Evidence
7 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-7).
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[1]research packet i-packet.md (1 sources cited) [other_primary]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERIFIED
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-attala-apa130-pkt-i-packet-md
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[2]Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (DANFS), 'Attala' entry (NHHC page via Internet Archive Wayback capture 2025-12-09; live NHHC page returned HTTP 404 at time of access - known NHHC link rot, consistent with Batch-01 standing note) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS 'Attala' entry (APA-130), full text; NHHC page published 2015-06-19
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS documents the ship's identity and service: laid down under a Maritime Commission contract (MCV hull 46) on 18 July 1944 at Wilmington, Calif., by the California Shipbuilding Co.; launched 27 September 1944 (sponsor Mrs. Paul Piggot); simultaneously acquired by the Navy and commissioned 30 November 1944 (Comdr. William S. G. Davis); departed Seattle 31 January 1945 after west-coast shakedown; Iwo Jima 13 March 1945 disembarking troops and unloading equipment; Saipan 18 March embarking wounded Marines for the U.S.; amphibious training off Maui April 1945; Leyte Gulf 5 June, duty as receiving ship; drydock at an Everett, Wash. shipyard 12-20 July 1945; Hagushi beach, Okinawa, 21 August; Jinsen, Korea, 7 September with occupation troops; Tsingtao, China, 21 November; Los Angeles 18 December; Panama Canal transit 23 January 1946; Hampton Roads 1 February; decommissioned 26 February 1946 at Norfolk Naval Shipyard, Portsmouth; transferred to the War Shipping Administration for disposal; struck from the Navy list 20 March 1946. One battle star for World War II service. DANFS header: APA-130: dp. 12,450; l. 455'; b. 62'; dr. 24'; s. 17.7 k.; cpl. 536; trp. 1,561; a. 1 5", 12 40mm., 10 20mm.; cl. Haskell; T. VC2-S-AP5.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-25
- Study period
- 1944-1946
- Population
- Ship's company 536 + embarked troops (WWII)
- Limitations
- Authoritative Navy history text; contains no asbestos, insulation-material, or survey statement. Does not give a laid-down yard number beyond MCV hull 46, and does not name the Everett drydock yard or the scrap purchaser. Does not establish any asbestos fact.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-attala-apa130-01
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[3]MARAD Vessel History Database, ATTALA (APA-130) detail page (vessel ID 361) with digitized vessel status cards: Vessel Status Card custody record (3a0cf831-df48-4b79-b9ce-3f8c061a543e.png), Reserve Fleet Division vessel-data card front and reverse (361_678AF.jpg / 361_678BF.jpg / 361_678BB.jpg), and Record of Ship Sales Form MA-20 (361_AF.jpg) [marad_nrc]
- Locator
- vesselhistory.marad.dot.gov Detail/361 - 'Status Cards' panel (5 images: 361_AF.jpg, 361_678AF.jpg, 361_678BF.jpg, 361_678BB.jpg, 3a0cf831-df48-4b79-b9ce-3f8c061a543e.png) and Milestones (Disposition/Withdrawal 4/3/1974); Fate 'Sold - Scrap'
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- MARAD primary custody record for this hull, read directly from the digitized cards: hull MCV-46, type VC2-S-AP5, built by Calif. S.B. Corp. (yard hull #TR14) at Wilmington, completed 11-30-44; 'Basis to W.S.A. 11-30-44 10:30AM PWT @ Wilmington, Calif. del. by Builders to USMC'; Navy Dept. (del. by USMC, form LB) at Wilmington 11-30-44; card-reverse notation 'Outfitted at Moore DD'; to WSA Reserve Fleet at Lee Hall, Va. 3-3-46 11:35AM EST; permanent-ballast report of 1-4-50 (poured concrete in #4 and #2 lower holds, evaporator room, generator room, dry stores); withdrawn to North Atlantic & Gulf Steamship Co. (Repair Program, GAA) at James River 9-14-54 2:30PM EST and returned to Reserve Fleet 11-12-54 9:00AM EST; sold to Mr. Isaac Varela, Castellon de la Plana, Spain (Scrap), 3-15-74, physical delivery 4-3-74 10:00AM EDT. Form MA-20 Record of Ship Sales: PD-X-972, awarded to Mr. Isaac Varela 3-15-74 for $727,007.00, contract MA-7297, advertised under PD-X-961 / PD-X-964 / PD-X-968 with bids rejected, then PD-X-972 dated 1-22-74 opened 2-26-74 under two conditions - '(1) NTU (2) SCRAP HULL' - 'Award under condition (2)'. Termination port of last voyage: Norfolk; fuel oil at fleet entry 1,600 bbls Bunker C / 196 bbls diesel. Stripping-of-vessel fields (deck/engine/steward equipment) are blank.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-25
- Study period
- 1944-1974
- Population
- NDRF caretakers, Lee Hall/James River (1946-1974); North Atlantic & Gulf SS Co. repair-program workforce (Sept-Nov 1954); shipbreaking workforce, Castellon de la Plana, Spain (1974)
- Limitations
- Authoritative custody/disposal record; no asbestos, insulation, or hazardous-material field or annotation appears anywhere on the four cards. The stripping-equipment fields are blank - records no stripping scope, not proof none occurred. The 1954 repair-program withdrawal is documented as a custody event only; its work scope is not recorded on the card. 'Outfitted at Moore DD' is a terse notation with no scope detail. Does not establish any asbestos fact.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-attala-apa130-02
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[4]NavSource Online Amphibious Photo Archive, USS Attala (APA-130) entry - reproduces DANFS text plus ship-data sheet, commanding-officer list, campaign/award tables, and MARAD/NDRF status-card movements [other_primary]
- Locator
- APA-130 entry: build/milestone block, campaign and occupation-service tables, NDRF movement block, specifications block, CO list, photo captions (NARA 80-G-338766, Hagushi Bay 22 Aug 1945; troops loading with USS Hanover APA-116, Nov 1945)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Status-card-derived milestones for this hull consistent with the MARAD cards and DANFS: laid down 18 July 1944 as Maritime Commission type VC2-S-AP5 (MCV hull 46) at California Shipbuilding Corp., Wilmington; launched 27 September 1944; delivered to the Maritime Commission and turned over to the Navy for commissioning 30 November 1944 (CDR. William Sewall Gardner Davis USN); TransRon Twenty-One / TransDiv Sixty-One; Iwo Jima operation, assault and occupation of Iwo Jima 13-15 March 1945; occupation and China service 2 September - 23 November 1945; decommissioned Norfolk Naval Shipyard 26 February 1946; transferred to the Maritime Administration 3 March 1946 for NDRF James River Group, Lee Hall; struck from the Naval Register 20 March 1946; repair-program withdrawal under North Atlantic & Gulf Steamship Co. GAA 1954; sold for scrapping 15 March 1974 to Mr. Isaac Varlea [sic - MARAD card: Varela], Castellon de la Plana, Spain (PD-X-972) for $727,007.00, withdrawn 3 April 1974. Ship-data sheet: one Joshua-Hendy geared turbine with double Joshua-Hendy main reduction gears, two Babcock & Wilcox header-type boilers 465 psi/750 deg F, three 300kW 120V/240V D.C. ship's service generators, one propeller 8,500 shp; complement 56 officers + 480 enlisted; troops 86 officers + 1,475 enlisted; cargo 2,900 DWT non-refrigerated 150,000 cu ft; largest boom 35 t; fuel NSFO 7,780 bbls / diesel 970 bbls; boats 2 LCM, 1 open LCPL, 1 covered LCPL, 2 LCPR, 18 LCVP; call sign NDNH.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-25
- Study period
- 1944-1974
- Population
- Ship's company 536 + embarked troops (WWII)
- Limitations
- Volunteer-compiled archive transcribing official sources; transcription confirmed against the actual MARAD status cards and DANFS for this batch (all dated entries matched). Contains no asbestos statement. Its reserve-fleet withdrawal line reads '3 March to 14 September 1954' - garbled against the card's 9-14-54 withdrawal / 11-12-54 return; card dates adopted. Its CO table lists 'Gardner, William Sewall' (surname 'Davis' dropped); DANFS 'Comdr. William S. G. Davis' adopted.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-attala-apa130-03
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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); machinery data per NavSource ship-data sheet and BuShips Ships' Data 1945 Vol. 3 class figures (shipscribe.com scan, Haskell-class profile) [other_primary]
- Locator
- AJIM 11(3):359-373; NavSource APA-130 specifications block; class profile machinery row
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- The ship was a VC2-S-AP5 Victory-type hull built in 1944 with a geared-steam plant (two B&W header-type boilers, single geared turbine, 8,500 shp) - machinery of the exact type and era that peer-reviewed scholarship documents as extensively asbestos-insulated in WWII U.S. shipbuilding (boiler/turbine insulation, steam-line lagging, gaskets, packing, accommodation insulation, brake linings). The class was built at peak wartime asbestos consumption.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-25
- Study period
- 1944-1974; article 1987
- Population
- Construction trades (California Shipbuilding, Wilmington, and Moore Dry Dock outfitting, 1944); ship's company 1944-46; NDRF caretakers 1946-74; 1954 repair-program workforce; 1974 shipbreakers
- Limitations
- Class/era inference only - no source names this hull's materials; the Corn & Starr article documents the WWII shipbuilding program generally, not this vessel. Does not establish that asbestos was or remains aboard this hull, nor quantity, location, condition, individual exposure, or causation.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-attala-apa130-04
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[6]Batch-2200 search ledger (this record): DANFS via NHHC Wayback capture, MARAD Vessel History Database (status cards read directly), NavSource, NARA catalog, CourtListener opinion and docket searches [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-attala-apa130-01 through sl-uss-attala-apa130-10
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, abatement or repair-scope record, hazmat disclosure, or docketed asbestos case naming USS Attala or APA-130 was found in the public sources searched (see search_ledger). CourtListener screens: 'USS Attala' opinions count=1, a Texas public-utility appeal (Entergy Texas v. PUC, Tex. App.-Austin 2015, docket 03-14-00735-CV) - name collision, not the ship; '"Attala" ship OR transport OR vessel' opinions count=918, page-1 screen all person-surname and Attala County, Mississippi entity collisions - none involve the ship or asbestos; 'APA-130' opinions count=2 (ITG Brands v. Reynolds American, Del. Ch. 2023; S.A. v. Trump, N.D. Cal. 2018) - internal-string collisions, not the ship; 'APA-130' dockets count=34, all Administrative Procedure Act ('APA') litigation collisions - none involve the ship or asbestos.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-25
- Study period
- 2026-09-25
- Limitations
- Absence of a located public record does not prove absence of asbestos aboard - 1944 construction era and steam plant are consistent with era-typical materials. The bare-name screen covered the first results page; deeper pages were not exhaustively reviewed, but no page-1 hit referenced the vessel or asbestos. Does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-attala-apa130-05
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[7]NARA records for the hull (WWII-era deck logs; RG 19 Bureau of Ships and RG 178 Maritime Commission construction files for MCV hull 46); MARAD disposal-contract file PD-X-972 / MA-7297; NARA still-photo holdings (photo 80-G-338766, Hagushi Bay, 22 August 1945, per NavSource caption) [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-attala-apa130-07, sl-uss-attala-apa130-08
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Unretrieved primary records that could hold hull-level material detail: NARA deck logs and construction records for APA-130 / MCV hull 46 (catalog.archives.gov returned a JavaScript shell from this session - not reached); the PD-X-972 / MA-7297 scrapping-contract file (sales terms recorded on the status card, full contract not retrieved); and wartime still photographs indexed on NavSource including NARA photo 80-G-338766.
- Verification
- unverified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-09-25
- Limitations
- Archival lead only - nothing retrieved beyond the MARAD cards; these records may contain no asbestos information at all.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-attala-apa130-06