Evidence
9 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-9).
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[1]research packet ke-packet.md (5 sources cited) [other_primary]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERIFIED
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-raymond-de341-pkt-ke-packet-md
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[2]DANFS, Raymond II (DE-341) (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: laid down 3 November 1943 by Consolidated Steel Corp., Orange, Tex.; launched 8 January 1944, sponsored by Mrs. Helen Raymond; commissioned 15 April 1944, Lt. Comdr. A. F. Beyer, Jr. in command; shakedown Bermuda, training ship Norfolk; Morotai 15 September 1944; Leyte air operations 16 October; Battle off Samar 25 October 1944 - attacked Japanese ships, damaged a cruiser with 5-inch gunfire, picked up survivors from sunken CVE St. Lo; Iwo Jima support (TU 50.8.24); Okinawa 'Iceberg' screening (TU 50.18.34); convoy escort Western Carolines-Ryukyus; five enemy planes by 15 August 1945; occupied Japanese waters 2-6 September; Pacific Reserve Fleet November 1945; decommissioned 24 January 1947, berthed San Diego; recommissioned 27 April 1951; Newport, R.I. from 11 August 1951 - New England ops, Caribbean exercises, Fleet Sonar School Key West, midshipman cruises to Scandinavia 1953 and 1954; decommissioned and 'placed in service' 22 September 1958; out of service in reserve 31 May 1960 'berthed at Philadelphia'; struck from the Navy list 1 July 1972; five battle stars WWII; bracketed DANFS note: sunk as a target off NE Florida 22 January 1974.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1943-1974
- Population
- Consolidated Steel construction trades 1943-44; wartime and postwar crew (DANFS complement 222); NRT reservists 1958-60
- Limitations
- DANFS documents service history and specifications, not materials or asbestos content. Its 'berthed at Philadelphia' reserve-location statement conflicts with NavSource's Boston Naval Shipyard entries - carried in gaps. Mirror transcription cited because the live NHHC page returns 404.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-raymond-de341-01
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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 pp. 127-138 (book pp. ~234-265): DE design-group table row 6; individual-ship table index 276 'RAYMOND ... DE341'
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Official BuShips register names this hull: individual-ship table row 'RAYMOND - DE341 - WGT - [builder] Consolidated Steel Corp., Orange, Tex. [by ditto] - contract price $2,048,000' (book p. ~254, alphabetically index no. 276). 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 1943-44 construction data
- Population
- n/a
- Limitations
- Official contemporaneous register; the scan is image-only and local OCR of the individual row was partial - builder/design-group/price verified; per-cell contract and milestone dates in the row were not OCR-legible and are not asserted. Establishes design group and plant class only - no materials or asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-raymond-de341-02
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[4]Commander Task Force 77, Preliminary Action Report of Engagements in Leyte Gulf and off Samar Island, 25 October 1944 (HyperWar transcription) [other_primary]
- Locator
- CTF-77 preliminary action report, Allied Forces / TU 77.4.3 composition listing
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Official action-report record names this hull in Task Unit 77.4.3 ('Taffy 3'): the escort-carrier screen comprised 3 DD (Hoel, Heermann, Johnston) and 4 DE - Dennis, J. C. Butler, Raymond, S. B. Roberts - for the engagement off Samar on 25 October 1944.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1944-10-25
- Population
- Wartime crew aboard during Battle off Samar
- Limitations
- Order-of-battle documentation only; establishes this hull's presence in the Taffy 3 screen, not materials, damage, or asbestos content. Transcription mirror of the official report.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-raymond-de341-03
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[5]NavSource Online Destroyer Escort Photo Archive, USS Raymond (DE-341) building and operational data (compiled from NVR/ship records; volunteer archive) [other_primary]
- Locator
- navsource.net/archives/06/341.htm - 'Building and Operational Data' chronology + awards block
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Operational-data record for this hull: commissioned at City Dock, Orange, Tex.; steamed 90,243 miles through first decommissioning; inactivation completed 31 January 1947, assigned Submarine Group Two, San Diego Group, Pacific Reserve Fleet; recommissioned San Diego 27 April 1951, assigned Destroyer Force Atlantic at Newport, R.I. (Escort Squadron 10); decommissioned 22 September 1958 and placed 'in service, in commission' as Naval Reserve Training ship, 1st Naval District, AT THE BOSTON NAVAL SHIPYARD, unit of Reserve Escort Squadron 2 (OinC Lt. James F. Newman); out of service in reserve 23 May 1960 at the South Annex, Boston Naval Shipyard, Charlestown, Mass.; struck 1 July 1972; sunk 22 January 1974 as target by aircraft of USS Forrestal (CVA-59) off northeast Florida. Awards row lists Presidential Unit Citation (Taffy 3) and five Asiatic-Pacific stars.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1943-1974
- Population
- NRT reservists and caretaker crew, Boston Naval Shipyard 1958-60; reserve-fleet berth population
- Limitations
- Secondary volunteer compilation sourced from NVR and ship records - corroborates DANFS but adds berth detail. Its Boston Naval Shipyard reserve location conflicts with DANFS 'berthed at Philadelphia' - carried in gaps. No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-raymond-de341-04
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[6]Library of Congress Veterans History Project, Michael Lee Akins Collection, AFC/2001/001/35267 (service summary: USN, USS Raymond (DE 341), Boilerman Second Class, 1954-1958; Newport, Key West, Arctic Circle, Caribbean, Boston) [other_primary]
- Locator
- loc.gov/item/afc2001001.35267 - service summary block
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Veterans History Project catalog entry documents a Boilerman Second Class serving aboard USS Raymond (DE-341) 1954-1958 - rating-level confirmation that boiler-plant personnel manned this hull during its Cold War operational period.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1954-1958
- Population
- Boilerman rating aboard DE-341, 1954-58 (Cold War crew)
- Limitations
- Documents crew population only - the catalog entry contains no asbestos, exposure, or health information; does not establish exposure of this or any individual. loc.gov blocks automated fetches (HTTP 403); catalog fields confirmed via indexed search result, not full-page retrieval.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-raymond-de341-05
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[7]BuShips Ships' Data 1945 design-group 6 (WGT) plant spec + Atlas John C. Butler class profile (WGT block map: Combustion Engineering boilers for 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 April 1944 with two 'D' express boilers (435 psi / 750 deg F; Combustion Engineering per the class boiler-block map) 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
- 1943-1960
- Population
- Consolidated Steel construction trades 1943-44; engineering-plant crew 1944-60
- Limitations
- Class/era and design-group inference only - NOT a hull-specific finding. No per-hull material schedule for DE-341 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-raymond-de341-06
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[8]Batch-4244 CourtListener sweep (this record): exact-name 'USS Raymond' (opinions + RECAP dockets) and hull-number 'DE-341' queries via authenticated API v4 [court_record]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-raymond-de341-06 through sl-uss-raymond-de341-09
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- No qualifying asbestos litigation naming USS Raymond (DE-341) located: 'USS Raymond' returned zero opinion hits and zero docket hits; 'DE-341' returned twenty opinion hits and 218 RECAP dockets (300 documents), all identifier collisions - federal docket-entry citations of the form '[DE-341]' / 'DE #341' in unrelated cases (e.g., United States v. MacDonald; Steele v. G.D. Searle; Stone v. Boone; Mason v. Pichler). Two collision dockets carry asbestos nature-of-suit codes (Cox, Sr. v. AGCO Corp., E.D.N.C.; United States v. Bellamy, E.D.N.C.) but their 'DE-341' 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-raymond-de341-07
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[9]Batch-4244 search ledger (this record): NHHC/DANFS transcription; BuShips Ships' Data 1945 register; CTF-77 action report; NavSource operational data; LoC Veterans History Project; NVR; NARA leads [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-raymond-de341-01 through sl-uss-raymond-de341-13
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located for DE-341: no hull ACM survey, no abatement contract, no hazmat or pre-sinking environmental disclosure, and no qualifying litigation names the vessel in the sources searched (see search_ledger). The hull was sunk as a target in 1974; 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 1943-44 steam destroyer escort is era-consistent with asbestos insulation. Does not establish that asbestos is or is not present on the wreck, nor does it establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-raymond-de341-08