Evidence
8 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-8).
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[1]research packet kj-packet.md (7 sources cited) [nhhc_danfs]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERIFIED — real identity: Presley; hull DE-371; destroyer escort, John C. Butler class (DANFS header: dp. 1,745 f.; l. 306'0"; 24 k.; cl. John C. Butler) [MIRROR] https://ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USN/ships/dafs/DE/de371.html
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-presley-de371-pkt-kj-packet-md
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[2]DANFS, Presley (DE-371) (namesake, builder, dates, service narrative, striking; verbatim transcription - live NHHC page serves 404) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS entry, specifications block + service narrative
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS record for this hull: namesake Aviation Machinist's Mate First Class Sam Davis Presley, Navy Cross, killed in the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands 26 October 1942 aboard USS Enterprise (manned the flexible guns of a parked flight-deck plane until a bomb blew it overboard); laid down 6 June 1944 by Consolidated Steel Corp., Ltd., Orange, Tex.; launched 19 August 1944, sponsored by Mrs. Willie Lynn Presley; commissioned 7 November 1944, Lt. Comdr. Richard S. Paret, USNR, in command; shakedown Bermuda; Panama Canal transit 24 January 1945; Pearl Harbor training; Noumea 22 March 1945; departed 3 May escorting transports to Leyte Gulf; Manus, Saipan, Ulithi; two trips to Okinawa; war's end anchored in Ulithi Harbor; 19 September 1945 to Guam, two trips to Truk as harbor patrol and station ship pending U.S. occupation; ordered to the U.S. 5 November for inactive status; decommissioned 20 June 1946 into the Pacific Reserve Fleet, San Diego; struck from the Naval Vessel Register 30 June 1968. Specs: 1,745 t (full), 306 ft, 24 kt, complement 222.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1944-1968
- Population
- Consolidated Steel construction trades 1944; wartime crew (DANFS complement 222)
- Limitations
- DANFS documents service history and specifications, not materials or asbestos content. Mirror transcription cited because the live NHHC page returns 404. DANFS does not record the 1970 disposal - sale-for-scrap detail comes from NavSource (ev-04).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-presley-de371-01
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[3]Bureau of Ships, Ships' Data, U.S. Naval Vessels, Vol. 1 (1 January 1945), NAVSHIPS 250-010 - DE design-group table and per-vessel register row (shipscribe.com scan; locally OCR-verified) [other_primary]
- Locator
- SDB1945v1 PDF p. 138 (book pp. 256-257): individual-ship table index 269 'PRESLEY ... DE371'; DE design-group table row 6 (book pp. 234-235)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Official BuShips register names this hull: individual-ship table row 'PRESLEY - DE371 - WGT - [ditto] Consolidated Steel Corp., Orange, Tex. - contract price $2,043,000' (book p. 257, alphabetically index no. 269). Register date cells read: laid June 6, 1944; launched Aug. 19, 1944; acceptance Nov. 6, 1944; commission Nov. 7, 1944 - matching DANFS. The DE design-group table (book pp. 234-235) defines group 6 'WGT' (gear turbine drive): 2 shafts, geared turbines (built by G.E. or Westinghouse, interchangeable as units), 12,000 shp, two 'D' express boilers at 435 psi / 750 deg F.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1945 (register); covers 1944 construction data
- Population
- n/a
- Limitations
- Official contemporaneous register; the scan is image-only and cells were OCR-verified at 400 dpi against the page image. Two cell anomalies carried, not reconciled: the register prints 'Aug. 10, 1944' in the preliminary-completion column - internally impossible (precedes the Aug. 19 launch; source misprint); the contract-date cell is a 'ditto' resolving up the Consolidated WGT block to Aug. 7, 1942 (consistent with secondary order-date listings). Establishes design group and plant class only - no materials or asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-presley-de371-02
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[4]USS Presley (DE-371) Ship's History, commanding officer's letter to SecNav via CincPac, 14 November 1945, signed R. S. Paret, Commander, USNR (HyperWar transcription; original scan at NavSource archives/06/images/371/06371wh.jpg) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Ship's History letter, c/o Fleet Post Office San Francisco, 14 November 1945 (two pages); transcription at ibiblio de371-history.html
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- The ship's own war-end history submission, dated 14 November 1945, names this hull: commissioned at Orange, Texas 7 November 1944 by Cmdr. H. G. Chalkley, USNR, for the Commandant, Eighth Naval District, Lt. Comdr. R. S. Paret assuming command; fitted out at Orange and Galveston, Tex.; Bermuda shakedown from 22 November 1944; then 'reported to Boston Navy Yard for overhaul and repairs'; reported to COMINCH 15 January 1945; Panama Canal 24 January; Pearl Harbor via San Diego; ordered 6 March 1945 to ComSoPac Noumea with USS Williams (DE-372), arriving 22 March; ComCortDiv 87 pennant aboard from 25 March (division comprised Presley and Williams only); Noumea until 3 May; Leyte Gulf transport escort; retained at Manus; TU 94.7.2 Saipan; released to ComMarianas; ordered 14 July to Ulithi, TU 94.6.2; two Okinawa trips without incident; ComCortDiv 87 detached 8 September 1945; Guam duty from 19 September with two Truk trips as harbor patrol/station ship; ordered to the U.S. 5 November; reported ComDesPac Pearl Harbor 14 November 1945. Paret records the ship 'never engaged the enemy, nor took part in an action, nor encountered any of the disasters of the sea.'
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1944-1945
- Population
- Wartime crew; Boston Navy Yard overhaul/repair trades Dec 1944-Jan 1945
- Limitations
- Contemporaneous ship-generated record signed by the commanding officer - primary source for movement and yard periods. Documents a post-shakedown overhaul/repairs period at Boston Navy Yard (Dec 1944-Jan 1945); contains no asbestos, materials, or yard-work-scope detail.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-presley-de371-03
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[5]NavSource Online Destroyer Escort Photo Archive, USS Presley (DE-371) building and operational data (compiled from NVR/ship records; volunteer archive) [other_primary]
- Locator
- navsource.net/archives/06/371.htm - 'Building and Operational Data' chronology + awards block; crew-photo subpage 371a.htm (CO letters, Truk occupation-era photos)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Operational-data record for this hull: keel laid 6 June 1944 Consolidated Steel Corp., Ltd., Orange, Tex.; launched and christened 19 August 1944, sponsor Mrs. Willie Lynn Presley (namesake's mother); commissioned 7 November 1944 by Cmdr. H. G. Chalkley, USNR, for Commander, Eighth Naval District, Lcdr. Richard S. Paret, USNR, in command (only CO, 7 Nov 1944-20 Jun 1946); decommissioned at San Diego 20 June 1946 after 1 year 7 1/3 months and 55,000 miles steamed; inactivation completed 25 June 1946 at San Diego; struck from the NVR 30 June 1968; sold for scrapping 2 April 1970. Awards row: American Campaign Medal; Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal; World War II Victory Medal; Philippine Liberation Ribbon. Listed complement 14 officers / 201 enlisted.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1944-1970
- Population
- Wartime crew; Pacific Reserve Fleet caretaker complement 1946-68; 1970 scrapping-yard workers
- Limitations
- Secondary volunteer compilation sourced from NVR and ship records - corroborates DANFS and adds disposal/mileage detail. The 2 April 1970 scrap sale (buyer, breaking yard, any pre-sale material removal) is not further documented. No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-presley-de371-04
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[6]BuShips Ships' Data 1945 design-group 6 (WGT) plant spec + Atlas John C. Butler class profile (WGT block map: Combustion Engineering boilers for the DE-339-372 block per navypedia) + Navy insulation-spec archival leads identified in class litigation (Jack v. Borg-Warner exhibit list) [other_primary]
- Locator
- SDB1945v1 DE design-group table row 6; class profile john-c-butler-class (worktree class-f); Jack v. Borg-Warner Morse Tec LLC, W.D. Wash. 2:17-cv-00537, ECF 738.1 exhibit list
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Era/design inference: a WGT-group destroyer escort completed November 1944 with two 'D' express boilers (435 psi / 750 deg F; Combustion Engineering per the class boiler-block map for the DE-339-372 block) and geared turbines would have carried era-standard asbestos applications for a steam ship - boiler and steam-line insulation, lagging, valve and flange gaskets, machinery packing, fireproofing, deck coverings. The WWII Navy insulation-spec suite naming asbestos products - BuShips Manual ch. 39 Thermal Insulation (NAVSHIPS 250-000(39), 1945) and Navy Dept. spec 32F3a 'Felt, Insulating, Asbestos' (Oct 1945) - is identified in the class litigation record and carried as archival leads, not retrieved text.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1944-1946
- Population
- Consolidated Steel construction trades 1944; engineering-plant crew 1944-46
- Limitations
- Class/era and design-group inference only - NOT a hull-specific finding. No per-hull material schedule for DE-371 was located (NARA RG 19 General Information Books are the unretrieved lead). Boiler-manufacturer attribution is a secondary block-map claim unverified against contract documents. Does not quantify material or establish any individual's exposure.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-presley-de371-05
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[7]Batch-4277 CourtListener sweep (this record): exact-name 'USS Presley' (opinions + RECAP dockets) and hull-number 'DE-371' queries via authenticated API v4 [court_record]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-presley-de371-06 through sl-uss-presley-de371-09
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- No qualifying asbestos litigation naming USS Presley (DE-371) located: 'USS Presley' returned zero opinion hits and zero docket hits; 'DE-371' returned nine opinion hits and 198 RECAP dockets (316 documents), all identifier collisions - federal docket-entry citations of the form '[DE 371]' / 'DE #371' in unrelated cases (e.g., Hayden v. Urvan; ADT v. Alder Holdings; Matheson Flight Extenders bankruptcy) and reporter/digest artifacts ('12 I. & N. Dec. 371'). One collision docket carries an asbestos nature-of-suit code (Cox, Sr. v. AGCO Corp., E.D.N.C. 4:16-cv-00084) but its 'DE 371' strings are internal docket-entry references, not vessel mentions.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 2026-09-28
- Limitations
- Sweep covers indexed CourtListener opinions and RECAP dockets only; PACER-only state/federal dockets and unindexed pleadings are outside its scope. Absence of a located case does not prove no claim was ever filed.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-presley-de371-06
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[8]Batch-4277 search ledger (this record): NHHC/DANFS transcription; BuShips Ships' Data 1945 register; ship's own 14 Nov 1945 war-history letter; NavSource operational data; CourtListener/PACER ship-name and hull-number search; NVR; LoC Veterans History Project; NARA leads [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-presley-de371-01 through sl-uss-presley-de371-13
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located for DE-371: no hull ACM survey, no abatement contract, no hazmat or pre-scrapping environmental disclosure, and no qualifying litigation names the vessel in the sources searched (see search_ledger). The hull was sold for scrapping in 1970; no museum or extant fabric exists to 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 - a 1944 steam destroyer escort is era-consistent with asbestos insulation. Does not establish that asbestos was or was not present aboard, nor does it establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-presley-de371-07