Evidence
6 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-6).
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[1]DANFS, Young II (DD-580) (specifications block, full service narrative, striking/target-sinking note; verbatim hazegray transcription via Wayback capture 2024-12-11 - live NHHC page returns 404) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS 'DD-580 / Young II' entry - specifications block, full narrative, closing note (hazegray dd580txt.htm transcription)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS record for this hull: the second Young (DD-580) was laid down 7 May 1942 at Orange, Tex., by the Consolidated Steel Corp.; launched 15 October 1942, sponsored by Mrs. J. M. Schelling; commissioned 31 July 1943, Lt. Comdr. George B. Madden in command. Shakedown Gulf of Mexico/Caribbean; escorted Iowa (BB-61) carrying President Roosevelt toward the Teheran Conference (Nov 1943); transited Panama Canal 24 November 1943; assigned to the 9th Fleet, Aleutians mid-January 1944 - eight months of escort/patrol with Kuril Islands bombardments 2 February (RADM Wilder D. Baker's force), Matsuwa 13 June, Paramushiro 26 June. CONUS overhaul September-October 1944 (yard not named); Leyte 18 November 1944; first Mindoro resupply echelon screen 19-22 December (kamikazes hit LST-460, LST-479, SS Juan de Fuca 21 December; Young claimed five splashes and two assists); Lingayen 9 January 1945; with Nicholas (DD-449) destroyed two Japanese 17-foot suicide boats off Corregidor 14 February 1945 and bombarded Corregidor/Caballo 16 February; Subic Bay patrols and April Mindanao landing; arrived San Francisco Bay 12 June 1945 for a 47-day overhaul at the Mare Island Navy Yard; post-war escort/plane guard for Saratoga (CV-3); Navy Day review New York 27 October 1945; Charleston in reserve 31 January 1946; 'finally decommissioned sometime in January 1947'; Atlantic Reserve Fleet; struck from the Navy list 1 May 1968; 'on 6 March 1970, she was sunk as a target off the mid atlantic coast.' Five battle stars. Spec block: dp. 2,050; l. 376'; b. 39'8"; dr. 17'9"; s. 35 k.; cpl. 273; a. 5 5", 10 40mm., 7 20mm., 10 21"tt., 6 dcp., 2 dct.; cl. Fletcher.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1942-1970
- Population
- Consolidated Steel construction trades 1942-43; wartime crew (design complement 273)
- Limitations
- DANFS documents service history and specifications, not materials or asbestos content. Two dates are internally imprecise: decommissioning 'sometime in January 1947' (no exact date) and the launch date 15 October 1942 conflicts with the class profile's navypedia-derived 1942-10-11 (DANFS carried; conflict in gaps). The September-October 1944 overhaul yard is not named. Mirror transcription cited because the live NHHC page returns 404.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-young-dd580-01
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[2]Naval Historical Center, Online Library of Selected Images: 'USS Young (DD-580), 1943-1970' (official NHC photo-history page, HyperWar/ibiblio mirror) [other_primary]
- Locator
- ibiblio HyperWar mirror of NHC Online Library page usnsh-xz/dd580.htm (narrative; NH 102851-102857 photo captions)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Official NHC photo-history page corroborates the hull record: 'a 2050-ton Fletcher class destroyer built at Orange, Texas, was commissioned at the end of July 1943'; escorted Iowa carrying President Roosevelt (November 1943); eight-month Aleutians tour with Kuril bombardments February and June 1944; overhaul September-October 1944; Leyte November 1944, Mindoro suicide-plane attacks, Lingayen January 1945, Luzon and southern Philippines operations; '47-day' west-coast overhaul completed end of July 1945; decommissioned January 1947; Atlantic Reserve Fleet until 'stricken from the Naval Vessel Register' May 1968; 'sunk as a target on 6 March 1970.' Photo captions place the ship off Charleston 18 October 1943 (NH 102851-102856 series) and 'At the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 30 July 1945' with 'newly fitted quadruple 40mm anti-aircraft guns' - officially documenting the 1945 Mare Island overhaul.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1943-1970
- Population
- Crew 1943-1947
- Limitations
- Official Navy historical-office product but a summary narrative, not a materials record - no asbestos content is addressed. 'Stricken from the Naval Vessel Register' wording is the NHC page's shorthand for the Navy list; dates corroborate DANFS rather than adding independent primary data.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-young-dd580-02
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[3]CourtListener API v4 litigation sweep (authenticated, fleet-paced via cl-auth-search.py): "DD-580" opinions count=0; "USS Young" opinions count=1 - United States v. Queen, 26 M.J. 136 (C.M.A. 1988), opinion id 8666552, name collision; "USS Young" dockets count=0; "DD-580" dockets count=4, all document-content collisions (see search_ledger) [court_record]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-young-dd580-03 through -05
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- No qualifying asbestos litigation naming this hull was located. Full sweep completed 2026-09-27 across opinions and RECAP dockets: '"DD-580"' opinions returned zero results; '"USS Young"' opinions returned a single opinion, United States v. Queen, 26 M.J. 136 (U.S. Court of Military Appeals, 1988) - a Navy general court-martial appeal (usury, wrongful weapons/drug possession; offenses dated 1983) that is a name collision and not asbestos litigation (the 1983 offense dates point to the Spruance-class USS John Young DD-973, in commission 1978-2002, not this hull); '"USS Young"' RECAP dockets returned zero results; '"DD-580"' RECAP dockets returned four hits, all document-content collisions where the string appears in exhibit/Bates numbering inside PDFs - In re Digitek Products Liability Litigation (S.D. W.Va. MDL, pharmaceutical), NYT v. Microsoft (S.D.N.Y. copyright), Arch Coal and Bias bankruptcies - none reference the vessel. Independent web search surfaced no case naming this hull - only law-firm marketing listicles that enumerate DD-580 generically (excluded per sourcing rules).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 2026-09-27
- Limitations
- The sweep covered CourtListener's indexed opinions and RECAP dockets for both query strings - a completed search, not proof that no case exists anywhere: MDL-875-era filings, state-court complaints, and settled claims are incompletely indexed, and 'USS Young' remains a high-collision string (surname collisions; DD-312 the first Young; USS John Young DD-973) that could mask hull references in unindexed or poorly OCR'd documents.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-young-dd580-03
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[4]HyperWar 'Ships of the U.S. Navy, 1940-1945' compiled data page for DD-580 (Fletcher class; 'High-pressure super-heated boilers, geared turbines with twin screws, 60,000 h.p.'; built Consolidated Steel, Orange, Tex.) + Fletcher-class profile (class-c worktree); NARA RG19 General Information Books archival lead [other_primary]
- Locator
- HyperWar DD-580 compiled specs page (machinery line) + DANFS spec block; shipyards.json (37 yard_ids - 'consolidated-steel' absent); class-c/fletcher-class.class.json
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Era/class inference: a Fletcher-class destroyer built 1942-43 with a four-boiler, 60,000-shp geared-steam-turbine plant would have carried period-standard asbestos boiler and steam-line insulation, turbine lagging, gaskets, packing, fireproofing, and deck coverings. Unlike the class lead ship (DD-445, Federal Shipbuilding-Kearny, which has a yard-level 1944 Owens-Illinois industrial-health survey in the Atlas dataset), this hull's builder - Consolidated Steel Corp., Orange, Texas - is not in the Atlas shipyard dataset, so no yard-level documentation exists for her construction phase. NARA RG19 'General Information Books' per-vessel material specifications are an unretrieved archival lead.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-27
- Study period
- 1942-1947
- Population
- Consolidated Steel construction trades 1942-43; crew 1943-1947
- Limitations
- Class/era inference only - NOT a hull-specific finding. No ship-specific asbestos documentation is located for DD-580; this row supplies era context and cannot establish what was installed aboard, its quantity, or any individual's exposure. Builder absent from the yard dataset is itself carried in gaps.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-young-dd580-04
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[5]GAO, Navy's Efforts To Protect Workers From Asbestos Exposure, HRD-80-2 (Oct 18, 1979) [gao]
- Locator
- GAO product page HRD-80-2; Enclosure I scope per batch-290 extraction of the full report
- 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-580's construction (1942-43) and entire commissioned service (1943-1947) inside the documented asbestos-use era. The report's Enclosure I ship list covers only 'U.S. Navy Ships Delivered Since 1973 or Under Construction,' so this 1943-built hull is outside its per-hull table scope; the finding applies at program level.
- 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. The Enclosure I per-hull table does not cover pre-1973 deliveries - DD-580's absence from that list reflects scope, not asbestos-free status. Full text not retrieved directly (gao.gov returns HTTP 403 to automated fetch); content per product-page description and prior batch extractions of the full PDF via mirror.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-young-dd580-05
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[6]Batch-3552 search ledger (this record): DANFS mirror (hazegray via Wayback); NHC Online Library photo-history; destroyerhistory.org Fletcher photo page; CourtListener (partial - pacing-blocked); NOAA RULET wreck list; GAO HRD-80-2; NVR; NavSource (unreachable); law-firm/aggregator ship pages (excluded per sourcing rules) [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-young-dd580-01 through -10
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No hull-specific asbestos survey, abatement record, materials inventory, or hazmat disclosure located for DD-580 in the public sources searched (see search_ledger). The ship was stricken 1968 and sunk as a target off the mid-Atlantic coast on 6 March 1970 - before modern asbestos documentation practice - and never became a museum, so the disclosure channels that produced ship-specific records for preserved hulls (NPS nominations, museum drydock reports) do not exist here. The wreck is not among NOAA's RULET assessed potentially-polluting-wreck vessels.
- 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. The hull no longer exists as a ship, so present-day ACM status is moot; wreck-site material condition is undocumented (DD-580 is not in the NOAA RULET 87-wreck assessment set screened).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-young-dd580-06