Evidence
7 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-7).
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[1]research packet fn-packet.md (2 sources cited) [other_primary]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERIFIED
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-paul-hamilton-dd590-pkt-fn-packet-md
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[2]DANFS, Paul Hamilton II (DD-590) (specifications block, service narrative, striking; verbatim hazegray transcription via Wayback capture - live NHHC page https://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/p/paul-hamilton-ii.html serves 404 to automated fetch) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS entry, specifications block + full service narrative (Paul Hamilton II (DD-590))
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS record for this hull: laid down 20 January 1943 by the Charleston Navy Yard, Charleston, S.C.; launched 7 April 1943, sponsored by Mrs. William Dewar Gordon; commissioned 25 October 1943, Cmdr. Leo G. May in command. Shakedown off Bermuda; destroyer training unit in lower Chesapeake Bay out of Norfolk 8 January - 19 April 1944; to Pearl Harbor via Aruba and the Panama Canal (arrived 21 May 1944). Screened 3d Fleet replenishment/fueling groups through the Saipan landing (15 June) and TF 58 during the Battle of the Philippine Sea (19-20 June); southern Palaus screening 1 September - 3 October; similar screening during strikes on Okinawa, Luzon, Formosa, and the Visayas 4 October - 15 November; Leyte Gulf patrol 7-11 December; Mindoro assault screen 15 December (three planes downed) and Mindoro resupply cover 27 December - 2 January 1945; Lingayen Gulf assault screen 3-21 January including rescue of 73 survivors from Ommaney Bay (CVE-79) on 4 January; Iwo Jima bombardment/fire support/pilot rescue 10 February - 11 March; Okinawa-area fire support (Kerama Retto, Tsuken Shima, Ie Shima, Iheya Shima, Aguni Shima) 21 March - 17 June 1945. Departed Okinawa 17 June for San Diego via Guam, Eniwetok, and Pearl Harbor, arriving 8 July for overhaul; reported to the Pacific Reserve Fleet 24 September 1945 and remained inactive until struck from the Naval Vessel Register 1 May 1968. Seven battle stars for World War II service. Specifications: 2,940 t full load, 376'5" x 39'7" x 17'9", 35 kt, complement 329, class Fletcher.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1943-1968
- Population
- Charleston Navy Yard construction trades 1943; wartime crew 1943-1945 (design complement 329)
- Limitations
- DANFS documents service history and specifications, not materials or asbestos content. DANFS states the ship 'reported to the Pacific Reserve Fleet 24 September 1945' and never recommissioned - it does not state a formal decommissioning date; secondary sources give 24 September 1945 while the ship's own war diary shows her still conducting post-repair trials under a commanding officer through 30 September 1945 (carried in gaps). Transcription mirror cited because the live NHHC page returns 404 to automated fetch.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-paul-hamilton-dd590-01
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[3]USS Paul Hamilton (DD590): war diary, action reports, Oct. 25, 1943 to Sept. 1, 1945 (San Francisco Maritime NHP / J. Porter Shaw Library collection scan of Division of Naval History Ships' Histories Section material and the ship's own war diaries/action reports; Internet Archive identifier PaulHamiltonDD580WarDiary - the identifier's 'DD580' is a typo, contents are DD-590) [other_primary]
- Locator
- War diary September 1945 section (letter dated 1 October 1945, entries for 1-29 and 30 September); Division of Naval History narrative pp.1-5
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Primary-source ship records for this hull: the bound volume combines a Division of Naval History narrative with the ship's own war diaries and action reports. The September 1945 war diary (signed by Lt. Comdr. George F. Dalton, who relieved Comdr. Daniel Carlson 1 September 1945) places the ship at the U.S. Naval Repair Base, San Diego, undergoing routine overhaul per ComDesPac restricted letters, conducting post-repair trials and degaussing calibration 30 September, and reporting 'to the Commander Reserve fleet, Pacific, for duty' on 24 September 1945 - contemporaneous corroboration of the DANFS inactivation entry. The narrative records the ship was in drydock at San Diego when hostilities ended 14 August 1945, and credits her with over 19,000 rounds of 5-inch shore-bombardment fire, four planes downed unassisted, assists on five more, and 83 men rescued from other ships.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1943-1945
- Population
- Wartime crew; Naval Repair Base San Diego yard workers during the July-September 1945 overhaul
- Limitations
- Operational and material-readiness records - a war diary records events and availabilities, not materials content; it documents that a stateside overhaul occurred at a Navy repair facility (July-September 1945) but does not describe insulation, abatement, or any asbestos-relevant work scope. OCR text extraction of the scan; page-level citations approximate.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-paul-hamilton-dd590-02
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[4]DANFS specifications block (Fletcher class, 35 kt) + Fletcher-class profile machinery data (4 Babcock & Wilcox boilers, 2 geared steam-turbine sets, 60,000 shp, 2 shafts; BuShips Ships' Data 1945/navypedia via class-c profile) + Atlas shipyard dataset, Charleston Naval Shipyard record (documented yard-level asbestos products incl. pipe insulation of 5-50% asbestos content and boiler external coatings at 15% asbestos; OSHA 1988 inspection 100361849 with an asbestos-standard citation; yard-linked verdicts Whalen 2014 and Twidwell 2018) [other_primary]
- Locator
- DANFS spec block; shipyards.json record 'charleston-naval-shipyard'; NARA RG19 lead
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Era/yard inference: a WWII Fletcher-class destroyer built in 1943 with a four-boiler/60,000-shp steam plant would have carried period-standard asbestos boiler and steam-line insulation, turbine lagging, gaskets, packing, fireproofing, and deck coverings; builder Charleston Navy Yard is documented at yard level in the Atlas dataset (tier 2), with documented asbestos products including 5-50%-content pipe insulation, 15%-content boiler external coatings, gaskets/packing, and spray-on insulation, plus a 1988 OSHA asbestos-standard citation - though the yard's documented findings substantially postdate this hull's 1943 construction. NARA RG19 'General Information Books' per-vessel material specifications are an unretrieved archival lead for hull-level specs.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1943-1945
- Population
- Charleston Navy Yard construction trades 1943; crew 1943-45
- Limitations
- Class/era and builder-yard inference only - NOT a hull-specific finding. No ship-specific asbestos record exists for DD-590 (see ev-05). The yard-level product and OSHA findings largely postdate this hull's 1943 construction and document yard practice, not materials installed aboard DD-590. Does not quantify material or establish any individual's exposure.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-paul-hamilton-dd590-03
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[5]GAO, Navy Efforts To Protect Workers From Asbestos Exposure, HRD-80-2 (Oct 18, 1979) [gao]
- Locator
- GAO product page HRD-80-2
- Finding type
- gov_survey
- Finding
- GAO documented that the Navy used asbestos insulation extensively aboard ships and did not begin substituting alternative insulation materials until the early 1970s - placing DD-590's construction (1943) and entire commissioned service (1943-1945) inside the documented asbestos-use era.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1979
- Population
- Navy shipyard workers; asbestos program review
- Limitations
- Program-level documentation; supports era context only, not any fact specific to this hull. Full report text not retrieved (gao.gov blocks automated fetch, HTTP 403) - content via product-page description.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-paul-hamilton-dd590-04
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[6]CourtListener API v4 sweep, 2026-09-27: opinions - "USS Paul Hamilton" (2 hits), "Paul Hamilton" AND asbestos (1 hit), "Paul Hamilton" "DDG" (2 hits), "DD-590" / "DD 590" / "DD590" / "aboard the Paul Hamilton" (0 hits); RECAP dockets - "USS Paul Hamilton" (4 dockets). Peoples v. United States, 87 Fed. Cl. 553 (2009) and 101 Fed. Cl. 245 (2011) = docket 63757231/63760164 [court_record]
- Locator
- CourtListener API v4 search results, queries as enumerated; Peoples opinion text via case text confirms 'DDG 60'
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- Zero qualifying asbestos litigation naming this hull located in CourtListener. Every returned hit resolved as a name collision or non-asbestos matter: (a) Peoples v. United States (Fed. Cl. 2009, 2011; opinions + docket), a Naval Reserve officer's military-pay/BCNR case, recites service aboard 'USS Paul Hamilton (DDG 60)' - the Arleigh Burke-class destroyer in commission since 1995, a DIFFERENT hull; (b) United States v. Butler, 9:25-cr-80093 (S.D. Fla., filed 2025), criminal fraud case - 'USS Paul Hamilton' appears in exhibit-list material, not asbestos, and any 2025-era naval reference is consistent with the still-active DDG-60 rather than this hull (scrapped 1970); (c) California Marine Cleaning, Inc. v. United States, 3:22-cv-00741 (S.D. Cal.), a Suits in Admiralty Act ship-servicing contract dispute in which 'USS Paul Hamilton' appears in Navy report exhibits - consistent with the San Diego-homeported DDG-60, not asbestos litigation; (d) Mendoza v. Zirkle Fruit Co. (E.D. Wash. 2004) matched 'Paul Hamilton' only as an attorney surname. No hull-number ('DD-590'/'DD 590'/'DD590') opinion exists.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 2026-09-27
- Limitations
- Sweep covers CourtListener's indexed opinions and RECAP dockets; state-court filings, unindexed federal dockets, and settled/unreported matters are outside coverage. Snippet-level classification for the Butler and California Marine Cleaning dockets (reference context not fully examined); both are non-asbestos matters and any ship reference is consistent with the active DDG-60. No hit named or plausibly implicated DD-590.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-paul-hamilton-dd590-05
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[7]NavSource Naval History, Destroyer Photo Index DD-590 (volunteer-compiled photographic/history index; live fetch failed, content via search index) [other_primary]
- Locator
- navsource.org/archives/05/590.htm - 'Operational and Building Data' block (via search index)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Secondary-compilation disposition data for this hull: NavSource lists USS Paul Hamilton DD-590 decommissioned 24 September 1945, stricken 1 May 1968, and sold 2 April 1970 to National Metal & Steel, Terminal Island, CA, and broken up for scrap - the only located source for the scrapping buyer and date.
- Verification
- unverified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1945-1970
- Limitations
- Volunteer-compiled secondary source, not an official record; live page fetch failed so content rests on the indexed snippet. The sale date/buyer are unverified against a primary source (Navy disposal or MARAD-type records); the 'decommissioned September 24 1945' entry likely conflates 'reported to the Pacific Reserve Fleet' with formal decommissioning - the ship's war diary shows her still conducting trials with a CO aboard 30 September 1945 and command records run to February 1946.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-paul-hamilton-dd590-06