Evidence
7 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-7).
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[1]research packet ft-packet.md (8 sources cited) [other_primary]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERIFIED — real identity: USS Satterlee (DD-626)
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-satterlee-dd626-pkt-ft-packet-md
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[2]DANFS, Satterlee II (DD-626) (verbatim transcription - live NHHC page returns 404; hazegray DANFS Online archive mirror via Wayback capture 2024-11-27) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS entry specifications block + full service narrative
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS record for this hull: laid down 10 September 1941 by the Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding Corp., Seattle, Wash.; launched 17 July 1942, sponsored by Miss Rebecca E. Satterlee (niece of Capt. Satterlee); commissioned 1 July 1943 (Lt. Comdr. Joseph F. Witherow, Jr.). Escorted HMS Victorious to the Atlantic coast; joined Atlantic Fleet 26 August 1943; two Casablanca convoy voyages; escorted Texas and Arkansas to Belfast April 1944; Pointe du Hoc gunfire support 6 June 1944 (opened fire 0548), 40 days off Normandy; St. Tropez (southern France) invasion 15 August 1944, sank one of five German motor torpedo boats and rescued 12 survivors; escorted Quincy with President Roosevelt embarked on the Norfolk-Bermuda leg of the Yalta trip Jan-Feb 1945; Pearl Harbor gunnery school ship from 16 May 1945; air-sea rescue patrol Saipan-Okinawa from 4 July 1945; decommissioned 16 March 1946 and placed in reserve at Charleston, S.C.; struck from the Navy list 1 December 1970; two WWII battle stars. Spec block: 1,630 tons, 348'3", 36'1" beam, 17'5" draft, 37.4 kt, complement 276, class Gleaves.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1941-1970
- Population
- Seattle-Tacoma Shipbuilding construction trades 1941-43; wartime crew (DANFS complement 276)
- Limitations
- DANFS documents construction dates, service history, and design specifications - not materials or asbestos content. Mirror transcription cited because the live NHHC DANFS page returns 404 and hazegray direct was unreachable at access time (Wayback capture used).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-satterlee-dd626-01
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[3]NavSource Naval History, Destroyer Photo Index DD-626 USS Satterlee (compiled archive; Wayback capture 2025-01-08 - live page unreachable at access time) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource DD-626 page: 'Operational and Building Data' and 'Fate' blocks; commanding officers table
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Disposition and machinery detail for this hull: sold 8 May 1972 to Southern Materials, New Orleans, for $69,000 and broken up for scrap; machinery 50,000 shp Westinghouse geared turbines, 2 screws; displacement 2,395 tons full; crew 208 'as built'; commanding officers LCDR Joseph F. Witherow Jr. (Jul 1943-Feb 1944), LCDR Robert W. Leach (Feb 1944-May 1945), LCDR Henry J. Brantingham (May-Nov 1945). Official Navy photograph 80-G-367828 (Belfast Lough, 14 May 1944) held at the National Archives.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1941-1972
- Population
- Wartime crew
- Limitations
- NavSource is a volunteer-compiled archive, not an official record - sale price and scrapyard attribution are not confirmed by a primary source; its crew figure (208) conflicts with the DANFS complement (276), carried in gaps. Does not document materials or asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-satterlee-dd626-02
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[4]HyperWar 'Ships of the U.S. Navy, 1940-1945': DD-626 USS Satterlee summary (Patrick Clancey compilation of official figures) [other_primary]
- Locator
- HyperWar DD-626 page (specifications lines); Atlas class profile benson-gleaves-class
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Era/design inference: HyperWar's compiled ship page documents this hull's plant as 'high-pressure super-heated boilers, geared turbines with twin screws, 50,000 h.p.'; a 1941-43 steam-turbine destroyer of this design would per period practice have carried asbestos in boiler and turbine insulation, steam-line lagging, gaskets, packing, and fireproofing. The benson-gleaves class profile (Atlas internal) confirms 4 Babcock & Wilcox superheated boilers and geared turbines class-wide and records no ship-specific asbestos record for any of the 96 class members.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1941-1972
- Population
- Seattle-Tacoma construction trades 1941-43; crew 1943-46
- Limitations
- Class/era inference only - does not document a specific product, location, or quantity aboard this hull, and must not be read as 'installed on DD-626.' No hull material schedule, contract spec, or asbestos survey located.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-satterlee-dd626-03
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[5]Batch-3599 search ledger (this record): CourtListener API v4 opinion and RECAP docket searches on exact name and hull number; NHHC DANFS (live page 404); NVR ship detail (pre-1987 disposals not carried); NavSource/NHC photo records [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-satterlee-dd626-01 through sl-uss-satterlee-dd626-06
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- No adjudicated asbestos finding or physical-evidence record located for this hull: CourtListener opinion index returned zero hits for "USS Satterlee" and for "Satterlee" + "DD-626" (authenticated API v4, 2026-09-27) - no published opinion adjudicates asbestos exposure aboard; the surname-collision docket sweep ("Satterlee asbestos", 55 hits) confirmed no additional hull references - all non-Keating hits are plaintiff/creditor surnames or unrelated litigation; the single qualifying docket hit (Keating, MDL-875 tag-along) is a pleading-stage allegation only (see ev-uss-satterlee-dd626-06). No hull survey, abatement contract, or hazmat disclosure located - the ship was stricken 1970 and scrapped 1972, before modern asbestos documentation practice, and was never a museum or reef.
- 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 construction practice makes retained ACM plausible; it establishes only that no public ship-specific documentation was found in the sources searched. Does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-satterlee-dd626-04
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[6]National Archives holdings (RG 24 deck logs; RG 19 Bureau of Ships records incl. General Information Books; still-photo series 80-G incl. 80-G-367828 for this hull) [other_primary]
- Locator
- archives.gov Navy destroyer records overview; ibiblio NHC photo data page for 80-G-367828
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Archival lead, not retrieved: NARA holds WWII-era Navy deck logs (RG 24) and Bureau of Ships technical records (RG 19), which for other hulls have contained per-vessel material and machinery specifications; official photo 80-G-367828 (Belfast Lough, 14 May 1944) confirms a NARA still-photo holding for this hull. No DD-626 deck log or General Information Book entry was retrieved or verified in digitized form.
- Verification
- unverified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1941-1972
- Limitations
- Lead only - NARA holdings were not retrieved; whether any document names asbestos-containing materials for this hull is unknown. The confirmed photo holding is a finding aid anchor, not evidence of materials.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-satterlee-dd626-05
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[7]Keating v. Asbestos Corporation Limited et al., No. 1:13-cv-04105-AT (S.D.N.Y.); filed as Doc. 9558-1 in In re: Asbestos Products Liability Litigation (No. VI), MDL No. 875 (E.D. Pa.) - 'Notice of Potential Tag-Along' with attached SDNY docket sheet, Crane Co. Notice of Removal, Complaint, and Plaintiffs' Initial Fact Sheet (RECAP gov.uscourts.jpml.375294.9558.1) [court_record]
- Locator
- RECAP gov.uscourts.jpml.375294.9558.1: complaint/fact-sheet exposure recital (PDF p.19, fact sheet para. 8; mesothelioma diagnosis p.20 para. 9); Crane Co. Notice of Removal para. 2 (PDF p.51)
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- Pleading-stage asbestos allegations naming this hull, verified by full-text review of the RECAP document (image-scanned pages, locally OCR'd): the plaintiffs' fact sheet recites that decedent Leonard Keating, a Seaman First Class USNR V-6, 'worked aboard the [U]SS Satterlee from 1942-1945' and then 'the USS Walter Raleigh from 1945-1946' (Raleigh, CL-7 per the removal notice; OCR renders the first prefix ambiguously); Crane Co.'s Notice of Removal (para. 2) restates the allegation as 'exposed to asbestos-containing products while serving in the United States Navy as a Seaman First Class aboard the USS Satterlee (DD-626) from 1942 to 1945'; fact sheet para. 9 records mesothelioma diagnosed September 2012. Hull attribution to DD-626 is explicit in the removal notice. Crane removed under 28 U.S.C. 1442 federal-officer jurisdiction, reciting Navy MILSPEC-required 'asbestos sheet gaskets' in Crane valves - defendant boilerplate about its products generally, not a finding that such valves were aboard this hull.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1942-1946 (alleged exposure); 2013 (removal/tag-along)
- Population
- Leonard Keating (USNR Seaman First Class, alleged service aboard DD-626 1942-45; mesothelioma dx Sep 2012)
- Limitations
- Pleading allegation and removal-stage recital only - exposure was alleged, never adjudicated; the complaint's '1942' service start predates this hull's commissioning (1 July 1943) and is unexplained. Tag-along notice entered 2013-10-01 on the MDL-875 docket; disposition of the Keating action beyond removal/tag-along not located. Does not establish causation, product identity aboard this hull, quantities, or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-satterlee-dd626-06