Evidence
13 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-13).
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[1]research packet crew-dh-packet.md (4 sources cited) [nhhc_danfs]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERIFIED.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-atr-10-atr10-pkt-crew-dh-packet-md
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[2]Bureau of Ships, Ships' Data, U.S. Naval Vessels, 1945, Vol. III (NAVSHIPS 250-012), p. 417, 'Auxiliaries - Rescue Tugs (ATR)' construction table (digitized official document) [other_primary]
- Locator
- p. 417, ATR construction table, row 'ATR10' (built by Frank L. Sample, Jr., Boothbay Harbor, Maine)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- The official Bureau of Ships 'Ships' Data, U.S. Naval Vessels, 1945,' Vol. III, lists ATR-10 in its per-hull construction table: built by Frank L. Sample, Jr., Boothbay Harbor, Maine; keel laid 3 Sep 1943; launched 20 Jul 1944; date of first commission 4 Oct 1944.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Study period
- 1943-1944
- Population
- Construction trades at Frank L. Sample yard, Boothbay Harbor, ME (1943-1944)
- Limitations
- Establishes builder, keel, launch, and first-commission dates for this hull. Contains no asbestos, insulation-materials, or hull-condition statement; supports no asbestos claim.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-atr-10-atr10-01
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[3]Bureau of Ships, Ships' Data, U.S. Naval Vessels, 1945, Vol. III (NAVSHIPS 250-012), pp. 414-416, 'Auxiliaries - Rescue Tugs (ATR)' class characteristics tables and per-hull machinery table (digitized official document) [other_primary]
- Locator
- pp. 414-416 class tables (footnote 3 'Wood hulls'); p. 416 machinery table row 'ATR10 - Prescott Co., Vert., 3-exp.'
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- The same official Ships' Data machinery table lists ATR-10 individually: engine manufactured by Prescott Co., vertical triple-expansion; boilers carried under the Foster Wheeler 'D'-type entry for the Sample-built group (F.W. 'D'). The class summary for ATR 1-40 (which includes ATR-10) gives: single screw, 1,600 shp, 2 boilers at 260 psi saturated, wood hulls, 165'5" overall, 33'4" beam, trial speed 12.2 kt, trial displacement 1,312 t, accommodations for 5 officers and 47 enlisted, armament one 3"/50 DP mount, two 60 kW turbo-driven 120 V DC ship's-service generators, fuel capacity 1,620 bbls, largest boom capacity 4 t.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Study period
- 1944-1945 (publication reflects wartime configuration)
- Population
- Engineering watchstanders and construction trades (class context)
- Limitations
- Official tabulation of this hull's machinery and of class-level characteristics applicable to ATR 1-40. Establishes that the ship ran a live-steam plant (boilers plus reciprocating engine and steam piping) aboard a wooden hull - the physical context for asbestos-era insulation practice - but the document itself contains no asbestos or insulation-material statement; supports no asbestos claim.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-atr-10-atr10-02
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[4]Navy and Marine Corps Awards Manual, NAVPERS 15,790 (Rev. 1953), Part IV sec. 2(16) 'Area Campaign Medals and Operation and Engagement Stars World War II,' List of Ships Eligible for Engagement Stars; and sec. 2(18) 'Navy Occupation Service Medal ... Units Eligible - Ships' (HyperWar mirror of official publication) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Awards-IV-16.html, eligible-ships list, row 'ATR 10' (13 May 45-30 Jun 45, P34-1); occupation list at https://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USN/ref/Awards/Awards-IV-17.html row 'ATR 10' (2 Sep 45-9 Jan 46, clasp A)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- The Navy and Marine Corps Awards Manual (NAVPERS 15,790, Rev. 1953), official list of ships eligible for engagement stars, credits 'ATR 10' with participation 13 May-30 Jun 1945 in operation P34-1, 'Assault and occupation of Okinawa Gunto' - the basis for the ship's one battle star. The same manual's Navy Occupation Service Medal eligibility list credits 'ATR 10' with occupation service 2 Sep 1945-9 Jan 1946, Asia clasp.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Study period
- 1945-1946
- Population
- USS ATR-10 crew, Okinawa operation and Japan occupation periods
- Limitations
- Establishes campaign participation (Okinawa Gunto, one battle star) and postwar occupation duty dates for this hull. Award eligibility records only - no asbestos, materials, or exposure information.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-atr-10-atr10-03
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[5]Shipscribe, 'U.S. Navy Auxiliary Ships - USS ATR-1 Class' data page and ship notes (secondary compilation transcribing Naval Vessel Register / BuShips register and Maritime Commission disposition data) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Construction table row ATR-10 (Ord. 12 Jun 42); Disposition table row ATR-10 (Decomm. 19 Jul 46; Strike 14 Mar 47; Disposal 4 Aug 48; Fate MC/D; MA Sale 4 Aug 48); Ship Notes entry 10; Class Notes (wooden-hull program)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Compiled register data for the ATR-1 class gives ATR-10's remaining milestones: ordered 12 Jun 1942 under contract to Frank L. Sample (Boothbay Harbor); decommissioned 19 Jul 1946; stricken 14 Mar 1947; disposal 4 Aug 1948 via Maritime Commission - sold/delivered to Gardiner Mfg. Co., Oakland, Cal. The class notes record that ATR 1-40 plus ATR 50-89 (80 tugs total) were deliberately built of wood with simple triple-expansion steam machinery so small shipbuilders could construct them under the Maximum War Effort (1799-Vessel) Program directed by CNO 19 Jan 1942, and that a single source attributes the design to the John G. Alden firm.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Study period
- 1942-1948
- Limitations
- Secondary compilation of official registers, not the registers themselves - the underlying NVR/MC entries were not separately viewed (1949 NVR scan is image-only). The decommissioning, strike, and disposal dates adopted here as register-derived; NavSource's 'struck 1946' and 'fate unknown' framings conflict - see correction row. No asbestos information.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-atr-10-atr10-04
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[6]NavSource Online: Service Ship Photo Archive, USS ATR-10 page (volunteer archive compiling official photos and register/awards data; includes two credited U.S. Navy photographs) [other_primary]
- Locator
- USS ATR-10 page, specifications block and photo captions
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NavSource's ATR-10 page records: commissioned with LT R.P. Griffing, Jr. in command; two period photographs (underway off Boothbay Harbor, ME circa 1944, and a U.S. Navy photo dated 16 Oct 1944), both showing the ship in camouflage measure 31/16Ax; awards listed as American Campaign Medal, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (1 star), World War II Victory Medal, and Navy Occupation Service Medal with Asia clasp; international radio call sign NGHZ. NavSource states 'struck from the Naval Register in 1946' and 'final disposition, fate unknown,' and notes that no DANFS history exists for the ship.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Study period
- 1944-1948
- Population
- USS ATR-10 crew (wartime)
- Limitations
- Volunteer-compiled secondary archive. CO name, call sign, awards list, and photo dates are useful but not independently verified against primary records (photos are credited U.S. Navy images). The 'struck 1946' and 'fate unknown' statements conflict with register-derived data (1947-03-14 strike; 1948 MC sale to Gardiner Mfg. Co.) - adopted values are the register-derived ones; see correction row. No asbestos information.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-atr-10-atr10-05
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[7]Steve Edwards, 'A Navy Tug, A Barracks Barge And A Pacific Typhoon,' Blaine County Journal News-Opinion (Chinook, MT), 5 Feb 2020 [reputable_press]
- Locator
- Article body (crewman interview)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- A 2020 newspaper interview with ATR-10 crewman Ray Reid recounts the ship's 1946 occupation-period tasking: towing an APL barracks barge from Nagoya, Japan toward Hawaii when a typhoon parted the 3-inch tow wire, fouled the tug's propeller, flooded the engine room through a smashed skylight cover, and left the tug adrift for days; the crew restarted a boiler to power a generator, the ship's diver cleared the screw, and the tug reached Treasure Island, CA under partial power after drifting near Wake Island. Reid recalled a crew of '35-40 sailors' including a diver and a specially trained mechanic.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Study period
- 1946; article 2020
- Population
- USS ATR-10 crew, 1946
- Limitations
- Single-veteran memoir collected 75 years after the event; internally inconsistent (photo caption mislabels the tug 'APL-10'; asserts 'steel hull from the water line down' while also describing the wooden hull leaking - the official Ships' Data footnote is 'Wood hulls'). The '35-40' crew figure conflicts with the official 5+47 accommodations table. Used as color/context for the 1946 tow casualty only; the event is plausible (occupation service to Jan 1946, decommissioning Jul 1946) but the tow and dates are not independently verified. No asbestos information.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-atr-10-atr10-06
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[8]Inference drawn from the ship's documented plant (BuShips Ships' Data 1945, pp. 414-416) against documented WWII-era shipboard insulation practice (see Corn & Starr row) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Ships' Data machinery/class tables; asbestos inference per era practice
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Class/era inference: ATR-10 ran a live-steam propulsion plant (two Foster Wheeler 'D'-type boilers at 260 psi saturated, a vertical triple-expansion engine, and associated steam piping) aboard a 1944 wooden hull. Steam plants of WWII-era naval construction characteristically employed asbestos-containing insulation on boilers, steam lines, and engine surfaces, and asbestos-containing gaskets and packing throughout machinery spaces. The wooden hull confined the principal insulation scope to machinery and piping rather than structural fireproofing.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Study period
- 1943-1946
- Population
- Construction trades (Boothbay Harbor, 1943-44); engine-room crew
- Limitations
- Era/type inference only - no document names asbestos aboard this hull, and wooden-hull construction narrowed (but did not eliminate) the materials scope. Does not establish quantity, location, condition, exposure of any individual, or present-day relevance (hull disposed of 1948; likely scrapped or converted long ago).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-atr-10-atr10-07
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[9]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 1944 rescue tug was mass-produced - and that wartime demand drove unprecedented asbestos utilization aboard naval and merchant hulls.
- 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 and does not establish that asbestos was installed aboard this wooden-hulled tug, nor quantity, location, condition, exposure, or causation.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-atr-10-atr10-08
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[10]Batch-2923 search ledger (this record): BuShips Ships' Data 1945; NAVPERS 15,790; NARA Special List #44; MARAD Vessel History shiplist; NHHC/DANFS; NVR; NavSource; CourtListener name/hull searches [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-atr-10-atr10-01 through sl-uss-atr-10-atr10-11
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, or docketed case naming ATR-10 was found in the public sources searched - the ship has no DANFS entry, no MARAD Vessel History record (six other ATR-class tugs have MARAD pages; ATR-10 does not), no modern NVR entry (pre-1987 disposal excluded), and no museum/abatement documentation (the hull was sold to a private buyer in 1948 and does not survive). CourtListener searches returned only name collisions (see search_ledger).
- 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 1944 steam-powered naval vessel is era-consistent with asbestos-containing machinery insulation. The hull does not survive, so no present-day ACM question exists; the gap concerns historical documentation only. Does not establish or defeat any exposure claim or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-atr-10-atr10-09
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[11]National Archives and Records Administration, Special List #44 (ship-number index to U.S. Navy logbooks), entry 'ATR-10, 10/4/1944-6/30/1945'; NARA record-group guidance for RG 19 (Bureau of Ships), RG 38 (war diaries), RG 178 (U.S. Maritime Commission) [other_primary]
- Locator
- SL-44 PDF, ship-number section, row 'ATR-10' (verified by direct download and text extraction 2026-09-26)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Archival lead: the National Archives' deck-log finding aid (Special List #44, 'Logbooks ... by Ship Numbers') lists the USS ATR-10 deck log covering 10/4/1944-6/30/1945 - the full commissioned war record through the end of the Okinawa operation - held at NARA. Not retrieved; the log may contain engineering-plant details and the 1945-46 operational record. Additional unretrieved leads: BuShips contract/specification files for the ATR program (NARA RG 19), WWII war diaries (RG 38), and the vessel's Maritime Commission sale file (RG 178) for the 1948 Gardiner Mfg. transaction.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Study period
- 1944-1945 (log coverage); records as extant
- Limitations
- Confirms the deck log exists and its date coverage (commissioning through 30 Jun 1945); contents unexamined - a deck log rarely documents construction materials and is an operational, not materials, record. RG 19/RG 38/RG 178 leads are record-group mappings only; no box-level retrieval performed. Nothing in this row is an asbestos finding.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-atr-10-atr10-10
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[12]CourtListener API v4 searches: q="ATR-10" type=o (1 result, collision); q="ATR 10" type=o (1 result, same collision); q="ATR-10" type=r (26 results, all collisions); q="USS ATR-10" type=o (0 results) [court_record]
- Locator
- Search results classified per batch litigation discipline; collision detail in search_ledger
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- CourtListener sweep (authenticated API v4, 2026-09-26): opinion searches 'ATR-10' and 'ATR 10' each returned 1 hit - the same case, Avocent Redmond Corp. v. Raritan Americas, Inc., 921 F. Supp. 2d 229 (S.D.N.Y. 2013), a patent case where 'ATR-10' is a product model reference; classified as name collision, not vessel litigation. Docket search 'ATR-10' returned 26 dockets whose matching text is scheduling shorthand ('atr 10:00 AM' and similar) - all name collisions, none vessel-related. Opinion search '"USS ATR-10"' returned zero results. No qualifying asbestos litigation naming the hull was located.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Study period
- 2026-09-26
- Limitations
- CourtListener coverage is limited to indexed opinions/dockets; unindexed state-court pleadings and settled claims naming the vessel would not appear. WWII-era naval-vessel asbestos claims typically named manufacturers or the government rather than hulls. Absence of a hit is not evidence about shipboard conditions.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-atr-10-atr10-11
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[13]Cross-source reconciliation: BuShips Ships' Data 1945 (launch 20 Jul 44); shipscribe register compilation (strike 14 Mar 47, MC sale 4 Aug 48); NavSource and NavalCoverMuseum conflicting framings [other_primary]
- Locator
- Ships' Data p. 417; shipscribe disposition table row ATR-10; NavSource USS ATR-10 page; navalcovermuseum.org/wiki/ATR_10
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Source discrepancies resolved: (a) launch date - BuShips Ships' Data 1945 gives 20 Jul 1944; the NavalCoverMuseum wiki gives 'July 29 1944'; the official table is adopted. (b) Strike date - register-derived compilation gives 14 Mar 1947; NavSource states only 'struck ... in 1946'; the register-derived 14 Mar 1947 is adopted. (c) Fate - NavSource and NavalCoverMuseum report 'fate unknown'; register-derived compilation documents Maritime Commission sale/delivery 4 Aug 1948 to Gardiner Mfg. Co., Oakland, Cal.; the MC sale is adopted, and the merchant fate thereafter remains unknown.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- correction
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Study period
- 1944-1948
- Limitations
- Resolves publication-level discrepancies in secondary sources against the official/derived record. The post-1948 merchant fate under Gardiner Mfg. Co. remains genuinely undocumented - 'fate unknown' is accurate beyond the 1948 sale. No asbestos content in any of these sources.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-atr-10-atr10-12