Evidence
8 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-8).
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[1]research packet gw-packet.md (3 sources cited) [other_primary]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERIFIED
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-power-dd839-pkt-gw-packet-md
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[2]DANFS, Power II (DD-839) (verbatim hazegray.org DANFS transcription via Wayback capture 2025-04-23 - live NHHC page serves 404; hazegray.org unreachable at access date) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS entry DD-839 Power II, specifications block + service narrative
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS record for this hull: laid down 26 February 1945 by Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine; launched 30 June 1945; sponsored by Mrs. George F. Power, mother of Lt. John Vincent Power; commissioned 13 September 1945 at Boston, Comdr. John M. Steinbeck in command. Shakedown Guantanamo Bay; Mediterranean deployment from 9 January 1946; Palestine-coast patrol under the U.N. Mediation Board late 1948; Royal Navy exercises/Northern Europe 1950; South American cruise 1952; 1958 Lebanon crisis with 6th Fleet; first Project Mercury launches; FRAM I overhaul November 1960-January 1962 (ASROC, DASH); Middle East Force 1963; Polaris-program operations off eastern Florida into 1964; Gemini 6/7 recovery team late 1965; 6th Fleet/Middle East Force 1966-67; Panama Canal transit August 1968; 7th Fleet from 26 September 1968 - Yankee Station Surveillance Area, gunfire support and SAR off South Vietnam; arrived Mayport 9 July 1969. Specs: 3,479 t full load; 390'6" x 40'0" x 14'4"; 35 kt; cpl. 345; high-pressure super-heated boilers, geared turbines, twin screws, 60,000 h.p.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1945-1970
- Population
- Bath Iron Works construction trades 1945; crew 1945-1977
- Limitations
- DANFS documents service history and specifications, not materials or asbestos content; the entry ends 'into 1970' (1970s-era publication cutoff) and does not cover decommissioning or disposal. FRAM I overhaul yard not named. Mirror transcription cited because the live NHHC page returns 404 and hazegray.org did not respond to direct fetch at access date.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-power-dd839-01
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[3]USS Power Association ship history page (usspower.com, Wayback capture 2008-05-09) - reproduces DANFS text then continues the service narrative 1970-1977 [museum_official]
- Locator
- usspower.com History page, post-1970 paragraphs (Wayback capture)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Association-published ship history extending the DANFS record past its 1970 cutoff: South America/Africa/Persian Gulf deployments 1970-71; Mediterranean 1972-73; departed Mayport 2 September 1973 for Fort Schuyler, New York City, for Naval Reserve Force duty with an integrated Selected Reserve Crew; a 'five and one-half million' dollar overhaul during 1974 covering 'major work in the area of engineering, electronics, and habitability'; reserve training deployment January 1976 and COPUTEX 5 in June 1976; ammunition offload at Norfolk; final overhaul at Coastal Drydock Company, Brooklyn; 'decommissioned' September 1977; sold to the Taiwanese government October 1977.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1970-1977
- Population
- Crew and Selected Reserve Crew 1970-1977; overhaul yard workers 1974 and c.1976-77
- Limitations
- Ship-association published history (verbatim extension of DANFS-style text) - not independently verified against a commissioning/decommissioning register; decommission month differs from the 1 October 1977 date in NavSource/other secondary sources (carried in gaps). The 1974 overhaul yard is unnamed; Coastal Drydock Company (Brooklyn) is not an Atlas shipyards.json entry. No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-power-dd839-02
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[4]NavSource Naval History DD-839 photo index (operational/building data) + corroborating secondary sources for Republic of China Navy disposition [other_primary]
- Locator
- navsource.org/archives/05/839.htm operational data block (page content via search-index excerpt; direct fetch failed at access date); zh.wikipedia DDG-923 entry citing Taiwan press for the November 2013 disposal tender
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Disposition record for this hull after U.S. Navy service: decommissioned and stricken 1 October 1977; sold to Taiwan 1 October 1977 and renamed Shen Yang (also romanized Sheng-Yang); commissioned in the Republic of China Navy 18 December 1978; reclassified guided-missile destroyer DDG-923 after Wu-Chin III modernization; ROCN decommissioning ceremony 26 November 2005 at Keelung, formally decommissioned 1 January 2006 - the last ex-Gearing-class destroyer in Taiwanese service; museum-preservation proposals failed and the ship was tendered and sold for scrapping November 2013.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1977-2013
- Population
- ROCN crew 1978-2006; Taiwanese scrapping-yard workers 2013-14
- Limitations
- Secondary-compilation sources (NavSource operational data; Wikipedia/zh-wiki citing Taiwanese press) - ROCN official records not retrieved; the 2013 scrapping rests on Taiwanese press reporting of the disposal tender, not a U.S. official record. Taiwan-era material condition and any abatement during ROCN overhauls are undocumented in the sources searched.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-power-dd839-03
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[5]DoD Project 112/SHAD fact-sheet index (health.mil): '65-1 Copper Head [SHAD], Jan-Feb 1965, Atlantic Ocean off Newfoundland, Canada, BG, FP, Betaproiolactone'; National Academies of Sciences/Engineering/Medicine, 'Assessing Health Outcomes Among Veterans of Project SHAD (Shipboard Hazard and Defense)' (2016), test table naming USS Power (DD 839) [other_primary]
- Locator
- health.mil Project 112/SHAD fact-sheet index, FY1965 table, row '65-1 Copper Head [SHAD]'; NAP report Table 2-1/annex (nap.edu catalog 21846)
- Finding type
- gov_survey
- Finding
- Official ship-specific hazard record (non-asbestos): USS Power (DD-839) was the test ship for Project SHAD test Copper Head (Test 65-1), January-February 1965, in international waters off Newfoundland - 10 trials measuring aerosol penetration into an operating ship under three readiness conditions, using Bacillus globigii (BG) and zinc cadmium sulfide (FP) simulants, with betapropiolactone (BPL) evaluated as an interior decontaminant and an exterior deck-washdown system tested. The National Academies report identifies the ship by name and notes that in one trial the aerosols missed the target ship; crew exposure was via simulants, not live agents.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1965
- Population
- USS Power crew during Copper Head trials, Jan-Feb 1965
- Limitations
- Documents a chemical/biological-simulant test program aboard this hull - relevant exposure-history context, but NOT asbestos documentation: the record says nothing about asbestos aboard DD-839 and is not evidence for or against any asbestos claim. VA/DoD SHAD participation confers healthcare eligibility under 38 U.S.C. 1710(a)(2)(F) regardless of illness attribution; asbestos status of the hull is unaffected.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-power-dd839-04
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[6]DANFS spec block (Gearing class; 35 kt; high-pressure super-heated boilers, geared turbines, 60,000 h.p.) + Atlas class-profile litigation recital (Goodrich v. Air & Liquid Systems, E.D. Va. 4:17-cv-00009, ECF 171) + GAO HRD-80-2 program context [other_primary]
- Locator
- DANFS spec block; Goodrich v. Air & Liquid Systems ECF 171 pp. 12, 19, 31 (per class profile ev-gearing-class-04); GAO HRD-80-2 product page
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Era/class inference: a Gearing-class destroyer built in 1945 at Bath Iron Works with a high-pressure superheated steam plant would have carried period-standard asbestos boiler/turbine insulation, steam-line lagging, valve/flange gaskets, packing, and fireproofing. Class-level litigation material corroborates the design pattern: the Goodrich omnibus opinion recites a Navy engineering drawing specifying amosite felts and asbestos cloths for forced-draft-blower-turbine insulation/lagging on the Sumner (DD-692) class machinery group shared with Gearing, and an expert partial tally of 30.3 tons of asbestos thermal insulation in the fire/engine rooms of Sumner/Gearing-class destroyers. Documented yard events (FRAM I Nov 1960-Jan 1962; 1974 overhaul; Coastal Drydock c.1976-77) are periods when era insulation would have been disturbed; GAO HRD-80-2 documents that Navy policy left insulation in place unless damaged or required for repairs.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1945-1977
- Population
- Bath Iron Works construction trades 1945; overhaul-yard workers 1960-62, 1974, c.1976-77; crew 1945-1977
- Limitations
- Class/era inference only - no hull-specific drawing, material schedule, or survey for DD-839 was located. The Goodrich drawing and 30.3-ton tally are litigation-recited expert materials for the shared Sumner/Gearing machinery design, not an adjudicated finding and not a DD-839 inventory. Yard periods are documented events; asbestos scope of each is inference, not contract text.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-power-dd839-05
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[7]This record's search ledger (NHHC DANFS 404/hazegray Wayback; NVR; NavSource; association site; health.mil; NAP; usspowerdd839.com asbestos placeholder; CourtListener sweeps) [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-power-dd839-01 through -10
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located for USS Power (DD-839): no asbestos survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, or museum document names this hull, and the ship association's 'Asbestos Exposure in the Navy' page is an empty navigation placeholder carrying no content. The hull was scrapped in Taiwan in 2013, so no surviving-vessel survey pathway exists. CourtListener sweeps returned no opinions naming this hull (see ev-07 and search_ledger).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 2026-09-28
- Population
- n/a
- Limitations
- Absence of a located public record does not prove absence of asbestos aboard - a 1945 steam-plant destroyer is era-consistent with standard ACM installation. Does not establish that asbestos is or is not present; does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility. Deck logs, BuShips contract correspondence, and FRAM work packages (NARA RG 19/RG 24) are unretrieved and may contain hull-level material documentation.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-power-dd839-06
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[8]CourtListener API v4 authenticated sweeps (opinions type=o; RECAP dockets type=r): "USS Power", "DD-839", "USS Power"+asbestos [court_record]
- Locator
- CourtListener API v4 search endpoint
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- No qualifying asbestos litigation located naming USS Power (DD-839). Opinions: "USS Power"+asbestos = 0; "USS Power" = 0; "DD-839" = 0 - no published opinion names the hull. Dockets (type=r): "USS Power" = 0; "DD-839" = 6 dockets, ALL name collisions - United States v. Ortega 2:12-cr-00198 (E.D. Cal., criminal), Rehan Nazir v. County of Los Angeles 2:10-cv-06546 (C.D. Cal.), In re Seroquel Products Liability Litigation 6:06-md-01769 (M.D. Fla.), Serio v. Dwight Halvorson Insurance Services 1:04-cv-03361 (S.D.N.Y., contract), Lyondell Chemical Company 09-10023 (Bankr. S.D.N.Y., ch. 11) - 'DD-839' matched non-ship text (addresses, identifiers) in those files; none is an asbestos case and none names the vessel.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 2026-09-28
- Population
- n/a
- Limitations
- CourtListener coverage is not exhaustive - RECAP indexing depends on documents captured by the project; a complaint naming DD-839 filed in a non-federal or unscraped venue, or in docket text not indexed, would not appear. Zero hits establishes that no asbestos case naming this hull is indexed in CourtListener at access date; it is not proof that no claimant ever alleged exposure aboard.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-power-dd839-07