Evidence
6 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-6).
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[1]research packet hc-packet.md (2 sources cited) [other_primary]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERIFIED
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-robinson-dd88-pkt-hc-packet-md
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[2]DANFS, Robinson I (DD-88) - construction, USN service, Destroyers-for-Bases transfer, HMS Newmarket RN service narrative (verbatim transcription; live NHHC page returned 404). NHC Online Library photo page (official): https://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/OnlineLibrary/photos/sh-usn/usnsh-r/dd88.htm [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS entry 'Robinson I', specifications block + full service narrative
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS record for this hull: laid down 31 October 1917 by Union Iron Works, San Francisco; launched 28 March 1918; sponsored by Miss Evelyn Tingey Selfridge; commissioned at Mare Island Navy Yard 19 October 1918, Comdr. George Wirth Simpson in command. Cleared San Francisco Bay 24 October 1918; transited Panama Canal 3 November; arrived Norfolk 8 November 1918. Winter training Guantanamo Bay Jan-Apr 1919; plane-guard/lifeguard stations for the NC seaplane transatlantic flight, May 1919 (Halifax-Trepassey-Azores route). Norfolk Navy Yard overhaul; Newport operations; honor escorts for George Washington (King of Belgium, Oct 1919) and HMS Renown (Prince of Wales, Nov 1919); Portsmouth Navy Yard repairs/inactivity 1920-21; decommissioned Philadelphia Navy Yard 3 August 1922. Recommissioned 23 August 1940 under the destroyers-for-bases agreement; transferred at Halifax 26 November 1940, renamed HMS Newmarket, taken over by an RCN care-and-maintenance party; commissioned in the Royal Navy 5 December 1940; stricken from the U.S. Navy list 8 January 1941. RN service: departed Halifax 15 January 1941 via St. John's to Belfast/Plymouth; Humber refit; Western Approaches convoy escort; unsuccessful air attack 2 June 1941; Sheerness dockyard June-November 1941; 8th Escort Group Londonderry; left Convoy HX 166 with boiler trouble 3 January 1942; Liverpool refit to end of March; escorted Russian convoy PQ 14 April 1942; aircraft target ship Firth of Forth from May 1942; refits Leith Dec 1942-Feb 1943 and Rosyth 1943; care and maintenance Rosyth September 1943; aircraft target duty spring 1944 to end of European war; scrapped at Llanelly September 1945.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1917-1945
- Population
- Union Iron Works construction trades 1917-18; USN crew 1918-1922 and Aug-Nov 1940 (design complement 140); RN crew 1940-1945
- Limitations
- DANFS documents service history and specifications, not materials or asbestos content. Live NHHC DANFS page returned 404 on 2026-09-28; verbatim transcription via the HazeGray mirror at losthistory.net cited (same convention as BATCH-01). DANFS omits the post-transfer collision incident reported in secondary sources - variance carried in gaps.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-robinson-dd88-01
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[3]Naval Historical Center (NHHC predecessor), Online Library of Selected Images: USS Robinson (Destroyer #88, later DD-88), 1918-1940 - photo page NH 94140/94141/83559 et al. with official ship description [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- NHC Online Library ship page, descriptive caption block
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Official NHC photo-archive page for this hull: describes Robinson as 'a 1060-ton (standard displacement) Little class destroyer built at San Francisco, California, commissioned in mid-October 1918'; passed through the Panama Canal early November 1918 arriving Norfolk shortly before the Armistice; operated along the Atlantic Coast and Caribbean for four years; NC-boat lifeguard duty May 1919; decommissioned early August 1922 and 'laid up at the Philadelphia Navy Yard for nearly two decades'; recommissioned August 1940; transferred to Great Britain November 1940 in the destroyers-for-bases deal; as HMS Newmarket served as RN convoy escort from late 1940 until September 1943 and as an aircraft target ship from spring 1944 until after Germany's surrender; scrapped later in 1945.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1918-1945
- Population
- Crew 1918-1922, 1940; Philadelphia Navy Yard lay-up trades 1922-1940
- Limitations
- Official descriptive page corroborates identity, the Bethlehem-design 'Little class' subclass, Philadelphia lay-up 1922-1940, and fate; contains no materials or asbestos information. 'Little class' is the NHC's label for the Bethlehem-design Wickes variant.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-robinson-dd88-02
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[4]Era inference built on: DANFS spec block (Wickes class; 1,220 t; 35 kt) + NHC 'Little class' identification (Bethlehem-design Wickes variant, oil-fired water-tube boilers, geared steam turbines) + Atlas shipyard dataset record 'bethlehem-shipbuilding' (aliases include Union Iron Works; yard-level asbestos products documented, tier 3) + NARA RG19 Bureau of Ships 'General Information Books' archival lead for per-vessel material specifications [other_primary]
- Locator
- DANFS spec block; NHC photo-page description; shipyards.json record 'bethlehem-shipbuilding'; NARA RG19 GIB (archival lead, not retrieved)
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Era/class inference: a Bethlehem-design Wickes-class destroyer built 1917-18 with an oil-fired water-tube boiler and geared-turbine steam plant would have carried era-typical steam-plant insulation (boiler casing and steam-line lagging, gaskets, packing). Asbestos marine lagging was in use by the 1910s but far less systematically documented than in WWII-era construction. Builder yard context: Union Iron Works (a Bethlehem Shipbuilding yard) is documented at yard level in the Atlas shipyard dataset; NARA RG19 'General Information Books' per-vessel material specifications are an archival lead for hull-level specs.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1917-1945
- Population
- Union Iron Works construction trades 1917-18; crew 1918-1945
- Limitations
- Class/era and builder-yard inference only - no hull-specific insulation survey, material list, or refit record located for DD-88; a 1917-18 plant is early in the marine-lagging era and not comparable to a WWII-era plant in documented asbestos intensity. Names era-typical applications, not confirmed installed materials. No quantity. Does not establish exposure.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-robinson-dd88-03
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[5]CourtListener API v4 sweep 2026-09-28: "USS Robinson" (type=o) = 0 opinions; "DD-88" (type=o) = 5 Ohio attorney-disciplinary matters matching 'DD 88-XX' docket strings (name collisions); "HMS Newmarket" (type=o) = 0; "USS Robinson" (type=r RECAP dockets) = 2 asbestos P.I. dockets - Terry Lee Siegfried v. 3M Co. (C.D. Cal. 2:18-cv-01575) and Josephine Banks v. 3M Co. (C.D. Cal. 2:22-cv-06892) [court_record]
- Locator
- CourtListener search API v4 results; dockets 2:18-cv-01575 and 2:22-cv-06892 (C.D. Cal.)
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- No qualifying asbestos litigation naming this hull. The only vessel-name hits are two California asbestos personal-injury dockets (Siegfried 2:18-cv-01575; Banks 2:22-cv-06892) in which 'USS Robinson' appears in indexed docket text - almost certainly USS Robinson DDG-12 (Charles F. Adams-class, in service 1962-1982), the only USS Robinson extant during the exposure windows such plaintiffs describe. DD-88 was scrapped in 1945, before the asbestos-litigation era; neither docket text is retrievable in full from the public index to confirm which hull is named, but DD-88 attribution is inconsistent with any post-1950 exposure period.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 2026-09-28 (sweep date)
- Limitations
- Pleading-stage vessel-list references only - even if DD-88 were intended (it is not consistent with the plaintiffs' eras), a complaint's vessel list is an allegation, not a finding. Docket full text not retrievable from the public index; classification rests on hull-era reasoning (DD-88 scrapped 1945; DDG-12 served 1962-1982). Absence of located litigation does not prove absence of exposure.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-robinson-dd88-04
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[6]Batch-3844 search ledger (this record): DANFS transcription mirrors; NHC Online Library photo page; NavSource and RN-service secondary indexes; NARA catalog API; NVR/NRHP checks; CourtListener exact-name, hull-number, and British-name sweeps [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-robinson-dd88-01 through -08
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, environmental record, or docketed asbestos case naming USS Robinson (DD-88) or HMS Newmarket (G47) was found in the public sources searched (see search_ledger). The hull was scrapped at Llanelly in September 1945, predating the asbestos-litigation era; no preservation body or museum file exists to disclose.
- 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 - it reflects the record landscape for a pre-1920s hull scrapped before asbestos documentation practices matured. Does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-robinson-dd88-05