Evidence
9 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-9).
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[1]research packet crew-dg-packet.md (3 sources cited) [other_primary]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERIFIED
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-ata-229-ata229-pkt-crew-dg-packet-md
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[2]Shipscribe.com, 'USS ATA-174 (later Wateree) Class' - construction and class data tables compiled from Bureau of Ships/NARA-derived records [other_primary]
- Locator
- Construction table row ATA-229 (Ord. 20 Nov 44; keel 12 May 45; launch 29 Jun 45; commission '--'); class header data
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- ATA-229 was ordered 1944-11-20 under a contract with Levingston Shipbuilding Co., Orange, Texas (yard hull no. 376); keel laid 1945-05-12; launched 1945-06-29; never commissioned. Class characteristics (ATA-174 class, Navy BAT-1 design): 534 t. light / 835 t. max, 143.0 ft overall, 33.8 ft beam, 13.2 ft draft, GM diesel-electric single screw, 1,500 hp, 13 knots, design complement 43 (1944).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Study period
- 1944-1945
- Population
- Levingston construction workforce, Orange TX (1945)
- Limitations
- Compiled reference work, not the underlying primary record - dates are from a secondary compilation of BuShips/NARA data. NavSource states 'laid down in 1946,' which is inconsistent with the contract's August 1945 cancellation and is not adopted; discrepancy logged. No asbestos or materials content; supports no asbestos claim.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-ata-229-ata229-01
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[3]Shipscribe.com, 'USS ATA-174 (later Wateree) Class' - class notes and disposition table (row ATA-229: '13 Aug 45 / Canc.'; ship note: 'Cancelled Aug 13, 1945') [other_primary]
- Locator
- Class Notes paragraph (Lend-Lease batch history); Disposition table row 229; Ship Notes row 229
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- ATA-229 belonged to a 20-tug batch (ATA 219-238) approved by CNO on 1944-11-18 for Lend-Lease to the Soviet Union; the contract was awarded two days later and the vessels were officially assigned to the USSR by the Munitions Assignment Committee on 17 or 24 January 1945. The assignment was retracted 1945-07-10 for ATA 229-233 and their contracts were cancelled in August 1945 (ATA-229: 1945-08-13). The remaining 15 tugs of the batch were to be accepted upon completion but, surplus to Navy needs, not commissioned, placed in caretaker status, and turned over to the War Shipping Administration for disposal.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Study period
- 1944-1945
- Population
- None - no naval crew ever assigned (construction yard workforce only)
- Limitations
- Documents why the hull was never commissioned and establishes that any Navy-era exposure population is limited to construction workers - no crew ever served aboard. Compiled secondary source; underlying CNO/MAC directives not independently retrieved. No asbestos content; supports no asbestos claim.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-ata-229-ata229-02
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[4]NavSource Naval History, Service Ship Photo Archive - ATA-229 page; photograph sourced to U.S. National Archives, RG-19-LCM (via Shipscribe.com) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Photo caption (093822901.jpg); page specifications block; NARA RG-19-LCM attribution
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- A U.S. National Archives photograph (RG-19-LCM) shows ATA-229 incomplete at her builder's yard around the time of her cancellation in August 1945; the caption notes the hull number was added when the photo was developed and that she was completed in 1953 as a merchant tug. NavSource's ATA-229 page (which classes her as 'Sotoyomo Class Auxiliary Fleet Tug') publishes the photograph with its caption and lists type specifications (835 t lt / 1,360 t fl per NavSource - inconsistent with the class's 534/835 figures; see report), single 3"/50 and two 20mm AA armament as designed, complement 5 officers + 40 enlisted, two GM 12-278A diesel-electric engines, 1,200 shp single propeller.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Study period
- 1945
- Limitations
- The archival photograph independently corroborates the hull's incomplete state at cancellation; the page's compiled specifications contain errors (displacement figures conflict with class data; 'laid down in 1946' is inconsistent with the documented May 1945 keel). Armament listed is as-designed - the hull was cancelled before outfitting. No asbestos content; supports no asbestos claim.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-ata-229-ata229-03
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[5]TugboatInformation.com vessel record 8502 (compiled from USCG documentation data) - 'Moi'; corroborated by NavSource ATA-229 disposition line and Shipscribe ship note ('sold & completed in March 1953 ... as merc. MOI, later merc. "C-C-9" (Mexico) 1978') [other_primary]
- Locator
- Vessel record: history narrative + documentation fields (USCG Doc. 265094, hull 376, 485 GT); NavSource 38229.htm disposition line; Shipscribe ATA-174 ship note 229
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Merchant career: the cancelled hull was completed in March 1953 by Commercial Ship Repair Company of Winslow, Washington, as the merchant tug Moi (USCG Doc. No. 265094, call sign WE6854, Levingston hull no. 376) for the Young Brothers Company of Honolulu, Hawaii. In 1961 Young Brothers merged into the Dillingham Corporation and towing operations passed to the newly founded Hawaiian Tug and Barge Company (renamed Dillingham Tug and Barge Corporation 1977). In 1978 the tug was sold to Cementos California of Ensenada, Mexico, reflagged Mexican, and renamed C.C. 9; final fate unknown.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Study period
- 1953-1978
- Population
- Merchant tug crews, Honolulu inter-island towage (1953-1978); Mexican operators (1978-)
- Limitations
- Compiled registry data, not official records. Conflicts logged: NavSource says sold 1953 to Hawaiian Tug and Barge Co. while TugboatInformation says Young Brothers (the companies' operations merged in 1961); ShipbuildingHistory.com shows 'Sold 1947 as Moi,' likely reflecting sale of the incomplete hull rather than the 1953 completion; NavSource says 'Canceled by the War Shipping Administration in 1946' versus the documented Navy contract cancellation of 1945-08-13. No asbestos content; supports no asbestos claim.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-ata-229-ata229-04
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[6]CourtListener API v4 search: q="ATA-229" type=o (count 0) and type=r (count 2 - Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., Bankr. S.D.N.Y. 2008-09-15; Joumaa v. Mnuchin, D.D.C. 2017-12-27); q="Ata-229" type=o (count 0); q="ATA 229" type=o (count 0) [court_record]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-ata-229-ata229-05, -06, -07, and -10
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- CourtListener searches on the hull designation returned no qualifying litigation: exact-string opinion searches "ATA-229", "Ata-229", and "ATA 229" each returned 0 results. Docket search "ATA-229" returned 2 hits, both classified as name collisions: Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. (Bankr. S.D.N.Y., filed 2008) and Joumaa v. Mnuchin (D.D.C., filed 2017, an OFAC sanctions suit) - neither has a maritime or asbestos nexus and neither plausibly concerns a 143-ft Navy-contract tug cancelled in 1945; the string match is coincidental (docket/exhibit numbering).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Study period
- 2026-09-26
- Limitations
- No docketed case naming the hull located at the least-final stage searched (opinions and docket index). Docket hits were classified as name collisions on metadata (court, nature of suit, date) without full-filing retrieval - a remote possibility remains that the string appears in a filing referencing the hull. Absence of litigation does not establish absence of exposure; merchant crews were not subject to the hull-specific docketing searched here.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-ata-229-ata229-05
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[7]Batch-2903 search ledger (this record): Shipscribe ATA-174 class file; NavSource 38229; ShipbuildingHistory auxat table; TugboatInformation 8502; hazegray DANFS auxiliaries index; CourtListener searches [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-ata-229-ata229-01 through sl-uss-ata-229-10
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, or case naming ATA-229 / Moi / C.C. 9 was found in the public sources searched (see search_ledger). No DANFS entry exists - DANFS by design covered only commissioned U.S. Navy ships with assigned names, and this hull was neither named nor commissioned; the hazegray.org DANFS auxiliaries index lists only named ATA hulls. NavSource and the compiled tug registries consulted contain no asbestos or materials statement.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Study period
- 2026-09-26
- Limitations
- Absence of a located public record does not prove absence of asbestos aboard - a hull partially built to 1945 Navy specifications and completed for merchant service in 1953 is era-consistent with asbestos-containing materials. Does not establish presence or absence, quantity, condition, individual exposure, or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-ata-229-ata229-06
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[8]Corn, Jacqueline Karnell, and Jennifer Starr, 'Historical perspective on asbestos: Policies and protective measures in World War II shipbuilding,' American Journal of Industrial Medicine 11(3):359-373 (1987) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Abstract and article, AJIM 11(3):359-373
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Peer-reviewed historical study documents that asbestos was used extensively as a fireproofing and insulating material in U.S. shipbuilding during WWII, the era and contracting program (BuShips-contracted, GM-engined BAT-1-design tug batch) under which this hull's partial 1945 construction was performed.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Study period
- 1940s era documented; article 1987
- Population
- WWII shipyard workers and ship crews (class context)
- Limitations
- Program/era-level scholarly documentation of asbestos use in WWII shipbuilding generally; does not name this vessel, does not cover the 1953 merchant completion, and does not establish that asbestos was or remains aboard this hull, nor quantity, location, condition, exposure, or causation.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-ata-229-ata229-07
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[9]NARA Guide to Federal Records: RG 19 (Bureau of Ships) and RG 178 (U.S. Maritime Commission); USCG National Vessel Documentation Center records [other_primary]
- Locator
- https://www.archives.gov/research/guide-fed-records/groups/019.html ; https://www.archives.gov/research/guide-fed-records/groups/178.html ; USCG NVDC (uscg.mil/nvdc)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Archival leads (not retrieved - require research-room or reproduction order; no spend authorized): NARA RG 19 (Records of the Bureau of Ships) holds contract and plan files for the ATA-174-class batch, and the RG-19-LCM still-picture series already documents this hull; NARA RG 178 (U.S. Maritime Commission) covers the postwar disposal context; the USCG/NVDC merchant-vessel documentation file for official no. 265094 (Moi) may hold the 1953 completion particulars; Levingston Shipbuilding records (yard hull 376) are the construction-phase lead.
- Verification
- unverified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Study period
- 1944-1978 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-ata-229-ata229-08