Evidence
7 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-7).
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[1]research packet 1023-packet.md [other_primary]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERIFIED
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-asquith-yfb42-pkt-1023-packet-md
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[2]Naval Marine Archive, 'Ferries YFB' service table [museum_official]
- Locator
- YFB row 42: Jacobson Shipyard / Oyster Bay NY / Gotham / Asquith / 569 / 1941 / 1942 / 'Returned 1946, Delaware 1965, scrapped 1979'
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Naval Marine Archive's YFB service table identifies YFB-42 as the 569-ton former Gotham, built at Jacobson Shipyard, Oyster Bay, New York, in 1941, renamed Asquith on Navy acquisition in 1942, and returned in 1946. This independently corroborates the Asquith/YFB-42 identity; it is not inferred from construction information alone.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-04
- Study period
- 1941-1979
- Limitations
- This is a compact archival service-table entry, not a construction specification, survey, or maintenance record. It establishes identity and summarized disposition only; it contains no asbestos, insulation, product, exposure, or causation information.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-asquith-yfb42-01
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[3]NavSource Online, Service Ship Photo Archive, Asquith (YFB-42) [museum_official]
- Locator
- Yard Ferryboat chronology and Specifications sections
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NavSource records that Asquith was built by Jakobson Shipyard, Oyster Bay, New York (YN 285); completed for Electric Ferries, Inc., as Gotham in 1941; purchased and placed in service by the Navy on 19 December 1942; assigned to the First Naval District at Newport, Rhode Island, in 1943-47; and turned over to the Maritime Commission in September 1947. Its specification table gives 569 gross tons, length 172 ft 3 in, beam 42 ft, draft 9 ft 6 in, one 12-cylinder diesel, and one propeller; complement and horsepower are listed unknown.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-04
- Study period
- 1941-1947
- Population
- First Naval District personnel and ferry crew, 1943-1947 (specific complement unknown)
- Limitations
- The live page states the history and specifications quoted, but not any material composition, asbestos content, maintenance scope, individual exposure, or causation. Its September 1947 transfer timeline conflicts with the Naval Marine Archive's summarized 1946 return and is preserved as a discrepancy.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-asquith-yfb42-02
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[4]Naval Marine Archive, 'Ferries YFB' service table; NavSource Online, Asquith (YFB-42) [museum_official]
- Locator
- Full live page review: Naval Marine Archive YFB row 42 and NavSource Yard Ferryboat chronology/Specifications sections
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No ship-specific asbestos documentation was located in the live Naval Marine Archive service table or live NavSource vessel page: neither source states asbestos, insulation material, abatement, hazardous-material survey, product identification, exposure, or causation for Asquith/YFB-42.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-04
- Study period
- 2026-10-04
- Limitations
- This negative finding is limited to the named public pages reviewed and is not proof that asbestos was absent aboard. It does not establish material presence, quantity, condition, exposure, causation, or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-asquith-yfb42-05
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[5]CourtListener API v4, authenticated helper sweep; see search ledger rows sl-uss-asquith-yfb42-04 through -07 [court_record]
- Locator
- Authenticated helper diagnostics: 'fleet-wide request budget is momentarily spent' for YFB-42 opinion and docket; first two request responses unavailable after execution-window expiry
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos litigation result is recorded from this session. The four required authenticated CourtListener base requests (USS Asquith opinion and docket; YFB-42 opinion and docket) could not be completed to reviewable results because the fleet-wide pacing limiter withheld the hull-number requests and the first two responses were not captured before the execution window ended. No asbestos-qualified variants were run: no completed base query overflowed its 20-result page.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-04
- Study period
- 2026-10-04
- Limitations
- This is a documented search gap, not a finding that no case exists. No result was classified as asbestos litigation, other litigation, name collision, or no result because reviewable result sets were unavailable. It does not establish absence of litigation, asbestos, exposure, causation, or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-asquith-yfb42-04
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[6]National Archives, Navy/Maritime Records in Washington, DC; Records of Naval Districts and Shore Establishments (RG 181) guide [other_primary]
- Locator
- NARA Navy/Maritime Records page (RG 19 and RG 181); RG 181 guide https://www.archives.gov/research/guide-fed-records/groups/181.html
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Archival lead only: NARA identifies Records of the Bureau of Ships (RG 19) and Records of Naval Districts and Shore Establishments (RG 181) as Navy/maritime research record groups; First Naval District administration and vessel records may provide a path to procurement, custody, or maintenance material for this ferry. No box, file, or hull-specific document was retrieved.
- Verification
- unverified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-10-04
- Study period
- 1942-1947 records; guide accessed 2026-10-04
- Limitations
- Record-group guidance is not evidence that a hull file or asbestos document exists. No research-room visit, box-level search, reproduction order, or materials review was performed; this row makes no asbestos finding.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-asquith-yfb42-06
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[7]Naval Marine Archive, 'Ferries YFB' service table; NavSource Online, Asquith (YFB-42) [museum_official]
- Locator
- Naval Marine Archive YFB row 42; NavSource Yard Ferryboat chronology
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Source discrepancy: Naval Marine Archive summarizes Asquith as returned in 1946 and scrapped in 1979, whereas NavSource reports out of service/turnover to the Maritime Commission in September 1947, struck 29 September 1947, and final disposition out of documentation in 1978. This record adopts neither disputed final-disposition year as certain.
- Verification
- disputed
- Role
- correction
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-04
- Study period
- 1946-1979
- Limitations
- The available sources do not reconcile whether 'returned 1946' denotes the end of active Navy use before administrative transfer, nor the 1978/1979 final-disposition difference. This correction does not make any asbestos finding.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-asquith-yfb42-03