Evidence
11 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-11).
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[1]Naval Vessel Register, SHIPSDETAIL page for NO NAME (AFDL 30), NAVSHIPSO/NAVSEA Shipbuilding Support Office, page last updated 2000-08-24 [other_primary]
- Locator
- Wayback captures 2017-02-16 (SHIPSDETAIL_AFDL_30_3592.HTML) and 2016-11-06 (SHIPSDETAIL_AFDL_30.HTML) of nvr.navy.mil; vessel status, builder, milestone dates, physical characteristics, program characteristics blocks
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Naval Vessel Register record: NO NAME (AFDL 30), ex-AFD 30, SMALL AUXILIARY FLOATING DRY DOCK (N-S-P), class 'AFDL 1', UIC 14830, builder 'Foundation Co.' Status 'Disposed of, by Navy Sale', status-change date 1979-06-01; custodian category 'SCHOOLS, ORGANIZATIONS AND PRIVATE ENTERPRISES'. Hull material: steel hull, steel superstructure. Propulsion type: 'none'. All milestone date fields (award, keel, launch, delivery, commission, in-service, inactivation, decommission, out-of-service, stricken) and all numeric physical-characteristic fields blank; page last updated 2000-08-24. Identical record returned on two independent Wayback captures (2016-11-06 and 2017-02-16).
- 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 captures (live NVR detail page no longer serves this disposed craft). Establishes identity, builder, disposal disposition and date, and hull material. Unlike sister AFDL-25's populated NVR record, this craft's milestone and physical-characteristic fields are blank - no dates or dimensions carried on the registry page itself. Contains no asbestos, materials, or environmental information.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-afdl-30-afdl30-01
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[2]shipbuildinghistory.com 'US Navy Dry Docks AFDB AFDM AFDL ARDM ARD YFD' table and 'Foundation Company' yard table (Tim Colton compilation) [other_primary]
- Locator
- auxafd.htm AFDL table row 30; shipyards/emergencylarge/foundation.htm 'Built in Kearny/Newark NJ' block, AFD 30 row
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Independent secondary corroboration of the build record: the shipbuildinghistory.com U.S. Navy floating-drydock table lists 'AFDL 30 | Foundation Co. | 800 | 200 | Feb-44 | Scrapped 1979', and the compiler's Foundation Company yard table lists 'AFD 30 | U.S. Navy | Dry-Dock | 800 | Feb-43 | Scrapped 1979' among four Navy AFD docks (AFD 30-33) grouped under the firm's 'Built in Kearny/Newark NJ' block. The two tables carry a delivery-date conflict (Feb-44 in the drydock table vs Feb-43 in the yard table); NARA deck logs beginning 1944-02-25 are consistent with the Feb-44 delivery/commissioning, not Feb-43.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-20
- Study period
- 1943-1944
- Population
- Construction trades, Foundation Company yard, Kearny/Newark NJ 1943-44
- Limitations
- Secondary compilation corroborating NVR builder data and assigning the build site to the Foundation Company's Kearny/Newark NJ operation by table grouping; shipbuildinghistory is a reputable compiler but not a primary record, and the compiler's own table header warns drydock builder attribution is incomplete. The compiler's two tables disagree on delivery (Feb-43 vs Feb-44) - the NARA log start favors Feb-44. No contract document retrieved. No asbestos information in either source.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-afdl-30-afdl30-02
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[3]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 30)' line; NavSource AFDL-30 page (redesignation date) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Chapter IX 'Auxiliary Floating Dock' and 'Types of Floating Drydocks' sections; NavSource archives/09/28/2880.htm milestone list ('Redesignated AFDL-30, 1 August 1946')
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Built as AFD-30, 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 and 14.5 ft draft over the blocks, '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 30', and NavSource dates this hull's redesignation to AFDL-30 on 1946-08-01 (the class-wide action date, verified for sister dock AFDL-1). AFDL-30's documented 200-ft length identifies it as a standard 1,000-ton AFD, not one of the five docks lengthened 88 ft to 288 ft and 1,900 tons.
- 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 30' line; the specific redesignation date 1946-08-01 is verified for the class action but this hull's individual instrument was not retrieved. BuSandA also records that wartime 'AFDL' originally meant 'Auxiliary Floating Dock, Lengthened' - the 1946 revision changed the expansion to 'Auxiliary Floating Drydock Little.' NavSource's spec block lists 'lifting capacity 1,900 tons' - the lengthened-dock figure - against this 200-ft hull; the standard AFD rating was 1,000 tons and that figure is treated as boilerplate, not asserted. No asbestos information in the source.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-afdl-30-afdl30-03
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[4]National Archives and Records Administration, Special List 44 by Ship Numbers (RG 24, Bureau of Naval Personnel deck logs) [other_primary]
- Locator
- sl-44-ship-number.pdf, AFD block: 'AFD-30 2/25/1944 9/30/1944' (adjacent entries AFD-29 9/16/1944-6/30/1945, AFD-31 not listed - its logs may be under a later designation)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- NARA Special List 44 (List of Logbooks of U.S. Ships, Stations, and Miscellaneous Units, 1801-1947), by ship number, lists deck logs for 'AFD-30' covering 1944-02-25 through 1944-09-30 - the dock's first ~7 months in service under its original wartime designation. The listing consolidates the predecessor designation AFD-30 with this record; the log dates mark the start of documented Navy custody, not a commissioning ceremony.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-20
- Study period
- 1944-02-25 to 1944-09-30
- Population
- Dock crew (unverified complement)
- Limitations
- The log listing is verified; the logbooks themselves were not retrieved or read - they are the primary unconsulted source for this dock's wartime station, crew, and early operations. The ~7-month coverage ending 1944-09-30 leaves the dock's subsequent wartime and postwar service undocumented in this listing (whether later logs survive elsewhere in RG 24 is unresolved). Presence in the list does not establish where the dock served. No asbestos content is implied by the listing.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-afdl-30-afdl30-04
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[5]NavSource Naval History, Service Ship Photo Archive, AFDL-30 page (navsource.net/archives/09/28/2880.htm, last updated 2014-04-04) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Milestone list, specifications block, ribbon block, commanding-officers table, DANFS-availability notice
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NavSource Service Ship Photo Archive dedicated page (09/28/2880.htm): 'AFDL-30 ex USS AFD-30 (1944 - 1946)' - laid down date unknown by Foundation Co.; 'Delivered and commissioned USS AFD-30 in February 1944'; decommissioned and placed in service, date unknown; redesignated AFDL-30 1 August 1946; placed out of service, date unknown; struck from the Naval Register, date unknown; scrapped in 1979. Ribbon block lists American Campaign Medal and World War II Victory Medal. Two commanding officers listed: CAPT Harold Herman Tiemroth, USN (later RADM) 1950 - July 1951, and CAPT William Page Burford, USN July 1951 - 1953. Page carries no photographs and states 'There is no DANFS history available for USS AFD-30 / AFDL-30.'
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-20
- Study period
- 1944-1979
- Population
- Dock crew/officers, 1950-1953 (manned-service period confirmed by CO list)
- Limitations
- Reputable volunteer-run compilation, not a primary record - the only located narrative source for this hull's milestones. February 1944 delivery/commissioning is consistent with the NARA log start (1944-02-25) and the auxafd table; the 1,900-ton lifting figure is the lengthened-dock boilerplate and does not apply to this 200-ft standard AFD (1,000-ton rating). The ribbon listing suggests American-theater wartime service but does not state a station and is not independently verified. Captain-rank CO billets for a 200-ft dock are unusual and may reflect a parent command attachment - no station stated. No asbestos information.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-afdl-30-afdl30-05
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[6]Bureau of Yards and Docks, 'Building the Navy's Bases in World War II,' Ch. IX (design description of the AFD type); era asbestos framing per Corn & Starr (see ev-uss-afdl-30-afdl30-07) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Chapter IX, 'Auxiliary Floating Dock' paragraph (diesel-electric power plants, self-contained, limited repair facilities)
- 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 built 1943-44 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 repair mission on era small combatants additionally placed its crew around hull-insulation suites that commonly contained asbestos.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-20
- Study period
- 1943-1946 construction era
- Population
- Construction trades (Kearny/Newark NJ, 1943-44); dock operating crew; crews of vessels under repair
- Limitations
- Design-level inference, not a hull record - the BuSandA history does not mention asbestos and does not name this dock. Asbestos presence aboard AFDL-30 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-30-afdl30-06
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[7]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-30-afdl30-07
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[8]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 held 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, 92 S.Ct. 679, 30 L.Ed.2d 665 (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 aboard moored floating docks were channeled to Longshoremen's and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act remedies rather than vessel-owner negligence or unseaworthiness theories - the litigation posture a drydock-crew claim would have faced.
- 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-30-afdl30-08
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[9]Batch-589 search ledger (this record): CourtListener API v4 attempt (HTTP 429); web-indexed court-document sweeps [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-afdl-30-afdl30-08 through sl-uss-afdl-30-afdl30-09
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Litigation and name-collision sweep: fresh CourtListener API v4 queries for 'AFDL-30'/'AFD-30' were blocked (HTTP 429 'Request was throttled. Expected available in 57861 seconds') and deferred per the backoff rule; web-indexed court-record sweeps (site:courtlistener.com and RECAP storage) returned no opinion or docket naming this dock - returned documents were unrelated name collisions ('AFD' as Assistant Federal Defender, AFD Petroleum, fire-department abbreviations) and generic MDL-875 filings. The hull designations AFD-30/AFDL-30 are unique to this dock - no name-collision hulls exist (the craft was never named).
- 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 (~16h 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-30-afdl30-09
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[10]Batch-589 search ledger (this record): NVR SHIPSDETAIL page; NARA SL-44; NavSource 09/28/2880.htm; shipbuildinghistory auxafd/foundation tables; uswarships.jounin.jp afd.htm/afdl.htm; BuSandA Ch. IX; web-indexed litigation sweeps [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-afdl-30-afdl30-01 through sl-uss-afdl-30-afdl30-12
- 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-30/AFDL-30 was found in the public sources searched - the NVR record, the NARA logbook listing, the NavSource page, the shipbuildinghistory tables, the jounin compilations, and the BuSandA history contain no asbestos or insulation-material statement, and no DANFS entry exists for this hull.
- 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 1943-44 self-contained Navy dock with diesel-electric machinery and repair shops is era-consistent with retained asbestos-containing materials, and the dock's 1979 sale means any retained material passed to a private buyer/scrapper 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-30-afdl30-10
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[11]NARA Special List 44 by Ship Numbers; NARA Ship Plan Index (archives.gov/research/cartographic/ship-index), entry 'AFDL-30 | 385 | Microfilm | 63531026' [other_primary]
- Locator
- Ship Plan Index AFDL-30 line; sl-44-ship-number.pdf AFD-30 line; deck logs not digitized per NARA digitized-logs guidance
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Archival leads (not retrieved): (a) NARA RG 24 deck logs for AFD-30, 1944-02-25 to 1944-09-30 (Special List 44) - the primary source for the wartime station and crew; whether later-series logs exist for this hull is unresolved; (b) NARA cartographic Ship Plan Index holds a plan entry for AFDL-30 on microfilm, 385 plans, identifier 63531026 - the same microfilm identifier carried for sister hull AFDL-25, i.e. the shared class plan set - a potential materials/machinery-layout source; (c) BuShips/BuSandA contract records for the Foundation Company AFD contracts (AFD 30-33) and the 1979 Navy sale file would document builder assignment, outfitting, and disposal buyer/location.
- Verification
- unverified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-09-20
- Study period
- 1943-1979 records
- Limitations
- Record-holding mapping only - no document-level retrieval performed (no reproduction spend authorized; wartime deck logs of this hull not digitized). Whether any of these holdings contains asbestos-specific information for this dock is unknown until surveyed. Nothing in this row is an asbestos finding.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-afdl-30-afdl30-11