1974-1975
- Population
- crew on 1974-75 WestPac deployment
- Limitations
- The list establishes medal eligibility for qualifying operations, not a day-by-day operational record; it corroborates but does not itself narrate the Eagle Pull/Frequent Wind support role, whose detail comes from secondary compilations. No materials/asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-knox-ff1052-03
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[5]DANFS, 'Chicago III (CG-11)' entry (Naval History and Heritage Command), March 1971 passage documenting the tow of the fire-disabled Knox [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS Chicago entry, 1971 passage
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Major engineering casualty documented: on 3 March 1971, returning eastward to Pearl Harbor from her first WestPac deployment, USS Knox suffered a JP-5 fire in her engineering spaces and lost propulsion. The DANFS history of USS Chicago (CG-11) records that Chicago answered Knox's distress call on 4 March and 'took [her] under tow until a fleet tug arrived at the scene from Pearl Harbor.'
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1971-03-03/04 and subsequent repair period
- Population
- engineering-plant crew and repair personnel, March-April 1971
- Limitations
- Documents the casualty and tow, not the fire's origin detail, damage extent, repair scope, or any materials disturbed. A machinery-space fire in a 1,200-psi steam plant is the classic insulation-disturbance scenario, but no source documents ACM involved in the casualty or its repair.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-knox-ff1052-04
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[6]U.S. Naval Institute, Proceedings, April 1972 issue (passage quoted as reproduced in prior batch research on USS Roark DE-1053, batch-3983 record ev-03) [reputable_press]
- Locator
- USNI Proceedings, April 1972, article passage on 1052-class fires
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Contemporaneous trade-press corroboration of the class's early fire problem, naming this hull: U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings (April 1972) cites 'the serious fires that occurred on board the USS Roark (DE-1053) and USS Knox (DE-1052) in early 1971' behind press claims that 'the Navy's new 1052-class destroyer escorts may be floating firetraps.'
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1971-1972
- Limitations
- Trade-press discussion of fire-safety controversy, not an incident report; fire origin, damage, and repair detail are not given. Passage verified through the batch-3983 Roark record's quote rather than a fresh pull of the periodical page.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-knox-ff1052-05
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[7]MIL-I-24244(SHIPS) w/ amendments, 'Insulation Materials, Thermal, with Special Corrosion and Chloride Requirements' (U.S. Navy specification; NAVSEA FOIA reading-room PDF, consulted via batch-3983 research artifact) [other_primary]
- Locator
- MIL-I-24244(SHIPS) materials table, Types 6A/7/8/14/14E/14F
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- U.S. Navy thermal-insulation material specification MIL-I-24244(SHIPS), 'Insulation Materials, Thermal, with Special Corrosion and Chloride Requirements' (issue 22 August 1965, with changes through 5 September 1973; NAVSEA FOIA reading-room copy), enumerates asbestos material types approved for shipboard insulation: Type 6A asbestos; Type 7 asbestos-fiber insulation felt; Type 8 asbestos-cloth adhesive for securing insulation to pipe; Type 14 asbestos cloth, thread, and tape; plus glass-asbestos cloth subtypes 14E/14F. This hull's entire construction window - keel 1965-10-05 through delivery 1969-03-28 - falls inside the specification's in-force period.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1965-08-22 to 1973-09-05 (spec in-force window)
- Population
- shipyard construction trades 1965-1969 (asbestos insulation types specified era-wide)
- Limitations
- Class/era documentation only: the specification proves asbestos insulation types were approved and specified Navy-wide during this hull's construction, but it is not a hull-specific bill of materials and does not prove installation aboard this specific ship. No hull-specific material take-off, installation record, or procurement document for DE-1052 was located.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-knox-ff1052-06
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[8]U.S. General Accounting Office, HRD-80-2 (1979), review of asbestos-insulation policy in naval ship construction and overhaul [gao]
- Locator
- GAO HRD-80-2 findings on specification changeover and removal policy
- Finding type
- gov_survey
- Finding
- GAO report HRD-80-2 (1979), review of Navy asbestos-insulation policy, records: Navy thermal-insulation specifications changed to asbestos-free materials in 1973, but already-purchased asbestos material continued to be installed in ships under construction, and 'some ships were delivered with asbestos insulation as late as May 1978'; the Navy's October 1975 remove-only-when-damaged policy (modified January 1979 to add selective replacement in high-maintenance areas) would leave an estimated 30-50% of shipboard asbestos insulation untouched over a ship's service life.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1973-1979 policy window
- Population
- fleet-wide; applicable era covers this hull's construction (1965-69) and service (1969-92)
- Limitations
- Fleet/program-level findings, not hull-specific: GAO does not name DE-1052/FF-1052. Establishes that era steam ships could carry installed asbestos into the late 1970s and that policy left much of it in place; cannot establish presence, extent, or location of ACM aboard this hull.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-knox-ff1052-07
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[9]NAVSEA Manufacturing Technology report on asbestos-insulation removal, DTIC accession ADA122347 (1982; program initiated by Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard) [other_primary]
- Locator
- DTIC ADA122347 program narrative and per-ship cost figure
- Finding type
- gov_survey
- Finding
- NAVSEA Manufacturing Technology report (DTIC ADA122347, 1982), a program initiated by Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard, describes asbestos-insulation removal as 'one of the most critical elements in the ship repair process' and puts a nominal removal cost of approximately $280,000 per ship - directly relevant context for a steam escort homeported at Pearl Harbor 1969-1977 and repaired there after its 1971 machinery-space fire.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- circa 1978-1982
- Population
- naval shipyard repair trades
- Limitations
- Program-level document: describes the removal problem and costs across the repair enterprise; it does not name this hull and documents no removal performed aboard her. Pearl Harbor relevance is contextual (homeport + documented post-fire repair at PHNSY), not a hull-specific work record.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-knox-ff1052-08
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[10]Department of the Navy, 'Notice of Finding of No Significant Harm for Exercise Valiant Shield 07' (Fed. Reg., E7-15081, 2007-08-03), plus NVR disposition status and MARAD SINKEX program summary [federal_register]
- Locator
- Federal Register E7-15081 FONSH notice; NVR status line; MARAD SINKEX description
- Finding type
- environmental_record
- Finding
- Department of the Navy Federal Register notice (E7-15081, 3 August 2007): Finding of No Significant Harm for Exercise Valiant Shield 2007 in the western Pacific under an Overseas Environmental Assessment; the exercise expressly included sinking exercises (SINKEX). NVR records this hull 'Disposed of in support of Fleet exercises' effective 7 August 2007, and secondary compilations place the sinking off Guam in approximately 6,700 ft of water during Valiant Shield 2007 (hulk towed by USNS Navajo T-ATF-169). Under the EPA/Navy SINKEX framework summarized by MARAD, deep-water target sinkings require prior removal of environmentally hazardous materials and occur in at least 6,000 ft of water at least 50 nautical miles offshore.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 2003-2007 disposal window
- Population
- hazmat-remediation/sinking-preparation workforce (scope undocumented)
- Limitations
- The FONSH covers the exercise, not this hull by name; the hull-to-exercise linkage rests on the NVR disposition date matching the exercise window plus secondary compilation detail. The hull-specific hazardous-material remediation record (including any asbestos abatement scope) for sinking preparation is not public in located sources.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-knox-ff1052-09
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[11]Batch-4596 consolidated search ledger (this record): NHHC DANFS (Wayback), Naval Vessel Register (Wayback), NavSource DE/FF archive, NHHC VSM/AFEM eligibility list, CourtListener API v4 name + hull sweeps with RECAP document pulls, GAO HRD-80-2, DTIC ADA122347, Federal Register E7-15081, class-profile check, open-web sweep [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-knox-ff1052-01 through -22
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No ship-specific asbestos-material record located: no asbestos survey, abatement contract, hull specification, hazmat-remediation disclosure, or adjudicated asbestos finding names this hull individually in the public sources searched (see search_ledger). Litigation record is thin: one pleading-stage vessel-list allegation (Davis complaint, ev-11), one verified class-designator reference in an asbestos-case expert CV (Gitto, ev-12), and two unverified index-level docket touches (Redman, MDL-875 ECF 5669). Published-opinion corpus is clean: 'USS Knox' and 'FF-1052' opinion searches returned zero; 'DE-1052' opinion and docket hits are all docket-number/pagination collisions naming no vessel.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 2026-09-29
- Limitations
- Absence of a located public record does not prove absence of asbestos aboard - a 1965-69 steam escort sits squarely inside the documented era of shipboard asbestos insulation, the Davis allegation is unadjudicated, and two docket touches plus the exact-name docket leg remained unverified/paced out at session end. Does not establish that asbestos is or is not present aboard this hull and establishes nothing about any individual's exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-knox-ff1052-10
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[12]Davis v. General Electric Company, No. 3:08-cv-00228-JSW (N.D. Cal.), Complaint, ECF No. 1 (recap gov.uscourts.cand.199308.1.0.pdf, fetched in full and text-extracted) [court_record]
- Locator
- Complaint ECF No. 1, Schoelzel work-history/vessel-list section, 'KNOX (FF-1052)' entry
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- QUALIFYING ship-naming allegation in federal asbestos litigation: Davis v. General Electric Company et al., No. 3:08-cv-00228-JSW (N.D. Cal., filed 14 January 2008, multi-plaintiff asbestos personal-injury complaint by Brayton Purcell LLP; terminated 13 June 2016). Plaintiff Robert Schoelzel's work-history exhibit lists 'KNOX (FF-1052)' among the naval vessels on or around which he allegedly worked at Long Beach Naval Shipyard as a Marine Mechanic (Electrician's Helper 8-12/1974; Marine Mechanic 12/1974-12/1978); Schoelzel's asbestosis diagnosis is pleaded as January 2006. The complaint frames the vessel list as ships associated with removed asbestos insulation pads worked on at the shipyard. Todd Shipyards Corporation - this hull's builder - is a named defendant via another plaintiff's count, not as a hull-exposure allegation. Hull attribution is explicit ('KNOX (FF-1052)' verbatim in the pleading exhibit).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1974-1978 (alleged work window); 2008-2016 (litigation)
- Population
- Robert Schoelzel (Long Beach Naval Shipyard electrician's helper / marine mechanic, 1974-1978 per complaint)
- Limitations
- PLEADING-STAGE ALLEGATION, unadjudicated: a complaint's vessel list alleges but does not establish exposure aboard, causation, specific products, or duration aboard this hull versus other listed vessels - and it carries an unresolved temporal inconsistency: this hull's documented homeports during the pleaded window were Pearl Harbor (to 1977-08) and Yokosuka (from 1977-08), with no Long Beach Naval Shipyard availability documented in sources consulted. The case terminated 13 June 2016; merits disposition of this allegation was not traced. Treats the hull-naming as a plaintiff's work-history assertion only.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-knox-ff1052-11
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[13]Gitto v. A.W. Chesterton Co., Inc., No. 1:07-cv-04771-DC (S.D.N.Y.), ECF 11-4 affidavit/CV exhibit (recap gov.uscourts.nysd.306984.11.3.pdf, fetched in full and OCR'd) [court_record]
- Locator
- ECF 11-4, affiant career-history passage (OCR p.10 of 43), 'first private sector FF-1052 renovations of three ships'
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- Class-designator reference inside federal asbestos litigation, verified at document level: Gitto v. A.W. Chesterton Co., Inc., No. 1:07-cv-04771-DC (S.D.N.Y., asbestos personal injury; transferred to MDL-875). An expert/witness affidavit exhibit (ECF 11-4, 43 pp., scanned; full-page OCR performed) contains the affiant's Navy Engineering Duty Officer career history: '1977-78 I was assigned as a special Navy Project Officer to assist Triple A, a shipyard in San Francisco in planning and production work associated with the first private sector FF-1052 renovations of three ships. Each project was approximately twenty (20) million dollars and 15 months in duration.' 'FF-1052' here is the class designator for a three-ship renovation program - not an allegation about this specific hull.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1977-1978; 2007 litigation
- Population
- Triple A shipyard (San Francisco) renovation workforce, 1977-78 (class-level, three unnamed hulls)
- Limitations
- Not a hull-specific allegation: the token is the FF-1052 class designator inside a witness CV describing a class-level renovation program; no vessel is individually named, and whether USS Knox was one of the three renovated ships is unstated (her documented homeport in 1977-78 was Yokosuka). Classification: other litigation (class-level reference), not qualifying ship-specific asbestos litigation.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-knox-ff1052-12
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[14]Redman v. A.W. Chesterton Company, No. 3:08-cv-03013 (N.D. Cal.), ECF No. 11 declaration + exhibits (index-level hit; document pending) [court_record]
- Locator
- CourtListener index hit, 'USS Knox' token in docket text
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- Index-level docket touch, unverified: Redman v. A.W. Chesterton Company, No. 3:08-cv-03013 (N.D. Cal., asbestos wrongful-death action, 2008) - 'USS Knox' appears in indexed RECAP text associated with the docket (ECF No. 11 declaration with exhibits). Decedent's profile is a Norfolk Naval Shipyard inspector; the match is plausibly a vessel-list or exhibit reference. Document retrieval was paced out within the session's shared CourtListener budget at session end.
- Verification
- unverified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Limitations
- UNVERIFIED at document level: the indexed token does not show whether 'USS Knox' refers to this hull (FF-1052/DE-1052, commissioned 1969) or the first USS Knox (APA-46, 1944-46) - a 1940s service window would attach to APA-46. Even if this hull, a vessel-list/exhibit reference is pleading-or-discovery-stage material, not a finding. Logged as an archival lead; retrieval pending shared pacing budget.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-knox-ff1052-13
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[15]In re: Asbestos Products Liability Litigation (No. VI), MDL-875 (E.D. Pa.), ECF No. 5669 (index-level hit; document pending) [court_record]
- Locator
- CourtListener index hit, 'FF-1052' token in ECF 5669 text
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- Index-level docket touch, unverified: In re: Asbestos Products Liability Litigation (No. VI), MDL-875 (E.D. Pa. master docket), ECF No. 5669 - a response to a motion to transfer whose indexed text contains the 'FF-1052' token. Document retrieval was paced out within the session's shared CourtListener budget at session end; context (hull named vs. class designator vs. reporter pagination) unresolved.
- Verification
- unverified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Limitations
- UNVERIFIED at document level: MDL-875 master-docket filings routinely carry vessel rosters, service histories, and exhibit lists; the token may be a class designator (cf. ev-12) rather than a hull-specific allegation. Logged as an archival lead; retrieval pending shared pacing budget.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-knox-ff1052-14