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USS John M. Bermingham (DE-530) Areas With Asbestos Exposure
The USS John M. Bermingham (DE-530) was an Evarts-class destroyer escort laid down on October 14, 1943, and launched on November 17, the same year. It was commissioned on April 8, 1944, under Lt. Cmdr. M. Beerman’s command as DE-530, and served in the U.S. Navy for one year until it was decommissioned on October 16, 1945. After the decommissioning, the ship was struck from the Navy List on November 1, 1945, and sold for scrapping the following year. Asbestos is a naturally occurring, fibrous mineral that once was used extensively throughout the United States to help insulate, fireproof and strengthen boilers, hot steam pipes, fuel lines to pumps, turbines, compressors, condensers, and to form gaskets for exhaust systems, connectors, and manifolds. It was cost-effective and versatile, woven into fabrics, and mixed with many different materials to provide fire-proofing, insulation, and strength. There were more than 300 products commonly found aboard every ship built and used between World War II and the late-1970s.
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Shipmates on USS John M. Bermingham (DE-530)
John Francis Acer
Reginald L. Auchincloss Jr.
Samuel Joseph Barbuzzi
Alvin J. Smith
Emmet Barcalow
Robert Bellingham
Lester W. Biddle
C. B. Berkey Jr.
Donald Richard Blouse
John Michael Brennan
George D. Brittian Jr.
James Creed Broome
Clyde Alonso Brummett
Nicholas Charles Cerbone
Elwood Cullenen
Russell Dennis
Curtis Wendell Dye
James J. Enck
Wilbur V. Frey
Willie L. Gafford
Roy Cecil Gammons
E. F. Griffith Jr
Simpson Grimes
Robert Grover
Bernard John Hall
Joseph L. Hall
Horst Hannmann
J. D. Hartline
Wallace E. Hays
Richard O. Hearle
Charles H. Hillman
Arthur W. Kaergard
John Herman Kaikkonen
Charles D. King
Francis J. Kloran
Maurice Joseph Labbe
Dominick Lattanzio
Samuel Pierce Lindley Jr.
William L. Lovin
Edmond J. Malley
Joseph C. Mcilhargey
Francis P. Meehan
Brooks Meredith
Horace Moeller
Joseph Mulhern
Robert Davis Mundy
Victor Murray
Carl Gordon Pearson
Donald C. Peterson
John M. Roeser
Melvin Leroy Sandlin
Francis X. Scott
Myron Richard Sears
Robert J. Shaughnessey
Harry Kenneth Smith
Harry K. Smith
Edgar E. Soults
Anthony W. Stackler
Wayne B. Steinman
Robert S. Strawser
John J. Sullivan
Lowell M. Titus
Kenneth Raymond Truelsen
Guiseppi Viavattenne
Archie C. White
Leonard Wichart
Bernard G. Wilkins
