Evidence
3 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-3).
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[1]CourtListener API v4 (opinions, RECAP documents, and docket search) - queries for "AMCU-4", "AMCU 4", "LCT(6)-888", "LCT-888", "LCT 888", and "C-104714", including asbestos-combined variants [court_record]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-amcu-4-amcu4-05 through sl-uss-amcu-4-amcu4-10
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- No qualifying asbestos or other litigation, docket, or opinion was located under any consolidated designation for this hull (AMCU-4, LCT(6)-888, or C-104714) across CourtListener's opinion index, RECAP document index, or docket search.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-24
- Study period
- 2026-09-24
- Limitations
- Absence of a located record does not prove absence of exposure or of any claim; it establishes only that no matching record exists in CourtListener's indexed holdings as searched on 2026-09-24. Confirms the batch brief's own primary all-tier check, which reported no matching hull among the researched designations and names.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-amcu-4-amcu4-01
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[2]National Archives and Records Administration, "Researching Asbestos aboard US Naval Vessel up through 1961" (research guide) [other_primary]
- Locator
- archives.gov guide, "Primary Record Series by Record Group" and "Research Methodology" sections
- Finding type
- regulatory
- Finding
- NARA's guide confirms that Bureau of Ships (RG 19) General, Confidential, and Secret correspondence (1940-1961), filed by ship hull or class designation, and Board of Inspection and Survey material-inspection reports (RG 38) are the primary record series through which Navy asbestos specification and installation records would be located; specification numbers must first be identified via Bureau of Ships correspondence, then searched by hull/class.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-09-24
- Study period
- 1940-1961 (records series coverage)
- Limitations
- This is a finding aid describing where such records reside, not a finding about this hull or its class - it says nothing about AMCU-4, LCT(6) hulls, or any small craft specifically. The underlying RG 19/RG 38 records themselves were not examined in this session. Does not establish asbestos presence, absence, quantity, or class-typical application for this hull.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-amcu-4-amcu4-02
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[3]Batch consolidation research (this batch's pre-research all-tier hull check) plus a third-party naval-history hull compilation (NavSource-style AMCU photo-index page, http://www.navsource.org/archives/11/0404.htm) that this session's network could not reach directly [other_primary]
- Locator
- Task brief consolidation notes; NavSource AMCU-4 page (inaccessible this session, see search_ledger sl-uss-amcu-4-amcu4-01 through -04)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Reported identity/service chain: LCT(6)-888 placed in service 1944-06-30; reclassified Coastal Minesweeper (Underwater Locator) AMCU-4 on 1945-03-10; reclassified Small Boat C-104714 in January 1946. Reported specifications: displacement ~143 tons, length 119'1", beam 32'8", draft 3'9", speed 10 kn, complement ~21, three 675 bhp Gray Marine 6-71 diesel engines on three shafts. A single further, weaker report states 1950 civilian registration as the freight lighter Bumpy (homeport Hartford, CT; owner Gifford Dyer Warner, Essex, CT); fate thereafter reported unknown.
- Verification
- unverified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-24
- Study period
- 1944-1950 (reported)
- Limitations
- Unverified: the compiling source could not be directly accessed in this session (network egress policy rejected navsource.org), so its own sourcing could not be checked, and no primary Navy record (NHHC/DANFS, Naval Vessel Register, NARA Ships' Data NAVSHIPS 250-012 Vol. III) was independently reached to confirm any date, spec, or the civilian-conversion claim. Carried as reported and flagged unverified, not as an established fact. Establishes no asbestos information whatsoever.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-amcu-4-amcu4-03