Evidence
13 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-13).
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[1]research packet jg-packet.md (8 sources cited) [other_primary]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERIFIED — real identity: USS Trippe (DD-33). Hull number DD-33; designation
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-trippe-dd33-pkt-jg-packet-md
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[2]Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, 'Trippe II (Destroyer No. 33)' (live NHHC page returns 404; verbatim text verified against Wayback capture 2025-12-09 and the losthistory.net hazegray transcription mirror) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS entry, specification block, namesake paragraph, and opening paragraph; Wayback capture http://web.archive.org/web/20251209125739/https://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/t/trippe-ii.html; mirror https://losthistory.net/hazegray/danfs/destroy/dd33txt.htm
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS identifies the second Trippe (Torpedo Boat Destroyer No. 33) as a Bath Iron Works-built torpedo boat destroyer: laid down 12 April 1910 at Bath, Maine; launched 20 December 1910, sponsored by Mrs. John S. Hyde; commissioned at the Boston Navy Yard 23 March 1911, Lt. Frank D. Berrien in command. Specification block: displacement 742 (normal); length 293'10"; beam 26'1" (waterline); draft 9'5" (aft); speed 30.89 knots (trial); complement 83; armament 5 x 3-inch guns, 2 x .30-caliber machine guns, 6 x 18-inch torpedo tubes; class listed as 'Roe'. The entry's namesake paragraph identifies Lt. John Trippe (1785-1810), a Tripolitan War officer who received a sword and a commendation from Congress.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Limitations
- DANFS establishes identity, builder, construction dates, namesake, and period specifications - not materials, insulation composition, or asbestos content. The live NHHC page returned HTTP 404 during this session, so the verbatim transcription (hazegray mirror) and a verified Wayback capture are cited. The spec block's 'cl. Roe' and NHHC's 'Paulding class' naming differ - carried in gaps.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-trippe-dd33-01
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[3]Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, 'Trippe II (Destroyer No. 33)' (verbatim text verified against Wayback capture 2025-12-09 and the losthistory.net hazegray transcription mirror; live NHHC page 404) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS entry, service narrative paragraphs 2-8
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS records Trippe's service: Atlantic Torpedo Fleet operations on the east coast with winter Caribbean exercises 1911-1914; patrol off Tampico and Vera Cruz during the April-May 1914 Mexico intervention; overhaul and drills at Boston; assignment to the 2d Reserve Flotilla 13 December 1915, 'reduced complement' status 5 January 1916, and placement in ordinary at the Boston Navy Yard 27 January 1916; return to full commission 25 July 1916; departure from Boston 21 May 1917 for Queenstown, Ireland, with convoy escort and anti-submarine patrols through the Armistice (in port at Queenstown 11 November 1918); the single verified U-boat contact on 18 September 1917 in company with Jacob Jones (Destroyer No. 61), depth charges dropped without 'visible results,' and a same-night storm that carried her starboard waist gun platform overboard before she shepherded her convoy into Quiberon Bay; return to Boston 3 January 1919; preinactivation overhaul at the Philadelphia Navy Yard from 23 July 1919; decommissioned 6 November 1919 and placed in reserve at Philadelphia. Coast Guard period: transferred to the Treasury Department 7 June 1924 under the 2 April 1924 Congressional authorization, overhauled and stripped of depth-charge gear and torpedo tubes with 'one of her four guns' removed (vs. the spec block's five - see gaps), commissioned as Trippe (CG-20) 24 June 1924 under Lt. Comdr. John H. Cornell, USCG; four years of 'rum patrol' operations out of New London, Conn.; reduced commission at New London 5 January 1929; moved to Stapleton, N.Y., October 1929; New York Navy Yard overhaul January-March 1930; resumed Stapleton-based operations 23 April 1930; decommissioned by the Coast Guard at Philadelphia 15 April 1931 and returned to the Navy 2 May 1931; reserve at Philadelphia until scrapping; struck from the Navy list 5 July 1934; sold to Michael Flynn, Inc., of Brooklyn, N.Y., 22 August 1934.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Limitations
- Service history and yard locations only. DANFS records yard periods at Boston (ordinary status and recurrent repairs), the Philadelphia preinactivation overhaul, the 1924 Rum Patrol conversion overhaul, and the January-March 1930 New York Navy Yard overhaul without describing work scope, insulation, or materials - no asbestos finding follows from a yard period. The CG-refit sentence 'removed one of her four guns' conflicts with the spec block's five 3-inch guns; documented in gaps rather than reconciled.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-trippe-dd33-02
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[4]Naval Historical Center / NHHC Online Library, 'USS Trippe (Destroyer # 33, later DD-33), 1911-1934' (ibiblio HyperWar mirror of the official photo-index page) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- Page summary text and photo captions (NH 99257, NH 50124, NH 41980, 111-SC-43617, NH 41981)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- NHHC's Online Library ship page (mirrored via HyperWar/ibiblio) corroborates the DANFS narrative: 'a 742-ton Paulding class destroyer built at Bath, Maine, was commissioned in March 1911'; pre-war western Atlantic/Caribbean operations including service off eastern Mexico April-May 1914 and reduced-commission reserve-flotilla status in the first half of 1916; departure for the combat zone May 1917; eighteen months based at Queenstown, Ireland, escorting convoys and conducting anti-submarine patrols; homeward voyage December 1918; decommissioning at the Philadelphia Navy Yard November 1919; 1924 overhaul and transfer to the Coast Guard; 'USCGC Trippe (CG-20)' enforcing prohibition laws along the Connecticut and New York coasts for the rest of the decade; returned to the Navy May 1931; stricken July 1934 and scrapped. The page captions period photographs, including Queenstown mooring views noting her pattern camouflage scheme. The page also confirms the namesake, Lieutenant John Trippe (1785-1810), 'a hero of the Tripolitan War.'
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Limitations
- Official photo-catalog page; corroborates history, the 'Paulding class' designation, and the CG-20 hull symbol, but contains no materials, insulation, or asbestos information. One caption notes an original print misidentifying Trippe as USS Monaghan (Destroyer # 32) - a period mislabeling documented by NHC, not a record conflict.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-trippe-dd33-03
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[5]Ships' Data, U.S. Naval Vessels, January 1916 edition (U.S. Navy Department, Government Printing Office), destroyer tables (shipscribe.com scan, Google-digitized public-domain copy) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Destroyer name/builder/duty table p.66, machinery table p.68, dimension/speed table p.67, and dates table (continued, second alphabetical half, printed folio illegible in scan) - 'Trippe (33)' rows; OCR-assisted reading
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Ships' Data, U.S. Naval Vessels (January 1916 edition, Navy Department / Bureau of Construction and Repair, GPO) lists this hull in the destroyer tables: 'Trippe (33)' - built by Bath Iron Works, Bath, Me.; duty 'Atlantic Fleet'; machinery 'Parsons turb. (3)' with '4 Normand' boilers and the table footnote 'Oil fuel'; horsepower columns print 19,320 and 14,978; the dimension/speed table prints displacement 742, length overall 293'10", trial speed 30.89 knots, complement column 83; the dates table prints keel laid 12 April 1910, launched 20 December 1910, and first commission 23 March 1911 - matching DANFS exactly (the authorization/contract columns are character-degraded in the scan and are not carried).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Limitations
- An official period description of this hull's machinery - boiler count/type, turbine type/count, and oil fuel - but it does not describe insulation, lagging, gasket, or any other materials, so it supports no asbestos finding. The two printed horsepower figures (19,320; 14,978) use the table's two I.H.P. conventions (main turbines only vs. with auxiliaries) and differ from the 12,000 SHP printed in secondary compilations (NavSource); the variance is documented in gaps. OCR of a scanned table; values read at 200dpi and cross-checked against DANFS.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-trippe-dd33-04
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[6]Standard Nomenclature and List of Vessels, U.S. Navy, July 1, 1920 (Navy Department), destroyer second-line roster (Internet Archive full-text OCR of the official publication) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Destroyers - Second Line (ODD) roster, 'TRIPPE DD33' row (status 'Out of commission,' home yard Philadelphia)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- The Navy Department's 'Standard Nomenclature and List of Vessels, U.S. Navy, July 1, 1920' lists 'TRIPPE - DD33' under Destroyers - Second Line, 'Out of commission,' home yard Philadelphia - corroborating DANFS's 6 November 1919 decommissioning at the Philadelphia Navy Yard and her reserve status between the wars.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Limitations
- A status roster, not a materials record; corroborates disposition and location only. OCR renders the name 'TlUPPE'; identification is confirmed by the DD33 hull number and Philadelphia out-of-commission status matching DANFS.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-trippe-dd33-05
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[7]National Archives, Special List 44, Named Vessels, Trippe entries [other_primary]
- Locator
- Alphabetical named-vessels table, Trippe rows (DD-33 = this hull; DD-403 row is a different ship)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- NARA's Special List 44 (Named Vessels deck-log index) lists a Trippe (DD-33) deck-log run from 3/23/1911 to 11/6/1919 - the run's start and end match the DANFS commissioning (23 March 1911) and decommissioning (6 November 1919) dates exactly. A separate 'Trippe (DD-403)' run, 11/11/1939 to 6/30/1945, is the third Trippe (Benham class) and is not this hull.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Limitations
- Collection coverage index only; the deck logs were not inspected, and NARA states deck logs provide no direct evidence of shipboard asbestos. No deck-log run is indexed for the 1924-1931 Coast Guard period (USCG logs would be held separately).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-trippe-dd33-06
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[8]National Archives, Ship Plan Index, TRIPPE DD-33 entries (NAID 12451237; NAID 53488641; NAID 175670983) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Ship Plan Index table, TRIPPE DD-33 rows
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- NARA's Ship Plan Index lists three TRIPPE DD-33 entries: RG 38 Trial Curves (NAID 12451237); RG 19 Alphabetical Ship Drawings (NAID 53488641); and RG 19 Microfilm (NAID 175670983). These entries establish that hull-level engineering drawings and trial data for this ship exist in NARA custody; the drawings themselves were not retrieved or reviewed. Separate TRIPPE DD-403 index entries (NAID 53488640; NAID 175670984) are a different ship.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Limitations
- Index entries prove holdings, not content; whether the drawings include insulation or lagging schedules is unknown. The NARA asbestos guide's hull-drawing categories (S39 insulation/lagging, S48 piping) are framed for 1941-1961 records; whether analogous drawing series exist in this hull's 1910-1911 plan set was not determined.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-trippe-dd33-07
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[9]National Archives, 'Researching Asbestos aboard US Naval Vessel up through 1961' [other_primary]
- Locator
- Beginning Research; Bureau of Ships correspondence; General Information Books; Ship Engineering Drawings; Board of Inspection and Survey reports sections
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- NARA's shipboard-asbestos research guide states that documenting asbestos in U.S. Navy materiel is a vessel-specific research task and identifies the relevant record series: RG 19 Bureau of Ships correspondence filed by hull designation, General Information Books, hull-arranged ship engineering drawings including insulation/lagging and piping drawings, and RG 38 Board of Inspection and Survey reports.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Limitations
- A research method and record-series map, not a DD-33 material record. The guide's stated scope is 1941-1961 - entirely after this hull's 1911-1919 Navy service and 1934 disposal - so its enumerated series may not hold DD-33-era equivalents; pre-1940 Bureau of Construction and Repair / Bureau of Engineering records would be the more likely period analogues. No DD-33 item was retrieved from any listed series.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-trippe-dd33-08
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[10]U.S. General Accounting Office, HRD-80-2, asbestos in Navy shipyards/shipboard program review (1979) [gao]
- Locator
- GAO product page and report abstract
- Finding type
- gov_survey
- Finding
- GAO report HRD-80-2 (1979) reviews the Navy's asbestos-protection program service-wide. It postdates this hull's 1934 sale and scrapping by 45 years and contains no reference to DD-33.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Limitations
- gao.gov returned HTTP 403 to automated fetch during this session (standing defect documented since batch-01); the product-page entry is cited without full-text review. Program-level context predicated on a period decades after this hull left service; establishes nothing about materials aboard DD-33.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-trippe-dd33-09
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[11]U.S. Coast Guard Historian's Office, cutter bibliography (General), 'Trippe' entry citing Coast Guard Magazine (January 1931), p. 26 [other_primary]
- Locator
- Cutter bibliography, Rum Patrol-era destroyer entries, 'Trippe' line
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- The USCG Historian's Office cutter bibliography indexes a period article on this cutter: '"....Trippe." Coast Guard Magazine (Jan 1931), p. 26' - a contemporaneous Coast Guard publication entry for this hull's CG-20 period. The article itself was not retrieved.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Limitations
- A bibliography entry only - it proves a period Coast Guard Magazine article about this cutter exists, not its content. The USCG Historian's dedicated cutter page for Trippe returned HTTP 403 to automated fetch during this session (blocked), so USCG-era detail beyond DANFS/NHHC remains open. No materials or asbestos content is implied.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-trippe-dd33-10
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[12]CourtListener API v4 sweep (cl-auth-search.py, authenticated, 2026-09-27): '"USS Trippe"' o=1 (collision: United States v. Martinez, NMCMR 1981, /opinion/8663545/), r=1 (collision: Marcus v. Air & Liquid Systems Corp., 4:22-cv-09058 N.D. Cal., asbestos PI naming FF-1075-era Trippe, /docket/66675744/); '"DD-33"' o=16 (all collisions), r=114 (document-ID collisions; first page reviewed); '"CG-20"' o=39 (all collisions); '"aboard Trippe"' o=0 [court_record]
- Locator
- cl-auth-search.py results, 2026-09-27; collisions reviewed at /opinion/8663545/ and /docket/66675744/
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- CourtListener sweep, fully executed: the exact-phrase opinion query '"USS Trippe"' (type=o) returned one result - United States v. Martinez, 12 M.J. 801 (Navy-Marine Corps Court of Military Review, 1981), a court-martial appeal (assault with intent to commit murder); the vessel reference postdates this hull's 1934 scrapping and during 1980-1981 the only commissioned USS Trippe was the Knox-class frigate FF-1075 - a name collision classified as other litigation (non-asbestos, different ship). The exact-phrase RECAP docket query '"USS Trippe"' (type=r) returned one docket - Marcus v. Air & Liquid Systems Corp., No. 4:22-cv-09058 (N.D. Cal., filed 2022-12-21, terminated 2024-09-13), docket-indexed suit nature 'P.I. : Asbestos,' removed under 28 U.S.C. 1442 (federal-officer removal), Judge Gilliam; the docket includes a 2024 Daubert/summary-judgment order granting in part and denying in part defendants' motions (ECF No. 537). This is qualifying asbestos litigation by subject matter, but the named vessel cannot be this hull: DD-33 was scrapped in 1934 and a 2022-filed plaintiff's shipboard exposure must postdate 1970, when the only commissioned USS Trippe was FF-1075 - a name collision within qualifying litigation, not a finding for this hull. Complaint text was not retrievable under fleet pacing; the hull attribution is resolved by era, not by merits review. The hull-number opinion query '"DD-33"' (type=o) returned 16 results, all name collisions on NY Appellate Division docket numbers and non-vessel text - none ship-related, none asbestos. The hull-number docket query '"DD-33"' (type=r) returned 114 dockets (469 documents); the first page of results (20 dockets) are all 'DD-33' exhibit/declaration document-ID collisions in patent, contract, securities, and other non-vessel matters - none asbestos, none ship-related. The Coast Guard designation query '"CG-20"' (type=o) returned 39 results, all name collisions on the ISO 'CG-20' insurance-endorsement form number and zoning designations - none vessel-related. The phrasing-variant query '"aboard Trippe"' (type=o) returned zero results. No qualifying asbestos litigation naming this hull was located.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Limitations
- All planned sweep queries executed: exact name and hull number on both indexes, CG designation, and phrasing variant - the sole residual limitation is the '"DD-33"' docket set (114) reviewed to page 1 of 6; all reviewed hits are document-ID collisions and deeper pages are the same noise class. Both 'USS Trippe' hits resolve by era to different ships: Martinez (1981) names the 1970-1992 frigate; Marcus (2022 asbestos filing) necessarily names the frigate as well - this hull's last crew left in 1931. 'Trippe' also collides with DD-403 (Benham class, 1939-1948); any future hit describing WWII service would be that hull. No merits determination is implied for any collision docket.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-trippe-dd33-11
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[13]Documented negative finding from the 2026-09-27 official-source search ledger, with NARA's asbestos research guide as method reference [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger sl-uss-trippe-dd33-01 through sl-uss-trippe-dd33-12
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No DD-33/CG-20-specific asbestos survey, material specification, abatement record, exposure finding, or adjudicated litigation naming this hull was located in the official public sources searched (NHHC DANFS and Online Library, Ships' Data 1916, Standard Nomenclature 1920, NARA Special List 44 and Ship Plan Index, NARA asbestos research guide, NVR, GAO product index, CourtListener opinion index).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Limitations
- A bounded negative finding about this online search, not proof the ship lacked asbestos. The hull predates the 1941-1961 asbestos-documentation framework entirely; unexamined NARA holdings (RG 19 drawings NAIDs 53488641 and 175670983; RG 38 trial curves NAID 12451237; deck logs 1911-1919; period Bureau of Construction and Repair correspondence) may change the result. No individual exposure, product, quantity, location, or causal conclusion is supported.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-trippe-dd33-12