Evidence
7 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-7).
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[1]research packet ih-packet.md (1 sources cited) [nhhc_danfs]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERIFIED
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-peterson-de152-pkt-ih-packet-md
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[2]DANFS, Peterson (DE-152), Vol. 5 pp.273-274 with bracketed addendum citing K. Jack Bauer and Stephen S. Roberts, 'Register of Ships of the U.S. Navy, 1775-1990,' p.225 (verbatim transcription - live NHHC page serves 404; second mirror at losthistory.net/hazegray) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS entry, specifications block + service narrative + bracketed post-1970 addendum
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS record for this hull: laid down 28 February 1943 by Consolidated Steel Corp., Orange, Tex.; launched 15 May 1943, sponsored by Mrs. Lola B. Peterson; commissioned 29 September 1943, Lt. Comdr. Richard F. Rea, USCG, in command (Coast Guard-manned first commission). First convoy voyage New York-Casablanca December 1943-January 1944; ten voyages to British and French ports with Escort Division 22 (on the first, a submarine sank division mate Leopold DE-319); on 16 April 1944 with Gandy (DE-764) and Joyce (DE-317) rescued survivors of the torpedoed tanker Pan Pennsylvania and sank attacker U-550 (Peterson opened fire 1404, fired two shallow-set K-gun depth charges alongside; U-550 surrendered 1409, sank 1430); further convoy voyages to Londonderry, Plymouth, Cherbourg, Liverpool, Le Havre/Southampton, and Greenock through April 1945. Pacific transfer June 1945 (Panama Canal 23 June, Pearl Harbor 16 July); occupation duty - patrol in the Inland Sea off Wakayama 27 September-29 October 1945; arrived Charleston 10 December 1945; inactivation at Jacksonville; placed out of commission in reserve at Green Cove Springs, Fla., 1 May 1946. Recommissioned at Boston Naval Shipyard 2 May 1952, Lt. Comdr. Kay S. Irwin in command; Escort Squadron 10, Newport-Key West-Caribbean, with considerable duty as Fleet Sonar Schoolship at Key West; Bergen/Copenhagen July 1953; Labrador October 1954; Edinburgh/Copenhagen July 1955; Jupiter missile tracking and first successful nose-cone recovery May-August 1957; TF 88.1 NATO maneuvers September-October 1957; Destroyer Escort Squadron Twelve from 1 November 1957; first recovery of a full-size nose cone May 1958; Cuba standby January 1959; Operation Deep Freeze 60 - TF 43 weather/communications/rescue ship on Ocean Weather Station 60 deg S, 170 deg E; Fleet Sonar School training ship 1961-1963; PT-109 film role 1962; Cuban quarantine duty from 22 October 1962; Colombia/Venezuela patrol January 1964; one battle star for WWII service. Bracketed addendum: stricken from the Navy Register 1 August 1973; sold 24 June 1974 (per Bauer & Roberts, Register of Ships, p.225).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1943-1974
- Population
- Consolidated Steel construction trades (1943); USCG-manned wartime crew (1943-46); USN crew (1952-65); design complement 186
- Limitations
- DANFS documents service history and specifications, not materials or asbestos content. Mirror transcriptions cited because the live NHHC page returns 404; the ibiblio transcription carries OCR-type errors (sponsor 'liola' for Lola; '2 May 1962' for the 1952 recommissioning - corroborated as 1952 by the NHHC photo record, NavSource, and NavalCoverMuseum; '1345' for 1945).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-peterson-de152-01
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[3]NavSource Online Destroyer Escort Photo Archive, USS Peterson (DE 152) building/operational data and specifications - including the Department of Defense Bid List entry of 11 June 1974 for scrapping of DE-145 and DE-152 (photo 0615207) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource DE-152 page, 'Building and Operational Data' block + specifications block
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Operational-data record for this hull: FMR-type Edsall class - propulsion 4 Fairbanks-Morse Mod. 38D8-1/8 geared diesel engines with 4 diesel-generators, 6,000 shp, 2 screws; displacement 1,200 tons light / 1,590 full; complement 8 officers / 201 enlisted. Keel laid 28 February 1943; commissioned 29 September 1943 (Lcdr. Richard F. Rea, USCG); U-550 action 16 April 1944; decommissioned Green Cove Springs 1 May 1946 (2 years 7 months service); 1951 SCB-63A ASW upgrade; recommissioned at Boston Naval Shipyard 2 May 1952; Destroyer Escort Squadron 12 at Key West from 1 November 1957; decommissioned at the South Gate Annex, Norfolk Naval Shipyard, Portsmouth, Va., 30 June 1965 (13 years 1 month); struck from the NVR 1 August 1973 (15 years 8 months total); sold for scrapping to Aardvark International Corp., Philadelphia, Pa., 11 June 1974 for $55,916.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1943-1974
- Population
- Crew 1943-46 (USCG) and 1952-65 (USN); shipyard workers at Boston Naval Shipyard (1951-52) and Norfolk Naval Shipyard (1965)
- Limitations
- NavSource is a volunteer-maintained reference archive, not an official Navy record - but its disposal line transcribes a Department of Defense bid-list document, and its key dates are corroborated by DANFS, the NHHC photo record (except the stricken month, see gaps), NavalCoverMuseum, and uboat.net. The complement figure (209) conflicts with the DANFS design complement (186) - DANFS is carried in the record and the conflict is in gaps. One photo caption on the same page misdates the U-550 action '15 April 1944'; the ship's action report (ev-03) and DANFS establish 16 April.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-peterson-de152-02
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[4]USS Peterson (DE-152) commanding officer's action report, 'Anti-Submarine Action by Surface Ship,' 16 April 1944 (CONFIDENTIAL), addressed to Commander in Chief, U.S. Fleet via Commander TG 21.5 - transcribed at uboatarchive.net from the Navy record (NARA RG 38 lineage) [other_primary]
- Locator
- uboatarchive.net, U-550 section, USS Peterson action report (Narrative of Anti-Submarine Action, 16 April 1944)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- The ship's own primary action document for the U-550 engagement survives: Peterson, about 15 miles astern of convoy CU-21 at 1200 GCT 16 April 1944, was ordered to sweep the area around the torpedoed tanker Pan Pennsylvania and pick up survivors; at 1320 the ship stopped to take aboard 22 survivors from a lifeboat and at 1343 took 3 more from a raft; the narrative continues through Joyce's sound contact and depth-charge attack and the surface action that sank U-550 - corroborating the DANFS account with hull-level contemporaneous detail.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1944
- Population
- USCG-manned crew of DE-152, 16 April 1944
- Limitations
- Transcription hosted by a private site (uboatarchive.net); the underlying document is a Navy action report held at NARA - original not retrieved. Documents combat history only; contains no materials or asbestos information and is cited as a verified archival artifact, not as exposure evidence.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-peterson-de152-03
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[5]GAO, Navy Efforts To Protect Workers From Asbestos Exposure, HRD-80-2 (Oct 18, 1979) + DANFS specifications block (Edsall class) + NavSource machinery data (FMR geared-diesel plant) [gao]
- Locator
- GAO HRD-80-2 product page; DANFS DE-152 specifications block; NavSource DE-152 machinery line
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Era/design inference: a 1943-built Edsall-class destroyer escort with an FMR geared-diesel plant (four Fairbanks-Morse diesels, 6,000 shp - no boilers, no steam system) would have carried era-standard asbestos applications appropriate to a diesel-powered escort - exhaust insulation, gaskets and packing, electrical insulation, brake linings, and deck coverings - while the boiler and steam-line lagging categories dominant on steam ships do not apply. GAO HRD-80-2 documents thermal insulation as the Navy's major shipboard asbestos use fleet-wide and records Navy substitution policy for insulation materials beginning only in the early 1970s - after this hull's 1965 decommissioning and 1973 striking. Builder Consolidated Steel Corp. (Orange, Tex.) has no yard-level record in the Atlas shipyards dataset.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1943-1974
- Population
- Consolidated Steel construction trades (1943); Boston Naval Shipyard workers (1951-52 SCB-63A); crews 1943-65
- Limitations
- Class/era and design inference only - NOT a hull-specific finding; no source establishes asbestos content aboard DE-152. The diesel plant narrows the inferred product set relative to steam warships; does not quantify material or establish any individual's exposure. gao.gov serves HTTP 403 to automated fetches - the product-page description was used and the full text remains an open lead.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-peterson-de152-04
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[6]CourtListener API v4 search sweep, 2026-09-28: "USS Peterson" (type=o and type=r), "DE-152" (type=o); Webb v. Baldor Electric Company, No. 1:22-cv-00145-KHJ-MTP (S.D. Miss.), Notice of Removal ECF 1-1 complaint exhibit [court_record]
- Locator
- CourtListener search results; Webb v. Baldor ECF 1-1 p.86 (local OCR of recap/gov.uscourts.mssd.115252.1.1.pdf)
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- No qualifying asbestos litigation names this hull. Exact-name results: 1 opinion - Butler County Bar Ass'n v. Minamyer (Ohio Supreme Court 2011), attorney-discipline name collision; 3 dockets - United States v. Peterson (S.D. Cal. 3:14-cr-03703, criminal, collision); Circuit City Stores, Inc. (Bankr. E.D. Va. 08-35653, ch. 11, collision); Webb v. Baldor Electric Co. (S.D. Miss. 1:22-cv-00145, suit-nature 'P.I.: Asbestos') - OCR review of the 147-page filed complaint exhibit (ECF 1-1 p.86) shows the vessel listed is 'USS PETERSON - DD-969 1974 1977,' the Spruance-class destroyer built at Ingalls Shipbuilding, Pascagoula, consistent with the Mississippi venue - a different hull, non-qualifying for DE-152. Hull-number results: 'DE-152' returned 42 opinion hits and 708 docket hits; every result reviewed is a docket-entry/exhibit-number string collision ('DE 152' = docket entry 152) in unrelated litigation, with no asbestos suit-nature among the reviewed docket hits and no asbestos or naval-vessel context in the opinion hits.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 2011-2025 (litigation window searched)
- Limitations
- Coverage limits: RECAP indexes complaint text only where documents were OCR'd; the 708 'DE-152' docket hits are identifier noise and were not exhaustively reviewed; the 'U.S.S. Peterson' / 'aboard the Peterson' variant queries stood down under fleet-wide pacing and are logged as open items in the search ledger, not negative results. 'Peterson' is a high-collision term (DD-969 served 1977-2004 through the peak asbestos-litigation era; common surname); any future hit requires explicit hull attribution to DE-152.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-peterson-de152-05
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[7]Batch-4063 search ledger (this record): NHHC/DANFS transcriptions and NHHC Online Library photo record; NavSource archive data; uboatarchive.net action-report transcription; USCG Historian's Office pages; CourtListener exact-name and hull-number queries; Atlas shipyards dataset check [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-peterson-de152-01 through sl-uss-peterson-de152-12
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located for DE-152: no hull ACM survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, or docketed asbestos case naming this hull was found in the public sources searched (see search_ledger). None can be generated post-hoc for a hull sold for scrap in 1974; NARA holdings (RG 38 action reports - one located in transcription; RG 19 General Information Books; Boston Naval Shipyard RG 181 work packages) are the open archival path.
- 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 - a 1943 Navy construction would carry era-typical materials. Does not establish that asbestos is or is not present aboard this hull's wreckage fate (scrapped); does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-peterson-de152-06