Evidence
8 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-8).
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[1]research packet hf-packet.md (4 sources cited) [other_primary]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERIFIED — real identity: USS Mullinnix
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-mullinnix-dd944-pkt-hf-packet-md
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[2]DANFS, 'Mullinnix' (DD-944) - NHHC entry published 2015-08-12, cited via Internet Archive Wayback capture 20250203160341 (live NHHC page returns 404) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS entry, specifications block + service narrative (Wayback capture 20250203160341)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS record for this hull. Spec block: 'DD-944: dp. 3,990; l. 418'; b. 45'; dr. 20'; s. 33 k.; cpl. 337; a. 2 5", 5 3", 1 dct., 1 ASROC, 6 tt.; cl. Forrest Sherman.' Namesake RAdm. Henry Maston Mullinnix (1892-1943), killed aboard USS Liscome Bay off Makin Island 24 November 1943. Hull: laid down 5 April 1956 by the Bethlehem Steel Co., Quincy, Mass.; launched 18 March 1957; sponsored by Mrs. Kathryn F. Mullinnix; commissioned 7 March 1958, Comdr. Clyde B. Anderson in command. Service: shakedown off Cuba; escorted Ranger to Rio de Janeiro, returning to Boston September 1958; second South Atlantic cruise; joined 6th Fleet in the Mediterranean 7 August 1959; NATO exercises, Caribbean patrol, 6th Fleet deployment early 1961; 24 October - 19 November 1962 flagship of TF 137 (American, Argentine, Venezuelan, Dominican warships) in the Cuban quarantine; 'Steel Pike I' October 1964 off Spain; ASW training, then Gemini recovery operations March 1965; Dominican Republic crisis patrol off Guantanamo April 1965; after a 3-month 6th Fleet deployment, western Pacific - 2 August to 1 November 1966 intermittently off South Vietnam, DMZ to Saigon River, naval gunfire support; departed Subic Bay via Indian Ocean and Suez, arriving Norfolk 17 December 1966; August 1967 NASA Apollo capsule tests; Atlantic/Caribbean exercises from Norfolk into 1969.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1956-1969 (entry coverage)
- Population
- Bethlehem Fore River construction trades 1956-58; wartime/cold-war crew (DANFS complement 337) 1958-1983
- Limitations
- DANFS documents service history and specifications, not materials or asbestos content. The narrative ends in 1969 - the 1983 decommissioning, 1990 striking, and 1992 sinking are outside this entry. Gemini recovery date reads March 1965 in the DANFS text (consistent with the Gemini 3 mission) while some secondary paraphrases read March 1966 - DANFS carried. Live NHHC page returns 404; Wayback capture cited.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-mullinnix-dd944-01
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[3]HAER DC-69, 'Forrest Sherman-Class Destroyers' (Historic American Engineering Record; sponsored by U.S. Navy Inactive Ships Program, NAVSEA 21; historian Michael R. Harrison), Library of Congress item dc1148, data pages (21 pp.) [haer]
- Locator
- HAER DC-69 data pages: hull roster entry for DD 944; Part I historical context; Part II mechanical features (propulsion machinery); footnotes 53-54 (boiler/turbine manufacturers by hull)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Navy-sponsored class survey carrying a per-hull entry for this vessel: 'USS Mullinnix DD 944 - Builder: Bethlehem Steel Co., Quincy, Massachusetts; hull number 1652. Laid down: 5 April 1956. Launched: 18 March 1957. Delivered: 26 February 1958. Commissioned: 7 March 1958. Decommissioned: 11 August 1983. Struck: 26 July 1990. Disposition: Sunk as target 23 August 1992. Named for RAdm. Henry Mullinnix (1892-1943).' Machinery documentation establishes this hull's plant: four boilers supplying 1,200 psi steam to two geared turbine sets driving twin screws, 70,000 shp, 33-knot design; footnote 53 states Foster Wheeler made the boilers of DD 943-944 (this hull); footnote 54 states General Electric manufactured turbines and reduction gearing for all class hulls except DD 931-933 (Westinghouse) - this hull's turbines are GE. The survey's conversion table lists Mullinnix among the six hulls 'Not converted' (no guided-missile conversion, no 1967-71 ASW modernization).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1956-1992
- Population
- Bethlehem Fore River construction trades 1956-58; crew 1958-1983; inactive-fleet and target-preparation workers 1983-1992
- Limitations
- HAER documents design, machinery, and disposition - not insulation or asbestos content; the survey's physical descriptions were compiled from site visits to ex-Turner Joy, ex-Forrest Sherman, and ex-Edson, not this hull. Its disposition line reads 23 August 1992 where NavSource and derivative references read 22 August - conflict carried in gaps, not reconciled. Turbine attribution (GE) conflicts with Wikipedia's Westinghouse - HAER carried.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-mullinnix-dd944-02
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[4]U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Board of Veterans' Appeals, Citation Nr. 1542519, Docket No. 12-11 712 (appeal from VA RO Pittsburgh), decided 2 October 2015 - REMANDED [other_primary]
- Locator
- BVA decision text, 'REMAND' section, paragraph reciting asbestos reports and personnel records (search 'Mullinnix' in decision text)
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- Docketed BVA appeal naming this hull in an asbestos-exposure claim: the veteran (USN active duty October 1957 - February 1961) 'reported that he was exposed to asbestos materials and insulation while serving in the Navy aboard the U.S.S. Mullinnix (DD-994) and the U.S.S. Roberts (DE-749).' Personnel records confirm service aboard USS Mullinnix May 1958 - February 1961 (the decision's 'DD-994' is a typographical error - no DD-994 exists; the only USS Mullinnix is DD-944) with MOS Boatswain's Mate (BM 0100), which the decision notes carries a 'minimal probability' asbestos-exposure rating under M21-1. The record documents his report of using an asbestos fire blanket in welding duties and his submission of a Navy Safety Training article stating that pipes throughout naval ships were covered with asbestos and that all ships built prior to 1980 must be treated as though they contain friable asbestos thermal insulation. The appeal was REMANDED to obtain VA examinations and treatment records; in-service exposure was neither found nor rejected.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1958-1961 (alleged exposure); 2015 (decision)
- Population
- One USN veteran, Boatswain's Mate, aboard USS Mullinnix May 1958 - February 1961
- Limitations
- Remand-stage adjudication record: the exposure contention is documented as alleged, not adjudicated - the Board ordered development precisely because the evidence was unresolved. The veteran's MOS was rated minimal-probability under the VA manual, and a January 1999 private evaluation cited in the decision attributed his asbestos exposure to January 1962 - March 1985, entirely post-service. Establishes that a documented claimant reported asbestos exposure aboard this hull; does not establish that ACM was present, the quantity, or causation. 'U.S.S. Roberts (DE-749)' is itself likely erroneous (no USS Roberts carried DE-749) - carried as written in the decision.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-mullinnix-dd944-03
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[5]U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Board of Veterans' Appeals, Citation Nr. 1714793, Docket No. 14-03 546 (appeal from VA RO Winston-Salem), decided 4 May 2017 - service connection for cause of death DENIED (herbicide-exposure theory, not asbestos) [other_primary]
- Locator
- BVA decision text, evidentiary recital (PIES request results; deck-log summary)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- BVA decision corroborating this hull's 1972 Vietnam deployment through official record systems: a March 2011 PIES response documents USS Mullinnix (DD-944) in the official waters of the Republic of Vietnam 16-31 May 1972, 1-5 August 1972, and 20 August - 13 September 1972; the veteran's DD-214 and personnel records confirm Vietnam Service Medal and Combat Action Ribbon awards for service aboard this hull; and USS Mullinnix deck logs for July 1972 show the ship docked in Da Nang Harbor on 15 July 1972. The claim itself was a surviving spouse's cause-of-death claim contending herbicide exposure via brown-water riverboat duty; the Board found the veteran did not have in-country service and denied service connection for the cause of death. No asbestos issue was raised.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1972 (service); 2011-2017 (claim)
- Population
- One USN veteran (machinist rating) aboard USS Mullinnix during the 1972 deployment
- Limitations
- Context row: documents the hull's 1972 combat-zone presence and the existence of digitized deck-log evidence in an official adjudication - it is not an asbestos record and establishes nothing about materials aboard. In-country vs. offshore status was itself disputed in this claim.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-mullinnix-dd944-04
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[6]Class/era inference: HAER DC-69 machinery documentation for this hull (1,200 psi Foster Wheeler boilers, GE geared turbines) + Atlas shipyard dataset record 'fore-river-shipyard' (tier 3; asbestos litigation documented at the yard) + Navy Safety Training article quoted within BVA Citation Nr. 1542519 ('all ships built prior to 1980 must be treated as though they contain friable systems asbestos thermal insulation') [other_primary]
- Locator
- HAER DC-69 footnotes 53-54; shipyards.json record 'fore-river-shipyard'; BVA 1542519 decision text (Navy Safety Training article recital)
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Era/yard inference: a Forrest Sherman-class destroyer built 1956-58 with a four-boiler 1,200-psi steam plant is of a type and era whose boiler insulation, main and auxiliary steam-line lagging, turbine lagging, valve and flange gaskets, machinery packing, and fireproofing were commonly asbestos-containing under Navy/BuShips practice of the period. Builder Bethlehem Steel Fore River (Quincy) is documented at yard level in the Atlas dataset (tier 3, evidence including Oliver v. General Electric Co., D. Md. Civ. No. 1:16-cv-01057 - a pipefitter's/drafting apprentice asbestos claim at the yard, 1967-70). A Navy Safety Training article quoted within the BVA record for this hull states all pre-1980 Navy ships must be treated as containing friable asbestos thermal insulation - consistent with, but not a substitute for, hull-level documentation.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1956-1992
- Population
- Bethlehem Fore River construction trades 1956-58; crew 1958-1983
- Limitations
- Class/era and builder-yard inference only - not a ship-specific finding; the ship-specific claim record is ev-uss-mullinnix-dd944-03. The yard litigation postdates this hull's construction (1967-70 claim vs. 1956-58 build). The Navy Safety article is quoted inside a claim brief; the underlying document was not retrieved as a standalone. NARA RG19 General Information Books and BuShips Booklet of General Plans for DD-944 not retrieved.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-mullinnix-dd944-05
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[7]NARA, Department of the Navy, Bureau of Naval Personnel - Logbooks of U.S. Navy Ships and Stations: digitized deck logs for USS Mullinnix (DD-944), e.g. 'Mullinnix (DD-944) - March 1966' (National Archives at College Park; catalog.archives.gov id 174138827, indexed via DPLA) [other_primary]
- Locator
- catalog.archives.gov id 174138827 (DPLA item 374ee16400b9291495218edb375e2df0); NARA RG 24 logbook series
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- NARA holds digitized deck logs for this hull (March 1966 example confirmed via DPLA indexing of the NARA catalog). Deck logs are the primary archival record class for ship movements, port calls, and drydock/yard periods - and are the same record class the BVA used in ev-04 to fix the hull's July 1972 Da Nang docking. Relevant to any future exposure-window reconstruction for this hull.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1958-1983 (series coverage)
- Population
- Crew of USS Mullinnix, 1958-1983
- Limitations
- Archival lead only - log content not individually reviewed; deck logs record movements and personnel events, not materials or insulation content. DPLA confirms existence of the NARA series entries for this hull; full-year coverage not inventoried.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-mullinnix-dd944-06
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[8]CourtListener API v4 opinion search '"USS Mullinnix"' (2026-09-28): one result - United States v. Watkins, 21 M.J. 208 (C.M.A. 1986) [court_record]
- Locator
- CourtListener API v4 search type=o q="USS Mullinnix" (count=1)
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- CourtListener opinion search '"USS Mullinnix"' returned exactly one hit: United States v. Watkins, 21 M.J. 208 (U.S. Court of Military Appeals, filed 1986-01-13) - a Navy special court-martial (desertion, AWOL, larceny) in which the ship name appears as service context; it is not asbestos litigation and establishes nothing about materials aboard. No qualifying asbestos opinion naming this hull was located in the completed queries. The 'Mullinex v. John Crane Inc.' asbestos docket (E.D. Va. 4:18-cv-00033) is a surname collision (decedent Herbert H. Mullinex Jr.) - spelled differently and not evidence for this hull; logged in the batch report.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 2026-09-28 (sweep)
- Limitations
- Sweep is PARTIAL: the authenticated '"USS Mullinnix"' opinion query completed (one non-asbestos hit), but the bare-name 'Mullinnix' opinion query, 'DD-944' hull-number queries, and the docket (type=r) sweep were repeatedly blocked by the shared fleet pacing limiter (budget exhausted; helper exit 2) on 2026-09-28 - the litigation record for this hull is not exhaustively negative. RECAP docket text naming the ship could still exist outside opinion full-text.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-mullinnix-dd944-07