Evidence
10 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-10).
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[1]research packet fy-packet.md (4 sources cited) [other_primary]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERDICT: VERIFIED
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-richard-p-leary-dd664-pkt-fy-packet-md
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[2]Naval History and Heritage Command, Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, 'Richard P. Leary' (DD-664) - specification block and construction/commissioning narrative [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- Wayback capture 20230110142340 of canonical NHHC URL; DANFS entry, specifications block + opening paragraphs
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS record for this hull: Fletcher-class destroyer (displacement 2,940 full load; length 376'5"; beam 39'7"; draft 13'9"; speed 35 knots; complement 329; armament 5 5", 10 40mm., 10 21" torpedo tubes). Laid down 4 July 1943 at the Navy Yard, Boston, Mass.; launched 6 October 1943, sponsored by Mrs. George K. Crozer III; commissioned 23 February 1944, Comdr. Frederic S. Habecker in command. Namesake: Rear Admiral Richard Phillips Leary (1842-1901), Naval Governor of Guam 1899-1900.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1943-1944 (construction); 1842-1901 (namesake)
- Population
- Boston Navy Yard construction trades 1943-44; wartime crew (DANFS complement 329)
- Limitations
- DANFS documents construction, specifications, and commissioning - not materials or asbestos content. Live NHHC page returned HTTP 404 on 2026-09-27; content verified via Wayback capture 2023-01-10 of the canonical URL and the destroyerhistory.org DANFS transcription. NOTE: the NHHC page heading reads 'Richard P. Leary (DD-684)' - an NHHC heading typo; the body and spec block correctly read DD-664.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-richard-p-leary-dd664-01
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[3]NHHC DANFS, 'Richard P. Leary' - World War II service narrative [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- Wayback capture 20230110142340; DANFS entry, service narrative paragraphs 2-3
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS World War II record for this hull: shakedown off Bermuda; via Panama Canal to Pearl Harbor; escort duty to Eniwetok and Saipan July 1944; supported landings at Peleliu 15 September and Leyte 20 October; Battle of Surigao Strait 25 October - launched torpedoes, splashed one enemy plane, guarded damaged Albert W. Grant (DD-649); rescued 70 survivors of Abner Read (DD-526) off Leyte Gulf 1 November; Lingayen Gulf - one plane downed 6 January 1945, fire support for landings 9 January; gunfire support Iwo Jima 19 February and Okinawa 1 April; escorted damaged Morris (DD-417) to Kerama Retto night of 6-7 April; then Adak and the Aleutians; arrived Ominato, Japan, 8 September; departed 30 September for San Diego. Six battle stars for World War II service.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1944-1945
- Population
- Wartime crew (DANFS complement 329)
- Limitations
- Operational history only; the entry gives no asbestos work scope, product identity, worker task, or exposure measurement. No shipyard repair or overhaul period is named in the DANFS narrative for this hull.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-richard-p-leary-dd664-02
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[4]NHHC DANFS, 'Richard P. Leary' - decommissioning and transfer to Japan [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- Wayback capture 20230110142340; DANFS entry, penultimate paragraph
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS postwar record for this hull: designated for inactivation after return to San Diego; decommissioned 10 December 1946 and assigned to the Pacific Reserve Fleet; transferred 10 March 1959 to Japan, in whose Navy she served as Yugure until retired in 1974.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1946-1974
- Population
- U.S. Navy crew to 1946; Pacific Reserve Fleet caretakers 1946-1959; JMSDF crew 1959-1974
- Limitations
- Disposition history only - no asbestos scope. DANFS does not give the stricken date, the return-to-custody date, the JMSDF pennant number (DD-184 per secondary references), or the 1976 scrapping sale; those rest on the destroyerhistory.org compiled record (ev-04) and secondary references.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-richard-p-leary-dd664-03
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[5]Destroyer History Foundation, USS Richard P. Leary (DD-664) ship page - 'Shipmates' History' narrative and disposition record [other_primary]
- Locator
- destroyerhistory.org USS Richard P. Leary page (Home/Shipmates' History sections)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Destroyer History Foundation record for this hull: laid down together with sister Heywood L. Edwards (DD-663) at Boston Navy Yard 4 July 1943 on slipways vacated by Newcomb and Bennion; christened together 6 October; commissioned 23 February 1944 - the 155th Fletcher-class ship and Boston Navy Yard's last destroyer; attached to Destroyer Squadron 56; at Surigao Strait her torpedoes were first away in her section with two timed explosions on battleship Yamashiro; at Okinawa her gun barrels needed replacement after hot engagement; squadron commander recommended a Navy Unit Commendation (Capt. Herald F. Stout) that was not awarded. Decommissioned 10 December 1946; transferred to Japan 10 March 1959 with Heywood L. Edwards and renamed Yugure; returned to U.S. custody 10 March 1974; stricken from the Naval Vessel Register 18 March 1974; sold to China Dismantled Vessel Trading Corp., Taipei, Taiwan, 1 July 1976.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1943-1976
- Population
- U.S. Navy crew 1944-46; JMSDF crew 1959-74; breakers, Taiwan 1976
- Limitations
- Specialist foundation archive compiling squadron records and shipmate testimony - a reputable secondary source, not the NVR document itself; strike and sale dates corroborated by the NavSource index snippet ('Stricken March 18 1974 ... broken up for scrap'), though live navsource.org was unreachable this session. No asbestos content documented. JMSDF-era modifications and the 1976 breaking process are not covered by U.S. records reviewed.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-richard-p-leary-dd664-04
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[6]National Archives, 'Special List 44 - Named Vessels' (Richard P. Leary entry) and 'Researching Asbestos aboard US Naval Vessel up through 1961' (RG 19 GIB entries) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Special List 44 'Richard P. Leary (DD-664) 2/23/1944-6/30/1945'; https://www.archives.gov/research/military/navy/guided-topics/asbestos
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- NARA's Special List 44 indexes deck logs for 'Richard P. Leary (DD-664)' covering 2/23/1944 through 6/30/1945 - the commissioned WWII period. NARA's asbestos research guide ('Researching Asbestos aboard US Naval Vessel up through 1961') identifies RG 19 ship General Information Books - including Entry P 9 (Destroyer, Destroyer Escort, and Frigate GIBs) - and hull-arranged S39 (insulation) and S48 (piping) drawings as the relevant vessel-material records.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1944-1945 (indexed logs)
- Population
- N/A - archival holdings
- Limitations
- The index verifies log holdings, not their contents. NARA explicitly cautions that deck logs and muster rolls do not directly document asbestos. No DD-664 deck log, General Information Book, or S39/S48 drawing was retrieved or inspected for this batch; post-1945 log coverage (to decommissioning 10 December 1946) is not shown in the SL44 row and is unverified.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-richard-p-leary-dd664-05
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[7]Fleischer WE, Viles FJ Jr, et al., 'A health survey of pipe covering operations in constructing naval vessels,' J Ind Hyg Toxicol 1946 Jan;28:9-16 (PMID 21016030); Atlas shipyard dataset, 'boston-naval-shipyard' record (tier 3); Fletcher class profile machinery data (navypedia + BuShips Ships' Data 1945) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Fleischer 1946 (PMID 21016030); shipyards.json record 'boston-naval-shipyard'; fletcher-class.class.json ev-01/02 machinery block
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Era/class inference: DD-664 was built 1943-44 at the Boston Navy Yard to the Fletcher-class standard plant - four Babcock & Wilcox boilers, two General Electric geared steam-turbine sets, 60,000 shp, two shafts. Steam vessels of this construction era carried thermal insulation on boilers, steam drums, and steam lines plus gaskets and packing, and insulation materials of the period commonly contained asbestos; the 1946 Fleischer survey documents amosite-asbestos pipe covering in WWII naval-vessel construction, and the builder yard (Boston Naval Shipyard) is documented at yard level in the Atlas dataset (tier 3), including a litigation product-identification record for John Crane gaskets and sealing materials at the yard.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1943-1976
- Population
- Boston Navy Yard construction trades 1943-44; crew 1944-46; JMSDF crew 1959-74; breakers 1976
- Limitations
- Class/era and builder-yard inference only - NO ship-specific asbestos finding; no surveyed material, spec sheet, or removal record for this hull was located. Fleischer documents WWII-era naval construction practice (Mare Island fieldwork) but does not name DD-664 or Boston Navy Yard; the Boston yard record is a yard-level allegation, not a hull-level one. Does not quantify material or establish any individual's exposure.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-richard-p-leary-dd664-06
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[8]GAO, Navy Efforts To Protect Workers From Asbestos Exposure, HRD-80-2 (Oct 18, 1979) [gao]
- Locator
- GAO product page HRD-80-2 (full text blocked, HTTP 403)
- 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 DD-664's 1943-44 construction and her entire U.S. service (1944-1946) squarely 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.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-richard-p-leary-dd664-07
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[9]CourtListener API v4 searches (type=o and type=r) for '"Richard P. Leary"', '"USS Leary"', '"DD-664"', and '"Yugure"', 2026-09-27 [court_record]
- Locator
- CourtListener API v4 search results
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- CourtListener authenticated v4 sweep: zero qualifying asbestos litigation names this hull. '"Richard P. Leary"' returns one opinion (Leach v. United States, 44 Ct. Cl. 132, 1909 - a Navy surgeon's pay claim quoting orders signed by 'R. P. Leary, Captain, Governor' of Guam, i.e. the namesake himself in 1900 - predates the hull; non-asbestos) and one docket (Richard P. Leary, Bankr. E.D. Pa. 96-18789, Ch. 7 1996 - a personal bankruptcy; name collision). '"DD-664"' returns zero opinions and five dockets, all string collisions (exhibit/Bates codes in patent, civil-rights, habeas, arbitration, and copyright matters; none vessel-related). '"USS Leary"' returns zero opinions and zero dockets. '"Yugure"' returns zero opinions and zero dockets.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 2026-09-27 (search date)
- Limitations
- Bounded sweep of indexed CourtListener text; unindexed pleadings or RECAP attachments naming the hull cannot be excluded. Bare 'USS Leary' references would be ambiguous anyway - three Navy hulls carried the name (DD-158 sunk 1943; DD-664 decommissioned 1946; DD-879 served 1945-1973), so most litigation-era service windows would resolve to DD-879 even if unindexed hits existed. No qualifying asbestos litigation naming this hull located.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-richard-p-leary-dd664-08
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[10]Batch 3639 search ledger, rows sl-uss-richard-p-leary-dd664-01 through sl-uss-richard-p-leary-dd664-10 [other_primary]
- Locator
- this record, search_ledger
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No DD-664-specific asbestos survey, insulation specification, abatement record, hazmat disclosure, or qualifying asbestos litigation naming this hull was located in the public sources searched: NHHC DANFS (verbatim entry via Wayback), the Destroyer History Foundation ship record, NARA Special List 44 and the NARA asbestos research guide, and the CourtListener sweep (exact name and hull number).
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Limitations
- A bounded search result, not proof that asbestos was absent aboard - 1943-44 steam-destroyer construction commonly used asbestos, but for this hull that remains era inference, not ship-proven. No physical archive holdings were reviewed; RG 19 GIB/P 9 and S39/S48 drawings and RG 24 deck logs are unretrieved.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-richard-p-leary-dd664-09