Evidence
8 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-8).
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[1]research packet 750-packet.md [other_primary]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERIFIED
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-silverstein-de534-pkt-750-packet-md
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[2]DANFS, Silverstein (DE-534) (namesake bio, builder, dates, full service narrative, disposal; Wayback capture 2021-12-09 - live NHHC page returns 404) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS entry, specification block + full service narrative (Wayback capture 2021-12-09 05:10:39 UTC)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS record for this hull: laid down 8 October 1943 at the Boston Navy Yard, Boston, Mass.; launched 8 November 1943, sponsored by Mrs. Ruth B. Silverstein; commissioned 14 July 1944, Lt. Comdr. F. A. Reece, Jr., USNR. Spec block: dp 1,350; l 306'0"; b 36'7"; dr 13'4"; s 24.3 k.; cpl. 222; cl. John C. Butler. WWII: shakedown Bermuda; escort-crew training Norfolk; Pearl Harbor (Oct 1944); TG 50.8 logistics-group screening off Iwo Jima and Okinawa; Kerama Retto convoy escort; Ulithi-Okinawa shuttle convoy escort to 16 Sept 1945; Yap garrison evacuation supervision; San Pedro inactivation at Todd Shipyard; decommissioned San Diego 15 January 1947. Korea era: recommissioned San Diego 28 February 1951 (Lt. Comdr. J. R. Kittrell), Pearl Harbor homeport; Wonsan/bomb-line and Inchon patrols Nov-Dec 1951; Taiwan Strait patrol Jan-Feb 1952; Wonsan-Hungnam siege Mar-Apr 1952 (destroyed one shore battery); second Korean tour May-Dec 1953 (Pusan, Cheju Do); 1954-55 WestPac incl. Tachen Islands evacuation support; Operation Redwing nuclear tests at the Marshalls spring 1956; 1957 WestPac (ROK/Philippine navy training, Olimarao reef grounding, Guam repairs Oct-Nov 1957). May 1958: depth-charge impulse-charge locker explosion; collision with USS Stickleback (SS-415) off Oahu - Silverstein, Sabalo, Sturtevant rescued all 82 sub crew; Stickleback sank 1857. Inactivation overhaul Bethlehem Pacific Coast Steel Shipyard San Francisco from 1 November 1958; San Francisco Naval Shipyard 22 January 1959; decommissioned 30 January 1959; Pacific Reserve Fleet at San Francisco; stricken 1 December 1972; sold 3 December 1973 to Levin Metals Corp., San Jose, for scrapping. Two battle stars WWII; three Korean.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1943-1973
- Population
- Boston Navy Yard construction trades 1943-44; wartime and postwar crew (design complement 222)
- Limitations
- DANFS documents service history and specifications, not materials or asbestos content. Collision date reads 'the 28th' (May 1958) while NHHC's own Stickleback (SS-415) entry and USN photo 1036229 read 29 May - conflict carried in gaps. Live NHHC page returns 404; Wayback capture cited.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-silverstein-de534-01
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[3]USS Silverstein (DE-534) official ship's history 'Silverstein Saga' - CO-to-SecNav letter DE534/A12 Serial 232, San Francisco, 23 October 1945, enclosing ship's history per ALPAC 202-45 (signed F. C. Hartman; scan hosted at navsource.net) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource DE-534 page, 'War History' image 06534wh.jpg (3-page composite: cover letter + 'Silverstein Saga' pp. 1-2)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- The ship's own 1945 war-history submission corroborates and extends the DANFS wartime narrative: commissioned 14 July 1944 at the Boston Navy Yard (Captain R. C. Grady commissioning; Rear Admiral R. R. 'Theobaud' [sic in document - Adm. R. R. Theobald] addressed the crew); Bermuda shakedown; Norfolk escort-crew training; Panama Canal transit; on the early morning of 31 October 1944 she grounded on a coral reef outside the Pearl Harbor entrance and spent approximately a month under repair (a casualty absent from the DANFS entry); near the end of the repair period Lt. Comdr. F. C. Hartman relieved Lt. Comdr. Reece; then THIRD Fleet escort duty to Eniwetok, Saipan, and Guam; Ulithi anchorage 16 January 1945; logistics-group screening off Iwo Jima (six POWs recovered from a sunken fishing boat); convoy to Kerama Retto (D minus 4); minor typhoon damage 2 April; the 5 June typhoon dispersed the logistics group; Leyte round trip in July; local patrol/escort unit at Ulithi after Task Unit dissolution.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1944-1945 (events); 1945-10-23 (submission)
- Population
- Wartime crew
- Limitations
- Primary document (ship's own war-history submission) hosted as a scan on a volunteer archive (navsource.net); the original is a Navy record (per ALPAC 202-45 transmittal to SecNav) - archival original presumably at NARA with the wartime ship-history files, not pulled this session. Documents operations only - no materials or asbestos information.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-silverstein-de534-02
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[4]U.S. Navy Invitation For Bid IFB 16-4024, ex-DE-534 sale/scrapping booklet - page 11 (ordnance/electronics demilitarization list) and reserve-fleet photo page (scan hosted at navsource.net) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource DE-534 page, images 0653405.jpg (IFB 16-4024 photo) and 0653406.jpg (IFB 16-4024 page 11)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- The Navy's disposal-sale booklet for ex-DE-534 (IFB 16-4024, associated with the 3 December 1973 sale to Levin Metals Corp.) enumerates equipment aboard at disposal to be demilitarized by the purchaser: 2x 5"/38 single gun mounts (main deck frame 20, 170); 1x 40mm quad mount; 2x 40mm twin mounts; 5"/38 Mk 52 Mod 3 director; 40mm Mk 51 directors; hedgehog ASW projector; 8x Mk 6 'K' DC projectors; and notes ~37,682 gallons of fuel oil remaining in tanks; designated 'save list' items retained by Government incl. AN/SPS-5B sonar, AN/SQS-4 sonar, recorders; fire-fighting/flooding-alarm gear to be offloaded by custodian. Purchaser required to give 2 workdays notice before removal.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1973 (disposal sale)
- Population
- Scrapping yard (Levin Metals) workforce, 1973-74
- Limitations
- Two pages of the booklet viewed (reserve-fleet photo + page 11) - the full IFB packet was not retrieved; booklet pages are scans on a volunteer archive (navsource.net) of a primary Navy disposal document. No asbestos statement appears on the viewed pages; absence in a demilitarization list is not evidence about insulation materials (not a hazmat inventory).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-silverstein-de534-03
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[5]Bureau of Ships, Ships' Data, U.S. Naval Vessels, Vol. 1 (Jan 1945), DE design-group table row 6 (WGT) + navypedia 'John C. Butler (WGT)' boiler-block map; Jack v. Borg-Warner Morse Tec LLC (W.D. Wash. 2:17-cv-00537) exhibit-list document suite for DE-era Navy insulation specifications [other_primary]
- Locator
- SDB1945v1 pp. 234-235 design-group table row 6; navypedia us_de_tev_wgt member table (DE-534 row); Jack ECF 738 att. 1 exhibit list (via class profile)
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Era/design inference for this hull: BuShips design group 6 (WGT) - 306 ft oa, 1,350 t standard, 2 'D' express boilers 435 psi/750 deg F (Babcock & Wilcox for the DE-531-554 Boston Navy Yard block per the navypedia block map; Combustion Engineering for earlier blocks), 2 Westinghouse geared turbines, 12,000 shp, 24.3 kt. A 1943-44 superheated-steam escort carried period-standard asbestos applications: boiler and machinery-space insulation, steam-line lagging, valve/flange gaskets, machinery packing, fireproofing. The class's litigation record (Jack v. Borg-Warner, naming sister DE-446) identifies the era's controlling Navy insulation documents - BuShips Manual ch. 39 'Thermal Insulation' NAVSHIPS 250-000(39) (1945), Navy spec 32F3a 'Felt, Insulating, Asbestos' (1945), BuEng Manual ch. 13 - as archival leads for hull-level material documentation.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1943-1959
- Population
- Boston Navy Yard construction trades 1943-44; crews 1944-59
- Limitations
- Class/era inference only - establishes the design and era, not ship-proven asbestos aboard DE-534; no quantities, no exposure, no present-day material. The Jack v. Borg-Warner materials are pretrial recitals for a different hull (DE-446) and are document identifications, not retrieved spec texts. Navypedia boiler-block map unverified against contract documents.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-silverstein-de534-04
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[6]GAO, Navy Efforts To Protect Workers From Asbestos Exposure, HRD-80-2 (Oct 18, 1979) [gao]
- Locator
- GAO product page HRD-80-2
- Finding type
- regulatory
- Finding
- GAO documented the Navy's shipboard asbestos posture: standing policy from October 1975 removed asbestos insulation only when damaged or as required for repairs, modified January 1979 to selective replacement in high-maintenance areas - meaning original-era insulation typically remained in place unless a yard period disturbed it.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1979 (report); 1975-1979 (policy window)
- Population
- Navy shipyard workers (program scope)
- Limitations
- Program-level context only - the policy window postdates this hull's decommissioning (January 1959) and striking (December 1972); it characterizes the era's insulation-management regime for sister hulls still in service, not conditions aboard DE-534. gao.gov full text returns HTTP 403 to automated fetch; content via product-page description.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-silverstein-de534-05
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[7]This record's search ledger (sl-uss-silverstein-de534-01 through -NN) [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows for this record
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos-material record located: no asbestos survey, insulation specification, abatement contract, museum hazmat disclosure (hull scrapped 1973-74, no preservation), or adjudicated asbestos finding names DE-534 in the sources searched. CourtListener sweeps by exact name and hull number located one document-verified pleading-stage allegation naming the hull (Terrano v. Foster Wheeler, S.D.N.Y. 08-cv-4684, ECF 6 - ev-07) plus collision-only results; no adjudicated exposure finding for this hull exists in the searched corpus.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 2026-09-28
- Limitations
- Absence of a located record does not prove absence of asbestos aboard - a 1943-44 steam-plant hull is era-consistent with retained ACM through scrapping. The Terrano allegation is discovery-recital level, unadjudicated; no merits finding exists for this hull. Does not establish or defeat any individual exposure or eligibility claim.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-silverstein-de534-06
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[8]Terrano v. Foster Wheeler LLC et al., No. 1:08-cv-04684 (S.D.N.Y., McMahon, J.; In re New York City Asbestos Litigation; N.Y. Sup. Ct. Index No. 105079-08), ECF No. 6 - Plaintiff's First Memorandum of Law in Support of First Motion to Remand (filed 2008-06-02, 13 pp; Weitz & Luxenberg; recap gov.uscourts.nysd.326402.6.0.pdf fetched in full, OCR'd) [court_record]
- Locator
- S.D.N.Y. docket 4343017, ECF 6 p.7 of 13 (ship list quoting Interrogatory Responses at p.28) and p.5-6 (17A boilertender exposure recital); recap doc gov.uscourts.nysd.326402.6.0.pdf
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- QUALIFYING ship-naming allegation in federal asbestos litigation, document-verified: plaintiff Leon N. Terrano's remand memorandum recites his own discovery responses - the 'Employer/Jobsite History' chart attached to his Interrogatory Responses lists employment as a 'Boilertender' with the Navy 1947-1952 'and four specific Navy ships he served upon: "USS Tolovana (AO-64), USS Neches (AO-47), PF 70 (USS Evansville), DE 534 USS Silverstein."' The memo also recites Interrogatory Response 17A - 'he was exposed to a variety of different asbestos products, during his employment as an ... Boilertender,' including 'products manufactured by, or insulation used on equipment manufactured by' defendants; and Foster Wheeler's removal notice's own recital of 'allegations that plaintiff was exposed to asbestos while in the United States Navy and aboard Navy Ships between 1947 and 1952.' Hull attribution is explicit (DE 534 named). During 1947-1952 the only USS Silverstein was DE-534.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1947-1952 (alleged exposure window); 2008 (litigation)
- Population
- Leon N. Terrano (plaintiff; U.S. Navy boilertender 1947-1952 per discovery responses)
- Limitations
- PLEADING/DISCOVERY-STAGE ALLEGATION, unadjudicated - the ship list appears in plaintiff's interrogatory responses as recited in a remand memorandum (jurisdictional posture, federal-officer removal timeliness under 28 U.S.C. 1446(b)); the case terminated 2008-09-15 on remand to New York Supreme Court with no federal merits finding, and state-court outcome was not traced. The 1947-1952 window overlaps this hull's in-reserve period (decommissioned 15 Jan 1947 - recommissioned 28 Feb 1951): the allegation does not allocate dates per vessel, and service aboard during the reserve-berthing years is unexamined. Allegation establishes no exposure finding, no causation, and no product identification aboard this hull.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-silverstein-de534-07
