Evidence
15 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-15).
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[1]research packet gx-packet.md (6 sources cited) [other_primary]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERIFIED
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-noa-dd841-pkt-gx-packet-md
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[2]DANFS, Noa II (DD-841) (NHHC entry, published 2015-08-13; verbatim text via Wayback capture - live NHHC page serves 404) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS entry, specifications block + service narrative
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS record for this hull: laid down by Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine, 26 March 1945; launched 30 July 1945 (sponsor Mrs. James Cary Jones, Jr.); commissioned 2 November 1945, Comdr. R. L. Nolan, Jr. in command. Spec block: dp 2,425; l. 390'6"; b. 41'; dr. 19'; s. 35 k.; cpl. 350; a. 6 5", 12 40mm., 6 dcp., 2 dct., 10 21" tt.; cl. Gearing. Service: Mediterranean deployment; Fleet Sonar School training ship Key West; rescue destroyer for Mindoro (CVE-120) June-July 1949; DesRon 8 hunter-killer ASW Sept 1949-Jan 1951; Convex II 1951; 42,000-mile world cruise Aug 1953-Apr 1954 incl. TF 77 Korean truce patrol out of Sasebo; overhaul summer 1955 with experimental sonar; three-month overhaul at Norfolk Naval Shipyard completed Aug 1957; Sixth Fleet Lebanon crisis summer 1958; Middle East via Suez 1959; entered Philadelphia Naval Shipyard 25 May 1960 for FRAM I, completed 2 May 1961; recovered Lt. Col. John H. Glenn Jr. and Friendship 7 on 20 February 1962 after his three-orbit flight; overhaul at 'Charlestown' Sept 1964-Jan 1965; Gemini VI (cancelled) and Gemini 8 recovery forces; QH-50 DASH helicopters Jan 1967; regular availability and overhaul at Charleston commencing 8 Jan 1968 (completed 17 June; drydock July 8-16 for shaft vibration); restricted availability at Jacksonville for boiler repairs Oct 1968; WestPac deployment prep end 1968.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1945-1968
- Population
- Bath Iron Works construction trades 1945; crew 1945-1973
- Limitations
- DANFS documents service history and specifications, not materials or asbestos content. The entry's narrative ends at late 1968 (published before final disposition); decommissioning, transfer, and striking are not covered here - those dates come from the ship's 1973 official history and NavSource (ev-02, ev-04). Live NHHC URL returned 404; Wayback capture dated 2025-12-09 cited.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-noa-dd841-01
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[3]NavSource Naval History, Destroyer Photo Index DD-841 USS Noa (building/disposition data; Wayback capture 2025-01-20 - live fetch blocked) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource DD-841 page, 'Operational and Building Data' block
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NavSource operational and building data for this hull: contract awarded 14 June 1943 (NOBs-1107); built by Bath Iron Works, Bath ME (yard no. 261); laid down 26 March 1945; launched 30 July 1945; commissioned 2 November 1945; completed FRAM upgrade May 1961; decommissioned 31 October 1973; loaned to Spain, renamed Blas De Lezo (D-65); stricken 2 June 1975; sold outright to Spain 17 May 1978; stricken 17 May 1991 and scrapped. Machinery: 60,000 shp, General Electric geared turbines, 2 screws; 36.8 knots; crew 336.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1943-1991
- Population
- Crew 1945-1973; Spanish Navy crew 1973-1991
- Limitations
- NavSource is a volunteer-maintained archival compilation citing official data - reputable secondary, not a primary document. Its 17 May 1978 sale and 17 May 1991 stricken dates (same month-day, 13 years apart) could not be cross-verified against the Naval Vessel Register (DD-841 is a pre-1987 disposal not yet digitized in NVR). No asbestos or materials content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-noa-dd841-02
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[4]NASA, 'Mercury-Atlas 6: Friendship 7' mission history + NASA History 'Navy Recovery Ships for Human Spaceflight Missions' (nasa.gov) [other_primary]
- Locator
- nasa.gov MA-6 mission page (recovery entry, 14:43 EST Feb 20 1962) + nasa.gov/history/navy-recovery-ships-for-human-spaceflight-missions/ MA-6 list
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NASA records this hull as the actual recovery ship for Mercury-Atlas 6 (Friendship 7): splashdown 20 February 1962 about 800 miles southeast of Bermuda, 'Recovered by the destroyer USS Noa. Lookouts on the destroyer sighted the capsule' - Glenn aboard Noa roughly 21 minutes after impact, three hours before helicopter transfer to USS Randolph (CVS-15). NASA's Navy recovery-ships page lists 'USS Noa (actual recovery ship)' for MA-6 among 24 task-force units.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1962-02-20
- Population
- Crew; Lt. Col. John H. Glenn Jr., USMC
- Limitations
- Documents the recovery mission and this hull's role; no asbestos or materials content. Splashdown distance figures differ between NASA pages (800 mi SE of Bermuda; DANFS reads 200 miles WNW of San Juan and 3 miles from the ship) - descriptive variance carried, not reconciled.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-noa-dd841-03
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[5]USS NOA (DD 841) Ship's History for 1973, transmittal letter signed D. L. Pinkleton LTJG USNR, to Ship's History Section, Division of Naval History, dated 30 October 1973 (scan hosted at ussnoadd841.com, USS Noa veterans site) [other_primary]
- Locator
- 1973 ship's history, October 1973 entry and cover letter
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Ship-produced official history for calendar 1973: January departure for the Middle East Force (Indian Ocean/Persian Gulf via the Cape of Good Hope, Suez mined), relieving USS Charles Ware; operations and port calls incl. Diego Garcia, Mombasa, Massawa, Bahrain (upkeep moored outboard USS LaSalle), Dubai, Bandar Abbas, Djibouti; bilateral ops with the Brazilian Navy on return; standown July 1973; Spanish Navy prospective officers arrived 15 September; LCDR Raymond A. Helbig relieved CDR William H. Peerenboom as CO 28 September; 1-30 October 'Preparations for Decommissing of USS NOA for tournover to Spanish Navy'; '31 OCT Decommissioned USS NOA (DD 841). Tourned over to Spanish Navy to become BLAS DE LEZO (D 65).'
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1973
- Population
- Crew 1973; incoming Spanish Navy crew
- Limitations
- Primary document (the ship's own transmitted history), hosted on a veterans association site - provenance solid, OCR imperfect. Documents operations and decommissioning/transfer; no materials or asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-noa-dd841-04
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[6]'History - USS NOA (DD 841)', ship history by Lt. Commander Bob Karas (scan hosted at ussnoadd841.com) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Karas history, 1964-1969 sections
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Ship-produced narrative history for this hull covering 1945 to early 1969: supplements DANFS with yard-period detail - 'Charleston Naval Shipyard' overhaul September 1964-January 1965 (DANFS reads 'Charlestown' - conflict carried in gaps); regular overhaul at U.S. Naval Shipyard Charleston 7 January-mid-June 1968 with drydock 5 February-15 March and a second drydock 10-16 July 1968 for screw removal; departed 30 January 1969 for WestPac as flagship ComDesDiv 142, Panama Canal 4 February, Tonkin Gulf mid-March 1969, two gun-line tours of naval gunfire support plus Yankee Station rescue-destroyer and ASW command-ship duties.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1945-1969
- Population
- Crew 1964-1969
- Limitations
- Ship-produced document (primary) with imperfect OCR; narrative ends early 1969 so does not cover 1969-73, the 1972 overhaul, or decommissioning. Names the 1964-65 yard 'Charleston Naval Shipyard' where DANFS reads 'Charlestown' (Boston Naval Shipyard) - documented conflict, not reconciled. No asbestos or materials content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-noa-dd841-05
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[7]USS Noa (DD-841) 'Welcome Aboard' booklet, 1968-1969 (ship-published, Cruiser-Destroyer Force Atlantic; CDR Horace D. Mann, Jr., CO; scan hosted at ussnoadd841.com) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Welcome Aboard booklet, 'USS NOA (DD-841)' history page
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Ship-published booklet records this hull's post-FRAM configuration: 'In 1960 Noa underwent extensive overhaul in the Fleet Rehabilitation and Modernization Program (FRAM). In addition to new and better equipped working compartments and living spaces for the crew, Noa received a sophisticated anti submarine weapons system, including ASROC, modern torpedos, and facilities for the DASH system (Drone Anti-submarine Helicopter). Two twin-mount 5 inch / 38 guns were retained.' Specs: 391 feet long, 41-foot beam, 3,050 tons, steam turbine propulsion above 30 knots.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1960-1969
- Population
- Crew and visitors circa 1968-69
- Limitations
- Documents FRAM-era configuration and general specs; describes equipment, not insulation or asbestos content. The FRAM overhaul is a documented insulation-disturbing yard event by era practice (see ev-09, ev-10).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-noa-dd841-06
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[8]VA Compensation Service, 'Navy and Coast Guard Ships Associated with Service in Vietnam and Exposure to Herbicide Agents' (official VA list; VFW-hosted mirror of the VA document) [other_primary]
- Locator
- VA ships list, DD-841 entry (destroyer section)
- Finding type
- regulatory
- Finding
- The official VA Agent Orange ships list records: 'USS Noa (DD-841) operated on Qui Nhon Bay during April 1969' - documented close-inshore Vietnam service for this hull under VA's herbicide-exposure presumption framework (38 CFR 3.307(a)(6)(iii); Blue Water Navy Vietnam Veterans Act of 2019 12-nautical-mile rule).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1969 (service); list current to 2021 mirror
- Population
- Crew aboard April 1969 (Vietnam deployment)
- Limitations
- Herbicide-exposure benefits document, not an asbestos record - included strictly as veteran-claims context showing documented coastal Vietnam service. VA determined Qui Nhon Bay Harbor an open-water bay (not inland waterways) effective 2016, but ships already listed for those locations retain presumption; claimants aboard on listed dates qualify. Does not establish asbestos exposure, causation, or benefit eligibility for asbestos claims.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-noa-dd841-07
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[9]GAO, Navy Efforts To Protect Workers From Asbestos Exposure, HRD-80-2 (Oct 18, 1979) [gao]
- Locator
- GAO product page HRD-80-2 (full text blocked to automated fetch, HTTP 403; content via product-page description)
- Finding type
- gov_survey
- Finding
- GAO documented the Navy's asbestos-protection program: standing policy from 1975 removed asbestos insulation only when damaged or required for repairs, modified 1979 to selective replacement in high-maintenance areas - meaning original-era insulation typically remained in place for decades unless a yard period disturbed it. Relevant era context for this hull's FRAM I (1960-61), 1964-65, 1968, and reported 1972 yard periods.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1979
- Population
- Navy shipyard workers; asbestos program review
- Limitations
- Program-level documentation, not hull-specific. Full text returns HTTP 403 to automated fetch; content via product-page description. Establishes policy context only - no asbestos quantities or locations aboard this hull.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-noa-dd841-08
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[10]DANFS + NavSource machinery data (Gearing class; 60,000-shp GE geared steam turbines, 2 shafts) + documented FRAM I and later yard periods + Atlas shipyard dataset Bath Iron Works record [other_primary]
- Locator
- DANFS narrative; NavSource machinery block; shipyards.json record 'bath-iron-works'
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Era inference: a Gearing-class destroyer built 1945 with a four-boiler, 60,000-shp geared-steam-turbine plant would have carried period-standard asbestos boiler casing and fireroom insulation, steam-pipe lagging, turbine lagging, valve/flange gaskets and packing, and fireproofing. Builder Bath Iron Works is documented at yard level in the Atlas dataset (tier 2), including a 1942-era industrial-hygiene study of pipe-covering-shop dust risk. Documented yard periods aboard this hull (Philadelphia FRAM I 1960-61; 1964-65 overhaul; Charleston 1968 overhaul/drydocks; Jacksonville boiler repairs Oct 1968; reported 1972 Jacksonville overhaul) are events during which era insulation would have been disturbed under the GAO-documented damaged-or-repair-only removal policy.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1945-1973
- Population
- Bath Iron Works construction trades 1945; FRAM and overhaul yard workers 1954-1972; crew 1945-1973
- Limitations
- Class/era and builder-yard inference only - no ship-specific asbestos record exists for this hull (see ev-12 negative finding). Establishes no quantities, no locations, and no individual exposure aboard DD-841.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-noa-dd841-09
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[11]Goodrich v. Air & Liquid Systems Corp., Omnibus Opinion and Order, ECF No. 171, E.D. Va. No. 4:17-cv-00009 (Sept. 28, 2018) - recitals of Navy engineering drawing and expert report for the Sumner/Gearing destroyer classes [court_record]
- Locator
- Omnibus opinion pp. 12, 19, 31 (per Gearing class-profile documentation)
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Class-level litigation record reciting hull-type material documents: the omnibus opinion 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 a report estimating 'a 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 is 30.3 tons.' Gearing (DD-710) is this hull's class.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- 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 class-wide
- Limitations
- Litigation-record recital of an expert report and a Navy drawing at class level - not a hull record for DD-841, not an adjudicated finding; the opinion treated some related exposure conclusions as speculative and the underlying exhibits were not retrieved. The Sumner design machinery was shared by Gearing-class hulls, supporting class-level ACM presence in forced-draft blower turbine insulation - nothing asserted about this specific hull.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-noa-dd841-10
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[12]This record's search ledger (DANFS/NHHC via Wayback; NavSource; NASA; ussnoadd841.com ship documents; VA ships list; GAO; CourtListener sweep) [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-noa-dd841-01 through -08
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record was located for DD-841 in the repositories searched: no hull ACM survey, no abatement contract or hazmat disclosure, no museum-era documentation (the hull was transferred to Spain in 1973 and scrapped in 1991, so no U.S. museum-custody track exists), and no qualifying asbestos-litigation opinion or docket naming this hull. 'No ship-specific record located' is a result, not a claim that none exists.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 2026-09-28
- Population
- n/a
- Limitations
- Absence of a located record does not prove absence - BuShips contract correspondence for BIW hull 261, SCB/FRAM work packages, and NAVSEA inactive-ship files likely sit in undigitized NARA RG 19 series; Spanish-service-era records are out of U.S. archival scope. CourtListener coverage is limited to indexed opinions/dockets and does not reach MDL-875 claim filings or settled dockets.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-noa-dd841-11
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[13]CourtListener API v4 sweep: "USS Noa" opinions and dockets; "DD-841" / "DD 841" hull-number queries [court_record]
- Locator
- CourtListener API v4 search endpoint (type=o and type=r)
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- CourtListener sweep completed for exact-name and hull-number queries: "USS Noa" opinions = 0 results; "USS Noa" dockets = 2 hits, both non-qualifying name collisions (Richards v. City of New York Comptroller, S.D.N.Y. 1:20-cv-03348, civil-rights complaint - 'Noa' matched OCR text; In re Xarelto MDL, E.D. La. 2:14-md-02592, deposition text). "DD-841" opinions = 0 results; "DD-841" dockets = 2 hits, both non-qualifying collisions (United States v. Anderson, D. Colo. 1:05-cv-00637 interpleader - OCR financial text; In re Seroquel MDL, M.D. Fla. 6:06-md-01769, choice-of-law exhibit). No qualifying asbestos litigation naming this hull located.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 2026-09-28
- Population
- n/a
- Limitations
- Sweep covers CourtListener-indexed opinions and RECAP docket text only - it does not reach MDL-875 administrative claim filings, unindexed PACER dockets, state-court filings, or settled matters. 'Noa' is a collision-prone name; the supplementary broadened query "Noa" asbestos was attempted but blocked by the fleet pacer and is logged as not completed (sl-07). A name match is not a case; both docket hits were reviewed at index level and classified collisions.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-noa-dd841-12
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[14]NARA RG 19 (Bureau of Ships) archival path - hull-level material specifications / General Information Books for DD-841; NARA guidance 'Researching Asbestos aboard US Naval Vessels' [other_primary]
- Locator
- NARA RG 19 series (unretrieved)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Hull-level material documentation may exist in NARA RG 19 (Bureau of Ships) series - General Information Books and contract correspondence for Bath Iron Works hull 261 (contract NOBs-1107), plus SCB/FRAM I work packages for the 1960-61 Philadelphia conversion. NARA's official asbestos-research guidance maps this RG 19 path for destroyer hulls. Unretrieved.
- Verification
- unverified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- unretrieved
- Population
- n/a
- Limitations
- Archival lead only - no document was retrieved and nothing in this row establishes asbestos content aboard this hull. Retrieval requires NARA pull or FOIA.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-noa-dd841-13
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[15]USS Noa (DD-841) Commissioning Program, Navy Yard, Boston, Massachusetts, 2 November 1945; and ship's 'Record of All Events of the Day' sheet for the Mercury recovery station, 20 February 1962 (scans hosted at ussnoadd841.com) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Commissioning program cover + order of events + builder block; record-of-events page dated 20 Feb 1962
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Contemporaneous ship documents: the commissioning program shows the ship was placed in commission at the Navy Yard, Boston, Massachusetts (Boston Navy Yard, Charlestown) on 2 November 1945, Rear Admiral Felix Gygax (Commandant, First Naval District) presiding, 'Built by Bath Iron Works Corporation, Bath, Maine'; a handwritten ship's 'Record of All Events of the Day' page for 20 February 1962 on the Mercury recovery station survives (largely illegible scan - corroborates ev-03 NASA/DANFS recovery account).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1945; 1962
- Population
- Commissioning parties/crew 1945; crew 1962
- Limitations
- Primary documents for ceremony and recovery-day timeline; no materials or asbestos content. The Glenn record-of-events scan is largely illegible handwriting - cited for existence/provenance, content details rest on NASA and DANFS.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-noa-dd841-14