Evidence
11 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-11).
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[1]research packet gw-packet.md (2 sources cited) [other_primary]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERIFIED
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-turner-dd834-pkt-gw-packet-md
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[2]Air & Liquid Systems Corp. v. DeVries, 586 U.S. 446 (2019) (139 S. Ct. 986), No. 17-1104 (U.S. Sup. Ct., decided Mar. 19, 2019, Kavanaugh, J.) - official slip opinion [court_record]
- Locator
- Slip op., No. 17-1104, Part I factual recital (pp. 2-3: 'He worked on the U. S. S. Turner')
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- Published U.S. Supreme Court opinion names this hull: 'John DeVries served in the U. S. Navy from 1957 to 1960. He worked on the U. S. S. Turner.' The opinion recites that the ships at issue 'were outfitted with equipment such as pumps, blowers, and turbines' and that '[t]hat equipment required asbestos insulation or asbestos parts in order to function as intended,' releasing asbestos fibers in use. DeVries (lung cancer, died during litigation) alleged exposure from maintaining equipment in the ship's engine and fire rooms. The Court adopted the plaintiffs' maritime duty-to-warn rule and affirmed the Third Circuit's judgment vacating summary judgment for the manufacturers. Hull attribution is clean: DeVries's 1957-1960 service window falls entirely within this hull's commission (1945-1969), and the E.D. Pa. record states the USS Turner at issue was 'constructed in 1945' - DD-834 (DD-648 sank 1944; Turner Joy DD-951 is a different name).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1957-1960 (alleged exposure); 2012-2019 (litigation)
- Population
- John B. DeVries, USN engineering officer aboard USS Turner 1957-1960 (supervised engine- and fire-room maintenance); lung cancer diagnosed 2012
- Limitations
- The Supreme Court decided a question of law - the bare-metal manufacturer's duty to warn; it did not adjudicate exposure, product identity, or causation aboard this hull. All shipboard asbestos references are recitals of the plaintiffs' allegations and undisputed record facts for the appeal. Post-remand merits outcome for the DeVries claims was not located. The opinion names the ship but does not inventory or quantify asbestos aboard.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-turner-dd834-01
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[3]DeVries v. General Electric Co. et al. (In re Asbestos Products Liability Litigation (No. VI)), No. 5:13-cv-00474 (E.D. Pa.), Foster Wheeler LLC Reply in Support of Motion for Summary Judgment, ECF No. 321 (filed 2013-12-02) [court_record]
- Locator
- ECF No. 321 (gov.uscourts.paed.472626.321.0_1), sections I.A and federal-officer/knowledge argument (pp. ~2-8 of PDF)
- Finding type
- litigation_product_id
- Finding
- Discovery-stage briefing in the DeVries asbestos docket (MDL-875 consolidated) identifies products aboard this hull: plaintiffs alleged DeVries 'was exposed to asbestos-containing gaskets in relation to the manhole and flange connections on the condensers aboard the U.S.S. Turner that were either original to the Foster Wheeler condensers or replacement gaskets supplied by Foster Wheeler'; Foster Wheeler disputes the attribution and notes the gasket documents plaintiff relied on concerned a different component (economizer handhole vs. condenser flange). The brief twice fixes the vessel as 'the U.S.S. Turner' 'constructed in 1945' - i.e., DD-834.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1957-1960 (alleged exposure); 2013 (briefing)
- Population
- John B. DeVries, USN engineering officer 1957-1960
- Limitations
- Defendant reply brief at summary-judgment stage: recites allegations while disputing them - DeVries 'did not actually testify to any exposure from a manhole gasket product,' and no contract document confirmed Foster Wheeler supplied the specific flange gaskets. Pleadings/discovery posture only; the exposure allegation was never tried. Document is a litigation brief, not a finding.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-turner-dd834-02
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[4]Brief for Respondent and Appendix, Air & Liquid Systems Corp. v. DeVries, No. 17-1104 (U.S. Sup. Ct., filed Oct. 2, 2018) [court_record]
- Locator
- Brief for Respondent, Statement of the Case ('John DeVries served ... aboard U.S.S. Turner from 1957-60'), equipment and specifications recital with JA/CA3-JA cites
- Finding type
- litigation_product_id
- Finding
- Supreme Court merits brief itemizes the equipment installed aboard USS Turner and its documented asbestos specifications as litigated: DeVries served aboard 1957-60 supervising fire- and engine-room crews; the fire rooms contained boilers with economizers, pumps, and blowers generating high-pressure steam; the engine rooms contained steam condensers and propulsion turbines. Per the joint-appendix citations recited: Buffalo Pumps (Air & Liquid Systems' predecessor) 'directed that its pumps be used with asbestos-containing packing'; Warren Pumps 'required external asbestos insulation'; CBS predecessors (Westinghouse and Sturtevant) manufactured generators, eight forced-draft blowers for the boilers, circulating pump turbines, and air compressor turbines; General Electric manufactured the main propulsion turbines; Foster Wheeler manufactured economizers and condensers. Industry standards 'specified that asbestos must be used with the machinery' in high-temperature, high-pressure service.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1945 (construction-era specifications); 1957-1960 (service); 2018 (brief)
- Population
- Engineering department, USS Turner 1957-1960; shipyard workers who installed/serviced the equipment
- Limitations
- Merits brief recital of joint-appendix evidence - litigation record, not adjudicated findings; defendants' role was as bare-metal equipment suppliers and the asbestos was added by the Navy or shipbuilders after delivery in most cases. Establishes which equipment was aboard and what the parties litigated about its asbestos specifications; does not quantify asbestos aboard, does not establish that DeVries was in fact exposed by any particular product, and does not speak to other crew members.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-turner-dd834-03
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[5]CourtListener RECAP sweep - qualifying and non-qualifying hits classified: DeVries v. General Electric Co., No. 5:13-cv-00474 (E.D. Pa., filed 2013-01-25, 'Notice of Removal - Asbestos Litigation') - qualifying; MDL-875 ECF 7814-5 tag-along attachment (Lies v. Rapid American, N.D. Ill. 1:11-cv-06067) - qualifying pleading-stage naming (ev-09); MDL-875 ECF 6718-3 and 7225-3 attachments (Hilt v. C.C. Moore, N.D. Cal. 4:10-cv-05844 / Hilt v. Foster Wheeler, N.D. Cal. 3:11-cv-02367) - qualifying pleading-stage naming (ev-10); Myrna Abril v. Air & Liquid Systems Corp., No. 3:22-cv-00528 (S.D. Ill.) - verified name collision (plaintiff's ships were USS Richard E. Kraus, USS Turner Joy DD-951, USS Caloosahatchee); Richards v. Buffalo Pumps, No. 1:08-cv-00302 (D.R.I.) and Higgins v. A.W. Chesterton, No. 3:10-cv-00256 (N.D. Cal.) - asbestos dockets whose indexed text contains 'USS Turner,' role unverifiable (archival leads); United States v. Rhine (D.D.C. 1:21-cr-00687), Hallmark Specialty Insurance v. Johnsons Crane (W.D. La.), Northwest Territorial Mint bankruptcy (W.D. Wash.), and remaining 'DD-834' opinion/docket hits - name or exhibit-number collisions. [court_record]
- Locator
- CourtListener API v4 search (type=o and type=r), queries as listed; Abril complaint text at storage.courtlistener.com gov.uscourts.ilsd.90688.1.1/66.0; MDL-875 attachments at storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.jpml.375294/ (7814.5, 6718.3, 7225.3)
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- CourtListener sweep results for this hull (2026-09-28). Opinions: 'USS Turner' = 0 hits; 'DD-834' = 0 hits; 'U.S.S. Turner' = 2 hits, both DeVries opinions (873 F.3d 232 (3d Cir. 2017); 139 S. Ct. 986 (2019)) - no other published opinion names the ship. RECAP dockets: 'USS Turner' = 8 hits (1 qualifying filed case - DeVries; 1 qualifying attachment set - Lies complaint schedule; 1 verified Turner Joy collision - Abril; 2 asbestos dockets where the vessel's role is unverifiable - Richards, Higgins; 3 surname/identifier collisions). 'DD-834' dockets = 6 hits: 1 qualifying attachment (MDL-875 ECF 7814-5, Lies schedule) plus 5 exhibit-number or identifier collisions (Univ. of Pittsburgh v. Varian patent; City of Huntington opioid RICO; Ebro Foods bankruptcy; Seroquel MDL; NYT v. Microsoft). 'DDR-834' dockets = 1 hit resolving to two MDL-875 attachments (6718-3, 7225-3) - the Hilt complaints, qualifying pleading-stage namings. Qualifying litigation naming this hull: DeVries (flagship), Lies, Hilt - all at complaint/briefing stage; no trial finding or affirmed exposure judgment was located for any case naming USS Turner.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- correction
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 2008-2022 (docket dates)
- Population
- Unverified for unresolved dockets
- Limitations
- Index-level plus document-level classification: qualifying hits were verified by pulling and OCRing the actual attachment PDFs (scanned complaints - CL's index OCR was confirmed against local tesseract output). Richards and Higgins document text could not be retrieved (RECAP storage keys absent; courtlistener.com pages 403 to automated fetch), so their 'USS Turner' references remain unverified archival leads - each could be an additional plaintiff-exposure allegation naming this hull or a collision (e.g., Turner Joy). 'U.S.S. Turner' dockets and 'DDR-834' opinions were not separately run (fleet pacing); coverage of the name variant via the 8-hit 'USS Turner' docket result and the opinion-level 'U.S.S. Turner' query is partial.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-turner-dd834-04
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[6]DANFS, Turner III (DD-834) (NHHC live page returns 404; text captured via Wayback Machine 2025-02-02 and verbatim mirror at destroyers.org 'DANFS, January 2024') [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS entry 'Turner III (DD-834)' - specifications block and full service narrative
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS record for this hull (spec block: displacement 2,425 t; length 390'6"; beam 40'10"; draft 18'6"; 34.6 kt trial; complement 345; class Gearing): laid down 13 November 1944 at Bath, Maine, by Bath Iron Works Corp.; launched 8 April 1945 (sponsor Miss Louise Leahy); commissioned 12 June 1945 at Boston Navy Yard, Cmdr. Ellis B. Rittenhouse. Converted to destroyer picket ship at Boston immediately after commissioning; shakedown Guantanamo Bay; Japan duty Dec 1945-Mar 1946 (TG 55.4/TF 54); Operation Crossroads at Bikini June-July 1946 as flagship of Destroyer Squadron 5 supporting Section Baker air operations; west coast ops; China coast deployment Aug 1947-May 1948; reclassified radar picket destroyer DDR-834 18 March 1949 and fitted with additional electronics at Newport, R.I.; 1950s reserve training, fleet exercises, 6th Fleet deployments; TF 61 picket ship in 1958 Lebanon crisis; homeport Mayport 1959; FRAM overhaul at New York Naval Shipyard in 1960; Charleston Naval Shipyard installed variable-depth sonar 1961; TF 140 Project Mercury recovery force 1962; Red Sea/Persian Gulf 1964; Gemini II support Nov-Dec 1964; TF 128 Dominican Republic May 1965; Apollo alternate recovery station Feb 1966; Israeli submarine Dakar search Jan 1968; 15th Mediterranean deployment early 1969; decommissioned and stricken 26 September 1969 at Mayport; sold 13 October 1970 to Southern Scrap Material, Ltd., New Orleans, for scrapping.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1944-1970
- Population
- Bath Iron Works construction trades 1944-45; crew 1945-1969 (design complement 345); yard workers at Boston NY (1945), New York NS (1960 FRAM), Charleston NSY (1961)
- Limitations
- DANFS documents dates, service, and specifications only - no materials or asbestos content. FRAM scope at New York Naval Shipyard (1960) is stated as radar/sonar improvement; any insulation disturbance is era inference, not documented in this source. 'Constructed in 1945' phrasing in the DeVries record is consistent with DANFS build dates (laid down Nov 1944, commissioned Jun 1945). Sale date conflict: NavSource and NavalCoverMuseum read 13 October 1969; DANFS (Jan 2024) reads 13 October 1970 - DANFS carried, conflict logged in gaps.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-turner-dd834-05
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[7]Deck log of USS Turner (DD-834), Cmdr. E. B. Rittenhouse commanding, 1-31 July 1946 (Operation Crossroads period) - digitized primary record, DOE OpenNet [other_primary]
- Locator
- DOE OpenNet PURL 16377383, deck log pages for July 1946 (Bikini operation entries)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- A contemporaneous deck log for this specific hull survives and is digitized: the July 1946 log records Turner steaming in company with USS Shangri-La (CV-38) and USS Charles P. Cecil (DD-835) in the Bikini Atoll test formation - boiler light-offs, screening stations, and detachment for fighter-direction duty in support of the atomic test - corroborating the DANFS Operation Crossroads narrative at log level.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1946-07
- Population
- Crew aboard during Operation Crossroads, July 1946
- Limitations
- Deck log documents operations (boiler usage, station-keeping) only; it contains no materials, insulation, or asbestos information. Value is as a hull-specific primary record - the log's references to operating four boilers and machinery spaces corroborate the steam plant aboard which the litigation-era asbestos components were installed, nothing more.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-turner-dd834-06
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[8]Goodrich v. Air & Liquid Systems Corp., Omnibus Opinion and Order, ECF No. 171, E.D. Va. No. 4:17-cv-00009 (Sept. 28, 2018) - class-level recital [court_record]
- Locator
- Omnibus opinion pp. 12, 19, 31 (OCR of scanned ECF 171), as cataloged in the Gearing class profile
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Class/era context for this Gearing-class hull: the Goodrich omnibus opinion (E.D. Va. 2018) recites an engineering drawing for insulation and lagging of forced-draft blower turbines 'for the class of destroyers (DD 692, USS Allen M. Sumner class), within which the USS Harlan Dickson fell,' specifying amosite felts and asbestos cloths - a machinery design shared by the lengthened Gearing class - and quotes an expert partial tally of 30.3 tons of asbestos-containing thermal insulation and lagging in fire and engine rooms of Sumner/Gearing destroyers. Turner's own litigation record (ev-01/-03) independently identifies asbestos-spec equipment aboard this hull, including eight forced-draft blowers by Westinghouse/Sturtevant; this row adds class context, not an independent ship finding.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1940s design era; opinion filed 2018-09-28
- Population
- Gearing/Sumner-class fire- and engine-room crews; shipyard insulators
- Limitations
- Litigation-record recital of an expert report and a Navy drawing - neither underlying exhibit retrieved; the drawing is captioned for the Sumner (DD-692) class which shares the Gearing machinery arrangement; the 30.3-ton figure is a partial expert tally for fire/engine rooms, not a ship inventory, and the opinion treated related exposure conclusions as speculative. Class-level support only - ship-specific asbestos presence for DD-834 rests on the DeVries record.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-turner-dd834-07
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[9]NavSource Naval History, Destroyer Photo Index DD-834/DDR-834 (operational/building data block; FRAM conversion table lists '834 | Turner | New York | 08/60') [other_primary]
- Locator
- navsource.net/archives/05/834.htm data block; navsource.org/archives/05/fram.htm FRAM conversion table row for DD-834
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NavSource index corroborates build/disposal data and supplies two details DANFS does not date precisely: machinery '60,000 SHP; General Electric Geared Turbines, 2 screws,' and FRAM conversion completed August 1960 at New York (Naval Shipyard) per the NavSource FRAM table - consistent with DANFS's 'New York Naval Shipyard in 1960' and with the ship-specific litigation recital that GE built the main propulsion turbines.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1944-1970
- Population
- Yard workers, New York Naval Shipyard, FRAM conversion Aug 1960
- Limitations
- NavSource is a curated secondary index (contributor-built), not an official record - used here only where it corroborates or dates what DANFS states. Its 'sold October 13 1969' line conflicts with DANFS's 1970-10-13; DANFS is carried and the conflict is in gaps. Crew figure (336) conflicts with DANFS's 345; DANFS carried.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-turner-dd834-08
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[10]Lies v. Rapid American Corp. et al., No. 1:11-cv-06067 (N.D. Ill.; removed from Circuit Court of Cook County No. 2011 L 007589; MDL-875 tag-along) - Complaint Exhibit A, filed as attachment to Case MDL No. 875, Document 7814-5 (filed 2011-09-08), Cooney & Conway for plaintiff Elaine Lies, Special Administrator of the Estate of Robert Lies [court_record]
- Locator
- MDL-875 ECF 7814-5, Exhibit A p. 1 of 3 (attachment pp. 18-19 of 20): 'e USS Turner (DD-834)' under 'U.S. Navy - Great Lakes Naval Base,' years 1946-1947 - verified by local OCR (tesseract) of the scanned PDF, matching CourtListener's index hit
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- An asbestos wrongful-death complaint expressly names this hull as an alleged exposure jobsite. Exhibit A ('Personal Exposure of Plaintiff's Decedent, Robert Lies') lists under jobsite 'U.S. Navy - Great Lakes Naval Base (Great Lakes, IL)' and 'USS Turner (DD-834)' for years 1946-1947, against defendant Rapid American Corporation 'individually and as successor-in-interest to Philip Carey Manufacturing Corporation' for 'Carey Asbestos Pipe Covering, Block, Cement, Paper, Felt, Board, Tile and Other Asbestos Containing Products.' Hull-number naming is explicit (DD-834), not a name-only reference.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1946-1947 (alleged exposure); 2011 (pleading)
- Population
- Robert Lies (decedent), U.S. Navy 1946-1947
- Limitations
- Pleading-stage allegation only - a complaint exposure schedule (Cooney & Conway boilerplate format listing many jobsites and dozens of defendants); never adjudicated, and the schedule itself pairs Turner with 'Great Lakes Naval Base' under a single Navy-employment row, so the pleading does not specify shipboard vs. shore-side exposure circumstances. The 1946-1947 window is consistent with this hull's commission (from June 1945). Not evidence that asbestos was confirmed aboard; classified downward as an allegation per batch discipline.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-turner-dd834-09
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[11]Hilt v. C.C. Moore & Co. Engineers et al., No. 4:10-cv-05844-CW (N.D. Cal.; MDL-875 tag-along) - 'Complaint for Survival, Wrongful Death - Asbestos,' Exhibits A and C, filed as attachment to Case MDL No. 875, Document 6718-3 (filed 2011-02-09); companion Hilt v. Foster Wheeler LLC, No. 3:11-cv-02367-WHA (N.D. Cal.), Document 7225-3 (filed 2011-05-17); Brayton Purcell LLP for plaintiffs Geraldine Hilt and Sherlyn Hilt (successor/heirs of Robert Hilt, deceased) [court_record]
- Locator
- MDL-875 ECF 6718-3, Exhibit A vessel schedule ('TURNER (DDR-834) 1965-1970,' adjacent to 'TURNER JOY (DD-951)') and Exhibit C contractor-location table ('OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANY (cont'd.) TURNER (DDR-834)'); identical schedule in ECF 7225-3 - verified by local OCR (tesseract) of scanned PDFs
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- A second asbestos wrongful-death complaint names this hull in its exposure schedules. Exhibit A lists 'TURNER (DDR-834)' with a 1965-1970 window among roughly 70 Navy vessels (and shipyard locations) under the decedent's employment as laborer/marine machinist helper at Hunters Point Naval Shipyard (1965-1972); Exhibit C maps defendant contractors to locations and lists 'TURNER (DDR-834)' as a location for Otis Elevator Company. Hull designation is explicit (DDR-834).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1965-1970 (alleged exposure window); 2010-2011 (pleadings)
- Population
- Robert Hilt (decedent), Hunters Point Naval Shipyard laborer/marine machinist helper 1965-1972
- Limitations
- Pleading-stage allegation only - complaint schedules, never adjudicated. Turner's DANFS record places the hull in Atlantic/Mediterranean service homeported at Mayport 1959-1969, not at Hunters Point (San Francisco) in 1965-1970, so the schedule's pairing of Turner with the plaintiff's Hunters Point employment is not corroborated by the ship's history and may reflect a generic vessel list; classified downward accordingly. 'TURNER (DDR-834)' could not be the earlier Turners (DD-259 decommissioned 1922; DD-648 sunk 1944) - the DDR designation dates it to this hull's 1949-1969 designation window. Not evidence that asbestos was confirmed aboard.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-turner-dd834-10