Evidence
6 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-6).
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[1]research packet jj-packet.md (1 sources cited) [nhhc_danfs]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERIFIED
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-lamson-dd367-pkt-jj-packet-md
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[2]DANFS, Lamson III (DD-367), expanded modern entry, Naval History and Heritage Command (live URL returns 404 - verified via Wayback capture 2025-12-09) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- NHHC DANFS 'Lamson III (DD-367)' - specifications block + full service narrative + commanding-officer table
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NHHC DANFS record for this hull: laid down 20 March 1934 at Bath, Maine, by Bath Iron Works; launched 17 June 1936 (sponsor Miss Frances W. Andrews, daughter of Rear Adm. Adolphus Andrews, Chief of the Bureau of Navigation); commissioned 21 October 1936 at Boston Navy Yard, Cmdr. Hubert E. Paddock. Pacific service from 1937 (San Diego, then Pearl Harbor homeport 1939); plane-guard duty in the July 1937 Earhart search; Mare Island Navy Yard overhaul summer 1941; at sea with the Enterprise task force during the 7 December 1941 attack; ASW/convoy screening Samoa-Fiji-Noumea 1942 with a one-week Mare Island availability July 1942; with Mahan (DD-364) sank two Japanese picket craft 22 October 1942 (CO Lt. Cmdr. FitzGerald received the Navy Cross); Battle of Tassafaronga 30 November-1 December 1942; Destroyer Squadron 5 New Guinea operations 1943-44 (Lae, Finschhafen, Madang raid 29 November, Arawe 15 December, Cape Gloucester - including Brownson survivor rescue under air attack, Saidor 2 January 1944); major overhaul Mare Island Navy Yard March-25 May 1944 followed by Pearl Harbor Navy Yard repairs through 21 July 1944 for defects from the Mare Island work; Fifth Fleet Marshalls duty; Seventh Fleet Leyte assault; fighter-director picket; kamikaze hit off Ormoc Bay 7 December 1944 - 21 enlisted and 4 officers killed, 54 wounded, superstructure and both stacks destroyed, forward fireroom flooded; saved by tug ATR-31; temporary repairs Sierra (AD-18) Manus; Puget Sound Navy Yard Bremerton arrived 14 January 1945, dry dock 17 January, three-month overhaul completed 1 April 1945; Iwo Jima patrol/air-sea rescue; Chichi Jima surrender supervision 3 September 1945; Sasebo occupation; Crossroads target: crew transferred to Henrico (APA-45) 30 June 1946; Test Able detonated 0902 1 July 1946 - sank stern-first in 21 fathoms; decommissioned 29 July 1946; stricken 15 August 1946; five battle stars. Specs: 1,500 tons; 341'4" x 34'8"; draft 9'1"; 36.5 kt; complement 158; class Mahan.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1934-1946
- Population
- Bath Iron Works construction trades 1934-36; commissioning and wartime crew (complement 158 peacetime); overhaul-yard workers at Mare Island, Pearl Harbor, Puget Sound 1941-45
- Limitations
- DANFS documents construction, service, and disposition - not materials or asbestos content. Yard periods are documented as events; their asbestos scope is inference only. Live NHHC URL 404s (standing NHHC link-rot, Batch-01 known issue); content verified against Wayback capture 2025-12-09. The legacy (1959-81) DANFS text printed the first CO as 'Haddock' and dated the sinking '2 July 1946'; the modern entry reads Paddock and 1 July 1946 - carried in gaps.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lamson-dd367-01
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[3]Delgado, Lenihan & Murphy, 'The Archeology of the Atomic Bomb: A Submerged Cultural Resources Assessment of the Sunken Fleet of Operation Crossroads at Bikini and Kwajalein Atoll Lagoons,' NPS Submerged Cultural Resources Unit Report No. 37 (1991), ch. 4 (Able damage assessment) and app. I (vessel disposition table) [nps]
- Locator
- SCRU report 37, ch. 4 'Able Damage Assessments' + Appendix I disposition table (sourced therein to CNO memorandum NNTPR #24-78 and the 1946 JTF-1 report)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- NPS SCRU report documents this hull's loss context: drawing on the Joint Task Force One damage assessment, Lamson (DD-367) was moored 760 yards from the Able zeropoint and was one of five ships sunk by the 1 July 1946 air burst - 'the destroyers Anderson and Lamson, two of three destroyers anchored within the thousand-yard radius of the zeropoint, sank because of extensive hull damage'; Appendix I lists 'Lamson (DD-367) - Sunk by ABLE at Bikini, July 1, 1946.' The 1988-1990 NPS surveys did not relocate the wreck; the report presumes it lies in its original sinking position inside the lagoon's prohibited-zone quadrangle.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1946; NPS survey sessions 1988-1990, report 1991
- Population
- Post-sinking environment; 1946 target-ship crews were de-manned before detonation (Lamson's crew transferred to Henrico APA-45 on 30 June 1946 per DANFS)
- Limitations
- Documents sinking mechanism and post-1946 wreck context, not asbestos content or crew-era exposure. The wreck's radiological environment (Bikini lagoon) is the documented hazard; no asbestos survey of the wreck exists or is possible to infer from this source. The wreck has since been located and is a technical dive site per non-authoritative dive literature - noted as context, not carried as a finding.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lamson-dd367-02
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[4]NHHC DANFS construction/machinery data + Atlas shipyards.json 'bath-iron-works' record (Kaylo pipe covering, gaskets, felt documented; Fleischer & Viles, 'A health survey of pipe covering operations in constructing naval vessels,' J Ind Hyg Toxicol 1946, PMID 21016030 - the 1942-conducted survey incl. BIW pipe-covering shops; OSHA Inspection 101450294 asbestos citations 1987) + NARA RG19 General Information Books archival lead [other_primary]
- Locator
- DANFS specifications block; shipyards.json record 'bath-iron-works' (ev-bath-iron-works-01/02); PubMed PMID 21016030; NARA RG19
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Era/yard inference: a Mahan-class destroyer built 1934-36 with a four-boiler, high-pressure geared-turbine plant (465 psi-class machinery per class records; 49,000 shp) would have carried period-standard asbestos insulation on boilers, turbines, and steam lines, plus asbestos gaskets, packing, and fireproofing. Builder Bath Iron Works is documented at yard level in the Atlas dataset (tier 2): Kaylo pipe covering and other asbestos products are documented in the yard's product record, the 1942-conducted industrial-hygiene survey of naval-vessel pipe-covering operations (published 1946) covered the trade practice at issue, and OSHA cited asbestos-standard violations at the yard in 1987. NARA RG19 'General Information Books' per-vessel material specifications are the archival lead for hull-level confirmation.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1934-1946
- Population
- Bath Iron Works construction trades 1934-36; crew 1936-46; overhaul-yard trades at Mare Island, Pearl Harbor, Puget Sound
- Limitations
- Class/era and builder-yard inference only - no ship-specific source establishes asbestos aboard this hull, and the 1946 sinking foreclosed the survey/abatement records that document such content on surviving ships. The 1942 hygiene study describes yard pipe-covering practice, not this hull's outfit. NARA GIB retrieval not performed.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lamson-dd367-03
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[5]CourtListener API v4 authenticated sweeps, 2026-09-27 (queries logged in search_ledger sl-03 through sl-07) [court_record]
- Locator
- CourtListener search API v4, type=o and type=r; Perrin v. Owens-Corning cluster 8728288 (attorneys field)
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- No qualifying asbestos litigation naming this hull was located on CourtListener. 'USS Lamson' returned zero opinion hits and zero docket hits. 'DD-367' returned zero opinion hits; 18 docket hits were all name collisions on docket-number fragments (e.g., construction, ADA, contract dockets - no Navy/asbestos content). 'aboard the Lamson' returned zero. 'Lamson' + destroyer returned one opinion, Perrin v. Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp., 871 F. Supp. 1092 (N.D. Iowa 1994) - a verified name collision on both terms: full-text review finds zero 'Lamson' occurrences in the opinion (the token matches defense firm Belin Harris Helmick Tesdell Lamson & McCormick in the indexed cluster attorneys field) and the 'destroyer' is USS Floyd B. Parks (DD-884), a Gearing-class ship aboard which the plaintiff served 1958-62. 'Lamson asbestos' returned 23 opinion hits, all surname or firm-name collisions. No hull-number litigation exists.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- search executed 2026-09-27
- Population
- n/a - no qualifying record
- Limitations
- CourtListener coverage is opinions plus RECAP docket metadata; state-court pleadings and unindexed dockets are not searchable - absence is a research result, not proof no filing exists. Lamson is a low-collision ship name (DD-18 and DD-328 predeceased it; DD-367 was the only 'USS Lamson' extant in the asbestos-litigation era), so the sweep is comparatively clean. The one ambiguous hit (Perrin) was resolved by full-text review of opinion 8711486.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lamson-dd367-04
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[6]Defense Nuclear Agency, 'Analysis of Radiation Exposure for Naval Units of Operation Crossroads,' DNA-TR-82-05 (NTPR series), Vols. I-III - Vol. II Appendix A carries a per-ship Target Ship Participation Summary and gamma-intensity data for LAMSON (DD-367); JTF-1 operational/technical reports cataloged at DTIC (AD0473986, AD0367496) [other_primary]
- Locator
- DTRA NTPR report catalog listing + PDF table of contents entry 'LAMSON (DD-367)'; DTIC AD0473986/AD0367496 catalog records
- Finding type
- environmental_record
- Finding
- The DoD Nuclear Test Personnel Review dose-reconstruction series includes a Lamson-specific participation summary among the 84 Crossroads target vessels, documenting the ship's target-array position and the reconstructed radiological environment at Bikini; DANFS confirms the crew was transferred off 30 June 1946 before the Able detonation. The documented post-sinking hazard at this hull is radiological (Bikini lagoon target array), not asbestos - no asbestos survey, abatement, or hazmat record for the hull exists in these sources.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1946 (events); 1982 (report)
- Population
- Crossroads target-ship crew prior to de-manning; post-1946 lagoon environment
- Limitations
- Radiological exposure reconstruction - materially different hazard from asbestos; carried as context bounding the wreck's contamination state and the exposure window (crew de-manned pre-detonation). Full text blocked to automated fetch (HTTP 403 at dtra.mil and DTIC, same standing block as Batch-01's GAO record); report existence, scope, and the Lamson summary sheet verified via catalog/TOC listings - content of the Lamson sheet itself not read.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lamson-dd367-05