Evidence
4 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-4).
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[1]DANFS, Annoy (AM-84) (builder, dates, Aleutian/Pacific service, PC-1588 reclassification, striking; verbatim transcription - live NHHC page serves 404) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS entry 'Annoy' (AM-84), specifications block + service narrative
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS record for this hull: Adroit-class minesweeper (330 t; 173'8" x 23' x 6'6"; 16.8 kt; cpl. 65); laid down 3 December 1941 at Portland, Oregon, by the Commercial Iron Works; launched 6 April 1942; commissioned 2 September 1942, Lt. John A. Parrish in command. Aleutian Islands ASW patrols and escort between Unalaska, Adak, and Atka; 16 September-5 October 1943 escorted Oriole (AT-136) towing the damaged Abner Read (DD-526) from Dutch Harbor to Seattle, then entered Puget Sound Navy Yard for upkeep (to 9 November); San Pedro minesweeping/ASW exercises; escort duty out of San Francisco from 11 December to Pearl Harbor, Majuro, Funafuti, and Tarawa; Pearl Harbor Navy Yard upkeep from 16 April 1944, then Submarine Squadron 4 screening/escort/target-ship duties; name Annoy cancelled and reclassified PC-1588 on 1 June 1944; Alameda shipyard availability 3 August-18 November 1944; Pearl Harbor patrol and ASW screening; sortied 24 January 1945 in the screen of TG 51.5 via Eniwetok and Guam for the Volcano Islands; off Iwo Jima from 20 February - control ship for the beaches, air-sea rescue, ASW screens, took enemy aircraft under fire three times; convoy escort between Iwo Jima and Saipan through October 1945; reached San Francisco 13 November; decommissioned 8 February 1946 at Richmond, California; struck from the Navy list 12 March 1946; transferred to the Maritime Commission for disposal 6 May 1948. One battle star for World War II service.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-22
- Study period
- 1941-1948
- Population
- Commercial Iron Works construction trades 1941-42; wartime crew (DANFS complement 65); shipyard workers at documented availabilities
- Limitations
- DANFS documents identity, specifications, and service history, not materials or asbestos content. Live NHHC page returns 404 (2026-09-22); verbatim transcription via hazegray mirror cited. NavSource reads 'laid down 30 December 1941' against DANFS's 3 December - DANFS carried, conflict in gaps.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-annoy-am84-01
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[2]DANFS specifications block (Adroit class; 330 t; 16.8 kt) + Atlas shipyard dataset (puget-sound-naval-shipyard, pearl-harbor-naval-shipyard records); builder Commercial Iron Works not in dataset [other_primary]
- Locator
- DANFS specifications block; shipyards.json records 'puget-sound-naval-shipyard', 'pearl-harbor-naval-shipyard'
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Era inference: an Adroit-class steel minesweeper built 1941-42 would have carried era-standard asbestos applications appropriate to a diesel-powered small combatant - exhaust-system insulation, gaskets and packing, electrical insulation, brake linings on winches/windlass, and deck coverings - but no boiler or steam-line lagging, the dominant asbestos categories on steam ships. Documented naval-shipyard availabilities (Puget Sound Navy Yard, Oct-Nov 1943; Pearl Harbor Navy Yard, Apr-May 1944; an unnamed Alameda shipyard, Aug-Nov 1944) are maintenance-disturbance windows; the Atlas dataset carries both named naval yards as asbestos-era yards.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-22
- Study period
- 1941-1946
- Population
- Commercial Iron Works construction trades 1941-42; crew 1942-46; shipyard workers during availabilities
- Limitations
- Class/era inference only - NOT a hull-specific finding. The diesel plant means the largest asbestos categories of steam ships do not apply; does not quantify material aboard and does not establish any individual's exposure. Asbestos scope of the three availabilities is inference; the Alameda yard is unnamed in DANFS and unresolvable to a dataset slug; builder Commercial Iron Works is absent from the yard dataset (Portland entries Willamette Iron & Steel and Oregon Shipbuilding are different companies).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-annoy-am84-02
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[3]Batch-1435 search ledger (this record): NHHC/DANFS transcription; NavSource and secondary compilations as leads; CourtListener API v4 + site-index fallback; Atlas shipyard dataset [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-annoy-am84-03 through sl-uss-annoy-am84-05
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located for AM-84/PC-1588: no ACM survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, or docketed asbestos case naming this hull was found in the public sources searched (see search_ledger). The hull was disposed via the Maritime Commission in 1948 - decades before the Navy's asbestos-abatement era - so no hull survey or remediation record is expected to exist.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-22
- Study period
- 2026-09-22
- Limitations
- Absence of a located public record does not prove absence of asbestos aboard - era materials could have persisted until disposal. Litigation coverage is PARTIAL: the CourtListener API v4 was throttled (HTTP 429, daily quota) throughout the research session and could not be re-queried; classification rests on site-index fallback queries, which returned name collisions only ('Annoy' is a common English word) and are less exhaustive than the API. Does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-annoy-am84-03
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[4]NARA Guide to Federal Records: RG 24 (Bureau of Naval Personnel - deck logs), RG 19 (Bureau of Ships), RG 181 (Naval Districts and Shore Establishments); NARA Navy deck-log guidance [other_primary]
- Locator
- RG 19 GIB/Booklet of General Plans (AM-84/PC-1588); https://www.archives.gov/research/military/logbooks/navy.html; https://www.archives.gov/research/guide-fed-records/groups/019.html; https://www.archives.gov/research/guide-fed-records/groups/181.html
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Archival leads (not retrieved - require research-room or reproduction order; no spend authorized): NARA RG 24 holds this hull's WWII deck logs (as AM-84 and PC-1588); RG 19 (Bureau of Ships) General Information Books and Booklets of General Plans hold per-hull construction and material specifications for AM-84; RG 181 naval-district/shipyard files cover the documented availabilities (Puget Sound Navy Yard 1943; Pearl Harbor Navy Yard 1944; Alameda 1944); war diaries and action reports are in RG 38.
- Verification
- unverified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-09-22
- Study period
- 1941-1948 records
- Limitations
- Record-group mapping only - no box-level retrieval performed; existence of asbestos-specific documents for this hull is unknown until surveyed in person. Nothing in this row is an asbestos finding.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-annoy-am84-04