Evidence
8 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-8).
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[1]research packet ey-packet.md (3 sources cited) [nhhc_danfs]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERIFIED
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-taylor-dd468-pkt-ey-packet-md
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[2]DANFS, Taylor II (DD-468) (namesake biographical notes, specifications block, full service narrative; verbatim HyperWar/ibiblio transcription for the WWII-era entry and hazegray.org transcription via Wayback capture 2021-02-16 for the updated postwar narrative - live NHHC pages serve 404 site-wide) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS entry, specifications block + service narrative (WWII section via ibiblio dd468.html; updated postwar section via hazegray dd468txt.htm, Wayback capture 2021-02-16)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS record for this hull: laid down 28 August 1941 at Bath, Maine, by Bath Iron Works Corp.; launched 7 June 1942, sponsored by Mrs. H. A. Baldridge; commissioned 28 August 1942 at Charlestown Navy Yard near Boston, Lt. Comdr. Benjamin Katz in command; DesRon 20 Atlantic shakedown and convoy escort; Pacific transit December 1942; DesRon 21 / TF 18 screen including the 29-30 January 1943 air attacks that sank Chicago (CA-29); Vila-Stanmore bombardment; Battle of Kolombangara 12-13 July 1943 (torpedo possibly struck Japanese flagship Jintsu); Horaniu; Battle of Vella Lavella 6 October 1943 (evacuated most of Selfridge's crew); Gilberts/Marshalls carrier screen; San Francisco yard period 16 December 1943 - 1 February 1944; 7th Fleet - Humboldt Bay, Morotai, Leyte, Surigao Strait approaches; rammed a midget submarine off Lingayen 5 January 1945; Subic Bay operations - Corregidor, Zamboanga, Cebu, Tarakan; TG 38.4 screen for the final strikes; entered Tokyo Bay 29 August 1945 screening Missouri with Nicholas and O'Bannon; carried correspondents to the 2 September surrender ceremony; decommissioned 31 May 1946 at San Diego (reserve). Updated entry: to San Francisco Naval Shipyard 9 May 1950, escort-destroyer conversion begun three days later; redesignated DDE-468 2 January 1951; recommissioned 3 December 1951; homeported Pearl Harbor; two Korean deployments (TF 77, Wonsan blockade, Taiwan Strait); five more WESTPAC deployments 1954-59; Pearl Harbor NSY overhaul from December 1960; Operation Dominic support 1962; redesignated DD-468 on 7 August 1962; Vietnam patrols from March 1965 and gunline/Yankee Station tours through January 1969 interleaved with Pearl Harbor overhauls (1964, 1965-66, 1967-68); InSurv board found her unfit May 1969; decommissioned at San Diego early June 1969; stricken 2 July 1969 and transferred to Italy, serving as Lanciere (D-560) until January 1971, then cannibalized for her Italian sisters. 'Taylor earned 15 battle stars during World War II, two battle stars for the Korean conflict, and six battle [stars] for Vietnam service.' Spec block: dp. 2,050; 376'6" x 39'4"; s. 35.5 k.; cpl. 329; cl. Fletcher.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1941-1971
- Population
- Bath Iron Works construction trades 1941-42; wartime crew; postwar crew 1951-1969
- Limitations
- DANFS documents service history and specifications, not materials or asbestos content. Date conflicts (DD reversion 7 Aug 1962 vs. NavSource 30 Jun 1962; complement 329 vs. 273; recommissioning CO surname 'Kenney' in transcription vs. Kinney) carried in gaps. Mirror transcriptions cited because live NHHC pages return 404 (site-wide).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-taylor-dd468-01
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[3]NavSource Naval History, USS Taylor (DD-468/DDE-468) ship page - operational and building data block (compiled from official ship data; volunteer-maintained archive; retrieved via Wayback capture 2024-12-09) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource DD-468 page (archives/05/468.htm), 'Operational and Building Data' + 'Fate' blocks; NUC text reproduction
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NavSource ship data block for this hull: laid down at Bath Iron Works, Bath, ME, 28 August 1941; launched 7 June 1942; commissioned 28 August 1942; decommissioned 31 May 1946; recommissioned 3 December 1951; reclassified DDE-468 2 January 1951; reverted to DD-468 30 June 1962 (one-day-plus conflict with DANFS's 7 August 1962 - carried in gaps); decommissioned 3 June 1969; stricken 2 July 1969; to Italy 2 July 1969 renamed Lanciere; stricken 1971 and cannibalized to provide spare parts for her sisters in Italian service. Machinery per NavSource: Westinghouse turbines, 2 screws, 60,000 shp (class design per BuShips data reads General Electric - conflict carried in gaps); crew 273. Page also reproduces the Navy Unit Commendation text for DesRon 21's Solomon Islands service.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1941-1971
- Population
- Crew (NavSource figure 273); Italian Navy spares-recovery workers, La Spezia 1969-71
- Limitations
- NavSource is a volunteer-maintained compilation of official data - treated as a secondary transcription source, not a primary document; dates consistent with DANFS except where noted in gaps. Documents disposition and configuration, not materials or asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-taylor-dd468-02
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[4]Destroyer History Foundation, USS Taylor (DD-468) ship pages (built from DANFS, command histories, and the ship's scanned 1945 WWII cruise book) [other_primary]
- Locator
- destroyerhistory.org/fletcherclass/usstaylor/ - main narrative; 'The Terrible T' and cruise-book subpages (index.asp?r=46800&pid=46802, 46804, 46807)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Destroyer History Foundation record for this hull: built at Bath Iron Works alongside De Haven (DD-469); commissioned in Boston 28 August 1942, 'the ninth ship of the 175-ship Fletcher class'; DesRon 20 Atlantic service then DesRon 21 in the Solomons - service for which she received the Navy Unit Commendation; DesDiv 41 through the Gilbert and Marshall Islands operations, the Bismarcks and New Guinea, the Philippines and Borneo, 'sinking three submarines and rescuing twenty-one airmen'; selected with Nicholas and O'Bannon to escort Missouri into Tokyo Bay for the surrender - 'the first US Navy ship to anchor in peace in Japanese coastal waters'; 15 WWII battle stars; resumed service for Korea and served off Vietnam; sold to the Italian Navy as Lanciere on 2 July 1969, 'used primarily as a source of spare parts before being stricken in 1971.' The site hosts the ship's scanned WWII cruise book (crew-published 1945) - an unretrieved primary-document lead.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1941-1971
- Population
- Crew 1942-1969 (unquantified)
- Limitations
- Foundation-compiled history from official records - secondary compilation, not itself a primary document; consistent with DANFS/NavSource on dates. The hosted cruise-book scan is a contemporary primary document but was not reviewed for this record; its asbestos-content value is unknown. Documents timeline and operations, not materials or asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-taylor-dd468-03
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[5]DANFS specifications block (Fletcher class; 35.5 kt; cpl. 329) + Atlas shipyard dataset, Bath Iron Works record (1942-era industrial-hygiene study of pipe-covering shop dust risk; OSHA 1987 asbestos citations) + class profile for Fletcher class (ships-worktrees class-c) + NARA RG19 General Information Books archival lead [other_primary]
- Locator
- DANFS spec block and postwar narrative; shipyards.json record 'bath-iron-works'; fletcher-class.class.json; NARA RG19 lead
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Era/yard inference: a WWII Fletcher-class destroyer built 1941-42 with a four-boiler/60,000-shp steam plant would have carried period-standard asbestos boiler and steam-line insulation, turbine lagging, gaskets, packing, fireproofing, and deck coverings; builder Bath Iron Works is documented at yard level in the Atlas dataset (tier 2), including a 1942-era industrial-hygiene study of pipe-covering shop dust risk; the Fletcher class profile documents identical machinery plant across all 175 hulls. Documented yard windows when insulation rip-out and replacement were standard practice: commissioning/fitting at Charlestown Navy Yard (Boston Naval Shipyard) 1942; the escort-destroyer (DDE) conversion at San Francisco Naval Shipyard May 1950 - December 1951; and repeated Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard availabilities (January 1953 repairs; major overhaul December 1960 - 1961; drydock overhauls April-June 1964 and December 1965 - January 1966; regular overhaul December 1967 - March 1968). NARA RG19 'General Information Books' per-vessel material specifications are an unretrieved archival lead for hull-level specs.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1941-1969
- Population
- Bath Iron Works construction trades 1941-42; yard workers at Boston NSY (1942), San Francisco NSY (1950-51), and Pearl Harbor NSY (1953, 1960-61, 1964, 1965-66, 1967-68); crew 1942-1969
- Limitations
- Class/era and builder-yard inference only - NOT a hull-specific finding; no ship-specific asbestos record was located (ev-07). Yard-event asbestos scope is inference; DANFS names San Francisco Naval Shipyard for the 1950-51 conversion and Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard for the overhauls but does not describe materials handled. NARA GIB retrieval not performed.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-taylor-dd468-04
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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
- gov_survey
- Finding
- GAO documented that the Navy used asbestos insulation extensively aboard ships and did not begin substituting alternative insulation materials until the early 1970s - placing DD-468's construction (1941-42), her entire commissioned service (1942-1969), her 1950-51 DDE conversion, and her Pearl Harbor overhauls inside the documented asbestos-use era.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1979
- Population
- Navy shipyard workers; asbestos program review
- Limitations
- Program-level documentation; supports era context only, not any fact specific to this hull. Full report text not retrieved (gao.gov blocks automated fetch, HTTP 403) - content via product-page description.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-taylor-dd468-05
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[7]CourtListener API v4 opinion searches, "USS Taylor" (2 results, both non-qualifying) and "DD-468" OR "DDE-468" (0 results), type=o, 2026-09-27 [court_record]
- Locator
- CourtListener API v4 search q="USS Taylor" type=o, 2 results enumerated; q="DD-468" OR "DDE-468" type=o, 0 results; collision hull identified via opinion text (32 F.3d 641)
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- CourtListener opinion-index sweep for 'USS Taylor' returned 2 hits, both the same case at different index records: United States v. Romero, 32 F.3d 641 (1st Cir. 1994) (opinion ids 195567, 2962807) - a Maritime Drug Law Enforcement Act prosecution in which the vessel named is 'the USS TAYLOR, a Navy frigate' conducting a March 1993 Caribbean narcotics interdiction south of the Dominican Republic. That hull was the Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigate USS Taylor (FFG-50), in commission 1984-2015 - a name collision, not DD-468 - and the case is criminal drug enforcement, not asbestos litigation. The hull-number opinion sweep ('DD-468' OR 'DDE-468') returned 0 results. No asbestos opinion naming this hull was located in the opinion index; independent web search likewise surfaced no published asbestos opinion naming DD-468 (the 'Taylor' hits in MDL-875 opinions are decedent surnames, e.g., Benjamin Taylor aboard USS Waddell DDG-24).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 2026-09-27
- Limitations
- Opinion-index coverage is not complete (ship-named asbestos rulings often sit in docket text rather than published opinions); the type=r docket sweep for 'USS Taylor' was quota-limited at session end by the shared fleet pacing budget - completeness caveat carried in gaps. Absence of hits does not prove absence of litigation naming the hull.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-taylor-dd468-06
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[8]Batch-3451 search ledger (this record): DANFS mirrors (ibiblio + hazegray/Wayback); NavSource; destroyerhistory.org; Naval Vessel Register; CourtListener API v4 (partial - fleet quota pacing); NARA RG19/RG24 (not digitized); Italian Navy/third-party Lanciere references; law-firm/competitor ship pages (excluded per sourcing rules) [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-taylor-dd468-01 through sl-uss-taylor-dd468-08
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, abatement contract, materials inventory, museum hazmat disclosure, or docketed/published asbestos case naming USS Taylor (DD-468) was found in the public sources searched (see search_ledger). The hull was stricken and sold to Italy on 2 July 1969 and cannibalized for spares by 1971 - disposed before modern asbestos documentation practice and never a museum, so the disclosure channels that produced records for preserved hulls are absent here.
- 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 and design are consistent with period-standard asbestos materials, and Italian-custody handling (1969-71 cannibalization) is undocumented. Does not establish that asbestos is or is not present; does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-taylor-dd468-07