The USS Dayton (CL-105) was a Cleveland-class light cruiser laid down on March 8, 1943, and launched on March 19, the following year. It was commissioned on January 7, 1945, under Capt. Paul William Steinhagen’s command with the hull number CL-105 and served in the U.S. Navy for 4 years until it was decommissioned on March 1, 1949. During its activities, the ship carried a complement of 1,255 people on board and had its main missions in Pearl Harbor, San Pedro, Eniwetok, Tokyo, Guantanamo, Malta, Norfolk, Venice, Istanbul, Trieste, and Newport. After decommissioning, the ship was struck from the Navy List on September 1, 1961, and sold for scrapping to Boston Metals in Baltimore the following year. Long-term occupational exposure to asbestos is now known to cause a number of terrible lung diseases, one more ghastly than the last. The victim may be unaware that he/she has developed an asbestos-related disease for as long as ten to forty years until signs begin to appear. Symptoms can include difficulty breathing, hoarseness, fatigue. Once a victim has been diagnosed with asbestos-related cancer, the tumor has had several years to spread throughout the internal lining of the lungs and other organs, which severely shortens a patient’s life expectancy.
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