Evidence
10 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-10).
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[1]research packet 790-packet.md [other_primary]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: s
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-andrew-doria-ix132-pkt-790-packet-md
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[2]DANFS (NHHC), 'Andrew Doria II (IX-132)'. Live NHHC URL (history.navy.mil/.../danfs/a/andrew-doria-ii.html) returned 404 on 2026-09-29; verified via the HyperWar/ibiblio transcription mirror. [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS 'Andrew Doria II (IX-132)' entry, full text (ibiblio HyperWar mirror)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS records the hull (13,800 t; 395'4" x 51'7"; 10 kts; cpl. 102; 2 x 3-in, 8 x 20mm) as a tanker built in 1908 at Glasgow by Napier & Miller, Ltd., Italian-owned until scuttled in 1941 to avoid capture, raised in 1943, repaired at Galveston and renamed Alcibiades; sailed from Galveston 16 December bound for New Guinea carrying crude oil for six months; acquired by the Navy on a bareboat basis 1944-08-18 at Brisbane and placed in commission as Andrew Doria (IX-132) 1944-08-23, Lt. Howard Buehler in command; Service Force, 7th Fleet; overhaul at Cairns; station oiler at Manus, Admiralty Islands, until 1944-12-22; reached Leyte 1945-01-09 and stood off Lingayen Gulf from the 13th fueling ships through the Lingayen operations; remained in Philippine waters through war's end; decommissioned 1946-02-28 and transferred to WSA same day; stricken 1946-03-20; one battle star for WWII service.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1944-08-18 to 1946-03-20 (Navy custody); construction 1908
- Population
- Navy crew, Service Force 7th Fleet, 1944-1946 (complement 102 per DANFS spec line)
- Limitations
- Official Navy history, ship-specific. Establishes the Navy-period mission profile (floating oil storage/station oiler) and custody dates; contains no asbestos, materials, or refit detail. Two transcription-level defects carried separately (ev-05 correction): 'Julio Fasio' for Jole Fassio and 'built in 108' for 1908. Scuttling location 'Tampico, Mexico' conflicts with the Shipscribe-compiled record (Puerto Cabello, Venezuela) - see correction row. Departure year for the 16 December Galveston sailing unstated in DANFS (1943 by context). Does not establish exposure for any individual.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-andrew-doria-ix132-01
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[3]MARAD Vessel History Database, ALCIBIADES, detail 110 (Official No. 1128215; built 1908 Napier and Miller; tanker; 395.30 ft x 52.60 ft; 5,169 gross / 3,131 net tons) incl. milestones, scanned status card, and name-history PDFs (TAMARAC, JOLE FASSIO, ALCIBIADES, ANDREW DORIA) [marad_nrc]
- Locator
- MARAD VesselHistory Detail/110 milestones table; ALCIBIADES status card PDF (documents/c8547edc-f32f-43c4-a18e-c0ba59f26b34.pdf)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- MARAD records the full name history - Tamarac (1908-1913), Sequoya (1913-1925), Jole Fassio (1925-1942), Alcibiades (1942-1944), Andrew Doria (1944-1946), Alcibiades (1946-1949) - and milestones: entered Reserve Fleet 1946-02-28; redelivered to the Italian government under Order 9935 on 1949-10-13 and simultaneously sold as scrap to J.C. Berkwit & Company the same date; fate 'Sold - Scrap.' The scanned custody card shows the custody chain across Cities Service Oil Co. (WSA-period rows), War Shipping Admin., Navy Department (Brisbane), War Shipping Admin. (Mobile, Ala., 2-28-46), Reserve Fleet, Cities Service Oil Co., and J.C. Berkwit & Co. (10/13/49).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1908-1949
- Population
- Merchant crews (Tamarac/Sequoya/Jole Fassio/Alcibiades periods); Navy crew 1944-46; scrapping trades 1949
- Limitations
- Primary federal custody record; ship-specific. Establishes identity chain and final disposition (supersedes NavSource's 'fate unknown'). Card OCR is partially garbled - Cities Service Oil Co. appears in WSA-period rows consistent with a WSA operating-agent role, but exact per-row transfer direction is incompletely legible; dates cross-verified against DANFS and the milestones table. Contains no asbestos or materials information. Database 'Specific Type' field ('LNG Liquefied Natural Gas') is a data-entry artifact, not carried.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-andrew-doria-ix132-02
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[4]Shipscribe, 'USS Ex-Italian Tankers (IX-132 etc.)' class notes and IX-132 ship note (Stephen S. Roberts compilation from Navy acquisition, Auxiliary Vessels Board, VCNO, and registry records) [other_primary]
- Locator
- IX-132 ANDREW DORIA ship note + class notes, IX132.html (shipscribe.com/usnaux/IX2/)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- The IX-132 ship note records: ex-merchant ALCIBIADES, ex-JOLE FASSIO (Italian), built as TAMARAC (completed Aug 1908); 13,800 t full load, 395.3' oa x 51.6' x 26.1', 1,500 hp, 10 kts, 1 screw, vertical triple expansion; scuttled by Italians 1941-03-31 at Puerto Cabello; raised; to WSA from the Venezuelan government 1942-07-06; repaired at Galveston; acquired at Brisbane, Australia; merchant ALCIBIADES (MC) 1946; redelivered to the Italian government and simultaneously delivered to the scrapper at Philadelphia 1949-10-13. The class notes record the program context: the Auxiliary Vessels Board (1943-10-12) nominated 15 old WSA tankers (designated IX-131 to -145, over half ex-Italian) for floating oil storage at advanced Pacific bases because fast tankers were being held in port for want of storage facilities; per the VCNO request (1943-10-14), 'only minimum repairs for service should be made and no conversion features be undertaken'; vessels were armed to standard Area 1-A merchant practice and carried filling hose for fuel transfer; six of the eight ex-Italian tankers (including this hull) were on the 1948-03-16 EO returning them to Italy.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1908-1949
- Population
- Navy crew 1944-46; Galveston repair trades 1942-43; Philadelphia scrapping trades 1949
- Limitations
- Secondary compilation of primary Navy/WSA records rather than the primary documents themselves - treated as an archival lead and cross-check. Custody dates and the scrapping disposition corroborated by the MARAD record; the Puerto Cabello scuttling site and 1942-07-06 Venezuelan transfer rest on this compilation (consistent with the class-wide record of Italian tankers scuttled in Venezuelan waters) and conflict with DANFS 'Tampico, Mexico' - see correction row. The 'minimum repairs/no conversion' program directive is asbestos-relevant context (no large wartime insulation installation expected aboard at takeover) but does not document hull materials.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-andrew-doria-ix132-03
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[5]Executive Order 9935, 'Directing the Transfer of Certain Vessels to the Government of Italy,' signed 1948-03-16, 13 FR 1395 (1948-03-18); 3 CFR 1943-1948 Comp., p. 692 [federal_register]
- Locator
- NARA EO disposition table 1948; EO text via American Presidency Project (presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/executive-order-9935)
- Finding type
- regulatory
- Finding
- EO 9935 directs the Attorney General and the U.S. Maritime Commission to transfer to the Government of Italy fourteen vessels under Italian registry and flag on 1939-09-01, expressly listing 'ALCIBIADES (ex. IOLE FASSIO)' - this hull - alongside GOLD HEELS (ex BRENNERO, IX-136), FAIRENO (ex DENTICE, IX-134), Malvern (ex TROTTIERA, IX-138), SWIVEL (ex BACICIN PADRE, IX-144), and TYPHOON (ex COLORADO, IX-145), plus two passenger ships and six freighters; the order also transferred 15 Liberty ships as substitute tonnage for seized Italian ships lost in U.S. war service.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1948
- Limitations
- Federal legal instrument naming the hull's merchant identity in the transfer list - confirms the return-to-Italy decision and the Italian-registry identity. Contains no asbestos or materials information; does not document the physical scrapping (which the MARAD milestones record on 1949-10-13).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-andrew-doria-ix132-04
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[6]Cross-source reconciliation: Shipscribe IX-132 note (Puerto Cabello scuttling 1941-03-31; WSA from Venezuelan government 1942-07-06) vs. DANFS/NavSource ('Tampico, Mexico'); MARAD name history (Jole Fassio) and EO 9935 ('IOLE FASSIO') vs. DANFS 'Julio Fasio' [other_primary]
- Locator
- Shipscribe IX-132 note and class notes; MARAD Detail/110 name history; EO 9935 vessel list; DANFS IX-132 entry
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- DANFS errs twice on this hull. (1) Scuttling site: DANFS and NavSource read 'Tampico, Mexico,' but the Shipscribe-compiled record - scuttled by her Italian crew 1941-03-31 at Puerto Cabello and transferred to WSA by the Venezuelan government 1942-07-06 - is internally consistent with the documented class-wide event (Italian tankers scuttled in Venezuelan waters ahead of seizure) and with Venezuelan custody; 'Tampico' is treated as the error. (2) Italian name: DANFS 'Julio Fasio' is a garble of JOLE/IOLE FASSIO (MARAD name history 'Jole Fassio'; EO 9935 'IOLE FASSIO'). The ship was never government-owned in the Italian period as DANFS implies - she belonged to Villain & Fassio of Genoa (MARAD/registry trail).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- correction
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1941-1942
- Limitations
- Correction rests on internal consistency of the Shipscribe compilation with the federal custody record; no primary scuttling report was retrieved. If a future source shows a separate Tampico event for this hull, the correction should be revisited - currently no source supports Tampico beyond DANFS-derived copies.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-andrew-doria-ix132-05
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[7]U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 285 (1906), 'Lime and Magnesia' chapter (magnesia alba employed 'with varying amounts of asbestos (15 to 50 per cent of the whole) for pipe coverings and boiler lagging'); corroborating USGS 1908 magnesite-deposits report ('85 per cent of light carbonate to 15 per cent of asbestos is a common proportion' for pipe covering and boiler lagging); Corn & Starr, 'Historical perspective on asbestos: Policies and protective measures in World War II shipbuilding,' Am. J. Ind. Med. 11(3):359-373 (1987), doi:10.1002/ajim.4700110311 [other_primary]
- Locator
- USGS Bulletin 285-J 'Lime and Magnesia' report text (magnesite uses section); USGS 'The magnesite deposits of California' (1908); AJIM 11(3):359-373 abstract
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- The hull's as-built 1908 steam plant (boilers feeding a 1,500-hp vertical triple-expansion engine) dates from the era when marine pipe covering and boiler lagging of magnesia was commonly compounded with asbestos fiber - the contemporaneous federal geological literature documents 15-50% asbestos content for these products in 1906 and an 85:15 magnesia-to-asbestos proportion as common in 1908, the ship's own build year. Her 1918 Portsmouth reconstruction (secondary sources) and 1942-43 Galveston salvage-and-repair fall inside the same insulation era; the Galveston work coincides with the WWII shipyard period when asbestos use in U.S. ship repair is program-documented (Corn & Starr). The IX acquisition program's 'minimum repairs, no conversion' directive means no large wartime insulation installation is expected aboard at the 1944 Navy takeover.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1906-1908 era documentation; vessel 1908-1949
- Population
- Napier & Miller construction trades (1908); Portsmouth reconstruction trades (1918, secondary); Galveston repair trades (1942-43); Navy crew 1944-46; Philadelphia scrapping trades 1949
- Limitations
- Era/design inference only - no source states 'asbestos' aboard this hull in any period. The 1906-1908 USGS documents establish what the era's standard insulation product contained, not what was installed on this vessel; the 1918 reconstruction rests on secondary sources; the asbestos condition of the sunken-then-raised hull after 1942-43 repair is undocumented. Does not establish presence, quantity, location, individual exposure, or causation.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-andrew-doria-ix132-06
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[8]CourtListener API v4 sweeps 2026-09-29: "Andrew Doria" type=o (2 hits, both name collisions: Laura Hernandez v. State, Tex. App. 2003; Doria v. Ins. Co. of North America, N.J. Super. 1986 - surname 'Doria'); "Andrew Doria" type=r (2 hits: Doria v. Nappi, E.D. Cal. 2012; Doria v. Schweninger, W.D. Tex. 2017 - pro se surname collisions); "IX-132" type=o (5 hits, all text collisions - citation/pagination strings, no vessel); "IX-132" type=r (52 hits, all document-number/exhibit-string collisions in unrelated dockets - e.g., exhibit designations in the D.S.C. 3M asbestos filings - none naming the vessel) [court_record]
- Locator
- search_ledger sl-uss-andrew-doria-ix132-06 through -09
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- No qualifying asbestos litigation located naming USS Andrew Doria (IX-132) or this hull under any of its names. Every opinion-level hit is a name or text collision; no published opinion or indexed docket names the vessel.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 2026-09-29
- Limitations
- Sweep covers CourtListener's opinion and docket indexes as of 2026-09-29. Absence of a docketed asbestos case does not prove no claim was ever filed - a WWII-era hull scrapped in 1949 predates mesothelioma litigation, and state-court/pre-RECAP filings are under-indexed. Does not establish or defeat exposure or eligibility for any individual.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-andrew-doria-ix132-07
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[9]Batch-4702 search ledger (this record): DANFS via HyperWar mirror (live NHHC 404); Shipscribe IX notes; MARAD VesselHistory Detail/110 + status card; EO 9935 (13 FR 1395); NARA Special List 44; CourtListener opinion/docket sweeps; general web asbestos sweep [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-andrew-doria-ix132-01 through -11
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, insulation specification, or docketed asbestos case naming the Andrew Doria (IX-132), Tamarac, Sequoya, Jole Fassio, or Alcibiades was found in the public sources searched (see search_ledger).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 2026-09-29
- Limitations
- Absence of a located public record does not prove absence of asbestos aboard - a 1908-built steam tanker scrapped in 1949 predates modern hazmat documentation entirely, and era insulation norms argue presence on the original plant and wartime repair. Does not establish that asbestos is or is not present; does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-andrew-doria-ix132-08
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[10]NARA Special List 44, 'Logs and Journals of Vessels' named-vessel list: 'Andrew Doria (IX-132), 8/24/1944 - 6/30/1945'; MARAD Detail/110 scanned status cards and four name-history PDFs (TAMARAC, JOLE FASSIO, ALCIBIADES, ANDREW DORIA) [other_primary]
- Locator
- archives.gov/research/military/logbooks/special-list-44-named (Andrew Doria row); vesselhistory.marad.dot.gov/ShipHistory/Detail/110 status-cards and documents sections
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NARA holds IX-132 deck logs for 1944-08-24 through 1945-06-30 (the commissioned period minus the transit-home months) - the primary remaining path to ship-specific maintenance and material detail; the MARAD scanned custody card was OCR-read for this record but its image detail is partially garbled, and the three companion name-history PDFs were not page-verified.
- Verification
- unverified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1944-08-24 to 1945-06-30 (logged period)
- Population
- Navy crew, 1944-45
- Limitations
- Catalog-level identification only - deck-log pages were not retrieved or OCR-verified for this record, and coverage ends 1945-06-30 while the ship served to 1946-02-28 (later logs may exist under other accession groups). No asbestos content is asserted from any of these leads.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-andrew-doria-ix132-09