Evidence
8 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-8).
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[1]research packet dt-packet.md (1 sources cited) [museum_official]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERIFIED. — real identity: NONE — never named; served as USS ATR-88.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-atr-88-atr88-pkt-dt-packet-md
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[2]NavSource Online: Service Ship Photo Archive - USS ATR-88 (09/40/40088) [other_primary]
- Locator
- ATR-88 ship page: chronology block, Specifications block, awards ribbons, photo captions
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- ATR-1 class rescue tug: laid down 1943-07-10 at Burger Boat, Manitowoc, WI; launched 1944-03-04; delivered to the U.S. Navy 1944-08-01; commissioned USS ATR-88 1944-08-08; assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater during WWII; occupation service in the Far East 1945-09-02 to 1945-09-11; decommissioned (date listed as unknown); struck from the Naval Register 1946-04-12; sold 1948-04-20, fate unknown. Ship-specific specifications: 852 t. light / 1,315 t. full; 165'6" x 33'4" x 15'6"; 12.2 kts; largest boom 4 t.; one 3"/50 DP mount, two single 20mm AA; complement 5 officers, 47 enlisted; fuel NSFO 1,620 bbls; one Prescott Co. vertical triple-expansion reciprocating steam engine, two Foster Wheeler 'D'-type boilers (200 psi, sat), two 60kW 120V D.C. turbo-drive ship's service generators, single propeller 1,600 hp. Awards: American Campaign Medal, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal, WWII Victory Medal, Navy Occupation Service Medal (Asia clasp). Page states explicitly: 'There is no DANFS history available for USS ATR-88.'
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Study period
- 1943-1948
- Limitations
- NavSource is a volunteer-maintained archive republishing official U.S. Navy data (Naval Vessel Register entries, Ships' Data U.S. Naval Vessels, BuShips records) - used here as the controlling ship-specific compilation because no DANFS/NHHC entry exists for this unnamed auxiliary. Photographic record includes builder's photo on the Great Lakes 1944-08-23 and NARA still photo 19-N-75997. Contains no asbestos information; supports no asbestos claim.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-atr-88-01
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[3]Shipscribe.com (T. Colton) - USS ATR-1 class construction and disposition tables compiled from Navy/BuShips and Maritime Commission records [other_primary]
- Locator
- ATR-1 class page, Construction table row 88 and Disposition table row 88
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Construction table: ATR-88 ordered 1943-05-03; builder Burger Boat; keel 1943-07-10; launched 1944-03-04; commissioned 1944-08-08 - dates agree with NavSource and add the order date. Disposition table: decommissioned 1946-03-19; struck 1946-04-12; disposal 1948-04-20; fate coded 'MC/D' (Maritime Commission disposal); Maritime Administration sale 1948-02-27.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Study period
- 1943-1948
- Limitations
- Historian-compiled tabulation of official Navy/MC records - consistent with NavSource on all shared dates and supplies the decommissioning date (1946-03-19) NavSource lists as unknown; adopted with the discrepancy logged. Contains no asbestos or materials information; supports no asbestos claim.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-atr-88-02
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[4]Shipscribe.com (T. Colton) - ATR-1 class notes: BuShips rescue-tug letter of 1941-09-12; CNO 1942-01-19 directive (ATR 1-40, Maximum War Effort Program); VCNO 1942-08-05 directive (ATR 50-89); wooden-construction rationale [other_primary]
- Locator
- ATR-1 class page, Class Notes paragraphs 1-3
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Class notes document that the Navy deliberately had the rescue tugs built of wood and equipped with 'relatively simple triple expansion steam machinery' so hulls could be built by small shipbuilders outside the main Navy shipbuilding effort and engines by small local machine shops; one source attributes the design to the John G. Alden firm. 80 wooden ATRs built; ATR 101-140 were changed to steel construction (1943-06-03 CNO approval) partly over shipworm concerns in the Pacific. Class complement listed as 51 (1944).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Study period
- 1941-1945
- Limitations
- Class-level construction rationale and design attribution - establishes the wooden-hull/steam-plant character of the type this hull belongs to, not hull-specific detail. The Alden design attribution is single-sourced ('one source indicates'). No asbestos information.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-atr-88-03
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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 extensive asbestos use as fireproofing and insulating material in U.S. shipbuilding during WWII - the era and program under which this 1944 wooden-hulled steam auxiliary was built. ATR-88's plant (two 200-psi 'D'-type boilers, triple-expansion reciprocating engine, steam lines) is of the type whose boilers, lagging, gaskets, and packing were commonly asbestos-containing in this period; the wooden hull does not bear on machinery-space insulation.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Study period
- 1940s era documented; article 1987
- Population
- WWII shipyard workers and auxiliary crews (class context); Burger Boat construction trades (Manitowoc, 1943-44); tug engine-room crew
- Limitations
- Program/era-level scholarly documentation plus machinery-type inference - no source names this hull, and no original specification or yard record for ATR-88's insulation materials was located. Asbestos presence aboard is inference, not ship-proven; establishes nothing about quantity, exposure, causation, or post-disposal condition.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-atr-88-04
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[6]Batch-3018 search ledger (this record): NavSource ATR-88 page; shipscribe ATR-1 class tables; NHHC/DANFS check; MARAD ShipHistory; CourtListener name/hull searches; navalmarinearchive (Colton) Burger yard table; Wisconsin Maritime Museum catalog [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-atr-88-01 through sl-uss-atr-88-11
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no DANFS entry exists for this unnamed auxiliary (NavSource states none; NHHC returned 404 site-wide on 2026-09-26 - standing link-rot issue); no asbestos survey, abatement contract, or hazmat disclosure exists because the hull was disposed of in 1948 and is presumed scrapped; no museum or NRHP record applies; CourtListener name/hull search returned no qualifying case (see search_ledger).
- 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 during 1944-46 service - a 1944 steam auxiliary is era-consistent with asbestos-containing machinery insulation. The hull no longer exists (sold 1948, presumed scrapped), so present-day condition is moot. Does not establish or defeat any exposure claim or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-atr-88-05
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[7]Wisconsin Maritime Museum (Manitowoc), Ms 17 Burger Boat Company Collection scope note; Carus Collection photograph P82-37-11-138 (ATR-88 and ATR-89 hulls under construction at Burger Boat, February 1944); NARA still photo 19-N-75997 (referenced at NavSource); NARA RG 24 deck logs [museum_official]
- Locator
- https://www.wisconsinmaritime.org/collections/digital-collections/manuscript-collections/ (Ms 17); https://wisconsinmaritime.pastperfectonline.com/bysearchterm?keyword=Burger+Boat+Company (Carus P82-37-11-138); NARA photo ref. via NavSource captions
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Archival leads (not retrieved - research-room or reproduction order required; no spend authorized): the Wisconsin Maritime Museum holds the Burger Boat Company Collection (Ms 17) including WWII construction records, 'World War II ATR Rescue Tug Launch Passes' and ATR-89-specific material, plus the Carus Collection photo showing the ATR-88 and ATR-89 hulls on the ways in February 1944 - ship-specific construction documentation for this hull. NARA RG 24 (Bureau of Naval Personnel deck logs) is the applicable record group for this hull's August 1944 - March 1946 logs, and still photo 19-N-75997 is referenced in the NavSource caption; catalog verification of specific holdings was not completed (catalog.archives.gov is JS-gated).
- Verification
- unverified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Study period
- 1943-1948 records
- Limitations
- Record-location mapping only - no box-level retrieval performed; existence of outfitting/specification documents describing insulation materials for this hull is unknown until surveyed. Nothing in this row is an asbestos finding.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-atr-88-06
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[8]CourtListener API v4 opinion and docket searches: hull number 'ATR-88' and ship name 'USS ATR-88' (RECAP docket index also checked) [court_record]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-atr-88-05, -06, and -11
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- CourtListener searches returned no qualifying case: opinion searches for 'ATR-88' and 'USS ATR-88' each returned 0 results; RECAP docket search for 'ATR-88' returned 1 result, Reeser v. Henry Ford Hospital (E.D. Mich., filed 2014-05-13) - a hospital litigation, classified name collision, not vessel-related. No docketed opinion or docket naming the hull was located; no asbestos litigation identified.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Study period
- litigation index searched 2026-09-26
- Population
- 1944-1946 crew (about 52 officers and enlisted)
- Limitations
- CourtListener indexes opinions and RECAP dockets, not pleadings only in PACER or state-court systems; absence of a hit does not prove no claim was ever filed naming the hull. Unnamed-hull practice is typical: WWII auxiliary crew claims were ordinarily brought against vessel operators/manufacturers or the United States, not framed by hull number.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-atr-88-07