Evidence
8 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-8).
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[1]research packet is-packet.md (2 sources cited) [nhhc_danfs]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERIFIED — real identity: USS Talbot (second of that name); hull Destroyer No. 114 / DD-114; type destroyer, Wickes class
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-talbot-dd114-pkt-is-packet-md
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[2]DANFS, Talbot II (DD-114), verbatim transcription at hazegray/losthistory mirror (also transcribed under APD-7 at HyperWar/ibiblio: https://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USN/ships/dafs/APD/apd7.html) - live NHHC page returns 404 [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS entry, specifications block + full service narrative
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS record for this hull: Wickes-class destroyer laid down 12 July 1917 at Philadelphia by William Cramp & Sons; launched 20 February 1918; commissioned 20 July 1918. WWI convoy escort to British Isles (three round trips, Brest call December 1918); Pacific Fleet from 1919; decommissioned San Diego 31 March 1923; designated DD-114 in reserve 17 July 1920; recommissioned 31 May 1930 (DesRon 10, Battle Force); Hawaii submarine-force support 1937; San Diego 1940-41. Post-Pearl-Harbor screening (Saratoga), 12th Naval District patrol, seven months Alaskan escort; reclassified high-speed transport APD-7 on 31 October 1942; converted by Mare Island Navy Yard to carry 147 combat troops, work completed 15 March 1943. New Georgia/Rendova, Vella Lavella, Treasury Islands, Bougainville (McKean rescue), Green Islands, Emirau, Aitape; collision with Pennsylvania (BB-38); Saipan D-Day; San Francisco overhaul 11 July-28 August 1944; Leyte UDT operations; Seeadler Harbor (Mount Hood explosion 800 yd distant); Lingayen, Nasugbu, Mariveles/Corregidor; Okinawa picket. Arrived San Pedro 6 July 1945; reverted to DD-114 16 July 1945; decommissioned 9 October 1945; struck 24 October (DANFS transcription misprints 1946); sold to Boston Metals Co., Baltimore 30 January 1946 and scrapped. Eight battle stars WWII.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Study period
- 1917-1946
- Population
- William Cramp & Sons construction trades 1917-18; Mare Island Navy Yard conversion workforce Feb-Mar 1943; wartime crew and embarked troops
- Limitations
- DANFS documents service history and specifications, not materials or asbestos content - contains no asbestos statement. Mirror transcriptions cited because live NHHC page serves 404. Internal typos in the DANFS text carried as logged discrepancies: striking year printed '1946' (context and NavSource establish 1945) and a Lingayen sortie dated '4 January 1946' (context establishes 1945).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-talbot-dd114-01
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[3]NavSource Amphibious Photo Archive, USS Talbot (APD-7) ex DD-114 - campaign list, APD-era specifications, and Navy Yard Mare Island photo captions (photo no. 1723-3-43, dated 11 March 1943) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource APD-7 page, specifications block and photo captions (Mare Island 3/11/43 series)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Secondary archive corroborates and extends DANFS: Talbot was at Mare Island Navy Yard 6 February-16 March 1943 (photo-caption record) for the APD conversion; APD-era machinery listed as two Fore River Curtis-design geared turbines, two Yarrow boilers (250 psi), Falk main reduction gears, two propellers, 27,000 shp - consistent with APD conversion practice of removing the forward boilers; complement 8 officers + 98 enlisted plus 3+144 troop accommodations; nine battle stars credited (vs. eight in DANFS - discrepancy logged); redesignation listed as 21 October 1942 (vs. 31 October in DANFS - logged).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Study period
- 1917-1946
- Population
- Mare Island Navy Yard conversion workforce, Feb-Mar 1943
- Limitations
- NavSource is a volunteer photographic archive, not an official record - used here to corroborate DANFS and to fix the yard-period window via Navy Yard photo caption numbers; its machinery listing and battle-star/date figures conflict with DANFS in two places (carried in gaps). No asbestos or materials content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-talbot-dd114-02
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[4]Fleischer WE, Viles FJ, Gade RL, Drinker P. 'A Health Survey of Pipe Covering Operations in Constructing Naval Vessels.' Journal of Industrial Hygiene and Toxicology 1946;28:9-16 (scanned primary text) [other_primary]
- Locator
- J. Ind. Hyg. Toxicol. 28:9-16 (1946), 'Pipe Covering Material' section
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Contemporaneous Navy-sponsored industrial-health survey of pipe-covering operations at two government Navy yards and two Navy contract yards during the wartime construction program: 'An important ingredient of pipe covering material used on U.S. Navy vessels is amosite,' with asbestosis already observed in yard pipe coverers; the study documents amosite-asbestos felt and pipe covering as standard insulating materials in naval-vessel construction of the period.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Study period
- 1943-1945 (survey); published Jan 1946
- Population
- Navy yard and contract-yard pipe coverers/insulators, WWII construction era
- Limitations
- Era/program-level evidence: yards are anonymized (Yards A-D), vessels unnamed, and the survey postdates this hull's 1917-18 construction (it brackets her 1943 conversion period only). The study's concluding reassurance ('not a dangerous occupation') is historically discredited - the row is used for material practice only, not hazard conclusions. Does not establish asbestos aboard this hull, quantity, or exposure.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-talbot-dd114-03
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[5]Marr WT. 'Asbestos Exposure During Naval Vessel Overhaul.' American Industrial Hygiene Association Journal 1964;25:264-268. PMID 14168424; DOI 10.1080/00028896409342585 [other_primary]
- Locator
- AIHA J. 25:264-268 (1964), Materials and Working Environment sections
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Peer-reviewed study from the Long Beach Naval Shipyard Medical Department documenting insulation-shop workers applying asbestos-containing insulation to steam power plants aboard ships and removing insulation during repairs/overhaul; multiple asbestosis disability retirements and one death among ~50-80 insulation workers. Establishes the era overhaul pathway - fabrication, installation, and removal of asbestos insulation aboard naval vessels in Navy yards.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Study period
- survey period ~1943-1962
- Population
- Naval shipyard insulation workers, WWII-era through 1960s
- Limitations
- Era/overhaul-pathway documentation only - studies Long Beach Naval Shipyard insulation workers in the 1950s-60s, does not name this hull or Mare Island, and postdates this hull's service life (scrapped 1946). Supports the plausibility context for her 1943 Mare Island conversion and earlier repairs; establishes nothing ship-specific.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-talbot-dd114-04
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[6]CourtListener API v4 opinion and RECAP docket searches (authenticated) for this hull, 2026-09-26 [court_record]
- Locator
- CourtListener search results, sl-uss-talbot-dd114-03 through sl-uss-talbot-dd114-06
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- CourtListener sweep found no qualifying asbestos litigation naming this hull. 'USS Talbot' (type=o): 1 hit - Bailey v. United States, 260 F. Supp. 48 (E.D. Va. 1966), a ship-repair indemnity dispute concerning USS Talbot County (LST-1153), not this hull and not asbestos. 'DD-114' (type=o): 2 hits - Signs v. State Dep't of Transp., 342 So. 2d 148 (Fla. Dist. Ct. App. 1977) and Pennsylvania State Troopers' Ass'n v. Pennsylvania State Police, 718 A.2d 1288 (Pa. Commw. Ct. 1998), both court-docket-number collisions, not vessel references. 'APD-7' (type=o): 4 hits, all docket-number/string collisions, no vessel reference. '"Talbot" asbestos' (type=o): 102 hits, all surname collisions (plaintiffs/decedents surnamed Talbot; Pope & Talbot Inc.; Talbot Carmouche & Marcello firm; Judge Talbot) - zero vessel references. 'USS Talbot' (type=r): 1 hit - Cannady v. Earnest (D.D.C. 2020), ADA case with Talbot County Commissioner as party. 'DD-114' (type=r): 14 hits, all sealed-exhibit-number ('Exhibit DD-114') collisions. '"Talbot" asbestos' (type=r): 456 hits, all plaintiff/defendant surnames - no 'USS', 'aboard', hull-number, or vessel context in any hit.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Study period
- 2026-09-26
- Limitations
- Absence of a located opinion/docket does not prove no asbestos claim ever alleged exposure aboard this hull - settled/removed cases and state-court filings are incompletely indexed; exposure window for this hull (1918-1945) predates the asbestos-litigation era. Second-hull collision risk noted: 'USS Talbot' queries can return FFG-4/DEG-4 (in service 1967-1988) material.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-talbot-dd114-05
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[7]NARA RG 181 (Naval Districts and Shore Establishments), 181.3.3 Records of the Mare Island Navy Yard; NARA RG 19 Bureau of Ships records; William Cramp & Sons collections (Independence Seaport Museum J. Welles Henderson Archives; SUNY Maritime Stephen B. Luce Library; Temple University SCRC) [other_primary]
- Locator
- archives.gov RG 181 finding aid (181.3.3); ISM Henderson Archives collection description; SUNY Maritime Luce Library Cramp blueprints series I
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Unretrieved archival leads with plausible hull-specific material: NARA San Bruno holds Mare Island Navy Yard general correspondence (1926-58) and ship records covering the Feb-Mar 1943 APD-7 conversion work package; NARA RG 19 Bureau of Construction and Repair/BuShips records hold class design and hull specification material; the Cramp & Sons archival collections (Independence Seaport Museum, on loan from the Franklin Institute; SUNY Maritime Luce Library blueprints 1889-1917; Temple SCRC records 1867-1912) hold builder plans and contract data for yard no. 451.
- Verification
- unverified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Study period
- record coverage 1917-1943 relevant windows
- Limitations
- Leads only - no retrieval performed; contents, coverage of this specific hull, and any asbestos/materials statements are unverified. Collection date ranges bracket but may not include the WWI construction contract for hull 451.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-talbot-dd114-06
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[8]Batch-3122 search ledger (this record): DANFS transcriptions (hazegray/HyperWar mirrors; live NHHC 404); NavSource APD-7/DD-114 archive pages; CourtListener authenticated opinion+docket sweeps; NARA RG 181/19 finding aids; Cramp collection finding aids; general web sweep for abatement/survey/litigation records [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-talbot-dd114-01 through sl-uss-talbot-dd114-08
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, museum record, or docketed case naming this hull was found in the public sources searched (see search_ledger). The hull was scrapped in 1946, precluding museum-era documentation.
- 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 - WWI-era steam destroyer construction was era-consistent with asbestos insulation practice, and the 1943 Mare Island conversion (which removed the forward boilers) is the kind of work that disturbed insulation. Does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-talbot-dd114-07