Evidence
18 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-18).
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[1]CourtListener opinion search: 'USS AFDL-28' [court_record]
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- CourtListener opinion search 'USS AFDL-28' returned 2 result(s) (2026-10-07); individual records not reviewed
- Verification
- unverified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Limitations
- hit count only — underlying dockets/opinions not individually reviewed; name query may match same-named vessels
- Evidence ID
- uss-afdl-28-afdl28-cl-name-opinion
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[2]CourtListener docket search: 'USS AFDL-28' [court_record]
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- CourtListener docket search 'USS AFDL-28' returned 4 result(s) (2026-10-07); individual records not reviewed
- Verification
- unverified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Limitations
- hit count only — underlying dockets/opinions not individually reviewed; name query may match same-named vessels
- Evidence ID
- uss-afdl-28-afdl28-cl-name-docket
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[3]CourtListener opinion search: 'AFDL-28' [court_record]
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- CourtListener opinion search 'AFDL-28' returned 9 result(s) (2026-10-07); individual records not reviewed
- Verification
- unverified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Limitations
- hit count only — underlying dockets/opinions not individually reviewed
- Evidence ID
- uss-afdl-28-afdl28-cl-hull-opinion
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[4]CourtListener docket search: 'AFDL-28' [court_record]
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- CourtListener docket search 'AFDL-28' returned 48 result(s) (2026-10-07); individual records not reviewed
- Verification
- unverified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Limitations
- hit count only — underlying dockets/opinions not individually reviewed
- Evidence ID
- uss-afdl-28-afdl28-cl-hull-docket
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[5]Naval Vessel Register, SHIPSDETAIL page for NO NAME (AFDL 28), NAVSHIPSO/NAVSEA Shipbuilding Support Office, page last updated 2000-08-24 [other_primary]
- Locator
- Wayback capture 2017-02-17 of nvr.navy.mil SHIPSDETAIL_AFDL_28_3591.HTML (live URL now redirects to NVR portal); vessel status, milestone dates, physical characteristics, program characteristics blocks
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Naval Vessel Register record: NO NAME (AFDL 28), ex-AFD 28, SMALL AUXILIARY FLOATING DRY DOCK (N-S-P), class 'AFDL 1', UIC 14828. Builder: 'Doullut & Ewin'. Status 'Disposed of through the Security Assistance Program (SAP), transferred, cash sale, ex-US fleet hull foreign military sale case number assigned', date status changed 07/01/1978; custodian 'MEXICO'. Propulsion type 'none'; hull material 'steel hull, steel superstructure'. All milestone date fields (award, keel, launch, delivery, commission, in-service, inactivation, decommission, stricken, out-of-service) and the dimensional and accommodations fields are blank. Page last updated 2000-08-24.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-20
- Study period
- 1944-2000
- Limitations
- Authoritative U.S. Navy registry record retrieved via Wayback capture (live NVR detail URL redirects to the NVR portal). Establishes identity, class, UIC, builder name, disposal mechanism (SAP/FMS cash sale) and date, custodian MEXICO, and non-propelled steel construction. Contains no asbestos, materials, or environmental information; the sparse record leaves milestone dates, dimensions, and complement undocumented at registry level. Does not state the FMS case number or the Mexican receiving unit.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-afdl-28-01
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[6]Carter, Rear Admiral Worrall Reed, USN (Ret.), 'Beans, Bullets, and Black Oil: The Story of Fleet Logistics Afloat in the Pacific During World War II' (Department of the Navy, 1953), Appendix 'List of Commanding Officers' (HyperWar transcription) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Appendix 'List of Commanding Officers', Floating Drydocks section - row 'AFD-28 | Lt(jg) C.D. Moore'; absence from main text verified by full-volume sweep of BBBO-1 through BBBO-33
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Official Navy logistics history appendix: 'AFD-28 | Lt(jg) C.D. Moore' appears in the 'Floating Drydocks' section of the 'List of Commanding Officers of the principal vessels which were engaged in logistic work under Commander Service Force Pacific' - placing this hull, with a named commanding officer, in wartime service under Service Force Pacific. A sweep of the volume's main text (all chapters) finds no other mention of AFD-28, so the specific base or bases are not documented in this source.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-20
- Study period
- 1944-1945
- Population
- AFD-28 commissioned crew under Lt(jg) C.D. Moore (size undocumented); crews of docked vessels under repair
- Limitations
- Official U.S. Navy operational history naming this hull and its commanding officer under Commander Service Force Pacific - the strongest ship-specific wartime record located. Establishes Pacific-theater assignment and commissioned status (a named CO) only; contains no station name, dates, materials, asbestos, crew-size, or construction information. The appendix notes it covers 'principal vessels' and omits many small-craft COs; the entry gives no date range for Moore's command.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-afdl-28-02
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[7]NavSource Naval History, AFDL-28 page (Service Ship Photo Archive 09/28/2878.htm) [other_primary]
- Locator
- navsource.net/archives/09/28/2878.htm - milestone list, specifications block, ribbon bar, commanding-officers table, no-DANFS note
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Secondary-compilation milestones (NavSource AFDL-28 page): 'Laid down, date unknown, at Mobile, AL., by Doullot & Ewin; Delivered and commissioned USS AFD-28 in August 1944; Decommissioned and placed in service, date unknown; Redesignated AFDL-28, 1 August 1946; Placed out of service, date unknown; Struck from the Naval Register, date unknown; Transferred to Mexico in 1978; Final Disposition, fate unknown.' Specifications block: 800 t, 200 ft, 64 ft beam, 45 ft inside width, draft 3 ft 3 in light / 31 ft 4 in flooded, 'Lifting capacity 1,900 tons'. No images held; 'There is no DANFS history available for USS AFD-28 / AFDL-28 at NavSource.' Ribbon entitlement: American Campaign Medal, World War II Victory Medal. Commanding-officer list: CAPT Cecil C. Adell (1950-1952), CAPT Irving T. Duke (1952-1953).
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-20
- Study period
- 1944-1978
- Population
- Construction trades (Doullut & Ewin yard, 1944); commissioned crew
- Limitations
- Volunteer-compiled secondary archive, not a primary record - used here for milestones the NVR leaves blank. The 'commissioned August 1944' datum is corroborated by the NARA deck-log span start (1944-08-18) and the BBBO CO listing, and 'to Mexico 1978' by the NVR SAP/FMS record; the redesignation date (1946-08-01) matches the class-wide action. The '1,900 tons' lifting-capacity figure is the generic lengthened-dock spec NavSource displays for all AFDLs - this hull is a 200-ft standard AFD (~1,000-ton class); see gaps. 'Doullot' is a misspelling of Doullut (NVR). The CAPT-ranked CO list is analyzed separately at ev-uss-afdl-28-08. No asbestos information.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-afdl-28-03
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[8]shipbuildinghistory.com 'US Navy Dry Docks AFDB AFDM AFDL ARDM ARD YFD' table (Tim Colton compilation), auxafd.htm AFDL row 28; shipbuildinghistory.com 'Doullut & Williams' yard history page [other_primary]
- Locator
- auxafd.htm AFDL table row 28; shipbuildinghistory.com/shipyards/emergencylarge/doullut.htm (firm history, Industrial Canal yard description, AFD 24-29 build list)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Builder corroboration and yard history: shipbuildinghistory.com's Navy floating-drydock table lists 'AFDL | 28 | | Doullot & Ewin | Mobile AL | 800 | 200 | Aug-44 | To Mexico 1978' (800-ton, 200-ft standard-AFD group; delivered August 1944). The same site's Doullut & Williams yard history records that Doullut & Williams (formed 1907 by Milton P. Doullut and W.H. Williams) became Doullut & Ewin under Doullut's son Paul and James P. Ewin, with the documented yard 'at the Lake Pontchartrain end of the Industrial Canal' (New Orleans) - while its drydock table and NavSource attribute the AFD-24-through-29 builds to Mobile, AL.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-20
- Study period
- 1944
- Population
- Construction trades (Doullut & Ewin yard, 1944)
- Limitations
- Reputable secondary compilation, not a primary record. The builder firm is confirmed by NVR ('Doullut & Ewin'); the Mobile, AL construction location rests on secondary compilations and conflicts with the same publisher's yard history placing the firm at the New Orleans Industrial Canal - the Mobile-vs-New-Orleans attribution is unresolved in located sources (the firm may have operated both). The 800t/200-ft grouping places this hull among standard AFDs, not the five lengthened 288-ft conversions. No asbestos information.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-afdl-28-04
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[9]National Archives and Records Administration, Special List 44: List of Logbooks of U.S. Ships, Stations, and Miscellaneous Units, 1801-1947 (RG 24), ship-number index [other_primary]
- Locator
- sl-44-ship-number.pdf, AFD block: 'AFD-28 | 8/18/1944 | 12/31/1945' (verified by pdftotext extraction, 2026-09-20)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- NARA deck-log index: Special List 44 (List of Logbooks of U.S. Ships, Stations, and Miscellaneous Units, 1801-1947), by ship number, lists 'AFD-28' with log coverage 8/18/1944 - 12/31/1945 in Record Group 24 (Records of the Bureau of Naval Personnel). No 'AFDL-28' entry appears (index lists AFDL-21, -29, -32 only). The 8/18/1944 start date corroborates the NavSource August 1944 commissioning milestone, and the wartime deck logs are the unconsulted primary source that would resolve this hull's Pacific station(s).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-20
- Study period
- 1944-08-18 to 1945-12-31
- Population
- AFD-28 commissioned crew, August 1944 - December 1945
- Limitations
- Index-level verification only - the deck logs themselves were not retrieved or examined (not digitized in located public sources; RG 24 pull requires NARA reproduction). The log span documents that logs exist for 1944-08-18 through 1945-12-31; it does not itself state the hull's stations, though log content would. Absence of an 'AFDL-28' listing is consistent with postwar decommission-to-in-service status (NavSource) but is not itself proof of decommissioning date. No asbestos information.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-afdl-28-05
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[10]National Archives and Records Administration, Cartographic Ship Plan Index (archives.gov/research/cartographic/ship-index), entry 'AFDL-28' [other_primary]
- Locator
- Ship Plan Index row: Ship Name 'AFDL-28' | Hull Number 'AFDL-28' | RG 385 | Series Title 'Microfilm' | NAID 63531026 (index hyperlinks to catalog.archives.gov)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- NARA Cartographic Ship Plan Index lists a hull-specific plan holding for this dock: index row 'AFDL-28 | AFDL-28 | 385 | Microfilm | 63531026' - a microfilm file unit (National Archives Identifier 63531026) in Record Group 385, Naval Facilities Engineering Command (the Bureau of Yards and Docks successor agency that designed and built the floating-drydock fleet).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-20
- Study period
- 1944-era records
- Limitations
- Index-level verification only - the plan/drawing content was not retrieved or examined (no reproduction spend authorized). The file unit is shared across the floating-drydock program (the same NAID 63531026 appears on the index's AFDL entries generally - verified for AFDL-25 through -29 and sister records' AFBD checks), so the hull-specific sheet coverage for AFDL-28 is unknown until the microfilm is surveyed. A plan set is a potential machinery/materials-layout source, not itself an asbestos finding.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-afdl-28-06
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[11]Bureau of Yards and Docks, 'Building the Navy's Bases in World War II,' Chapter IX Floating Drydocks (official Navy history, HyperWar transcription), pp. 218-219 and type-classification section; NVR '(ex - AFD 28)' line; NavSource AFDL-28 page (redesignation date) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Chapter IX 'Auxiliary Floating Dock' and 'Types of Floating Drydocks' sections; nvr.navy.mil SHIPSDETAIL_AFDL_28_3591 '(ex - AFD 28)'; navsource.net/archives/09/28/2878.htm (redesignated AFDL-28, 1 August 1946)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Built as AFD-28, a Bureau of Yards and Docks AFD-type 'Auxiliary Floating Dock' - a mobile, military, one-piece welded-steel trough dock of 1,000 tons lifting capacity, 200 ft long and 64 ft wide with 45 ft clear width inside the wing walls, 'fully self-contained, with diesel electric power plants' and limited repair facilities, intended for docking minesweepers, patrol craft, and similar vessels. Under the 1946 floating-drydock nomenclature revision 'the AFD's became AFDL's' (Auxiliary Floating Drydock Little, under 10,000 tons); NVR confirms this hull as 'ex-AFD 28', and NavSource records its redesignation as AFDL-28 on 1946-08-01 - the class-wide action date.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-20
- Study period
- 1944-1946
- Limitations
- The class design description and the 1946 blanket AFD-to-AFDL reclassification are official Navy-history facts applied to this hull via the NVR 'ex-AFD 28' line; the specific 1946-08-01 date rests on NavSource (volunteer archive) but matches the class action. shipbuildinghistory places this hull in the 800-ton/200-ft standard-AFD group - not one of the five 288-ft lengthened conversions - so NavSource's displayed 1,900-ton lift figure is generic lengthened-dock data, not hull-specific. No asbestos information in any source.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-afdl-28-07
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[12]NavSource AFDL-28 commanding-officers list vs. Harry S. Truman Library photo records (Capt. Cecil Adell at Key West, Nov 1951) and Washington Post obituary of VADM Irving T. Duke (1979-12-04) recording his Key West base command [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource 2878.htm 'Commanding Officers' table; trumanlibrary.gov taxonomy page 'Adell, Cecil C.' (Key West photo series); washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1979/12/04 VADM Duke obituary ('commanding officer of the Navy base in Key West, Fla.')
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Postwar station inference - Key West: NavSource's commanding-officer list for AFDL-28 shows CAPT Cecil C. Adell (1950-1952) and CAPT Irving T. Duke (1952-1953). A 200-ft service dock would not rate a post-captain as commanding officer; both men are independently documented as commanding officers of the Key West naval base in those years - Truman Library photographs show Captain Adell greeting President Truman at the Boca Chica/Key West naval base in November 1951, and Vice Admiral Duke's Washington Post obituary records his post-Missouri assignment as 'commanding officer of the Navy base in Key West, Fla.' The NavSource CO list therefore most plausibly reflects the parent station's commanding officers, which is consistent with (but does not prove) this dock being stationed at Naval Station Key West circa 1950-1953.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-09-20
- Study period
- 1950-1953
- Population
- Dock and naval-station personnel at Key West (if stationed there), 1950-1953
- Limitations
- Inference, not documentation - NavSource labels these officers as the dock's 'Commanding Officers' but their post-captain rank and independent records identify them as Key West naval-base COs. Two readings: (a) the dock was at Key West under the base CO's umbrella; (b) NavSource misattributed base COs to this craft. Either way, Key West stationing ~1950-1953 is consistent but unproven - the dock's actual postwar station(s) are undocumented. No asbestos information.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-afdl-28-08
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[13]Bureau of Yards and Docks, 'Building the Navy's Bases in World War II,' Ch. IX (design description of the AFD type); wartime mission per Carter, 'Beans, Bullets, and Black Oil,' Appendix; era asbestos framing per Corn & Starr (see ev-uss-afdl-28-10) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Chapter IX, 'Auxiliary Floating Dock' paragraph (diesel-electric power plants, self-contained, limited repair facilities); BBBO-A appendix (repair mission under Service Force Pacific)
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Class/era inference only: the AFD design carried a diesel-electric power plant, ballast/pumping machinery, and limited repair facilities within a welded-steel trough dock delivered in 1944 for the U.S. Navy - a period when Navy construction specifications and supply routinely included asbestos-containing gaskets, packing, electrical insulation, millboard, and thermal insulation for machinery and piping. The dock's wartime mission under Service Force Pacific - lifting small combatant craft for underwater-hull and appendage repair - additionally placed its crew in sustained contact with era vessels whose own insulation suites commonly contained asbestos.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-20
- Study period
- 1944-1946 construction and wartime-service era
- Population
- Construction trades (Doullut & Ewin yard, 1944); dock operating crew; crews of vessels under repair in the Pacific
- Limitations
- Design- and mission-level inference, not a hull record - neither Navy history mentions asbestos or names this dock in a materials context. Asbestos presence aboard AFDL-28 is inferred from era construction practice and onboard machinery, not proven; a non-propelled floating dock had a far smaller machinery and inhabited-space footprint than a steam vessel, and its asbestos loading would correspondingly be lower. Establishes nothing about quantity, condition, present-day presence, individual exposure, or causation.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-afdl-28-09
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[14]Corn, Jacqueline Karnell, and Jennifer Starr, 'Historical perspective on asbestos: Policies and protective measures in World War II shipbuilding,' American Journal of Industrial Medicine 11(3):359-373 (1987) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Abstract and article, AJIM 11(3):359-373
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Peer-reviewed historical study documents that asbestos was used extensively as a fireproofing and insulating material in U.S. shipbuilding during WWII - the program and era under which this Navy-contracted floating dock was built - with wartime demand driving unprecedented asbestos utilization aboard government and contract hulls.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-20
- Study period
- 1940s era documented; article 1987
- Population
- WWII shipyard workers and vessel crews (class context)
- Limitations
- Program/era-level scholarly documentation of asbestos use in WWII shipbuilding generally; does not name this dock, does not address floating drydocks specifically, and does not establish that asbestos was or remains aboard this hull, nor quantity, location, condition, exposure, or causation.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-afdl-28-10
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[15]Keller v. Dravo Corp., 441 F.2d 1239 (5th Cir. 1971), cert. denied 404 U.S. 1017, 92 S.Ct. 679, 30 L.Ed.2d 665 (1972) [court_record]
- Locator
- Opinion at 441 F.2d 1243-44 (vessel-status holding); reporter citation cross-verified via multiple case-law databases (CourtListener API unavailable this session - see search_ledger)
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- Litigation-posture context for the vessel type (not this hull, not asbestos): Fifth Circuit doctrine holds that 'as a matter of law, a floating dry dock is not a vessel when it is moored and in use as a dry dock' - Keller v. Dravo Corp., 441 F.2d 1239, 1244 (5th Cir. 1971), cert. denied 404 U.S. 1017 (1972), following Atkins v. Greenville Shipping Corp., 411 F.2d 279 (5th Cir. 1969) and Chahoc v. Hunt Shipyard, 431 F.2d 576 (5th Cir. 1970). Workers injured on moored floating drydocks were accordingly confined to Longshoremen's and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act remedies rather than vessel-owner negligence/unseaworthiness theories.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-20
- Study period
- 1969-1972 (doctrine); applies to moored-dock operations
- Population
- Floating-drydock workers generally (type context)
- Limitations
- Doctrinal context for the vessel type only - an LHWCA/admiralty vessel-status ruling, not asbestos litigation, not naming this hull, and not an exposure finding. Relevant to how injury claims by drydock crews were channeled; the Keller court expressly declined an absolute rule that a floating drydock can never be a vessel. Citation verified against reporter text reproduced in case-law databases; a direct CourtListener pull remains an open lead.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-afdl-28-11
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[16]Sri Lanka Navy shipwreck journal, 'The Sinking of ADF 23 in Trincomalee Harbour' (shipwrecks.navy.lk); naval-history.net HMS Howe chronology; Wikipedia HMS Valiant (1914) article (Trincomalee accident section) - number-conflicting secondary sources [other_primary]
- Locator
- shipwrecks.navy.lk journal id=17 ('AFD 23'); naval-history.net xGM-Chrono-01BB-HMS_Howe.htm ('Floating Dock AFD 28'); en.wikipedia.org HMS Valiant (1914) - accident narrative without dock number; worldwar2warships.co.uk 4408.html ('AFD 28')
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Identity correction - NOT the Trincomalee dock: on 1944-08-08 a British Admiralty Floating Dock collapsed at Trincomalee, Ceylon, while docking the battleship HMS Valiant - the dock broke its back and sank, jamming two of Valiant's propeller shafts and ending her operational career. Secondary sources disagree on that dock's number: the Sri Lanka Navy shipwreck journal calls it 'ADF 23/AFD 23' (built at Bombay, moored near Sober Island), while British WWII chronologies and naval-history.net call it 'AFD 28.' This hull - USS AFD-28, a 200-ft, ~800-ton-displacement U.S. Navy standard AFD delivered and commissioned at Mobile in the same month - is a different vessel entirely and could never have docked a ~35,000-ton battleship. Any 'AFD 28 sank at Trincomalee' reference is a name collision, not this hull.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- correction
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-20
- Study period
- 1944-08
- Limitations
- The collision is verified as an identity hazard, not as an event in this hull's life - the Trincomalee dock was a large British Admiralty dock (its number is itself disputed: AFD 23 per the Sri Lanka Navy wreck journal, AFD 28 per British chronologies), while USS AFD-28 was a 200-ft US standard dock commissioned the same month at Mobile. The sources conflict on the British dock's designation but uniformly describe a dock orders of magnitude larger than this hull. No asbestos information.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-afdl-28-12
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[17]Batch-586 search ledger (this record): CourtListener API v4 attempt (HTTP 429); web-indexed court-document sweeps; collision-hull identification [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-afdl-28-11 through sl-uss-afdl-28-13
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Litigation and name-collision sweep: a CourtListener API v4 opinion query for 'AFDL-28' was blocked (HTTP 429, shared 125/day quota, ~1.7h reset) and the companion 'AFD-28' query deferred per the backoff rule; web-indexed court-record sweeps returned no opinion naming this dock. Returned documents were unrelated asbestos filings (e.g., a Ferguson v. Crane Co. MDL-875 summary-judgment opinion - Navy valve-packing claims, no floating-dock connection) - classified non-qualifying. Collision hulls for any future search: the British Admiralty Floating Dock at Trincomalee (AFD 23/AFD 28), ARD-28 (sister repair dock), YFD-28, APD-28, and generic 'AFD' acronym collisions require hull-resolution before classification.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-20
- Study period
- 2026-09-20
- Limitations
- Sweep partially blocked - the live CourtListener API quota was exhausted before the first query ran (HTTP 429, expected ~1.7h reset), so no fresh docket-level search of this hull was possible; the web-indexed sweep is a weaker instrument. Absence of a located pleading is not proof no claim ever existed. No asbestos opinion naming this dock was found by any instrument used.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-afdl-28-13
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[18]Batch-586 search ledger (this record): NVR SHIPSDETAIL page; HyperWar BBBO full-volume sweep + Appendix; BuSandA Ch. IX; NARA Ship Plan Index; NARA Special List 44; shipbuildinghistory auxafd table and Doullut yard history; NavSource 2878.htm; NHHC canonical DANFS URLs; web-indexed litigation sweeps [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-afdl-28-01 through sl-uss-afdl-28-15
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, abatement contract, materials schedule, hazmat disclosure, or docketed case naming AFD-28/AFDL-28 was found in the public sources searched - the NVR record, the two official Navy histories (Beans, Bullets, and Black Oil; Building the Navy's Bases), the NARA Ship Plan Index and Special List 44 entries, the shipbuildinghistory and NavSource compilations contain no asbestos or insulation-material statement, and no DANFS entry exists for this hull (canonical NHHC URLs return 404).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-20
- Study period
- 2026-09-20
- Limitations
- Absence of a located public record does not prove absence of asbestos aboard - a 1944 self-contained Navy dock with diesel-electric machinery and repair shops is era-consistent with asbestos-containing materials, and the 1978 FMS cash sale to Mexico means any retained material passed to a foreign navy without a located disclosure. Does not establish presence or absence; does not establish or defeat any exposure claim or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-afdl-28-14