Evidence
9 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-9).
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[1]research packet 748-packet.md (3 sources cited) [other_primary]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERIFIED
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-pasley-de519-pkt-748-packet-md
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[2]DANFS, Lindsay (DE-519) entry (NHHC; live page 404 - Wayback capture 2024-12-10 cited; identical text on the legacy page since 2004) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS 'Lindsay' entry (NHHC danfs/l/lindsay.html); print Vol. V verified absent via full-text search
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS's entire record for this hull is a one-line stub: 'Lindsay (DE-519) was renamed HMS Pasley (K-564) (q.v.) upon transfer to the United Kingdom under lend lease 20 November 1943.' Full-text search of print DANFS Vol. V (N-Q, 1970; archive.org scan dictionaryofamer05wash) confirms no 'Pasley' or DE-519 sketch exists - the '(q.v.)' points to an entry never published. The 20 November 1943 transfer date is the official U.S.-side handover date.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1943
- Limitations
- One-line stub only - does not give builder, dates, or service detail beyond the 1943-11-20 transfer. Documents identity and transfer, not materials or asbestos content. Live NHHC page returns 404; Wayback capture cited.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-pasley-de519-01
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[3]NHHC Online Library of Selected Images, hull-number register for escort ships DE-400 through DE-699 (verbatim mirror at ibiblio.org/hyperwar) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NHHC Online Library DE-400-699 hull list, bracketed note preceding DE-527
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Official NHHC hull register states: 'DE-516 through DE-526, transferred to Great Britain upon completion in 1943, were not assigned U.S. Navy names.' Confirms DE-519 was never named by the U.S. Navy before its 1945 return - 'Lindsay' was a British name allocated pre-transfer, and 'USS Pasley' exists only as the two-month 1945 commission retaining the Royal Navy name.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1943
- Limitations
- Confirms naming/transfer status only; no materials or asbestos content. Resolves the queue placeholder 'USS DE-519' - the hull had no standalone U.S. name before August 1945.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-pasley-de519-02
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[4]National Park Service, 'The Boston Navy Yard and Destroyer Escorts (DEs)' (Boston National Historical Park) [nps]
- Locator
- NPS article, 'Boston Navy Yard Gets Busy' section, photo caption BOSTS 11807-2
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- NPS documents this hull's construction: archive photo caption reads 'Workers at the Boston Navy Yard slide DE-519 into the ocean from a yard shipway in August 1943. DE-519 (HMS PASLEY) was a Destroyer Escort built for the Royal Navy under the Lend-Lease Act' (Boston National Historical Park, BOSTS 11807-2). The same article records that Boston Navy Yard workers built 62 destroyer escorts during WWII - 52 Evarts-class and 10 John C. Butler-class - 31 going to the U.S. Navy and 31 to the Royal Navy.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1943
- Population
- Boston Navy Yard construction trades, 1943 (yard peak employment ~50,000)
- Limitations
- Documents construction and lend-lease identity only; contains no asbestos or materials information. BOSTS 11807-2 is the launch photograph held in the park collection.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-pasley-de519-03
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[5]NavSource Online Destroyer Escort Photo Archive, DE-519 / HMS Pasley (ex-Lindsay) (K.564) page [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource DE-519 page, specifications block and chronological list
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NavSource chronology for this hull: contract awarded 7 August 1942; keel laid 18 July 1943 at Boston Naval Shipyard, Boston MA; launched 30 August 1943; allocated to the Royal Navy 19 October 1943 as HMS Lindsay (K.564); renamed Pasley (K.564); christened 20 November 1943, sponsored by Mrs. Richard M. (Marjorie) Rush; transferred to the RN and commissioned as HMS Pasley 20 November 1943; returned to USN 20 August 1945 and commissioned as USS Pasley (DE-519); decommissioned at Philadelphia NSY 26 October 1945; stricken 16 November 1945. The page hosts the wartime photograph of HMS Pasley at sea under Lt. Cdr. J.H. Wright, RNR. Dates are consistent with DANFS/NHHC records.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1942-1946
- Population
- RN wartime crew (patrol/escort 1943-45); brief USN caretaker crew Aug-Oct 1945
- Limitations
- NavSource is a volunteer-maintained photo archive used as an archival lead - not an official source. Its chronology is consistent with DANFS/NHHC on the U.S.-side dates; British compilations conflict on the RN commissioning date (15 vs 20 November 1943) and RN end-of-service (August 1945 vs March/May 1946) - conflicts carried in gaps. Page header contains a typographical 'K.519' pennant error; K.564 is correct.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-pasley-de519-04
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[6]DANFS Vol. I (1959; 1970 corrected reprint) Appendix V, 'Escort Vessels, 1941-1958' class grouping, and DANFS Vol. II (1963; 1969 reprint) Evarts (DE-5) entry specifications block (archive.org scans dictionaryofamer01wash / dictionaryofamer02wash) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS Vol. I Appendix V class list (Evarts GMT heading + DE 516-526 group); DANFS Vol. II 'Evarts' entry spec block; Atlas shipyards.json 'boston-naval-shipyard' and 'philadelphia-naval-shipyard'
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Class/era basis for exposure inference: DANFS Appendix V lists DE-519 in the Evarts class - 'EVARTS class (Type GMT)' with group '(516-526)' parenthesized as lend-lease/non-USN-name completions - under the heading 'GENERAL MOTORS DIESELS WITH DIESEL ELECTRIC TANDEM MOTOR DRIVE,' built by Boston Navy Yard. The DANFS Evarts (DE-5) spec block gives the class pattern: dp 1,140; l. 289'5"; s. 21 kt; cpl 156; a. 3-3"/50, depth-charge and hedgehog fits. A GMT-type hull had no boilers or steam plant; era-standard asbestos applications consistent with the type are engine and exhaust insulation, gaskets, machinery packing, electrical insulation, deck coverings, and brake linings rather than boiler/turbine lagging. Builder Boston Naval Shipyard and decommissioning yard Philadelphia Naval Shipyard are both documented tier-3 asbestos-era yards in the Atlas shipyard dataset (Boston: John Crane gaskets and sealing materials documented at yard level).
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1943-1946
- Population
- Boston Navy Yard construction trades 1943; RN crew 1943-45; Philadelphia Naval Shipyard decommissioning workers Oct 1945
- Limitations
- Class/era and yard-level inference only - no ship-specific asbestos finding for this hull; nothing in these sources establishes which products were aboard DE-519, in what quantity, or what remained at disposal. The diesel-electric plant materially narrows the inference versus steam DEs (no boiler rooms, no steam-line lagging). NARA RG 19 'General Information Books' per-vessel material specifications are the archival lead for hull-level specs.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-pasley-de519-05
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[7]uboat.net Allied Warships, HMS Pasley (K 564) page + Captain Class Frigate Association ship page (captainclassfrigates.co.uk, via Wayback 2021-10-18) [other_primary]
- Locator
- uboat.net ship/5671 commanding-officer table and convoy narrative; CCFA K564 page (Wayback capture)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Royal Navy service detail from secondary compilations of Admiralty records: uboat.net records HMS Pasley on convoy escort in the Mediterranean in 1944 - the Naples section of convoy SNF-25 (merging into MKF-32) in June 1944 and the Naples section of MKF-34 in September 1944 - under Lt. Cdr. J.H. Wright, RNR, with Lt. P.G.R. Mitchell, RN, also recorded commanding (24 Aug 1944); uboat.net lists Wright in command 15 Nov 1943-Jun 1945 and 'end service' 20 Mar 1946; the Captain Class Frigate Association page lists RN commissioning 15 Nov 1943, COs Lt. P.R.G. Mitchell (Nov 1943) and Lt. Cdr. J.H. Wright (Feb 1945), and 'returned to US Navy 20 May 1946.' Disposal detail from the same compilation tier: the Lenton-derived Captain-class vessel list gives 'sold for scrapping, 8 November 1946' and shipbuildinghistory.com's Boston yard list reads 'returned 1946, scrapped 1947' - the scrapping site/contract is not documented in located sources.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1943-1946
- Population
- RN crew 1943-45 (escort groups incl. Mediterranean)
- Limitations
- Private compilations assembled from Admiralty records (TNA ADM 53 logs are the underlying primary source) - carried as archival leads, not official findings. CO sequence and end-of-service dates conflict between the two compilations and with U.S. records; conflicts carried in gaps, not reconciled.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-pasley-de519-06
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[8]CourtListener API v4 authenticated searches (type=o opinions and type=r dockets), 2026-09-28 [court_record]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-pasley-de519-06 through sl-uss-pasley-de519-09
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- No qualifying asbestos litigation naming this hull located. CourtListener results: 'USS Pasley' (opinions) 0 hits; 'HMS Pasley' (opinions) 0 hits; 'DE-519' (opinions) 4 hits, all identifier collisions - Harding Bars v. McCaskill (Tex. App. 2012), TeleResource Corp. v. Accor North America, Honeywell International v. United States (Fed. Cl. 2008), Wright v. Illinois DCFS (7th Cir. 2015) - 'DE-519' matched form/exhibit/docket-number strings, none the ship; '"Pasley" asbestos' (opinions) 6 hits, all person-name collisions (e.g., attorney 'R.F. Pasley' in an attorney list in Adair v. United States, Fed. Cir. 2007; Continental v. NEPACCO 8th Cir.; Brayman v. 99 West D. Mass.; U.S. v. Frazer M.D. Ala.; DeLitta v. Schaefer Tex. App.) - none ship-related; 'DE-519' (dockets) 75 hits - sampled page entirely identifier collisions ('DE-519' matching docket-entry/form numbers inside unrelated criminal, bankruptcy, and civil dockets); 'Pasley' (dockets) 1,841 hits - sampled page entirely surname collisions (individual bankruptcies named Pasley plus one prisoner civil-rights case, Smith v. Pasley, N.D. Cal. 2014). No result names or plausibly references the ship.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 2026-09-28
- Limitations
- Search coverage is limited to CourtListener-indexed state/federal opinions and federal dockets; unindexed state trial-court filings, settled MDL-875 claimant records, and UK proceedings are not covered. High-count surname/hull-number docket results were classified by sampled-page review (first page of each), not exhaustive per-hit read. No search can prove the absence of all possible litigation.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-pasley-de519-07
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[9]Batch-4354 search ledger (this record): DANFS/NHHC (live + Wayback + print Vol. V full-text); NHHC Online Library hull register; NPS Boston NHP; NavSource; Captain Class Frigate Association; uboat.net; shipbuildinghistory.com; NVR; BuShips Ships' Data 1945; CourtListener sweep [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-pasley-de519-01 through sl-uss-pasley-de519-14
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located for DE-519: no hull ACM survey, abatement contract, museum hazmat disclosure, government environmental record, or docketed asbestos case naming this hull was found in the public sources searched (see search_ledger). The hull was scrapped in 1946-47 - predating every modern regime governing hazardous materials in end-of-life vessels (Basel Convention effective 1992; Hong Kong Convention and EU Ship Recycling Regulation far later) - so any pre-scrapping abatement would have been undocumented by those regimes; no disposal-yard or scrapping-contract record was located.
- 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 - era-consistent materials are plausible at class level (see ev-05) but are not ship-proven. Does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-pasley-de519-08