Evidence
6 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-6).
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[1]research packet jo-packet.md (1 sources cited) [nhhc_danfs]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERIFIED
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-morris-dd417-pkt-jo-packet-md
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[2]DANFS, Morris VII (DD-417) (builder, dates, service narrative, battle stars, disposition; verbatim transcription - live NHHC page serves 404) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS entry, specifications block + service narrative (Morris VII)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS record for this hull: Sims-class destroyer (dp. 1,570; 348'2" x 36'1" x 13'6"; 35 kt; cpl. 192; 5 x 5", 8 x 21" tt.). Laid down at the navy yard, Norfolk, Va., 7 June 1938; launched 1 June 1939; commissioned 5 March 1940, Comdr. H. B. Jarrett. Flagship of DesRon 2; North Atlantic Patrol summer 1941; at Charleston Navy Yard received the first fire-control radar installed on a destroyer; Pearl Harbor Feb 1942; Coral Sea (rescued ~500 Lexington survivors; damaged); Midway (over 500 Yorktown survivors); Santa Cruz (550 Hornet survivors); Guadalcanal; Attu/Kiska 1943; San Francisco 7-week overhaul; Liscome Bay standby Nov 1943; Wotje, Kwajalein/Namur, Eniwetok; western New Guinea landings (Hollandia, Wakde-Sarmi, Biak, Noemfoor, Sansapor, Morotai); Leyte Gulf and Luzon; Okinawa - kamikaze hit 6 April 1945 on portside between No. 1 and No. 2 guns, fires controlled after 2+ hours; temporary repairs Kerama Retto; departed 22 May, entered Hunters Point drydock San Francisco 18 June; declared neither seaworthy nor habitable; decommissioned 9 November 1945; struck 28 November 1945; stripped and sold to Franklin Shipwrecking 2 August 1947; resold to National Metal & Steel Corp., Terminal Island, Calif., 17 July 1949. 15 battle stars.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1938-1949
- Population
- Norfolk Navy Yard construction trades 1938-40; wartime crew (design complement 192); Charleston/Pearl Harbor/Espiritu Santo/Hunters Point yard workers during availabilities
- Limitations
- DANFS documents service history and specifications, not materials or asbestos content. The entry prints the biography of Robert Morris while the ship's sponsor and dedication were to Commodore Charles Morris - namesake conflict carried in gaps. Mirror transcription cited because the live NHHC page returns 404 (standing NHHC link-rot defect, per BATCH-01 precedent).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-morris-dd417-01
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[3]Destroyer History Foundation, USS Morris (DD-417) ship page (sourced to Naval Historical Center records incl. DANFS) [other_primary]
- Locator
- destroyerhistory.org/goldplater/ussmorris/ - ship overview page
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Corroborating ship-specific history naming the hull's namesake explicitly: Morris was 'named for Commodore Charles Morris' and was the eighth ship of the Sims class, built at Norfolk Navy Yard with sister Wainwright, commissioned there 5 March 1940; first U.S. destroyer fitted with fire-control radar while at Charleston in December 1941; repairs begun at Hunters Point were suspended when Japan's war effort collapsed; scrapped at Terminal Island by National Metal & Steel Corp. in 1949. Resolves the namesake ambiguity in the DANFS entry (which prints the Robert Morris biography under the Morris VII heading).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- correction
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1938-1949
- Limitations
- Specialist foundation site citing Naval Historical Center records - reputable secondary mirror, not itself an official document; used only to resolve the namesake question and corroborate DANFS dates, which it does independently. Contains no asbestos information.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-morris-dd417-02
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[4]Destroyer History Foundation, Sims-class general-information page (citing BuShips General Information Book for DD-409/410, NARA RG19) + scanned GIB PDF at destroyerhistory.org/assets/pdf/generalinformationbooks/409sims_GIBook.pdf [other_primary]
- Locator
- destroyerhistory.org Sims-class page (machinery block); GIB PDF cover/preface (DD-409/410)
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Class/era inference: a Sims-class destroyer of 1938-40 with a three-boiler high-pressure steam plant (3 x Babcock & Wilcox boilers, ~600-665 psi, superheated ~715 F; Westinghouse geared turbines; 50,000 shp; 2 shafts) would have carried period-standard asbestos thermal insulation, steam-line lagging, gaskets, packing, and fireproofing - the era-standard insulated fit for a pre-WWII U.S. destroyer. The BuShips General Information Book series (per-vessel material/machinery specifications held in NARA RG19, exemplar DD-409/410 scanned by the Destroyer History Foundation) is the archival lead for hull-level material specifications; the DD-417 GIB was not located in digitized form.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1938-1949
- Population
- Norfolk Navy Yard construction trades 1938-40; crew 1940-45; scrapping workers 1947-49
- Limitations
- Class-level documentation and era inference only - no ship-specific record names the materials installed aboard DD-417. Does not establish quantity, locations, or that any specific product aboard this hull contained asbestos; not usable as 'documented aboard this hull' support.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-morris-dd417-03
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[5]Batch-3403 search ledger (this record): DANFS transcription (ibiblio HyperWar); Destroyer History Foundation ship and class pages; NARA catalog (JS-rendered, not retrievable programmatically); Naval Vessel Register (not applicable - hull stricken 1945); web-level litigation pre-screen; CourtListener API v4 (blocked by fleet pacing) [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-morris-dd417-01 through sl-uss-morris-dd417-09
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no ACM survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, or adjudicated exposure finding names this hull in the public sources searched (see litigation_sweep row ev-05 for the completed CourtListener result). The hull was sold 1947 and scrapped at Terminal Island 1947-49 - no extant structure, museum record, or modern abatement file exists to document; shipbreaking-era materials records for the National Metal & Steel teardown were not located.
- 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 - the class/era inference stands independently. Absence of qualifying litigation in the searched indexes does not prove no suit was ever filed (RECAP coverage is incomplete, especially for older state-court filings).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-morris-dd417-04
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[6]CourtListener API v4 sweep, exact-name + hull-number queries on opinion (type=o) and RECAP docket (type=r) indexes [court_record]
- Locator
- cl-auth-search.py results for queries listed in search_ledger sl-uss-morris-dd417-03, 2026-09-27
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- Completed litigation sweep (2026-09-27, authenticated, fleet-paced): "USS Morris" type=o = 0 hits; "USS Morris" + asbestos type=o = 0 hits; "DD-417" type=o = 1 hit (Keith v. Corbin, Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1977 - name collision: non-asbestos state case, token match only, classified NOT qualifying); "USS Morris" type=r = 0 hits; "DD-417" type=r = 1 hit (Blatchford, interim administrator of Virginia Giuffre estate, S.D.N.Y. - name collision: docket/exhibit string, classified NOT qualifying). No qualifying asbestos litigation, no other litigation naming this hull located in the indexed corpus.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 2026-09-27
- Limitations
- Sweep covers CourtListener's indexed opinions and RECAP dockets only - state-court filings never captured into PACER/RECAP, unindexed opinions, and settled/undocketed claims are outside its reach. A zero qualifying result here does not prove no claim was ever filed; it establishes that no qualifying case is retrievable in the indexed corpus searched.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-morris-dd417-05