Evidence
11 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-11).
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[1]research packet gx-packet.md (6 sources cited) [nhhc_danfs]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERIFIED
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-perry-dd844-pkt-gx-packet-md
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[2]DANFS, Perry IV (DD-844) (builder, dates, service narrative through 1970; verbatim transcription - live NHHC page returns 404 at all URL variants) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS entry, specifications block + service narrative (ibiblio HyperWar transcription; identical text at hazegray mirror, Wayback capture 2024-12-04)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS record for this hull: fourth Perry (DD-844); laid down 14 May 1945 by Bath Iron Works Corp., Bath, Maine; launched 25 October 1945, sponsored by Mrs. George Tilton; commissioned 17 January 1946, Comdr. Clyde J. Van Arsdall, Jr., in command. Shakedown off Cuba and plane-guard exercises off Pensacola; departed east coast 12 June 1946 on a nine-month deployment to northern Europe and the Mediterranean (Adriatic, Aegean, Dardanelles-Sea of Marmara-Bosporus patrols); homeported Newport from 8 March 1947; Engineering School Ship for Destroyer Forces, Atlantic Fleet; October 1947 assisted fighting the Mt. Desert Island fire. Mediterranean January 1951 plus British Home Fleet exercises; 3rd Med tour 1952, Engineering School Ship again; Mediterranean January-June 1954 then Gunnery School Ship; early-1956 Suez Canal patrol during the Israel-Arab League crisis. FRAM conversion at Boston Naval Shipyard 29 April 1959-10 May 1960 - 'the first such conversion' - receiving improved living spaces, latest sonar, and ASROC and DASH. August 1960 homeport shift to Mayport, Fla.; Task Group Alpha; Polaris missile tests on the Atlantic Missile Range; Sonar School duties at Key West; May 1966 TF 124 patrol off the Dominican Republic (as printed - see gaps). Departed 11 January 1969 for WestPac; Subic Bay 29 February; Seventh Fleet operations off Vietnam; returned Mayport 3 September 1969; Atlantic Fleet duties into 1970. Specifications block: 2,425 t.; 390'6" l.; 41'1" b.; 18'6" dr.; 35 k.; cpl. 341; 6 5", 16 40mm., 17 20mm., 5 21" tt., 6 dcp.; cl. Gearing.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1945-1970
- Population
- Bath Iron Works construction trades 1945-46; crew 1946-1973 (design complement 341)
- Limitations
- DANFS documents service history and design specifications, not materials or asbestos content. The entry ends in 1970 - decommissioning, striking, and disposal (1973-74) are not covered by this source and rest on secondary indexes. The TF 124 Dominican Republic patrol is printed as May 1966; secondary sources print 1965 - carried as printed and flagged in gaps.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-perry-dd844-01
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[3]Boston National Historical Park Collection (NPS) Boston Naval Shipyard photographs and documents, cataloged in NavSource 'FRAM - Fleet Rehabilitation And Modernization' special feature (NPS Cat. Nos. BOSTS-15405, BOSTS-13352, BOSTS-13943, BOSTS-13948; Boston Naval Shipyard photo series ASF-*) [nps]
- Locator
- NavSource FRAM special feature, USS Perry (DD-844) section - photo caption series July 1959-April 1960 (Wayback capture 2024-05-27)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NPS-held Boston Naval Shipyard photographic record documents this hull's FRAM I conversion in unusual detail: Boston Naval Shipyard assigned lead FRAM yard by 16 February 1959 press release (BOSTS-15405); FRAM the lead story in the 27 February 1959 Boston Naval Shipyard News (BOSTS-13352); conversion schedule sign photographed 1 July 1959 (ASF-3038); aft engine room (B4) work 22 September 1959 (ASF-4481); Dry Dock 5 stern/aerial views 2 October 1959 (ASF-4730); No. 1 stack installation 14 October 1959 (ASF-4895/-4896); Dry Dock 2 stern view 3 November 1959 (ASF-5462); No. 2 stack landed 20 November 1959; Pier 9 West views 1-8 December 1959 (ASF-5879, ASF-6071/-6072); 5-inch mount removal and updated progress schedule at Pier 8, 5 January 1960 (ASF-20); ASROC launcher visible 1 February 1960 (ASF-407); Pier 6 East views March 1960 (ASF-912/-913); final progress photo at Pier 6, 21 March 1960 (ASF-1176); inclining experiment at Pier 6, 4 April 1960 (ASF-1563, -1576, -1578); Boston Harbor underway 6 April 1960.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1959-1960
- Population
- Boston Naval Shipyard trades 1959-60; crew during conversion
- Limitations
- Photographic/caption documentation of the yard event, not materials or asbestos content: the captions describe machinery-space work (aft engine room B4), stack removal/landing, dry docking, and systems installation but do not mention asbestos. The conversion's asbestos scope is era inference, not a documented finding. Captions as transcribed on the NavSource feature page; the underlying prints are held in the Boston NHP collection (archival lead for the full series).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-perry-dd844-02
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[4]NavSource Naval History, Destroyer Photo Index DD-844 USS Perry (operational and building data; secondary compilation) - consistent with Wikipedia and class-profile disposition data; NavalCoverMuseum agrees except a one-day strike/decommissioning date variance [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource DD-844 index 'Operational and Building Data' + 'Fate' lines; NavalCoverMuseum PERRY DD 844 page (date-variant lines)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Secondary vessel index record for this hull: laid down by Bath Iron Works, Bath ME, 14 May 1945; launched 25 October 1945; commissioned 17 January 1946; FRAM upgrade completed May 1960; decommissioned and stricken 1 July 1973; sold 24 June 1974 to Union Minerals & Alloy, New York, for $210,622 and broken up for scrap. Characteristics block: displacement 3,460 t full; 390'6" x 40'10" x 14'4"; 60,000 shp General Electric geared turbines, 2 screws; 36.8 kt; 4,500 nm at 20 kt; crew 336; callsign NBBY.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1945-1974
- Population
- n/a
- Limitations
- Secondary compilations, not primary documents: the decommissioning/strike date (1 July 1973), sale date and price (24 June 1974, $210,622, Union Minerals & Alloy), and several characteristic figures (full-load displacement, 14'4" draft, 36.8 kt, crew 336) are not in the DANFS narrative and are carried on the consistency of multiple indexes; NavalCoverMuseum prints decommissioned 30 June / struck 2 July 1973 - conflict carried in gaps. Scrapper's yard and location undocumented.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-perry-dd844-03
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[5]Neureuther v. Atlas Copco Compressors, LLC et al., No. 3:13-cv-01327-SMY-SCW (S.D. Ill.), Memorandum and Order (Doc. 377, filed 2015-08-27, denying CBS/Westinghouse summary judgment) and Memorandum and Order (Doc. 381, filed 2015-08-28, denying John Crane Inc. summary judgment); case filed 2013-12-20, terminated 2016-01-07 (CourtListener docket 4264509) [court_record]
- Locator
- ECF 377 pp.1-3 (Westinghouse SJ: blowers, insulation lining, Navy asbestos claim); ECF 381 pp.1-3 (John Crane SJ: Crane packing, dust, no respirator, Spear opinion); govinfo package USCOURTS-ilsd-3_13-cv-01327
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- Qualifying asbestos litigation naming this hull at the summary-judgment stage. Plaintiff Charles Neureuther alleged asbestosis from inhaling asbestos fibers during 'his Naval service aboard the USS Perry and in Naval shipyards from August, 1951 to April, 1955' (ECF 9-1 p.3, recited in both orders). In the exposure window the only commissioned USS Perry was DD-844 (prior Perry DMS-17 sunk 13 September 1944; next namesake FFG-7 commissioned 1977). Denying CBS/Westinghouse's motion (Doc. 377), the court recited evidence 'demonstrating the presence of Westinghouse forced draft blowers operating within the fire room in which Plaintiff was assigned while aboard the USS Perry' (ECF 337-1 pp.7,17), that 'Westinghouse concedes that its blowers were installed aboard the ship' (ECF 292 p.8), and deposition testimony that plaintiff 'breathed the dust from working on these blowers when he removed asbestos-containing insulation that lined the side of the blowers with a knife and when he replaced the packing and gaskets on the blowers.' Denying John Crane Inc.'s motion (Doc. 381), the court recited that plaintiff 'replaced or added packing every time a valve leaked,' pulled old packing with a packing puller and 'breathed the dust produced from it,' and 'did not wear a face mask or respirator because the Navy did not have them,' plus industrial-hygienist Jerome Spear's opinion that exposure 'more than likely exceeded, on a routine basis, historical and current occupational exposure standards for asbestos.' Daubert motions against plaintiff's medical expert Dr. Vuskovich were denied (Docs. 364 and 368, Aug. 18/20, 2015; Doc. 368 reported at 2015 WL 4978448 and cited in later case-law commentary).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1951-1955 (alleged exposure); 2013-2016 (litigation)
- Population
- Charles Neureuther, USN sailor assigned to a fire room aboard USS Perry 1951-08 to 1955-04; asbestosis
- Limitations
- Summary-judgment stage, not a trial finding: the orders recite deposition evidence and hold it sufficient to create triable issues defeating summary judgment; exposure aboard this hull was alleged and evidenced to the SJ-sufficiency level but not adjudicated at trial on this record. The case terminated 2016-01-07 - the merits disposition after the SJ denials (settlement or judgment) is not located. Exposure figures, quantities, and total product inventory aboard are not established; the plaintiff's shipboard service is consistent with an independent crew roster (BT rating, 1951) but that roster is non-authoritative and not relied on for the finding.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-perry-dd844-04
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[6]Neureuther v. Atlas Copco Compressors, LLC et al., S.D. Ill. 3:13-cv-01327-SMY-SCW, Docs. 377 and 381 (product identifications in the recited record) [court_record]
- Locator
- ECF 377 pp.2-3 (Westinghouse blowers, Navy insulation claim); ECF 381 p.2 (Crane packing, Style No. 810, Blue Cape asbestos)
- Finding type
- litigation_product_id
- Finding
- Products identified in the litigation record for this hull: (1) Westinghouse forced-draft blowers in the fire room where the plaintiff was assigned - per the recited deposition, he removed 'asbestos-containing insulation that lined the side of the blowers' and replaced their packing and gaskets; Westinghouse conceded its blowers were installed aboard and asserted the Navy 'affirmatively required the use of asbestos insulation' with Westinghouse boilers aboard USS Perry (ECF 292 p.14, a defendant's claim). (2) John Crane Inc. packing - plaintiff recalled working with 'Crane packing' and associating asbestos with it 'because it was written on the container'; the record notes Crane Packing Company (incorporated 1917, renamed John Crane Inc. 1988) marketed 'Style No. 810 Square Braid Asbestos Packing,' 'representative of a series of braided JOHN CRANE packings that include Blue Cape asbestos.'
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1951-1955
- Population
- Boiler tender / fire-room crew, USS Perry 1951-1955
- Limitations
- Product identification rests on the plaintiff's deposition recollection and briefing recitals held sufficient at summary judgment - not adjudicated fact. Whole-ship product inventory, quantities, and insulation systems beyond blowers/packing are not established by this record.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-perry-dd844-05
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[7]CourtListener API v4 sweep, 2026-09-28 (authenticated via cl-auth-search.py; opinion type=o and RECAP docket type=r indexes) [court_record]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-perry-dd844-04 through -08
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- Sweep results: 'USS Perry' opinions 0; 'U.S.S. Perry' opinions 1 - Calmar S.S. Corp. v. United States, 103 F. Supp. 243 (S.D.N.Y. 1951), whose 'U.S.S. Perry' is the earlier minesweeper DMS-17 (escort of the S.S. Portmar's February 1942 Darwin convoy) - name collision, not this hull; 'DD-844' opinions 0; 'aboard USS Perry' and 'aboard the Perry'+asbestos opinions 0. 'USS Perry' RECAP dockets 2: Neureuther v. Atlas Copco Compressors, S.D. Ill. 3:13-cv-01327 (suitNature '368 P.I.: Asbestos' - resolved as qualifying litigation naming this hull via govinfo full texts, ev-04) and United States v. 8,911 Type 56-1 Assault Rifles, D.D.C. 1:23-cv-01951 (civil forfeiture - name collision, not asbestos and not exposure-related). 'DD-844' RECAP dockets 3: In re Asbestos Products Liability Litigation (No. VI), MDL-875 (JPML) - index-level docket-text match whose context is not retrievable from the returned fields; a vessel-list filing reference is plausible but unverified; University of Pittsburgh v. Varian Medical Systems, W.D. Pa. 2:08-cv-01307 (patent - collision); In re Seroquel Products Liability Litigation, M.D. Fla. 6:06-md-01769 (pharmaceutical MDL - collision). Supplemental 'Perry'+asbestos+Navy+destroyer opinion screen: 2 hits, both name collisions - Corley v. Long-Lewis (N.D. Ala. 2010) and Crocker v. Borden (E.D. La. 1994), matched on counsel firm 'Forman, Perry, Watkins & Krutz', not the ship.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 2026-09-28 (index coverage to date)
- Population
- n/a
- Limitations
- The sweep locates one qualifying case (Neureuther, ev-04) and screens the principal collisions. It does not prove the absence of other filings: state-court complaints, settled MDL-875 claimant records, and vessel lists in unindexed filings do not surface in these indexes.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-perry-dd844-06
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[8]Consolidated era inference - DANFS specifications block (Gearing class, 2,425 t, 35 kt) + Atlas shipyard dataset records 'bath-iron-works' (tier 2; OSHA Inspection 101450294, 1987 asbestos-standard citations) and 'boston-naval-shipyard' (tier 3) + destroyerhistory.org Gearing-class FRAM documentation [other_primary]
- Locator
- DANFS specifications block; shipyards.json records 'bath-iron-works', 'boston-naval-shipyard'; destroyerhistory.org/sumner-gearingclass/gearingclass/
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Era/design inference: a Gearing-class destroyer built 1945-46 at Bath Iron Works with a four-boiler superheated steam plant and 60,000-shp General Electric geared turbines would have carried period-standard asbestos insulation, lagging, gaskets, packing, fireproofing, and deck coverings - boiler casing and fireroom insulation, steam-line lagging, turbine lagging, valve and flange gaskets/packing, and accommodation insulation. Builder Bath Iron Works is documented at yard level in the Atlas dataset (evidence tier 2, including 1987 OSHA asbestos-standard citations). The documented yard event for this hull - the 1959-60 Boston Naval Shipyard FRAM I conversion, photographed down to aft-engine-room and stack work - was a machinery-disturbance event under era practice.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1945-1974
- Population
- Bath Iron Works construction trades 1945-46; crew 1946-1973; Boston Naval Shipyard trades 1959-60
- Limitations
- Class/era and builder-yard inference only - supplements, but does not substitute for, the ship-specific litigation findings (ev-04, ev-05) and adds nothing about total materials aboard. FRAM asbestos scope for this hull is not documented.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-perry-dd844-07
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[9]Goodrich v. Air & Liquid Systems Corp., Omnibus Opinion and Order, ECF No. 171, E.D. Va. No. 4:17-cv-00009 (Sept. 28, 2018) [court_record]
- Locator
- Omnibus opinion pp. 12, 19, 31 (per class-profile review of ECF 171 OCR)
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- A published federal omnibus opinion recites class-level material evidence covering this hull's design family: 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)' specifying 'amosite felts and asbestos cloths,' and an expert report's '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' of 30.3 tons. DD-844 is a Gearing-class member, so the recited class evidence brackets its design family - and is consistent with this hull's Neureuther record of asbestos-insulated Westinghouse forced-draft blowers in the fire room. Name-collision caveat: the case is captioned for plaintiff Goodrich - no ship is a party; the exposure vessels recited are USS Harlan R. Dickson (DD-708) and USS Corry (DD-817), not this hull.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1940s design era; opinion filed 2018-09-28
- Population
- Destroyer fire/engine-room crews (class context); litigation expert materials
- Limitations
- Litigation-record recital, not an adjudicated classwide finding: the drawing covers the Sumner DD-692 design group whose machinery the Gearing lengthening retained, and the 30.3-ton figure is an expert partial tally for fire/engine rooms - not a whole-ship inventory and not specific to this hull. The opinion treated some related exposure conclusions as speculative; underlying exhibits (drawing, expert report) not retrieved from RECAP.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-perry-dd844-08
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[10]GAO, Navy Efforts To Protect Workers From Asbestos Exposure, HRD-80-2 (Oct 18, 1979) [gao]
- Locator
- GAO product page HRD-80-2 (full text blocked to automated fetch)
- Finding type
- gov_survey
- Finding
- GAO documented the Navy's asbestos-protection program: standing policy from 1975 removed asbestos insulation only when damaged or when required for repairs, modified in 1979 to selective replacement in high-maintenance areas - meaning original-era insulation typically remained in place for decades unless a yard period disturbed it. Context for this hull's 1959-60 FRAM I conversion and pre-1973 service era.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1979
- Population
- Navy shipyard workers; Navy asbestos program review
- Limitations
- Program-level documentation, not hull- or class-specific. Full text not retrieved (gao.gov returns HTTP 403 to automated fetch); content via product-page description. Supports era context only - establishes nothing about materials aboard this ship.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-perry-dd844-09
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[11]Batch-3811 search ledger (this record): NHHC live DANFS; ibiblio HyperWar and hazegray (Wayback) DANFS mirrors; NavSource DD-844 index + FRAM special feature (Wayback); NavalCoverMuseum; CourtListener v4 opinion + RECAP sweeps; govinfo USCOURTS package; GAO product page [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-perry-dd844-01 through -12
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No physical documentation of asbestos aboard this hull was located: no asbestos survey, abatement contract, ACM inventory, bulk-sampling result, or hazmat disclosure names USS Perry (DD-844) in the public sources searched (see search_ledger). The ship-specific record is litigation-stage only (ev-04, ev-05); a formal materials survey remains unlocated.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 2026-09-28
- Limitations
- Absence of a located survey/abatement record does not prove absence of asbestos aboard - the Neureuther litigation record and era construction make period insulation documented to the SJ-sufficiency level and otherwise ship-unproven at survey level. Establishes or defeats no claim of individual exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-perry-dd844-10