Evidence
11 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-11).
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[1]research packet hc-packet.md (2 sources cited) [other_primary]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERIFIED
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-newman-k-perry-dd883-pkt-hc-packet-md
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[2]DANFS, 'Newman K. Perry (DD-883)' (NHHC ship-history entry; live history.navy.mil page returns 404 as of 2026-09-28 - verbatim text retrieved via Wayback Machine capture) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS entry, spec block + service narrative (entry coverage ends ca. 1970)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS record for this hull: laid down by Consolidated Steel Corp., Orange, Texas, 10 October 1944; launched 17 March 1945, sponsored by Mrs. Laura P. Gunter (sister of the namesake); commissioned 26 July 1945, Comdr. Norman E. Smith in command. Shakedown; brief Atlantic Fleet service; departed 7 November 1945 for Pearl Harbor and three months' occupation duty off Japan; Joint Task Force 1 for Operation Crossroads (Bikini atomic tests Able and Baker, 1946); San Diego from 18 August 1946; 1947-48 WestPac tour out of Tsingtao (patrol, escort, SAR, ASW, hydrographic survey off the China coast, Taiwan, Okinawa); Mare Island shipyard overhaul October 1948; new homeport Newport, R.I., April 1949; radar picket redesignation DDR-883 (narrative reads 'in 1950'); Charleston homeport from 1959; 1966-67 WestPac deployment via Panama Canal - Mekong Delta station 23 November 1966, naval gunfire support, Phu Quoc, DMZ, Gulf of Tonkin planeguard/SAR; departed combat zone 8 March 1967; returned to Newport 8 May 1967 completing a circumnavigation; 'after overhaul at Boston' resumed Sixth Fleet rotations into 1970. Spec block: dp 2,425; l. 390'6"; b. 40'10"; dr. 18'6"; s. 35 k.; cpl. 345; a. 6x5", 12x40mm, 10x21" tt., 6 dcp., 1 dcp (hh.), 2 dct.; cl. Gearing.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1944-1970
- Population
- Consolidated Steel construction trades 1944-45; wartime/postwar crew (design complement 345)
- Limitations
- DANFS documents construction, designations, and operations - it does not address materials, insulation, or asbestos content. Entry ends ca. 1970, so the Naval Reserve Force period, decommissioning, and Korean transfer rest on other sources. Wayback capture cited because the live NHHC page serves 404.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-newman-k-perry-dd883-01
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[3]NHHC Online Library of Selected Images, 'USS Newman K. Perry (DD-883, later DDR-883 and DD-883), 1945-1981' (verbatim transcription hosted at ibiblio.org HyperWar) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- NHHC Online Library DD-883 page, history summary paragraph
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NHHC Online Library ship page for this hull: 'Converted for radar picket missions while fitting out'; redesignated DDR-883 in March 1949; long Mediterranean/Black Sea deployment series; 1953 radar/CIC/AA-gun update; March 1961 Project Mercury recovery participation; October 1962 Cuban missile crisis operations; FRAM I modernization 1964-1965 'shortly after a second redesignation again made her DD-883'; Vietnam tour late 1966-early 1967; transferred to the Naval Reserve Force 1973; decommissioned late February 1981 and transferred to the Republic of Korea; renamed Kyong Ki; served with the ROKN 'until 1998, when the fifty-three year old destroyer was placed out of service and scrapped.'
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1945-1998
- Population
- Crew during radar-picket conversion, FRAM I modernization, and 1973-1981 reserve period
- Limitations
- Official NHHC ship-history summary covering the post-1970 window the DANFS entry lacks (NRF transfer, decommissioning, Korean disposal). Does not address asbestos or materials. March 1949 DDR-883 date conflicts with the DANFS narrative's 'in 1950' - carried in gaps. 'Until 1998' ROKN service conflicts with secondary sources' 1997 decommissioning.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-newman-k-perry-dd883-02
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[4]Tin Can Sailors (National Association of Destroyer Veterans), 'A Tin Can Sailors Destroyer History: USS Newman K. Perry DD-883,' The Tin Can Sailor, January 2001 [reputable_press]
- Locator
- destroyers.org DD-883 ship page, TCS history section
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Destroyer-veterans' association ship history documenting this hull's asbestos-relevant yard periods and casualties: five-month Boston Naval Shipyard overhaul completed June 1953 (new 3"/50 guns, modernized CIC); March 1964 bow collision with a sulfur-laden barge in fog off the Florida coast; entered Boston Naval Shipyard April 1964 for FRAM I conversion (completed February 1965 per NavSource); September 1965 bow crushed in collision with carrier Shangri-La (CV-38) off Italy - one sailor killed; 1966-67 Vietnam gunline tour (first combat fire 2115 on 23 November 1966, Mekong Delta; ~4,000 rounds in three weeks; 26 days on the gun line, 19 underway replenishments; Yankee Station with USS Long Beach); Naval Reserve Force reserve-training duties out of Newport and Fall River, Mass. from 1973; January 1975 struck an uncharted object in Sandy Hook Channel - yard period repaired the starboard propeller and a hole that flooded the forward engine room; overhaul ending 1978; decommissioned and transferred to South Korea 27 February 1981 as Kyong-Ki.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1945-1981
- Population
- Shipyard trades at Boston NSY (1953, 1964-65 FRAM I, 1967), Mare Island (1948-49), and the unnamed 1975 and 1978 yards; crew during collision repairs
- Limitations
- Veterans'-association journal narrative - secondary, not a government record; used to date ship-specific yard periods (the events under which era insulation disturbance would have occurred). Says nothing about asbestos content or abatement scope at any yard period.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-newman-k-perry-dd883-03
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[5]Destroyer History Foundation, 'Gearing Class' page (radar-picket conversion selection and FRAM program counts); AsbestosAtlas gearing-class profile (background) [reputable_press]
- Locator
- destroyerhistory.org Gearing class page, conversion paragraphs
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Era/class inference for this hull: DD-883 is a Gearing-class destroyer built October 1944-July 1945 at Consolidated Steel, Orange, Texas - a 2,425-ton, four-boiler, 60,000-shp geared-steam design completed at the peak of naval asbestos use; period-standard fit for such a plant included boiler and turbine lagging, steam-line insulation, gaskets and packing, fireproofing, and deck coverings. The Destroyer History Foundation records that in May 1945 the Navy selected twelve more Gearings (DDs 830-835 and 878-883 - which includes this hull) for radar-picket conversion, and that 44 Gearings received FRAM I conversions beginning in the late 1950s - both programs applying to this hull per NHHC.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1944-1965
- Population
- Shipyard trades and crew aboard this hull's construction, conversion, and FRAM periods (inference only)
- Limitations
- Class/era inference only - no source names materials installed aboard DD-883 itself; 'this hull would have carried' remains an inference from design and era, not a finding. Radar-picket and FRAM conversions are documented ship events; their asbestos disturbance scope is inferred, not documented.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-newman-k-perry-dd883-04
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[6]Goodrich v. Air & Liquid Systems Corp., Omnibus Opinion and Order, ECF No. 171, No. 4:17-cv-00009 (E.D. Va. Sept. 28, 2018) [court_record]
- Locator
- Omnibus opinion pp. 12, 19, 31 (litigation-record recital of Navy engineering drawing and McCloskey expert report)
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Class-level litigation recital: the omnibus opinion in Goodrich v. Air & Liquid Systems Corp. (E.D. Va. asbestos docket) recites that 'an engineering drawing for the insulation and lagging of forced draft blower turbines for the class of destroyers (DD 692, USS Allen M. Sumner class), within which the USS Harlan Dickson fell, specifies the use of amosite felts and asbestos cloths' and quotes an expert report's 'partial tally of the weight of the asbestos-containing thermal insulation and lagging products in the fire ... and engine rooms of a ship belonging to the USS Allen M. Sumner (DD 692) and USS Gearing (DD 710) classes of destroyers' as 30.3 tons. The Gearing class is a 14-foot hull-plug lengthening of the Sumner design sharing its machinery plant; DD-883 is a Gearing-class member.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1940s design era; opinion filed 2018-09-28
- Population
- Destroyer fire/engine-room crews across the Sumner/Gearing classes; litigation expert materials
- Limitations
- Litigation-record recital of an engineering drawing and expert partial tally - not an adjudicated classwide quantity; the opinion treats some related exposure conclusions as speculative. Drawing covers Sumner-class DD-692 machinery shared by Gearing design; 30.3 tons is a fire/engine-room partial tally, not a whole-hull inventory. Never a ship-specific finding for DD-883. Underlying exhibits not in the RECAP index.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-newman-k-perry-dd883-05
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[7]Spiro v. Burnham LLC, No. 1:25-cv-10605 (D. Mass.), CourtListener RECAP docket 69734930 (PACER case 281975); posture per D. Mass. consolidated asbestos-docket clerk's notes [court_record]
- Locator
- CourtListener docket 69734930 (filed 2025-03-13, assigned J.E. Kobick, RECAP docs incl. Amended Complaint answers #59-61); clerk's-notes recitals inside Lynn v. Air & Liquid Systems Corp., 1:24-cv-12464 (D. Mass.) status conferences 2025-11-18, 2026-01-21
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- Qualifying asbestos litigation naming this hull at the pleading stage: Spiro v. Burnham LLC et al., No. 1:25-cv-10605 (D. Mass., filed 2025-03-13; Judge Julia E. Kobick; RECAP docket 69734930, PACER case 281975). The complaint alleges plaintiff Robert Spiro served in the U.S. Navy as a machinist mate aboard USS Coolbaugh (DE-217) approximately 1957-1959 and aboard USS Newman K. Perry (DD-883) approximately 1959-1960, plus post-service work as a heating-products salesman ca. 1976-1979; he attributed his mesothelioma to naval and civilian asbestos exposure; claims included negligence/failure-to-warn counts against product defendants and a conspiracy count against Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. (with Johns Manville/Raymark). An amended complaint was answered with crossclaims in June-July 2025. D. Mass. asbestos-docket clerk's notes (Nov. 2025, Jan. 2026) record that Mr. Spiro's deposition was completed before his death, a probate appointment for the estate was received, and the case transferred to the asbestos docket, Trial Group Y, in discovery.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- ca. 1957-1979 (alleged exposure); 2025- (litigation)
- Population
- Navy machinist mate aboard USS Coolbaugh ca. 1957-59 and USS Newman K. Perry ca. 1959-60; heating-products salesman ca. 1976-79
- Limitations
- Pleading-stage allegation only - the least-final litigation posture: the complaint's ship list is an allegation, not a finding. Case rests at discovery stage on the D. Mass. asbestos docket (Trial Group Y) with the plaintiff deceased and an estate representative substituted; no adjudication of exposure aboard this hull, no product identification for DD-883, and no determination of causation. The ca. 1959-60 service window postdates construction-era yard work and falls between the 1953 Boston overhaul and the 1964-65 FRAM I conversion. Docket existence and posture verified via CourtListener RECAP index and D. Mass. clerk's notes; the specific ship-list allegations come from the complaint as reported in legal-industry press - the complaint document itself was not retrieved this session.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-newman-k-perry-dd883-06
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[8]Department of Veterans Affairs, 'Navy and Coast Guard Ships Associated with Service in Vietnam and Exposure to Herbicide Agents' (verbatim list copies hosted at tf116.org and vfwfl.org; VA framework page at va.gov) [other_primary]
- Locator
- VA herbicide ship list, alphabetical entry for Newman K. Perry (DD-883); va.gov Agent Orange eligibility framework page
- Finding type
- regulatory
- Finding
- This hull appears on VA's 'Navy and Coast Guard Ships Associated with Service in Vietnam and Exposure to Herbicide Agents' list: 'USS Newman K. Perry (DD-883) operated on Mekong River Delta and Saigon River November 23-28, 1966.' The listing confers Agent Orange (herbicide) presumptive-exposure status for qualifying veterans aboard during that inland-waterway window.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1966-11
- Population
- Crew aboard during 23-28 November 1966 Mekong Delta/Saigon River operations
- Limitations
- Documents inland-waterway service for the HERBICIDE (Agent Orange) presumption - a different exposure regime from asbestos; the listing says nothing about asbestos aboard this hull. Included only to pin the verified in-country service window against which asbestos-era allegations (e.g., Spiro) sit. VA's live ship-list page moved; entry text verified across verbatim VA-list copies (tf116.org, vfwfl.org, DAV scan).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-newman-k-perry-dd883-07
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[9]CourtListener API v4 authenticated searches (type=o opinions; type=r dockets), 2026-09-28 [court_record]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-newman-k-perry-dd883-06 through -12
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- CourtListener sweep for this hull (authenticated API v4): '"Newman K. Perry"' type=o returned 2 hits, both name collisions - Huffman v. Stork, 25 S.C. 267 (1886) and Straub v. Screven, 19 S.C. 445 (1883), where 'N. K. Perry' appears as an attorney/party name predating the ship; '"Newman Perry"' type=o returned 3 hits, all person-name collisions (Newman v. State, Fla. 2008; State v. Wilcox, Or. 2025 x2); '"DD-883"' and '"DDR-883"' type=o each returned 0. On the docket side, '"1:25-cv-10605"' type=r confirmed Spiro v. Burnham LLC (mad, filed 2025-03-13, RECAP docket 69734930) - the qualifying asbestos litigation at ev-uss-newman-k-perry-dd883-06 - plus two unrelated same-number dockets (ilnd, nysd); '"Spiro"' type=r returned a surname flood (3966; top-20 all unrelated bankruptcy/person names). Exact-name and hull-number docket queries ('"Newman K. Perry"', '"Newman Perry"', '"DD-883"' type=r; 'Spiro asbestos', '"Spiro" "Metropolitan Life"' type=r; 'Spiro "Newman"' type=o) remained pacing-starved through end of session - fleet budget contention; logged honestly in the ledger as pending.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 2026-09-28
- Limitations
- Litigation search coverage is limited to CourtListener-indexed opinions and RECAP dockets; unindexed state trial-court filings and settled claimant records are not covered. Opinion-side coverage is complete for the exact name, name variant, and both hull designators (collisions/zeros only); the only qualifying docket (Spiro) was confirmed by case-number query. Six docket-side belt-and-suspenders queries never acquired fleet pacing budget before write time and are logged pending - a coverage limitation, not a clean negative.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-newman-k-perry-dd883-08
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[10]Batch-3848 search ledger (this record): NHHC DANFS (Wayback), NHHC Online Library (ibiblio), NavSource, Tin Can Sailors journal, destroyerhistory.org, VA ship list, UniCourt/DocketBird docket indices, CourtListener sweep [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-newman-k-perry-dd883-01 through -13
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located for DD-883: no hull ACM survey, abatement contract, transfer/disposal hazmat disclosure, or adjudicated exposure finding was found in the sources searched (see search_ledger). The hull was transferred to South Korea in 1981 and scrapped after a 1990s fire - no U.S. museum or donation-condition documentation channel exists.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 2026-09-28
- Limitations
- Absence of a located public record does not prove absence of asbestos aboard - a 1944-45 steam destroyer is era-consistent with asbestos insulation, and the Spiro complaint alleges (without adjudication) exposure aboard. Does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility for any person.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-newman-k-perry-dd883-09
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[11]NARA, 'Logbooks of the U.S. Navy' research page (RG 24/RG 19 coverage); D. Mass. docket 1:25-cv-10605 [other_primary]
- Locator
- archives.gov Navy logbooks page; D. Mass. PACER/RECAP docket 1:25-cv-10605
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Archival leads not yet pulled: (1) NARA holds deck logs for this hull (including the November 1966 Mekong Delta/Saigon River window already recognized by VA); (2) NARA RG 19 Bureau of Ships records may hold Consolidated Steel contract/material specifications and the radar-picket conversion package; (3) Boston Naval Shipyard FRAM I work-package records (April 1964-February 1965) would document any insulation disturbance scope; (4) the 1981 transfer/disposal file (FMS documentation) may contain hazmat conditions; (5) the Spiro complaint itself (D. Mass. 1:25-cv-10605) - the vessel allegation's full text was not retrieved this session.
- Verification
- unverified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1944-1981 records
- Limitations
- Leads only - none of these records was retrieved or reviewed; their content on this hull's materials is unknown and cannot be presumed.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-newman-k-perry-dd883-10