Evidence
7 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-7).
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[1]DANFS, Renshaw II (DD-176) (builder, dates, service narrative, striking and disposal; 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 8 May 1918 by Union Iron Works, San Francisco, Calif.; launched 21 September 1918 (sponsor Mrs. Frank Johnson); commissioned 31 July 1919, Lt. Comdr. R. A. Hall; assigned Destroyer Force, Pacific Fleet, based San Diego; fleet review for the Secretary of the Navy at Monterey Bay; Hawaii cruise with Destroyer Flotilla 11 (25 March - 28 April 1920); overhaul at Puget Sound Navy Yard 16 December 1920 - 4 April 1921; radio-compass calibration for the 12th Naval District, January 1922; decommissioned 27 May 1922 at San Diego and laid up until disposal in 1936 under the London Treaty; struck from the Navy list 19 May 1936; sold 29 September 1936 to 'Sehiavone Bonomo Corp.' [sic - Schiavone Bonomo Corp.]; reduced to a hulk 2 December 1936. Specification block: dp. 1,284; l. 314'4"; b. 30'11"; dr. 9'10"; s. 33 k.; cpl. 122; a. 4 4", 1 3", 4 21" tt.; cl. Little.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Study period
- 1918-1936
- Population
- Union Iron Works construction trades 1918-19; Destroyer Force crew (design complement 122); Puget Sound Navy Yard overhaul workforce 1920-21; Schiavone Bonomo scrapping workforce 1936
- Limitations
- DANFS documents identity, builder, service history, and disposal - not materials or asbestos content. The transcription's 'Sehiavone Bonomo' is an OCR/typographical rendering of Schiavone Bonomo Corp. (NavSource concurs with the corrected spelling). Mirror transcription cited because the live NHHC page returns 404.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-renshaw-dd176-01
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[2]NHHC Online Library of Selected Images, Photo NH 100948 (USS Renshaw DD-176 underway circa 1921-1922, Destroyer Division 22; O.W. Waterman photograph) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NHHC Online Library picture-data page, photo NH 100948
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command photograph of this hull underway circa 1921-1922 while serving with Destroyer Division 22; the caption notes the stern 4"/50 gun had been moved from the fantail to atop an enlarged after deckhouse - a documented in-service structural alteration on this hull during its 1919-22 commission.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Study period
- 1921-1922
- Population
- Crew, circa 1921-22
- Limitations
- Confirms configuration and activity only; contains no materials or asbestos information. Establishes the hull's active-service appearance, not any material content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-renshaw-dd176-02
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[3]DANFS specifications block (cl. Little; steam-era destroyer) + Atlas shipyard dataset, Bethlehem Shipbuilding record (yard_family tier-3 asbestos documentation); U.S. Navy Booklet of General Plans, Wickes & Clemson classes (1919) as class-level design record [other_primary]
- Locator
- DANFS specifications block; shipyards.json record 'bethlehem-shipbuilding'; NARA 'Plans for Flush Deckers' file unit (1919 BOGP scan)
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Era/design inference: DD-176 is a Bethlehem-design ('Little' group) Wickes-class flush-deck destroyer built 1918-19 by Union Iron Works, San Francisco - Bethlehem's San Francisco plant. Destroyers of this class and construction era carried multi-boiler steam plants whose era-standard applications included asbestos in boiler and steam-line insulation/lagging, machinery insulation, gaskets, packing, and deck coverings. The Atlas shipyard dataset documents asbestos products for the Bethlehem yard family at yard level (bethlehem-shipbuilding, tier 3).
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Study period
- 1918-1936
- Population
- Construction trades, Union Iron Works 1918-19; crew 1919-22
- Limitations
- Class/era and builder-yard inference only - no ship-specific finding. The yard-family asbestos documentation centers on the Quincy/Sparrows Point records, not the San Francisco Union plant specifically; whether DD-176's installed insulation contained asbestos is not established by any located source. Establishes no quantity and no individual exposure.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-renshaw-dd176-03
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[4]U.S. Navy, Booklet of General Plans, Wickes & Clemson Classes (Navy Yard, Newport News, Va., 1 October 1919; NARA 'Plans for Flush Deckers, 1789-1967' file unit; scanned copy at Internet Archive) [other_primary]
- Locator
- archive.org item ddflushdeckersbogp1919 (Foute Man Productions scan); NARA file unit 'Plans for Flush Deckers, 1789-1967'
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- The official 1919 Navy Booklet of General Plans for the Wickes/Clemson flush-deck classes survives (general arrangement, deck plans, midship section) and is the class-level design record; the NARA file unit 'Plans for Flush Deckers, 1789-1967' and RG 19 bureau records are the archival path for any hull-specific material specifications for DD-176.
- Verification
- unverified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Study period
- 1919 (plans); 1918-1919 (construction)
- Limitations
- Class-level general plans - do not name DD-176 specifically and carry no asbestos notation located; hull-specific material schedules would require NARA RG 19 retrieval, not performed. Archival lead only.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-renshaw-dd176-04
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[5]National Archives, Navy deck logs guidance + RG 24 logbook series (pre-World War II logs held at Archives I, Washington, DC; largely not digitized) [other_primary]
- Locator
- archives.gov deck-log guidance; NARA series 'Logbooks of the U.S. Navy Ships and Stations' (pre-WWII holdings at Archives I)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- DD-176's deck logs for its 1919-1922 commission (RG 24 logbooks, pre-WWII series) are held by the National Archives; the NARA digitization program has concentrated on WWII and Vietnam-era logs, so the hull's logs are an unsearched archival lead for any shipboard events bearing on later exposure questions.
- Verification
- unverified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Study period
- 1919-1922
- Limitations
- Archival lead only - the logs were not retrieved or reviewed; the National Archives Catalog search could not be resolved programmatically during this session. Deck logs do not ordinarily record insulation materials; their value is corroborating operational context.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-renshaw-dd176-05
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[6]CourtListener RECAP results for 'USS Renshaw': Smith v. Crane Co., No. 1:13-cv-07411 (N.D. Ill., filed 2013-10-16, terminated 2014-12-17; NOS 368 P.I.: Asbestos) and Agena v. Cleaver-Brooks, Inc., No. 1:19-cv-00089 (D. Haw., filed 2019-02-20; NOS 470 RICO) [court_record]
- Locator
- CourtListener docket 4261559 (Smith v. Crane Co., N.D. Ill. 1:13-cv-07411); docket for 1:19-cv-00089 (D. Haw.)
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- Two dockets match the exact string 'USS Renshaw' in indexed RECAP text. Smith v. Crane Co. (N.D. Ill. 2013) is a genuine asbestos personal-injury removal docket (NOS 368) in which a vessel named 'USS Renshaw' appears in filed-document text, almost certainly inside the complaint/exhibit vessel list - but the referent cannot be this hull: DD-176 was decommissioned in 1922 and scrapped in 1936, so no plaintiff in a 2013 asbestos PI case could have served aboard; the plausible referent is USS Renshaw (DD-499, Fletcher class, in commission 1942-1970). Agena v. Cleaver-Brooks (D. Haw. 2019) is a non-asbestos RICO case; the 'USS Renshaw' reference's role is unverified from index text and the suit does not allege asbestos injury. NON-QUALIFYING as exposure-site litigation for DD-176.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- correction
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Study period
- 2013-2014 (Smith); 2019 (Agena)
- Population
- Smith plaintiff (asbestos PI; exposure window postdates this hull's existence); Agena plaintiff (RICO)
- Limitations
- Docket-index match only; the complaint text naming 'USS Renshaw' in Smith was not retrieved (fleet pacing), so the reference's context (exposure vessel vs. other mention) is unresolved - but attribution to DD-176 is foreclosed by the service window regardless. Agena is non-asbestos litigation; carried only because the exact-name query returns it. Classified down per litigation-stage discipline.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-renshaw-dd176-06
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[7]Batch-3181 search ledger (this record): DANFS (HazeGray transcription); NHHC Online Library; CourtListener opinion and docket searches; NARA catalog; Atlas shipyard dataset [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-renshaw-dd176-01 through sl-uss-renshaw-dd176-13
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no hull survey, abatement contract, museum or donation hazmat disclosure, or asbestos litigation naming USS Renshaw (DD-176) was found in the public sources searched (see search_ledger). The hull was scrapped in 1936, before asbestos litigation era; there is no extant structure to survey.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Study period
- 2026-09-26
- Limitations
- Absence of a located public record does not prove absence of asbestos aboard - a 1918 steam destroyer's era makes asbestos use plausible at class level. Does not establish that asbestos is or was present aboard; does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility. Scrapping-site exposure (Schiavone Bonomo, 1936) is outside hull-documentation scope.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-renshaw-dd176-07