Evidence
9 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-9).
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[1]research packet ai-packet.md (1 sources cited) [other_primary]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERDICT: VERIFIED
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-noa-apd24-pkt-ai-packet-md
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[2]DANFS, USS Noa I (DD-343/APD-24) (builder, dates, specification block, full service narrative, loss account; verbatim transcription - live NHHC page serves 404; canonical NHHC URL https://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/n/noa-i.html preserved in Wayback capture 2025-12-09) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS entry, specifications block + full service narrative (HyperWar transcription)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS record for this hull: built by the Norfolk Navy Yard; authorized 6 October 1917, laid down 18 November 1918, launched 28 June 1919 (sponsor Mrs. Albert Morehead, sister of Midshipman Loveman Noa), commissioned 15 February 1921. Spec block: dp. 1,190; l. 314'6"; b. 30'8"; dr. 9'3"; s. 35 k.; cpl. 150; a. 4x4", 1x3", 12x21" tt; class Clemson. Service: Charleston/Atlantic training through May 1922; Asiatic Station 1922-1929 homeported at Cavite (China patrols, Yangtze Service Medal 1927); Mare Island Yard overhaul August 1929; San Diego Battle Fleet operations to 1934 including plane-guard duty for Langley (CV-1) and Saratoga (CV-3); NROTC cruise June-July 1934; decommissioned Philadelphia 11 November 1934, placed in reserve. Recommissioned Philadelphia 1 April 1940; fitted with XSOC-1 seaplane and recovery boom (destroyer-scout-plane experiment that briefly drove a SecNav catapult directive for six Fletcher-class ships, cancelled early 1943); Boston Navy Yard availability first week December 1941; Hornet plane/screen guard; storm damage repaired at Charleston then Boston Navy Yard; Atlantic ASW patrols from 25 March 1943; Key West Sound School support through 28 July; reported to Sixth Amphibious Forces 31 July. Converted at Norfolk Navy Yard to a high-speed transport, reclassified APD-24 (transcription prints 'AP-24') on 10 August 1943, work completed 17 September. Pacific deployment from October 1943: landing-craft control ship at Buna, New Guinea (December); Cape Gloucester landings 26 and 29 December (144 then 203 First Marine Division troops; operations through 1 March); Green Island landing 15-19 February 1944; Emirau assault 23 March (Fourth Marine Division troops); Hollandia late April-1 May; Saipan - patrolled 15 June, splashed one raiding aircraft, landed troops 16 June, patrol through 24 June; escorted Clamp (ARS-33); Tinian/Saipan screening; Guam screening 12 July-15 August; Purvis Bay patrols. Departed Purvis Bay 6 September 1944 for underwater-demolition activities in the Palau operation; rammed by Fullam (DD-474) at 0350 on 12 September; abandon ship ordered 0501; salvage party under Lt. Comdr. H. Wallace Boud, USNR re-boarded 0700; salvage failed, second abandon order 1030; sank by the stern at 1034 with no loss of life. Five battle stars WWII.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-25
- Study period
- 1918-1944
- Population
- Norfolk Navy Yard construction trades 1918-21; interwar and WWII crew (design complement 150); conversion trades Aug-Sep 1943; ~144 embarked troops per landing
- Limitations
- DANFS documents service history and specifications, not materials or asbestos content. Two internal printings carried rather than silently fixed: 'reclassified AP-24' (for APD-24 - NavSource prints the date both as 10 and 24 August; conflict carried in gaps) and 'Fullman' (for Fullam, DD-474). Mirror transcription cited because the live NHHC page returns 404 (standing NHHC link-rot issue).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-noa-apd24-01
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[3]NavSource Naval History amphibious archive, USS Noa (APD-24) ex DD-343 - operational/building data, campaign table, APD spec block, captioned official photographs; corroborating destroyer archive page navsource.org/archives/05/343.htm [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource APD-24 page, awards/campaigns block, specifications block, photo caption block; NavSource DD-343 page 'Operational and Building Data'
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Designation and disposition chain for this hull: laid down 18 November 1918 Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth VA; launched 28 June 1919 (APD page prints '28 June 1918' - typographical slip; laid down November 1918, DANFS and the destroyer page read 1919); commissioned 15 February 1921; decommissioned 11 November 1934 at Philadelphia Navy Yard; laid up Atlantic Reserve Fleet; recommissioned 1 April 1940 at Philadelphia; converted to high-speed transport at Norfolk Navy Yard; redesignated APD-24 (APD page reads 24 August 1943; destroyer page reads converted 10 August 1943 - conflict in gaps); assigned TransDiv Sixteen. Campaign table: Cape Gloucester 26 and 28-29 December 1943; Green Islands 15-19 February 1944; Saidor 2 January 1944; Hollandia 12-23 April and 5 May 1944; Saipan 15 June-7 July; Guam 21-25 July; southern Palau Islands 6 September-14 October 1944. Final disposition: lost in collision with USS Fullam (DD-474) 12 September 1944 enroute to Palau; 'Struck from the Naval Register, date unknown'; five battle stars. APD spec block: 1,780 t.(fl), 314'4" x 30'8" x 12'3", 28.7 kt, 8 officers/98 enlisted plus 144 troops, 4 LCP(L), 3x3"/50 DP, 2 twin 40mm, 5x20mm, depth-charge track and 4 projectors; machinery 'two Westinghouse turbines, two Wheeler-Foster boilers 250psi, single Parsons main reduction gears, 26,000 shp, two propellers'. Captioned photographs document the conversion period: Norfolk Navy Yard Photos 6027(43) and 6029(43) show inclining experiments at Norfolk Navy Yard 11 September 1943 with Canonicus (YT-187) alongside; U.S. National Archives Photo 80-G-287120 shows Fullam recovering Noa's survivors with Honolulu (CL-48) standing by, morning of 12 September 1944.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-25
- Study period
- 1918-1944
- Population
- Crew across designation periods (DD, APD); embarked troops up to ~144
- Limitations
- NavSource is the register-standard secondary source (not an official record); dates corroborate DANFS where they overlap and its official-photo numbers are captioned rather than hosted at NARA/NHHC. 'Struck date unknown' is carried verbatim - no authoritative striking date located. The APD machinery figures describe the post-conversion two-boiler plant. Does not speak to materials or asbestos.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-noa-apd24-02
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[4]U.S. Naval Historical Center (NHHC) Online Library picture-data page, Photo NH 105312 - USS Noa (DD-343) at Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, Virginia, 11 February 1921 (panoramic photograph by Crosby, 'Naval Photographer', Boston; donation of the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard Museum, 1970); companion NHHC photos indexed via NavSource captions: NH 44864 (Yangtze River, early 1920s), NH 90000 (Shanghai, 4 July 1927), NH 73276 (San Diego, c.1930) [museum_official]
- Locator
- HyperWar Online Library picture-data page for NH 105312; NavSource APD-24 photo captions (NARA 80-G-287120; Norfolk Navy Yard photos 6027(43)/6029(43))
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Official photographic documentation of this hull in the NHHC collection: NH 105312 shows the ship at the builder yard four days before commissioning (11 February 1921); additional NHHC images cover Asiatic-service and West Coast periods. A separate U.S. National Archives photograph, 80-G-287120 (captioned via NavSource), documents the morning of the loss, 12 September 1944 - USS Fullam recovering Noa's survivors with USS Honolulu (CL-48) standing by.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-25
- Study period
- 1921-1944
- Population
- Crew visible at pre-commissioning (1921); survivors at loss (1944-09-12)
- Limitations
- Photographs document the hull's appearance, location, and loss event - they contain no materials or asbestos information. NH 105312's data page is cited via the HyperWar mirror of the NHHC Online Library (live history.navy.mil image pages are subject to the same link-rot as DANFS).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-noa-apd24-03
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[5]NARA catalog hit on 'USS Noa' query: naId 496085041, 'Photograph of USS Noa (DD-343)', Record Group 19 (Records of the Bureau of Ships), local identifier 19-N-16078, NARA College Park - Still Pictures (digital object present); additional NARA photo 80-G-287120 per NavSource caption [other_primary]
- Locator
- NARA catalog search 'USS Noa' -> naId 496085041 (RG 19, local ID 19-N-16078); 80-G-287120 per NavSource caption
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- NARA holds cataloged material for this hull: RG 19 (Bureau of Ships) photograph 19-N-16078 (naId 496085041) at College Park Still Pictures with a scanned digital object; the loss-sequence photo 80-G-287120 (RG 80-G). Un-retrieved leads: WWII deck logs for Noa (Logs of U.S. Navy Ships and Stations / RG 24-derived holdings on Fold3 and the NARA catalog, through September 1944), the ship's war diary (RG 38), and any Norfolk Navy Yard 1943 conversion work-package or RG 19 'General Information Books' material specifications for the hull.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-25
- Study period
- cataloged records, 1921-1944
- Limitations
- Archival-lead row: the cataloged photo record was confirmed via one successful NARA catalog API call; deeper retrieval (deck logs, war diary, conversion file, GIB specs) was not performed, and the catalog endpoint intermittently returned the search shell during this session. None of the located or prospective material is known to contain asbestos information.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-noa-apd24-04
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[6]Master hull list rows (hull-list worktree master-hull-list.json: 'USS Noa / APD-24 / High-Speed Transport / Clemson / tier 2' and 'USS NOA / DD-343 / Destroyer / Hopkins / tier 2') vs DANFS spec block 'cl. Clemson' and NavSource class line 'CLEMSON As Built' [other_primary]
- Locator
- master-hull-list.json rows for 'USS Noa' (APD-24) and 'USS NOA' (DD-343); DANFS spec block; NavSource class/machinery lines
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Hull-list correction/consolidation: the production hull list carries this vessel twice - once correctly as 'USS Noa / APD-24 / Clemson' and once as 'USS NOA / DD-343 / Destroyer / Hopkins'. Both rows are the same physical hull: DANFS and NavSource class DD-343 as Clemson, and APD-24 is her own 1943 conversion designation, not a separate vessel. 'Hopkins' is an erroneous class label (Hopkins was DD-249, itself a Clemson-class ship) - the same mislabel previously corrected on the DD-342 Hulbert row. This record is the canonical entry consolidating both list rows, per the batch instruction ('VERIFY all-tier match: DD-343 (tier 2). Consolidate as one hull').
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- correction
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-25
- Study period
- 2026-09-25
- Limitations
- Corrects internal dataset labels, not an external source. The DD-343 row's tier-2 status is superseded by this canonical record's tiering. No asbestos significance - class label fix only.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-noa-apd24-05
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[7]DANFS spec block (Clemson; 35 kt; 4 boilers class-standard per NavSource machinery lines) + Destroyer History Foundation 'Green Dragons' conversion summary (forward two boilers and two stacks replaced by berthing compartment for ~120 troops; torpedo tubes replaced by Higgins-boat davits) + Atlas shipyard dataset records 'norfolk-naval-shipyard' (tier 2), 'philadelphia-naval-shipyard' (tier 3), 'mare-island-naval-shipyard' (tier 2), 'boston-naval-shipyard' (tier 3), 'pearl-harbor-naval-shipyard' (tier 1); NARA RG19 'General Information Books' archival lead for per-vessel material specs [other_primary]
- Locator
- DANFS spec block; NavSource machinery/ship-class lines; destroyerhistory.org Green Dragons conversion summary; shipyards.json records for the five named yards
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Era/yard inference: a Clemson-class flush-deck destroyer built 1918-21 at Norfolk Navy Yard with a four-boiler geared-turbine steam plant would have carried period-standard asbestos insulation, steam-line lagging, gaskets, packing, and fireproofing. The builder yard - which also performed her August-September 1943 APD conversion, a conversion pattern that demolished the forward boiler spaces for troop berthing - is documented at yard level in the Atlas dataset (tier 2: Thermobestos, Marinite, Transite, Kaylo, Unibestos, pipe insulation/lagging, boiler and turbine insulation, gaskets, packing, deck coverings). Her other documented yard periods sit in documented asbestos-use environments: Philadelphia (tier 3: Johns-Manville pipe insulation, Unibestos, Kaylo, Garlock), Mare Island (tier 2: Unibestos, Marinite, Transite, Kaylo, Careytemp), Boston (tier 3: John Crane gaskets/sealing), and Pearl Harbor (tier 1: pipe covering, insulation blankets, amosite blankets, asbestos mud). NARA RG19 'General Information Books' per-vessel material specifications are an archival lead for hull-level specs.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-25
- Study period
- 1918-1944
- Population
- Norfolk Navy Yard construction trades 1918-21 and conversion trades Aug-Sep 1943; overhaul/repair trades at the four named yards; crew 1921-44; embarked troops 1943-44
- Limitations
- Class/era and builder-yard inference only - no ship-specific asbestos finding exists for this hull (see ev-uss-noa-apd24-07). Yard-tier records document products in use at the yards, not installation on this vessel. The APD conversion-scope detail (boiler/stack removal) comes from a secondary summary of the class conversion pattern, not a Noa-specific work package; conversion asbestos scope is inference, not documentation. NARA GIB retrieval not performed.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-noa-apd24-06
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[8]Batch-2422 search ledger (this record): NHHC DANFS (404, mirror + Wayback capture used); NavSource operational data; NHHC/NARA photograph records; NARA catalog; Atlas shipyard dataset; project class profiles (no Clemson profile exists); VA BVA decision index; CourtListener name + hull-number sweeps [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-noa-apd24-01 through sl-uss-noa-apd24-11
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, abatement contract, insulation-removal record, museum hazmat disclosure, or docketed case naming USS Noa, DD-343, or APD-24 was found in the public sources searched (see search_ledger). CourtListener 'USS Noa' returned zero opinions and two RECAP-docket hits, both name collisions with no vessel connection (a Bivens civil-rights action and the Xarelto MDL). The hull was a total loss at sea 12 September 1944, so no museum-era or in-situ documentation can exist. All asbestos-marketing web content naming 'USS Noa' attaches to USS Noa (DD-841), a different, later hull - excluded per source rules and wrong-hull attribution (see ev-uss-noa-apd24-08).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-25
- Study period
- 2026-09-25
- Limitations
- Absence of a located public record does not prove absence of asbestos aboard - era materials are consistent with a 1919-21 steam plant. Does not establish that asbestos is or is not present; does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility. The litigation null covers only indexed published opinions and RECAP dockets - settled and unindexed matters are invisible to it; docket-side hull-number and phrase variants ('DD-343' dockets, 'APD-24', 'aboard the Noa') were throttled by the shared fleet CourtListener budget at session time and are logged as pending/blocked rather than silently dropped.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-noa-apd24-07
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[9]Board of Veterans' Appeals, Citation Nr. 1315511 (decision date 2013-05-10, docket 07-16 129) + asbestos-marketing pages naming 'USS Noa' (mesothelioma.net USS Noa DD-841 page; mesolawcenter/mesotheliomalawyercenter destroyer lists reading 'USS Noa, 1945') [other_primary]
- Locator
- BVA Citation 1315511, Introduction and findings paragraphs (service dates, 'USS Noa (DD-841)', 1956-1960 comrade statement); marketing pages excluded per batch source rules
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- Name-collision disambiguation: asbestos-era references to 'USS Noa' in claims and marketing content attach to the OTHER hull. BVA Citation 1315511 recites a veteran's service 'aboard the USS Noa (DD-841)' 1956-1960 and a shipmate's statement alleging asbestos exposure 'from shipboard pipe, duct, and conduit insulation' - the decision names DD-841 explicitly, and every marketing page located names DD-841 or a 1945 build date. This hull (DD-343/APD-24) sank 12 September 1944; no postwar service window can attach to it. These references are name collisions for this record, not evidence about this hull.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- correction
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-09-25
- Study period
- 1956-1960 (claimed window on DD-841); 2013 (BVA decision)
- Population
- DD-841 veteran claimant (1955-1980 service) - other hull
- Limitations
- Collision-classification row: documents that 'USS Noa' asbestos references exist in the claims literature but belong to DD-841. The BVA decision recites allegations for reopening purposes - it adjudicates nothing about asbestos presence aboard DD-841 either. No BVA or court record naming DD-343/APD-24 was located.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-noa-apd24-08