Evidence
5 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-5).
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[1]DANFS, Loy (DE-160) (namesake, construction, Atlantic convoy escort, Boston Navy Yard conversion and APD-56 reclassification, Okinawa operations, occupation and Magic Carpet service, reserve fleet, striking, disposal; verbatim NHHC text via Wayback capture 2025-02-02 - live NHHC page serves 404) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS entry 'Loy (DE-160)', specifications block + service narrative (NHHC page archived 2025-02-02)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS record for this hull: namesake Gunner's Mate Third Class Jackson Keith Loy (b. 29 April 1922, Effingham, Ill.; enlisted 4 September 1940; KIA aboard San Francisco (CA-38) off Lunga Point 12 November 1942; posthumous Navy Cross). Laid down by Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, Va., 23 April 1943; launched 4 July 1943, sponsored by Mrs. Lewis G. Barnes; commissioned 12 September 1943, Lt. Comdr. James V. Bewick in command. Shakedown Bermuda; convoy escort Atlantic (two Netherlands West Indies-Bizerte/Algiers round trips Nov 1943-Mar 1944; Halifax troop-convoy leg late March); hunter-killer screening with Core (CVE-13) to the Azores and North Africa 3 April-31 May 1944 (Casablanca 29 April); two further transatlantic voyages 13 June-8 October. Entered Boston Navy Yard for conversion to high-speed transport; reclassified APD-56 on 23 October 1944. Departed Boston 18 December; via Panama Canal and San Diego to Pearl Harbor 25 January 1945; UDT-4 embarked; Leyte Gulf 4 March; Okinawa approach 26 March (splashed attacker); medical/salvage assist to LSM(R)-188 29 March; boated UDT-4 off Purple Beach 1 April; Ie Shima demolition support 16-23 April (splashed attackers 8 and 16 April); Guam 2 May; Okinawa convoy escort 11-15 May; embarked Barry (APD-29) survivors 25 May; 27 May splashed three kamikazes - third exploded close aboard starboard beam, 18 casualties and internal damage; splashed another attacker 28 May en route to Hagushi; repairs Kerama Retto and Leyte (7 June-28 July); Lingayen Gulf 13 September; occupation transport escort to Wakayama Bay, Honshu (arrived 25 September), screening ship about a month; Nagoya, Taku, Manila; Magic Carpet departure 19 November; Norfolk 14-28 December; proceeded to Green Cove Springs (DANFS prints '6 February 1946'), decommissioned 21 February 1947, Atlantic Reserve Fleet; transferred to Orange, Tex., group 1961; struck 1 September 1964 from the Naval Vessel Register; sold to Boston Metals Co., Baltimore, Md., 15 August 1966 for scrapping. One battle star (WWII).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-25
- Study period
- 1943-1966
- Population
- Norfolk Navy Yard construction trades 1943; wartime crew (design complement 186 as DE); embarked UDT-4 and troops 1945
- Limitations
- DANFS documents service history and specifications, not materials or asbestos content. Two apparent typographical dates in the NHHC text are carried verbatim and logged in gaps: 'arrived San Diego 11 November' following a 19 November Manila departure is impossible (likely December), and '6 February 1946 proceeded to Green Cove Springs' precedes the 21 February 1947 decommissioning by a year (possibly correct as an inactivation transit, possibly 1947). Live NHHC page returns 404; Wayback capture of the official page cited.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-loy-apd56-01
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[2]NavSource Online Amphibious Photo Archive, USS Loy (APD-56) ex USS Loy (DE-160) (chronology, campaign/awards table, APD specifications, commanding officers) + NavSource Destroyer Escort Archive DE-160 page (as-built specs, NARA photo references) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource APD-56 page (archives/10/04/04056.htm) - chronology, campaign table, APD specifications, CO table; NavSource DE-160 page (archives/06/160.htm) - as-built specs and photo captions
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NavSource record for this hull: keel laid 23 April 1943 at Norfolk Naval Shipyard, Portsmouth, Va.; launched 4 July 1943; christened and commissioned 12 September 1943 at the St. Helena Annex, Norfolk Navy Yard, Berkley, Va., Lt. Comdr. James V. Bewick in command; reclassified APD-56 23 October 1944, converted at the Boston Naval Shipyard; decommissioned 21 February 1947 at Green Cove Springs, Fla., after 3 years 5-1/3 months service; struck from the NVR 1 September 1964; sold for scrapping to Boston Metals Co., Baltimore (DE page reads 15 August 1966; the APD page prints '15 August 1975' for $27,677 - an internal NavSource discrepancy, 1966 carried per DANFS). Flagship of Transport Division 106 (Capt. F. W. Schmidt) in the Pacific; Okinawa Gunto campaign 20 March-7 June 1945; occupation service 15 September-17 November 1945; awards include Combat Action Ribbon (retroactive, Okinawa) and Navy Occupation Service Medal with Asia clasp; one battle star. APD-56 specs: 1,400 t (lt), 2,130 t (fl); 306' x 37' x 12'7"; 23.6 kt trial; 6,000 nm at 12 kt; crew 12 officers + 192 enlisted; troop accommodations 12 officers + 150 enlisted; 4 LCVP; one 5"/38, three twin 40 mm, six 20 mm, two depth-charge tracks; two Combustion Engineering 'D' Express boilers 435 psi/750F, two GE turbo-electric turbines, 12,000 shp, two propellers. DE-160 as-built specs: 1,400 t lt / 1,740 t fl; 306' x 36'9" x 10'6"; 3 x 3"/50, twin 40 mm, 8 x 20 mm, 3 x 21" tt, hedgehog, depth-charge gear; complement 15/198. NARA photo references: 80-G-269006 (underway in the North Atlantic 9 April 1944, seen from USS Core); F644C5838 (off New York Navy Yard 10 March 1944).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-25
- Study period
- 1943-1966
- Population
- Norfolk Navy Yard construction trades 1943; Boston Navy Yard conversion workers Oct-Dec 1944; crew and embarked troops 1943-47
- Limitations
- NavSource is a curated secondary compilation, not a primary document; consistent with DANFS where they overlap. Documents machinery and operations, not materials or asbestos content. Its own APD page prints a disposal year of 1975 against its DE page and DANFS at 1966 - carried in gaps. Boiler-manufacturer attribution (Combustion Engineering) conflicts with the navypedia-derived Buckley class block map (Babcock & Wilcox) - neither is a contract primary source; logged rather than resolved.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-loy-apd56-02
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[3]Batch-2442 search ledger (this record): CourtListener API v4 exact-name and hull-number sweeps for USS Loy / DE-160 / APD-56 (opinion and RECAP docket indexes) [court_record]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-loy-apd56-04 through sl-uss-loy-apd56-06
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- No qualifying asbestos litigation naming this hull located. CourtListener sweeps (2026-09-25, authenticated API v4 via fleet helper): exact-name "USS Loy" returned zero opinion hits and zero docket-index hits. Hull-number opinion queries: "APD-56" returned zero hits; "DE-160" returned 54 hits that are all identifier collisions - federal-docket 'DE ###' docket-entry citations (e.g., '[DE 135]') and Spanish-language land-measurement text ('de 160 metros cuadrados'), none referencing any vessel. Hull-number docket queries: "APD-56" returned hits that are identifier collisions - 'APD' abbreviations inside unrelated dockets (e.g., an Atlanta Police Department form number in exhibits of Sims v. Wingate Management Co., N.D. Ga. 1:22-cv-01696, a premises personal-injury case); "DE-160" returned 891 docket / 1,217 document hits that are 'DE 160' docket-entry-number matches inside unrelated civil dockets (sampled top results: prison, insurance, patent, contract, bankruptcy matters - none asbestos, none referencing any vessel). 'Loy' is also a litigant surname (name collision class); no hit located names DE-160 or APD-56.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-25
- Study period
- 2026-09-25
- Limitations
- Absence of located litigation does not prove absence of exposure or of asbestos aboard. Public court indexes do not cover non-indexed state-court filings, settled cases, or asbestos bankruptcy-trust claims. Index-level classification only. The 'DE-160' RECAP sweep's 891 hits are bulk collision noise ('DE 160' = docket-entry 160) - classified by query-string semantics and top-hit sampling, not exhaustive per-docket review.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-loy-apd56-03
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[4]DANFS specifications block (Buckley class; Norfolk Navy Yard build) and conversion passage (Boston Navy Yard) + Atlas shipyard dataset entries for norfolk-naval-shipyard (tier 2) and boston-naval-shipyard (tier 3) [other_primary]
- Locator
- DANFS specifications block and conversion passage; shipyards.json records 'norfolk-naval-shipyard' (tier 2) and 'boston-naval-shipyard' (tier 3)
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Era/yard inference: a Buckley-class (TE type) destroyer escort built 1943 with a two-boiler 435 psi/750F 'D' Express steam plant and GE turbo-electric drive would have carried period-standard insulation, steam-line lagging, gaskets, packing, and fireproofing - materials of that construction era commonly containing asbestos - and her October-December 1944 conversion to a high-speed transport at Boston Navy Yard was a peak-era naval-yard event during which era insulation would have been disturbed and reapplied around new troop spaces, davits, and revised armament. Builder Norfolk Navy Yard (Portsmouth) is documented at yard level in the Atlas dataset (tier 2: documented products incl. Thermobestos, Marinite, Transite, Kaylo and Unibestos insulation, pipe insulation and lagging, boiler and turbine insulation, gaskets, packing, deck coverings); conversion yard Boston Naval Shipyard carries a tier-3 yard record (John Crane gasket/packing litigation record; WWII peak employment 50,128). NARA RG 19 Bureau of Ships 'General Information Books' and RG 181 Boston Navy Yard records are archival leads for hull-level material specifications.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-25
- Study period
- 1943-1947
- Population
- Norfolk Navy Yard construction trades 1943; Boston Navy Yard conversion workers Oct-Dec 1944; crew and embarked troops 1943-47
- Limitations
- Class/era and builder/conversion-yard inference only - NOT a hull-specific finding; no ship-specific asbestos row exists in this record. Yard-level product documentation derives primarily from later records (EPA Superfund listing, NAVFAC site descriptions, litigation recitals); application to this 1943 hull is era inference, not ship-proven. NARA GIB and yard work-package records not retrieved. The hull was scrapped after sale in 1966 - no surviving fabric to survey.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-loy-apd56-04
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[5]National Archives leads: RG 24 deck logs for Loy (DE-160/APD-56) 1943-1947; RG 19 Bureau of Ships General Information Books; RG 181 Boston Navy Yard records (Oct-Dec 1944 APD conversion); NARA still-photo series referenced by NavSource (80-G-269006, 9 April 1944 North Atlantic; F644C5838, 10 March 1944 off New York Navy Yard) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NARA catalog.archives.gov (RG 24 / RG 19 / RG 181); photo numbers per NavSource DE-160 image captions
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Archival holdings relevant to this hull exist at NARA: deck logs for DE-160/APD-56 (1943-1947) in RG 24 coverage; Bureau of Ships General Information Books (RG 19) as the hull-level material-specification lead; and Boston Navy Yard records (RG 181) covering the October-December 1944 high-speed-transport conversion. NavSource references NARA still photos for this hull (80-G-269006; F644C5838). No digitized deck-log coverage for this hull was located in the National Archives Catalog (catalog search returns a JS application shell to automated fetch; no itemized hull records resolved).
- Verification
- unverified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-25
- Study period
- 1943-1947 (records); 2026-09-25 (search)
- Population
- Norfolk Navy Yard trades 1943; Boston Navy Yard workers Oct-Dec 1944; crew 1943-47
- Limitations
- Archival leads, not reviewed: deck logs record operations/positions, not materials; build and conversion work-package records could resolve material schedules but were not retrieved. Holdings asserted from standing RG coverage and NavSource-cited photo numbers, not from a catalog itemization for this hull.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-loy-apd56-05