Evidence
10 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-10).
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[1]research packet di-packet.md (1 sources cited) [nhhc_danfs]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERIFIED (identity). — real identity: NONE — never named; served as USS ATR-22. [M] HyperWar
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-atr-22-atr22-pkt-di-packet-md
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[2]shipscribe.com, 'USS ATR-1 (ATR-1) Class' register page (shipscribe.com/usnaux/ATR/ATR01.html), compiled from BuShips Ships' Data and OpNav records [other_primary]
- Locator
- Construction table row ATR-22; Disposition table row ATR-22 (Decomm. 17 Jun 46 / Strike 23 Dec 47 / Disposal 13 Mar 48 / MC/D / MA Sale 17 Feb 48); Ship Notes row 22; Class Notes (rescue-tug program origin, wooden-hull rationale); class spec block
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- shipscribe.com U.S. Navy auxiliary register (S.S. Roberts, compiled from BuShips/OpNav records), ATR-1 class page: construction table lists ATR-22 ordered 19 Jun 42, builder 'Camden SB', keel 27 Apr 43, launch 30 Jan 44, commissioned 10 Jul 44; disposition table: decommissioned 17 Jun 46, struck 23 Dec 47, disposal 13 Mar 48, fate 'MC/D' (Maritime Commission disposal), MA sale 17 Feb 48. Ship note (verbatim): 'Sold (awarded) by MC to Georgia Marine Salvage Co. Inc., Brunswick, Ga., delivered 13 Mar 48.' Class notes: ATR 1-40 were FY 1942 hulls directed 19 Jan 42 under the Maximum War Effort (1799-Vessel) Program; the Navy deliberately specified wooden hulls and 'relatively simple triple expansion steam machinery' so small shipbuilders outside the main Navy shipbuilding effort could build the hulls and small local machine shops could build the engines; design attributed by one source to the John G. Alden firm. Class specs: 852 t light / 1,315 t max; 165.4' oa x 33.3' x 15.8'; 1-3"/50, 2-20mm; complement 51 (1944); 12.2 kts; 1,600 HP; 1 screw, vertical triple expansion.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Study period
- 1942-1948
- Limitations
- Independent authoritative register reconciling BuShips/OpNav records; supplies order date, builder, exact decommission/strike/disposal dates absent from other sources. Contains no asbestos or materials statement; supports no asbestos claim. Its 'Camden SB' attribution contradicts NavSource's 'Jakobson Shipyard, Oyster Bay' line for this hull - Camden is corroborated by Shipbuilding History's Camden yard table and UNT oral history OH 1420; logged in gaps.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-atr-22-atr22-01
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[3]NavSource Online: Service Ship Photo Archive, USS ATR-22 (ATR-22), archive 09/40/40022 (last updated 2016-07-08) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Page header timeline, ribbon table, specifications block; 'no images' and 'no DANFS history' notices
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NavSource Online Service Ship Photo Archive, USS ATR-22 page (archive 09/40/40022): 'ATR-1 Class Rescue Tug: Laid down, 27 April 1943, at Jakobson Shipyard Inc., Oyster Bay, Long Island, N. Y. Launched, 30 January 1944. Commissioned USS ATR-22, 10 July 1944. Assigned to Caribbean Sea Frontier, 31 December 1944. Decommissioned, date unknown. Struck from the Naval Register, date unknown. Sold (awarded) by the Maritime Commission to Georgia Marine Salvage Co. Inc., Brunswick, GA., delivered 13 March 1948. Final Disposition, fate unknown.' Call sign NZEQ. Ribbons: American Campaign Medal, World War II Victory Medal. Spec block: 852 t (lt) / 1,315 t (fl); 165'6" x 33'4" x 15'6"; 12.2 kts; 4 t boom; one 3"/50 DP + two single 20mm AA; officers 5, enlisted 47; NSFO 1,620 bbls; propulsion 'one Fulton Iron Works vertical triple-expansion reciprocating steam engine, two Babcock and Wilcox "D"-type boilers, 200psi, Sat, two turbo drive Ships Service Generators, 60kw 120V D.C., single propeller, 1,600 hp.' Page also records: no images available; no DANFS history available for this vessel.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Study period
- 1943-1948
- Limitations
- Secondary transcription archive (Navy-compiled data plus contributed material), not a primary document. Its builder attribution ('Jakobson Shipyard Inc., Oyster Bay, Long Island, N. Y.') conflicts with three independent sources (shipscribe register, Shipbuilding History Camden table, UNT oral history OH 1420) and is treated here as a transcription error - Camden Shipbuilding, Camden ME carried instead; logged in gaps. 'Assigned to Caribbean Sea Frontier, 31 December 1944' is single-source (NavSource) and unverified against official records. No asbestos content; supports no asbestos claim.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-atr-22-atr22-02
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[4]Shipbuilding History (T. Colton), 'Camden Shipbuilding, Camden ME' yard table, ATR 22 row - shipbuildinghistory.com/shipyards/emergencysmall/camden.htm [other_primary]
- Locator
- Camden yard table, ATR rows (ATR 17-22, 74-79 block); yard-history header paragraph
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Shipbuilding History (Colton) Camden Shipbuilding yard table lists the hull: 'ATR 22 | US Navy | Tug | 850 | 10-Jul-44 | Disposed of 1946' - i.e., built at Camden Shipbuilding and Marine Railway Company, Camden, Maine, delivered to the U.S. Navy 10 July 1944 (the commissioning date in shipscribe), with the yard table's disposal shorthand matching the documented 1946 decommissioning. The yard history notes Camden Shipbuilding was founded 1940 by Richard Lyman, Cary Bok, and Clinton Lunt; reconstituted postwar as Camden Shipbuilding Company; failed 1963; site now operated by Wayfarer Marine as a maintenance facility.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Study period
- 1943-1948
- Limitations
- Secondary tabulation consistent with shipscribe on builder and delivery date; confirms Camden attribution against NavSource's Jakobson error. 'Disposed of 1946' is the yard-table shorthand for the Navy disposal track - shipscribe's full chain is decomm 17 Jun 46 / struck 23 Dec 47 / MC disposal delivered 13 Mar 48. Contains no asbestos or materials statement.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-atr-22-atr22-03
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[5]UNT Oral History Program, OH 1420 - William J. Bates interview, collection catalog record [other_primary]
- Locator
- OH 1420 catalog record, interview description field ('assignment to new construction, ATR-22, at Camden, Maine, 1944')
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- University of North Texas Oral History Program record OH 1420 (interview 7 Feb 2001, interviewer William J. Alexander, 118 pp) documents interviewee William J. Bates (b. 1916), U.S. Navy WWII veteran: after the sinking of APc-21 off New Britain Island in Dec 1943 and return to the States, Bates received 'assignment to new construction, ATR-22, at Camden, Maine, 1944,' then 'transfer to fleet tug ATA-182 as commanding officer, 1944.' Places a Navy officer with this hull's new construction at Camden, Maine in 1944 - corroborating the Camden Shipbuilding attribution and a pre-commissioning detail crew.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Study period
- 1943-1944 construction detail
- Limitations
- Catalog-record description of a 118-page interview; the full transcript was not retrieved and may contain additional ship detail (a follow-up archival lead). Bates transferred to ATA-182 in 1944 - the record does not establish he served aboard ATR-22 in commission. Oral-history recollection 57 years postwar; consistent with the documented Camden build. No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-atr-22-atr22-04
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[6]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 fireproofing and insulating material in U.S. shipbuilding during WWII - the era and program under which this wooden-hulled rescue tug was built at Camden Shipbuilding, Camden ME (keel Apr 1943 - delivery Jul 1944) - and that wartime demand drove unprecedented asbestos utilization aboard naval and merchant-type hulls.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Study period
- 1943-1944 construction era; article 1987
- Population
- WWII shipyard workers (Camden Shipbuilding) and ship's company (class context)
- Limitations
- Program/era-level scholarship; does not name this vessel and does not establish that asbestos was aboard this hull, nor quantity, location, condition, exposure, or causation. The study's shipyard emphasis is on large steel-ship programs; application to a small wooden-hull yard is itself inference.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-atr-22-atr22-05
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[7]NavSource USS ATR-22 specifications block (propulsion detail); shipscribe ATR-1 class spec line ('1 screw, vertical triple expansion, 1,600 HP') and class notes (wooden hull, simple triple-expansion machinery, small-yard rationale) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource 09/40/40022 spec block 'Propulsion'; shipscribe ATR01.html class spec line and class notes
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Design-level inference: the ATR-1 class carried a saturated-steam propulsion plant - two boilers (NavSource: Babcock & Wilcox 'D'-type, 200 psi, saturated) feeding a Fulton Iron Works vertical triple-expansion reciprocating engine, 1,600 hp - with steam piping, a towing engine/winch, and ship's-service turbo generators. Steam plants of this era era-typically carried asbestos boiler insulation and lagging, steam-line lagging between boiler room and engine room, flange gaskets, valve stem packing, machinery packing, and brake linings on towing machinery. The wooden hull reduced (but did not eliminate) insulation load relative to steel hulls; accommodation and galley areas carried era-typical fireproofing.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Study period
- 1943-1948
- Population
- Black gang / engineering crew (boiler room, engine room); deck force working towing machinery; Camden build workforce (class context)
- Limitations
- The steam plant is documented for the class (spec block transcribed by NavSource; machinery type confirmed by shipscribe); the asbestos content of its insulation/gaskets/packing aboard this hull is NOT documented by any source - it is era and configuration inference, not a ship-specific finding. No materials schedule, survey, or abatement record exists for this hull. Does not establish exposure or causation for any individual.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-atr-22-atr22-06
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[8]Batch-2955 search ledger (this record): NHHC DANFS index/NavSource; shipscribe ATR-1 class page; Shipbuilding History Camden table; UNT OH 1420; NARA Special List 44; NVR SHIPDETAILS hull query; CourtListener API v4; web litigation sweep [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-atr-22-atr22-01 through sl-uss-atr-22-atr22-11
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, abatement contract, hazmat-materials disclosure, or docketed asbestos case naming this hull was found in the public sources searched - no DANFS entry exists (unnamed vessel), NVR does not carry pre-1987 disposals, NavSource/shipscribe/Shipbuilding History carry no materials statement, and CourtListener opinion sweeps returned only a name collision. The hull left government custody in March 1948 - before the Navy's asbestos-control era and before the disclosure regimes that generate hazmat documentation for preserved or scrapped vessels.
- 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 1943-44 steam-powered auxiliary is era-consistent with asbestos-containing insulation and consumables. Does not establish presence or absence; does not establish or defeat any exposure claim or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-atr-22-atr22-07
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[9]NARA Special List 44, ship-number index (archives.gov/files/research/military/logbooks/sl-44-ship-number.pdf); NARA deck-log research guidance (archives.gov/research/military/logbooks/navy) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Special List 44 ship-number index, ATR-22 row ('7/10/1944 6/30/1945')
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Archival leads (not retrieved - no spend authorized; record-group mapping only): NARA Special List 44 (published logbook index) lists ATR-22 deck logs covering 1944-07-10 through 1945-06-30 - commissioning through the first service year including the documented Caribbean Sea Frontier assignment window; the July 1945 - June 1946 period through decommissioning is not in that index (RG 24 Entry 118 remainder). NARA RG 19 (Bureau of Ships) holds ATR-1 class design/construction records and the Booklet of General Plans for the type - the likeliest located container for any materials schedule relevant to this hull. No public repository is known to hold Camden Shipbuilding's wartime yard records.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Study period
- 1944-1946 log coverage; index accessed 2026-09-26
- Limitations
- Index-level confirmation only - logbooks were not retrieved or read; deck logs rarely name insulation materials but can document maintenance events, refits, and locations. Whether any asbestos-specific document exists for this hull is unknown until the containers are surveyed.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-atr-22-atr22-08
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[10]CourtListener API v4 opinion searches q='"ATR-22"' (type=o, 1 result screened) and q='"USS ATR-22"' (type=o, 0 results), 2026-09-26 [court_record]
- Locator
- Sole 'ATR-22' hit screened at case-name/court level (cluster_id 2400908, E.D. Pa. 1987); search_ledger rows sl-uss-atr-22-atr22-08 through -10
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- CourtListener opinion-index sweeps (2026-09-26, authenticated API v4 via fleet helper): query '"ATR-22"' (type=o) returned 1 result - Tasty Baking Co. v. Ralston Purina, Inc., 653 F. Supp. 1250 (E.D. Pa. 1987), a packaged-goods antitrust opinion matching a non-maritime product string; classified name collision, non-qualifying. Query '"USS ATR-22"' (type=o) returned 0 results. A RECAP docket-index sweep on 'ATR-22' (type=r) was attempted but stood down by the fleet-wide pacing budget during the session - logged as a procedural gap, not a substantive finding. No opinion names USS ATR-22 or an exposure claim involving this hull.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Study period
- 2026-09-26
- Limitations
- Sweep covers indexed opinions only - complaints/dockets not surfaced by case-name matching, state-court unindexed decisions, and CAVC/BVA veterans' claims are outside this index; the RECAP docket sweep did not execute under fleet pacing. Absence of an indexed opinion does not prove no claim was ever filed; it establishes that no qualifying ship-naming opinion is in the index for these query strings.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-atr-22-atr22-09