Evidence
6 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-6).
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[1]research packet kk-packet.md (1 sources cited) [nhhc_danfs]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERIFIED — real identity: USS Rhodes; hull DE-384 (later DER-384); destroyer escort,
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-rhodes-de384-pkt-kk-packet-md
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[2]DANFS, Rhodes (DE-384) (verbatim transcription; live NHHC page returns 404) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS specification block and full service narrative (hazegray verbatim transcription)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS record for this hull: Edsall-class destroyer escort laid down by Brown Shipbuilding Co., Houston, Texas, 19 April 1943; launched 29 June 1943; sponsored by Mrs. C. E. Rhodes; commissioned 25 October 1943 under Lt. Comdr. E. A. Coffin, USCG, with a Coast Guard crew, CortDiv 23. Escorted convoys UGS-30 (Gibraltar) and UGS-36 (Bizerte; Luftwaffe air attack 1 April 1944, five aircraft downed); second Bizerte run; six North Atlantic convoys to the UK and France; post-V-E Pacific transfer - Adak/Alaskan Sea Frontier escort and air-sea rescue, TF 92 Sea of Okhotsk strikes and Kuriles bombardment (15-21 July 1945), Okinawa, Tsingtao occupation support to 11 February 1946; decommissioned 13 June 1946 (Florida Group, Atlantic Reserve Fleet); conversion to radar picket escort at Norfolk beginning July 1954; reclassified DER-384 1 December 1954; recommissioned 1 August 1955; eight years Atlantic Barrier Patrol (Argentia to the Azores) including Cuban Quarantine October-November 1962; decommissioned 10 July 1963; berthed Philadelphia, Atlantic Reserve Fleet, into 1974. One World War II battle star.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1943-1974
- Population
- Brown Shipbuilding construction trades 1943; Coast Guard-manned wartime crew; Navy-manned DER crew 1955-1963; Atlantic Reserve Fleet personnel
- Limitations
- DANFS documents history and specifications, not insulation, asbestos content, individual exposure, or legal eligibility. The entry ends with the ship berthed at Philadelphia into 1974 and does not give striking or disposal dates. Complement of 186 is the specification-block figure; secondary sources give higher figures (see gaps).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-rhodes-de384-01
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[3]NavSource Destroyer Escort Photo Archive, USS Rhodes (DE-384), building and operational data [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource DE-384 page, 'Building and Operational Data' chronology and commanding-officer list
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NavSource's compiled operational record for this hull fills the post-DANFS record: decommissioned at Green Cove Springs, Fla., 13 June 1946; commenced DER conversion at Norfolk Naval Shipyard, Portsmouth, Va., July 1954; reclassified DER-384 1 December 1954; recommissioned at Norfolk 1 August 1955 (Lcdr. W. G. Sherwood, USN); homeport Melville, R.I., from 10 January 1956 (Atlantic Barrier Patrol); squadron reassigned to Escort Squadron 16, Newport, R.I., 1 January 1961; decommissioned at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard 10 July 1963 to the Philadelphia Group, U.S. Atlantic Reserve Fleet; struck from the NVR 1 August 1974 with 10 years 7 months total service; sold for scrapping to Union Minerals and Alloys Corp., New York, N.Y., 1 March 1975.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1943-1975
- Population
- Norfolk Naval Shipyard conversion workforce 1954-55; Philadelphia Naval Shipyard inactivation workforce 1963; breaking-yard workforce 1975
- Limitations
- NavSource is a compiled secondary archive, not a primary registry; its striking date reflects the NVR and its sale date reflects disposal records, but neither underlying document was pulled. One secondary source's infobox gives a conflicting sale date of 12 March 1975 and a conflicting reclassification date of 28 October 1954 (see gaps); the 1 March 1975 sale and 1 December 1954 reclassification carried here agree with that source's own body text and DANFS respectively.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-rhodes-de384-02
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[4]U.S. Government Accountability Office, Navy Efforts to Protect Workers From Asbestos Exposure, HRD-80-2 (18 October 1979) [gao]
- Locator
- GAO report opening summary and Navy policy section, pp. 1-2
- Finding type
- gov_survey
- Finding
- GAO reported, based on Navy information, that all ships contained some asbestos in components such as clutches and electric cables, while thermal insulation was the Navy's major use of asbestos; the report also describes Navy policy changes beginning in 1975. Rhodes's 1943 construction date and 1954-55 conversion place it in the era addressed by this Navy-wide context.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1975-1979 policy review; historical Navy use context
- Population
- Navy shipyard workers and Navy vessels generally
- Limitations
- Program-level Navy context, not a survey or material schedule for DE-384. It does not establish that any particular asbestos-containing component was installed aboard Rhodes, quantify material, establish exposure, or identify a claimant.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-rhodes-de384-03
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[5]Authenticated CourtListener API v4 sweep via cl-auth-search.py [court_record]
- Locator
- cl-auth-search.py runs on 2026-09-28; opinion and RECAP docket indexes
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- Authenticated CourtListener sweep completed 2026-09-28: "USS Rhodes" returned 0 opinions and 0 dockets; "DER-384" returned 0 opinions; combined "Rhodes" "DE-384" returned 0 opinions. Hull-number query "DE-384" returned 13 opinion hits and 149 docket hits, all classified as name collisions - the token matches reporter page/citation fragments and 'D.E. ###' docket-entry numbers (e.g., Puerto Rico Spanish-language captions, bankruptcy and criminal dockets); none is asbestos litigation and none names this vessel. No qualifying asbestos litigation, other litigation, or docket naming USS Rhodes (DE-384/DER-384) was located.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 2026-09-28
- Limitations
- A null litigation result is not proof that no claim was ever filed. CourtListener indexes exclude most state-court, PACER-only, settled, and unindexed matters; MDL-875 complaints naming vessels are not fully text-indexed. A supplemental "DER-384" docket query was blocked by fleet pacing and not retried - immaterial given zero exact-name hits across both indexes.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-rhodes-de384-04
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[6]Batch research review of DANFS (hazegray mirror), NavSource operational archive, GAO HRD-80-2, and authenticated CourtListener sweep attempts [other_primary]
- Locator
- Cross-source negative finding; see search_ledger
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No ship-specific asbestos survey, abatement record, hazmat disclosure, construction material schedule, or completed qualifying litigation record for USS Rhodes (DE-384/DER-384) was located in the authoritative sources reviewed. Law-firm marketing pages listing 'USS Rhodes DE-384' on generic ship lists (e.g., asbestos-ships.com, Shepard O'Donnell, Belluck/mesotheliomahelp.org) contain no primary evidence and were excluded per source rules. The available evidence supports only a class/era asbestos context and does not support a ship-specific asbestos finding.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1943-2026
- Limitations
- A failure to locate a record is not proof that asbestos was absent aboard Rhodes. Reserve-period maintenance, the 1954-55 DER conversion scope, and 1975 breaking records remain undocumented in this review; no individual exposure, causation, quantity, remaining material, or legal eligibility can be inferred.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-rhodes-de384-05