Evidence
9 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-9).
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[1]research packet dj-packet.md (8 sources cited) [museum_official]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERIFIED. Queue name
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-atr-23-atr23-pkt-dj-packet-md
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[2]Shipscribe (Stephen S. Roberts), 'USS ATR-1 Class' - construction table, disposition table, ship notes, and class notes compiled from BuShips, Navy, and Maritime Commission records [other_primary]
- Locator
- Construction table (ATR-23 row: 22 Jul 42 / Fulton SY / 29 Oct 42 / 15 Aug 43 / 3 Dec 43); Disposition table (ATR-23 row: 30 Oct 46 / 5 Mar 47 / 16 Jul 48 / MC/D / 18 May 48); Ship Notes (ATR-23 note incl. 'Earlier order: Weaver SYs (19 Jun 42)'); class header data; class notes (12 Sep 41 BuShips letter, 19 Jan 42 CNO direction, wood-hull/triple-expansion design rationale)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Shipscribe ATR-1 class data (compiled by Stephen S. Roberts from Bureau of Ships, Navy, and Maritime Commission records): ATR-23 construction row - order placed 22 Jul 42 at Fulton Shipyard (the ship note records an earlier order at Weaver Shipyards dated 19 Jun 42), keel 29 Oct 42, launched 15 Aug 43, commissioned 3 Dec 43. Disposition row: decommissioned 30 Oct 46; struck 5 Mar 47; disposal 16 Jul 48; fate 'MC/D' (Maritime Commission disposal); MA sale 18 May 48. Ship note: 'Sold (awarded) by MC to Carl Duval, Antioch, Cal., delivered 16 Jul 48.' Class data: ATR-1 class - 852 light / 1,315 max tons; 165.4' oa x 33.3' x 15.8' max; 1-3"/50 + 2-20mm; complement 51 (1944); 12.2 kts; 1,600 HP; one screw, vertical triple expansion. Class notes: ATR 1-40 directed by CNO 19 Jan 1942 under the Maximum War Effort (1799-vessel) program following the 12 Sep 1941 BuShips-to-CNO letter on the need for rescue tugs; the Navy 'decided to have the vessels built of wood and equipped with relatively simple triple expansion steam machinery' so small yards and machine shops could build them; design attributed to the firm of John G. Alden.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Study period
- 1942-1948
- Limitations
- Secondary compilation of primary Navy/BuShips/MC records - not itself the primary document; underlying BuShips contract/correspondence (RG 19) and MC disposal files are archival leads not retrieved. Decommission (30 Oct 46) and strike (5 Mar 47) dates conflict with NavSource's 'date unknown' and NavSource/shipbuildinghistory 'disposed of 1946' phrasing - unresolved, carried in gaps. No asbestos or materials statement anywhere on the page.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-atr-23-01
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[3]NavSource Online: Service Ship Photo Archive, USS ATR-23 page [other_primary]
- Locator
- ATR-23 ship page: milestones block, specifications block, awards/ribbons, call-sign line; 'no DANFS history' note
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NavSource Online Service Ship Photo Archive page for USS ATR-23: ATR-1 class rescue tug - laid down 29 October 1942 at Fulton Shipyard, Antioch, CA; launched 15 August 1943; commissioned USS ATR-23 3 December 1943; decommissioned 'date unknown'; struck from the Naval Register 'date unknown'; final disposition 'disposed of in 1946, fate unknown'. Specifications: displacement 852 t. (lt) / 1,315 t. (fl); length 165'6"; beam 33'4"; draft 15'6"; speed 12.2 kts; largest boom capacity 4 t; armament one 3"/50 dual-purpose mount and two single 20mm AA mounts; complement 5 officers, 47 enlisted; fuel capacity NSFO 1,620 bbls; propulsion - one Fulton Iron Works vertical triple-expansion reciprocating steam engine, two Babcock and Wilcox 'D'-type boilers (200 psi, saturated), two turbo-drive ships-service generators (60 kW, 120 V DC), single propeller, 1,600 hp. International radio call sign NZIZ. Ribbon display: American Campaign Medal; World War II Victory Medal. Page states explicitly: 'There is no DANFS history available for USS ATR-23.'
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Study period
- 1942-1948
- Population
- Crew of ~52 (5 officers + 47 enlisted, 1943-46)
- Limitations
- Volunteer-maintained archive reproducing official Navy figures and milestone data - corroborative, not an original primary source. Decommission/strike dates are 'unknown' here vs. Shipscribe's MC-derived 30 Oct 46 / 5 Mar 47 - conflict carried in gaps. The ribbon display is a compiler reconstruction, not an award record; absence of campaign stars is consistent with, but does not prove, non-combat-zone service. No asbestos or materials statement.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-atr-23-02
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[4]Shipbuilding History (Tim Colton), Fulton Shipyard yard table; HyperWar/ibiblio, 'Ships of the U.S. Navy, 1940-1945 - AT Tugs' list [other_primary]
- Locator
- shipbuildinghistory.com Fulton yard table, ATR 23 row; https://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USN/ships/ships-at.html ATR section, ATR-23 line ('1943-45')
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Secondary compilations corroborating construction and identity: (a) Shipbuilding History (Tim Colton compilation) Fulton Shipyard (Antioch, CA) construction table lists 'ATR 23 | US Navy | Tug | 850 | 3-Dec-43 | Disposed of 1946' between sisters ATR-22 and ATR-24 - matching the Fulton-built commissioning date; (b) HyperWar 'Ships of the U.S. Navy, 1940-1945' auxiliary list carries ATR-23 among the ATR-1-class rescue tugs with in-commission period 1943-45. Fulton yard background per the same source: founded 1924 by Frank Fulton and Angeline Fulton Fredericks on the San Joaquin River at Antioch; closed 1999.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Study period
- 1943-1946
- Limitations
- Independent secondary compilations - corroborative only; both derive from the same underlying Navy/MC records Shipscribe uses. '850' tons and 'disposed of 1946' are the yard-table simplifications; the MC-derived 1947-48 disposal chronology (ev-01) is more precise and conflicts - carried in gaps. No asbestos or materials statement.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-atr-23-03
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[5]National Archives, Special List 44, list-by-ship-number PDF (archives.gov/files/research/military/logbooks/sl-44-ship-number.pdf) [other_primary]
- Locator
- SL-44 ship-number index, ATR block: 'ATR-23 12/3/1943 12/31/1945'
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- NARA Special List 44 (List of Logbooks of U.S. Navy Ships, Stations, and Miscellaneous Units, 1801-1947), ship-number index, indexes deck logs for ATR-23 covering 12/3/1943 through 12/31/1945 - matching the commissioning date (3 Dec 1943) exactly and confirming the hull's in-service window through end-1945. Logbooks are held at NARA College Park (RG 24); not digitized in the public catalog for this numbered hull.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Study period
- 1943-1945 (indexed coverage)
- Limitations
- Verified index entry naming this hull with log coverage dates; the logbook contents themselves are unretrieved and unread - the logs may contain assignment, operating-area, and materials/maintenance detail but none has been examined. An archival lead is not evidence of asbestos aboard; it marks where ship-specific records exist. Coverage past 31 Dec 1945 would be in NARA's 1945-61 logbook series, not indexed here.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-atr-23-04
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[6]UT Knoxville Center for the Study of Tennesseans at War, digital archive index - Korean War Records page, P. Neal O'Steen (Navy) entry [museum_official]
- Locator
- Korean War Records page, 'P. Neal O' Steen (Navy)' entry summary
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- University of Tennessee Knoxville, Center for the Study of Tennesseans at War digital archive index (Korean War Records page): veteran entry for P. Neal O'Steen (Navy) records: 'Enlisted Jan. 1941; Philadelphia Naval Hospital until Dec. 7, 1941; Naval Recruitment Station, Philadelphia until June, 1943; Sole medical staffer aboard USS ATR-23, rescue tug, in eastern Pacific, 1943-1946, Pharmacist's Mate, First Class; U.S. Navy Reserve 1947-1951.' This is the only located source naming an operating area for ATR-23 - eastern Pacific, 1943-1946 - consistent with her Antioch, CA build site and her MC sale back to an Antioch buyer.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Study period
- 1943-1946
- Population
- ATR-23 crew incl. medical staff (1943-46)
- Limitations
- Archive index summary of a 2002 oral-history interview - the transcript PDF link is dead (returns HTML) and the Islandora object (wwiioh:2010) sits behind an Anubis anti-bot wall, so only the index summary was readable. A veteran's recollection indexed secondhand - establishes eastern-Pacific service area and one rating's presence aboard, nothing about assignments, cargoes, or materials. No asbestos or materials statement.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-atr-23-05
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[7]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 vessel was built (wartime small-auxiliary construction; contract ordered Jul 1942, hull laid Oct 1942). For this class specifically: the ATR-1 type carried a live steam plant (two 200-psi boilers, triple-expansion engine, steam-driven generators), so the boiler/steam-line lagging, gasket, and machinery-packing applications documented for era steamships are design-consistent - but no application is documented for this hull.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Study period
- 1940s era documented; article 1987
- Population
- WWII shipyard workers (Fulton Shipyard, Antioch, 1942-43) and ship crews (class context)
- Limitations
- Program/era-level scholarly documentation of asbestos use in WWII shipbuilding generally; does not name this vessel or class and does not establish that asbestos was or remains aboard this hull, nor quantity, location, condition, exposure, or causation. The steam-plant fit raises the era pathway's plausibility relative to diesel-electric auxiliaries, but it remains inference only.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-atr-23-06
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[8]Batch-2956 search ledger (this record): NHHC DANFS (404); NavSource ATR-23 page; Shipscribe ATR-1 class page; Shipbuilding History Fulton yard table; HyperWar ships list; NARA SL-44; NVR ship-detail; MARAD ShipHistory; UT Knoxville CSTW index; CourtListener authenticated name/hull searches [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-atr-23-01 through sl-uss-atr-23-12
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, materials list, or docketed case naming USS ATR-23 / ATR-23 was found in the public sources searched (see search_ledger). CourtListener opinion searches on "ATR-23" and "ATR 23" returned zero hits; the seven docket-index hits for "ATR-23" are all text-fragment collisions inside filed documents (exhibits, claim forms, arbitration materials) in unrelated cases - none names the vessel and none is asbestos litigation. The Naval Vessel Register holds no record (vessels disposed before 1987 are excluded), and MARAD's ShipHistory endpoint returned a site error. There is no DANFS entry for this hull.
- 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 - WWII-era steam-plant construction is era-consistent with asbestos-containing insulation, gaskets, and packing even in a wood hull. Does not establish presence or absence; does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-atr-23-07
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[9]NARA Guide to Federal Records: RG 24 (Navy deck logs) and RG 19 (Bureau of Ships); MC disposal records underlying the Shipscribe ship note [other_primary]
- Locator
- archives.gov record-group guides; NARA deck-log holdings description; SL-44 ship-number index
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Archival leads (not retrieved - require research-room or reproduction order; no spend authorized): (a) NARA WWII deck logs for ATR-23 (RG 24, College Park), indexed coverage 3 Dec 1943 - 31 Dec 1945, which would document assignments, operating areas, and underway/maintenance detail; (b) BuShips construction and contract correspondence for the Fulton Shipyard rescue-tug group (RG 19), including the re-order of ATR-23's contract from Weaver Shipyards (19 Jun 42) to Fulton (22 Jul 42); (c) Maritime Commission small-vessel disposal/sale records underlying the 18 May 1948 award and 16 Jul 1948 delivery to Carl Duval (the Shipscribe ship-note source). None of these records has been examined; they may contain outfitting/materials data.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Study period
- 1942-1948 (record coverage)
- Limitations
- Record groups located and relevance assessed, but no hull-specific file retrieved or read; contents unknown. An archival lead is not evidence of asbestos aboard - it marks where ship-specific materials records might exist.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-atr-23-08