Evidence
6 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-6).
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[1]MARAD RADCLIFFE VICTORY detail and vessel status cards [other_primary]
- Locator
- Characteristics; name history; card 1 header; card 2 header
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Radcliffe Victory, later Sgt. Andrew Miller (T-AK-242), was a VC2-S-AP2 cargo ship, official number 247666, MCV hull 743, built by Permanente Metals Corporation, Yard No. 2, Richmond, California, and completed 28 April 1945.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-24
- Limitations
- Historical documentation only; does not establish asbestos materials or individual exposure.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-usns-sgt-andrew-miller-01
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[2]MARAD vessel status card 1; reserve-fleet card 2 [other_primary]
- Locator
- Operator / form of agreement / delivery columns; card 2 service prior to lay-up
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- The vessel status card records delivery to American West African Line on 28 April 1945, War Department bareboat delivery on 26 July 1946 and transfer on 30 August 1946, followed by Navy Department title transfer on 1 March 1950. The reserve card identifies prior service as Navy-MSC.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-24
- Limitations
- Title-transfer date is not a Navy commissioning date. The card does not date the renaming or independently document the exact first MSTS operational voyage. No asbestos statement.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-usns-sgt-andrew-miller-02
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[3]Edward J. Marolda, By Sea, Air, and Land, Chapter 5: The Final Curtain, 1973–1975 [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- Naval Evacuation of I and II Corps; The Fall of South Vietnam
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- NHHC lists USNS Sgt. Andrew Miller among ships alerted on 25 March 1975 for South Vietnam evacuation operations; it describes the ship at Danang and carrying evacuees from Cam Ranh Bay toward Phu Quoc during 1–4 April. The ship was part of the MSC flotilla departing for reception centers after the evacuation.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-24
- Limitations
- Operational history, not asbestos evidence. Fleet passenger totals are not this vessel’s crew complement; none are used as such. Reviewed through search-index full-page text; direct page fetch failed.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-usns-sgt-andrew-miller-03
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[4]MARAD cards 1–3, including Record of Ship Sales [other_primary]
- Locator
- Card 1 final custody rows; card 2 entered/withdrawn fields; card 3 acquisition and final handwritten annotation
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- MARAD records James River custody/entry on 22 March 1976 and withdrawal/delivery for the scrap transaction on 21 November 1983. The sale card is annotated that the ship was scrapped and its bond released 15 February 1984.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- correction
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-24
- Limitations
- November 1983 delivery is not proof that physical demolition finished that month. The bond-release annotation establishes scrapping acknowledged by February 1984, not its exact completion date or asbestos disposal methods. Corrected/struck-through buyer details are not treated as a clean unamended contract.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-usns-sgt-andrew-miller-04
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[5]Batch 9582 research and search ledger [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger; research/batch-9582/RESEARCH.md
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos survey, product identification, abatement record, or exposure finding was located in the MARAD cards, MARAD detail, NHHC operational history, and bounded public searches documented in this record. CourtListener remains unsearched successfully because the fleet helper refused a pacing token.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-24
- Limitations
- A bounded search outcome, not proof of absence of asbestos or litigation. CourtListener name request was blocked before results; hull-number search was not executed after stand-down. No merits-level negative court finding is claimed.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-usns-sgt-andrew-miller-05
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[6]NARA Guide to Federal Records, RG 313 [other_primary]
- Locator
- 313.6.1 Records of the Military Sea Transportation Service
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- NARA RG 313 section 313.6.1 describes MSTS Pacific Area subject files for 1950–56 and 1959, arctic-operations records for 1955–57, and MSTS San Francisco subject files for 1949–55. These are potential operational-file leads.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-09-24
- Limitations
- Finding-aid scope verified; no hull file or asbestos record retrieved. The guide does not establish that a particular Sgt. Andrew Miller file survives or contains material specifications.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-usns-sgt-andrew-miller-06
