Evidence
3 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-3).
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[1]DANFS, Schley (Destroyer No. 103), Naval History and Heritage Command (published 2016-02-29) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS entry, specifications parenthetical + full service narrative (construction; WWI Mediterranean/Adriatic service; interwar reserve; WWII Pearl Harbor; APD-14 conversion and Pacific amphibious campaigns; redesignation; final disposition; battle stars)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS record for this hull: '(DD-103: dp. 1,185; l. 314'4-"; b. 30'11-"; dr. 9'2"; s. 35.2 k.; cpl. 133; a. 4 4", 2 1-pdr. A A, 12 21" tt.; cl. Wickes)'. Laid down 29 October 1917 by Union Iron Works, San Francisco, Calif.; launched 28 March 1918, sponsored by Miss Eleanor Martin; commissioned 20 September 1918, Comdr. R. C. Giffin in command. Sailed from San Diego 10 October 1918 for the east coast; departed New York 12 November 1918 for the Mediterranean; at Taranto, Italy on 24 January 1919 embarked Rear Adm. Mark L. Bristol and transported him to Constantinople; served as station ship at Pola, Italy, 17 February-15 April 1919, then visited Adriatic ports before returning to the U.S. Returned to San Diego 8 September 1919 and remained there (apart from repair trips to San Francisco) until placed out of commission, in reserve, 1 June 1922. Recommissioned at San Diego 3 October 1940; arrived Pearl Harbor 17 December 1940. During the 7 December 1941 attack, 'the destroyer was moored in a nest of ships undergoing overhaul and, as her guns were dismantled, was able to do little besides reply with small arms fire.' Patrolled off Pearl Harbor/Honolulu through 1942; departed Hawaiian waters 13 December 1942 for conversion to fast transport at Puget Sound Navy Yard; reclassified APD-14 effective 6 February 1943. Conducted amphibious transport operations 1943-45: New Georgia landings (Wickham Anchorage, Rice Anchorage, 30 June-5 July 1943); Marshall Islands/Kwajalein (31 January 1944); Eniwetok (17-24 February 1944); New Guinea convoy and landing operations including Aitape (22 April 1944), Niroemoar, Biak (27 May 1944), Cape Sansapor (30 July 1944); Morotai (9 September 1944); Leyte Gulf approach islands (17 October 1944); Ormoc Bay landings (7 December 1944, under kamikaze attack that sank sister ship Ward); Mindoro (15 December 1944) and Lingayen (9 January 1945) landings, evading kamikaze attacks at each; Mariveles Harbor and Corregidor landings (15/17 February 1945); brief Okinawa escort duty (26-28 April 1945). Arrived San Diego 29 May 1945 for repairs and was redesignated DD-103 effective 5 July 1945 'for duty as rear-area escort and training vessel' as she was 'then too worn out for further front-line service.' Sailed 17 September 1945 for inactivation at Philadelphia. Decommissioned 9 November 1945; struck from the Navy list 5 December 1945. Scrapping completed by the Philadelphia Navy Yard 29 March 1946. Received 11 battle stars for World War II service.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Study period
- 1917-1946
- Population
- Union Iron Works/Bethlehem San Francisco construction trades, 1917-18; wartime and postwar crew (design complement 133)
- Limitations
- DANFS documents service history and specifications, not materials or asbestos content. The live NHHC page intermittently returns HTTP 404 to automated fetches (apparent bot-detection/WAF behavior); content in this row was verified via a direct successful fetch on 2026-09-26 (HTTP 200) and is quoted verbatim from the specifications parenthetical and narrative. Does not establish asbestos presence, quantity, location, or any individual's exposure aboard this hull.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-schley-dd103-01
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[2]DANFS specifications block (Wickes class; oil-fired steam plant) + Atlas shipyards.json record 'bethlehem-shipbuilding' (alias: Union Iron Works, San Francisco) [other_primary]
- Locator
- DANFS specifications parenthetical; shipyards.json record 'bethlehem-shipbuilding' (aliases field)
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Era/yard inference: a Wickes-class destroyer built 1917-18 with an oil-fired watertube-boiler, geared-turbine steam plant would have carried period-standard asbestos boiler and turbine insulation, steam-line lagging, valve and flange gaskets, machinery packing, and fireproofing typical of contemporaneous U.S. Navy steam warships. Builder Union Iron Works, San Francisco, was sold to Bethlehem Steel Corporation in 1905 and operated thereafter as Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation's San Francisco yard - documented at yard level in the Atlas shipyards.json dataset (tier 3, 'bethlehem-shipbuilding'), which lists 'Union Iron Works' as an alias and documents an asbestos-products cluster (85% magnesia block, Transite pipe covering, asbestos lagging, gaskets/packing, etc.) at Bethlehem-operated yards.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Study period
- 1917-1946
- Population
- Union Iron Works/Bethlehem San Francisco construction trades, 1917-18; crew 1918-1922, 1940-1945
- Limitations
- Class/era and corporate-successor yard inference only - NOT a hull-specific finding. The Atlas 'bethlehem-shipbuilding' record's own flagship evidence concerns the Quincy, MA yard; its San Francisco/Union Iron Works operations are not separately itemized with asbestos-product evidence in that record. Wickes-class ships used varying turbine and boiler manufacturers (Parsons/Curtis/GE turbines; Normand/Yarrow/White-Forster boilers per class-level secondary sources) and the specific maker for this hull is not verified. Does not establish asbestos aboard this hull, quantity, or any individual's exposure.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-schley-dd103-02
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[3]Batch-3113 search ledger (this record): NHHC DANFS; NPS NRHP/NHL search; NARA catalog search; CourtListener exact-name and hull-number queries via authenticated helper [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-schley-dd103-01 through sl-uss-schley-dd103-07
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located for DD-103/APD-14. The hull was scrapped in 1946 and is not preserved (no NRHP or NHL listing, no museum, no memorial), so no post-hoc hull survey, drydock abatement report, or museum hazmat disclosure could ever have been generated for it. CourtListener searches for the exact phrase 'USS Schley' returned zero opinion and zero docket results; a 'DD-103' opinion search returned zero results, and a 'DD-103' docket search returned only numeric-string collisions in unrelated litigation (e.g., a patent case and a pharmaceutical-liability case where '103' or 'DD-103' appears incidentally in document numbering, not as a ship reference) - no qualifying or non-qualifying asbestos litigation naming this hull was found.
- 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 the ship during its 1918-1946 service life - it reflects that no post-hoc survey was ever possible for a hull scrapped in 1946, decades before asbestos hazard awareness or litigation. Does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility. A CourtListener query for the wartime hull designation 'APD-14' was attempted but not completed this session due to the fleet-wide CourtListener pacing throttle; per instructions this was not retried into a ban and is carried as a gap, not a negative result.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-schley-dd103-03