Evidence
10 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-10).
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[1]research packet hd-packet.md (6 sources cited) [other_primary]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERIFIED — real identity: USS O'Hare (DANFS title page renders "O Hare"; entry body: O'Hare)
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-o-hare-dd889-pkt-hd-packet-md
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[2]DANFS, O'Hare (DD-889) (builder, dates, service narrative, specifications; verbatim transcription - live NHHC page serves 404; hazegray.org DNS unreachable from session host, cited via verbatim mirror) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS entry DD-889, specifications block + service narrative
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS record for this hull: laid down 27 January 1945 at Consolidated Steel Corp., Orange, Texas; launched 22 June 1945, sponsored by Mrs. Selma O'Hare, mother of LCDR E. H. O'Hare; commissioned 29 November 1945, CDR R. W. Leach in command. Specs: dp. 2,425; l. 390'6"; b. 41'1"; dr. 18'6"; s. 32 k.; cpl. 367; a. 6 5", 16 40mm., 10 20mm., 5 21" tt., 6 dcp.; cl. Gearing. Service: 1946 East Coast ops New Brunswick to Florida Keys; 1947 midshipman cruise to Latin America; first Sixth Fleet deployment May-September 1948 incl. evacuation ship under UN flag off Haifa 24 June-July 1948 (first Arab-Israeli conflict); nine Sixth Fleet tours by end 1962 plus midshipman cruises and NATO maneuvers; two 1952 commendations for aid after ship collisions; aviator rescues 1957 (USS Randolph) and 1961 (USS Franklin D. Roosevelt); converted to radar picket ship (DDR-889) during 1953; electronic data system installed 1958; FRAM Mk I overhaul 1963 restored original designation; departed Norfolk 1 June 1966 for WestPac, gun-support station off Vietnam from 15 July, firing missions all four Corps areas and operations off the North, returned 17 December via Suez completing circumnavigation; January 1969 deployed to Mediterranean with Squadron 32 (entry ends).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1945-1969
- Population
- Consolidated Steel construction trades 1945; commissioning and Cold-War-era crew (design complement 367)
- Limitations
- DANFS documents service history and specifications, not materials or asbestos content. The printed entry ends at the January 1969 Mediterranean deployment and does not cover 1969-1973 service, decommissioning, transfer, or disposal. Live NHHC page returns 404; hazegray.org unresolvable from session host - verbatim mirror at losthistory.net cited.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-o-hare-dd889-01
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[3]NavSource Destroyer Photo Index DD-889/DDR-889 - Operational and Building Data block, commanding-officer roster, FRAM special feature table (navsource.org/archives/05/fram.htm) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource DD-889 page 'Operational and Building Data' block; FRAM special-feature ship table row 889
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NavSource operational record for this hull: decommissioned 3 January 1953 and recommissioned 1 September 1953 (DDR-889 conversion window); FRAM upgrade completed December 1963 - the NavSource FRAM-by-ship table reads '889 O'Hare / Norfolk / 12/63', placing the FRAM Mk I at the Norfolk yard (Norfolk Naval Shipyard; the feature's yard list comprises the naval shipyards Boston, Charleston, Long Beach, Mare Island, New York, Norfolk, Pearl Harbor, Philadelphia, Puget Sound, San Francisco); decommissioned 31 October 1973; loaned to Spain the same day, renamed Méndez Núñez (D-63); stricken from the Naval Register 2 June 1975; sold to Spain 17 May 1978; Spanish service stricken 14 February 1992, decommissioned 3 April 1992; scrapped 1992. Photo captions corroborate FRAM-I completion December 1963 and a later ULQ-6 ECM fit requiring rebuild of the electronics mast atop the DASH hangar.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1953-1992
- Population
- Norfolk Naval Shipyard FRAM workforce 1963; Spanish Navy crew 1973-1992; scrapping-yard workforce 1992
- Limitations
- Secondary volunteer compilation, not an official Navy record - but the operational data track DANFS and its FRAM table is the only located yard attribution for this hull's 1963 rebuild. Contains no asbestos information. Spanish-side strike/decommission dates (14 February vs 3 April 1992) carried as recorded.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-o-hare-dd889-02
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[4]NHHC, 'Appendix 12: Ships Named for Naval Aviators' (naval aviation history appendix, PDF) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- NHHC Appendix 12 PDF, O'Hare (DD 889) entry
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Official NHHC register names this hull's honoree and confirms commissioning: 'O'Hare (DD 889) - LCDR Edward H. O'Hare, USN - 29 Nov 1945.' Namesake: Lieutenant Commander Edward 'Butch' O'Hare, Medal of Honor recipient and the Navy's first WWII ace, reported missing near Tarawa 27 November 1943 (NavSource namesake note; the Chicago airport carries the same honoree).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1945
- Limitations
- Confirms namesake and commissioning date only; no materials or asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-o-hare-dd889-03
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[5]Naval Cover Museum, O'Hare DD-889 page - designation chronology and postal-cover dates (museum compilation from naval covers) [other_primary]
- Locator
- navalcovermuseum.org O'HARE DD 889 'Ship Name and Designation History' + postmark index
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Museum-compiled designation chronology for this hull: commissioned 29 November 1945; decommissioned 3 January 1953; redesignated Radar Picket Destroyer (DDR) effective 4 April 1953; recommissioned 1 September 1953; reverted to DD 23 March 1963; decommissioned 31 October 1973; struck from Naval Register 2 June 1975; loaned to Spain 31 October 1973 (SPS Méndez Núñez D-63); stricken by Spain and scrapped 1992. A postal cover dated 19 January 1965 aboard marks 'Project Gemini - U.S. Navy Recovery Force' - the Gemini 2 splashdown date - evidencing a recovery-force assignment.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1945-1992
- Limitations
- Museum compilation from philatelic material; designation effective dates (4 April 1953 redesignation; 23 March 1963 revert) are single-source and sit oddly against the FRAM completion of December 1963 - carried with that flag, exact days in gaps. The Gemini cover evidences recovery-force membership, not a specific recovery role. No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-o-hare-dd889-04
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[6]Secondary compilations (Wikipedia/usnfleet.us) tracking and extending the DANFS narrative for 1969-1973 events - used only for post-DANFS service detail, flagged non-primary [other_primary]
- Locator
- en.wikipedia.org USS O'Hare (DD-889), '1963-1973' section; usnfleet.us mirror
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Post-DANFS service detail from secondary compilations: March 1968 Indian Ocean deployment via Africa with USS Charles R. Ware (DD-865), 17 Middle East port calls; second Vietnam deployment departing 1 December 1972 (Panama Canal transit 6 December 1972), gunfire-support duty until the March 1973 ceasefire, return completing a second circumnavigation; described as the last East-Coast-based U.S. Navy ship to circumnavigate after a Vietnam deployment; Arctic Circle crossing recorded 17 September 1972.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1968-1973
- Population
- Crew, 1968 and 1972-73 deployments
- Limitations
- Non-primary compilation sources - Wikipedia cites DANFS but these post-1969 details exceed the printed DANFS entry and carry no visible primary citation. The 17 September 1972 Arctic crossing does not reconcile with the 1 December 1972 departure in the same passage - flagged in gaps, not asserted as fact. No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-o-hare-dd889-05
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[7]Consolidated era/yard inference - DANFS specifications (Gearing class, 4-boiler steam plant, 60,000 shp) + Atlas class-profile background (allen-m-sumner-class; Gearing = lengthened Sumner, same machinery plant) + NARA RG19 'General Information Books' archival lead for hull-level material specifications [other_primary]
- Locator
- DANFS specifications block (Gearing class); shipyards.json yard list; Allen M. Sumner class profile (machinery commonality)
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Era/design inference: a Gearing-class destroyer built in 1945 at Consolidated Steel, Orange, Texas, with a four-boiler 60,000-shp steam plant would have carried period-standard asbestos insulation - boiler casing and fireroom insulation, steam-pipe lagging, turbine lagging, valve and flange gaskets, machinery packing, fireproofing, and deck coverings. NARA RG19 'General Information Books' holding per-vessel material specifications are an archival lead for hull-level specs (retrieval not performed).
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1945-1973
- Population
- Consolidated Steel construction trades 1945; crew 1945-1973
- Limitations
- Class/era inference only - not a hull-level asbestos finding. No ship-specific asbestos documentation exists for this hull; the negative-finding row ev-08 records the search. Builder yard Consolidated Steel is not in the Atlas shipyards.json dataset (gap).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-o-hare-dd889-06
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[8]GAO, Navy Efforts To Protect Workers From Asbestos Exposure, HRD-80-2 (October 18, 1979) [gao]
- Locator
- HRD-80-2 cover letter + findings (thermal insulation as major shipboard use; Long Beach/Norfolk fieldwork; OPNAVINST 6260.1)
- Finding type
- gov_survey
- Finding
- GAO documented the Navy's extensive shipboard asbestos use: 'although all ships contain some asbestos in such components as clutches and electric cables, most ships delivered in the last several years or now under construction have little or no asbestos as thermal insulation, which was the Navy's major use of asbestos aboard ships'; thermal-insulation substitution began only in the early 1970s. Report fieldwork covered Long Beach and Norfolk Naval Shipyards - Norfolk is this hull's documented 1963 FRAM I yard. OPNAVINST 6260.1 (April 1974, revised August 1978) established the Navy asbestos control program.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1974-1979 (programs); shipboard asbestos era through early 1970s
- Population
- Naval shipyard workers incl. Norfolk NSY (program-level)
- Limitations
- Program-level GAO review of yard asbestos controls, not a hull record - no vessel is named. Establishes era-wide material use and that this hull's FRAM yard was a GAO fieldwork site; does not establish ACM scope of this hull's 1963 rebuild or any abatement aboard.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-o-hare-dd889-07
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[9]CourtListener API v4 sweep, 2026-09-28 (authenticated, fleet-paced): queries '"USS O'Hare"' type=o; '"O'Hare" asbestos' type=o; '"USS O*Hare" OR "DD-889"' type=o [court_record]
- Locator
- CourtListener API v4 search results, queries as cited (58-hit collision set reviewed at case-name and snippet level)
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- No qualifying asbestos litigation naming this hull located. '"USS O'Hare"' opinions = 0 hits; '"DD-889"' (within combined query) opinions = 0 hits; '"O'Hare" asbestos' opinions = 58 hits, all reviewed as name collisions - Chicago O'Hare airport litigation (Village of Bensenville v. City of Chicago; Vukadinovich v. Terminal 5 Venture; Bieneman v. City of Chicago), asbestos cases in which 'O'Hare' is an attorney/law-firm surname (Mascarenas v. Union Carbide - 'Sachs, Nunn, Kates, Kadushin, O'Hare, Helveston & Waldman, P.C.'; Vilardebo v. Keene Corp.), and individuals surnamed O'Hare (Ricciuti v. NYCTA - Officer Francis O'Hare). None name the destroyer or hull number.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 2026-09-28 (sweep date)
- Limitations
- Absence of indexed litigation is not absence of exposure - unindexed, settled, state-court, or trust-fund claims are not reachable via CourtListener search. Sweep partially completed under fleet pacing: '"DD-889"' and '"USS O'Hare"' RECAP docket-type (type=r) queries were blocked by repeated pacing stand-downs at session end and remain pending - see search_ledger sl-06/sl-07.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-o-hare-dd889-08
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[10]This record's search ledger: DANFS (mirror), NHHC namesake register, NavSource operational data + FRAM table, Naval Cover Museum, NVR detail page, CourtListener API v4, asbestos-specific web searches [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-o-hare-dd889-01 through sl-uss-o-hare-dd889-08
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, abatement contract, material inventory, museum or donation hazmat disclosure, or docketed case naming the hull was found in the public sources searched. The only asbestos references naming USS O'Hare are law-firm marketing pages (shepardlawfirm.com; mesotheliomaveterans.org list inclusion) - excluded as non-authoritative boilerplate naming ~900 destroyers indiscriminately. NVR serves an empty template (pre-1987 disposals not yet back-filled).
- 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 1945 steam destroyer is era-consistent with standard ACM use, and the hull's 1963 FRAM rebuild predates Navy asbestos substitution. The hull was scrapped in 1992 after Spanish service; any material record would sit in USN yard files, Spanish Navy records, or NARA RG19 General Information Books - none digitized for this hull.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-o-hare-dd889-09