Evidence
8 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-8).
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[1]MARAD, Fort Cornwallis vessel status card, front [marad_nrc]
- Locator
- Header, completion line, operator and delivery columns
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Fort Cornwallis was a T2-SE-A1 tanker, MC hull 1731, official number 245495, built by Sun Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co. at Chester, Pennsylvania, and completed 27 April 1944. The card records delivery to Spencer Kellogg under a general agency agreement that day, title transfer to Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey on 17 October 1946, and subsequent names Esso Parkersburg and Parkersburg.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-24
- Limitations
- Administrative identity and delivery record, not a materials survey. Does not establish asbestos content, exposure or the keel/launch dates. Exact handwritten Esso renaming day is not adopted.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-usns-parkersburg-01
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[2]MARAD, Fort Cornwallis/Parkersburg vessel status card, front [marad_nrc]
- Locator
- Lower operator rows: Marine Transport Lines, Military Sea Transportation Serv., Reserve Fleet
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- The status card records Marine Transport Lines reactivation on 2 October 1956, transfer to Military Sea Transportation Service custody at Baltimore on 21 December 1956 at 6:00 p.m. EST, and return to the James River Reserve Fleet on 27 September 1957. The MSTS custody transfer is the qualifying Navy-service basis; later commercial service is not.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-24
- Limitations
- Custody/service dates are not naval commissioning dates. This card does not itself print T-AO-163 or establish the earlier designation date, operational voyages, naval complement, or asbestos conditions.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-usns-parkersburg-02
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[3]MARAD, Fort Cornwallis vessel status card, continuation [marad_nrc]
- Locator
- Title-transfer row and subsequent annotated milestones
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- The continuation card records title transfer to Marine Navigation Co., Inc. (Marine Chemical Carriers Corp.) on 5 December 1967; renaming to Marine Eagle on 11 December 1967; chemical-carrier conversion on 1 April 1969; sale to E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company on 5 July 1978; and sale for scrapping in Taiwan on 28 April 1984.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-24
- Limitations
- Sale for scrapping is not proof of the completion date of demolition. These later commercial events do not establish Navy-era asbestos use or exposure; no conversion materials scope is supplied.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-usns-parkersburg-03
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[4]MARAD, Parkersburg reserve-fleet ship particulars [marad_nrc]
- Locator
- Hull, prior-service, entered and withdrawn fields
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- The James River card identifies Parkersburg, ex-Esso Parkersburg, as MC-1731, built in 1944, entering from Navy custody on 27 September 1957. It records physical withdrawal on 6 December 1967 for an exchange transaction, distinct from the continuation card's 5 December title-transfer date.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- correction
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-24
- Limitations
- Custody and withdrawal evidence only; no asbestos material or abatement finding. The two December dates describe different administrative events and are not silently combined.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-usns-parkersburg-04
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[5]Historic American Engineering Record, Saugatuck, HAER VA-128 [haer]
- Locator
- Printed page 38 / PDF page 39, Fort Cornwallis row
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- The official Saugatuck HAER report appendix identifies Fort Cornwallis as the vessel later named Parkersburg (AO 163).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-24
- Limitations
- Only the explicit name-to-AO-163 cross-reference is adopted. This appendix gives MC 1743 and a 1957 Navy year, conflicting with original MARAD cards (MC 1731 and MSTS custody 21 December 1956); those appendix details are rejected. Saugatuck materials or machinery are not transferred to Parkersburg.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-usns-parkersburg-05
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[6]GAO, Navy Efforts To Protect Workers From Asbestos Exposure, HRD-80-2, 18 October 1979 [gao]
- Locator
- PDF pages 1-2, opening summary and Navy's Policy on Use of Asbestos
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- GAO described thermal insulation as the Navy's principal shipboard asbestos use and reported the Navy's later policy of replacing damaged insulation or insulation removed for necessary repairs. This provides general Navy-era research background.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-24
- Limitations
- Program-level historical evidence only. The 1979 report postdates Parkersburg's MSTS service and its fieldwork concerns Long Beach and Norfolk, not this hull. It establishes no installed products, quantities, crew exposure, individual causation or abatement aboard Parkersburg. Web PDF text retrieved; direct local download returned access-denied HTML.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-usns-parkersburg-06
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[7]Codex research/search ledger, batch 9557 [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger sl-01 through sl-12; research/batch-9557/RESEARCH.md and cl-name-opinion.log
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record was located in the primary records and bounded web searches reviewed for this batch. Ship-specific asbestos documentation remains unknown. CourtListener coverage is incomplete because the authenticated helper stopped at the shared pacing budget before returning any results.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-24
- Limitations
- A bounded research outcome, not proof that asbestos or litigation did not exist. No CourtListener zero-hit claim is made. Name, hull, alias, docket and opinion sweeps remain incomplete. The downloaded USCG records concern a collision and radio inspection, not an asbestos inspection.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-usns-parkersburg-07
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[8]NARA, Researching Asbestos aboard US Naval Vessel up through 1961 [other_primary]
- Locator
- Beginning Research; Unclassified Correspondence 1947-1961; General Information Books; engineering drawings
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- NARA recommends ship-specific Bureau of Ships correspondence, ship information books and engineering drawings for researching naval asbestos. Its guide lists 1956 and 1957 unclassified correspondence as RG 19 entries UD 1010 and UD 1011; these are follow-up leads for Parkersburg's Navy period.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-09-24
- Limitations
- Guide-level lead only: no Parkersburg folder, drawing, specification or material schedule was examined, and holdings for this individual hull have not been confirmed. Guide is not hull-specific asbestos evidence.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-usns-parkersburg-08
