Evidence
10 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-10).
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[1]MARAD, Marshall Victory vessel status card [marad_nrc]
- Locator
- Operator/delivery table; corroborating cards 3104_5775BF.jpg fields 8/22 and 3104_5775AF.jpg field 8
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- The Marshall Victory status card records delivery to the War Department under a bareboat agreement on June 19, 1946, followed by transfer on August 30, 1946; reserve fleet delivery at Suisun Bay on September 21, 1949; Military Sea Transport Service custody on July 22, 1950; and reserve fleet delivery at Olympia on November 5, 1952.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-24
- Limitations
- Custody dates are not necessarily operational in-service or commissioning dates. This card does not establish Korean voyage dates, crew size, asbestos content, or exposure.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-usns-lt-raymond-o-beaudoin-02
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[2]MARAD, Lt. Raymond O. Beaudoin reserve fleet card [marad_nrc]
- Locator
- Red sale annotation and field 22; sale card 3104_AF.jpg confirms award date and buyer
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- MARAD recorded a sale for scrap to Tai Kien Industry Co., Ltd. on March 20, 1972, and withdrawal from the reserve fleet on May 11, 1972.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-24
- Limitations
- Sale for scrap and withdrawal are documented; completed dismantling, its date and location, and any asbestos-removal scope are not established.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-usns-lt-raymond-o-beaudoin-03
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[3]MARAD, Lt. Raymond O. Beaudoin reserve fleet card reverse [marad_nrc]
- Locator
- Entire reverse; ballast/holds note
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- The reverse reserve fleet card describes poured-cement ballast and refers to Brown's report of November 5, 1952. It does not identify that cement as asbestos-containing.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- correction
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-24
- Limitations
- Cement is not evidence of asbestos composition. Brown's referenced report was not retrieved; the card is not a hazardous-material survey.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-usns-lt-raymond-o-beaudoin-04
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[4]MARAD, Lt. Raymond O. Beaudoin registry and attached status cards [marad_nrc]
- Locator
- General Type, Specific Type, Fate; attached 3104_5775AF.jpg and 3104_AF.jpg
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- MARAD detail 3104 labels the vessel as a training ship and lists a government-transfer fate, while its attached contemporary cards identify a trooper and a sale for scrap. The record uses the contemporary cards for type and disposition.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- correction
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-24
- Limitations
- Database metadata conflicts with the attached primary cards. No independent training-ship service is established; the website metadata is not silently treated as historical fact.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-usns-lt-raymond-o-beaudoin-05
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[5]GAO, Navy Efforts To Protect Workers From Asbestos Exposure, HRD-80-2 (October 18, 1979) [gao]
- Locator
- Opening letter, PDF pages 1–2; product-page Highlights
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- GAO described thermal insulation as the Navy's principal shipboard asbestos use and discussed changes to removal policy during the 1970s.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-24
- Limitations
- Navy program context only, from after this vessel's service. Neither this hull nor its merchant construction specifications are established by the report; no installation, quantity, location, or exposure is inferred for Beaudoin.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-usns-lt-raymond-o-beaudoin-06
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[6]Codex, Batch 9543 source-review and search ledger [other_primary]
- Locator
- research/batch-9543/RESEARCH.md; search_ledger sl-01 through sl-12
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos document was located in the MARAD registry entries and six status-card scans reviewed for this batch. CourtListener coverage is incomplete because the required helper stopped at the fleet pacing limit before returning a result.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-24
- Limitations
- A bounded research outcome, not proof that the ship lacked asbestos and not a negative litigation search result. No survey, material specification, abatement record, or asbestos case was verified. Unretrieved archives and blocked searches remain gaps. The separate trust records (rows 09–10) are research leads and do not resolve asbestos composition.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-usns-lt-raymond-o-beaudoin-07
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[7]NARA, Guide to Federal Records, RG 178 [other_primary]
- Locator
- Sections 178.6 and 178.8
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- NARA RG 178 lists Construction Division records for 1942–1946 and Production Division hull correspondence for 1941–1945. These are leads for construction-file research under Marshall Victory and hull 823.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-09-24
- Limitations
- The collection description is verified, but no Beaudoin/Marshall Victory file was retrieved or confirmed within it. Digitization status of individual files is unknown; this is not asbestos evidence.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-usns-lt-raymond-o-beaudoin-08
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[8]J. T. Thorpe Settlement Trust, Ship List (04/2015 download; footer 09/2013) [other_primary]
- Locator
- PDF page 30 of 56, Marshall Victory row; current Claims Packet page links this PDF
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- The trust-published ship list includes Marshall Victory 1945 for March 1–31, 1946; its work-type and job-number cells are blank.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-24
- Limitations
- Verified trust-list entry, not a complaint, trial finding or judgment. It does not identify asbestos products, composition, a worker or exposure. The historical alias/year match is corroborated by MARAD; no hull number appears in this row. Trust lists may change. No eligibility conclusion is made.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-usns-lt-raymond-o-beaudoin-09
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[9]J. T. Thorpe Settlement Trust, Summary of J.T. Thorpe Job Books (August 2023) [other_primary]
- Locator
- PDF/printed page 642, jobs 5483 and 5483A; underlying Job Books page 954 referenced
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- The trust's August 2023 job-book summary lists Marshall Victory jobs 5483 and 5483A in March 1946 at Consolidated Steel / Consolidated Western Steel, Wilmington, California: boiler brick-seal work and galley-range rebricking.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-24
- Limitations
- Verified summary entries; original job-book page 954 and material specifications not retrieved. These descriptions do not identify asbestos composition. Adjacent other-vessel insulation jobs cannot be attributed to Marshall Victory. No judicial stage or individual exposure is established.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-usns-lt-raymond-o-beaudoin-10
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[10]MARAD, Marshall Victory vessel status card [marad_nrc]
- Locator
- Header, builder/completion fields, first operator row and name-change annotation
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Marshall Victory, later Lt. Raymond O. Beaudoin, was a VC2-S-AP2 vessel, Maritime Commission hull 823, official number 247903, built by Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyard at Baltimore, Maryland. The status card records completion and delivery to J. H. Winchester & Co. on June 15, 1945.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-24
- Limitations
- This administrative history does not document asbestos materials or individual exposure.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-usns-lt-raymond-o-beaudoin-01
