Evidence
7 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-7).
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[1]DANFS, Lloyd E. Acree (DE-356), updated entry by Jeremiah D. Foster dated 14 June 2019 (NHHC live page returns 404; 2022-06-21 Wayback capture cited) + verbatim 1969 print transcription at hazegray/losthistory (DANFS Vol. 4, p.129) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- NHHC DANFS 'Lloyd E. Acree (DE-356)' entry (updated 2019-06-14), specifications block + service narrative; print DANFS Vol. 4 p.129 via https://losthistory.net/hazegray/danfs/escorts/de356.txt
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS record for this hull: named for AO3/c Lloyd Edgar Acree (Navy Cross, posthumous, USS Salt Lake City CA-25, killed at the Battle of Cape Esperance, night of 11-12 October 1942); laid down 24 January 1944 at Orange, Texas, by Consolidated Steel Corp.; launched (date conflict - see limitations); commissioned 1 August 1944 at Houston, Texas, Lt. Cmdr. John E. Greenbacker in command. Structural firing tests 7 August; drydock at Todd Galveston shipyard 8-10 August; shakedown Great Sound, Bermuda, under TG 23.1 (19 August-23 September); post-shakedown availability Boston (pier 7, East Boston) 24 September-5 October; Duchess of Richmond escort; Norfolk 16 October; departed 21 October with CortDiv 82 (DE-353, -354, -355, -357, -358), transiting Panama Canal 27 October, reaching Hollandia 28 November via Galapagos, Bora Bora, Espiritu Santo. Seventh Fleet convoy escort Hollandia-Kossol Roads-Leyte December 1944-March 1945 (44-ship convoy to San Pedro Bay; convoys 7, PH 1, PH 4, GI 8; TU 78.5 Mindoro landings support); torpedo crossed her bow 17 March 1945; ASW patrols Mangarin Bay-Manila Bay-Subic Bay 18 March-27 July; rescued USAAF B-24 Liberator survivors off Mindoro 8 April; Subic-Okinawa-Manila-Hollandia convoys July-September; postwar weather patrols Hollandia-Manila-Okinawa-Samar October-December supporting demobilization air traffic; Tsingtao and Shanghai, Yellow and East China Seas, February-April 1946; departed 15 April via Guam, Eniwetok, Pearl Harbor, arriving San Diego 11 May 1946; decommissioned San Diego 10 October 1946; inactivated 20 November; Pacific Reserve Fleet berthed at Mare Island; moved from Bethlehem Steel Company, San Francisco, to Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility, Vallejo, 28 March 1967; stricken from the Naval Vessel Register 15 January 1972; sold for scrapping 1973 (date conflict - see limitations). Specifications block: displacement 1,350 t; length 306'; beam 36'8"; draft 9'5"; speed 24 k; complement 186; armament 2x5", 4x40mm, 10x20mm, 3x21" tt, 8 dcp, 1 hedgehog, 2 dct; class John C. Butler.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1944-1973
- Population
- Consolidated Steel construction trades (Orange, Tex., Jan-Aug 1944); wartime crew (design complement 186); Todd Galveston drydock workers August 1944
- Limitations
- DANFS documents service history and specifications, not materials or asbestos content. FOUR documented internal conflicts (carried in gaps, not reconciled): (1) launch date - 1969 print DANFS/NavSource/shipbuildinghistory read 21 March 1944; the updated 2019 NHHC entry reads 3 June 1944; (2) sponsor - print reads Mrs. Ora A. Acree, updated entry reads Mrs. Leora T. [Tapp] Acree, the namesake's mother; (3) May 1946 stateside arrival - print reads San Pedro, updated entry reads San Diego; (4) disposal - print bracket (Bauer & Roberts, Register of Ships 1775-1990, p.236) and NavSource read sold 13 June 1973, updated entry reads 15 July 1973 and names the buyer National Metal & Steel Corporation. Live NHHC page 404; Wayback capture of the updated entry and hazegray's verbatim print transcription cited.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lloyd-e-acree-de356-01
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[2]NavSource Online, Destroyer Escort Photo Archive, USS Lloyd E. Acree (DE-356) - build/ops timeline, spec block, awards, commanding-officer list, and hosted scan of the ship's official war history [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource DE-356 page, 'Building and Operational Data' block, specifications block, awards banner, CO table; war-history scan images/356/06356wh.jpg
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NavSource archive page for this hull reproduces a build/operational timeline consistent with print DANFS (keel 24 January 1944; launched and christened 21 March 1944 sponsored by Mrs. Ora A. Acree; commissioned 1 August 1944, Lcdr. John E. Greenbacker; decommissioned at San Diego 10 October 1946; struck from the NVR 15 January 1972; sold for scrapping 13 June 1973) and adds: flag hoist/radio call sign N-T-W-U; awards - China Service Medal, American Campaign Medal, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal with 1 star, WWII Victory Medal, Navy Occupation Service Medal, Philippine Liberation Ribbon; spec block (WGT type: 2 'D' express boilers, 2 geared turbine engines, 12,000 shp, 2 screws, 24 kt; complement 14 officers/201 enlisted); commanding officers Lcdr. John Everett Greenbacker (1 August 1944-June 1946) and Lt.(jg) Calvin Dale Reutter (June-10 October 1946, decommissioning CO); and a link to a scan of the ship's official war history submitted at war's end.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1944-1973
- Population
- Wartime crew
- Limitations
- NavSource is a volunteer-maintained photo archive, not an official repository; its timeline and spec block are secondary compilation. Its launch/sponsor/sale dates follow print DANFS and thus conflict with the updated 2019 NHHC entry (see ev-01 and gaps); its decommissioning-CO entry (Reutter, to 10 October 1946) differs from the updated entry's CO table (Lt.(j.g.) Carl D. Ruetter, 11 June-10 September 1946) - name and end-date variance carried in gaps. No asbestos or materials content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lloyd-e-acree-de356-02
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[3]NARA Navy deck-log holdings (post-1941 logs at Archives II, College Park) for USS Lloyd E. Acree (DE-356), 1944-1946; ship's official war history submitted at war's end (scan hosted on NavSource DE-356 page; quoted at length in the updated 2019 NHHC DANFS entry) [other_primary]
- Locator
- https://www.archives.gov/research/military/logbooks/navy-online; NavSource DE-356 war-history scan (navsource.net archives/06/images/356/06356wh.jpg)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Hull-specific primary records exist but were not retrieved: the ship's official war history (submitted at war's end; Greenbacker's narrative is quoted verbatim in the updated NHHC entry, e.g., on the crew's reaction to post-war assignment and the 15 April 1946 homeward-bound departure) is hosted as a scan on the NavSource archive page, and post-1941 deck logs for commissioned Navy ships are held at NARA Archives II, College Park. Deck logs and the war history document operations and movements, not materials - but the August 1944 Todd Galveston drydocking and the September-October 1944 Boston availability entries are the likeliest contemporaneous paper trail for yard work that would have disturbed era insulation.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1944-1946
- Population
- Wartime crew 1944-46; Todd Galveston and Boston-availability yard crews 1944
- Limitations
- Archival lead only: NARA catalog digitization status for DE-356 logs not verified (catalog API unavailable this session); the NavSource-hosted war-history scan was not OCR'd; these are operational records that typically do not enumerate insulation materials. Nothing in this lead establishes asbestos presence aboard this hull.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lloyd-e-acree-de356-03
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[4]Bureau of Ships, Ships' Data, U.S. Naval Vessels, Vol. 1 (Jan 1945), DE design-group table row 6 (shipscribe.com scan) + navypedia John C. Butler (WGT) boiler-block map + Jack v. Borg-Warner Morse Tec exhibit list (W.D. Wash. 2:17-cv-00537, ECF 738 att. 1) spec identifications [other_primary]
- Locator
- SDB1945v1 DE design-group table (group 6/WGT row); navypedia us_de_tev_wgt block map; Jack v. Borg-Warner ECF 738 att. 1
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Era/design inference: DE-356 is BuShips design group 6 (WGT geared-turbine) - 306 ft, 1,350 t standard, 24.3 kt, 2 shafts, 12,000 shp, two 'D' express boilers 435 psi/750F (Combustion Engineering per the navypedia block map for DE-339-372), accommodations 15 officers/207 enlisted. A steam plant of this type built at peak WWII asbestos use would have carried era-standard asbestos applications: fireroom and machinery insulation, steam-line lagging, gaskets, packing, and evaporator/distiller insulation - the last specifically litigated for sister ship USS Brannon (DE-446) under Navy insulation specs NAVSHIPS 250-000(39) and asbestos-felt spec 32F3a.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1944-1946
- Population
- Consolidated Steel construction trades 1944; engineering/fireroom crew 1944-46
- Limitations
- Class/era and design inference only - NOT a hull-specific finding. No material schedule, survey, or shipyard record for DE-356 itself was located; the boiler-maker attribution rests on a secondary block map, and the Navy spec suite is identified via a litigation exhibit list, not retrieved text. Establishes no quantity and no individual exposure.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lloyd-e-acree-de356-04
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[5]Jack v. Borg-Warner Morse Tec LLC, W.D. Wash. No. 2:17-cv-00537 - praecipe/pretrial order materials and exhibit list, ECF 738 att. 1 [court_record]
- Locator
- CourtListener docket 6100500, ECF 738 att. 1 (exhibit list and praecipe recitals)
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- Class-level litigation landscape: pretrial materials in Jack v. Borg-Warner Morse Tec name USS Brannon (DE-446), a John C. Butler-class sister of this hull, and recite the theory that asbestos insulation on a Griscom-Russell evaporator was installed per Navy specifications (the same filing concedes insulation aboard DE-446 'could have included fiberglass, mineral wool' - non-asbestos alternatives). The exhibit list identifies the controlling era spec suite: BuShips Manual ch. 39 Thermal Insulation NAVSHIPS 250-000(39) (24 Aug 1945); Navy Dept. spec 32F3a 'Felt, Insulating, Asbestos' (15 Oct 1945); BuEng General Specs for Machinery S39-1 (3 Feb 1939); BuEng Manual ch. 13 heat insulation (1933/1939); and a BUMED Code-55 POM-80 memo.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 2017-2018 (litigation); WWII-era exposure theory
- Population
- Sister-ship crew/decedent (DE-446) - not this hull
- Limitations
- This docket does NOT name DE-356 - it is included as class/era context showing how DE asbestos claims were litigated and which Navy specs they invoked. Pleading/exhibit-list level even for DE-446: no adjudicated exposure finding, and the filing itself concedes non-asbestos insulation was possible aboard that hull.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lloyd-e-acree-de356-05
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[6]Board of Veterans' Appeals, Citation Nr. 9828426 (decision 1998-09-23, docket 94-15 783, RO Houston) [other_primary]
- Locator
- BVA Citation Nr. 9828426, Findings of Fact 1-3 and coworker-letter recitals
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- Builder-yard exposure record (adjudicated): a veteran employed as a driller (boilermaker department) at Consolidated Steel Corp., Orange, Texas, 1942-46 - the same yard and period as this hull's construction - sought service connection for asbestos disease. The Board's findings of fact: (1) 'the veteran was not exposed to asbestos during his periods of employment with Consolidated Steel Corporation in Orange, Texas' - supported by coworker letters that hull-side drilling occurred before asbestos-containing materials appeared in the construction sequence; (2) 'the veteran was exposed to asbestos when serving aboard Navy vessels in service' (his ships were USS Prince William, AN-37 Teakwood, and a WWI-era destroyer - not this hull); (3) asbestos-related lung disease service-connected. Documents that the Orange yard's wartime workforce included boilermaker-department trades and that asbestos exposure aboard WWII Navy vessels of the era was adjudicated as factual - while the specific yard-floor claim was rejected for that worker.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1942-1946 (employment/service); 1993-1998 (adjudication)
- Population
- Consolidated Steel (Orange) boilermaker-department trades 1942-46; Navy crew of the claimant's actual vessels
- Limitations
- Context only: names the builder yard and era but not this hull, and the Board found AGAINST yard-floor asbestos exposure for that claimant's particular job (outside hull drilling) - it must not be cited as proof of asbestos conditions at Consolidated Steel, nor of any condition aboard DE-356. It is evidence that era Navy service (not yard work) grounded that claimant's exposure finding.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lloyd-e-acree-de356-06
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[7]Batch-4260 search ledger (this record): CourtListener authenticated API v4 sweeps - opinion and RECAP docket indexes, exact-name and hull-number queries [court_record]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-lloyd-e-acree-de356-02 through sl-uss-lloyd-e-acree-de356-05
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- No qualifying asbestos litigation naming USS Lloyd E. Acree or DE-356 located in CourtListener: the exact-name query "Lloyd E. Acree" returned zero hits in both the opinion (type=o) and RECAP docket (type=r) indexes; the hull-number opinion query "DE-356" returned 11 hits all classified as identifier/citation-token name collisions; and the hull-number docket query "DE-356" returned 158 matches all consisting of 'DE 356'/'DE# 356' docket-entry-number token collisions. Zero qualifying asbestos litigation in any completed sweep.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 2026-09-28
- Limitations
- All four sweeps completed: exact-name sweeps are complete negatives (0 hits); hull-number sweeps are completed all-collision classifications (opinions: 11 citation/identifier-token hits; dockets: 158 'DE 356' docket-entry-token matches, returned page of 20 fully inspected). Absence of located litigation does not prove no claim was ever filed - state-court, settled unreported, and non-indexed claims are outside CourtListener coverage.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lloyd-e-acree-de356-07