Evidence
8 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-8).
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[1]MARAD Ship History 3045; original vessel status card [marad_nrc]
- Locator
- Header, completion field, and first operator row
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Lone Jack was a T2-SE-A1 tanker built in 1944 by Sun Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company at Chester, Pennsylvania; U.S. official number 246755. MARAD status card records completion and delivery to Cities Service Oil Co. under general agency agreement on 31 October 1944.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-24
- Limitations
- Identity and custody evidence only; neither construction date nor tanker type establishes asbestos content. MC number on this card conflicts with HAER; see evidence 04.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-usns-lone-jack-01
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[2]MARAD original vessel status card, LONE JACK, official number 246755 [marad_nrc]
- Locator
- Operator, form of agreement, port, date and time delivered columns
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- MARAD records Cities Service title delivery on 26 September 1946; trade-in to the reserve fleet at Beaumont on 23 December 1954; Marine Transport Lines reactivation under general agency agreement on 4 October 1956; MSTS custody at New Orleans on 15 January 1957; return to the reserve fleet at Olympia on 7 October 1957; and permanent transfer to the Department of the Army on 10 March 1966.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-24
- Limitations
- Custody dates are not commissioning dates or proof of specific voyages, asbestos work, or individual exposure. The handwritten T-AO-160 annotation conflicts with the assigned identity and HAER AO-161. Army transfer uses the primary card date, not secondary June 1966 accounts.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-usns-lone-jack-02
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[3]Saugatuck, HAER VA-128, p. 41; MARAD Record of Ship Sales, MA-6226 [haer]
- Locator
- Printed p. 41 (PDF p. 42), Lone Jack row; corroborating sale card https://vesselhistory.marad.dot.gov/cards/3045_AF.jpg
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- The MARAD-hosted Saugatuck HAER report lists Lone Jack as Sun yard hull 450, entering Navy service in 1957 as AO-161, transferred to the Army as a power plant in 1966, and scrapped in 1971. MARAD sale card MA-6226 identifies official number 246755, location Cam Ranh Bay, an award to Tung Ho Steel Enterprise Corporation dated 29 January 1971, and foreign hull dismantling.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-24
- Limitations
- HAER is a retrospective historical compilation, not a demolition completion certificate. Sale card records award and intended dismantling, not its actual completion date. No asbestos inventory or abatement scope is documented. Exact scrapping month and location are withheld.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-usns-lone-jack-03
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[4]MARAD Ship History 3045, linked status and sale cards; HAER VA-128 p. 41 [marad_nrc]
- Locator
- Status cards 4JV_01.png, 3045_5668AF.jpg, 3045_5668BF.jpg, 3045_AF.jpg; Specific Type field; HAER p. 41
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Source discrepancies: HAER p. 41 gives MC 1783 and AO-161; the original MARAD status card gives MC 1767 and a handwritten T-AO-160. MARAD reserve card 3045_5668AF independently records 10 March 1966 Army withdrawal, agreeing with the main status card and database milestones. Sale card 3045_AF is dated 29 January 1971, whereas reserve card 3045_5668AF annotates a 26 January 1971 sale. MARAD web metadata calls the specific type LNG; the status cards identify only a T2-SE-A1 tanker.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- correction
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-24
- Limitations
- Canonical Navy identity remains T-AO-161, independently supported by HAER. MC number is withheld pending reconciliation. No claim that the cards represent a different vessel: name, official number, builder, type, and chronology identify Lone Jack. LNG classification is not adopted. Sale dates may represent different administrative events; no single completed-sale date is inferred.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-usns-lone-jack-04
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[5]Coast Guard correspondence, declassified NARA project NW 63684, hosted by MARAD [other_primary]
- Locator
- PDF p. 1, subject and forwarding endorsement
- Finding type
- environmental_record
- Finding
- MARAD hosts a declassified Coast Guard file whose 7 August 1945 forwarding endorsement concerns a reported Oil Pollution Act violation by SS Lone Jack at Port Arthur, Texas, on 28 July 1945. This is an oil-pollution administrative record, not asbestos litigation or an asbestos survey.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-24
- Limitations
- Only the first-page endorsement is used for the claim; noisy OCR of later pages is retained as research material, not evidence. Forwarding a report does not establish a prosecution, trial finding, affirmed judgment, or asbestos exposure.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-usns-lone-jack-05
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[6]GAO HRD-80-2, Navy Efforts To Protect Workers From Asbestos Exposure (18 October 1979) [gao]
- Locator
- Report pp. 1-2 (PDF pp. 1-2)
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- GAO reported in 1979 that thermal insulation had been the Navy’s principal shipboard asbestos application and described the change to asbestos-free thermal-insulation specifications in 1973. This provides general historical Navy-era context only.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-24
- Limitations
- Report concerns the wider Navy and fieldwork at Long Beach and Norfolk, not Lone Jack, its merchant construction, or its 1957 MSTS period. It postdates this vessel’s disposal. It supports only a Tier 2 era-context ceiling, never an installed product, ship-specific presence, exposure, quantity, or individual causation finding.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-usns-lone-jack-06
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[7]Batch 9540 research and search ledger [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger sl-01 through sl-09; research/batch-9540/RESEARCH.md
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos survey, material specification, abatement record, or asbestos case was located in the completed searches documented in the search ledger. Ship-specific asbestos documentation remains unknown. CourtListener coverage is incomplete because the authenticated helper refused the first request at the fleet pacing gate; no API search results were returned.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-24
- Limitations
- A bounded negative search result is not evidence that asbestos was absent. CourtListener name and hull sweeps remain incomplete; no no-result litigation claim is made. No legal eligibility or exposure determination is supported.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-usns-lone-jack-07
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[8]NARA, Researching Asbestos aboard US Naval Vessel up through 1961 [other_primary]
- Locator
- Bureau of Ships correspondence and S-code research guidance
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- NARA’s asbestos research guide directs researchers to RG 19 correspondence and ship designation files, including insulation and lagging subject code S39. These are follow-up leads for AO-161 and its 1957 Navy period; no Lone Jack-specific file from those series was retrieved.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-09-24
- Limitations
- The guide is general. It does not establish that a specific Lone Jack file survives, contains asbestos documentation, or covers merchant construction and subsequent Army conversion. No archival inspection or reproduction order was performed.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-usns-lone-jack-08
