Evidence
13 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-13).
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[1]research packet fd-packet.md (12 sources cited) [other_primary]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERIFIED
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-terry-dd513-pkt-fd-packet-md
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[2]DANFS, Terry II (DD-513) - verbatim transcription at hazegray.org (live NHHC DANFS page returns 404; Wayback capture 2024-12-09 of hazegray transcription cited) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS entry, specifications block + full service narrative
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS record for this hull (Terry II): laid down at Bath, Maine, 8 June 1942 by the Bath Iron Works; launched 22 November 1942 (sponsor Mrs. Charles Nagel, Jr.); commissioned at the Boston Navy Yard 26 January 1943, Comdr. George R. Phelan in command. Atlantic/Caribbean service through mid-1943 (U-boat action 18 Apr 1943; Casablanca run May 1943; Boston Navy Yard drydock 31 May-9 Jun 1943); Panama Canal transit July 1943; Solomons campaign from mid-Sep 1943 (Kolombangara night action 2-3 Oct; Bougainville landings Nov; air attacks Dec); Green Islands Feb 1944; Rabaul bombardment 25 Feb 1944; Emirau 20 Mar 1944; Marianas Jun-Aug 1944 (Saipan, Guam; TG 58.3 screen in the Battle of the Philippine Sea); Mare Island Navy Yard overhaul completed 13 Dec 1944; Iwo Jima Feb-Mar 1945 (shore-battery hit 1 Mar 1945; emergency then permanent repairs at Mare Island); TF 38 final raids Jul-Aug 1945; occupation duty; arrived San Diego 20 Nov 1945. Placed out of commission Jan 1947; Pacific Reserve Fleet (San Diego, Long Beach, Bremerton); stricken 1 Apr 1974; sold to Peru Jul 1974. Seven battle stars. Spec block: dp 2,050; 376'6" x 39'8" x 17'9"; 37 kt; cpl. 273; cl. Fletcher.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1942-1974
- Population
- Bath Iron Works construction trades 1942-43; wartime and postwar crew (design complement 273)
- Limitations
- DANFS documents service history and specifications, not materials or asbestos content - it supports the vessel timeline and the documented yard periods (Boston Navy Yard drydock May-Jun 1943; Mare Island overhaul Oct-Dec 1944 and repairs spring 1945) but makes no statement about materials aboard. Live NHHC DANFS page 404s (standing link-rot defect noted in Batch-01); verbatim hazegray.org transcription cited via Wayback capture. Decommission date 'January 1947' conflicts with NavSource (13 Aug 1946) and a NARA deck-log recital (11 Jul 1946) - carried in gaps.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-terry-dd513-01
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[3]U.S. Navy Department, Bureau of Ships, 'Ships' Data, U.S. Naval Vessels, 1945,' Vol. I - official publication, digitized scan at shipscribe.com [other_primary]
- Locator
- Book pp. 206-207 (PDF p. 113), DESTROYERS (DD) machinery table row 390: TERRY DD-513; 2-up scan OCR (tesseract), row read across both book pages
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Official BuShips machinery-table row for this hull: 'TERRY DD513' - 2 propellers; G.E. turbines (General Electric geared steam turbines); 60,000 shaft horsepower; 4 boilers, manufacturer B. & W. (Babcock & Wilcox); steam conditions 565 p.s.i., 850 deg F. Confirms the class-standard four-B&W-boiler, 60,000-shp steam plant aboard this specific hull.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1945 edition
- Population
- Engineering crew (machinery spaces); overhaul/repair trades at Mare Island 1944-45
- Limitations
- Official BuShips machinery register naming this hull - documents the steam plant configuration (which determines the era-standard insulation envelope) but does not itself state materials content; asbestos insulation applications are era inference, not stated. OCR of a 1945 typewritten scan - boiler manufacturer carried by ditto marks resolved against the B. & W. entries above it.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-terry-dd513-03
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[4]Naval Historical Center (NHHC predecessor), Online Library of Selected Images, 'USN Ships - USS Terry (DD-513), 1943-1974' narrative + photo captions NH 102787, NH 102788, NH 102789, 80-G-253664 (ibiblio mirror) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- Online Library page narrative + photo caption blocks (Mare Island Navy Yard caption, 8 Dec 1944)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NHHC Online Library narrative and photo captions for this hull: corroborates Atlantic/convoy service, Solomons/Bismarcks operations, Marianas and Philippine Sea screening, the autumn 1944 West Coast overhaul (photo NH 102788 shows USS Terry off the Mare Island Navy Yard, 8 December 1944), the 1 March 1945 Iwo Jima shore-battery hit 'suffering the loss of eleven of her crew' and damage 'extensive enough to require another trip back to the U.S. for shipyard repairs,' decommissioning January 1947, reserve status, striking at the beginning of April 1974, and sale to Peru in July 1974 'as a source of spare parts for other ex-U.S. Navy destroyers operated by the Peruvian Navy.'
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1943-1974
- Population
- Wartime crew; Mare Island overhaul/repair trades 1944-45
- Limitations
- Official Navy historical-center compilation - corroborates the DANFS timeline and supplies the casualty figure (11 killed in the 1 Mar 1945 hit) and the spare-parts purpose of the Peru sale, neither stated in the DANFS entry. Documents service events, not materials; contains no asbestos information.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-terry-dd513-04
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[5]NARA, USS Terry (DD-513) deck logs (existence recited via Wikipedia reference note); NARA Special List #44 deck-log index (checked, no DD-513 row) [other_primary]
- Locator
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Terry_(DD-513) reference note 1 (deck-log recital); SL-44 ship-number index (no DD-513 row)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Archival lead: a Wikipedia reference note recites the NARA-held USS Terry deck log as recording decommissioning Thursday, 11 July 1946 'pursuant to CSDGrp. Nineteenth Fleet ltr. FF12-sdg/A4-1 Serial 7913 of 10 July 1946.' The recital establishes that DD-513 deck logs exist in the National Archives; the underlying log entry was not retrieved or independently verified. NARA Special List #44 (deck-log index by ship number) contains no DD-513 entry - Terry's logs, if held, sit in other accretions.
- Verification
- unverified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1946
- Limitations
- Secondary recital of a primary document - the deck log itself was not examined. The 11 Jul 1946 decommissioning it recites conflicts with both DANFS (Jan 1947) and NavSource (13 Aug 1946); if verified against the log, it would be the strongest of the three dates. SL-44's DD holdings are very limited (only postwar/late-war segments for a handful of hulls), so absence from that index does not indicate absence of logs.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-terry-dd513-05
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[6]Shipbuilding History (shipbuildinghistory.com, Tim Colton), Bath Iron Works production list, hull 202 row; corroborated by hazegray.org BIW production record part 2 [other_primary]
- Locator
- Bath Iron Works production table, hull no. 202 row (DD-513 Terry)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Builder-yard production corroboration: Bath Iron Works hull list records hull no. 202 = 'Terry, DD 513, Fletcher Class Destroyer, US Navy' - keel 8 Jun 1942, launched 22 Nov 1942, delivered 26 Jan 1943 (167 days on the ways, 65 days in the water, 232 days total), FY1940 contract; disposition 'To Peru for spares 1974.' Confirms the builder's hull number and matches DANFS/BuShips dates.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1942-1943
- Population
- Bath Iron Works construction trades 1942-43
- Limitations
- Scholarly compilation of yard/Navy records, not the records themselves; used for corroboration and the builder hull number (202). Contains no asbestos information.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-terry-dd513-06
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[7]DANFS, Terry I (DD-25) and Terry II (DD-513) entries (hazegray.org verbatim transcriptions via Wayback) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS Terry I entry (dd25txt.htm: 'cl. Roe'; commissioned 18 Oct 1910; sold for scrapping 2 May 1934; stricken 28 Jun 1934); DANFS Terry II entry opening line ('The second Terry (DD-513)')
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity correction - collision note: this hull is Terry II. Terry I (Torpedo Boat Destroyer No. 25, later DD-25) was a Roe-class destroyer - laid down 8 Feb 1909 at Newport News Shipbuilding, commissioned 18 Oct 1910, decommissioned at Philadelphia Navy Yard 13 Nov 1919, served the Coast Guard as CG-19 (1924-1930), sold for scrapping 2 May 1934 and stricken 28 Jun 1934. Bare 'USS Terry' references in any source must be checked for hull number or era context; in the asbestos-litigation era (exposure windows post-1940) only DD-513 is plausible, but a name match alone without corroborating detail does not establish this hull.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- correction
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1910-1934 (DD-25); 1942-1974 (DD-513)
- Limitations
- Prevents name-collision misattribution in litigation sweeps and index references: DD-25's service ended 1934, before the era of documented asbestos-disease litigation against manufacturers; any asbestos-era claim tied to 'USS Terry' resolves to DD-513 on era grounds unless the record says otherwise.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-terry-dd513-07
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[8]BuShips Ships' Data 1945 machinery row (this hull: 4 B&W boilers, GE geared turbines, 60,000 shp) + Atlas shipyard dataset, Bath Iron Works record (1942 Drinker pipe-covering-shop study; 1987 OSHA inspection 101450294) [other_primary]
- Locator
- SDB 1945 v1 book pp. 206-207 machinery row 390; shipyards.json record 'bath-iron-works' (ev-bath-iron-works-01, -02)
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Era/yard inference: a Fletcher-class destroyer built 1942-43 with the documented four-B&W-boiler, 60,000-shp steam plant would have carried period-standard asbestos insulation, lagging, gaskets, packing, fireproofing, and deck coverings; builder Bath Iron Works is documented at yard level in the Atlas shipyard dataset (evidence tier 2) - including the 1942 Harvard/Drinker industrial-hygiene study documenting 'fairly serious dust risk' at roughly ten times the safe threshold in pipe-covering shops (PMID 21016030), and OSHA inspection/sample records from 1987. NARA RG 19 'General Information Books' per-vessel material specifications remain an archival lead for hull-level specs.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1942-1974
- Population
- Bath Iron Works construction trades 1942-43; crew 1943-47
- Limitations
- Class/era and builder-yard inference only - NOT a hull-specific finding. The 1942 Drinker yard study overlaps this hull's build window (keel laid Jun 1942) but documents yard-shop practice, not materials installed aboard DD-513. Does not quantify material or establish any individual's exposure. NARA GIB retrieval not performed.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-terry-dd513-08
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[9]GAO, Navy Efforts To Protect Workers From Asbestos Exposure, HRD-80-2 (Oct 18, 1979) [gao]
- Locator
- GAO product page HRD-80-2 (full text blocked, HTTP 403 - content via product-page description, per Batch-01 standing note)
- 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 this hull (built 1942-43, out of commission 1946-47, in reserve through 1974) entirely inside the documented asbestos-use era for both original construction and wartime repair/overhaul work.
- 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-terry-dd513-09
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[10]Corn, Jacqueline Karnell, and Jennifer Starr, 'Historical perspective on asbestos: Policies and protective measures in World War II shipbuilding,' American Journal of Industrial Medicine 11(3):359-373 (1987) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Abstract and article, AJIM 11(3):359-373
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Peer-reviewed historical scholarship documents that asbestos was used extensively as a fireproofing and insulating material in U.S. shipbuilding during WWII - the era and program under which this hull was built - and that wartime demand drove unprecedented asbestos utilization across naval and merchant construction.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1940s era documented; article 1987
- Population
- WWII shipyard workers and ship crews (class context)
- Limitations
- Program/era-level documentation of asbestos use in WWII shipbuilding generally; does not name this vessel and does not establish that asbestos was or is aboard this hull, nor quantity, condition, exposure, or causation.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-terry-dd513-10
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[11]CourtListener API v4 search (authenticated via cl-auth-search.py), type=o and type=r [court_record]
- Locator
- search_ledger sl-uss-terry-dd513-11 through -14 (four authenticated queries)
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- CourtListener authenticated API v4 sweep, 2026-09-27: opinion index (type=o) for '"USS Terry"' = 0 results; '"DD-513"' = 0 results. Docket/RECAP index (type=r) for '"USS Terry"' = 0 results; '"DD-513"' = 5 dockets / 7 documents, all reviewed and all name collisions: Davis v. McGuffey 1:24-cv-00202 (S.D. Ohio, civil rights), Andrews v. D'Souza 1:22-cv-04259 (N.D. Ga., voting rights), Isaac v. W. Atlee Burpee & Co. 2:15-cv-06819 (E.D. Pa., employment), Laurel Park Community v. City of Tumwater 3:09-cv-05312 (W.D. Wash., civil rights), Zuck v. FBI 3:08-cv-00476 (S.D. Cal., civil rights) - in each the 'DD-513' string resolves to a form/page/OCR artifact, not the vessel. No qualifying asbestos litigation naming this hull located in either index.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 2026-09-27
- Limitations
- No qualifying asbestos litigation located - the five 'DD-513' docket hits are name collisions (the string appears as a form identifier/page ID/OCR artifact inside unrelated civil-rights dockets), not vessel references. CourtListener coverage is limited to indexed opinions and RECAP-fetched dockets; unindexed state-court and older federal filings are outside coverage. Absence of a located case is not proof none exists.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-terry-dd513-11
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[12]Batch-3491 search ledger (this record): DANFS (hazegray Wayback); NHHC Online Library; BuShips SDB 1945 v1 construction + machinery rows; NavSource; NVR; Shipbuilding History; NARA SL-44; GAO HRD-80-2; NPS NRHP check; CourtListener API v4 (4 queries); web-index litigation fallback [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-terry-dd513-01 through sl-uss-terry-dd513-14
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, museum record, or docketed case naming DD-513 was found in the public sources searched (see search_ledger). The hull was sold to Peru 26 July 1974 as a spare-parts source and cannibalized - it does not survive in documented custody, so no survey pathway remains.
- 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-standard applications are documented at class/era level (ev-08, ev-09, ev-10), and the officially documented machinery plant makes era-typical ACM applications reasonable inference but not a ship-specific finding. Does not establish or defeat any exposure claim or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-terry-dd513-12
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[13]U.S. Navy Department, Bureau of Ships, 'Ships' Data, U.S. Naval Vessels, 1945,' Vol. I - official publication, digitized scan at shipscribe.com [other_primary]
- Locator
- Book pp. 208-209 (PDF p. 114), DESTROYERS (DD) construction table row 390: TERRY DD-513; 2-up scan OCR (tesseract), row read across both book pages
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Official BuShips construction-table row for this hull: 'TERRY DD513 | Bath Iron Works Corp., Bath, Maine | 5,500,000' - contract price $5,500,000; keel laid June 8, 1942; launched November 22, 1942; date of completion December 31, 1943; date of first commission January 26, 1943 (twice-listed). The register's construction table thus corroborates builder and all primary dates in the DANFS record.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1942-1943 (register coverage)
- Population
- Bath Iron Works construction trades 1942-43
- Limitations
- Official BuShips register - strongest available construction source for this hull. The 'date of completion' column reads Dec. 31, 1943, eleven months after first commission - consistent with an administrative/final-acceptance milestone rather than delivery (other Fletcher rows show the same pattern, e.g., Saufley completion Oct. 9, 1943 vs. commission Aug. 1942); keel, launch, and first-commission dates match DANFS exactly. Records construction data, not service history or materials composition; contains no asbestos information.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-terry-dd513-02