Evidence
7 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-7).
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[1]research packet ll-packet.md (6 sources cited) [nhhc_danfs]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERIFIED — real identity: USS Osmus — [M] http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USN/ships/DE/DE-701_Osmus.html
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-osmus-de701-pkt-ll-packet-md
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[2]DANFS, Osmus (DE-701), NHHC (entry dated 17 February 2004; Wayback capture 2025-12-09 - live NHHC page returns 404) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- NHHC DANFS Osmus (DE-701) entry - namesake paragraph + service narrative; spec block via https://www.historycentral.com/navy/DE/osmus.html
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS record for this hull: named for Ens. Wesley Frank Osmus, USNR (VT-3 off Yorktown, shot down at Midway 4 June 1942, captured and murdered by his captors; Navy Cross posthumous); laid down by the Defoe Shipbuilding Company, Bay City, Michigan, 17 August 1943; launched 4 November 1943, sponsored by Mrs. Louisa Osmus; commissioned 23 February 1944, Comdr. Richmond R. Jackson in command. Shakedown off Bermuda; Panama Canal; Espiritu Santo 1 June 1944; escort mission to Guadalcanal 13 June; TU 11.1.1 and CortDiv 39; escort Solomons-New Hebrides to 10 November; Ulithi base through January 1945 (escort between Western Carolines, Admiralties, Palaus); February 1945 Guam Patrol and Escort Unit - escort amongst the Marianas and to Okinawa, air-sea rescue and ASW patrols; end of August to Rota for preliminary surrender conferences, thence Truk for the official surrender 2 September; communications vessel at Truk one week; departed Apra 18 September for San Pedro; west coast until 22 June 1946; Tsingtao China service; Okinawa; Korea customs patrol off the American Occupation Zone; San Diego 2 March 1947; decommissioned 15 March 1947, Pacific Reserve Fleet, berthed at Mare Island into 1970; struck from the Navy list 1 December 1972; sold 27 November 1973 to Levin Metals Corp., San Jose, Calif., and broken up for scrap subsequently. One battle star for WWII service.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1943-1973
- Population
- Defoe Shipbuilding construction trades 1943-44; wartime and postwar crew (DANFS complement 186)
- Limitations
- DANFS documents service history and disposal, not materials or asbestos content. Cited via Wayback capture because the live NHHC page returns 404 (checked 2026-09-29). The DANFS specifications block (dp. 1,720 f.; 306 ft; cpl. 186; 24 kt; cl. Buckley) is carried from the historycentral.com verbatim transcription of the same DANFS entry.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-osmus-de701-01
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[3]USS Osmus (DE-701) ship-submitted War History, letter DE-701/A16-3(1) Serial No. 312, c/o Fleet Post Office San Francisco, 10 October 1945, signed Lt. Comdr. B.W. Pattishall, USNR (commanding) - NavSource scan of the official document [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource DE-701 archive page, 'War History' scan 06701wh.jpg (3-page letter + roster), navsource.net/archives/06/701.htm
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Contemporaneous ship-generated history for this hull: built by Defoe Shipbuilding Corporation at Bay City, Michigan; after construction and fitting out at Bay City the ship departed about 1 January 1944, transited lakes Huron and Michigan, the Chicago Canal to Joliet, Illinois, and the Mississippi River to the open sea; placed in full commission 1000 on 23 February 1944 by Captain Rufus King, USN (ret.), representative of the Commandant, Eighth Naval District, at Naval Pier, Todd-Johnson Dry-Docks Corporation, Algiers, Louisiana; shakedown Bermuda March 1944 with a five-day availability at the Charleston Navy Yard on return; escort and hunter-killer operations with Task Group 30.4 (Solomons; the history credits the group operation with six enemy submarines sunk); patrol, escort and hunter-killer work from Ulithi, Palau and Saipan; attached to hunter-killer TG 30.4 in the Western Carolines December 1944-January 1945; Guam Patrol and Escort Unit from February 1945; on 26 August 1945 departed Guam with USS Currier (DE-700) for Rota Island where a preliminary surrender conference was held aboard Osmus with Japanese Army and Navy representatives; on 30 August with USS Stack (DD-406) awaited USS Portland (CA-33) and USS Talbot (DD-390) for the Truk surrender signed aboard Portland 2 September, Osmus and the destroyers furnishing the screen; remained at Truk one week as a communications representative; on 18 September 1945 departed Guam in company with USS George (DE-697) for San Pedro to undergo general overhaul. Appended: roster of officers and enlisted men who remained with the ship from commissioning until return to the United States.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1943-1945
- Population
- Defoe construction trades; commissioning/yard workers at Todd-Johnson Dry Docks (Algiers, LA) and Charleston Navy Yard; wartime crew (named roster appended to the document)
- Limitations
- War-history narrative documents construction, fitting-out route, commissioning site, yard availability, and operations - it does not address materials or asbestos content. Group-level claims (TG 30.4 submarine kills) are task-group results, not ship-specific actions. NavSource hosts the scan; the document itself is the official ship-submitted history (NHHC/NARA record series). Some lines are partially legible in the scan.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-osmus-de701-02
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[4]Bureau of Ships, Ships' Data, U.S. Naval Vessels, Vol. 1 (Jan 1945), DE design-group table (shipscribe.com scan) + Navypedia 'Buckley (TE) class' boiler-block map [other_primary]
- Locator
- SDB1945v1 pp. 234-235 design-group table (DE groups 2-3, TE rows); navypedia.org us_de_te member table block map (DE 693-705 = Combustion Engineering)
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Era/design inference: DE-701 is a Buckley-class (TE, turbo-electric) destroyer escort - one of only two DE classes built with a full steam plant (the other, John C. Butler WGT). BuShips Ships' Data 1945 design groups 2-3 give two 'D' express-type boilers at 435 psi/750 deg F superheat feeding GE turbo-electric machinery, 12,000 shp, 2 shafts, 23.6 kt; per the navypedia per-block boiler-manufacturer map the Defoe-built block DE-693-705 (which includes DE-701) carried Combustion Engineering boilers. A 1943-44 steam ship of this plant would have carried era-standard asbestos applications: boiler and fireroom insulation, steam-line and turbine lagging, gaskets and packing, fireproofing, and deck coverings.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1943-1974
- Population
- Defoe Shipbuilding construction trades 1943-44; commissioned crew 1944-47; inactivation/yard workers 1947; scrapping yard workers 1973-74 (Levin Metals)
- Limitations
- Class/era inference only - NOT a hull-specific finding: no contract specification, material schedule, or survey for DE-701 itself was located. The boiler-manufacturer block map is navypedia-sourced and unverified against contract documents. Does not quantify material or establish any individual's exposure.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-osmus-de701-03
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[5]CourtListener API v4 sweep, 2026-09-29: "USS Osmus" / "Osmus" / "DE-701" across opinions (type=o) and dockets (type=r), with asbestos co-occurrence narrowing [court_record]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-osmus-de701-04 through sl-uss-osmus-de701-07
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- CourtListener sweep located no qualifying asbestos litigation naming this hull. "USS Osmus" (exact) returned 0 opinion and 0 docket hits. Bare "Osmus" produced 63 opinion and 160 docket hits - all surname collisions (parties/debtors named Osmus, e.g. Swaters v. Osmus 11th Cir. 2009; Osmus v. City of Oklahoma City 1977). "DE-701" produced 7 opinion and 82 docket hits - all identifier collisions (docket/entry/document strings); narrowing by asbestos co-occurrence returned 0 opinions and a single docket, Powell v. Home Depot, 9:07-cv-80435 (S.D. Fla.), a patent-infringement action - non-qualifying.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 2026-09-29
- Limitations
- Zero-qualifying sweep: absence of indexed opinions/dockets is not proof no suit ever named the hull - state-court and unindexed matters are outside CourtListener coverage. Collision classification rests on case-name/cause inspection of result sets, not per-docket full-text review.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-osmus-de701-04
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[6]Batch-4481 search ledger (this record): NHHC DANFS (Wayback capture), DANFS verbatim transcription, ship-submitted war history (NavSource scan), BuShips Ships' Data 1945, navypedia class block map, CourtListener name and hull-number queries [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-osmus-de701-01 through sl-uss-osmus-de701-09
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located for DE-701: no hull ACM survey, abatement contract, museum or hazmat disclosure, or docketed case naming the vessel was found in the public sources searched (see search_ledger).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 2026-09-29
- Limitations
- Absence of a located public record does not prove absence of asbestos aboard - the steam-plant design is era-consistent with asbestos use, and scrapping (1973-74) predates ACM-inventory practice. Does not establish that asbestos is or is not present; does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-osmus-de701-05
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[7]NARA RG 38 (WWII war diaries / ship movement records) and RG 19 (BuShips records incl. General Information Books and contract specifications) - undigitized holdings for DE-701 [other_primary]
- Locator
- NARA RG 38 war-diary and deck-log series; NARA RG 19 BuShips series
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Archival leads not yet pulled: the ship's WWII war diaries (RG 38) and deck logs would fix yard availabilities and machinery work in detail; BuShips contract/materials records for the Defoe DE-693-705 block (RG 19, incl. per-vessel General Information Books where extant) would establish hull-level material specifications; Defoe Shipbuilding corporate records are not in a located public collection.
- Verification
- unverified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1943-1973 (records coverage)
- Limitations
- Lead only - retrieval not performed; whether these holdings contain asbestos-relevant material specifications for this hull is unknown.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-osmus-de701-06
