Evidence
10 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-10).
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[1]research packet ie-packet.md (3 sources cited) [nhhc_danfs]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERIFIED. — real identity: USS Pope; hull DE-134; destroyer escort, Edsall class.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-pope-de134-pkt-ie-packet-md
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[2]DANFS, Pope II (DE-134) (Vol. 5, pp. 351-352: namesake biography, specifications block, service narrative; verbatim transcription - live NHHC page serves 404; concordant ibiblio HyperWar transcription) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS entry Vol. 5 pp.351-352, namesake paragraph + specification block + service narrative (losthistory.net/hazegray transcription; concordant https://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USN/ships/dafs/DE/de134.html)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS record for this hull: named for Commodore John Pope (born Sandwich, Mass., 17 December 1798; midshipman 30 May 1816; commanded steam sloop-of-war Richmond, Gulf Squadron, 1861; Head of Passes engagement 12 October 1861; commodore 16 July 1862; died 14 January 1876); laid down by Consolidated Steel Co., Orange, Tex., 14 July 1942; launched 12 January 1943, sponsor Mrs. Rae W. Fabens; commissioned 25 June 1943, Comdr. Frederick Sherman Hall; shakedown Bermuda; first convoy to Casablanca arrived 23 September 1943, then two more Mediterranean convoys; TG 21.12 centered on Guadalcanal (CVE-60); task group sank U-515 off French Morocco 9 April 1944; participated in capture of U-505 west of Cape Blanche 4 June 1944 - Presidential Unit Citation; assisted in sinking U-546 24 April 1945; with Pillsbury (DE-133) escorted surrendered U-858 to Cape May, N.J.; plane guard for Solomons (CVE-67) out of Norfolk and Mayport; decommissioned 17 May 1946 at Green Cove Springs, Fla., Atlantic Reserve Fleet into 1970; three battle stars; [stricken 2 January 1971; sold 22 August 1973, per Bauer & Roberts p.224].
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1942-1973
- Population
- Consolidated Steel construction trades 1942-43; wartime and reserve-crew complement (DANFS 216)
- Limitations
- DANFS documents namesake, construction, and service history - not materials or asbestos content. The stricken/sale dates are a bracketed editorial supplement citing Bauer & Roberts, Register of Ships of the U.S. Navy 1775-1990, p.224, not the DANFS narrative itself. Mirror transcription cited because the live NHHC page returns 404.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-pope-de134-01
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[3]Bureau of Ships, Ships' Data, U.S. Naval Vessels 1945, Vol. 1 (shipscribe.com scan): List of Naval Vessels roster pp.10-11 + DE contract table, book p.257 [other_primary]
- Locator
- SDB1945v1.pdf: roster book pp.10-11 (PDF p.15), DE contract table book p.257 (PDF p.138), row 'Pope DE134'
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Contemporaneous BuShips record for this hull: the List of Naval Vessels groups DE129-152 under the FMR design and lists 'DE134 Pope' in that group (roster book pp.10-11). The alphabetical DE contract table entry 264 reads: Pope, DE134, FMR design, Consolidated Steel Corp., Orange, Tex., contract price of hull and machinery $1,988,000 (cost-plus-fixed-fee), contract signed Jan. 10, 1942, keel laid July 14, 1942, ship launched Jan. 12, 1943, contract date of completion May 19, 1943, date of preliminary acceptance June 25, 1943, date of first commission June 25, 1943 - agreeing with DANFS on all build dates.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1942-1945
- Population
- Consolidated Steel construction trades 1942-43
- Limitations
- BuShips 1945 documents contract, design-group, and date data - not materials or asbestos content. Scanned pages (book pp.10-11, 257; PDF pp.15, 138 of shipscribe.com SDB1945v1.pdf) read from page images; contract-signing date reads 'do.' under Peterson's Jan. 10, 1942.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-pope-de134-02
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[4]U.S.S. Pope (DE-134), Anti-Submarine Action Report 'Action of U.S.S. POPE (DE-134) with German U-515,' DE134/FMR/A16-3/dlh Serial 023, 16 April 1944, Lt. Cmdr. E. H. Headland, with endorsements of ComCortDiv 4 (F. S. Hall), CTG 21.12 (D. V. Gallery), and CinCLantFlt (verbatim transcription at uboatarchive.net) [other_primary]
- Locator
- U-515PopeReport.htm, report text sections 2-4, 21, 25-26 + endorsement chain + ordnance-expenditure section
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Ship-generated primary record for this hull, 9 April 1944: as single-ship screen for Guadalcanal ~125 miles NW of Madeira, Pope obtained sound contact at 1133 and made 13 runs on U-515 in under three hours, launching 9 attacks (7 Mk. 9 depth-charge attacks - 68 charges - and 2 full 24-projectile hedgehog patterns); the report credits her third and sixth depth-charge attacks with the damage that surfaced U-515, which abandoned ship at 1504; Pope did not fire guns owing to Chatelain's proximity. CinCLantFlt's third endorsement notes 'the apparent absence of coordinated effort between POPE and CHATELAIN.'
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1944-04-09
- Population
- USS Pope crew (~216 complement) during the 9 April 1944 action
- Limitations
- Operational record - documents combat action only, no materials or asbestos content. uboatarchive.net is a transcription archive of official reports (NARA-sourced); the report itself is the primary document. CinCLantFlt's coordination observation is carried as written; DANFS frames the kill as the task group's.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-pope-de134-03
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[5]U.S.S. Pope (DE-134), Anti-Submarine Action Report 'on U-505 as Observed by U.S.S. POPE (DE-134),' DE134/FMR/A16-3/rbp Serial 001, 9 June 1944, Lt. Cmdr. E. H. Headland; CTG 22.3 report enclosure A4 (verbatim transcription at uboatarchive.net) [other_primary]
- Locator
- U-505PopeReport.htm, chronological order of events 1105-1500 (entries at 1105, 1115, 1119-1122, 1132)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Ship-generated primary record for this hull, 4 June 1944: Pope, in the screen dead ahead of carrier Guadalcanal, was ordered back to the carrier under group doctrine while Chatelain, Pillsbury, and Jenks attacked the contact; she closed to within short gun range of the surfaced U-505 but did not open fire because of Chatelain's proximity and the evident abandonment; at 1132 ComCortDiv 4 ordered her to circle the scene at two miles to search for other submarines. Her role in the capture earned the Presidential Unit Citation (DANFS).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1944-06-04
- Population
- USS Pope crew during the 4 June 1944 action
- Limitations
- Operational record - documents combat action only, no materials or asbestos content. Establishes that Pope's part in the U-505 capture was screening and area security rather than boarding; boarding was performed from Pillsbury. Transcription archive of the official report; the report itself is the primary document.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-pope-de134-04
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[6]NavSource Online Destroyer Escort Photo Archive, USS Pope (DE-134) page (building and operational data, specifications, commanding officers, awards; Internet Archive capture 2024-12-31) [other_primary]
- Locator
- navsource.org/archives/06/134.htm (Wayback capture 2024-12-31), specifications block + building and operational data + photo caption 0613403
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- NavSource record for this hull: class Edsall, type FMR (Fairbanks-Morse reduction gear drive, 3-inch guns); keel laid 14 July 1942 by Consolidated Steel Co., Orange, Tex.; launched and christened 12 January 1943, sponsor Mrs. Rae W. Fabens; commissioned 25 June 1943, Cmdr. Frederick Sherman Hall; Navy Day at Mobile, Ala. 27 October 1945 with Solomons (CVE-67), Power (DD-839), Pillsbury, Flasher (SS-249), and Gabilan (SS-252); decommissioned at Green Cove Springs 17 May 1946 after 2 years and 10-3/4 months; struck from the NVR 2 January 1971; sold for scrapping 22 August 1973. Specifications: 1,200 tons light / 1,590 full; 306 ft oa; four Fairbanks-Morse Mod. 38D8-1/8 geared diesel engines + four diesel-generators, 6,000 shp, two screws; 21 kt; complement 8 officers / 201 enlisted. A NARA photo caption places the ship near the New York Navy Yard at Brooklyn on 8 May 1944 (image 0613403).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1942-1973
- Population
- Wartime crew (NavSource complement 209); reserve-crew complement
- Limitations
- NavSource is a volunteer-compiled archive drawing on official records - authoritative secondary, not a primary document; details corroborated against DANFS and BuShips 1945 where overlapping (all build dates, Green Cove Springs, strike, sale). Complement (8/201) conflicts with the DANFS spec block (216) - carried in gaps. The NY Navy Yard caption documents presence at the yard vicinity, not a repair or overhaul period. Live navsource.org was DNS-unreachable from the research machine; the 2024-12-31 Internet Archive capture is cited.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-pope-de134-05
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[7]BuShips Ships' Data 1945 Vol. 1 FMR-design group assignment (roster book pp.10-11; DE contract table group-design column) + NavSource FMR design specification block [other_primary]
- Locator
- SDB1945v1.pdf roster pp.10-11 (FMR group, DE134) + contract table p.257 (FMR column); navsource.org/archives/06/134.htm specifications block (Wayback 2024-12-31)
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Era/design inference: an Edsall-class (FMR-design) destroyer escort built 1942-43 would have carried era-standard asbestos applications appropriate to a non-steam-powered ship - exhaust insulation, gaskets and packing, electrical insulation, brake linings, and deck coverings - but no boiler or steam-line lagging, since the FMR plant (four Fairbanks-Morse 38D8-1/8 geared diesel engines, diesel generators, 6,000 shp, ~21 kt) has no steam system. The BuShips roster groups DE-134 under the FMR design and NavSource's specification block confirms the machinery fit.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1942-1946
- Population
- Consolidated Steel construction trades 1942-43; commissioned crew 1943-46
- Limitations
- Class/era and design inference only - NOT a hull-specific finding. No hull-level material schedule, insulation specification, or survey was located for DE-134; the diesel plant means the largest asbestos categories of steam ships do not apply; does not quantify material or establish any individual's exposure. Builder Consolidated Steel Corp., Orange, Tex. is not in the Atlas shipyard dataset - no yard-level asbestos record carried.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-pope-de134-06
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[8]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, HTTP 403)
- Finding type
- gov_survey
- Finding
- GAO documented the Navy's extensive shipboard asbestos insulation use during the era in which this hull was built, with substitution not beginning until the early 1970s - DE-134's 1942-43 construction and her 1943-46 USN commission fall entirely inside the documented asbestos-use era.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1979
- Population
- Navy shipyard workers (program-level)
- Limitations
- Program-level era context only. Full text not retrieved (gao.gov returns HTTP 403 to automated fetch); content via product-page description, same limitation as prior batch records. Does not document this hull, her crew, or her materials.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-pope-de134-07
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[9]CourtListener API v4 opinion (type=o) and RECAP docket (type=r) searches, authenticated via cl-auth-search.py fleet helper, 2026-09-28 [court_record]
- Locator
- cl-auth-search.py queries '"USS Pope"' type=o (count 0) and type=r (count 0); '"DE-134"' type=o (count 49, collision pattern)
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- Litigation sweep - no qualifying litigation names this hull. Opinion index '"USS Pope"': count 0. Opinion index '"DE-134"': 49 hits, every reviewed result a 'DE 134' PACER docket-entry number citation in unrelated litigation (bank, employment, criminal, Puerto Rico jurisdiction cases) - identifier collisions, none referencing any vessel (40 of 49 reviewed). RECAP docket index '"USS Pope"': count 0.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1943-present (litigation corpus indexed by CourtListener)
- Limitations
- Sweep completed at the opinion and docket-index levels; RECAP full-text review of individual dockets was not performed and is moot for the zero-hit ship-name queries. 'DE-134' opinion hits were classified as identifier collisions from result metadata (case names/courts) - 9 of 49 page-3 results were unretrievable when the fleet pacing budget stood down late in the session; carried in gaps.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-pope-de134-08
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[10]Batch-4043 search ledger (this record): NHHC/DANFS transcriptions; BuShips Ships' Data 1945 Vol. 1 roster + contract table; ship-generated action reports (U-515, U-505); NavSource member record; NVR detail check; CourtListener opinion + RECAP sweeps; VA Board of Veterans' Appeals full-text search; Atlas shipyard dataset check [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-pope-de134-01 through sl-uss-pope-de134-11
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located for DE-134: no hull ACM survey, abatement contract, disposal-condition or donation hazmat disclosure, museum record, or ship-specific industrial-hygiene document; no qualifying asbestos litigation or VA decision names this hull; the Naval Vessel Register carries no detail entry (pre-1987 disposal); the hull was sold for scrapping in 1973, foreclosing any extant-hull survey.
- 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 materials consistent with the FMR design are a reasonable inference, not a ship-proven fact. Does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility. NARA RG 19 BuShips records for this hull (material specifications, General Information Books) remain an unretrieved archival lead.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-pope-de134-09