Evidence
13 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-13).
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[1]research packet jn-packet.md (5 sources cited) [nhhc_danfs]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERIFIED
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-maury-dd401-pkt-jn-packet-md
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[2]DANFS, Maury II (DD-401), NHHC (live page 404 on 2026-09-27; verbatim Wayback capture 2025-02-02 cited; HyperWar/ibiblio transcription cross-checked) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS entry 'Maury II (DD-401)', specifications block + service narrative
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS record for this hull: laid down 24 March 1936 by Union Plant, Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp., San Francisco, Calif.; launched 14 February 1938; sponsored by Miss Virginia Lee Maury Werth, granddaughter of Commander Maury; commissioned 5 August 1938, Lt. Comdr. Edward M. Thompson in command. Specifications: displacement 1,500, length 341'4", draft 14'4", speed 36.5 knots, complement 176, armament 4 5-inch, 16 21-inch torpedo tubes. Service: Pacific Fleet; at sea screening Enterprise (CV-6) inbound from TF 8 near Wake on 7 December 1941; Marshalls raids (Maleolap, Taroa, Reuters Islands) 1 February 1942; Wake 24 February and Marcus 4 March; Coral Sea sortie (arrived after battle, returned 26 May); Midway 2-7 June; plane guard for Enterprise during Tulagi-Guadalcanal landings and through Eastern Solomons 24-25 August and Santa Cruz 26 October; 10 months in the Solomons (Noumea/Espiritu Santo; Munda, Rendova, Russel, Vella Lavella, New Georgia); departed end of August 1943 for San Pedro and a 6-week availability; TF 52 for Tarawa and Makin 20 November; TF 58 from 19 January 1944 (Wotje, Taroa, Eniwetok, Palaus; Majuro; Palaus/Yap/Ulithi/Woleai 30 March-1 April; Hollandia 22 April; Ponape, Satawan, Truk 29 April-1 May); Marianas and Battle of the Philippine Sea 19-20 June; Bonins; Eniwetok 27 June; Iwo Jima raid 4 July; Guam and Tinian landings 21 and 24 July; Peleliu, Ngesebu, Angaur, Yap, Ulithi operations; off Okinawa 10 October; Formosa, Luzon, Manila Bay 15 October; Leyte Gulf cover; Cape Engano action 25 October; November east of Philippines supporting Leyte/Samar; Manus availability; TG 77.4 to Lingayen Gulf 27 December; TG 78.12 convoy escort mid-January; TF 77 guarding Lingayen to 10 February 1945; escorted Mississippi to Pearl Harbor arriving 3 April; 6 weeks Hawaiian training; via San Diego and Panama Canal to New York arriving 14 June; inspection team recommended disposal; proceeded to Philadelphia 18 August; decommissioned 19 October; struck from the Naval Register 1 November; sold to Hugo Neu, New York, 13 June 1946; resold to Northern Metal Co., Philadelphia, and scrapped. Sixteen battle stars for World War II service.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1936-1946
- Population
- Union Plant (Bethlehem San Francisco) construction trades 1936-38; wartime crew (DANFS specification complement 176)
- Limitations
- DANFS documents identity, specifications, service, and disposal; it does not describe machinery insulation, asbestos content, or materials. Live NHHC page returned 404 on 2026-09-27; the 2025-02-02 Wayback capture of the canonical URL is cited. The DANFS specification block prints 'cl. Benham' while the NHHC Online Library and class references treat DD-401 as Gridley class - logged in gaps. The HyperWar transcription reads 'decommissioned 10 October' and 'scrapped ... at the end of the war' where the canonical text reads 19 October and 'at the end of the year'; canonical NHHC values carried, discrepancies logged. The DANFS narrative does not name the San Pedro availability yard and does not mention Tassafaronga, Kolombangara, or Vella Gulf by name - those engagements are documented for this hull by the ONI combat narratives, official chronology, and NHHC photo-catalog narrative (ev-02 through ev-05).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-maury-dd401-01
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[3]Office of Naval Intelligence, Combat Narrative: The Battle of Tassafaronga, 30 November 1942 (Navy Department; verbatim transcription via HyperWar/ibiblio) [other_primary]
- Locator
- ONI Combat Narrative, Tassafaronga section: force assembly paragraph, order of battle, approach formation
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- The official ONI combat narrative documents this hull in Task Force 67 at the Battle of Tassafaronga: at Espiritu Santo on 27 November 1942 'were the destroyers Drayton (which had accompanied the Minneapolis), Fletcher, Maury, and Perkins'; the order of battle lists 'Maury, Lt. Comdr. Gelzer L. Sims'; and the approach formation through Lengo Channel was 'Fletcher, Perkins, Maury, Drayton, followed by the cruiser column, Minneapolis, New Orleans, Pensacola, Honolulu, and Northampton.' The DANFS narrative does not name this engagement; the ONI narrative supplies the hull-specific participation record.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1942-11-30
- Population
- Crew of USS Maury under Lt. Comdr. Gelzer L. Sims, November 1942
- Limitations
- Documents participation and station, not damage inflicted or received; per the operational reconstruction, Maury lacked SG radar and held her torpedo fire (secondary analyses) - the narrative text confirms her place in the van and the failed permission-to-fire sequence. No materials or asbestos content. Transcription mirror cited; the narrative is a wartime ONI product (1944), not a postwar history.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-maury-dd401-02
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[4]Robert J. Cressman, The Official Chronology of the U.S. Navy in World War II (NHHC), Chapter V 1943 and Chapter IV 1942 - verbatim transcription via HyperWar/ibiblio [other_primary]
- Locator
- USN-Chron-1942.html, 24 February 1942 entry (Pacific); USN-Chron-1943.html, 6 August 1943 entry (Pacific)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- The official Navy chronology documents this hull twice by hull number: 24 February 1942 - the Wake Island raid bombardment unit 'consisting of Northampton and Salt Lake City and destroyers Balch (DD-363) and Maury (DD-401) (Rear Admiral Raymond A. Spruance) shells the atoll,' and the combined action sank guardboats No.5 Fukyu Maru and No.1 Miho Maru; and 6 August 1943 - 'Battle of Vella Gulf is joined shortly before midnight, as six destroyers of TG 36.2 (Commander Frederick Moosbrugger) attack four Japanese destroyers attempting to bring troops and supplies to Kolombangara, Solomons, in Vella Gulf; destroyers Dunlap (DD-384), Craven (DD-382), and Maury (DD-401) sink Japanese destroyers Kawakaze, Hagikaze, and Arashi, 07 deg 50'S, 156 deg 47'E. U.S. force suffers no damage.'
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1942-1943
- Population
- Crew of USS Maury, February 1942 and August 1943
- Limitations
- Chronology entries document dated participation and outcomes, not materials, machinery condition, or asbestos content. The 30 November 1942 Tassafaronga entry describes TF 67's action without naming individual U.S. destroyers - Maury's presence there rests on the ONI combat narrative (ev-02). Transcription mirror cited.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-maury-dd401-03
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[5]Office of Naval Intelligence / Naval Historical Center, Combat Narrative: Kolombangara and Vella Lavella, 6 August-7 October 1943 (verbatim transcription via HyperWar/ibiblio) [other_primary]
- Locator
- ONI Combat Narrative 'Kolombangara and Vella Lavella,' Preliminary Arrangements section (order of battle and departure narrative)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- The ONI combat narrative for the August-October 1943 Solomons operations lists this hull in Comdr. Frederick Moosbrugger's Task Group MIKE, DesDiv TWELVE (less Gridley): 'Dunlap (F), Lt. Comdr. Iverson. Craven, Lt. Comdr. Francis T. Williamson. Maury, Comdr. Gelzer L. Sims.' It also records a machinery limitation aboard this hull: TG MIKE departed Purvis Bay an hour early 'because of the condition of the Maury's engineering plant, which limited her speed to 27 knots.' Documents this hull's assignment to the force that fought the Battle of Vella Gulf and a contemporaneous engineering-plant condition.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1943-08
- Population
- Crew of USS Maury under Comdr. Gelzer L. Sims, August 1943
- Limitations
- Documents task-group assignment and a speed limitation for the 6-7 August 1943 operation; does not describe the nature or cause of the engineering-plant condition (machinery casualty vs. material state unknown) and contains no insulation or asbestos information. The narrative covers Vella Gulf and Vella Lavella - participation in the earlier (12-13 July) Battle of Kolombangara rests on the NHHC photo-catalog narrative and secondary sources (ev-05).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-maury-dd401-04
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[6]U.S. Naval Historical Center (NHHC predecessor), Online Library of Selected Images, 'USS Maury (DD-401), 1938-1946' page; photos NH 42150 (mid-1938, autographed by Adm. Arleigh A. Burke), NH 50949 (Wake Island raid, 24 February 1942), 80-G-204934 (refueling with Lexington CV-16, Gilberts area, 25 November 1943), 19-N-19540 (Ship's Historical Data Plaque, c.1938, Bureau of Ships Collection, National Archives) - verbatim transcription via HyperWar/ibiblio [other_primary]
- Locator
- Online Library page 'USS Maury (DD-401), 1938-1946' - narrative block and photo data for NH 42150, NH 50949, 80-G-204934, 19-N-19540
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- The official photo-catalog page for this hull identifies her as 'a 1500-ton Gridley class destroyer ... built at San Francisco, California,' summarizes her service including the Battle of Tassafaronga ('left Maury uninjured'), 'the battle of Kolombangara on 12-13 July 1943 and the highly successful torpedo action in Vella Gulf on 6-7 August,' and catalogs four photographs including a Bureau of Ships Collection image of her Historical Data Plaque. The catalog's Gridley-class identification contradicts the DANFS specification block's 'cl. Benham' label for this hull.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1938-1946
- Population
- Wartime crew; Arleigh A. Burke served aboard as a destroyer division commander in 1943 (per photo caption)
- Limitations
- An official identification and photo catalog, not a materials record; no insulation or asbestos content. NHHC's own narrative supplies Kolombangara participation (12-13 July 1943) that the DANFS text omits. Live history.navy.mil photo pages were not reachable under tested URL patterns; the verbatim ibiblio mirror is cited.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-maury-dd401-05
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[7]Presidential Unit Citation to USS Maury, Secretary of the Navy citation signed by James Forrestal - verbatim transcription via Destroyer History Foundation (source credited: Capt. Russell S. Crenshaw, Jr., USN Ret.) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Destroyer History Foundation, USS Maury pages, 'Unit Citation' document transcription
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- This hull received the Presidential Unit Citation for 'outstanding performance in combat against enemy Japanese forces ashore and afloat in the Pacific War Area from February 1, 1942, to August 6, 1943' - the citation text reads in part 'Unique in the comprehensiveness of her service since the commencement of hostilities, the U.S.S. MAURY has operated continuously in the most advanced areas.' The award window spans her carrier-screen, Tassafaronga, and Solomons service through the eve of Vella Gulf.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1942-02-01 to 1943-08-06
- Population
- Crew of USS Maury, 1942-1943 (award period)
- Limitations
- The citation text is transcribed by the Destroyer History Foundation from Capt. Crenshaw's papers rather than from a published Navy document located in this session; the award itself is consistent with NHHC/secondary award listings but the primary award document (SECNAV citation serial) was not retrieved. No materials or asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-maury-dd401-06
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[8]National Archives, Special List 44, Named Vessels, Maury (DD-401) row [other_primary]
- Locator
- Named-vessel table, Maury (DD-401) row
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- NARA's named-vessel deck-log index (Special List 44) lists Maury (DD-401) covering a single continuous run, 8/5/1938-10/19/1945 - the hull's complete commissioned service window (commissioned 5 August 1938, decommissioned 19 October 1945). The index end date independently corroborates the 19 October decommissioning in the canonical NHHC DANFS text against the HyperWar transcription's '10 October.' A separate index row for Maury (DD-100, 9/23/1918-3/19/1930) confirms NARA distinguishes the first namesake.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1938-1945
- Population
- Wartime crew (record coverage)
- Limitations
- An index entry establishes that deck logs exist covering the interval, not that any individual log was reviewed, is digitized, or describes materials, overhauls, asbestos, or exposure.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-maury-dd401-07
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[9]National Archives, Ship Plan Index, MAURY DD-401 rows [other_primary]
- Locator
- Ship Plan Index, MAURY / DD-401 rows (NAIDs 53484506, 175669841)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- NARA's ship-plan index lists two holdings for MAURY DD-401: RG 19 Alphabetical Ship Drawings (NAID 53484506) and RG 19 Microfilm (NAID 175669841). Distinct index rows exist for MAURY DD-100 (Alphabetical Ship Drawings NAID 53484507; Microfilm NAID 175669840) and MAURY AGS-16 (Hull series NAID 153713533; Damage Control Drawings NAID 175661842), confirming NARA distinguishes all three namesake hulls.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1936-1945 (record coverage)
- Limitations
- Catalog entries establish potentially relevant holdings only. The drawings and microfilm were not retrieved; their contents, including any construction, machinery, or insulation specification, remain unknown.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-maury-dd401-08
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[10]National Archives, 'Researching Asbestos aboard US Naval Vessel up through 1961' [other_primary]
- Locator
- Guide sections: RG 19 correspondence series; General Information Books; deck logs and muster rolls
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- NARA's guide to researching asbestos aboard Navy vessels identifies RG 19 Bureau of Ships records - General Correspondence 1940-1945 filed by hull designation (e.g., 'DD401') and by class namesake, Confidential and Secret correspondence, General Information Books, engineering drawings, deck logs, and muster rolls - as the paths to vessel-specific material evidence. DD-401's 1938-1945 service window overlaps the guide's cited 1940-1945 General Correspondence series, so this path can reach the hull's wartime years; pre-1940 construction-era correspondence falls outside that series' stated window.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Limitations
- The guide is research-method context, not evidence about this hull. It identifies where hull-specific material records may exist but contains none itself; no RG 19 correspondence for DD-401 or the DD-380 class file was retrieved or reviewed.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-maury-dd401-09
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[11]Destroyer History Foundation Gridley-class page (as-built class machinery spec: 4 x Bethlehem boilers, 618 psi, 645 deg F; Bethlehem geared turbines, 50,000 shp, 2 shafts - sourced to the BuC&R GIB for DD-380/DD-382; Maury acceptance-trial figure 42.8 knots) + Atlas shipyard dataset, bethlehem-shipbuilding record [other_primary]
- Locator
- destroyerhistory.org Gridley-class general information section (GIB-derived machinery table and trials note); shipyards.json record 'bethlehem-shipbuilding'
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Era/yard inference: a Gridley-class destroyer built 1936-38 at Bethlehem's Union Plant, San Francisco, with a four-boiler high-pressure steam plant (618 psi, 645 deg F class design) would have carried period-standard asbestos insulation on boilers, turbines, steam lines, and condensate/feed systems, plus gaskets, valve packing, fireproofing, and electrical insulation, consistent with documented 1930s-40s Navy destroyer construction practice. The builder corporation is documented at yard level in the Atlas dataset (bethlehem-shipbuilding). The Union Plant pair (DD-400/DD-401) has no General Information Book in the public DHF collection - the surviving class GIB covers only DD-380/DD-382.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1936-1946
- Population
- Union Plant construction trades 1936-38; crew 1938-45
- Limitations
- Class/era and builder-yard inference only - no ship-specific asbestos finding exists for this hull. The class machinery spec is sourced to the DD-380/DD-382 GIB and may not reflect Union Plant manufacture for this hull; the yard dataset documents Bethlehem-yard practices generally, not materials installed in DD-401. This row adds context, not an independent ship-specific finding.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-maury-dd401-10
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[12]CourtListener API v4 sweeps 2026-09-27: "USS Maury" (type=o) 0 hits; "USS Maury" (type=r) 1 hit - non-qualifying collision; "DD-401" (type=o) 0 hits; "DD-401" (type=r) 8 hits - all name collisions [court_record]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-maury-dd401-11 through sl-uss-maury-dd401-14
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- No qualifying asbestos litigation naming this hull located in CourtListener. Exact-name searches return zero opinions and one docket: United States v. QTC Medical Services, Inc., No. 2:14-cv-08961 (C.D. Cal., filed 2014, terminated 2019) - a False Claims Act qui tam action against a medical-examination provider, not asbestos or maritime; the 'USS Maury' string appears inside a 332-page amended complaint whose reference context is unresolved but the case type excludes vessel-exposure claims (and any 'USS Maury' reference in a post-1969 medical record would most plausibly concern the later namesake AGS-16). Hull-number searches return zero opinions and eight dockets, all name collisions on form/exhibit/page-number strings: Tribune Media Co. (Bankr. D. Del., Ch. 11), Gemmell v. Affigne, Lawrance v. Rickenbacker Group, Lara v. Grabauskas, Elsmere Park Club LP v. Town of Elsmere, 10X Genomics v. Vizgen, New York Times Co. v. Microsoft, and Walsh v. AEU Benefits (N.D. Ill., ERISA). None asbestos, none naval.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 2026-09-27
- Limitations
- CourtListener indexes published opinions and RECAP dockets; unindexed state-court pleadings, MDL-875 transferor-court filings not naming the ship in indexed text, and settled/unfiled claims are not covered. A WWII-veteran asbestos filing naming 'USS Maury' would be chronologically compatible with this hull (in service 1938-1945), so absence of located hits is a search result, not proof none exists. A supplementary 'Maury asbestos' opinion query was not executed - the fleet pacing budget was exhausted this session; recorded in the ledger.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-maury-dd401-11
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[13]Batch-3387 search ledger (this record): NHHC DANFS (live + Wayback + HyperWar mirror); ONI combat narratives (Tassafaronga; Kolombangara and Vella Lavella); official USN WWII chronology 1942-1943; NHHC Online Library photo catalog; PUC transcription; NARA Special List 44 and Ship Plan Index; NARA asbestos research guide; NAVSEA FOIA reading room; CourtListener sweeps [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-maury-dd401-01 through -13
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, environmental record, or docketed asbestos case naming USS Maury (DD-401) was found in the public sources searched (see search_ledger). The hull was sold for scrapping in June 1946 - predating NPS/NRHP designation, HAER documentation, and modern ACM survey regimes - so no museum-condition or registration-file asbestos disclosures exist for this vessel.
- 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 1936-laid high-pressure steam destroyer is a strong class-era candidate - and does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility. NARA drawings, microfilm, deck logs, and RG 19 correspondence were not inspected; absence from digitized summaries cannot establish absence aboard.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-maury-dd401-12