Evidence
8 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-8).
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[1]NavSource Naval History, Service Ship Photo Archive, USS ATR-7 (archives/09/40/40007.htm) - transcription archive of official ship-register and BuShips/NARA photo data [other_primary]
- Locator
- ATR-7 page: class line, milestones, commercial history, specifications block, awards ribbon bar
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NavSource Service Ship Photo Archive entry for USS ATR-7: ATR-1-class rescue tug laid down 1942-07-27 at Frank L. Sample Jr., Boothbay Harbor, ME; launched 1943-08-16; commissioned USS ATR-7 1944-02-10; decommissioned 1946-05-13; struck from the Naval Register 1946. Commercial history: sold to Enterprise Jean Negri & Fils, Marseille, renamed SS Gloria; resold to Somatra Soc. Marseillaise de Travaux, Marseille (name retained); resold to Imprese Fratelli Barretta Domenico e Giovanni, Brindisi, Italy, renamed SS Ardimentoso; scrapped 1981. Ship-specific spec block: 852 t light / 1,315 t full; 165'6" x 33'4" x 15'6"; 12.2 kt; one Fulton Iron Works vertical triple-expansion engine with two Foster-Wheeler "D"-type 200-psi boilers; single propeller 1,600 shp; one 3"/50 dual-purpose and two single 20mm AA mounts; complement 5 officers / 47 enlisted; radio call sign NFSZ; awards listed are the American Campaign Medal and WWII Victory Medal only (no theater campaign stars). Page also states: no DANFS history available for USS ATR-7.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Study period
- 1942-1981
- Limitations
- Volunteer-maintained transcription archive of official records (not a government publication); strike date stated only to year (1946) - day precision comes from the Shipscribe register row; spec block is class-type data shown on the ship page. Contains no asbestos, materials, or condition information; supports no asbestos claim.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-atr-7-atr7-01
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[2]Shipscribe (usnaux.shipscribe.com/ATR/ATR01.html), U.S. Navy auxiliary ship register compiled from Bureau of Ships, Maritime Commission, and NARA records (Tim Colton project) [other_primary]
- Locator
- ATR-1 class page: construction table row 7; disposition table row 7; Class Notes; Ship Notes entry for ATR-7
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Shipscribe auxiliary-vessel register for the ATR-1 class (built from BuShips/Maritime Commission/NARA records) records for ATR-7: Navy order 1942-06-12; builder Frank L. Sample; keel 1942-07-27; launch 1943-08-16; commission 1944-02-10; decommission 1946-05-13; struck 1946-06-05; disposal 1947-08-05, fate MC/D (Maritime Commission disposal), MC sale 1947-08-05. Ship note: sold (delivered) to Efthinios K. Athanasiou, c/o American Chandlers Inc., New York - the tug substituted in place of ATR-83; merchant GLORIA 1948, ARDIMENTOSO 1954, possibly scrapped 1981. Class notes document the ATR-1 design as wooden-hulled under the FY1942 Maximum War Effort (1,799-vessel) program: the Navy 'decided to have the vessels built of wood and equipped with relatively simple triple expansion steam machinery' so small shipbuilders and local machine shops could produce them; the design is attributed by one source to the John G. Alden firm.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Study period
- 1942-1981
- Limitations
- Compiled register derived from official records rather than the primary documents themselves; the 1981 scrapping is qualified in-source as 'possibly'; merchant-chain details are register-level. Contains no asbestos or materials information; supports no asbestos claim.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-atr-7-atr7-02
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[3]NavSource USS ATR-7 spec block (machinery data) read with Shipscribe ATR-1 class notes (wooden-hull construction decision) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource ATR-7 specifications (propulsion section); Shipscribe ATR-1 class notes paragraph 2
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- The ship's documented propulsion plant - one Fulton Iron Works vertical triple-expansion reciprocating steam engine fed by two Foster-Wheeler "D"-type water-tube boilers at 200 psi, plus two 60 kW turbo-drive ship's service generators - is the era-typical steam machinery whose boiler lagging, steam-line insulation, valve and flange gaskets, and machinery packing were commonly manufactured with asbestos fiber in 1942-44 U.S. construction; towing-winch and windlass brake linings of the period likewise commonly contained asbestos. The class's wooden hull (a deliberate Navy program choice documented in the Shipscribe class notes) removes the sprayed/panel structural fireproofing pathway common on steel hulls but does not remove machinery insulation.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Study period
- 1942-1946
- Population
- Shipyard trades (Frank L. Sample yard, Boothbay Harbor, 1942-44); engine-room crew (1944-46)
- Limitations
- Era/class-level inference, not a hull record: no ship-specific materials list, construction specification, or insulation schedule was located for ATR-7. The inference describes the machinery type, not this hull; does not establish that asbestos was or remains aboard, nor quantity, location, condition, exposure, or causation.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-atr-7-atr7-03
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[4]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 World War II - the era and emergency construction program under which this ATR-1-class wooden rescue tug was built - and that wartime demand drove unprecedented asbestos utilization aboard U.S. 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 scholarship; does not name this vessel or the ATR-1 class and does not establish that asbestos was aboard this hull, nor quantity, location, condition, exposure, or causation. The study's emphasis is steel-hull merchant/naval construction; applicability to a small wooden-hulled tug is limited to its machinery plant.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-atr-7-atr7-04
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[5]Boothbay Regional Historical Society, 'Shipyard Collection #3: Sample's' collection inventory (boothbayhistorical.org PDF) [museum_official]
- Locator
- Collection inventory PDF, ATR-7 entries (Sample yard records section)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Boothbay Regional Historical Society's published inventory of its Shipyard Collection #3 (Frank L. Sample yard records) lists ship-specific ATR-7 primary materials: a 1945-12-14 letter 'Commander to Sec'y Navy; ship's history'; crewman Alan Anderson's 1991 manuscript 'A Yeoman's Story' on his service aboard ATR-7 in 1944-45, with related correspondence and photographs; ATR-7 construction photos and blueprints (gift of Anderson); and the October 1944 issue of Yachting magazine carrying a Sample's yard advertisement. Establishes that a contemporaneous official ship's-history letter and crew memoir exist for this hull in archival custody.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Study period
- 1942-1991 (materials); 2022 (inventory)
- Limitations
- Inventory-level documentation only - holdings are not digitized and were not retrieved; establishes that ship-specific primary records exist, not their contents. The 1945 ship's-history letter is the most promising primary lead for verified service narrative; nothing in the inventory speaks to materials or asbestos.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-atr-7-atr7-05
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[6]ships.bouwman.com ATR-7 history pages (private-site compilation, crew memoir sourced to service records) + NARA RG-19-LCM photo 19-N-60816 caption record [other_primary]
- Locator
- bouwman ATR-7 index and Bahia/War-End narrative pages; NavSource/Shipscribe photo captions for 19-N-60816
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- A day-by-day operational history of USS ATR-7 hosted on a private site (ships.bouwman.com/Navy/Tugs/ATR-7/), stated by its compiler to derive from 'government and navy service records,' places the ship in the South Atlantic operating from Recife, Brazil with repeated passages to Bahia under Commander South Atlantic (COMSOLANT, Fourth Fleet area), including moorage alongside USS Chain (ARS-20) and USS Omaha (CL-4); describes an overhaul at the Charleston Navy Yard completed in September 1944; and describes decommissioning preservation at the Charleston Navy Yard in spring 1946 with decommissioning on 1946-05-13 - the same date given by NavSource and Shipscribe. NARA holds a Bureau of Ships photograph of ATR-7 on builder's trials off Boothbay, 1944-02-07 (RG-19-LCM, photo 19-N-60816, captioned in NavSource/Shipscribe), and the commissioned-era deck logs are Navy records in NARA RG-24, which are not digitized.
- Verification
- unverified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Study period
- 1944-1946
- Population
- Wartime crew (1944-46), if narrative confirmed
- Limitations
- The service narrative rests on a private-site memoir outside the authoritative-source set - carried as an archival lead only, not as verified service history; the memoir's own spec block conflicts with official records on build date and final disposition ('sold to the Philippines'), so its operational detail is used solely to point at the NARA RG-24 deck logs that would verify it. The 1946-05-13 decommission date agreement is corroborative but does not independently verify the operational narrative.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-atr-7-atr7-06
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[7]CourtListener API v4 search endpoint (type=o, quoted/unquoted hull designation; type=r attempted) [court_record]
- Locator
- queries: "ATR-7" type=o (2 hits, collisions); "USS ATR-7" OR "U.S.S. ATR-7" type=o (0); "ATR-7" type=r blocked by fleet pacing
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- CourtListener API v4 sweep, 2026-09-26 (authenticated, fleet-paced): quoted "ATR-7" opinion search returned 2 hits, both classified name collisions - Turner (Tex. App. 2015-12-10) and Avocent Redmond Corp. v. Raritan Americas, Inc. (S.D.N.Y. 2013-02-07); neither references the vessel or asbestos. "USS ATR-7" / "U.S.S. ATR-7" opinion search returned 0 results. An unquoted "ATR-7" opinion search returned 701 results driven by partial-token matching (e.g., 'Atre'), all noise on review of the top page. No qualifying asbestos litigation naming this hull was located. A general web search for the hull with asbestos/mesothelioma/lawsuit terms likewise produced only unrelated collisions (an aircraft manufacturer; a Latvian company identifier).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Study period
- 2026-09-26
- Limitations
- Numbered-hull designations surface in opinions only if a court wrote them; crew and operator names (Frank L. Sample yard; post-1947 foreign owners) are not swept by hull search - merchant-era claims against later owners, if any, would not appear here. The RECAP docket (type=r) sweep was blocked by the fleet pacing budget at session time and is logged as an open item; absence of located litigation is not absence of claims.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-atr-7-atr7-07
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[8]Batch-2998 search ledger (this record): NHHC/DANFS (no entry - NavSource confirms none exists); NavSource and Shipscribe ship records; MARAD ShipHistory public search; Boothbay Regional Historical Society collection; CourtListener opinion sweep; general-web litigation terms [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-atr-7-atr7-01 through sl-uss-atr-7-atr7-09
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, abatement contract, hazmat or materials disclosure, museum/institutional custodian record, or docketed case naming USS ATR-7 was found in the public sources searched (see search_ledger). The hull was scrapped circa 1981; there is no extant custodian and no NRHP/NHL nomination, so the museum-disclosure pathway available to surviving museum ships does not exist for this record.
- 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 - the ship's era-typical steam plant is independently consistent with retained asbestos materials. Does not establish that asbestos is or is not present; does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-atr-7-atr7-08