Evidence
6 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-6).
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[1]USS Orleck (DD-886) Conservation Plan (draft), USS Orleck Naval Museum official site, ussorleck.com [museum_official]
- Locator
- DD886 Conservation Plan draft, conservation-principles/implementation section (item e)
- Finding type
- environmental_record
- Finding
- Official museum conservation plan for this hull states verbatim: 'Asbestos is known to be present in USS Orleck. The asbestos register (to be created) is to be consulted prior to any work taking place. Great care should be taken to avoid damage to the encapsulation systems in use on the ship. If exposed asbestos is found in any area, it should be documented and put into the asbestos register maintained on the curator's server.' Documents acknowledged asbestos-containing material aboard this hull in the museum era, managed under an encapsulation regime with a register mechanism.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-18
- Study period
- plan dated circa 2013 (museum era)
- Population
- Museum staff, volunteers, and contractors working aboard USS Orleck; museum visitors
- Limitations
- Confirms acknowledged ACM presence and an encapsulation-management regime; does not quantify asbestos, does not identify products or locations comprehensively, and notes the asbestos register was 'to be created' - the register itself was not located and may not be public. Draft-status plan; does not establish crew-era exposure, causation, or legal eligibility; does not establish the hull's condition after the 2022 Jacksonville relocation or later work.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-orleck-dd886-01
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[2]USS Orleck (DD-886) Conservation Plan (draft), specifications block and ship-history section (ussorleck.com) [museum_official]
- Locator
- DD886 Conservation Plan draft, specifications block and history narrative
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Museum conservation-plan record for this hull: Gearing class; Consolidated Steel Corporation, Orange, Tex.; laid down 28 November 1944; launched 12 May 1945; commissioned 15 September 1945 (last U.S. destroyer commissioned at the end of WWII); decommissioned 1 October 1982. Specifications: 390'6" overall x 40'10"; 2,175 tons light / 3,460 tons full load; complement 18 officers and 270 enlisted; four Babcock & Wilcox boilers (565 psi, 850 F); two General Electric turbine sets (HP/LP/cruising) with DeLaval double-reduction locked-train gears; 60,000 shp; 36.5 knots. FRAM I overhaul/conversion August 1962 brought ASROC and DASH. Korea service included 'Train Busters Club' actions of 15 and 27 July 1952; Vietnam service in TF 77.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-18
- Study period
- 1944-1982; plan circa 2013
- Population
- Consolidated Steel construction trades 1944-45; crew 1945-82; FRAM yard workers 1962-63
- Limitations
- Museum-issued plan consolidating DANFS-derived history and a shipboard survey - specifications are museum-reported, not independently verified against NHHC for every figure. Documents machinery and configuration, not a hazards inventory (the asbestos statement is ev-01).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-orleck-dd886-02
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[3]DANFS, Orleck (DD-886) (service narrative; verbatim HyperWar/ibiblio transcription - live NHHC page serves 404) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS entry DD-886_Orleck.html service narrative
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS record for this hull: laid down 28 November 1944 by Consolidated Steel Corporation, Orange, Tex.; launched 12 May 1945; commissioned 15 September 1945. Postwar WestPac rotations; Eniwetok AEC experiments March 1948; Korea combat tours 1951-52 (TF 77 escort, TF 95 bombardment; 'Train Busters Club'); DesRon 3 homeported Yokosuka 1960-62; FRAM conversion August 1962; Vietnam operations in TF 77 from 1964. Decommissioned 1 October 1982; stricken 6 August 1987; transferred to Turkey as Yücetepe; returned to the United States 2000 for museum use.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-18
- Study period
- 1944-2000
- Population
- Crew 1945-82; Turkish Navy crew 1982-2000
- Limitations
- DANFS documents service history, not materials or asbestos content. Turkish-service-era material changes (1982-2000) are not covered by this source and are a documented gap. Mirror transcription cited because the live NHHC page returns 404.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-orleck-dd886-03
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[4]Historic Naval Ships Association / USS Orleck Naval Museum official history (fhnsa.org) + contemporaneous Jacksonville press on the 2022 relocation [museum_official]
- Locator
- fhnsa.org/uss-orleck-dd-886/history/; corroborating Jacksonville press 2022
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Official museum-association record for this hull's post-Navy disposition: museum service at Orange, Texas, then Lake Charles, Louisiana (2010); relocated to Jacksonville, Florida, arriving March 2022; operating as the USS Orleck Naval Museum on the downtown riverfront - the most-visited ship museum in Florida per the association. Confirms current museum status and location.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-18
- Study period
- 2000-2022; accessed 2026-09-18
- Population
- Museum visitors/staff
- Limitations
- Documents location and museum status only - no asbestos, hazmat, or abatement content for the Jacksonville era. The conservation plan (ev-01) predates the Jacksonville move; whether its asbestos register was created or updated after relocation is not public.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-orleck-dd886-04
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[5]Wilber v. Air & Liquid Systems Corp., 2:19-cv-04940 (C.D. Cal., Notice of Removal doc. 1 filed 2019-06-06); McIntyre v. Northrop Grumman Ship Systems, 3:08-cv-03070 (N.D. Cal., complaint doc. 1 filed 2008-06-25); Sellers v. Air & Liquid Systems Corp., 1:12-cv-00117-MR (W.D.N.C., complaint filed 2012-05-31 via MDL-875 doc. 8760-1) - RECAP plain text retrieved via authenticated API v4 [court_record]
- Locator
- Wilber doc. 1 at 3, 6-7 (paras. 4, 14-15 quoting complaint par. 7); McIntyre doc. 1 Exhibit A (Mare Island ship list); Sellers complaint via MDL-875 doc. 8760-1 Schedule I
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- Qualifying asbestos litigation naming this hull, resolved from index lead to retrieved documents on authenticated backfill. Wilber (C.D. Cal.): defendant's Notice of Removal quotes the complaint's contention that 'Plaintiff was negligently exposed to asbestos from serving in the U.S. Navy from 1970 - 1980, where he visited TODD shipyard aboard the USS THOMASTON (LSD-28) and the USS ORLECK (DD-886)' (Exhibit A, Complaint par. 7); the notice further recites that TODD 'acknowledges having repaired the USS THOMASTON (LSD-28) and the USS ORLECK (DD-886) for the United States of America and the U.S. Navy.' McIntyre (N.D. Cal.): complaint Exhibit A (federal/defense work history) lists 'ORLECK (DD-886)' among vessels at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo CA, where plaintiff worked as a painter in the Painting Shops; products column includes asbestos-containing categories. Sellers (W.D.N.C.): complaint Schedule I plaintiff-worker employment/asbestos-exposure history lists 'U.S. Navy - USS W.A. Mann (AP-112) 1954-1958, USS Orleck (DD-886), USS Twining (DD-540)' with occupations 'Seaman, Fireman, Boiler Operator, Laborer, Owner/Operator' and a product list including block insulation, gaskets, packing, valves, pumps, boilers, turbines, draft blowers. Grey Rock Fuels LLC v. USS Orleck Naval Museum Inc. is a contract/fuel dispute naming the museum entity - other litigation, non-qualifying.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-25
- Study period
- 1954-1980 (alleged exposure windows); 2008-2019 (litigation)
- Population
- Douglas Wilber (Navy 1970-80, TODD shipyard aboard Orleck); McIntyre plaintiff (Mare Island painter); Donald Sellers (Navy seaman/fireman/boiler operator)
- Limitations
- Litigation-stage discipline: all three are pleading-stage records - the Wilber exposure statement is a complaint allegation recited in a removal notice (and TODD's repair acknowledgment is a federal-officer-removal argument about Navy contracts, not a finding that asbestos was aboard); McIntyre and Sellers are complaint work-history schedules. None is an adjudicated exposure or causation finding; the Sellers Orleck dates are not stated separately from the listed Navy service window. Establishes that DD-886 was pleaded as an exposure worksite; does not establish materials aboard, exposure in fact, causation, or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-orleck-dd886-05
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[6]DANFS + conservation-plan machinery block (Gearing class; four B&W boilers, GE turbines, 60,000 shp) + documented FRAM I conversion August 1962 [other_primary]
- Locator
- DANFS narrative; conservation-plan specifications block
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Era inference: a Gearing-class destroyer built 1944-45 with a four-boiler steam plant would have carried period-standard asbestos boiler/turbine insulation, steam-line lagging, gaskets, packing, and fireproofing; the 1962-63 FRAM I conversion (ASROC, DASH, updated electronics) is a documented modernization event during which era insulation would have been disturbed. Builder Consolidated Steel (Orange, Tex.) is an asbestos-era private yard - not in the Atlas yard dataset.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-18
- Study period
- 1944-1982
- Population
- Consolidated Steel construction trades 1944-45; FRAM yard workers 1962-63; crew
- Limitations
- Class/era inference only - the ship-specific finding for this hull is ev-01 (conservation-plan asbestos statement). This row adds machinery-era context; it does not independently establish ACM aboard and does not locate it.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-orleck-dd886-06