Evidence
10 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-10).
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[1]research packet kc-packet.md (1 sources cited) [other_primary]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERIFIED — real identity: USS O'Reilly
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-o-reilly-de330-pkt-kc-packet-md
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[2]DANFS, O'Reilly (DE-330), Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (1970) Vol. 5 pp. 169-170 (verbatim hazegray/losthistory transcription by Michael Hansen - live NHHC page serves 404) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS entry, O'Reilly biography + DE-330 specifications block + full service narrative + bracketed stricken/sold supplement; hazegray transcription of DANFS Vol. 5 pp. 169-170
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS record for this hull: namesake biography (Edward Joseph O'Reilly, b. 16 August 1909 Chicago; commissioned regular Assistant Dental Surgeon, Lt. (j.g.), 10 February 1941; Naval Dental School and Great Lakes training; reported to heavy cruiser Astoria (CA-34) October 1941; Passed Assistant Dental Surgeon and Lieutenant 15 June 1942; lost when Astoria sank in the Battle of Savo Island 9 August 1942); specifications (Edsall class; 1,590 t; 306' length; 36'7" beam; 12'3" draft; 21.2 k; complement 216; armament 3x3-inch, 6x40mm, 10x20mm, 3x21-inch torpedo tubes, 2 depth charge tracks, 8 depth charge projectors, 1 hedgehog). Laid down 29 July 1943 by Consolidated Steel Corp., Orange, Tex.; launched 14 November 1943, sponsored by Mrs. Bride O'Reilly; commissioned 28 December 1943, Lt. Comdr. William C. F. Robards in command. Shakedown off Bermuda from 18 January 1944; ten-day availability at Charleston, S.C.; Guantanamo Bay/Aruba/Curacao; first convoy from Curacao to Gibraltar/North African ports arriving Algiers 25 March; three further Mediterranean voyages; repairs and upkeep at the New York Navy Yard early September 1944; from 20 September five North Atlantic round trips to England; attacked a submarine 18 November with unknown results; nine Atlantic crossings with no ship under her protection lost; ordered to the Pacific April 1945; departed New York 24 May, transited Panama 8 June, Pearl Harbor via San Diego; five weeks Hawaiian training; sailed 1 August for Leyte Gulf via Eniwetok; upkeep at Leyte; goodwill tour via Okinawa to Shanghai and Taiwan; struck a reef entering Buckner Bay, Okinawa, 23 October (propeller/shaft misalignment); repairs until 2 December; arrived Los Angeles 22 December; departed 16 January 1946 for New York pre-inactivation availability; decommissioned 15 June 1946; Reserve Fleet at Green Cove Springs, Florida; shifted to Orange, Texas in 1961, berthed there into 1970. Bracketed supplement (citing Bauer and Roberts, Register of Ships of the U.S. Navy 1775-1990, p. 225): stricken from the Navy Register 15 January 1971; sold 10 April 1972.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1943-1972
- Population
- Consolidated Steel Corp. Orange construction trades 1943; wartime crew (DANFS design complement 216); Charleston Navy Yard availability workforce 1944; New York Navy Yard repair/upkeep workforce 1944 and pre-inactivation workforce 1946
- Limitations
- DANFS documents identity, service history, and specifications, not materials or asbestos content - the narrative contains no asbestos-related content whatsoever. Mirror transcription cited because the live NHHC page returns 404 (standing link rot, BATCH-01). Neither the Charleston availability nor the 1946 pre-inactivation availability is yard-identified by name; 'New York Navy Yard' maps to the New York Naval Shipyard (Brooklyn). Stricken/sold dates come from the DANFS bracketed supplement citing Bauer & Roberts, not from the original DANFS narrative.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-o-reilly-de330-01
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[3]NavSource Online Destroyer Escort Photo Archive, USS O'Reilly (DE 330) - building/operational data block, commanding-officer list, and reference to the ship's official war-history submission [other_primary]
- Locator
- navsource.org/archives/06/330.htm - 'Building and Operational Data' block; commanding-officer list; war-history link reference (indexed excerpt)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NavSource compiled operational record for this hull (per indexed page excerpt): radio call sign N-K-F-A; keel laid 29 July 1943 by Consolidated Steel Corp., Orange, Tex.; launched and christened 14 November 1943, sponsored by Mrs. Bridey O'Reilly; commissioned 28 December 1943 at the City Dock, Orange, Tex., Lcdr. William C. F. Robards in command; decommissioned 15 June 1946 at Green Cove Springs, Fla., after 2 years and 5.5 months of service; struck from the Naval Vessel Register 15 January 1971; sold for scrapping 10 April 1972. Commanding officers: Lcdr. William C. F. Robards, USN (28 Dec 1943 - 18 Sep 1944); Lt./Lcdr. Donald R. Shaul, USNR (18 Sep 1944 - 1946); Ens. E. R. Davis, USNR (1946 - 16 Jun 1946). Page references the ship's official war history submitted at war's end (NARA WWII War Diaries-type holding).
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1943-1972
- Population
- Consolidated Steel Corp. Orange construction trades 1943; crew 1943-1946; Green Cove Springs inactivation workforce 1946
- Limitations
- Secondary compilation venue quoting official Navy data - page was unreachable from this environment during this pass (connection failure, curl code 000/006 - same environment failure logged in batches 3097, 4177, 4184); contents carried from the indexed search excerpt of 2026-09-28 and not re-verified against the live page. Documents dates and assignments, not materials or asbestos content. Sponsor name differs from the DANFS transcription ('Bridey' vs 'Bride' - carried in gaps).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-o-reilly-de330-02
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[4]Navypedia, 'FMR' destroyer escorts (EDSALL) member table and technical data + Destroyer History Foundation Edsall-class page + USS Slater museum reproduction of Rivet & Stenzel 'Classes of Destroyer Escorts' (NHHC) [other_primary]
- Locator
- navypedia us_de_det_fmr.htm member row 'DE330 O`Reilly' + machinery spec block; destroyerhistory.org/de/edsallclass (design + builders); ussslater.org/classes-of-destroyer-escorts (class plant description)
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Era/class inference: DE-330 is documented in the navypedia FMR (Edsall) member table - Consolidated, Orange; laid 7.1943; launched 2.10.1943 (conflicts with DANFS's 14 November 1943 - carried in gaps); commissioned 12.1943; stricken 1.1971 - matching DANFS on builder, laid-down month, commission month, and striking. The FMR machinery is 4 Fairbanks-Morse diesels with a compact single reduction gear, 6,000 hp on 2 shafts - a geared-diesel plant with no boilers or steam propulsion system (Destroyer History Foundation: 'a Fairbanks Morse design for submarines with a compact single reduction gear transmission... regarded as the most successful of the 6,000 shp classes'; USS Slater museum page reproducing Rivet & Stenzel's NHHC paper: Edsall class 'mounted a direct drive diesel configuration'; 85 units built at Consolidated Steel, Orange (47) and Brown Shipbuilding, Houston (38)). A 1943-built geared-diesel escort would have carried era-standard asbestos applications appropriate to that plant: exhaust-system insulation, gaskets and packing throughout engineering spaces, electrical insulation, brake linings on winch/windlass equipment, thermal pipe covering and insulation felts, and deck coverings - not boiler or steam-line lagging.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1943-1946
- Population
- Consolidated Steel Corp. Orange construction trades 1943; crew 1943-1946
- Limitations
- Class/era inference only - NOT a hull-specific finding. Navypedia and destroyerhistory.org are secondary references; the DANFS spec block confirms class (Edsall) and speed (21.2 k) but does not state engine type. The geared-diesel plant means the largest asbestos categories of steam ships (boiler and steam-line insulation) do not apply. Does not quantify material, does not establish that any specific product was or was not installed aboard this hull, and does not establish any individual's exposure. Designed complement per class sources is 15 officers + 201 enlisted = 216 (matches DANFS; navypedia reads 186 - carried in gaps).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-o-reilly-de330-03
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[5]NAVSEA FOIA Electronic Reading Room, 'Asbestos Related Files' (navsea.navy.mil; live page 403 to automated fetch - Wayback capture 2024-12-24) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Wayback capture 2024-12-24 of navsea.navy.mil/Contact/FOIA/Reading-Room/Asbestos/ - 'Asbestos Related Files' table (live page returns HTTP 403 to automated fetch)
- Finding type
- regulatory
- Finding
- The Navy's own FOIA reading room posts its asbestos-related military specification and qualified-products files, documenting the standard material categories from which WWII-era escort insulation, packing, and gasketing were drawn: INSULATION FELT, THERMAL, ASBESTOS FIBER (QPL-15091-5, 1962); PIPE-COVERING, THERMAL-INSULATION (QPL-2781, 1951); INSULATION BLOCK, THERMAL (QPL-2819, 1951); CEMENT ADHESIVE FOR THERMAL INSULATION (QPL-3316, 1952/1961); PACKING, MATERIAL, ASBESTOS, ROD, HIGH PRESSURE (QPL-17340/QPL-17349, 1953; QPL-33-P-16, 1950-1960); PACKING ASBESTOS, SHEET, COMPRESSED (QPL-46, 1952-1981); ASBESTOS SHEET, COMPRESSED - GASKET MATERIAL (QPL-17472, 1971-1972); GASKETS, METALLIC-ASBESTOS, SPIRAL-WOUND (QPL-15342, QPL-16265-5, 1961; QPL-21022-6, 1969); DECK COVERING MAGNESIA AGGREGATE MIXTURE (QPL-16680, 1965; QPL-18873-14, 1979); CEMENT, INSULATION, HIGH-TEMPERATURE (QPL-206, 1963; QPL-2861-14, 1964); and MIL-I-24244 insulation-materials specifications (1965/1974).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1950-1981 (specification dates); era covers hull's 1943-1972 service life
- Population
- Navy-wide construction, maintenance, and disposal trades (era context)
- Limitations
- Specification-level documentation only - these are Navy-wide qualified-products lists and specifications, most dated 1950-1981 (postdating this hull's 1943 construction but overlapping her reserve-fleet and disposal era). They document that asbestos insulation, packing, gasket, and deck-covering products were standard qualified naval materiel of the period; they do not establish that any specific product was installed aboard DE-330, and no hull-specific application record exists here.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-o-reilly-de330-04
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[6]Atlas shipyard dataset (shipyards.json): charleston-naval-shipyard record; brooklyn-navy-yard (New York Naval Shipyard) record; builder Consolidated Steel Corp., Orange, Tex. NOT present in the dataset (37 yard_ids checked) [other_primary]
- Locator
- shipyards.json records 'charleston-naval-shipyard' and 'brooklyn-navy-yard' (37 yard_ids enumerated); DANFS narrative (Charleston availability; New York Navy Yard upkeep Sept 1944 and pre-inactivation early 1946); destroyerhistory.org/destroyers/orange (yard production figures)
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Builder/repair-yard context: DANFS documents a ten-day availability at Charleston, S.C. following shakedown (1944) - corresponding to the Charleston Navy Yard (Atlas yard record 'charleston-naval-shipyard') - and 'repairs and upkeep at the New York Navy Yard' in early September 1944 plus a New York pre-inactivation availability in early 1946 - the New York Navy Yard is the New York Naval Shipyard, Brooklyn (Atlas yard record 'brooklyn-navy-yard'). The builder, Consolidated Steel Corp. at Orange, Texas - which built 47 Edsall-class escorts alongside 12 Fletcher-class and 27 Gearing-class destroyers at a peak wartime employment of roughly 20,000 - is not an Atlas shipyards.json entry. Yard-level documentation establishes asbestos use at such facilities during the era, not aboard this specific hull.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1943-1946
- Population
- Consolidated Steel Corp. Orange construction trades 1943; Charleston Navy Yard availability workforce 1944; New York Navy Yard workforce 1944 and 1946; Green Cove Springs inactivation workforce 1946
- Limitations
- Yard-level records only - no yard record names this hull or any hull-specific work order, and DANFS does not identify the Charleston facility by yard name ('Charleston Navy Yard' mapping is by elimination - it was the Navy's industrial activity there). The Orange builder yard has no Atlas record; yard-level asbestos documentation for it exists only at the level of a 1998 VA adjudication (see ev-uss-o-reilly-de330-07). Does not establish that a particular product was installed on or disturbed aboard DE-330.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-o-reilly-de330-05
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[7]NARA guided research topic, 'Researching Asbestos aboard US Naval Vessel up through 1961' (archives.gov) - RG 19 Bureau of Ships correspondence filed by hull designation; plus NavSource-referenced official war history for this hull (NARA WWII War Diaries series) and Logbooks of U.S. Navy Ships and Stations 1941-1978 (NAID 594258) [other_primary]
- Locator
- archives.gov/research/military/navy/guided-topics/asbestos (filing-code scheme: hull designation, class namesake hull, QM/contractor files); NavSource DE-330 page war-history reference (indexed excerpt)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Archival leads for this hull: NARA's official asbestos-research guide states that asbestos use in U.S. Navy materiel 1941-1961 is documented through RG 19 (Bureau of Ships) correspondence filed by hull designation - a 'DE330' filing code for this ship, 'DE129 Class' for Edsall-class correspondence, and 'QM/Consolidated Steel' for builder-yard correspondence - plus specification files and Qualified Products Lists. NavSource references this hull's official war history submitted at war's end, which resides in the WWII War Diaries/operational records series; the ship's deck logs reside in the Logbooks of U.S. Navy Ships and Stations, 1941-1978 series (NAID 594258). None of these holdings is digitized or located at hull level for DE-330 in this pass.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1943-1972 (records); research path current
- Population
- Wartime crew 1943-1946
- Limitations
- Record-series identification only - the NARA guide documents where hull-level asbestos correspondence would live, not what it contains; no DE-330-specific RG 19 file, deck log, or war-history document was retrieved or reviewed. Deck logs and war diaries document movements and events, not materials. The NARA online catalog is JavaScript-rendered and could not be text-verified in this environment; no hull-specific NAID was located.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-o-reilly-de330-06
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[8]Department of Veterans Affairs, Board of Veterans' Appeals, Citation Nr. 9828426, Docket No. 94-15 783 (decision 23 September 1998; appeal from Houston RO) [other_primary]
- Locator
- va.gov/vetapp98/files3/9828426.txt - Findings of Fact 1-2; Factual Background (Consolidated Steel employment, shipboard testimony); Reasons and Bases (M21-1 discussion)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Official VA adjudication involving this hull's builder yard: a veteran who worked for Consolidated Steel Corporation at Orange, Texas, 1942-1944 and early 1946 - the same facility and years in which DE-330 was built - as a driller in the boilermaker department (drilling, reaming, countersinking steel plates/hulls) was found NOT to have been exposed to asbestos in that yard role (his work was outside the hulls in an area where asbestos was not used, supported by coworker statements and his 1944 enlistment qualifications card), but WAS found exposed to asbestos aboard Navy vessels in service (May 1944 - February 1946, including work in an ammunition room and sleeping within one foot of asbestos-coated pipes aboard smaller ships where gunfire shook dust from pipes); service connection for asbestos-related lung disease granted. The decision quotes the VA M21-1 manual's recognition that 'asbestos was used extensively in military ship construction.'
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1942-1946 (exposure findings); 1998 (decision)
- Population
- Consolidated Steel Corp. Orange yard workforce 1942-1946 (claimant-specific finding); Navy ship crews (era context)
- Limitations
- Claimant-specific administrative finding, not a yard survey and not a hull record: the Board found no asbestos exposure for this particular worker's yard role and did not survey Consolidated Steel Orange generally or name any vessel (the veteran's service vessels are not identified by hull). Establishing that one driller was not exposed outside the hulls says nothing about insulation trades inside hulls at the same yard, and nothing about materials aboard DE-330.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-o-reilly-de330-07
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[9]CourtListener API v4 authenticated sweep (cl-auth-search.py), 2026-09-28: "USS O'Reilly" type=o and type=r - 0 results each; "DE-330" type=o - 11 hits, all name collisions; "DE-330" type=r - 227 hits, all docket-entry-number collision tokens [court_record]
- Locator
- search_ledger sl-uss-o-reilly-de330-11
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- CourtListener sweep complete with zero qualifying results. Exact-name "USS O'Reilly" returned 0 opinions and 0 dockets - no opinion or docket names this vessel. Hull-number "DE-330" returned 11 opinion hits, all name collisions (construction, patent, insurance, criminal, bankruptcy, copyright, and admiralty-unrelated civil cases; no asbestos, Navy, or vessel content in any snippet), and 227 docket hits (293 documents) all matching the PACER docket-entry-number token 'DE 330' / 'DE# 330' across unrelated litigation - the same collision pattern documented for hull-number queries in batch-4184. One matched docket, Cox v. AGCO Corp., No. 4:16-cv-00084 (E.D.N.C.), carries the 'P.I.: Asbestos' nature-of-suit code but is a friction-products case (defendants Navistar and Abex dismissed on summary judgment); its 'DE 330' match is a docket-entry token, not a vessel reference - classified non-qualifying.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 2026-09-28
- Limitations
- CourtListener coverage is not exhaustive of all asbestos filings (state-court complaints and many MDL-875 docket entries are not full-text indexed); absence of an indexed hit does not prove no filing ever named this hull. A negative litigation result says nothing about materials aboard the ship.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-o-reilly-de330-08
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[10]Batch-4233 search ledger (this record): NHHC/DANFS transcription; NavSource official-photo archive (indexed excerpt); navypedia FMR member table; Destroyer History Foundation and USS Slater class pages; NAVSEA FOIA asbestos files (Wayback); NARA asbestos research guide; VA BVA 9828426; Atlas shipyard dataset; CourtListener exact-name and hull-number queries; general web search (law-firm boilerplate excluded) [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-o-reilly-de330-01 through sl-uss-o-reilly-de330-12
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located for DE-330: no hull ACM survey, no abatement contract, no hazmat disclosure, and no qualifying asbestos litigation naming the vessel located in the public sources searched (see search_ledger). Museum/drydock categories cannot apply because the ship was sold for scrapping in 1972 and is not preserved. Law-firm/mesothelioma-marketing pages publish templated 'asbestos exposure' content for this hull name/number; reviewed and excluded as non-authoritative advertising content per the hard sourcing rule.
- 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 during the 1943-1946 commission - era materials aboard a Consolidated-built escort are plausible but ship-unproven. Does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-o-reilly-de330-09