Evidence
9 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-9).
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[1]research packet gc-packet.md (2 sources cited) [museum_official]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERIFIED
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-norman-scott-dd690-pkt-gc-packet-md
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[2]DANFS, Norman Scott (DD-690) - print-edition transcription (HyperWar/ibiblio) and current NHHC web edition (Wayback capture 2025-02-02 of history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/n/norman-scott-dd-690.html; live page 404) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS entry, spec block + service narrative + bracketed stricken/sold note (print transcription); NHHC web edition 'Norman Scott (DD-690)' body text
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS record for this hull: laid down 26 April 1943 by Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine; launched 28 August 1943, sponsored by Mrs. Norman Scott (widow of Rear Adm. Scott, killed aboard USS Atlanta at the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal 12/13 Nov 1942, posthumous Medal of Honor); commissioned 5 November 1943, Cmdr. Seymour D. Owens in command. Departed Boston 14 January 1944 escorting Canberra (CA-70) to Pearl Harbor; Marshall Islands campaign (guarded Gambier Bay CVE-74 to Majuro); Marianas - escorted heavy bombardment ships and conducted fire support at Saipan (15 June) and Tinian, where she was hit by shore-battery counterfire (dated '24 June' in BOTH DANFS editions - corrected to 24 July 1944 by the Navy Cross citation, see ev-02); print DANFS reads her captain and 22 others killed and 57 wounded; NHHC web edition reads captain and 21 others killed and 50 wounded. Temporary repairs at Saipan; sailed the 28th for Pearl Harbor and Mare Island, permanent repairs completed 21 October 1944. Then Manus/Philippines transport escort to 9 February 1945; fast carrier task forces (5th/3rd Fleets) for Iwo Jima and Okinawa strikes; supported Yokosuka occupation; Tacoma Navy Day 27 October 1945; operated out of San Francisco; decommissioned 30 April 1946, reserve berthing San Diego then Mare Island (1947-1970s). Bracketed note (print edition): struck from the Navy list 15 April 1973 and sold 3 December 1973. Five battle stars. Spec block: 2,050 t; 376'6" x 39'4"; 37 kt; cpl. 336; cl. Fletcher.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1943-1973
- Population
- Bath Iron Works construction trades Apr-Nov 1943; wartime crew (complement 336); Tinian casualties 24 July 1944
- Limitations
- DANFS documents service history and specifications, not materials or asbestos content. The '24 June' Tinian date is a documented error in both editions (Navy Cross citation and all detailed accounts date it 24 July 1944, the Tinian landing day) - carried as corrected in ev-02. Casualty figures differ between editions (22 others/57 wounded print vs. 21 others/50 wounded web) - both carried, conflict in gaps. Commissioning location unstated in DANFS (NavSource photo caption reads Boston Navy Yard - secondary). Live NHHC page 404s; verbatim mirrors used.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-norman-scott-dd690-01
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[3]Navy Cross citation (posthumous) for Cmdr. Seymour Dunlop Owens, USN, USS Norman Scott (DD-690) - Bureau of Naval Personnel Information Bulletin No. 334 (January 1945); text as published by Military Times Hall of Valor and USNA Virtual Memorial Hall [other_primary]
- Locator
- Navy Cross citation text, 'U.S.S. NORMAN SCOTT (DD-690) ... 24 July 1944'; General Orders: Bureau of Naval Personnel Information Bulletin No. 334 (January 1945)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Official award text establishes the Tinian action date that both DANFS editions get wrong: 'for extraordinary heroism ... as Commanding Officer of the Destroyer U.S.S. NORMAN SCOTT (DD-690), during operations at Tinian in the Northern Mariana Islands on 24 July 1944. Detailed to cover the left flank of a feint landing south of Tinian town to draw enemy fire away from the actual landings to the north, Commander Owens maneuvered his ship perilously close inshore in the face of heavy fire from Japanese coastal defense guns and skillfully directed effective fire support for the boat waves until he was killed at his post.' Confirms the hull number, the 24 July 1944 date, the feint-landing tactical context, and the commanding officer's death in action.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- correction
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1944-07-24; citation published January 1945
- Population
- Cmdr. Seymour D. Owens (KIA 24 July 1944); bridge watch standers
- Limitations
- Corrects the DANFS '24 June' misprint (consistent across print and web editions) using the contemporaneous official award text. The citation establishes date and tactical context only - casualty counts, hit counts (six per secondary retellings), and damage specifics come from DANFS and secondary sources. Award-bulletin text carried via reputable secondary hosts (Hall of Valor / USNA Memorial Hall), not a .mil primary page.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-norman-scott-dd690-02
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[4]U.S. Copyright Office recordation V2118P268 (recorded 1986-01-28) covering 'Navy Yard / (This is America)' RKO-Pathe motion picture + Pritzker Military Museum & Library, William B. Horstman collection finding aid (BuShips orders to report to RKO-Pathe in connection with production of motion picture 'Navy Yard', 15 Oct 1944) + contemporaneous theater listing (Medford Mail Tribune, 1944-12-17) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Copyright recordation V2118P268; Pritzker finding aid, Horstman collection, order 800236035 (1944-10-15); Medford Mail Tribune listing 1944-12-17
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- This hull's post-Tinian repair at Mare Island was the subject of a wartime documentary short: the October 1944 RKO-Pathe release 'This Is America - Navy Yard' is identified in secondary retellings (Wikipedia, uboat.net, ww2db) as filming Norman Scott's battle-damage repair at Mare Island Naval Shipyard. The film's existence is corroborated by its Copyright Office recordation entry, a contemporaneous December 1944 theater listing, and a Bureau of Ships officer's archival orders to report to RKO-Pathe in connection with producing 'Navy Yard' (Pritzker finding aid) - establishing it as an official Navy-endorsed production about wartime shipyard repair work, and that DD-690's damage-repair was nationally publicized.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1944
- Population
- Mare Island Naval Shipyard repair workers Aug-Oct 1944 (indirect)
- Limitations
- The film's existence and Navy sponsorship are corroborated by primary records (copyright recordation; BuShips officer's orders; contemporaneous listing), but the identification of its subject as THIS hull rests on secondary compilations - not directly verified against the film itself (no digitized copy located). Documents publicity of the repair, not materials or asbestos content. Asbestos relevance is contextual: a major 1944 repair availability is an asbestos-relevant work event at class/era level only.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-norman-scott-dd690-03
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[5]DANFS specifications block (Fletcher class; 37 kt; 60,000-shp steam plant per class design) + Atlas shipyard dataset, Bath Iron Works record (1942 Drinker Harvard industrial-health study of BIW pipe-covering shops; NARA RG19 General Information Books archival lead) [other_primary]
- Locator
- DANFS spec block; shipyards.json record 'bath-iron-works' (Drinker study, PMID 21016030); NARA RG19 lead
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Era/yard inference: a WWII Fletcher-class destroyer built April-November 1943 with a four-boiler/60,000-shp steam plant would have carried period-standard asbestos boiler and steam-line insulation, turbine lagging, gaskets, packing, fireproofing, and deck coverings; builder Bath Iron Works is documented at yard level in the Atlas dataset, including the 1942 Dr. Philip Drinker Harvard study recording 'fairly serious dust risk' at roughly ten times the safe threshold in BIW pipe-covering shops - a survey contemporaneous with this hull's construction window. NARA RG19 'General Information Books' per-vessel material specifications are an unretrieved archival lead for hull-level specs.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1943-1974
- Population
- Bath Iron Works construction trades 1943; crew 1943-46; reserve-caretaker and scrapping workers
- Limitations
- Class/era and builder-yard inference only - NOT a hull-specific finding. Unlike the sister-class cases where the yard survey postdated launch, the 1942 Drinker study is contemporaneous with DD-690's Apr 1943-Nov 1943 build, but it still documents yard practice, not materials installed aboard this hull. Does not quantify material or establish any individual's exposure.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-norman-scott-dd690-04
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[6]GAO, Navy Efforts To Protect Workers From Asbestos Exposure, HRD-80-2 (Oct 18, 1979) [gao]
- Locator
- GAO product page HRD-80-2
- Finding type
- gov_survey
- Finding
- GAO documented that the Navy used asbestos insulation extensively aboard ships and did not begin substituting alternative insulation materials until the early 1970s - placing DD-690's construction (1943), entire commissioned service (1943-46), reserve custody (1946-73), and sale for scrap (Dec 1973) inside or at the margin of the documented asbestos-use era.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1979
- Population
- Navy shipyard workers; asbestos program review
- Limitations
- Program-level documentation; supports era context only, not any fact specific to this hull. Full report text not retrieved (gao.gov blocks automated fetch, HTTP 403 - standing defect from batch-01); content via product-page description.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-norman-scott-dd690-05
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[7]CourtListener API v4 sweeps: "USS Norman Scott" (type=o opinions, count 0; type=r RECAP dockets, count 0); "Norman Scott" (type=o, 70 hits - first page reviewed, all personal-name collisions incl. Norman Scott v. HSBC mortgage litigation, W. Norman Scott M.D. patent inventorship, Norman Scott Sacks AUSA credits, Norman Scott Allen); "DD-690" (type=o, count 0) [court_record]
- Locator
- CourtListener API v4 search results, 2026-09-27
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- No qualifying asbestos litigation naming USS Norman Scott (DD-690) was located in CourtListener: the exact-name opinion search returned zero hits; the exact-name RECAP docket search returned zero hits; the 'DD-690' hull-number opinion search returned zero hits; 'DD-690' docket hits (5) are identifier collisions in unrelated cases (antitrust, family law, admiralty cargo, RICO); and the reviewed 'Norman Scott' hits are personal-name collisions (litigants, attorneys, debtors, and petitioners named Norman Scott), not references to the ship. 'Norman Scott' is a live collision risk as a personal name.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 2026-09-27
- Limitations
- Search-index coverage limits: 'Norman Scott' hits were reviewed on the first results page only (~20 of 70 opinion hits; ~20 of 315 qualified-docket hits - all personal-name collisions); later pages are lower-relevance ranked but a vessel reference cannot be ruled out in unexamined hits. 'DD 690' variant and 'aboard the Norman Scott' phrasing queries were throttled by fleet-wide pacing and remain pending - logged in the search ledger. Absence of indexed litigation does not prove no case ever named the hull (many asbestos dockets settle unindexed).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-norman-scott-dd690-06
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[8]NavSource Naval History Destroyer Photo Index, DD-690 page + NavSource 'Scrappers' page (DSA auction pamphlet for USS Watts DD-567, USS Bullard DD-660, and USS Norman Scott DD-690) [other_primary]
- Locator
- navsource.org/archives/05/690.htm (operational/building data block; fate line) and /archives/05/scrappers.htm (DSA auction pamphlet images)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Secondary compilation corroborating disposition and end-of-hull detail: sold 3 December 1973 to American Ship Dismantling Corp., Brownsville, Texas, for $168,889.91 and broken up for scrap; a Defense Supply Agency auction pamphlet covering the sale of this hull alongside USS Watts (DD-567) and USS Bullard (DD-660) is reproduced on NavSource's scrappers page. NavSource also captions the commissioning as occurring at the Boston Navy Yard (photo caption) - consistent with DANFS's 'left Boston' departure in January 1944 - and notes '23 of her crew were lost and remain on duty' (matching the print-DANFS casualty total).
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1943; 1973-1974
- Population
- American Ship Dismantling scrapping workers, Brownsville TX 1973-74 (indirect)
- Limitations
- NavSource is a curated secondary compilation, not an official source - buyer, price, and commissioning-location details are carried as secondary-sourced pending an authoritative disposal record (no MARAD/NVR record exists for pre-1987 disposals). The DSA pamphlet is a genuine archival artifact but its content was verified only through NavSource's reproduction. Documents endpoint custody, not materials aboard.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-norman-scott-dd690-07
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[9]Batch-3665 search ledger (this record): DANFS print transcription + NHHC web edition (Wayback); Navy Cross citation text; CourtListener sweeps; NavSource/DSA pamphlet; GAO HRD-80-2; NARA RG19/RG38 (not digitized); law-firm ship-list pages (excluded per sourcing rules) [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-norman-scott-dd690-01 through sl-uss-norman-scott-dd690-13
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located for DD-690: no hull ACM survey, no abatement record, no materials inventory, no museum or donation hazmat disclosure, and no qualifying asbestos litigation names this hull (the CourtListener 'Norman Scott' hits classify as personal-name collisions; exact-name and hull-number searches returned zero). The ship was scrapped commercially in 1973-74 - before modern asbestos documentation practice - so the documentation channel that produced ship-specific records for museum hulls (drydock abatement reports, NHL nominations) does not exist.
- 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 - era-standard applications are documented at class/era level (ev-04) and the hull's 1943 construction and wartime repair fall squarely inside the Navy's documented asbestos-use era. Does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-norman-scott-dd690-08