Evidence
10 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-10).
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[1]research packet 1101-packet.md (1 sources cited) [other_primary]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERIFIED
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- hms-kilbernie-pce827-pkt-1101-packet-md
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[2]NavSource Online, Patrol Craft Escort Photo Archive: "HMS Kilbirne (BEC 1), ex-PCE-827, ex-PC-827" [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource PCE-827 page, construction/spec block and caption for 16 Feb 1945 Pullman-Standard Log banner image
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Documented for this hull: "Laid down 14 October 1942 as PC-827 by the Pullman Standard Car Co., Chicago, IL," "Reclassified as PCE-827 in April 1943," "Launched 2 May 1943," "Completed 14 July 1943 and transferred to the Royal Navy," "Commissioned HMS Kilbirne (BEC 1), 16 July 1943." Specifications given: displacement 640 t., length 180'6", beam 33', draft 9'8", speed 15 kts., complement 100, one 3"/50 dual-purpose mount, three 40mm mounts, five 20mm mounts, two depth charge racks, four depth charge projectors, two hedgehogs, two 900bhp General Motors 12-567A diesel engines with Falk single-reduction gear on two shafts. Builder confirmed via a cited newspaper banner: "Newspaper banner of the Pullman-Standard Log, Calumet Harbor Shipyard."
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 1942-1943
- Population
- Pullman Standard Car Co. construction trades, Calumet Harbor shipyard, 1942-43
- Limitations
- NavSource is a volunteer secondary compilation, not an official Navy or RN registry; it cites National Archives photographs (19-N-44446, 19-N-47844/47846/47848) but transcribes rather than reproduces the underlying records. Displacement (640 t) is corroborated by uboat.net's own class technical table (640 BRT), but navypedia.org's class table gives 795/903 t standard/full instead — a two-against-one split, not resolved. Complement (100) conflicts with 96 given by both uboat.net and navypedia.org (two agreeing sources) — see gaps. No asbestos content of any kind.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-hms-kilbernie-pce827-01
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[3]uboat.net, Allied Warships, "HMS Kilbirnie (Z 01), Patrol vessel of the Kil class" (sourced in-page to The National Archives, Kew: ADM 199/1822, ADM 173/19337, ADM 199/315, ADM 199/319, ADM 199/323, ADM 173/20229) [other_primary]
- Locator
- uboat.net ship page "Notable events" section, entries dated 15 Jan 1944, 3 Jan 1945, and 10 Jan 1945
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Documents this hull's wartime convoy and anti-submarine service: joined combined convoy OS 65/KMS 39 on 17 January 1944 after departing the Clyde, escorting through the convoy's Gibraltar-area split; conducted A/S exercises off Gibraltar with HMS Vampire and HMS Pennywort on 3 January 1945; and on 10 January 1945, together with HMS Ballinderry, "pick up 51 survivors from the British merchant Blackheath that was torpedoed and damaged by German U-boat U-870 west of Gibraltar." Wartime commanding officers: T/Lt. Eric Rawdon Humphrey Seddon, RNVR (Nov 1943-Aug 1944); T/Lt. Charles Trevor Letts, RNVR (Aug 1944 onward).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 1943-1945
- Population
- Royal Navy crew, HMS Kilbernie, 1943-1945
- Limitations
- uboat.net is a volunteer-maintained reference site, not an official Admiralty or NHHC source; its ADM series citations were not independently located in The National Archives' Discovery catalogue during this research session (search returned no direct hits for those specific references). Pure wartime service/personnel history; no asbestos or material content of any kind, and no exposure claim for any individual.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-hms-kilbernie-pce827-02
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[4]Naval Marine Archive, "Pullman Standard Car Manufacturing Company, Chicago IL" — builder's delivery/disposition table [other_primary]
- Locator
- navalmarinearchive.com Pullman Standard table, row "PCE 827"
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Independent builder's-list entry corroborates disposition: "PCE 827, US Navy Corvette, 850 [tons], 2-May-43, To Britain 1943 as HMS Kilbirnie (BEC 1), to Norway 1947 as Haugesund, to Italy 1973 as Sicilia Ponte, Tucalif 1982, scrapped 1997." Confirms NavSource's full post-war ownership chain (Norway 1947 / Italy 1973 / Italy 1982 / scrapped 1997) via an independently compiled source.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 1943-1997
- Limitations
- Secondary compilation (naval history nonprofit), not an official registry. Lists delivery date (2 May 1943) which other sources identify as the launch date, not completion/transfer (14 July 1943) — terminology is ambiguous in the source; not resolved. Tonnage (850) is a third figure, distinct from both NavSource's 640 t (corroborated by uboat.net's 640 BRT) and navypedia.org's 795/903 t — three figures across sources, carried in gaps. No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-hms-kilbernie-pce827-03
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[5]Cross-source name-spelling comparison: uboat.net ship page and class index ("HMS Kilbirnie (Z 01)"); uboat.net class index listing all 15 Kil-class ships; navypedia.org Kil-class table ("Kilbirnie (ex-BEC1, ex-PCE827)"); navalmarinearchive.com builder's list ("HMS Kilbirnie (BEC 1)"); vs. NavSource running text ("HMS Kilbirne") and Wikipedia's PCE-842-class article ("Kilbernie") [other_primary]
- Locator
- Cross-reference of running text across the five cited pages
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- CORRECTION/disclosure: this record's display name and filename follow the batch-assigned spelling "HMS Kilbernie," matching Wikipedia's PCE-842-class article. Three independent documentary compilations drawing on distinct source bases (uboat.net citing British National Archives ADM series; navypedia.org; navalmarinearchive.com's own Pullman builder's-list transcription) spell the name "Kilbirnie" consistently, and NavSource's running text uses the close variant "Kilbirne" (with "Kilbernie" appearing only in two of its photo-caption alt-tags, not its narrative text). "Kilbirnie" is also an actual place name (a town in North Ayrshire, Scotland), consistent with the Kil class's Scottish-toponym naming convention; no source locates a real place called "Kilbernie." The weight of independent sourcing favors "Kilbirnie" as the more accurate historical spelling.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- correction
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 1943
- Limitations
- A naming/spelling correction only; carries no asbestos or material content and does not change the hull's identity (PCE-827) or any other fact in this record. Not independently verified against a primary Admiralty commissioning warrant or Navy List entry in this session.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-hms-kilbernie-pce827-04
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[6]NavSource Online, PCE-827 page, footer statement [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource PCE-827 page, line following the photo table
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- NavSource states explicitly: "There is no DANFS history available for PCE-827." This is consistent with the hull's documented history: completed and transferred directly to the Royal Navy on 14 July 1943 without ever being placed in U.S. Navy commission, so the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships carries no entry for her.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 2026 (page accessed)
- Limitations
- Documents an absence (no DANFS entry), not a presence of or absence of asbestos. Explains why this record relies on secondary/RN-side compilations rather than DANFS/NHHC throughout.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-hms-kilbernie-pce827-05
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[7]Naval Vessel Register, official scope statement (home page) [other_primary]
- Locator
- nvr.navy.mil home page, "Search The Official Inventory of US Naval Ships and Service Craft" section
- Finding type
- regulatory
- Finding
- The NVR's own published scope statement reads: "The Naval Vessel Register contains information on ships and service craft that comprise the official inventory of the US Navy from the time of vessel authorization through its life cycle and disposal. It also includes ships that have been stricken but not disposed. Ships and service craft disposed of prior to 1987 are currently not included, however the data is gradually being added along with other updates." PCE-827 was struck from the Navy Register and disposed of (sold to commercial interests) in 1947 — squarely inside the pre-1987 window the NVR states it does not currently cover.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 2026 (page accessed)
- Limitations
- Confirms why no NVR entry for PCE-827 was found or should be expected; does not itself document this hull's history or any asbestos content. A direct NVR search for "PCE-827" returned no ship-specific page during this session, consistent with this scope note.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-hms-kilbernie-pce827-06
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[8]Pullman State Historic Site (official museum), "Pullman Goes to War — PCE(R)" [museum_official]
- Locator
- pullman-museum.org PCE(R) exhibit page, opening paragraph quoting the Illinois wartime production report
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Official museum source documents Pullman Standard's WWII Calumet shipyard as a modular-construction yard: citing an Illinois state wartime report, Pullman was "the outstanding producer in the United States for the large type patrol boat (submarine chaser). These boats were assembled in 14 sections in its Calumet yard without the laying of a keel." This page documents the yard's PCE(R) rescue-ship variant production (PCE(R)-851/852/853, later USS Rockville/Brattleboro/Amherst), not the PCE-842/827-series escort variant that included this hull, but confirms the same yard's general WWII block-construction method.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 1943-1945
- Population
- Pullman Standard Calumet yard construction trades, 1943-45
- Limitations
- Describes construction method only (prefabricated steel-block assembly), not materials, insulation, or asbestos content. Concerns a different PCE sub-variant (PCE(R) rescue ships) built at the same yard, not PCE-827 specifically — carried as yard-level context only, not extended to this hull. No workforce exposure or hazard information is given on this page.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-hms-kilbernie-pce827-07
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[9]GAO, Navy Efforts To Protect Workers From Asbestos Exposure, HRD-80-2 (Oct 18, 1979) [gao]
- Locator
- GAO product page HRD-80-2 (full text blocked, HTTP 403)
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- A steel-hulled, diesel-propelled small combatant built 1942-43 at a U.S. WWII emergency shipyard falls within the Navy's documented peak era of asbestos-containing insulation, gasket, and packing specification (GAO: the Navy used asbestos insulation extensively and did not begin substituting alternatives until the early 1970s). Era-standard applications aboard a diesel-only hull of this type and period would be limited to exhaust/machinery-space lagging, gaskets, valve packing, and electrical insulation — there is no boiler or turbine plant aboard a Kil-class PCE, so no boiler-lagging pathway applies.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 1942-1943 (this hull's U.S. construction window); 1979 (report)
- Population
- U.S. Navy shipyard/yard-period workers generally (program-level); not specific to Pullman Standard or this hull
- Limitations
- Program-level documentation of U.S. Navy practice generally; GAO's report concerns Navy-operated vessels and does not address Royal Navy practice, Lend-Lease transfer vessels, or this hull specifically. This hull was never U.S. Navy-crewed, so even the Navy-wide context applies only to her brief U.S.-flag construction/delivery period (Oct 1942-Jul 1943), not to her operational service, which was entirely Royal Navy and (post-1947) foreign commercial. No quantity, no hull-specific survey. Full text not retrieved (gao.gov returns HTTP 403 to automated fetches, consistent with the standing defect noted in prior batches); content via product-page description only.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-hms-kilbernie-pce827-08
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[10]Batch-9610 search ledger (this record): NavSource; uboat.net ship page and class index; navypedia.org; navalmarinearchive.com; Wikipedia (cross-check only, not cited as a source); Naval Vessel Register scope note; GAO product page; Illinois EPA brownfield record (examined and excluded — different Pullman site); CourtListener exact-name and hull-number opinion/docket searches plus an asbestos-qualified opinion variant [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-hms-kilbernie-pce827-01 through -16
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, or hull-specific material list naming HMS Kilbernie/PCE-827 was found in any source reviewed. All four required CourtListener base queries completed this session: exact-name "Kilbernie" returned 0 opinion hits and 1 docket hit (a Sun Country Airlines-related bankruptcy, name collision, no asbestos content); hull-number "PCE-827" overflowed 20 results on both opinion (59) and docket (604) searches due to a high-collision term ("PCE" = perchloroethylene, an unrelated environmental contaminant), authorizing an asbestos-qualified variant, which returned 0 opinion hits (the matching docket variant was left blocked by the fleet-wide pacing limiter after repeated attempts — unresolved, not negative). This hull's circumstances also make a U.S. asbestos-litigation record especially unlikely on its face: never U.S. Navy-crewed (Lend-Lease transfer direct to the Royal Navy on completion), Royal Navy-crewed 1943-46, then sold into Norwegian and Italian commercial service 1947-1997 — none of which fall within the U.S. Navy-veteran exposure population that dominates the domestic asbestos-litigation record this project otherwise draws on.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 2026-10-03
- Limitations
- Absence of a located public record does not prove absence of asbestos aboard or during her 1942-43 U.S. construction period. Does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility for any individual associated with the Pullman Standard construction workforce, Royal Navy crew, or later commercial crews. One variant query (asbestos-qualified hull-number docket) remains unresolved — see gaps.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-hms-kilbernie-pce827-09