Evidence
7 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-7).
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[1]DANFS, 'Atka (AGB-3) 1950-1966' (NHHC; live page returns 404 - Wayback capture 2017-05-09 used) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS entry, specification block + full service narrative + commanding officers table; Wayback https://web.archive.org/web/20170509191106/https://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/a/atka.html
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS (NHHC) entry for Atka (AGB-3), 1950-1966: built as USCGC Southwind (WAG-280), laid down 1942-07-20 at San Pedro by Western Pipe & Steel Co., launched 1943-03-08, commissioned by USCG 1944-07-15; Greenland service Oct-Nov 1944 incl. assist in capture of German weather trawler Externsteine; decommissioned 1945-03-23 and transferred to the USSR under Lend-Lease 1945-03-25, renamed Admiral Makarov; returned to U.S. custody at Yokosuka 1949-12-28; renamed Atka (AGB-3) 1950-04-28; commissioned at Yokosuka 1950-10-01 (Cmdr. Robert B. Kelly); Boston Naval Shipyard overhaul/modernization Dec 1950-late May 1951 incl. removal of the after 5-inch twin mount for a flight deck; 15 years of seasonal Arctic/Antarctic deployments incl. the 1954-55 U.S. Navy Antarctic Expedition (first U.S. Antarctic expedition since 1948), Deep Freeze II/III/60/62/64/66, DEW Line resupply; decommissioned 1966-10-31, transferred to USCG as WAGB-280; stricken from the Naval Vessel Register 1966-11-01; USCG decommission 1974-05-31; sold for scrap to Union Mineral & Alloy Corp. of New York 1976-03-10 for $231,079.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-20
- Study period
- 1942-1976
- Limitations
- Authoritative for identity, construction, commissioning, deployments, and disposition; contains no asbestos, insulation-material, or industrial-hygiene statement - this row supports no asbestos claim. Live NHHC URL 404s (standing link rot); content verified via 2017-05-09 Wayback capture.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-atka-agb3-01
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[2]U.S. Coast Guard Historian's Office, 'Southwind, 1944 (WAGB 280; ex-Atka; Admiral Makarov)' (article 2156071; live site returns 403 to automated fetch - Wayback capture 2022-05-26 used) [other_primary]
- Locator
- USCG Historian cutter page, data block + class history + cutter history; Wayback https://web.archive.org/web/20220526192402/https://www.history.uscg.mil/Browse-by-Topic/Assets/Water/All/Article/2156071/southwind-1944-wagb-280-ex-atka-admiral-makarov/
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- U.S. Coast Guard Historian's Office cutter history for Southwind, 1944 (WAGB-280; ex-Atka; ex-Admiral Makarov): builder Western Pipe & Steel Co., Los Angeles, hull CG-98, cost $9,880,037; propulsion 6 Fairbanks-Morse 10-cylinder diesels driving 6 Westinghouse DC generators feeding 3 electric motors, 12,000 shp, two propellers aft plus one bow propeller; transferred to the USSR at Tacoma, Washington on 1945-03-25 (CDR R. M. Hoyle turning over to CDR A. M. Khokhlov, USSRN); 19 Arctic trips and nine Antarctic voyages during the Atka years; commissioned USCGC Atka at Boston 1966-10-31, homeport Baltimore, renamed Southwind early 1967 at the crew's request; post-1967 service incl. 1970 Arctic East cruise reaching 83 deg 01 min N and the first U.S. naval-vessel port call at Murmansk since WWII; decommissioned 1974-05-31; sold for scrap 1976-03-17 for $231,079 to Union Mineral & Alloy Corp. of New York.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-20
- Study period
- 1944-1976
- Limitations
- Authoritative operator-source history; contains no asbestos or materials statement - supports no asbestos claim. Source conflicts logged: data block lists USN commissioning as 1950-04-13 vs DANFS 1950-10-01 (likely conflates acquisition with commissioning); sale dated 1976-03-17 vs DANFS 1976-03-10.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-atka-agb3-02
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[3]U.S. Coast Guard Historian's Office, Wind-class design/class history on the Southwind (WAGB-280) cutter page [other_primary]
- Locator
- USCG Historian cutter page, 'Class History' section
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- USCG Historian's Wind-class design history (Gibbs & Cox design modeled on the Swedish icebreaker Ymer): the class had a diesel-electric powerplant - diesels driving generators feeding shaft motors, chosen to absorb ice-shock power ratios - and 'the hull also had compressed cork insulation,' plus heeling tanks and a welded, thick-plated hull. The documented class insulation material is cork, not asbestos; any asbestos applications aboard (gaskets, packing, electrical insulation, deck coverings, insulation felts) are era inference only.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-20
- Study period
- 1941-1944 (design/construction era)
- Population
- Wind-class construction trades (Western Pipe & Steel, 1942-43); operating crews
- Limitations
- Class-level design description, not a hull record; documents cork as the hull insulation approach for the class but does not inventory other materials aboard this vessel. Does not establish presence or absence of asbestos aboard this hull, nor quantity, location, or exposure.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-atka-agb3-03
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[4]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 program under which this hull (laid down 1942, launched 1943) was constructed for the Coast Guard at Western Pipe & Steel - and that wartime demand drove unprecedented asbestos utilization in ship construction.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-20
- 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 or its class 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-atka-agb3-04
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[5]DANFS, 'Atka (AGB-3) 1950-1966' - yard-period entries within the service narrative [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS service narrative (1950-1966 yard events); Wayback capture 2017-05-09
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Documented yard/maintenance events for this hull (per DANFS): Boston Naval Shipyard overhaul and modernization Dec 1950-late May 1951 (after 5-inch twin mount removed for flight deck); Boston NSY overhaul May-Aug 1955; Todd Shipyard Seattle upkeep Jun-Jul 1956 and dry dock Sep-Oct 1957; Puget Sound Naval Shipyard restricted availability Apr 1958; Bethlehem Steel Corp. yard, East Boston, dry dock overhaul Jan-Mar 1959 and winter 1960-61, voyage repairs Apr-May 1964, upkeep 1966; Philadelphia Naval Shipyard 5-week availability 1960 (hull damage); Boston NSY overhauls Dec 1962-Mar 1963 and Nov 1964-Mar 1965 (six main engines refurbished, three new main-deck spaces, new flight deck and hangar for UH-2B helicopters); Boston NSY dry dock Apr-Jun 1965 (Buzzards Bay grounding damage, new aloft conning station).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-20
- Study period
- 1950-1966
- Population
- Navy/civilian yard workers at each availability; ship's force maintenance crews
- Limitations
- Documents yard events only - the asbestos scope of every listed availability is undocumented; these are industrial-disturbance opportunities aboard a 1942-43 hull, not findings. Does not establish that asbestos work occurred, what was removed or retained, or any individual exposure.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-atka-agb3-05
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[6]Batch-696 search ledger (this record): DANFS entry; USCG Historian cutter page; NVR hull page; MARAD ShipHistory; CourtListener API (throttled) + web-index court-record sweep; general asbestos/abatement disclosure search [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-atka-agb3-01 through sl-uss-atka-agb3-08
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, or docketed asbestos case naming Atka (AGB-3), USCGC Southwind (WAG/WAGB-280), or the ex-Soviet Admiral Makarov was found in the public sources searched (see search_ledger). CourtListener API v4 was HTTP-429 throttled at research time (125/day cap; ~11 h retry window) and is logged as blocked rather than searched; web-index queries of court records for 'Atka'/'AGB-3' return only name collisions (Native Village of Atka, City of Atka, Magistrate Judge Atka Sagar), none involving the vessel.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-20
- Study period
- 2026-09-20
- Limitations
- Absence of a located public record does not prove absence of asbestos aboard - a 1942-43 wartime hull repeatedly overhauled through 1966 is era-consistent with retained asbestos-containing materials. CourtListener coverage is incomplete for this record: the API was rate-limited (blocked), and only web-index opinion/docket search was performed. Does not establish presence or absence; does not establish or defeat any exposure claim or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-atka-agb3-06
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[7]USCG Historian's Office finding aid 'Digitized Decklogs at NARA' (NARA ID 587169, Wind-class coverage); NARA deck-log guidance for post-WWII Navy logs; USCG Historian Southwind cutter file (source note on cutter page) [other_primary]
- Locator
- USCG Historian finding-aid page; source list on cutter page; NARA deck-log guidance
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Archival leads (not retrieved - no spend authorized): (a) NARA NextGen ID 587169 - digitized WWII-era USCG deck logs (1942-47 project) expressly include the Wind class (EASTWIND, NORTHWIND, SOUTHWIND) per the USCG Historian's finding aid; (b) Navy deck logs for USS Atka (AGB-3), 1950-1966, held at NARA College Park (not digitized); (c) Boston Naval Shipyard work-package and job-order records for the 1950-51 modernization and later overhauls (the likeliest primary source for any hull-specific asbestos work); (d) the USCG Historian's Southwind cutter file, cited as a source on the cutter page.
- Verification
- unverified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-09-20
- Study period
- 1944-1974 records
- Limitations
- Record-location mapping only - no box-level retrieval performed; whether any of these records contain asbestos-specific documentation for this hull is unknown until surveyed. Nothing in this row is an asbestos finding.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-atka-agb3-07