Evidence
9 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-9).
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[1]research packet cc-packet.md (2 sources cited) [other_primary]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: MISMATCH
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- correction
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-apc-44-apc44-pkt-cc-packet-md
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[2]NavSource Online, Service Ship Photo Archive, USS APc-44 page (archival compilation; page also credits NHHC photograph NH 81036) [museum_official]
- Locator
- APc-1 Class Small Coastal Transport chronology and Specifications blocks; Commanding Officers table
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NavSource identifies the vessel as APc-1-class small coastal transport USS APc-44, originally planned as coastal minesweeper AMc-179. It records construction at William J. Cryer & Son, Oakland; launch 30 March 1943; commissioning 18 May 1943 with Lt. Joseph M. Price, USNR, in command; Asiatic-Pacific assignment to APc Flotilla Five, Group Fifteen, Division Twenty-Nine; decommissioning 17 May 1946; striking 5 June 1946; and sale through the Maritime Commission to Silvano Perez Ramos, Nogales, Sonora, Mexico, 21 April 1947, with removal 25 April 1947. It reports fate unknown. Its specification block gives the diesel machinery, 3 officers and 22 enlisted, and 66 troop capacity.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-05
- Study period
- 1942-1947
- Population
- Ship's company and embarked troops
- Limitations
- NavSource is an archival compilation rather than an official Navy history. It establishes no asbestos content, exposure, causation, or post-sale fate. Its lay-down date conflicts by one day with shipscribe.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-apc-44-apc44-01
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[3]National Archives and Records Administration, Special List 44, List of Logbooks of U.S. Navy Ships, Stations, and Miscellaneous Units [other_primary]
- Locator
- Ship-number index entry: 'APC-44 5/18/1943 6/30/1945'
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- NARA Special List 44 indexes an APC-44 deck-log series from 18 May 1943 through 30 June 1945. The indexed start date matches the commissioning date recorded by NavSource and shipscribe.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-05
- Study period
- 1943-05-18 to 1945-06-30
- Limitations
- This is a finding aid, not the logs themselves. It verifies an indexed date span, not log contents, commissioning ceremony details, asbestos presence, or exposure.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-apc-44-apc44-02
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[4]shipscribe.com, USS APc-1 Class, NVR-derived construction, disposal, and ship-notes tables (Robert Hurst compilation) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Construction table row 44; Disposal table row 44; Ship Notes row 44; class characteristics and procurement-history notes
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- shipscribe's APc-1 class construction, disposal, and ship-notes tables list APc-44 as ordered 29 April 1942 from Cryer & Sons; laid down 25 July 1942; launched 30 March 1943; commissioned 18 May 1943; decommissioned 17 May 1946; struck 5 June 1946; disposed 25 April 1947 (MC/D), awarded 21 April 1947. The ship-notes identify it as 'Ex AMc-179,' record an earlier Snow Shipyard order of 19 February 1942, and name Silvano Perez Ramos as purchaser. The class characteristics describe a wooden-hulled, single-screw diesel small coastal transport with no boiler or steam plant.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-05
- Study period
- 1942-1947
- Population
- Class crews and shipyard workers
- Limitations
- This is an NVR-derived compilation, not the underlying contract or register record. Its class configuration does not establish any material aboard APc-44. The stated 21-person 1944 class complement conflicts with NavSource's 25-person specification.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-apc-44-apc44-03
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[5]NavSource USS APc-44 page and shipscribe USS APc-1 Class ship-notes table [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource chronology first bullet; shipscribe Ship Notes row 44 at https://www.shipscribe.com/usnaux/APC/APC01.html
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Designation correction: AMc-179 was a planned coastal-minesweeper designation; this hull was completed and commissioned as USS APc-44. NavSource calls it 'Originally planned as Coastal Minesweeper AMc-179,' and shipscribe's APc-44 ship note says 'Ex AMc-179.' The canonical record is therefore USS APc-44, a small coastal transport, with AMc-179 retained solely as a consolidation alias.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- correction
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-05
- Study period
- 1942-1943
- Limitations
- The cited compilations identify the redesignation but do not reproduce the underlying CNO or BuShips directive. This identity correction has no bearing on asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-apc-44-apc44-04
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[6]shipbuildinghistory.com, Cryer & Sons, Oakland CA yard table (Tim Colton compilation) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Cryer yard table row 'AMc 179/APc 44'
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- The Cryer & Sons yard table independently lists 'AMc 179/APc 44' as a U.S. Navy coastal transport, 100 tons, 147 feet, delivered 18 May 1943, and 'To MARAD 1947.'
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-05
- Study period
- 1942-1947
- Population
- Construction trades at Cryer & Sons, Oakland
- Limitations
- Secondary compilation. 'To MARAD 1947' is shorthand: MARAD did not exist until 1950, while shipscribe identifies the contemporaneous Maritime Commission. The entry contains no asbestos information.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-apc-44-apc44-05
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[7]Design-bounded assessment from APc-44 specifications in NavSource and APc-1 class characteristics in shipscribe [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource Specifications block; shipscribe APc-1 class characteristics at https://www.shipscribe.com/usnaux/APC/APC01.html
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- The documented APc-44 configuration was a wooden-hulled small coastal transport with one 400-shp diesel and diesel-driven ship-service generators; the cited specifications identify no boilers, steam distribution system, turbines, or asbestos-containing product. This establishes only design context: the vessel did not have the boiler-and-steam machinery category commonly examined in asbestos research. It does not establish that asbestos was absent from other components or spaces.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-10-05
- Study period
- 1942-1946
- Population
- Ship's company and construction trades
- Limitations
- Design inference only. Lack of a documented steam plant neither proves the absence of asbestos nor identifies any asbestos-containing material, exposure, dose, or causation aboard this hull.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-apc-44-apc44-06
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[8]Authenticated CourtListener helper sweep and authoritative-source review; no direct or anonymous API access used [court_record]
- Locator
- Search ledger entries sl-07 through sl-10
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos litigation, survey, abatement record, hazard disclosure, or product-identification record was located in the authoritative sources searched. The required CourtListener base-query sweep was initiated through the authenticated helper for exact-name opinion and docket searches and hull-number opinion and docket searches, each limited to 20 results, but the shared fleet-wide pacing queue did not return results during the session. No conclusion is drawn from the incomplete docket sweep.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-05
- Study period
- Search performed 2026-10-05
- Limitations
- A paced, authenticated CourtListener query that produces no result cannot prove no litigation exists; here, no result payload was obtained because the fleet pacing queue was saturated. This row does not report a clean CourtListener negative.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-apc-44-apc44-07
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[9]USS APc-44 war diaries for April and May 1945, scan linked by NavSource [other_primary]
- Locator
- Two-page PDF linked in Additional Resources on the NavSource APc-44 page
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- NavSource links a two-page scan titled 'USS APc-44 War Diary's for April and May 1945.' The linked document is an archival lead for operational and maintenance activity during that period.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-05
- Study period
- 1945-04 to 1945-05
- Population
- Ship's company
- Limitations
- The scan is linked through an archival compilation and was not used to support an asbestos finding. Its provenance, completeness, and text transcription require direct NARA verification before it can support a detailed operational or maintenance claim.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-apc-44-apc44-08