Evidence
10 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-10).
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[1]research packet eh-packet.md (3 sources cited) [nhhc_danfs]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERIFIED
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-mccormick-dd223-pkt-eh-packet-md
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[2]Naval History and Heritage Command, Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, 'McCormick (DD-223)' [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- Service narrative paragraphs; final disposition paragraph
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS records McCormick's service: one year with Destroyer Squadron 5, Pacific Fleet; Destroyer Detachment, Naval Forces in European Waters (eastern Mediterranean quasi-diplomatic duty) until spring 1924; Asiatic Fleet 1925-1932 operating from Cavite as flagship of DesDiv 39, later DesDiv 14, supporting Yangtze River and South China patrols; ordered back to the United States 15 March 1932; homeported San Diego; decommissioned 14 October 1938; recommissioned 26 September 1939 for Atlantic neutrality patrol; North Atlantic convoy runs to Halifax, Argentia, and Londonderry through 1942; Casablanca convoys from 7 February 1943; July 1943 convoy action in which she picked up three U-67 survivors on 16 July; overhaul at New York; escort of seaplane tender Albemarle to Natal, Brazil, and Casablanca; Boston-based escort and antisubmarine duty from 1 April 1944 with calls at Bizerte, Oran, Cherbourg, Falmouth, Belfast, and Milford Haven; east-coast and Caribbean convoy work; Casablanca run January 1945; temporary duty with SubRon 3 at Balboa, Canal Zone from 31 March 1945; reclassified miscellaneous auxiliary AG-118 on 30 June 1945; overhaul at Boston from 21 July 1945; decommissioned 4 October 1945; stricken 24 October 1945; hulk sold for scrapping to Boston Metals Co., Baltimore, 15 December 1946.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Limitations
- DANFS records yard periods ('overhaul at New York'; 'overhaul at Boston' 1945) without naming facilities or describing scope of insulation or materials work; no asbestos finding follows from a yard period. The narrative's '15 March' return order sits in a paragraph ending 'until 1932' - 1932 is the contextual reading. Scrapping completion after the 1946 sale is not stated. Live NHHC page returned HTTP 404; text verified via 2025-12-09 Wayback capture and HyperWar transcription.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-mccormick-dd223-02
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[3]National Archives, Special List 44, Named Vessels, McCormick (DD-223) entries [other_primary]
- Locator
- Alphabetical named-vessels table, two McCormick (DD-223) rows
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- NARA's Special List 44 (Named Vessels deck-log index) lists two deck-log runs for McCormick (DD-223): 8/30/1920 to 10/14/1938 and 9/26/1939 to 10/4/1945. The second run's start corroborates the DANFS recommissioning date of 26 September 1939, and its end matches the DANFS decommissioning date of 4 October 1945.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Limitations
- Collection coverage index only; the deck logs themselves were not inspected, and NARA states deck logs provide no direct evidence of shipboard asbestos. No AG-118 log run is listed for this hull.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-mccormick-dd223-03
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[4]National Archives, Ship Plan Index, MCCORMICK DD-223 entries (NAID 53484514; NAID 175669855) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Ship Plan Index table, MCCORMICK DD-223 rows
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- NARA's Ship Plan Index lists MCCORMICK DD-223 under RG 19 Alphabetical Ship Drawings (NAID 53484514) and RG 19 Microfilm (NAID 175669855). These entries establish that hull-level engineering drawings for this ship exist in NARA custody; the drawings themselves were not retrieved or reviewed.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Limitations
- An index entry proves holdings, not content; whether the drawings include insulation or lagging schedules (S39/S48-type) is unknown. LYNDE MCCORMICK DDG-8 appears in the same index but is a different ship and is not associated with this hull.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-mccormick-dd223-04
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[5]National Archives, 'Researching Asbestos aboard US Naval Vessel up through 1961' [other_primary]
- Locator
- Beginning Research; Bureau of Ships correspondence; General Information Books; Board of Inspection and Survey reports; ship engineering drawings
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- NARA's shipboard-asbestos research guide states that documenting asbestos in U.S. Navy materiel from 1941 to 1961 requires vessel-specific research, and identifies the relevant record series: RG 19 Bureau of Ships correspondence filed by hull designation (DD223), destroyer General Information Books, hull-arranged ship engineering drawings including insulation/lagging (S39) and piping (S48) drawings, and RG 38 Board of Inspection and Survey reports.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Limitations
- A research method and record-series map, not a DD-223 material record. The guide's stated scope (1941-1961) postdates this hull's 1919-1920 construction, though it covers her 1939-1945 recommissioned service. No DD-223 item was retrieved from any listed series.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-mccormick-dd223-05
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[6]Naval History and Heritage Command, H-Gram 067, 'USS Edsall's Last Stand' (February 2022) [other_primary]
- Locator
- H-067-1 section, Clemson-class description paragraph and Edsall machinery description
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- NHHC's H-Gram 067 describes the Clemson class as 156 'flush deck' (four-piper) destroyers authorized in 1917 and designed as battle-fleet escorts, none completed in time for World War I; it describes class sister Edsall (DD-219), also built by Cramp at Philadelphia, as having two geared turbines with twin shafts and screws capable of 35 knots. This supplies class-level design context for McCormick, another Cramp-built Clemson.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Limitations
- Class and sister-ship description only; the H-gram does not name McCormick and identifies no material, insulation product, or asbestos content for any hull. Live NHHC link returned HTTP 404; PDF text reviewed from the batch-3217 session's downloaded copy. No ship-specific finding may be inferred.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-mccormick-dd223-06
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[7]U.S. General Accounting Office, HRD-80-2, asbestos in Navy shipyards/shipboard program review (1979) [gao]
- Locator
- GAO product page and report abstract
- Finding type
- gov_survey
- Finding
- GAO report HRD-80-2 (1979) reviews the Navy's asbestos-protection program service-wide. It postdates this hull's 1945 decommissioning and 1946 sale by more than three decades and contains no reference to DD-223.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Limitations
- gao.gov returned HTTP 403 to automated fetch during this session (standing defect since batch-01); the product-page entry is cited without full-text review. Program-level context predicated on a period after this hull left service; establishes nothing about materials aboard DD-223.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-mccormick-dd223-07
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[8]Documented negative finding from the 2026-09-27 official-source search ledger, with NARA's asbestos research guide as method reference [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger sl-uss-mccormick-dd223-01 through sl-uss-mccormick-dd223-07
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No DD-223/AG-118-specific asbestos survey, material specification, abatement record, or exposure finding was located in the reviewed online NHHC, NARA, and GAO sources. Asbestos presence and crew or yard-worker exposure aboard this hull remain unknown.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Limitations
- A bounded negative finding about this online search, not proof the ship lacked asbestos. Unexamined RG 19 correspondence/drawings, General Information Books, and RG 38 inspection reports may change the result. No individual exposure, product, quantity, location, or causal conclusion is supported.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-mccormick-dd223-08
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[9]CourtListener API v4 search (type=o and type=r), queries "USS McCormick" and "DD-223" [court_record]
- Locator
- search_ledger sl-uss-mccormick-dd223-08 through sl-uss-mccormick-dd223-11
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- CourtListener sweep via the authenticated fleet helper, 2026-09-27: exact-phrase opinion search "USS McCormick" returned zero results; exact-phrase RECAP/docket search "USS McCormick" returned zero results; hull-number opinion search "DD-223" returned 31 hits, all name collisions (New York Appellate Division juvenile/family opinions, where 'DD 223' resolves to form/document references, no Navy or asbestos content); hull-number docket search "DD-223" returned 8 hits, all name collisions (civil rights, habeas, ADA, contract, fair-housing, securities, and patent dockets - no Navy or asbestos content). No qualifying asbestos litigation and no litigation of any kind naming this hull was located.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 2026-09-27
- Limitations
- A search-index sweep, not an exhaustive PACER review: full-text search on the bare surname 'McCormick' was not attempted (unusable collision rate against a common litigant/corporate name within the shared fleet query budget), and a supplementary 'AG-118' redesignation query remained pending against the fleet pacing budget at close of session. Absence of a located record does not prove no litigation exists - only that none was found in the queries actually run.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-mccormick-dd223-09
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[10]Naval History and Heritage Command, Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, 'McCormick (DD-223)' [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- Specifications block; namesake note; first service-history paragraph
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS identifies McCormick (DD-223) as a Clemson-class destroyer built by Wm. Cramp & Sons at Philadelphia: laid down 11 August 1919, launched 14 February 1920 (sponsor Miss Katherine McCormick, sister of the namesake), commissioned 30 August 1920 under Lt. Cmdr. L. C. Scheibla. Specifications block: 1,190 tons displacement, 314'5" length, 31'9" beam, 9'3" draft, 35 knots, complement 101, armament 4x4-inch, 1x3-inch, 12x21-inch torpedo tubes. The ship was named for Lt. (jg.) Alexander A. McCormick, USNRF, a naval aviator killed 24 September 1918 and posthumously awarded the Navy Cross.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Limitations
- Ship history, not a material inventory or exposure record. The live NHHC page returned HTTP 404 during this research; identical verbatim text was verified in the 2025-12-09 Wayback capture and the HyperWar transcription (dafs/AG/ag118.html, filed under the ship's final AG-118 designation). The 101 complement is a specifications figure, not a verified wartime headcount; a secondary HyperWar compilation gives 149 - see gaps.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-mccormick-dd223-01