Evidence
7 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-7).
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[1]NavSource Online, Mine Warfare Vessel Photo Archive - Augury (MSF-149) ex-AM-149 ex-AMc-126 page (designation chronology, specifications, CO list, Soviet-era designations; Wayback capture 2024-05-27 - live navsource.org unreachable 2026-09-22) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource page 11/02149 (Wayback capture 2024-05-27), chronology block ('Originally planned as Coastal Minesweeper, Augury (AMc 126)')
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NavSource compiles the designation chain for this hull: 'Originally planned as Coastal Minesweeper, Augury (AMc 126); Reclassified as a Minesweeper, AM-149, 21 February 1942'; laid down 7 December 1942 by Tampa Shipbuilding Co. Inc., Tampa FL; launched 23 February 1943; commissioned USS Augury (AM-149); decommissioned 18 July 1945 at Cold Bay, transferred to the Soviet Union and reclassified T-334. The Tampa Shipbuilding order was thus an AMc-designated contract redesignated to the Admirable-class fleet-minesweeper program before keel-laying; the AMc-126 number was never carried by a ship in service. Corroborated by the uswarships.jounin.jp AMc index ('Augury | AMc-126 | Tampa Shipbuilding | commissioned 1944/3/17 | 1942/2/21 reclassified to minesweeper AM-149') - secondary reference used for corroboration only, not cited as evidence.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-22
- Study period
- 1942-1983
- Population
- USN crew of the built hull 1943/44-45; Soviet crew 1945-c.1960
- Limitations
- Volunteer-compiled archival page - the located source for the 21 Feb 1942 redesignation date; unlike sister Adopt (AMc-114), DANFS's Augury entry does NOT mention the AMc-126 designation at all, so the chain rests on NavSource plus the jounin corroboration - no primary contract document located. Contains no asbestos information. Live navsource.org fetch failed (unreachable, curl 000, 2026-09-22); content verified via the 2024-05-27 Wayback capture documented in the canonical record.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-augury-amc126-01
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[2]DANFS, Augury (AM-149) (builder, dates, full service narrative; verbatim text via archived NHHC page 2021-07-23 and losthistory.net hazegray transcription - live NHHC page returned 404 on 2026-09-22) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS 'Augury' entry (AM-149), heading line and construction narrative; mirrors at losthistory.net/hazegray/danfs/mine/am149.htm and ibiblio.org/hyperwar
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- The official record knows this hull only as AM-149: the DANFS entry is headed 'Augury (AM-149)' and records the ship laid down 7 December 1942 at Tampa, Fla., by the Tampa Shipbuilding Co., Inc.; launched 23 February 1943; sponsored by Mrs. Helen K. MacLean; commissioned 17 March 1943, Lt. A. G. Wood, USNR, in command - then the full Aleutian/TF 91 and Project Hula service narrative. DANFS contains no 'AMc-126' or coastal-minesweeper mention for Augury - unlike its Adopt entry, which explicitly documents that hull's AMc-114 origin ('Originally projected as AMc-114 but redesignated prior to the start of construction'). The designation chain therefore rests on NavSource (ev-01); DANFS independently confirms the identity and service of the built hull the AMc-126 contract became.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-22
- Study period
- 1942-1983
- Population
- TASCO construction trades (Tampa, 1942-43); wartime crew (design complement 104)
- Limitations
- Establishes the built hull's identity and service record under AM-149 - not the AMc designation chain, and no asbestos/materials content. Commissioning year (1943) conflicts with the TASCO yard table, the NARA logbook begin date (ev-04), and the jounin index (all reading March 1944) - conflict carried in the canonical record's gaps. Live NHHC page 404 on 2026-09-22 (standing Batch-01 link-rot defect); verbatim mirrors cited.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-augury-amc126-02
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[3]Atlas canonical record uss-augury-am149.atlas.json (branch batch-1172/uss-augury-am149, Tier 2) + designation-chain rows ev-01/ev-02 [other_primary]
- Locator
- uss-augury-am149.atlas.json (canonical, origin/batch-1172/uss-augury-am149); this record's evidence rows ev-01, ev-02
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- All-tier consolidation: AMc-126 and AM-149 are one contract hull, not two vessels. The batch listing 'USS Augury (AMC-126)' resolves to the canonical record uss-augury-am149 (Tier 2), which carries the full service history (commissioned 17 March 1943 per DANFS - 1944 per the counter-evidence chain; Little Creek shakedown; TF 91 Aleutian escort and minesweeping service; Project Hula transfer at Cold Bay, 18 Jul 1945 per DANFS/NavSource, 19 Jul per Russell NHC; Soviet T-334, Maj. Gen. Gnechko's HQ ship for the Kuril landing operation; dispatch ship Gazimur 1955; receiving ship BRN-12 1956; scrapped ~1960; struck 1 Jan 1983), the NARA archival leads, and the era/type asbestos inference. This record exists so the former designation resolves to the canonical hull rather than reading as a second vessel.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- correction
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-22
- Study period
- 1941-1983
- Limitations
- Internal consolidation statement - asserts only the one-hull identity, itself supported by the NavSource and DANFS rows ev-01/ev-02; the underlying evidence chain is the canonical record's (10 evidence rows, 12 search-ledger rows, researched 2026-09-22) and is not duplicated here.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-augury-amc126-03
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[4]NARA, Special List 44 - Named Vessels (finding aid to Vessel and Station Log Books, RG 24) + NARA 'Researching Asbestos aboard US Naval Vessels up through 1961' (RG 19 guided-topic page) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Special List 44 named-vessels table, 'Augury (AM-149)' row (3/17/1944-7/18/1945); archives.gov asbestos guided topic, 'General Information Books' and 'Ship Engineering Drawings' sections (verified live 2026-09-22)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- All federal archival records for this hull are indexed under AM-149, not the AMc designation: NARA Special List 44 indexes the hull as 'Augury (AM-149)' with a deck-log run covering 3/17/1944-7/18/1945; no AMc-126 index entry exists. Two probative details in that row: (1) the logbook begin date 17 March 1944 corroborates the 1944-commissioning counter-evidence (TASCO yard table, jounin index) against DANFS's 17 March 1943 - deck logs open at commissioning, and a March-1943-commissioned ship would not open its logbook a year late; (2) the end date 18 July 1945 matches the documented transfer date. NARA's asbestos-research guide identifies the series that would hold hull-level material specifications - RG 19 Entry P-11 Minesweeper and Minelayer General Information Books (Item S-68, 1940-1962) and the hull-number-arranged Ship Engineering Drawings (S39 Insulation and Lagging, S48 Piping, S103 Booklets of General Plans). Any researcher tracing 'AMc-126' must search the archive as AM-149.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-22
- Study period
- 1944-1945 (logbook coverage); guide current as of 2026-09-22
- Population
- USN complement aboard the built hull, 1944-1945 (logbook coverage)
- Limitations
- Archival lead only - documents which series exist and under which hull number, not that hull-specific material survives in them; no drawing, GIB, or logbook page was retrieved or confirmed. Deck logs are operational records, not materials documentation. The 3/17/1944 begin date is corroboration in the commissioning-year conflict, not a resolution - a commissioning-certificate or logbook first-page pull remains the resolution path.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-augury-amc126-04
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[5]CourtListener API v4 (authenticated, $COURTLISTENER_API_KEY): this-session queries 'AMc-126' type=o and 'USS Augury' type=r - HTTP 429 shared throttle; canonical record's same-day hull battery ('USS Augury', 'AM-149', 'AMc-126', 'MSF-149', 'T-334', 'Gazimur', Augury+asbestos, Tampa Shipbuilding+asbestos) likewise blocked [court_record]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-augury-amc126-05 through sl-uss-augury-amc126-08; canonical record ev-uss-augury-am149-08 and sl-uss-augury-am149-08/-09
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying asbestos litigation naming this hull under any designation was located - with a stated boundary: the authenticated CourtListener API was hard-throttled for the day on every attempted query (HTTP 429 'Rate limit exceeded: 2800/day; Expected available in ~11173 s', 2026-09-22), covering this session's AMc-126 designation-string opinion search and the 'USS Augury' type=r RECAP check, AND the canonical record's own same-day hull battery (its first 'USS Augury' opinion query also returned 429 and the remainder was not attempted into the ban). The negative therefore rests on web-indexed sources only: opinion mirrors and legal-content indexes surfaced no qualifying case naming the hull; the only litigation-adjacent hit is an uncitable law-firm marketing claim of a '$1.65 million' settlement for 'a Minnesota Navy veteran who served aboard the USS Augury' / 'a Minnesota laborer who served on the USS Augury' (Simmons Hanly Conroy-affiliated sites - no case name, court, docket, or year; carried in gaps).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-22
- Study period
- 2026-09-22
- Limitations
- Bounded negative finding - the API docket battery is blocked, not completed, for BOTH this designation record and the canonical hull record (same-day shared cap consumed by parallel batch agents; ~3 h to reset at research time). CourtListener coverage also skews to digitized federal opinions and RECAP dockets; state-court filings and non-digitized dockets are underrepresented, and a settled case may leave no published opinion. Establishes only that no qualifying case was located in the sources actually searched.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-augury-amc126-05
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[6]Fleischer WE, Viles FJ Jr, Gade RL, Drinker P, 'A health survey of pipe covering operations in constructing naval vessels,' J Ind Hyg Toxicol 28:9-16 (Jan 1946), PMID 21016030; Corn JK, Starr J, 'Historical perspective on asbestos: policies and protective measures in World War II shipbuilding,' Am J Ind Med 11(3):359-373 (1987), PMID 3555021 + DANFS/NavSource construction and propulsion data for the built hull - assessment maintained at uss-augury-am149 ev-06 [other_primary]
- Locator
- Fleischer 1946 pp. 9-16 (materials section); Corn & Starr 1987 pp. 359-373; DANFS AM-149 construction record; NavSource AM-149 specifications block; canonical row ev-uss-augury-am149-06
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Era/type inference for the physical hull - built as AM-149, a steel Admirable-class fleet minesweeper at Tampa Shipbuilding (TASCO) 1942-43, during the period when asbestos supply was federally reserved for shipbuilding - plausibly carried period-standard asbestos-containing materials in applications typical for the type: diesel exhaust and muffler lagging, machinery-space thermal/acoustic insulation, gaskets and packing, electrical cable and switchboard insulation, accommodation joiner material and deck composition, and winch/windlass/sweep-gear brake linings. Because the plant was direct-drive diesel (two ALCO 539 engines, reduction gear, no boilers or steam distribution), the dominant WWII asbestos pathway aboard steam vessels - boiler and steam-line lagging - did not exist on this hull. Wartime Navy construction-era asbestos use is documented program-wide: Fleischer et al. (1946) found amosite 'an important ingredient of pipe covering material used on U.S. Navy vessels' under Navy specification; Corn & Starr (1987) document the WWII shipbuilding surge in asbestos fireproofing/insulation. This inference applies identically here because AMc-126 is the same hull's pre-construction designation.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-22
- Study period
- 1942-1945 (construction era); wartime survey period
- Population
- TASCO construction trades (Tampa, 1942-43); wartime crew (cpl. 104); Soviet crew 1945-~1960; Soviet scrappers ~1960
- Limitations
- Inference from era, builder, and vessel type only - no ship-specific document names any asbestos product aboard this hull under any designation; neither paper names this hull or class, and the Fleischer survey centers on steam-plant pipe covering in Navy contract yards. No material schedule located (NARA RG 19 series, ev-04, are the lead). Applies to the built hull AM-149; the AMc-126 designation itself carried no ship and so has no asbestos history of its own. Full assessment at uss-augury-am149 ev-06.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-augury-amc126-06
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[7]Atlas shipyard dataset record 'tampa-bay-shipbuilding' (shipyards.json): Tampa Bay Shipbuilding Company, Tampa, FL (aliases incl. TASCO / Tampa Shipbuilding Company), WWII peak employment 16,000, evidence_tier 3, yard-level asbestos products documented [other_primary]
- Locator
- shipyards.json record 'tampa-bay-shipbuilding' (yard_id, aliases, asbestos_products_documented, employment fields)
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Builder-yard context: the Atlas shipyards dataset carries Tampa Bay Shipbuilding Company - the contract holder for the AMc-126 order and builder of the hull as AM-149 - at evidence_tier 3 with yard-level asbestos products documented: asbestos insulation on steam systems, asbestos-wrapped turbines and pipes, gaskets, valve packing, brake linings, fireproof panels, pipe insulation. WWII peak employment 16,000 (1941-1945).
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-09-22
- Study period
- 1942-1943 (this hull's construction window, as AM-149)
- Population
- Tampa Shipbuilding trades, 1941-1945 peak
- Limitations
- Yard-level documentation, not a hull record - asbestos products documented at the yard do not establish installation aboard this hull. The dataset's asbestos_products_documented field is carried at face value; the yard record's own evidence array is empty in shipyards.json, so the underlying yard-level citations are not inspectable from the dataset file. The record also conflates TASCO (Ybor Channel, builder of this hull) with the separate McCloskey/Tampa Bay Shipbuilding lineage - flagged for dataset cleanup in the canonical record's gaps.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-augury-amc126-07