Evidence
8 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-8).
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[1]Shipscribe, U.S. Navy Auxiliary Vessels - ATR-1 class data sheets (compiled from official USN ship status/disposal records) [other_primary]
- Locator
- ATR-1 class page: construction table row 75, disposition table row 75, ship note 75
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- ATR-75: ordered 27 Nov 1942 under the VCNO directive of 5 Aug 1942 covering ATR 50-89 within the Maximum War Effort (1799-vessel) program; built by Camden Shipbuilding, Camden ME; keel laid 30 Jan 1943; launched 24 Apr 1944; commissioned 11 Sep 1944; decommissioned 23 Jan 1946; struck 7 Feb 1946; disposal 2 Feb 1946 marked 'Dest.' (destroyed). Ship note: 'Damaged in typhoon at Okinawa 9 Oct 45 and beached for safe keeping. Ordered decommissioned and destroyed locally in view of non-retention of ATR's in postwar Navy. Scuttled in 240 fathoms of water 2 Feb 46.'
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Study period
- 1942-1946
- Population
- Wartime crew (~51); Camden construction workforce (1943-44)
- Limitations
- Compilation of official USN records, not the underlying documents themselves; disposal date (2 Feb 46) precedes the strike date (7 Feb 46) - administrative lag consistent with local destruction in the Far East. Contains no asbestos or insulation-material information whatsoever.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-atr-75-atr75-01
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[2]NavSource Naval History, USS ATR-75 service-ship photo archive page [other_primary]
- Locator
- USS ATR-75 archive page, ship data block and awards section
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Corroborates identity and dates: ATR-1-class rescue tug; laid down 30 Jan 1943 at Camden Ship Building & Marine Railway, Camden ME; launched 24 Apr 1944; commissioned USS ATR-75 on 11 Sep 1944, LT E. A. McCammond in command; assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater during WWII; postwar occupation service in the Far East 2 Sep 1945 - 23 Jan 1946; decommissioned 1946; struck from the Naval Register 7 Feb 1946; disposed of 1946 ('fate unknown' - superseded by the Shipscribe scuttling record). Specs: 852 t light / 1,360 t full; 165'6" x 33'4" x 15'6"; 12.2 kt; 1 x 3"/50 DP, 2 x 20mm AA; 5 officers, 47 enlisted; one Prescott Co. vertical triple-expansion steam engine; two Babcock & Wilcox 'D'-type boilers, 200 psi saturated; two turbo-drive 60 kW 120 V DC ship-service generators; single propeller, 1,600 hp. Two NARA photos cited (80-G-285279, 80-G-285280, aerial views from NAS Norfolk aircraft). Awards listed: American Campaign Medal; Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal; WWII Victory Medal; Navy Occupation Service Medal (Asia clasp). NavSource notes no DANFS history exists for the hull.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Study period
- 1943-1946
- Population
- Wartime crew (~51-52)
- Limitations
- Aggregator of official data and contributed material; 'fate unknown' entry is superseded by Shipscribe's compiled disposal record (scuttled off Okinawa 2 Feb 1946). Full-load displacement (1,360 t) differs from Shipscribe (1,315 t) - minor variance, logged in gaps. No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-atr-75-atr75-02
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[3]Naval Historical Center (NHHC predecessor), 'Typhoons and Hurricanes: Pacific Typhoon at Okinawa, October 1945' (faq102-6, incl. CinCPac report extract and damaged-vessel listing) [other_primary]
- Locator
- faq102-6 narrative, CinCPac Annex A extract, and vessel-damage table
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Official Navy account of Typhoon Louise at Okinawa on 9 Oct 1945: 12 ships and craft sunk, 222 grounded, 32 severely damaged at Buckner Bay; 36 killed, 47 missing, 100 seriously injured; 80-knot winds with 30-35 ft seas. Establishes the storm event in which, per the Shipscribe ship note, ATR-75 was damaged and beached.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Study period
- 1945-10
- Population
- Okinawa-anchorage fleet and shore personnel, Oct 1945
- Limitations
- Fleet-level storm documentation - ATR-75 does NOT appear by name in the page's damaged-vessel listing (which lists ATR 9 and ATR 191 but is not exhaustive); the hull's damage is documented ship-specifically only by the Shipscribe compiled record. Live history.navy.mil URL relocated/404s; Wayback capture of the official NHC page cited.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-atr-75-atr75-03
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[4]Shipscribe, ATR-1 class notes (design/procurement history of the wooden-hulled rescue tug class) [other_primary]
- Locator
- ATR-1 class notes paragraph (procurement/design history); NavSource ATR-75 spec block for machinery detail
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Class design record: to minimize impact on main Navy shipbuilding, the Navy decided the ATR-1 class would be built of wood and equipped with relatively simple triple-expansion steam machinery; hulls went to small shipbuilders and engines to small local machine shops; one source attributes the design to the John G. Alden firm. The class plant (per NavSource hull-page specs): single vertical triple-expansion steam engine, two Babcock & Wilcox 'D'-type boilers at 200 psi saturated, two 60 kW turbo-drive generators. A saturated-steam auxiliary plant of this period is the machinery type for which boiler insulation, steam-line lagging, gaskets, and packing were era-typically asbestos-containing.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Study period
- 1942-1946
- Population
- Construction trades at Camden (1943-44); machinery-space crew
- Limitations
- Class/design documentation, not a hull record - the class notes do not name ATR-75 and no located source states asbestos content of this hull's insulation. Steam-plant asbestos scope is era inference, not ship-proven; the wooden hull plausibly reduces structural insulation scope relative to steel contemporaries but does not eliminate machinery-space applications. Does not establish quantity, location, condition, or any individual exposure.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-atr-75-atr75-04
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[5]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 wartime small-yard construction program under which this wooden-hulled rescue tug was built (1943-44) - and that wartime demand drove unprecedented asbestos utilization aboard hulls of the period.
- 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 and does not establish that asbestos was aboard this hull, nor quantity, location, condition, exposure, or causation.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-atr-75-atr75-05
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[6]CourtListener API v4 opinion search, exact-phrase queries on hull number and name [court_record]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-atr-75-atr75-06 through -09
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- No qualifying asbestos litigation naming ATR-75 located. Opinion searches '"ATR-75"' and '"ATR 75"' each returned the same 2 name collisions: People v. Palmer (Cal. Ct. App., 1978-04-24, criminal) and Avocent Redmond Corp. v. Raritan Americas, Inc. (S.D.N.Y., 2013-02-07, patent/contract) - neither involves the vessel, asbestos, or maritime exposure. Opinion search '"USS ATR-75"' returned 0 results. Docket search '"ATR-75"' returned 7 hits, all collisions; the only asbestos-related docket among them, MDL No. 875 (IN RE: Asbestos Products Liability Litigation (No. VI), JPML), matched on a RECAP exhibit containing a McDonnell Douglas DC-10/ATCA aircraft specification - an unrelated string occurrence, not a vessel allegation.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Study period
- 2026-09-26
- Limitations
- Sweep covers CourtListener's indexed opinions and RECAP dockets only - unindexed state/trial-court records are not covered; an absent result does not prove no claim was ever filed. Every located hit is a name collision; no result names the vessel or asbestos exposure aboard it.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-atr-75-atr75-06
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[7]Batch-3004 search ledger (this record): NavSource archive; Shipscribe USN auxiliary data sheets; NHHC typhoon page (archived); shipbuildinghistory Camden yard list; CourtListener API v4; Wikipedia class list; NARA catalog [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-atr-75-atr75-01 through -12
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, crew memoir, or litigation naming USS ATR-75 was found in the public sources searched (see search_ledger). The hull's 1946 scuttling forecloses the postwar reserve-fleet/scrapping/museum phases that generate most asbestos records for other WWII hulls.
- 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 WWII saturated-steam plant is consistent with era-typical insulation. Does not establish that asbestos was or was not present; does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-atr-75-atr75-07
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[8]NARA still-photo citations on the NavSource page (80-G-285279, 80-G-285280); NARA RG 24 deck-log series (logbooks of U.S. Navy ships) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource image table (photo numbers); catalog.archives.gov search 'ATR-75' returned no item-level record
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Two U.S. Navy photographs of this hull exist at NARA (80-G-285279 and 80-G-285280, aerial views taken from a Naval Air Station Norfolk aircraft). Deck logs for the commission period (Sep 1944 - Jan 1946) should exist in NARA RG 24 but are not individually digitized under the hull number in the online catalog. The Shipscribe ship note implies a Navy war-damage/disposal file covering the October 1945 grounding and February 1946 scuttling.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Study period
- 1944-1946 (record creation)
- Limitations
- Leads only - photos identified but not retrieved; deck-log itemization for this hull not confirmed in the online catalog; the disposal file's location is inferred from the compiled record's detail level, not located.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-atr-75-atr75-08