Evidence
7 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-7).
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[1]research packet jd-packet.md (2 sources cited) [other_primary]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERIFIED — real identity: USS McCawley (DD-276), destroyer, Clemson-class — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_McCawley_(DD-276) (DANFS text, mirror-sourced)
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-mccawley-dd276-pkt-jd-packet-md
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[2]DANFS, McCawley I (DD-276) (builder, dates, service narrative, striking and disposal; verbatim transcription - live NHHC page serves 404; 2004 Wayback capture of history.navy.mil/danfs/m7/mccawley-i.htm confirms identical text) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS entry, namesake biography + specifications block + service narrative
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS record for this hull: named for Col. Charles G. McCawley, USMC (8th Commandant of the Marine Corps, 1876-1891); laid down 5 November 1918 by the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp., Quincy, Mass.; launched 14 June 1919; sponsored by Miss Eleanor Laurie McCawley, granddaughter of the colonel; commissioned 22 September 1919, Lt. (jg.) H. E. Haynes in command. Specifications block: displacement 1,190; length 314'5"; beam 31'8"; draft 9'3"; speed 35 kt; complement 120; armament 4 x 4", 1 x 3", 12 x 21" torpedo tubes; class Clemson. Service: east-coast fitting out and shakedown, then San Diego with Destroyer Squadron 2, later DesRon 4, Pacific Fleet; decommissioned San Diego 7 June 1922; recommissioned 27 September 1923 and operated with the Pacific Fleet for 6 years (fleet problems, Caribbean 1924 and 1927, west coast San Diego to Puget Sound, Hawaiian waters); designated for deactivation under the London Treaty for the Limitation of Naval Armament; decommissioned San Diego 1 April (1930); struck from the Navy list 13 August 1930; hulk scrapped and sold at auction 2 September 1931.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1918-1931
- Population
- Bethlehem Shipbuilding construction trades 1918-19; interwar crew (design complement 120)
- Limitations
- DANFS documents service history and specifications, not materials or asbestos content. Decommissioning date reads '1 April' with year implied by surrounding text (struck 13 August 1930); NavSource and secondary sources confirm 1 April 1930. Mirror transcription cited because the live NHHC page returns 404; a 2004 Wayback capture of the history.navy.mil original confirms the text verbatim.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-mccawley-dd276-01
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[3]Navy Department, Ships' Data, U.S. Naval Vessels (July 1, 1924 edition), destroyer tables, per-hull rows for McCAWLEY DD276 (shipscribe.com scan of the official publication) [other_primary]
- Locator
- SDB 1924 destroyer tables (First Line DDs): characteristics row p.~77; machinery row p.~84 'Shaft horsepower on trial / Type of engines / Boilers (oil burning)'; armament+builder+contract row; authorized/laid/launched/commissioned dates row
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Official Navy Department data naming this hull: machinery row reads 'MCCAWLEY DD276 - 2 Curtis geared turb.; 4 Yarrow [oil-burning boilers]; 27,540 / 27,975 [shaft horsepower on trial]'; armament/builder row reads '4-4",50 cal.; 1-3",23 cal. A.A.; 4-21" triple [t.t.]; Beth. S. B. Corp., Squantum; Cost+fee; Oct. 6, 1917 [contract]'; dates row reads authorized Dec. 6, 1917, laid Nov. 5, 1918, launched June 14, 1919, commissioned Sept. 22, 1919, with Sept. 27, 1923 recommissioning noted. Characteristics row: 1,265 tons, 34.56 kt trial-class figures consistent with the 35-kt design rating.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1917-1924 (publication)
- Population
- Bethlehem Squantum construction trades 1917-1919; crew 1919-1930
- Limitations
- Contemporaneous official Navy data naming this hull - documents machinery, armament, builder, and contract/dates only; it contains no asbestos or insulation-material statements and supports no asbestos claim beyond establishing the steam-plant type (four Yarrow oil-burning boilers, Curtis geared turbines) to which era inference applies. OCR of the scanned tables is column-jumbled; mapped values cross-check with DANFS (dates, armament) and NavSource (1,215-1,265 t displacement).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-mccawley-dd276-02
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[4]DANFS specifications block (Clemson class; 35 kt; complement 120) + Atlas shipyard dataset, Bethlehem Shipbuilding record (yard-level asbestos product documentation); NARA RG19 General Information Books archival lead [other_primary]
- Locator
- DANFS specifications block; shipyards.json record 'bethlehem-shipbuilding'
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Era/yard inference: a WWI-era Clemson-class flush-deck destroyer built 1918-19 with a four water-tube boiler, geared steam-turbine plant would have carried period-standard asbestos boiler and steam-line insulation, turbine lagging, gaskets, packing, and fireproofing; builder Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corp. (Quincy/Squantum) is documented at yard level in the Atlas dataset (evidence_tier 3; documented products incl. magnesia block insulation, asbestos lagging, gaskets and packing materials, asbestos cement and board) though the yard-level evidence is weighted toward Bethlehem's Maryland (Sparrows Point) operations rather than the Squantum yard specifically. NARA RG19 'General Information Books' holding per-vessel material specifications are an archival lead for hull-level specs.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1918-1931
- Population
- Bethlehem Shipbuilding construction trades 1918-19; crew 1919-1930
- Limitations
- Class/era and builder-yard inference only - NOT a hull-specific finding. No ship-specific documentation was located for this hull. The yard dataset's cohort evidence addresses Bethlehem's Maryland workforce, not the Quincy/Squantum yard that built DD-276; yard-level product documentation does not establish what was installed aboard this hull. Does not quantify material or establish any individual's exposure. NARA GIB retrieval not performed.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-mccawley-dd276-03
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[5]GAO, Navy Efforts To Protect Workers From Asbestos Exposure, HRD-80-2 (Oct 18, 1979) [gao]
- Locator
- GAO product page HRD-80-2
- Finding type
- gov_survey
- Finding
- GAO documented that the Navy used asbestos insulation extensively aboard ships and did not begin substituting alternative insulation materials until the early 1970s - placing DD-276's construction (1918-19) and entire commissioned service (1919-1930) inside the documented asbestos-use era.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1979 (report); era context for 1918-1931 hull
- Population
- Navy shipyard workers; asbestos program review
- Limitations
- Program-level documentation; supports era context only, not any fact specific to this hull. Full report text not retrieved (gao.gov blocks automated fetch, HTTP 403) - content via product-page description. The report addresses the mid-20th-century fleet and 1970s substitution policy; it does not itemize WWI-era flush-deck destroyers.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-mccawley-dd276-04
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[6]CourtListener API v4 authenticated sweep (cl-auth-search.py helper; fleet-paced shared quota) [court_record]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-mccawley-dd276-06, -07, -07b, -07c
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- Authenticated CourtListener API v4 sweep, 2026-09-27: '"USS McCawley"' opinions = 0 hits; '"McCawley" "DD-276"' opinions = 0 hits; '"USS McCawley"' RECAP dockets = 0 hits; '"aboard USS McCawley" OR "aboard the McCawley"' opinions = 0 hits; '"McCawley" asbestos' opinions = 2 hits, both name collisions verified at opinion level (McCoy v. Otis Elevator Co., 546 So. 2d 229, La. App. 2d Cir. 1989 - 'Mr. McCawley' is the defendant's elevator-design expert witness; Castorina v. Lykes Brothers Steamship Co., 758 F.2d 1025, 5th Cir. 1985 - an asbestos-cargo longshoreman asbestosis case, but the 'McCawley' reference is the cited precedent McCawley v. Ozeanosun Compania, Maritime, S.A., 505 F.2d 26, 5th Cir. 1974, a party surname). No qualifying asbestos litigation, other litigation, or docket naming DD-276 located. Name-collision context: USS McCawley (AP-10/APA-4), the WWII attack transport sunk 1943, is the litigation-era namesake; the sweep found no hits for that hull either under the exact-name queries run.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 2026-09-27
- Limitations
- CourtListener index coverage only - captures opinions/dockets in its corpus, not state-court filings absent RECAP coverage, trust-fund claims, or settled/undocketed matters. A 1919-1931 hull predates the asbestos-litigation era, so a null result is expected rather than probative; absence of a located case does not establish that no exposure or claim ever occurred. Fleet-paced quota limited the sweep to these queries; no additional variants run.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-mccawley-dd276-05
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[7]Batch-3272 search ledger (this record): DANFS mirror + Wayback NHHC capture; Naval Vessel Register ship-detail query; NARA catalog (deck logs); GAO HRD-80-2 product page; Atlas shipyards.json Bethlehem record; CourtListener authenticated sweep (see sl-06/-07 for status); NavSource (unreachable); law-firm ship-list pages (excluded per sourcing rules) [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-mccawley-dd276-01 through sl-uss-mccawley-dd276-09
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No hull-specific asbestos survey, abatement record, materials inventory, or hazmat disclosure located for DD-276 in the public sources searched (see search_ledger). The ship was stricken in 1930 and sold for scrap in 1931 - decades before modern asbestos documentation practice - and never became a museum, so the museum-disclosure and abatement-record channels that produced ship-specific records for preserved hulls do not exist here.
- 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 - era-standard applications are documented at class/era level (ev-03, ev-04) and the 1918-19 steam plant is of the type that carried asbestos insulation. The hull no longer exists, so present-day ACM status is moot. This finding reflects a search of public/official sources only.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-mccawley-dd276-06