USS PERKINS (DD-877)

Evidence

14 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-14).

1. [1]research packet hb-packet.md (4 sources cited) [nhhc_danfs]

   Finding type

   vessel_history

   Finding

   Identity packet verdict: VERIFIED (with one flagged date variance)

   Verification

   verified

   Role

   supporting

   Documentation level

   ship_specific

   Evidence ID

   uss-perkins-dd877-pkt-hb-packet-md

2. [2]Guthrie v. General Electric Company et al., No. 3:07-cv-02542-SI (N.D. Cal.; 28:1332 diversity asbestos personal injury), Complaint Exhibit A, ECF No. 1-1 (filed 2007-05-14), 37 pp. [court_record]

   Locator

   ECF No. 1-1 Exhibit A pp. 6-7 (exposure table + job-duties narrative), gov.uscourts.cand.192016.1.1.pdf via Internet Archive RECAP mirror (text-layer PDF; verbatim text cross-checked against FindForms transcription)

   Finding type

   litigation_documented

   Finding

   Qualifying asbestos litigation naming this hull at pleading stage: the complaint's Exhibit A exposure list states plaintiff James Guthrie, a U.S. Navy Boiler Tender, served aboard 'USS PERKINS (DD-877)' at Hunters Point Naval Shipyard, San Francisco, CA, 30 October 1969 - 31 July 1972; the narrative alleges he 'served on the ship from Oct. 30, 1969 - July 31, 1972,' was 'aboard this ship while it was in drydock for 6-8 months before going to Vietnam,' 'participating in military exercises in Vietnam aboard the USS PERKINS from July 1970 - Feb. 1971,' and that his duties included 'removing and replacing asbestos insulation when rebuilding the 3 or 5 boiler valves that were on each boiler, replacing gaskets on valves and pumps and stripping insulation off bolts and flanges,' with lagging 'attached to pipes and valves with wire,' scrap asbestos insulation reused on flanges and 'coated with insulating cement.' A collective materials list for 'all three ships while in the Navy' (Perkins, USS Uhlmann DD-687, USS Samuel Gompers AD-37) names asbestos pads, pipes, blocks, cement, spiral-ring gaskets, hand-hole and man-hole gaskets, flange-ring gaskets, packing for valves and pumps, pipe coverings, rope, lagging, and insulation pads. Hull attribution is explicit - DD-877 is named. Case transferred to MDL-875 (E.D. Pa. transferee docket 2:09-cv-64024 per the JPML/N.D. Cal. transfer schedule) and terminated 2012-09-26.

   Verification

   verified

   Role

   supporting

   Documentation level

   ship_specific

   Accessed

   2026-09-28

   Study period

   1969-1972 (alleged exposure window incl. Hunters Point drydock and Vietnam deployment); 2007-2012 (litigation)

   Population

   James Guthrie (plaintiff; USN Boiler Tender aboard DD-877 1969-10-30 to 1972-07-31 per pleading; diagnosed asbestosis November 2001)

   Limitations

   Pleading-stage allegation - never adjudicated: the exposure narrative is the plaintiff's own recital in a complaint exhibit, not a court finding; no merits disposition located (case transferred to MDL-875; terminated 2012). The detailed duty narrative is Perkins-specific, but the closing materials list is collective across three Navy ships and does not identify manufacturers or product brands installed aboard this hull; the 6-8 month Hunters Point drydock rests solely on this pleading (no yard record located). Does not establish causation or quantify exposure.

   Atlas source

   true

   Evidence ID

   ev-uss-perkins-dd877-01

3. [3]Hewitt et al. v. Allis Chalmers Corporation Product Liability Trust et al., No. 3:07-cv-03474-SI (N.D. Cal.), Notice of Removal, ECF No. 1 (filed 2007-07-03), 30 pp. scanned PDF [court_record]

   Locator

   Notice of Removal ECF No. 1 p.3 (allegation recital) and Exhibit B p.26 (jobsite list), gov.uscourts.cand.193712.1.0.pdf via Internet Archive RECAP mirror; local OCR (tesseract, 300 dpi)

   Finding type

   litigation_documented

   Finding

   Qualifying asbestos litigation naming this hull at pleading stage: the defendant's Notice of Removal recites that '[i]n Plaintiffs' Preliminary Fact Sheet, Plaintiffs state that, sometime between 1955 and 1968, while employed as a Machinist Mate for the U.S. Navy, Decedent Ronald Hewitt was exposed to asbestos aboard the following U.S. Navy ships: the USS ASHTABULA (AO-51), USS AJAX (AR-6), USS EPPERSON (DD-719), USS PERKINS (DD-817), and the USS SHIELD (DD-596).' The attached Exhibit B fact sheet's jobsite list prints 'USS Perkins DD-877' alongside 'NAS-Kingsville, TX.' Within-document inconsistency: the recital prints the Perkins hull number as 'DD-817' (which is USS Corry, a Gearing-class sister) while the fact sheet prints 'DD-877' - carried as written, with DD-877 treated as the intended attribution because the exhibit is the underlying document. The case was removed from San Francisco County Superior Court (CGC-06-449838) by defendant Todd Shipyards Corporation and transferred to MDL-875 (E.D. Pa.) on 2007-08-29.

   Verification

   verified

   Role

   supporting

   Documentation level

   ship_specific

   Accessed

   2026-09-28

   Study period

   1955-1968 (alleged exposure window); 2006-2007 (litigation)

   Population

   Ronald Hewitt (decedent, USN Machinist Mate 1955-1968, multi-vessel exposure allegation); survivors Jo Gunter Hewitt, Susan Simpson, Rhonda Knight

   Limitations

   Pleading-stage allegation recited in a removal notice - never adjudicated: no court made a finding of exposure aboard this hull, and merits proceeded (if at all) in MDL-875 after the 2007-08-29 transfer. The five-vessel, 1955-1968 window list is not apportioned among vessels and identifies no dates, tasks, or products specific to this hull. Hull-number inconsistency between the recital ('DD-817') and the exhibit ('DD-877') is carried as a documented defect, not reconciled. Document is a scanned PDF verified by local OCR - residual transcription risk exists on secondary details.

   Atlas source

   true

   Evidence ID

   ev-uss-perkins-dd877-02

4. [4]In re: Asbestos Products Liability Litigation (No. VI), MDL No. 875 (Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation), Notices of Potential Tag-Along ECF Nos. 6718-3 and 7225-3, attaching complaint Exhibit A of Hilt et al. v. C.C. Moore & Co. Engineers et al. (N.D. Cal. 4:10-cv-05844) / Hilt et al. v. Foster Wheeler LLC (N.D. Cal. 3:11-cv-02367) [court_record]

   Locator

   gov.uscourts.jpml.375294.6718.3.pdf p.23 and gov.uscourts.jpml.375294.7225.3.pdf p.23 (identical Exhibit A vessel-list page in both attachments) via Internet Archive RECAP mirror; complaint caption and Exhibit A verified against both PDFs

   Finding type

   litigation_documented

   Finding

   Qualifying asbestos litigation naming this hull at pleading stage: heirs of Robert Hilt (deceased 21 August 2010) prosecuted a survival/wrongful-death asbestos complaint whose Exhibit A vessel list - under employer 'Hunters Point Naval Shipyard, San Francisco, CA' (job titles 'Laborer' 1965 and 'Marine Machinist (Helper)' 1966-1972) - lists 'PERKINS (DD-877; DDR-877)' as an exposure location, exposure dates 1965-1972, one row among ~60 named vessels and shore sites. The identical complaint and Exhibit A appear as attachments to two 'Notice of Potential Tag-Along' filings in the MDL-875 master docket (JPML 375294): ECF No. 6718-3 (filed 2011-02-09, 46 pp., attaching the N.D. Cal. docket sheet of Hilt et al. v. C.C. Moore & Co. Engineers et al., No. 4:10-cv-05844-CW, removed from San Francisco Superior CGC-10-275703) and ECF No. 7225-3 (filed 2011-05-17, 27 pp., attaching the docket sheet of Hilt et al. v. Foster Wheeler LLC, No. 3:11-cv-02367-WHA) - same decedent, same Exhibit A list.

   Verification

   verified

   Role

   supporting

   Documentation level

   ship_specific

   Accessed

   2026-09-28

   Study period

   1965-1972 (alleged exposure window); 2010-2011 (litigation and tag-along notices)

   Population

   Robert Hilt (decedent, d. 2010-08-21; Hunters Point NSY Laborer 1965 / Marine Machinist Helper 1966-1972 per pleading); heirs Geraldine Hilt, Sherlyn Hilt, Darphine Roland, Krishna Tindall, Kimberly Crawford

   Limitations

   Pleading-stage allegation - never adjudicated: the vessel list is the plaintiffs' own complaint exhibit, not a court finding, and JPML tag-along processing is administrative, not merits review. 'PERKINS (DD-877; DDR-877)' is one row in a ~60-line exposure list under a single Hunters Point employment heading - no dates, tasks, or products are apportioned to this specific hull, and the list does not establish the decedent set foot aboard versus worked in the same yard. Identifies no manufacturers or product brands. Scanned PDFs verified by local OCR (tesseract, 200 dpi) - residual transcription risk on secondary details.

   Atlas source

   true

   Evidence ID

   ev-uss-perkins-dd877-03

5. [5]DANFS, Perkins III (DD-877) - live NHHC page returned 404 on 2026-09-28; verbatim text retrieved via Wayback capture 20250202220144 of the canonical NHHC URL (page published 2015-08-19) [nhhc_danfs]

   Locator

   DANFS Perkins III entry, specifications block + service narrative (namesake bio on same page); Wayback capture https://web.archive.org/web/20250202220144/https://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/p/perkins-iii.html

   Finding type

   vessel_history

   Finding

   DANFS record for this hull: third Perkins, named for Commodore George Hamilton Perkins (1835-1899, Civil War service under Farragut); laid down 19 June 1944 by Consolidated Steel Corp., Ltd., Orange, Tex.; launched 7 December 1944; sponsored by Mrs. Larz Anderson; commissioned 5 April 1945, Comdr. T. M. Fleck in command. Post-shakedown radar-picket conversion at Norfolk Navy Yard (1945); Pacific via Pearl Harbor (DesDiv 52); Tokyo Bay on surrender day 2 September 1945; TF 38. China station May-October 1947 (two weeks off Chinwangtao); Operation Sandstone atomic tests January 1948; Tsingtao arrival 7 February 1949, redesignated DDR-877 on the 18th; evacuated foreign residents Tsingtao-to-Hong Kong May 1949. Korea: February 1951 deployment, TF 77 screening/plane guard + TF 95 gunfire support/shore bombardment March-September 1951; June 1952 return, bombline July, Taiwan Patrol, then Kojo 15 October 1952 - two near misses from shore batteries killed one crewman and wounded seventeen. Six-month overhaul completed July 1953; 7th Fleet/1st Fleet rotation; IGY weather-balloon work July 1956; Laotian-crisis TF 77 September 1959. March 1962 entered Long Beach Naval Shipyard for FRAM; redesignated DD-877 30 September; emerged December 1962 Mark II conversion with DASH-configured superstructure. Annual WestPac deployments resumed October 1963 (first mission with carrier Hancock, South China Sea); through 1970 TF 77 screening/plane guard, naval gunfire support, and interdiction of North Vietnamese logistics craft off Vietnam. Specs: dp. 3,479 (f.); 390'6" x 40'10"; dr. 18'6"; 35 kt; cpl. 345; 6 x 5", 12 x 40mm, 5 x 21" tt., 6 dcp., 2 dct.; class Gearing. Three Korean War battle stars.

   Verification

   verified

   Role

   supporting

   Documentation level

   ship_specific

   Accessed

   2026-09-28

   Study period

   1944-1970 (DANFS coverage)

   Population

   Consolidated Steel construction trades 1944-45; wartime and postwar crew (design complement 345); Norfolk Navy Yard conversion workers 1945; overhaul and FRAM yard workers (yard unnamed 1953; Long Beach NSY 1962)

   Limitations

   DANFS documents service history and specifications, not materials or asbestos content. The entry narrative ends about 1970 and predates this hull's 1973 decommissioning/transfer - post-1970 events carried from secondary compilations (ev-05). Commissioned date conflict: DANFS '5 April 1945' vs NavSource/Wikipedia '4 April 1945' (es.wikipedia '7 April 1945') - DANFS carried, conflict logged in gaps. Live NHHC page 404 = standing link-rot issue noted since batch-01; Wayback capture of the live page used.

   Atlas source

   true

   Evidence ID

   ev-uss-perkins-dd877-04

6. [6]NavSource Naval History, Destroyer Photo Index DD-877/DDR-877 USS Perkins (building data, CO list, disposition) + Navypedia PY destroyer (D27) entry + es.wikipedia ARA Py (D-27) citing Argentine decrees [other_primary]

   Locator

   NavSource DD-877 index operational/building data block + fate line; navypedia.org/ships/argentina/arg_dd_py.htm; es.wikipedia ARA Py (D-27) (underlying sources: Argentine Decreto 9195 'S'/1972, JEOR 3FE N.1 'S'/73)

   Finding type

   vessel_history

   Finding

   Disposition and data points postdating the DANFS entry, consistent across secondary compilations: completed FRAM upgrade November 1962 (NavSource; DANFS reads 'emerged ... in December'); decommissioned and stricken 15 January 1973; transferred to Argentina the same day and renamed ARA Comodoro Py (D-27) - the fifth Argentine ship named for Comodoro de Marina Luis Py (1819-1884); stricken from Argentine service 1984; sunk as a target 15 June 1987 by an SST-4 torpedo fired by the TR-1700-class submarine ARA Santa Cruz (S-41) at approx. 39 deg 15 min S, 57 deg 00 min W off Mar del Plata (towed to the sink site by the aviso ARA Comandante General Irigoyen A-1, per es.wikipedia's citation of Argentine records incl. Decreto 9195 'S' of 27 December 1972 authorizing acquisition).

   Verification

   verified

   Role

   supporting

   Documentation level

   ship_specific

   Accessed

   2026-09-28

   Study period

   1962-1987

   Population

   Argentine Navy crew 1973-1984; target-towing and weapons crews June 1987

   Limitations

   Secondary-compilation data - no primary U.S. register record located: the Naval Vessel Register does not cover pre-1987 disposals (page returned navigation shell only). Argentine-service particulars (1984 strike, 1987 sinking detail) rest on NavSource/Navypedia/es.wikipedia consistency, not Argentine primary documents retrieved this session; es.wikipedia's internal 'radiado en 1987' vs 'baja 1984' variance is logged in gaps.

   Atlas source

   true

   Evidence ID

   ev-uss-perkins-dd877-05

7. [7]Armada Argentina official site (argentina.gob.ar/armada): 'La flota de mar' (Gesta de Malvinas), 'Operacion Rosario,' 'Ataque al aviso ARA Alferez Sobral,' and 'Comodoro de Marina Luis Py' pages [other_primary]

   Locator

   argentina.gob.ar/armada/gesta-de-malvinas/la-flota-de-mar (FTA 40 order of battle) and /armada/ataque-al-aviso-ara-alferez-sobral (escort passage)

   Finding type

   vessel_history

   Finding

   Official Argentine Navy (Armada Argentina) government pages confirm this hull's Argentine service: ARA 'Comodoro Py' is listed among the destroyers of Fuerza de Tareas 40 for Operacion Rosario (the April 1982 Malvinas/Falklands landing) alongside ARA Hercules, Santisima Trinidad, Segui, Piedra Buena and Bouchard, assigned maritime-control patrols; a second official page records Comodoro Py escorting the damaged aviso ARA Alferez Sobral to Puerto Deseado after the May 1982 attack. A third official page documents the namesake, Comodoro de Marina Luis Py.

   Verification

   verified

   Role

   supporting

   Documentation level

   ship_specific

   Accessed

   2026-09-28

   Study period

   1982

   Population

   Argentine Navy crew, Malvinas campaign 1982

   Limitations

   Official Argentine government source confirms this hull's 1982 Malvinas campaign participation and namesake - it does not address construction materials, asbestos content, or the 1987 sinking detail. Confirms continued operational service of the former DD-877 hull into the 1982 war.

   Atlas source

   true

   Evidence ID

   ev-uss-perkins-dd877-06

8. [8]United States ex rel. Vatan v. QTC Medical Services, Inc. et al., No. 2:14-cv-08961-PA-SS (C.D. Cal.), First Amended Complaint, ECF No. 18 (filed 2015-09-08), Exhibit 2 (VA ship list) [court_record]

   Locator

   ECF No. 18 Exhibit 2 p.128 of 332 (table page; vessel column entry 'USS Perkins (DD-877)'), gov.uscourts.cacd.604497.18.0.pdf via Internet Archive RECAP mirror

   Finding type

   historical_record

   Finding

   Non-asbestos litigation containing a ship-specific service record: the 332-page first amended qui tam complaint's Exhibit 2 reproduces the VA/DVA-style list of Navy vessels with qualifying in-country Vietnam service (inland-waterway or docked-to-shore operations for herbicide-exposure presumption), including the entry 'USS Perkins (DD-877)' in the table 'Vessels that operated temporarily on Vietnam's inland waterways or docked to the shore' - column-matched description 'Operated on Saigon River during June 1969.'

   Verification

   verified

   Role

   context

   Documentation level

   ship_specific

   Accessed

   2026-09-28

   Study period

   1969 (service fact); 2015 (exhibit filing)

   Population

   Crew aboard during June 1969 Saigon River operations

   Limitations

   The litigation itself (a False Claims Act medical-services qui tam) is unrelated to asbestos - this row documents the vessel list's ship-specific service fact (Saigon River operations June 1969, qualifying brown-water service under VA herbicide rules) only and is not asbestos-exposure evidence. PDF text-layer extraction splits the two-column table - the 'Saigon River during June 1969' description is matched by row order, not by explicit row join.

   Atlas source

   true

   Evidence ID

   ev-uss-perkins-dd877-07

9. [9]DANFS Perkins III service narrative (yard events); Atlas shipyard dataset shipyards.json records (norfolk-naval-shipyard, long-beach-naval-shipyard, hunters-point-naval-shipyard); Gearing-class profile (class-f/gearing-class.class.json) [other_primary]

   Locator

   DANFS Perkins III narrative (Norfolk 1945; LBNSY FRAM 1962); shipyards.json yard_id records; Guthrie ECF 1-1 pp. 6-7

   Finding type

   asbestos_application

   Finding

   Era/yard inference: this hull is a Gearing-class destroyer (14-foot hull-plug lengthening of the Allen M. Sumner design, same machinery group) built June 1944-April 1945 at Consolidated Steel Corp., Orange, Tex., with a four-boiler superheated steam plant (60,000 shp) - a period-standard asbestos fit (boiler and turbine insulation, steam-line lagging, gaskets, packing, fireproofing, deck coverings) under the Navy's asbestos-specification era. DANFS-documented yard events with insulation-disturbance potential under era practice: Norfolk Navy Yard radar-picket conversion 1945; six-month overhaul completed July 1953 (yard unstated in DANFS); Long Beach Naval Shipyard FRAM Mark II March-December 1962; the Guthrie pleading (ev-01) alleges a 6-8 month Hunters Point Naval Shipyard drydock circa 1969-70. Atlas yard dataset records: norfolk-naval-shipyard tier 2, long-beach-naval-shipyard tier 1 (1979 chest x-ray survey of 6,640 workers: 16.0% asbestos-related radiographic abnormalities), hunters-point-naval-shipyard tier 3 (documented asbestos products incl. thermal insulation for piping and boilers, gaskets, pipe lagging). Builder yard Consolidated Steel (Orange, TX) is ABSENT from the Atlas yard dataset - logged in gaps.

   Verification

   inferred

   Role

   supporting

   Documentation level

   class_or_era

   Accessed

   2026-09-28

   Study period

   1944-1973

   Population

   Consolidated Steel construction trades 1944-45; Norfolk Navy Yard 1945; Long Beach NSY 1962; Hunters Point NSY 1969-70 (alleged); crew 1945-1973

   Limitations

   Class/era and builder-yard inference only - no source names specific asbestos products aboard this hull except the unadjudicated pleading allegations (ev-01, ev-02). Yard-dataset records are yard-level documentation, not hull records; FRAM asbestos scope aboard DD-877 is inference (no work package retrieved). The Hunters Point drydock rests solely on the Guthrie pleading.

   Atlas source

   true

   Evidence ID

   ev-uss-perkins-dd877-08

10. [10]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 at program level that the Navy used asbestos insulation extensively aboard ships and did not begin substituting alternative insulation materials until the early 1970s - spanning this hull's entire U.S. service life (construction 1944-45, radar-picket conversion 1945, FRAM II 1962, decommissioning January 1973).

    Verification

    verified

    Role

    context

    Documentation level

    class_or_era

    Accessed

    2026-09-28

    Study period

    1979 (report); hull era 1944-1973

    Population

    Navy and shipyard workers (program context)

    Limitations

    Program-level documentation; supports era context only, does not establish asbestos content of this hull. Full text not retrieved - gao.gov blocks automated fetch (HTTP 403); description via product page, consistent with prior batches' use of the same product-page citation.

    Atlas source

    true

    Evidence ID

    ev-uss-perkins-dd877-09

11. [11]Goodrich v. Air & Liquid Systems Corp., Omnibus Opinion and Order, ECF No. 171, E.D. Va. No. 4:17-cv-00009 (Sept. 28, 2018) - as documented in the Atlas Gearing-class profile (class-f/gearing-class.class.json, ev-gearing-class-04) [court_record]

    Locator

    Goodrich ECF No. 171 omnibus opinion recital (via CourtListener docket 6360247); Atlas class profile ev-gearing-class-04

    Finding type

    litigation_documented

    Finding

    Class-level litigation recital covering the class to which this hull belongs: the Goodrich omnibus opinion recites that 'an engineering drawing for the insulation and lagging of forced draft blower turbines for the class of destroyers (DD 692, USS Allen M. Sumner class), within which the USS Harlan Dickson fell, specifies the use of amosite felts and asbestos cloths' and quotes a report estimating 'a partial tally of the weight of the asbestos-containing thermal insulation and lagging products in the fire ... and engine rooms of a ship belonging to the USS Allen M. Sumner (DD 692) and USS Gearing (DD 710) classes of destroyers is 30.3 tons.' DD-877 is a Gearing-class hull built on the lengthened Sumner-derived machinery plant.

    Verification

    verified

    Role

    context

    Documentation level

    class_or_era

    Accessed

    2026-09-28

    Study period

    1944-1949 (construction era); 2018 (opinion)

    Population

    Sumner/Gearing-class engineering crews and yard workers (class context)

    Limitations

    Litigation-record recital of an expert report and a Navy engineering drawing - not an adjudicated classwide finding: the drawing covers the Sumner-class machinery group shared by Gearing; the 30.3-ton figure is an expert partial tally for fire/engine rooms, not a ship inventory, and the opinion treats some related exposure conclusions as speculative. Does not establish asbestos presence or exposure aboard this specific hull.

    Atlas source

    true

    Evidence ID

    ev-uss-perkins-dd877-10

12. [12]CourtListener API v4 authenticated searches via cl-auth-search.py (fleet-paced), 2026-09-28: "USS Perkins" type=o; "USS Perkins" type=r; "DD-877" type=r; attempted "DD-877" type=o and "DDR-877" type=o/r (pacing-blocked) [court_record]

    Locator

    CourtListener API v4 search endpoint + archive.org RECAP mirrors (gov.uscourts.cand.192016.1.1; gov.uscourts.cand.193712.1.0; gov.uscourts.cacd.604497.18.0; gov.uscourts.cacd.702384.50.0; gov.uscourts.jpml.375294.6718.3; gov.uscourts.jpml.375294.7225.3)

    Finding type

    litigation_documented

    Finding

    CourtListener sweep for this hull, classified: "USS Perkins" opinions = 0 (verified - no published opinion names this hull verbatim). "USS Perkins" dockets = 3: two qualifying asbestos dockets resolved in full text via Internet Archive RECAP mirrors (Guthrie - ev-01, text-layer PDF; Hewitt - ev-02, scanned/OCR) and one non-asbestos docket containing a VA vessel-list exhibit naming DD-877 (QTC Medical - ev-07). "DD-877" dockets = 7: Guthrie and QTC (duplicates of the name hits); the MDL-875 JPML master docket, whose match resolved on full-text/OCR review to Hilt tag-along complaint exhibits listing this hull (ev-03, qualifying); and four non-ship string collisions (Furstenberg Finance SAS v. Litai Assets, 11th Cir. 16-15664; In re Energy Future Holdings, Bankr. D. Del. 14-10979; Spindler v. City of Los Angeles, C.D. Cal. 2:16-cv-05655; In re Seroquel Products Liability Litigation, M.D. Fla. 6:06-md-01769 - none asbestos, none this vessel). Queries still blocked by the exhausted shared fleet pacing budget: "DD-877" opinions and "DDR-877" dockets + opinions - residual limitations, not results. Separately, the Siegfried v. 3M Co. (C.D. Cal. 2:18-cv-01575, ECF No. 50, ~45-vessel exposure list) was reviewed in full via the RECAP mirror: USS Perkins / DD-877 NOT listed - a verified non-hit. Collision discipline: 'Perkins' is a common surname and product line (Perkins engines); only exact-phrase 'USS Perkins' and hull-number queries treated as ship-bearing. Web-level collision check: Perkins v. United States (W.D. Wash. 3:22-cv-05701, 2024 findings) is an asbestos FTCA case whose PLAINTIFF is named Perkins (Puget Sound Naval Shipyard exposure) - surname collision, not this vessel.

    Verification

    verified

    Role

    negative_finding

    Documentation level

    ship_specific

    Accessed

    2026-09-28

    Study period

    2026-09-28

    Limitations

    Litigation coverage is limited to CourtListener-indexed state/federal opinions and federal dockets; unindexed state trial-court filings and settled MDL-875 claimant records are not covered. Un-run queries ('DD-877' opinion level; 'DDR-877' docket and opinion levels) remain open leads blocked by fleet pacing, logged in the search ledger - additional records naming this hull only as DDR-877 may exist. No search can prove the absence of all possible litigation.

    Atlas source

    true

    Evidence ID

    ev-uss-perkins-dd877-11

13. [13]Search record compiled in search_ledger rows sl-uss-perkins-dd877-01 through sl-uss-perkins-dd877-12 [other_primary]

    Locator

    search_ledger (this record)

    Finding type

    historical_record

    Finding

    No non-litigation ship-specific asbestos record located: no hull ACM survey, abatement contract, transfer/disposal hazmat disclosure, NVR entry (pre-1987 disposal not covered), or museum record was found in the public sources searched. The hull was expended as an Argentine Navy target in June 1987 - no surviving structure, no MARAD custody, and no donation condition report channel exists.

    Verification

    verified

    Role

    negative_finding

    Documentation level

    ship_specific

    Accessed

    2026-09-28

    Study period

    2026-09-28

    Limitations

    The ship-specific record is litigation-only: three verified pleading-stage allegations name this hull (ev-01, ev-02, ev-03). Absence of a located survey/abatement record does not prove absence of asbestos aboard - a 1944-45 steam plant is era-consistent with asbestos insulation, and the ship passed through documented yard periods (Norfolk 1945, Long Beach FRAM 1962) where era practice disturbed insulation.

    Atlas source

    true

    Evidence ID

    ev-uss-perkins-dd877-12

14. [14]NARA catalog record (DPLA-indexed): 'Perkins (DD-877) - November 1966,' Records of the Bureau of Naval Personnel, Logbooks of U.S. Navy Ships and Stations (catalog.archives.gov/id/174446788); NARA asbestos research guide (archives.gov/research/military/navy/guided-topics/asbestos) [other_primary]

    Locator

    DPLA item 378b0c56067251ffbf8974c4d26856dd -> NARA id 174446788; archives.gov guided-topic page

    Finding type

    historical_record

    Finding

    Archival leads not yet pulled: (1) NARA Bureau of Naval Personnel logbooks series holds DD-877 deck logs (e.g., catalog.archives.gov/id/174446788, Perkins DD-877 November 1966 - digitization status unverified; series exists per DPLA/NARA catalog); (2) NARA RG 19 Bureau of Ships records and the NARA asbestos research guide's documented correspondence coverage (through 1961) bracket this hull's construction and early-service era - General Information Books / contract specifications may hold Consolidated Steel material specs; (3) Long Beach Naval Shipyard FRAM Mark II work-package records for the March-December 1962 conversion are the ship-specific asbestos-scope lead.

    Verification

    unverified

    Role

    archival_lead

    Documentation level

    ship_specific

    Accessed

    2026-09-28

    Limitations

    Leads only - none of these records was retrieved or reviewed; their content on this hull's materials is unknown and cannot be presumed.

    Atlas source

    true

    Evidence ID

    ev-uss-perkins-dd877-13