Evidence
9 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-9).
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[1]research packet gc-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-remey-dd688-pkt-gc-packet-md
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[2]DANFS, Remey (DD-688) - namesake biography, specifications block, and full service narrative; canonical NHHC page via Wayback 2010-12-08 capture (live history.navy.mil page 404); verbatim transcription also at globalsecurity.org/military/agency/navy/dd-688.htm [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS entry - namesake paragraph, specifications block, service narrative
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS record for this hull: laid down 22 March 1943 by Bath Iron Works Corp., Bath, Maine; launched 25 July 1943 (sponsor Miss Angelica G. Remey); commissioned 30 September 1943; flagship of DesRon 54; Marshalls/Kwajalein Jan-Feb 1944, struck uncharted reef 5 Feb 1944 and repaired at Pearl Harbor; Marianas (Saipan, Tinian, Philippine Sea) Jun-Jul 1944; Palaus Sep 1944; Leyte - led the DesRon 54 eastern torpedo-attack unit at Surigao Strait night of 24-25 Oct 1944; Lingayen Jan 1945; TF 58/38 screening Iwo Jima, Okinawa, and Japan home-islands strikes incl. Muroran and Hitachi bombardments Jul 1945; TF 92 Sea of Okhotsk sweep and Ominato occupation duty Aug-Sep 1945; San Francisco 1 Oct 1945 for inactivation; decommissioned San Diego 10 Dec 1946. Recommissioned 14 Nov 1951; Atlantic Fleet, homeported Newport; Mediterranean deployments 1953 and 1956-57 (Suez crisis); round-the-world cruise completed 28 Nov 1954; schoolship, Destroyer Force Afloat Engineering School, Oct 1958; homeport New York City end-1958 as flagship Reserve Escort Squadron 2 (later Reserve Destroyer Squadron 2); crew recalled Aug 1961 Berlin crisis, DesDiv 201; decommissioned Philadelphia 30 Dec 1963; Atlantic Reserve Fleet berth Philadelphia into 1974; stricken 1 Dec 1974; sold for scrap 10 Jun 1976. Ten WWII battle stars.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1943-1976
- Population
- Bath Iron Works construction trades 1943; wartime crew (complement 319); postwar reserve-training crews
- Limitations
- DANFS documents construction, service history, and disposal - not materials or asbestos content. Specifications block gives complement 319 (navsource/Wikipedia read 273/329; DANFS is controlling). Yard names for the 1944 Pearl Harbor repair and 1963-74 Philadelphia berth are stated; the 1951 reactivation yard is not named. Live NHHC page returns 404; canonical text verified via Wayback capture of history.navy.mil/danfs/r4/remey.htm.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-remey-dd688-01
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[3]shipbuildinghistory.com (Colton), Bath Iron Works production table - BIW hull 219, DD-688 Remey, Fletcher type, FY1942 program [other_primary]
- Locator
- bath.htm production table row 'DD 688 Remey' (BIW hull 219)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Bath Iron Works yard production record corroborates the DANFS build data independently: BIW hull number 219, DD-688 Remey, Fletcher-class, 2,924 light-displacement tons, FY1942 contract, keel laid 22 March 1943, launched 25 July 1943, delivered/commissioned 30 September 1943 (125 days on the ways, 67 days fitting out), disposition 'scrapped 1976'.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1943
- Population
- Bath Iron Works construction trades 1943
- Limitations
- Compiled secondary production table (Colton's shipbuildinghistory), consistent with DANFS on all dates; not itself an official record. Documents build data only - no materials or asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-remey-dd688-02
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[4]DANFS specifications block (Fletcher class; 37 kt) + Atlas shipyard dataset, Bath Iron Works record (Kaylo pipe covering, Foster Wheeler gaskets, asbestos felt, packing, vinyl tile, adhesives; 1942 Drinker/Harvard industrial-hygiene study of pipe-covering shop dust risk; OSHA 1987 inspection samples) [other_primary]
- Locator
- DANFS specifications block; shipyards.json record 'bath-iron-works' (ev-bath-iron-works-01, -02)
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Era/yard inference: a Fletcher-class destroyer built 1943 at Bath Iron Works with a four-boiler, 60,000-shp steam plant would have carried period-standard asbestos insulation, lagging, gaskets, packing, and fireproofing; builder Bath Iron Works is documented at yard level in the Atlas dataset (tier 2), including named asbestos products and a 1942 industrial-hygiene study documenting a 'fairly serious dust risk' at roughly ten times the safe threshold in pipe-covering shop work; NARA RG 19 'General Information Books' per-vessel material specifications are an unretrieved archival lead for hull-level specs.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1943-1963
- Population
- Bath Iron Works construction trades 1943; crew 1943-1963
- Limitations
- Class/era and builder-yard inference only - NOT a hull-specific finding. The 1942 yard study postdates this hull's March-July 1943 construction and documents yard practice, not materials installed aboard DD-688. Does not quantify material or establish any individual's exposure.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-remey-dd688-03
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[5]DANFS service narrative (Pearl Harbor repair Feb-Mar 1944; Philadelphia decommissioning Dec 1963 and Atlantic Reserve Fleet berth into 1974) + Atlas shipyard dataset records 'pearl-harbor-naval-shipyard' (tier 1) and 'philadelphia-naval-shipyard' (tier 3) [other_primary]
- Locator
- DANFS narrative (Pearl Harbor repairs; Philadelphia reserve berth); shipyards.json records 'pearl-harbor-naval-shipyard', 'philadelphia-naval-shipyard'
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Two documented yard periods place this hull inside heavily asbestos-documented yards: (1) Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard, February-March 1944, repairs after striking an uncharted reef off Kwajalein - Pearl Harbor NSY is the Atlas dataset's most heavily documented asbestos yard (tier 1), with product-level findings and a published Hawaii cohort study associating shipyard work with ~10-fold mesothelioma risk; (2) Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, September-December 1963 inactivation and 1963-1974 Atlantic Reserve Fleet berth - a tier-3 yard with litigation-documented asbestos products and an OSHA 1989 asbestos inspection.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1944; 1963-1974
- Population
- Pearl Harbor NSY repair workforce Feb-Mar 1944; Philadelphia NSY inactivation/reserve-fleet workforce 1963-74
- Limitations
- Yard-level documentation only. Neither source states what work was performed on this hull or that asbestos aboard DD-688 was disturbed; reserve-fleet lay-up typically involved preservation rather than rip-out. Does not establish exposure, product identity, or quantity aboard this hull.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-remey-dd688-04
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[6]Batch-3663 search ledger (this record): DANFS (Wayback NHHC canonical + globalsecurity verbatim); shipbuildinghistory.com BIW production table; NARA catalog (RG 24 deck logs); CourtListener API v4 opinion searches; Atlas shipyards.json yard records [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-remey-dd688-01 through sl-uss-remey-dd688-09
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located for this hull: no asbestos survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, museum record, or docketed opinion naming USS Remey or DD-688 was found in the public sources searched (see search_ledger). The hull was scrapped in 1976 with no preservation pathway that would have generated survey or abatement records.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 2026-09-27
- Limitations
- Absence of a located public record does not prove absence of asbestos aboard - era-standard applications are documented at class/era level (ev-03) and the 1943 construction and 1963-74 mothball periods fall squarely inside the Navy's documented asbestos-use era (ev-08). Does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-remey-dd688-05
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[7]CourtListener API v4 sweep, 2026-09-27: type=o queries "USS Remey", "USS Remey" OR "U.S.S. Remey", "DD-688" and type=r query "USS Remey" all returned count 0 [court_record]
- Locator
- cl-auth-search.py runs 2026-09-27; type=o count=0 x3, type=r "USS Remey" count=0
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- CourtListener sweep returned zero hits for this hull on both indexes searched by exact name, and on the opinion index by hull number: "USS Remey" (type=o, count 0), "USS Remey" OR "U.S.S. Remey" (type=o, count 0), "DD-688" (type=o, count 0), "USS Remey" (type=r docket index, count 0). No published opinion and no indexed docket naming this vessel was located. The residual hull-number docket query "DD-688" (type=r) could not be completed - the shared fleet CourtListener request budget was spent on every attempt; logged as blocked in the search ledger rather than retried into a throttle.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 2026-09-27
- Limitations
- Zero hits exclude published appellate/trial text and indexed dockets naming the hull, but not unindexed pleadings, state-court filings, or dockets where the hull appears only in attachments outside the index text. The unrun "DD-688" type=r query means a hull-number-only docket reference could exist unreviewed - a low-probability gap given the zero-count name sweeps. 'Remey' is also a surname (name-collision risk if queried bare) - queries were run vessel-specific only.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-remey-dd688-06
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[8]NARA catalog, RG 24 Navy deck logs for DD-688 - ~50 monthly file units digitized 1956-1963 (VA Blue Water Navy Deck Log Project scans; e.g., 'Remey (DD-688) - December 1957', NAID 284510979), National Archives at College Park [other_primary]
- Locator
- catalog.archives.gov search '"DD-688"' - fileUnits incl. NAID 284510979 (Dec 1957), 218278331 (May 1963), 172687288 (Nov 1963)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- NARA holds digitized deck logs for this hull: roughly fifty monthly file units spanning 1956-1963 in RG 24, scanned under the Veterans Affairs Blue Water Navy Deck Log Project and browsable at catalog.archives.gov; earlier (1943-46 and 1951-55) logs exist in the same series per the project's coverage pattern but the verified digitized units for DD-688 are 1956-1963. Deck logs can evidence locations, yard availabilities, and personnel for any future hull-level review.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1956-1963
- Population
- Crew of record 1956-1963
- Limitations
- Deck logs record operations, not materials - they will not identify asbestos products aboard. Verified span for this hull is 1956-1963; wartime/early units not confirmed in the digitized batch reviewed. No retrieval or review of log contents performed.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-remey-dd688-07
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[9]GAO, Navy Efforts To Protect Workers From Asbestos Exposure, HRD-80-2 (Oct 18, 1979) [gao]
- Locator
- GAO product page HRD-80-2
- Finding type
- gov_survey
- Finding
- GAO documented that the Navy used asbestos insulation extensively aboard ships and did not begin substituting alternative insulation materials until the early 1970s - placing this hull's entire construction (1943) and active service (1943-46, 1951-63) inside the documented asbestos-use era.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1979
- Population
- Navy shipyard workers; asbestos program review
- Limitations
- Program-level documentation; supports era context only, not any fact specific to this hull. Full report text not retrieved (gao.gov blocks automated fetch, HTTP 403) - content via product-page description. Same standing limitation as Batch-01 and the Fletcher class profile.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-remey-dd688-08