Evidence
9 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-9).
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[1]Bureau of Ships, Ships' Data, U.S. Naval Vessels, Vol. 3 (NAVSHIPS 250-012, 1945), Auxiliaries - Rescue Tugs (ATR) section, per-hull rows for ATR-30 (shipscribe.com scan of the official BuShips publication) [other_primary]
- Locator
- SDB1945v3 ATR section pp. 414-417 (class characteristics p. 414-415; per-hull machinery row p. 416; per-hull construction row p. 417)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Official BuShips Ships' Data 1945 Vol. 3 carries per-hull rows for ATR-30: built by Wheeler S. B. Corp., Whitestone, Long Island, N.Y.; keel laid 7 Jun 1943; launched 16 Mar 1944; date of first commission 10 May 1944; engine manufacturer Fulton Iron Wks., vertical triple-expansion; boilers B. & W. 'D' type. Class-row data for ATR 1-40 block: 165'5" oa / 155'0" wl, beam 33'4", 12.2 knots trial, trial displacement 1,312 tons, limiting 1,315 tons, limiting draft 15'10", 1 propeller 1,600 shp, 2 boilers at 260 psi saturated, accommodations 5 officers + 47 enlisted, armament 1 x 3"/50 (D.P.), largest boom 4 t, 2 turbo-driven 60 kW 120 V DC ship's-service generators, fuel oil 1,620 bbls; footnote 'Wood hulls.'
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Study period
- 1945
- Limitations
- Authoritative wartime BuShips publication naming this hull - confirms identity, builder (Whitestone, resolving NavSource's 'Brooklyn' attribution), machinery plant, manning, and commissioning. Contains no materials, insulation, or asbestos information; supports no asbestos claim.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-atr-30-atr30-01
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[2]Shipscribe U.S. Navy auxiliary ships data sheets, 'USS ATR-1 Class' page (Stephen S. Roberts compilation from Navy registers, BuShips design records, and Maritime Commission files) [other_primary]
- Locator
- ATR-1 class page: characteristics block, construction table (ATR-30 row), disposition table (ATR-30 row), class notes
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Compilation naming this hull in the ATR-1 class tables: ATR-30 ordered Jul 1942 (FY1942 Maximum War Effort program - CNO directed ATR 1-40 construction 19 Jan 1942); built by Wheeler SB, Whitestone; keel 7 Jun 1943; launched 16 Mar 1944; commissioned 11 May 1944; disposition row - decommissioned 10 May 1946, struck 5 Jun 1946, Maritime Commission disposal 19 May 1947, Maritime Administration sale 17 Apr 1947. Class notes record the program's origin in the 12 Sep 1941 BuShips chief letter on the 'need of rescue tugs to tow in disabled vessels' - tugs to be stationed at points along the coast where casualties to shipping could be anticipated - and the Navy's decision to build the class in wood with simple triple-expansion steam machinery so small shipbuilders and local machine shops could do the work; one source attributes the design to the John G. Alden firm. The same notes document class service in the European theater via sister ATR-15's survival of severe pounding off Normandy in June 1944.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Study period
- 1942-1947
- Population
- Wheeler Shipbuilding construction workforce, Whitestone NY (1943-44); wartime crew (1944-46); Maritime Commission disposal handling (1946-47)
- Limitations
- Compiled secondary transcription of official Navy register, design, and Maritime Commission records, not the registers themselves; dates used where consistent with BuShips SDB 1945 (its 11 May 1944 commission date conflicts with SDB's 10 May - discrepancy logged in gaps). Contains no asbestos information; supports no asbestos claim.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-atr-30-atr30-02
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[3]NavSource Online: Service Ship Photo Archive - USS ATR-30, file 09/40/40030 [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource 40030.htm - construction/commissioning block, awards block, specifications block, DANFS-availability note
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NavSource record for this hull: ATR-1 class rescue tug; laid down 7 Jun 1943 at 'Wheeler Shipbuilding, Brooklyn, N.Y.'; launched 16 Mar 1944; commissioned USS ATR-30 10 May 1944; decommissioned and stricken dates unknown to that compilation; sold in 1947 to Panama, renamed El Greco; final disposition 'fate unknown.' Awards listed: American Campaign Medal, World War II Victory Medal. Radio call sign NFMX. Spec block: 852 t light / 1,315 t full; 165'6" x 33'4" x 15'6"; 12.2 kts; complement 5 officers + 47 enlisted; armament 1 x 3"/50 DP + 2 single 20mm AA; propulsion Fulton Iron Works VTE engine, 2 B&W 'D'-type boilers (listed at 200 psi), 2 turbo 60 kW 120 V DC generators, 1,600 shp. Page states no DANFS history is available for this hull.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Study period
- 1943-1947
- Limitations
- Specialist secondary compilation - consistent with SDB/shipscribe on dates and machinery but carries two defects logged in gaps: (a) builder location 'Brooklyn' conflicts with SDB's 'Wheeler S. B. Corp., Whitestone'; (b) boiler pressure 200 psi conflicts with SDB's 260 psi. Ribbon list is a compilation indicator, not a service record. Contains no asbestos information; supports no asbestos claim.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-atr-30-atr30-03
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[4]National Archives and Records Administration, Special List #44 (logbooks of U.S. Navy ships by hull number) - ATR-30 line item [other_primary]
- Locator
- sl-44-ship-number.pdf, 'ATR-30 5/11/1944 6/30/1945' line
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- NARA Special List #44 (official archives.gov PDF) lists logbooks for ATR-30 with coverage 5/11/1944 - 6/30/1945 - Navy deck logs for this hull exist in federal custody for essentially her commissioning through mid-1945.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Study period
- 1944-1945 records
- Limitations
- Index-level confirmation that deck logs exist; the logs themselves were not retrieved (research-room reproduction). Coverage ends 30 Jun 1945 though the ship served to May 1946 - later-log holdings for this hull are not in the published list. Nothing in this row is an asbestos finding.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-atr-30-atr30-04
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[5]Consolidated era/design inference - BuShips SDB 1945 v3 per-hull machinery row for ATR-30 + ATR-1 class notes (shipscribe ATR-1 class page) [other_primary]
- Locator
- SDB1945v3 p. 416 (ATR-30 machinery row) and p. 414-415 (class plant data); https://shipscribe.com/usnaux/ATR/ATR01.html class notes
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Era/design inference: this hull carried a single-screw vertical triple-expansion steam plant (Fulton Iron Works engine on two Babcock & Wilcox 'D'-type boilers at 260 psi saturated) built at the peak of WWII asbestos usage at a small wooden-ship yard - the machinery configuration for which boiler insulation, steam-line lagging, valve and flange gaskets, machinery packing, and accommodation insulation of the period were commonly asbestos-containing. The wooden hull narrows structural scope relative to a steel combatant but does not change machinery-space practice. Documented disturbance phases: wartime service 1944-46, Maritime Commission sale 1947, and an undocumented Panamanian-flag commercial career as El Greco.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Study period
- 1943-1947+
- Population
- Construction trades at Wheeler Whitestone (1943-44); wartime engineering crew; 1947 sale/delivery crews; undocumented commercial crews and eventual breaking site
- Limitations
- Inference from the documented machinery plant and construction era - NOT a hull record. No survey, specification, or material schedule naming ATR-30 was located; establishes no asbestos content, quantity, location, individual exposure, or causation.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-atr-30-atr30-05
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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 a fireproofing and insulating material in U.S. shipbuilding during WWII - the era and emergency construction program under which this wooden rescue tug was built - and that wartime demand drove unprecedented asbestos utilization in shipbuilding.
- 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 or 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-atr-30-atr30-06
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[7]Fleischer, W.E., Viles, F.J. Jr., Gade, R.L., and Drinker, P., 'A health survey of pipe covering operations in constructing naval vessels,' J Ind Hyg Toxicol 28(1):9-16 (Jan 1946), PMID 21016030 [other_primary]
- Locator
- PubMed record PMID 21016030; article pp. 9-16 (pipe covering material section)
- Finding type
- gov_survey
- Finding
- The U.S. Maritime Commission-commissioned industrial-hygiene survey of WWII pipe-covering operations at two Navy yards and two Navy contract yards documented that 'an important ingredient of pipe covering material used on U.S. Navy vessels is amosite' - i.e., asbestos insulation was standard material in wartime naval-vessel construction of exactly this hull's era and type.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Study period
- survey ~1944-45; published 1946
- Population
- WWII pipe coverers and insulators at Navy and contract yards (era context)
- Limitations
- Era-level documentation of asbestos use in naval construction generally; does not name this vessel, class, or builder yard (whether Wheeler Whitestone was among the surveyed contract yards is unverified) and establishes nothing about this hull's materials, condition, or any individual exposure.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-atr-30-atr30-07
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[8]Batch-2964 search ledger (this record): BuShips SDB 1945 v3 per-hull rows; shipscribe ATR-1 class page; NavSource 40030; shipbuildinghistory.com Wheeler-Whitestone table; NHHC/DANFS; NARA Special List #44; CourtListener opinion and docket sweeps; VA BVA index; MARAD ShipHistory; shipyards.json [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-atr-30-atr30-01 through sl-uss-atr-30-atr30-12
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, court finding, or docketed asbestos case naming USS ATR-30 / ATR-30 was found in the public sources searched (see search_ledger). CourtListener opinion sweeps returned zero for 'ATR-30', '"ATR 30" tug', and '"El Greco" tug'; the 14 docket hits for 'ATR-30' are all name collisions - Mossberg 'Model 100 ATR .30-06' rifle forfeiture and product-liability cases (e.g., United States v. Mossberg Rifle W.D. Mich. 2:10-cv-00124; Rider v. O F Mossberg & Sons), trial-exhibit identifiers, and unrelated caption text - none involving the vessel. No VA BVA decision naming the hull located. No law-firm marketing ship list naming ATR-30 was found.
- 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 wooden-hulled steam auxiliary is era-consistent with asbestos-containing machinery insulation, and her wartime service, 1947 sale, and undocumented Panamanian-flag career are undocumented disturbance phases. 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-30-atr30-08
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[9]NARA Guide to Federal Records: RG 24 (Navy deck logs), RG 19 (Bureau of Ships), RG 178 (U.S. Maritime Commission), RG 357 (Maritime Administration) [other_primary]
- Locator
- https://www.archives.gov/research/guide-fed-records/groups/024.html ; /groups/019.html ; /groups/178.html ; /groups/357.html ; sl-44-ship-number.pdf
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Archival leads (not retrieved - requires research-room or reproduction order; no spend authorized): Navy deck logs for USS ATR-30 covering 11 May 1944 - 30 Jun 1945 (RG 24, per Special List #44 - the strongest station-history lead; post-Jun-1945 logs not in the published list); BuShips ATR-1 design records and any Booklet of General Plans for the wooden rescue tug design (RG 19); Maritime Commission/Maritime Administration disposal file for the April-May 1947 sale (RG 178/357) - the most promising lead for identifying the Panamanian buyer and any condition documentation for the El Greco transfer.
- Verification
- unverified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Study period
- 1943-1947 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-atr-30-atr30-09