USS Atr-36 (ATR-36)

Evidence

11 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-11).

1. [1]Shipscribe, USS ATR-1 Class page - construction and disposition tables, ship notes, and class notes (transcription of official Navy register/BuShips data) [other_primary]

   Locator

   Construction table row 36; Disposition table row 36; Ship Notes row 36 ('Sold (delivered) by MC to A. K. Wilson Lumber Co., Los Angeles, Cal.'); Class Notes paragraphs

   Finding type

   vessel_history

   Finding

   shipscribe (Stephen S. Roberts compilation of official Navy register/BuShips data) records ATR-36 ordered under contract of 1942-07-06, built by Lynch Ship Building at San Diego CA; keel laid 1942-09-25; launched 1943-10-15; commissioned 1944-07-27; decommissioned 1946-04-10; stricken 1946-05-08; disposal 1946-11-22 coded MC/D (Maritime Commission disposal) with MA sale the same date. Ship notes: 'Sold (delivered) by MC to A. K. Wilson Lumber Co., Los Angeles, Cal.' Class data: design 'Navy ATR-1'; 852 t light / 1,315 t max; 165.4 ft oa; armament 1-3"/50 and 2-20mm; complement 51 (1944); 12.2 kts; 1,600 hp; one screw, vertical triple expansion. Class notes: ATR 1-40 were directed 1942-01-19 under the Maximum War Effort (1799 Vessel) Program; the Navy chose wooden hulls and simple triple-expansion steam machinery so small shipbuilders and machine shops could build them without competing with the main shipbuilding effort; one source attributes the design to the John G. Alden firm.

   Verification

   verified

   Role

   supporting

   Documentation level

   ship_specific

   Accessed

   2026-09-26

   Study period

   1942-1946

   Population

   Lynch Ship Building construction workforce (1942-1944); ship's company (1944-1946)

   Limitations

   Specialist secondary compilation transcribing official Navy data - the most detailed identity record located, and internally consistent with the NARA deck-log index start (1944-07-27) and NavSource's chronology. Not itself the underlying BuShips/NVR document. Contains no asbestos, materials, or exposure content.

   Atlas source

   true

   Evidence ID

   ev-uss-atr-36-atr36-01

2. [2]NavSource Online: Service Ship Photo Archive, USS ATR-36, file 09/40/40036 [other_primary]

   Locator

   Page header chronology, spec block, ribbon display, call sign

   Finding type

   vessel_history

   Finding

   NavSource per-hull record: ATR-1 class rescue tug; laid down 1942-09-25 at Lynch Ship Building, San Diego CA; launched 1943-10-15; commissioned USS ATR-36 1944-07-27 at San Diego with LT R. D. Raikes in command; assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater during WWII; 'Decommissioned, circa. January 1946'; struck from the Naval Register 'date unknown'; final disposition 'fate unknown'; call sign NGSZ; awards displayed: American Campaign Medal, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal, World War II Victory Medal, Philippine Liberation Medal. Spec block: displacement 852 t light / 1,315 t full; 165'6" x 33'4" x 15'6"; 12.2 kts; largest boom capacity 4 t; one 3"/50 dual-purpose mount and two single 20mm AA mounts; complement 5 officers and 47 enlisted; fuel 1,630 bbls; propulsion: one Prescott Co. vertical triple-expansion reciprocating steam engine, two Foster Wheeler 'D'-type boilers 200 psi saturated, two 60 kW 120V DC turbo-drive ship's-service generators, single propeller 1,600 hp.

   Verification

   partial

   Role

   supporting

   Documentation level

   ship_specific

   Accessed

   2026-09-26

   Study period

   1942-1946 (as compiled)

   Population

   Ship's company (1944-1946), incl. LT R. D. Raikes per NavSource

   Limitations

   Specialist secondary compilation - detailed but non-official. Its 'decommissioned circa January 1946' conflicts with shipscribe's 1946-04-10 (carried in gaps). Commissioning officer name Raikes is uncorroborated by an official source. Ribbon block corroborates Pacific service; no battle-star devices shown. No asbestos or materials content.

   Atlas source

   true

   Evidence ID

   ev-uss-atr-36-atr36-02

3. [3]NavSource Online, 'HISTORY OF U.S.S. ATR-36' by Samuel D. Moss BMG2/c (crew-member firsthand account), file 09/40/40036h [other_primary]

   Locator

   Full narrative text (single page)

   Finding type

   historical_record

   Finding

   Firsthand crew narrative by Samuel D. Moss, BMG2/c, hosted on NavSource: upon commissioning the main engine was found 'in a very poor condition' and overhauled at the San Diego Repair Base; arrived San Pedro 1944-09-05 for four-week shakedown at the Small Craft Training Center, Terminal Island, completed 1944-10-01; departed 1944-10-02 for Pearl Harbor with a barge in tow and spent eleven weeks on towing, salvage, and torpedo recovery; departed about 1944-12-23 with two barges and a small tug, delivering them at Eniwetok 1945-01-08; recovered a disabled merchant vessel 600 miles northeast of Eniwetok; brief stays at Eniwetok and Guam, then two months at Dulag, Leyte, supporting loading of the Okinawa invasion group (day-and-night salvage: pulling ships off beaches, clearing screws, recovering anchors); harbor tug at San Pedro Bay, Leyte, until 1945-09-23; sailed for Korea that date with a 10,000-ton concrete barge in tow; on the evening of 1945-09-29 caught in the dangerous semicircle of a violent typhoon and battled it 29 hours, at one point taking more water than could be pumped and nearly abandoned; reached Subic Bay for repairs with mast down and wreckage on deck; a Board of Inspection and Survey there 'decided her job was finished'; departed 1945-12-13 for home.

   Verification

   partial

   Role

   supporting

   Documentation level

   ship_specific

   Accessed

   2026-09-26

   Study period

   1944-07-27 to 1945-12-13

   Population

   Ship's company (1944-1945 deployment); author Samuel D. Moss BMG2/c

   Limitations

   Self-published crew memoir on a volunteer archive site - firsthand and internally consistent (commissioning date, InsSurvey disposition, decommissioning sequence all consistent with register data), but specific dates are uncorroborated against the ship's deck logs. The memoir does not name the typhoon, the decommissioning location, or the Korea-tow consignee. No asbestos or materials content.

   Atlas source

   true

   Evidence ID

   ev-uss-atr-36-atr36-03

4. [4]National Archives, Special List #44, by Ship Numbers (deck-log index) [other_primary]

   Locator

   PDF, ATR-36 row: '7/27/1944 - 6/30/1945'

   Finding type

   historical_record

   Finding

   NARA Special List 44 ('by Ship Numbers') indexes ATR-36 deck logs covering 1944-07-27 through 1945-06-30. The index start coincides exactly with the commissioned date recorded by shipscribe and NavSource; the end reflects the index's WWII digitization coverage period, not a documented end of operation - the ship remained in commission to 1946-04-10.

   Verification

   verified

   Role

   archival_lead

   Documentation level

   ship_specific

   Accessed

   2026-09-26

   Study period

   1944-07-27 to 1945-06-30

   Limitations

   This is an index of surviving/digitized log coverage, not the logs themselves and not a commissioning record. NARA states deck logs do not directly document shipboard asbestos; logs would establish movements and assignments. The crew narrative describes events through December 1945 - beyond the indexed coverage end.

   Atlas source

   true

   Evidence ID

   ev-uss-atr-36-atr36-04

5. [5]Navy and Marine Corps Awards Manual, 1953 revision, Part IV (HyperWar transcription); NavSource ribbon block (corroborating) [other_primary]

   Locator

   Part IV engagement eligibility tables (Awards-IV-16) and occupation/China lists (Awards-IV-17): ATR hull entries; ATR-36 absent from both; NavSource file 09/40/40036 ribbon display

   Finding type

   vessel_history

   Finding

   The Navy and Marine Corps Awards Manual (1953 revision), Part IV campaign-and-service-medal ship eligibility tables, contain no ATR-36 entry: absent from the Section 16 engagement-star eligibility lists (other ATRs - 1, 2, 3, 4, 9, 10, 13, 15, 18, 31, 35, 38, 51-54, 56, 61, 62, 77, 80, 81, 87 - appear) and absent from the Section 17 Navy Occupation Service / China Service lists. NavSource's ribbon block displays the American Campaign Medal, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal, World War II Victory Medal, and Philippine Liberation Medal with no engagement-star devices - consistent with the crew narrative's combat-support (rather than credited-engagement) service at Dulag and San Pedro Bay and her damaged homeward passage before occupation-duty windows could accumulate.

   Verification

   partial

   Role

   context

   Documentation level

   ship_specific

   Accessed

   2026-09-26

   Study period

   1944-1946

   Limitations

   Absence from eligibility tables is not proof of operating area or engagement history; deck logs (NARA, 1944-07-27 onward) are the authoritative movement record and were not reviewed line-by-line. No asbestos content.

   Atlas source

   true

   Evidence ID

   ev-uss-atr-36-atr36-05

6. [6]Consolidated era/design inference - documented per-hull propulsion spec (NavSource block) and class design record (shipscribe) applied to 1942-1944 steam-auxiliary materials practice; era context per NARA asbestos research guide [other_primary]

   Locator

   NavSource spec block (machinery); shipscribe class notes (wooden hull, triple-expansion machinery, Maximum War Effort program); https://www.archives.gov/research/military/navy/guided-topics/asbestos

   Finding type

   asbestos_application

   Finding

   Era/design inference for this hull's documented machinery: a saturated-steam plant - two Foster Wheeler 'D'-type boilers at 200 psi, a Prescott vertical triple-expansion engine, and two steam-driven 60 kW service generators - installed in a wooden hull built 1942-1944. For WWII-era steam auxiliaries, period insulation products were commonly manufactured with asbestos fiber: boiler casing and drum insulation, steam-line lagging between boiler room and engine room, valve and flange gaskets, machinery packing, electrical insulation, fireproof/joiner insulation in accommodation spaces, and brake linings on the towing engine and windlass. The wooden hull reduces structural-fireproofing scope relative to a steel hull but does not remove the machinery insulation pathways. Her documented construction-era context includes a main-engine overhaul at the San Diego Repair Base immediately after commissioning - maintenance disturbance of era machinery, noted as a pathway type rather than an exposure event.

   Verification

   inferred

   Role

   supporting

   Documentation level

   class_or_era

   Accessed

   2026-09-26

   Study period

   1942-1946

   Population

   Lynch Ship Building construction trades (1942-1944); engine-room crew (1944-1946); San Diego Repair Base overhaul workforce (1944); any post-sale merchant crews (undocumented)

   Limitations

   Inference from documented machinery type and construction era - NOT a hull materials record. No specification, material schedule, or survey naming ATR-36 was located; establishes no asbestos content, quantity, location, condition, or individual exposure. Does not establish or defeat any claim.

   Atlas source

   true

   Evidence ID

   ev-uss-atr-36-atr36-06

7. [7]National Archives, Researching Asbestos aboard US Naval Vessel up through 1961 [other_primary]

   Locator

   Beginning Research; Bureau of Ships correspondence; Cartographic Branch (S39/S48); Navy Filing Manual yard codes

   Finding type

   historical_record

   Finding

   NARA's asbestos research guide identifies the probative record series for hull-level asbestos work: Bureau of Ships RG 19 general/confidential/secret correspondence filed by hull designation ('ATR-36' and class correspondence 'ATR1 Class'), cartographic S39 insulation-and-lagging and S48 piping drawings, and private-yard correspondence under the QM filing code (Lynch Ship Building would carry a QM designator). None of these have been examined for this hull.

   Verification

   verified

   Role

   archival_lead

   Documentation level

   context_only

   Accessed

   2026-09-26

   Limitations

   The guide identifies possible record series, not a located ATR-36 drawing, specification, or file. No asbestos finding for this hull is implied.

   Atlas source

   true

   Evidence ID

   ev-uss-atr-36-atr36-08

8. [8]ShipbuildingHistory (Naval Marine Archive / Tim Colton), Lynch Shipbuilding yard page [other_primary]

   Locator

   Lynch yard history paragraph and build table, ATR-36 row

   Finding type

   vessel_history

   Finding

   ShipbuildingHistory (Tim Colton compilation) Lynch yard table records 'ATR-36 | US Navy | rescue tugboat | 850d | 27 Jul 1944 | disposed-of 1946' and yard history: the San Diego yard at the foot of 28th Street, idle for years, acquired and reactivated in 1940 by Martinolich Shipbuilding, taken over in 1941 by Frank Lynch (a San Diego lumber businessman), immediately adjacent to NASSCO, and sold to NASSCO in 1948. Establishes the builder's identity, location, and small-yard character consistent with the Navy's wooden-hull program intent.

   Verification

   partial

   Role

   supporting

   Documentation level

   ship_specific

   Accessed

   2026-09-26

   Study period

   1942-1948

   Population

   Lynch yard construction workforce (1942-1944)

   Limitations

   Specialist secondary compilation of yard records - corroborates builder identity and the 'disposed-of 1946' outcome but adds no detail beyond shipscribe. Yard-history particulars (Martinolich reactivation 1940, Lynch takeover 1941, NASSCO sale 1948) are uncorroborated against primary corporate records. No asbestos or materials content.

   Atlas source

   true

   Evidence ID

   ev-uss-atr-36-atr36-09

9. [9]Batch 2970 official-source search ledger [other_primary]

   Locator

   search_ledger sl-uss-atr-36-atr36-01 through -15

   Finding type

   historical_record

   Finding

   No ship-specific asbestos survey, material specification, abatement document, or exposure finding for ATR-36 was located in the official and specialist sources searched in this batch's search ledger (NHHC/DANFS - no entry exists; NARA index and research guide; NAVSEA asbestos reading room - blocked; NavSource; shipscribe; Colton; MARAD ShipHistory - blocked; CourtListener opinion and docket indexes).

   Verification

   verified

   Role

   negative_finding

   Documentation level

   ship_specific

   Accessed

   2026-09-26

   Study period

   2026-09-26

   Limitations

   A negative result in the searched public sources is not proof that the vessel had no asbestos. Undigitized construction, correspondence (RG 19), and drawing (S39/S48) records remain unreviewed; the steam plant makes era-typical insulation materially plausible but unproven for this hull.

   Atlas source

   true

   Evidence ID

   ev-uss-atr-36-atr36-10

10. [10]CourtListener authenticated v4 opinion and RECAP docket searches, 2026-09-26 [court_record]

    Locator

    search_ledger sl-uss-atr-36-atr36-12 through -15; Avocent collision opinion 8722564

    Finding type

    litigation_documented

    Finding

    Authenticated CourtListener v4 searches: exact-name 'USS ATR-36'/'U.S.S. ATR-36' opinion and docket indexes returned zero results; hull-number 'ATR-36' opinion index returned one result - Avocent Redmond Corp. v. Raritan Americas, Inc., 921 F. Supp. 2d 229 (S.D.N.Y. 2013), a patent case in which 'ATR-36' appears as a product/model reference, classified as a name collision; hull-number 'ATR-36' docket index returned four results - two Stolt-Nielsen FOIA dockets (D.D.C. 2005, 2006), an Outdoorsmans Attic firearms-license revocation action (D. Colo. 2025), and Bennett Marine v. Lenco Marine (Fed. Cir. 2012, patent) - all classified as name collisions in which 'ATR-36' is a document/part/attachment reference, not the vessel.

    Verification

    verified

    Role

    negative_finding

    Documentation level

    ship_specific

    Accessed

    2026-09-26

    Study period

    2026-09-26

    Limitations

    CourtListener indexes are not a census of all filed litigation, and OCR may create irrelevant matches. No allegation, discovery finding, trial finding, or judgment about this hull was identified in the searched indexes; the sweep is complete on both indexes for the queried strings.

    Atlas source

    true

    Evidence ID

    ev-uss-atr-36-atr36-11

11. [11]National Archives, Researching Asbestos aboard US Naval Vessel up through 1961 [other_primary]

    Locator

    Opening paragraph and Beginning Research

    Finding type

    historical_record

    Finding

    NARA describes asbestos use in U.S. Navy materiel from 1941 through 1961 as a subject requiring ship-by-ship archival research. ATR-36 was built and commissioned within that period, but the guide identifies no material aboard it.

    Verification

    verified

    Role

    supporting

    Documentation level

    class_or_era

    Accessed

    2026-09-26

    Study period

    1941-1961 (guide scope)

    Limitations

    Era-level Navy materiel context only. This does not establish that any asbestos product was installed on ATR-36, that a crewmember encountered it, or that it remained aboard at disposal.

    Atlas source

    true

    Evidence ID

    ev-uss-atr-36-atr36-07