Evidence
7 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-7).
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[1]DANFS, Strickland (DE-333) (Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, Naval History Division; Wayback capture 2021-10-20 of the official NHHC page - live page returns 404; identical verbatim transcription also at ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USN/ships/dafs/DE/de333.html) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS entry 'Strickland' - namesake biography, DE-333 spec block, service narrative 1944-1972 (NHHC page, Wayback capture 2021-10-20)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS record for this hull: laid down 23 August 1943 by Consolidated Steel Corp., Orange, Tex.; launched 2 November 1943, sponsored by Mrs. Everett Strickland; commissioned 10 January 1944, Lt. Comdr. A. J. Hopkins in command. Spec block: Edsall class, 1,200 t, 306 ft, 36 ft 7 in beam, 8 ft 7 in draft, 21.2 kt, complement 216, 3x3in + 6x40mm + 10x20mm + torpedo/depth-charge armament. Service: Bermuda shakedown; convoy UGS-37 to Bizerte, Luftwaffe attack off Cape Bengut 11 April 1944 (Strickland splashed a strafing Junkers; Holder DE-401 torpedoed); Norfolk-Bizerte runs five months; North Atlantic escort to England and France October 1944 - mid-May 1945; Pacific via Panama Canal, Pearl Harbor 25 July 1945; Eniwetok 29 August; Tokyo Bay 2 October; Guam, Iwo Jima, Truk, Okinawa to January 1946; San Diego 25 January 1946; Philadelphia 11 February; Charleston 10 March - 5 December; towed to Green Cove Springs, Fla.; decommissioned 15 June into Atlantic Reserve Fleet. December 1950 selected for radar-picket conversion; towed to Norfolk 29 March 1951; recommissioned as DER-333 2 February 1952; Escort Squadron 16, Newport, R.I., Eastern Air Defense Command picket duty; overhauled at New York Naval Shipyard October 1955; summer 1956 first DER to man a regularly assigned DEW-line picket station; to Pacific July 1957, home port Pearl Harbor 18 August; Pacific DEW-line extension patrols; Pearl Harbor availability 2 October 1957 - 24 March 1958 for installation of stronger radar and communications systems; decommissioned 17 June into Reserve Fleet; struck from the Navy list 1 December 1972. One battle star for World War II. Namesake: Ens. Everett C. Strickland, USNR, killed 9 August 1942 aboard USS Astoria (CA-34) at Savo Island.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1943-1972
- Population
- Consolidated Steel construction trades (Orange, Tex., 1943-44); USN crews 1944-1946 and 1952-1959 (design complement 216)
- Limitations
- DANFS documents construction, specifications, and service history - not materials or asbestos content. DANFS states no years for either decommissioning; the narrative sequence implies 1947 for the first (Charleston stay ended 5 December 1946) while secondary sources read 1946, and implies 1959 for the second - conflicts carried in gaps. The NHHC text lacks the bracketed sale note ('sold 10 September 1974') present in the HyperWar transcription - flagged in gaps. Live NHHC page returns 404; Wayback capture of the official page cited.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-strickland-de333-01
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[2]NavSource Online Destroyer Escort Photo Archive, USS Strickland (DE 333) page (volunteer archive; lead-level): specifications block, building/operational data, namesake biography, awards ribbons, captioned photographs incl. USN photo USN 1078644 (DER-333 underway Pearl Harbor 2 October 1958) (Wayback capture 2024-11-07 used; live navsource.org unreachable by webfetch 2026-09-28) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource DE-333 page: 'Strickland (DE 333) Building and Operational Data' block, Specifications block, photo captions (USN 1078644, Pearl Harbor 1958-10-02)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Photo-archive data corroborating and extending DANFS: keel laid 23 August 1943 by Consolidated Steel Corp., Orange, Tex.; launched 2 November 1943; commissioned 10 January 1944; decommissioned 15 June 1946 at Green Cove Springs, Fla. 'after 2 years and 5 months of service'; towed to the Norfolk Naval Shipyard 29 March 1951 for conversion to DER; reclassified DER-333 1 October 1951; recommissioned at Norfolk 2 February 1952, assigned to Newport, R.I., Escort Squadron 16; homeport changed to Pearl Harbor July 1957; decommissioned 17 June 1959 'after 7 years and 5 months of service' (9 years 10 months total); struck from the NVR 1 December 1972; sold for scrapping 13 August 1974 to the West Waterway Lumber Co., Seattle, Wash. (bid $232,896.00 covering DER 147, DER 333, and LFR 1). Spec block: Edsall class, type FMR ('geared diesel, Fairbanks-Morse reverse gear drive') - 4 Fairbanks-Morse Mod. 38D8-1/8 geared diesel engines, 4 diesel-generators, 6,000 shp, 2 screws, 21 kt, complement 8 officers / 201 enlisted. Awards: Combat Action Ribbon (retroactive), American, Asiatic-Pacific, EAME w/ 1 star, WWII Victory, National Defense Service Medal.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1943-1974
- Population
- USN crews 1944-1946 and 1952-1959
- Limitations
- Volunteer-maintained photo archive - lead-level documentation, not an official record; dates and roster unverified against underlying USN/NHHC/NARA originals. The 15 June 1946 first-decommissioning date conflicts with the DANFS narrative sequence (Charleston until 5 December 1946 implies 1947); the 13 August 1974 sale date conflicts with the HyperWar DANFS transcription's bracketed '10 September 1974' - both carried in gaps. Nothing on materials aboard.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-strickland-de333-02
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[3]Edsall-class FMR design data (NavSource specifications block: 4 Fairbanks-Morse Mod. 38D8-1/8 geared diesel engines, 4 diesel-generators, 6,000 shp, 2 screws) + DANFS spec block (cl. Edsall; 21.2 kt) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource DE-333 specifications block (FMR machinery); DANFS spec block (Edsall class); shipyards.json records 'norfolk-naval-shipyard' and 'brooklyn-navy-yard'
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Era/design inference for a geared-diesel destroyer escort built in Texas in 1943: the Edsall-class FMR machinery plant - four Fairbanks-Morse geared diesel engines driving twin screws, 6,000 shp - has NO propulsion boilers and no steam system, so the heavy steam-ship asbestos categories (boiler lagging, steam-line insulation) do not apply. Plausible period applications concentrate in diesel exhaust/muffler insulation, gaskets and packing in engineering spaces, electrical insulation, deck coverings, accommodation insulation, and friction linings on deck machinery - inside the documented asbestos era of U.S. naval construction. Documented yard periods at asbestos-documented yards: radar-picket conversion at Norfolk Naval Shipyard 1951-52 and overhaul at the New York Naval Shipyard October 1955.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1943-1959
- Population
- Consolidated Steel construction trades 1943-44; USN engineering crews; Norfolk NSY conversion trades 1951-52; NY Naval Shipyard overhaul trades 1955
- Limitations
- Class/era and builder-yard inference only - NOT a hull-specific finding; no Edsall-class insulation specification or material schedule was located, and neither source documents materials aboard this hull. Norfolk NSY and NY Naval Shipyard are documented asbestos-era yards in the Atlas dataset, but no conversion work package or material record for this hull was retrieved.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-strickland-de333-03
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[4]U.S. General Accounting Office, 'Navy Efforts To Protect Workers From Asbestos Exposure,' HRD-80-2 (published 18 October 1979) [gao]
- Locator
- GAO product page description + report PDF https://www.gao.gov/assets/hrd-80-2.pdf (Navy response attachment, shipboard-asbestos paragraph; fieldwork yards were Long Beach and Norfolk Naval Shipyards)
- Finding type
- gov_survey
- Finding
- Program-level documentation that asbestos use was pervasive in Navy ships: the GAO's 1979 report on Navy asbestos protection conveys the Navy's statement that 'thermal insulation for machinery, equipment and piping systems has been the major application of asbestos' aboard ships and that 'all ships presently in service contain some quantity of asbestos.' Context for the Navy-wide shipboard asbestos practice that this hull's construction era (1943), DER conversion era (1951-52), and overhaul era (1955) belonged to.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1975-1979 (report); practices described span earlier decades
- Population
- Navy shipyard workers and ship crews (program context)
- Limitations
- Program-level finding about the then-modern (1970s) fleet, not about this hull - the quoted language describes in-service practice at report date, after DE/DER-333 had already been stricken and sold. Establishes nothing about materials aboard this vessel. Included only as Navy-wide era context consistent with Batch-01 and later-batch usage; gao.gov blocks automated fetches (403), so the product-page description and prior-batch verification are relied on.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-strickland-de333-04
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[5]CourtListener API v4 sweep (opinion index type=o and RECAP docket index type=r) for exact name 'USS Strickland', hull numbers 'DE-333'/'DER-333'/'DE 333', via cl-auth-search.py (authenticated, fleet-paced) [court_record]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-strickland-de333-04 through -09; Vida v. Abex Corp. ECF No. 52 plain text (recap.gov.uscourts.cand.111206.52.0) reviewed for the DER-333 token match
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- CourtListener sweep results: exact-name '"USS Strickland"' = 0 opinions and 0 dockets; '"DER-333"' = 0 opinions; '"DE-333" OR "DER-333" OR "DE 333"' (type=o) = 8 hits, all string collisions on manual review (PACER docket-entry references 'DE 333'/'[DE 380]', reporter page stars, Spanish-language 'de 333' in Puerto Rico opinions) - none references a vessel, naval service, or asbestos exposure aboard; '"DE-333" OR "DER-333"' (type=r) = 233 docket hits, all 'DE 333'/'DE #333' PACER docket-entry references on sampled review; '"DER-333"' (type=r) = 1 hit, Vida v. Abex Corp., N.D. Cal. 3:97-cv-01028 (an MDL-875 asbestos docket) - full-text pull of the matching document (ECF No. 52, JPML conditional remand order) shows the token match is an OCR adjacency ('SCHNEIDER 333 PINE ST.', a San Francisco attorney address; 'TRANSFER ORDER NO. 333'), with zero occurrences of 'Strickland' in the document - a name collision, not qualifying litigation. No qualifying asbestos litigation naming this hull was located.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 2026-09-28
- Limitations
- Sweep covers CourtListener's opinion and RECAP docket indexes only - it does not cover state-court filings without RECAP presence, bankruptcy trust claims, or non-U.S. jurisdictions. A bare-surname query ('Strickland asbestos ship', type=o) was attempted once and met a fleet-pacing stand-down (shared ~114/hr budget); logged rather than retried - 'Strickland' is a common surname and the exact-name and hull-number sweeps already returned clean zero/collision results.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-strickland-de333-05
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[6]Batch-4236 search ledger (this record): NHHC DANFS via Wayback capture + ibiblio/HyperWar mirror, NVR, NavSource via Wayback, Atlas shipyard dataset, CourtListener API v4 [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-strickland-de333-01 through -12
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located for DE-333/DER-333: no hull ACM survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, material-condition report, insulation schedule, or sampling record naming this hull was found in the public sources searched, and no qualifying asbestos litigation names the vessel - every CourtListener hit is an identifier/string collision. No preservation-era documentation can exist: the hull was sold for scrapping to West Waterway Lumber Co., Seattle, in 1974 and no longer exists, so no present-day survey is possible.
- 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 - the hull was built inside the documented asbestos era and served through the DER-conversion era; absence here reflects record coverage, not a finding about materials. Does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-strickland-de333-06
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[7]NARA RG 19 (BuShips contract specifications / General Information Books) and RG 24 deck logs for DE-333/DER-333; Norfolk Naval Shipyard 1951-52 DER-conversion work packages; New York Naval Shipyard October 1955 overhaul records; Pearl Harbor 1957-58 availability records; MARAD sale/scrapping file for the 1974 West Waterway Lumber Co. disposition - all undigitized or not located online [other_primary]
- Locator
- NARA RG 19/RG 24 entry series (undigitized); Norfolk NSY, NYNSY, and Pearl Harbor yard job records; MARAD disposition file
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Archival leads for hull-level material documentation not yet retrieved: (1) NARA RG 19 holds BuShips per-vessel specifications and ships-data books covering DE-333's construction at Consolidated Steel, Orange, Tex.; (2) RG 24 deck logs cover 1944-46 and the DER era including the 1951-52 conversion and 1957-58 Pearl Harbor availability; (3) Norfolk Naval Shipyard 1951-52 DER-conversion work packages would document any insulation removal/installation during conversion; (4) New York Naval Shipyard October 1955 overhaul records would document yard materials handling; (5) the Pearl Harbor October 1957 - March 1958 radar/communications availability would name the performing activity and scope; (6) MARAD sale and scrapping records would document the 1974 West Waterway Lumber Co. disposition and any hazardous-material conditions attached.
- Verification
- unverified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1943-1974 (records); 2026 (lead status)
- Limitations
- Leads only - none of these holdings were pulled or digitized; contents unknown. They establish nothing about materials aboard. NARA catalog returns an SPA shell to programmatic fetches (standing limitation shared with prior batches).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-strickland-de333-07