USS AFDL-40

Evidence

14 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-14).

1. [1]Naval Vessel Register, SHIPSDETAIL page for NO NAME (AFDL 40), NAVSHIPSO/NAVSEA Shipbuilding Support Office, page last updated 2001-09-04; NVR QUICKFIND inactive-hull list [other_primary]

   Locator

   Wayback captures 2016-11-06 and 2017-02-17 of nvr.navy.mil SHIPSDETAIL_AFDL_40.HTML (vessel status, milestone dates, physical characteristics blocks); QUICKFIND capture 2016-09-27 web.archive.org/web/20160927035925/http:/www.nvr.navy.mil/QUICKFIND/SHIPSDETAIL_INACTIVE_N.HTML

   Finding type

   vessel_history

   Finding

   Naval Vessel Register record: NO NAME (AFDL 40), ex-ARDC 7, SMALL AUXILIARY FLOATING DRY DOCK (N-S-P), UIC 05037, class 'AFDL 35'. Status 'Disposed of through the Security Assistance Program (SAP), transferred, grant, Special Legislation', date status changed 06/30/1990; stricken date 06/30/1987; custodian 'PHILIPPINES'; hull material 'Concrete hull, steel frames or reinforcing frames'; propulsion type 'none'; page last updated 09/04/2001. Builder, milestone-date (laid down, launched, commissioned, decommissioned), displacement, and accommodations fields blank. Corroborated by the NVR QUICKFIND inactive-hull list: 'NO NAME | AFDL 40 | 06/30/1990 | Disposed of through the Security Assistance Program (SAP), transferred, grant, Special Legislation'.

   Verification

   verified

   Role

   supporting

   Documentation level

   ship_specific

   Accessed

   2026-09-20

   Study period

   1944-2001

   Limitations

   Authoritative U.S. Navy registry record retrieved via Wayback capture (live NVR detail page no longer serves this disposed craft; the live site returned 503 this session and the Internet Archive was intermittently offline, but both captures were retrieved and read). Establishes identity (ex-ARDC 7), the concrete-hull characteristic, non-propulsion, the 1987-06-30 strike, the 1990-06-30 SAP grant transfer, and Philippine custody - but not builder, commissioning, or out-of-service dates. 'Special Legislation' names the transfer mechanism without identifying the statute. Contains no asbestos, materials, or environmental information.

   Atlas source

   true

   Evidence ID

   ev-uss-afdl-40-afdl40-01

2. [2]NavSource Naval History, Service Ship Photo Archive, AFD/ARDC/AFDL index (14/03idx.htm) entry 'ARDC-7 / AFDL-40'; sibling pages 09/28/7341.htm, 09/28/7343.htm, 09/28/7344.htm, 09/28/7346.htm [other_primary]

   Locator

   NavSource index 'ARDC-7 / AFDL-40' line; sibling milestone blocks (AFDL-41: redesignated 1 August 1946; AFDL-44: 'Redesignated AFDL-44, 1 February 1945')

   Finding type

   vessel_history

   Finding

   NavSource Service Ship Photo Archive index carries the hull as 'ARDC-7 / AFDL-40' - the same dock under both designations, matching this record's consolidation. No dedicated AFDL-40 page exists; no DANFS history exists for this hull. Sibling pages for the same ARDC-1 class (AFDL-41 ex-ARDC-8, AFDL-43 ex-ARDC-10, AFDL-44 ex-ARDC-11, AFDL-46 ex-ARDC-13) establish the class header 'ARDC-1 Class Small Auxiliary Floating Repair Dock (Concrete)', builder Tidewater Construction Corp. at Wilmington NC, and the milestone convention 'delivered and placed in commission as USS ARDC-x'. Redesignation dates conflict across sibling pages: AFDL-41 and AFDL-46 state 'Redesignated AFDL-xx, 1 August 1946' while AFDL-43 and AFDL-44 state '1 February 1945' - an unresolved compiler inconsistency.

   Verification

   partial

   Role

   supporting

   Documentation level

   ship_specific

   Accessed

   2026-09-20

   Study period

   1944-1990

   Limitations

   Compiled secondary archive, not an official record - and for this hull it is index-only, supplying the identity cross-reference but no milestones. Class boilerplate and sibling conventions are applied here by analogy (the hulls are the same class), not by a page about AFDL-40. The 1945 vs 1946 redesignation-date conflict inside NavSource is carried, not resolved - the 1946 date aligns with the official Bureau history's nomenclature revision, while the suspicious Feb-1945 figure on two sibling pages may be a transcription error propagating between pages. No asbestos information.

   Atlas source

   true

   Evidence ID

   ev-uss-afdl-40-afdl40-02

3. [3]shipbuildinghistory.com 'US Navy Dry Docks AFDB AFDM AFDL ARDM ARD YFD' table (Tim Colton compilation); mirrored at navalmarinearchive.com/sbh/smallships/auxafd.html and shipbuildinghistory.njscuba.net/us-navy-small/auxafd/ [other_primary]

   Locator

   auxafd.htm, 'Auxiliary Floating Docks, Light (AFDL) (formerly Auxiliary Repair Docks, Concrete (ARDC))' table, AFDL-40 row

   Finding type

   vessel_history

   Finding

   Secondary build and disposition record: the shipbuildinghistory.com U.S. Navy floating-drydock table lists 'AFDL 40 | Tidewater Const. | Wilmington NC | 8,300 | 389 | Nov-44 | Ex-ARDC 7, to the Philippines 1990 as YD ___, active' - the 8,300-ton displacement and 389-ft length matching the official ARDC design figures, the Nov-44 delivery consistent with the class build window, 'to the Philippines 1990' matching the NVR 1990-06-30 SAP transfer and Philippine custodian, and 'as YD ___' recording that the compiler could not determine the Philippine designation.

   Verification

   partial

   Role

   supporting

   Documentation level

   ship_specific

   Accessed

   2026-09-20

   Study period

   1944-1990

   Population

   Construction trades, Tidewater Construction Corp. Wilmington NC yard, 1944

   Limitations

   Secondary compilation corroborating builder, build site, delivery month, tonnage, and disposition year; shipbuildinghistory is a reputable compiler but not a primary record, and its own header warns the drydock table 'is far from complete' with unclear builder records. The blank 'YD ___' is the compiler's honest admission that the Philippine designation is untraced; 'active' is undated and unverified against any Philippine source. No contract document located. No asbestos information.

   Atlas source

   true

   Evidence ID

   ev-uss-afdl-40-afdl40-03

4. [4]Bureau of Yards and Docks, 'Building the Navy's Bases in World War II,' Chapter IX Floating Drydocks (official Navy history, HyperWar transcription), pp. 217-219 'Auxiliary Repair Docks, Concrete' section [other_primary]

   Locator

   Chapter IX, 'Auxiliary Repair Docks, Concrete' section (pp. 217-219): type definition, design description, construction account, service account; 'Types of Floating Drydocks' list and 1946 revision paragraph (p. 210)

   Finding type

   vessel_history

   Finding

   Built as ARDC-7, one of thirteen 2,800-ton reinforced-concrete Auxiliary Repair Docks (ARDCs) designed and built by the Bureau of Yards and Docks in 1943-45 when 'the indicated requirement for a number of additional drydocks, coupled with the critical shortage of steel plate,' drove the concrete program. The official Bureau history describes the type: monolithic open-trough structures with faired hull lines, 389 ft long, 84 ft wide, 40 ft deep overall, pontoons 14 ft deep, wing walls tapering 13.5 ft at base to 10 ft at top deck, twelve bottom-pontoon compartments, ~3,300 cubic yards of concrete per dock; six docks militarized with three diesel engines driving 200-kW generators, air compressors, refrigerating/heating/ventilating equipment and water evaporators, carrying a crew of 5 officers and 84 men, the other seven shore-powered; a 5-ton traveling job crane on each wing wall. Eight built at Wilmington NC and five at San Pedro CA in purpose-excavated dry basins; five self-contained docks were towed to Pacific advance bases or Pearl Harbor. Under the 1946 nomenclature revision 'the RDC's [ARDCs] became AFDL(C)'s' - this hull's ARDC-7 to AFDL-40 redesignation, implementing date disputed.

   Verification

   verified

   Role

   supporting

   Documentation level

   ship_specific

   Accessed

   2026-09-20

   Study period

   1943-1946

   Limitations

   Official Navy history - the ARDC design description is class-level text applied to this hull via the NVR 'ex-ARDC 7' line, the NavSource index cross-reference, and the matching dimensions in the build table; the chapter does not name ARDC-7. Which of the two configurations (militarized self-contained vs shore-powered) this hull received is not stated; the five-dock Pacific deployment list is not itemized by hull, so whether ARDC-7 was among them is unresolved - relevant because it bears directly on this hull's undocumented wartime station and equipment fit. No asbestos information in the source.

   Atlas source

   true

   Evidence ID

   ev-uss-afdl-40-afdl40-04

5. [5]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, ARDC block: 'ARDC-7 5/24/1945 12/31/1945' (layout extraction; ARDC block holds ARDC-1, -2, -3, -7, -8 only)

   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, holds deck logs for ARDC-7 covering 24 May 1945 through 31 December 1945 - a positive archival holding for this hull's wartime period. These are the dock's own deck logs (RG 24, Bureau of Naval Personnel), the primary source for her station, movements, crew, and operations in the second half of 1945; the coverage window coincides with the documented deployment windows of siblings (ARDC-8's log start 30 June 1945 equals its San Pedro photo date, and ARDC-11 was towed Charleston-to-San Diego 9 July-9 September 1945).

   Verification

   verified

   Role

   archival_lead

   Documentation level

   ship_specific

   Accessed

   2026-09-20

   Study period

   1945-05-24 to 1945-12-31

   Population

   ARDC-7 ship's company, May-December 1945 (size unverified - class figure 89 only for the militarized fit)

   Limitations

   The listing proves the logs exist and their coverage dates; the logs themselves were not retrieved or read (no reproduction spend authorized), so nothing they contain - station, movements, crew, operations - is in this record. The 24 May 1945 start is a record-coverage date, not a commissioning date: it may mark late commissioning, the start of retained coverage, or a deployment event (the sibling pattern favors a deployment reading, but that is inference). No asbestos content is implied either way.

   Atlas source

   true

   Evidence ID

   ev-uss-afdl-40-afdl40-05

6. [6]Commander in Chief, U.S. Pacific Fleet and Pacific Ocean Areas, 'United States Pacific Fleet Organization, 1 May 1945' (official organization document, HyperWar transcription); sibling station data per NavSource AFDL-41 and AFDL-44 pages (with NARA-photo captions for ARDC-8) [other_primary]

   Locator

   PacFleet Org 1 May 1945 floating-dock listings - 'ARDC 1', 'ARDC 2', 'ARDC 3' present; 'ARDC 7' absent; NavSource 09/28/7341.htm (ARDC-8 at San Pedro 30 June 1945, under tow 13 July 1945) and 09/28/7344.htm (ARDC-11 Charleston Dec 1944-Jul 1945, towed to San Diego by Moreno ATF-87, 9 Jul-9 Sep 1945)

   Finding type

   vessel_history

   Finding

   Wartime assignment (negative datum on Pacific service): the Commander in Chief, U.S. Pacific Fleet and Pacific Ocean Areas 'United States Pacific Fleet Organization, 1 May 1945' lists only three concrete docks - 'ARDC 1', 'ARDC 2', and 'ARDC 3' - in its floating-dock blocks; 'ARDC 7' does not appear anywhere in the organization document. As of 1 May 1945 the dock was therefore not a Pacific Fleet unit; combined with the deck-log window beginning 24 May 1945 and the documented mid-1945 deployment movements of siblings (ARDC-8 photographed at Naval Station San Pedro 30 June 1945 and under tow off southern California 13 July 1945; ARDC-11 towed Charleston Navy Yard to San Diego via the Panama Canal 9 July-9 September 1945), the record is consistent with a stateside berth through May 1945 followed by a movement the unretrieved logs would document.

   Verification

   verified

   Role

   supporting

   Documentation level

   ship_specific

   Accessed

   2026-09-20

   Study period

   1944-1946

   Limitations

   Absence from the 1 May 1945 Pacific Fleet organization proves only that the dock was not a Pacific Fleet unit on that date - it does not establish where the dock WAS stationed, and says nothing about assignments after 1 May. The deployment-window reading leans on sibling documentation (analogy), an unverified veterans-memorial datum naming a motor machinist's mate aboard USS ARDC-7 in May 1945 with an Asiatic-Pacific Medal, and the dock's lifelong Pearl Harbor association - suggestive, none of it a record of this hull's movements. The ARDC-7 deck logs are the unconsulted primary source.

   Atlas source

   true

   Evidence ID

   ev-uss-afdl-40-afdl40-06

7. [7]U.S. Naval Institute, Proceedings, 'Ships' Status Changes: 1 January 1987-31 December 1987,' May 1988, Vol. 114, No. 5 (Issue 1,023), status-list entry [reputable_press]

   Locator

   USNI Proceedings May 1988 status-change list, entry under '30 Jun. 1987': 'AFDL-40 ... Formerly on commercial lease to Honolulu Shipyards, Inc. To be disposed of by Navy sale.'

   Finding type

   vessel_history

   Finding

   Postwar commercial lease and strike: the U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings 'Ships' Status Changes: 1 January 1987-31 December 1987' listing (May 1988, Vol. 114/5/1,023) records under 30 June 1987: 'AFDL-40 - Formerly on commercial lease to Honolulu Shipyards, Inc. To be disposed of by Navy sale.' This documents (a) that the dock spent part of its postwar career on commercial lease to Honolulu Shipyards, Inc. - a commercial yard at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, not the naval shipyard; (b) the 30 June 1987 strike corroborating the NVR stricken date; and (c) the then-announced disposal plan - Navy sale - that was superseded by the 1990 SAP grant transfer to the Philippines.

   Verification

   partial

   Role

   supporting

   Documentation level

   ship_specific

   Accessed

   2026-09-20

   Study period

   lease period undocumented - status entry 1987-06-30

   Population

   Honolulu Shipyards, Inc. commercial ship-repair workforce (lease period, undocumented); dock custody crew

   Limitations

   Accessed via search-indexed page text - the usni.org page returned HTTP 403 to direct fetch this session; the quoted entry text is from the indexed page content, not a re-read of the article, and the exact page number was not captured. The lease instrument itself (Navy-Honolulu Shipyards lease, term, condition exhibits) was not located; lease period, berth, and the scope of the yard's use of the dock are undocumented. 'Formerly on commercial lease' dates the lease's end to at or before the 1987 strike. No asbestos information.

   Atlas source

   true

   Evidence ID

   ev-uss-afdl-40-afdl40-07

8. [8]USS Salvor (ARS-52), 1991 Command History (OPNAV Report 5750-1), Commanding Officer LCDR J.M. Pauls; Naval History and Heritage Command, ship command operation reports archive, salvor-ars-52-ii/pdf/1991.pdf [other_primary]

   Locator

   1991 Command History PDF, Encl (1) 'CHRONOLOGICAL EVENTS' - JANUARY block (TOW: AFDL-40 x3 legs; Kwajalein, Guam refuels) and FEBRUARY block ('Inport Subic Bay, Philippines'); home port Pearl Harbor

   Finding type

   vessel_history

   Finding

   Ocean tow to the Philippines, verified by official command history: the USS Salvor (ARS-52) 1991 Command History (OPNAV Report 5750-1, held in the NHHC command-operation-report archive) records in its Chronological Events - JANUARY: 'Inport Pearl Harbor / TOW: AFDL-40 / Inport Kwajalein, Refuel / TOW: AFDL-40 / Inport Guam, Refuel / Tow: AFDL-40'; FEBRUARY: 'Inport Subic Bay, Philippines, Upkeep and Repairs'. Salvor's second WESTPAC deployment therefore opened with the delivery tow of this dock from Pearl Harbor to Subic Bay via Kwajalein and Guam, January-February 1991 - seven months after the NVR SAP transfer status change, placing the dock's arrival in the Philippines in February 1991.

   Verification

   verified

   Role

   supporting

   Documentation level

   ship_specific

   Accessed

   2026-09-20

   Study period

   1991-01 to 1991-02

   Population

   USS Salvor towing crew (January-February 1991); dock ride-along crew if any (undocumented)

   Limitations

   Official U.S. Navy command history retrieved and read directly from history.navy.mil - a primary document for the tow. The chronology is organized in month blocks without day numbers; the day-level dates circulating in secondary sources (departed Pearl Harbor 4 January, Kwajalein 18 January, Guam 28 January, arrived Subic Bay 8 February - Wikipedia's transcription) are consistent with the command-history sequence but are not in the document and are carried as unverified day-level detail. A Wikipedia summary table's 'June 1991' label for this tow contradicts the command history's January-February placement and is treated as a compiler error. The document covers Salvor, not AFDL-40's condition or custody terms on arrival. No asbestos information.

   Atlas source

   true

   Evidence ID

   ev-uss-afdl-40-afdl40-08

9. [9]Bureau of Yards and Docks, 'Building the Navy's Bases in World War II,' Ch. IX (ARDC design description); era asbestos framing per Corn & Starr (see ev-uss-afdl-40-afdl40-10) [other_primary]

   Locator

   Chapter IX, 'Auxiliary Repair Docks, Concrete' section (diesel engines, generators, compressors, refrigeration, HVAC, evaporators, crew accommodations, wing-wall job cranes, repair purpose)

   Finding type

   asbestos_application

   Finding

   Class/era inference only: whichever of the two ARDC fits this hull carried, the design included machinery, piping, and crew accommodations inside a Navy-built 1944 structure - the militarized fit adds diesel engines, generators, air compressors, refrigeration, HVAC and evaporators - a period when Navy construction routinely used asbestos-containing gaskets, packing, electrical insulation, millboard, and thermal insulation for machinery and piping; the wing-wall job cranes imply brake linings of the era. The hull itself is monolithic reinforced concrete - not an asbestos matrix - so inferred onboard loading is materially lower than for a steel combatant of the era. The larger inferred pathway is occupational: a repair dock lifting and working era vessels placed its crew around ship insulation suites that commonly contained asbestos - at its undocumented wartime station, at Pearl Harbor under the commercial lease, and in Philippine service from 1991.

   Verification

   inferred

   Role

   supporting

   Documentation level

   class_or_era

   Accessed

   2026-09-20

   Study period

   1944 construction era; repair operations 1944-1991+

   Population

   Construction trades (Wilmington NC, 1944); dock operating crew (size/fit undocumented); repair crews and crews of vessels under repair; Honolulu Shipyards commercial workforce; Philippine Navy/civilian dock workforce from 1991

   Limitations

   Design-level inference, not a hull record - the BuSandA history does not mention asbestos and does not name this hull. Asbestos presence aboard AFDL-40 is inferred from era construction practice and onboard machinery, not proven; a concrete non-propelled dock had a far smaller machinery and inhabited-space footprint than a steam vessel, and its asbestos loading would correspondingly be lower. Which equipment fit this hull carried is itself undocumented. Establishes nothing about quantity, condition, present-day presence, individual exposure, or causation - and nothing about materials disturbance or abatement during the Pearl Harbor lease decades or Philippine service.

   Atlas source

   true

   Evidence ID

   ev-uss-afdl-40-afdl40-09

10. [10]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 or concrete-hulled construction 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-40-afdl40-10

11. [11]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 carried from the batch-569/batch-595 verification trail (case-law databases carry the opinion text) - a direct CourtListener pull remains an open lead (API throttled this session)

    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 - the litigation posture any 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 in the batch-569 verification trail; CourtListener confirmation pending.

    Atlas source

    true

    Evidence ID

    ev-uss-afdl-40-afdl40-11

12. [12]Batch-597 search ledger (this record): CourtListener API v4 exact-hull queries (blocked); web-indexed sweeps of courtlistener.com and general court-record sources [other_primary]

    Locator

    search_ledger rows sl-uss-afdl-40-afdl40-08 through sl-uss-afdl-40-afdl40-09

    Finding type

    historical_record

    Finding

    Litigation sweep, partially blocked: fresh CourtListener API v4 queries for 'AFDL-40' and 'ARDC-7' (exact hull) were blocked this session (HTTP 429 - 'Rate limit exceeded: 125/day. Expected available in 54519 seconds') and deferred per the backoff rule rather than retried. Web-indexed court-record sweeps (site:courtlistener.com and general web) returned no opinion or docket naming this dock; unrelated floating-dock and asbestos-case documents surfaced but no hull match. No qualifying asbestos litigation naming AFDL-40 or ARDC-7 was located.

    Verification

    partial

    Role

    negative_finding

    Documentation level

    ship_specific

    Accessed

    2026-09-20

    Study period

    2026-09-20

    Limitations

    A partially-blocked negative, not a verified null - the authoritative instrument (CourtListener API) was rate-limited (125/day shared quota, ~15-hour reset at query time) and the web-indexed sweep is a weaker instrument with acronym noise on short alphanumeric designators; a clean API pass remains an open lead. No qualifying asbestos-litigation hit was located by the instruments that ran; name collisions in results were checked and none match this hull.

    Atlas source

    true

    Evidence ID

    ev-uss-afdl-40-afdl40-12

13. [13]Batch-597 search ledger (this record): NVR SHIPSDETAIL page and QUICKFIND list; NavSource index 14/03idx.htm and sibling pages; shipbuildinghistory auxafd table; BuSandA Ch. IX; USNI Proceedings May 1988; USS Salvor 1991 command history; NARA SL-44; NARA Ship Plan Index; web-indexed litigation sweeps [other_primary]

    Locator

    search_ledger rows sl-uss-afdl-40-afdl40-01 through sl-uss-afdl-40-afdl40-14

    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 ARDC-7/AFDL-40 was found in the public sources searched - the NVR record, the NavSource index and sibling pages, the shipbuildinghistory tables, the Bureau of Yards and Docks official history, the USNI status-change listing, the USS Salvor 1991 command history, the NARA Special List 44 listing, and the NARA Ship Plan Index 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 1944 Navy-built dock with machinery, piping, and crew spaces is era-consistent with asbestos-containing materials, and this hull's three-custodian life (U.S. Navy, commercial lessee at Pearl Harbor, Philippine Navy) means any retained material has been worked around by decades of undocumented maintenance, none of it disclosed. 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-40-afdl40-13

14. [14]NARA Special List 44 (ARDC-7 line, 5/24/1945-12/31/1945); NARA Ship Plan Index (archives.gov/research/cartographic/ship-index), entry 'AFDL-40 | AFDL-40 | 385 | Microfilm | 63531026'; NVR status line (SAP/special legislation); NavSource AFDL-44 page (YD-205 precedent) [other_primary]

    Locator

    SL-44 ARDC block ARDC-7 line; Ship Plan Index AFDL-40 line; NVR status block; NavSource 09/28/7344.htm (YD-205, Fort San Felipe, Cavite City, photo 13 June 2015)

    Finding type

    historical_record

    Finding

    Archival leads (not retrieved): (a) NARA RG 24 deck logs for ARDC-7, 24 May-31 December 1945 per Special List 44 - the primary source for wartime station, movements, crew, and operations, and the single most valuable unconsulted record for this hull; (b) NARA Cartographic Ship Plan Index holds a plan for AFDL-40 on microfilm, RG 385, identifier 63531026 - a potential materials/machinery-layout source (the same microfilm identifier covers AFDL-38, -41, -42, -47, i.e., the class plan set); (c) the SAP 'Special Legislation' transfer instrument and the stricken instrument for the 1987-06-30 strike; (d) the Navy-Honolulu Shipyards lease file (term, berth, condition exhibits); (e) Philippine Navy records naming the dock's 'YD ___' designation and station - sibling ex-AFDL-44 serves as YD-205 at the Philippine Navy Yard, Fort San Felipe, Cavite City; (f) BuSandA/BuShips contract records for the Tidewater ARDC construction contract at Wilmington NC.

    Verification

    unverified

    Role

    archival_lead

    Documentation level

    context_only

    Accessed

    2026-09-20

    Study period

    1944-2024 records

    Limitations

    Record-holding mapping only - no document-level retrieval performed (no reproduction spend authorized). Whether any of these holdings contains asbestos-specific information for this dock is unknown until surveyed. The Philippine 'YD ___' designation in particular may be resolvable through Philippine Navy equipment lists or Cavite/Subic yard records; nothing in this row is an asbestos finding.

    Atlas source

    true

    Evidence ID

    ev-uss-afdl-40-afdl40-14