Evidence
13 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-13).
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[1]CourtListener opinion search: 'USS Barricade' [court_record]
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- CourtListener opinion search 'USS Barricade' returned 8 result(s) (2026-10-07); individual records not reviewed
- Verification
- unverified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Limitations
- hit count only — underlying dockets/opinions not individually reviewed; name query may match same-named vessels
- Evidence ID
- uss-barricade-acm3-cl-name-opinion
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[2]CourtListener docket search: 'USS Barricade' [court_record]
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- CourtListener docket search 'USS Barricade' returned 297 result(s) (2026-10-07); individual records not reviewed
- Verification
- unverified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Limitations
- hit count only — underlying dockets/opinions not individually reviewed; name query may match same-named vessels
- Evidence ID
- uss-barricade-acm3-cl-name-docket
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[3]CourtListener opinion search: 'ACM-3' [court_record]
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- CourtListener opinion search 'ACM-3' returned 11417 result(s) (2026-10-07); individual records not reviewed
- Verification
- unverified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Limitations
- hit count only — underlying dockets/opinions not individually reviewed
- Evidence ID
- uss-barricade-acm3-cl-hull-opinion
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[4]CourtListener docket search: 'ACM-3' [court_record]
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- CourtListener docket search 'ACM-3' returned 28368 result(s) (2026-10-07); individual records not reviewed
- Verification
- unverified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Limitations
- hit count only — underlying dockets/opinions not individually reviewed
- Evidence ID
- uss-barricade-acm3-cl-hull-docket
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[5]DANFS, Barricade (ACM-3) (verbatim transcription - live NHHC page returned HTTP 404 on 2026-09-19; mirror at hazegray/losthistory.net) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- Full DANFS entry incl. spec block; NHHC canonical URL https://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/b/barricade.html (404)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS establishes identity and service: ex-Colonel John Storey, launched November 1942 by Marietta Manufacturing Co., Point Pleasant, W. Va., for the Army; transferred to the Navy and commissioned 7 April 1944 (Lt. C. P. Haber). Departed the east coast 14 May 1944, arrived Bizerte 1 June 1944; served as minesweeper tender at Salerno, Naples, Anzio; Toulon, Cannes, Golfe Juan; Oran; Palermo; and Sardinia, including the invasion of southern France 17 Aug - 16 Sep 1944 (one battle star). Arrived Charleston, S.C. 23 June 1945; overhaul at Jacksonville, Fla. 26 June - 10 August; transited the Panama Canal 2 September; operated off California until decommissioned 28 June 1946 and transferred to the Coast Guard. Spec block: 880 tons, 188'2" x 37' x 12'6", 12.5 knots, complement 69, one 40mm gun; class Chimo.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-19
- Study period
- 1941-1946
- Limitations
- Authoritative official history via verbatim transcription; establishes construction, service, and disposal milestones but contains no asbestos, materials, or insulation statement - this row supports no asbestos claim. Live NHHC canonical URL not located (404); same NHHC link-rot pattern logged in Batch-01. Entry internally reads 'Until July 1946 she served as a minesweeper tender' but the same entry places her back in Charleston 23 June 1945 - 'July 1946' treated as a source typo (see correction row ev-uss-barricade-acm3-07).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-barricade-acm3-01
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[6]Shipscribe (Stephen S. Roberts), USS Chimo (ACM-1) class register - construction/disposition tables and ship note for ACM-3 (compiled from Naval Vessel Register and official design data); NavSource ACM-3 page specifications block; shipbuildinghistory.com WAGL post-WWII table (yard no. 481) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Construction/disposition table rows ACM-3; Ship Notes row ACM-3; class notes; NavSource https://www.navsource.net/archives/11/0103.htm (specifications); http://shipbuildinghistory.com/smallships/wagl3.htm (WLB-328 row)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Class register and NavSource document construction and identity detail beyond DANFS: the hull was Army MP-8 (USAMP Colonel John Storey), Marietta Mfg. yard no. 481, keel 10 October 1941, launched November 1942, Army-commissioned 7 November 1942; converted by the Norfolk Navy Yard 11-29 April 1944; decommissioned 28 June 1946 to the USCG and stricken 19 July 1946; sold 15 November 1972. Machinery: two Combustion Engineering header-type boilers, two Skinner Unaflow reciprocating engines (~1,200 shp), no reduction gear, twin screws; 880 light / 1,320 full tons; armament 1-40mm + 4-20mm (1944 fit for ACM 1-3).
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-19
- Study period
- 1941-1972
- Population
- Construction trades (Marietta Mfg., Point Pleasant, 1941-42); Norfolk Navy Yard conversion workers (Apr 1944); crew (complement 69)
- Limitations
- Shipscribe and NavSource are secondary compilations of official register/NHHC data, not the primary NVR volumes; dates agree with DANFS where they overlap. Shipbuildinghistory misspells the namesake as 'John F. Story' (correct: John C. Storey) and shows 'sold 1971' vs register 15 Nov 72 - register adopted. No asbestos or insulation-material content in any of these sources.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-barricade-acm3-02
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[7]Shipscribe (Stephen S. Roberts), USS Chimo (ACM-1) class register page - design/construction table and class notes compiled from Naval Vessel Register and official design data; machinery corroborated by NavSource ACM-3 spec block (Combustion Engineering boilers) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Class header (design, machinery) and construction/disposition tables; NavSource https://www.navsource.net/archives/11/0103.htm (specifications)
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Register and NavSource machinery data describe this hull as a 1941-42 steam-propelled vessel: twin-screw, Skinner Unaflow reciprocating engines (~1,200 shp) with two Combustion Engineering header-type boilers; the Army's 188-foot mine-planter design was specified November 1940 and sixteen hulls were built by Marietta Mfg. (hulls 474-489, MP-1 to MP-16). Steam plants of this era were insulated under specifications in which asbestos-containing boiler insulation, steam-line lagging, gaskets, and packing were standard; asbestos presence aboard this hull is era inference, not ship-proven.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-19
- Study period
- 1941-2002
- Population
- Construction trades (Marietta Mfg., Point Pleasant, 1941-42); Norfolk Navy Yard conversion workers (Apr 1944); Navy crew (complement 69); USCG crew (~52, secondary); commercial conversion and fishing crews (1972-2002)
- Limitations
- Secondary register compilations, not the primary NVR volumes; machinery data documents a steam plant but neither source states 'asbestos' content. Does not establish quantity, location, individual exposure, causation, or present-day presence (hull sank 2002).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-barricade-acm3-03
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[8]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 under which this hull was built (1941-42) and converted for Navy service (1944) - and that wartime demand drove unprecedented asbestos utilization aboard government hulls.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-19
- 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-barricade-acm3-04
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[9]NavSource ACM-3 page, 'Coast Guard History' section (transcription of the USCG Historian's cutter file for Magnolia); corroborated by shipscribe ACM-3 ship note (in commission to 13 Aug 71; sold 15 Nov 72) and NavalCoverMuseum WLB-328 entry (commissioned 19 Oct 1947; sold Nov 15 1972) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource 'Coast Guard History' transcription; NavalCoverMuseum https://www.navalcovermuseum.org/wiki/MAGNOLIA_WLB_328; register ship note ACM-3
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- USCG career and commercial chain (per the USCG-history transcription carried on NavSource): after acquisition by the Coast Guard the hull was converted to a buoy tender at the Bethlehem Shipyard, San Francisco; commissioned CGC Magnolia 19 October 1947 (WAGL-328, reclassified WLB-328 in 1965); homeported San Francisco tending aids to navigation and supplying light stations/lightships along the California coast (assists incl. M/V Flyer 1951, M/V Angelo Petri 1960, USNS Asterion/Kokoku Maru collision 1963, Judy Al 1965); transferred to Astoria, Oregon 1 September 1965; decommissioned 13 August 1971 and stored at Training Center Alameda; in 1976 converted by Marine Industries Northwest to a salmon and crab processing vessel for Alaska; owned by Dutch Harbor Seafoods 1976-1997; then sold to Galaxy Fisheries, converted to a freezer longliner, and renamed Galaxy.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-19
- Study period
- 1946-2002
- Population
- USCG crew (~52 per secondary source); Bethlehem Shipyard San Francisco conversion workers (1946-47); Marine Industries Northwest conversion workers (1976); fishing/processing crews (1976-2002)
- Limitations
- USCG history is cited via a secondary-site transcription (canonical uscg.mil/media.defense.gov cutter file not re-located this session); register gives 'in commission 3 Sep 46' vs the transcription's commissioned 19 Oct 1947 - conflict logged in correction row. NavSource's headline chronology compresses the commercial chain ('sold to Galaxy Fisheries') - register + transcription show sold 15 Nov 1972, Dutch Harbor Seafoods 1976-1997, then Galaxy Fisheries. Vessel's name during 1976-1997 undocumented. No asbestos or materials content in any of these sources; repeated conversions (1946-47, 1976, ca. 1997) are documented events only - their asbestos scope is not public.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-barricade-acm3-05
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[10]Seattle Times (22-23 Oct 2002 casualty reporting; 9 Jun 2005 'Galaxy fire blamed on back draft' - USCG investigation findings); NOAA Mariner's Weather Log, Fall 2002 ('Galaxy Explodes, Weather Fights Rescue'); UPI 22 Oct 2002; Professional Mariner casualty report [reputable_press]
- Locator
- NOAA PDF https://www.vos.noaa.gov/MWL/fall_02/Galaxy.pdf ; https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/20021022/fishingboat22m/ ; https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/20021023/shipfolo23m/ ; https://www.upi.com/Archives/2002/10/22/Alaska-ship-fire-may-claim-another-life/7491035259200/ ; https://professionalmariner.com/four-die-as-a-result-of-blaze-aboard-fish-processor-in-bering-sea/
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Loss of the hull as F/V Galaxy: on Sunday 20 October 2002 the 180-ft Seattle-based fishing/processing vessel suffered an engine-room fire and explosion about 30 nautical miles south of St. Paul Island in the Bering Sea while cod fishing; the crew of 26 abandoned ship. Three Galaxy crew died (Jose R. Rodas recovered dead; first mate Jerry L. Stephens and cook George Karn missing and presumed dead), and Clipper Express crewman Daniel Schmiedt was lost overboard during the rescue effort. The Coast Guard declared a major marine casualty; the subsequent Board of Investigation (report released June 2005) attributed the rapid fire spread to a rare back draft after a suspected generator fuel leak, with 29 recommendations. The burned vessel drifted near St. Paul Island and is believed sunk.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-19
- Study period
- 2002-2005
- Population
- F/V Galaxy crew (26 aboard); rescue crews incl. Clipper Express
- Limitations
- Multiple contemporaneous sources agree on the 20 Oct 2002 date and casualty sequence; the transcribed USCG history text ('2 October 2002', 'two of her crew perished') conflicts and is treated as erroneous - see correction row. Casualty reporting and the USCG investigation contain no asbestos, insulation, or materials information; hull not salvaged or surveyed after loss. Does not establish or defeat any exposure claim.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-barricade-acm3-06
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[11]Shipscribe ACM-1 class register (disposition table, ship notes, class notes); NavSource ACM-3 page incl. USCG-history transcription; NOAA Mariner's Weather Log Fall 2002; Seattle Times archive (Oct 2002, Jun 2005); NavalCoverMuseum WLB-328; WA Secretary of State record for Galaxy Fisheries L.L.C. (UBI 601809381, incorporated 1997-08-07) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Ship note ACM-3; class notes paragraph 3; NavSource https://www.navsource.net/archives/11/0103.htm ; NOAA https://www.vos.noaa.gov/MWL/fall_02/Galaxy.pdf ; https://opengovwa.com/corporation/601809381
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Source discrepancies resolved or logged: (a) Mediterranean end-date - the DANFS text reads 'Until July 1946 she served as a minesweeper tender' but the same entry records her arrival at Charleston 23 June 1945; 'July 1946' is treated as a typo for 1945, consistent with the register class note that ACM 1-3 returned from Europe in March, January, and June 1945 respectively (Barricade last, in June). (b) Casualty date - the transcribed USCG history says '2 October 2002' while NOAA's Mariner's Weather Log, contemporaneous Seattle Times/UPI reporting, and the 2005 investigation coverage all give Sunday 20 October 2002 (20 Oct 2002 was a Sunday, matching 'Sunday afternoon' reporting); 20 October adopted. (c) Death toll - the transcribed USCG history says 'two of her crew perished' while press accounts document three Galaxy crew dead/presumed dead plus a Clipper Express rescuer lost; the press count is adopted. (d) USCG commissioning - register 'in commission 3 Sep 46' vs commissioned 19 October 1947 (USCG-history transcription, NavalCoverMuseum); 19 Oct 1947 adopted, with the 1946 date likely reflecting administrative transfer/special-commission status - unresolved. (e) Sale chain - NavalCoverMuseum and NavSource compress 'sold ... to Galaxy Fisheries'; the register gives sold 15 Nov 1972 and the USCG-history transcription gives Dutch Harbor Seafoods 1976-1997 then Galaxy Fisheries (WA corp records show Galaxy Fisheries L.L.C. incorporated Aug 1997) - expanded chain adopted. (f) Displacement - DANFS 880 t vs NavSource 1,300 t reconciled by the register as 880 light / 1,320 full.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- correction
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-19
- Study period
- 1941-2005
- Limitations
- Resolves publication-level discrepancies among secondary transcriptions; the 3 Sep 1946 'in commission' reading and the Jacksonville 1945 yard identity are not verified against primary records. No asbestos content in any of these sources.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-barricade-acm3-07
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[12]Batch-434 search ledger (this record): DANFS transcription; shipscribe and NavSource class pages; USCG-history transcription; MARAD ShipHistory keyword searches; CourtListener API v4 and web UI (both blocked); NOAA/press casualty record; general web index [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-barricade-acm3-01 through sl-uss-barricade-acm3-12
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, or docketed asbestos case naming the Barricade / ACM-3 / Colonel John Storey / Magnolia (WAGL-328/WLB-328) / Galaxy hull was found in the public sources searched. MARAD ShipHistory keyword search returns no record for this hull (the 'Magnolia' hits are a 1925 tank barge, Detail 9634, and the 1953 C4 Magnolia Mariner, Detail 6167 - both name collisions). A web-index probe of CourtListener content returned only asbestos-product terminology collisions ('ACM' as asbestos-containing material; W.R. Grace 'Monokote-3'), no vessel case. Direct CourtListener API and web searches were blocked by rate limiting this session (see search_ledger) - litigation coverage is incomplete, not negative. The hull sank in 2002, so no present-day survey or museum disclosure exists.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-19
- Study period
- 2026-09-19
- Limitations
- Absence of a located public record does not prove absence of asbestos aboard - a 1941-42 steam-propelled hull is era-consistent with asbestos-containing materials, and the wreck's condition is undocumented. The blocked CourtListener pass leaves the litigation check unfinished; a Jones Act/limitation-of-liability action likely followed the 2002 deaths but would be 'other litigation', not asbestos evidence. Does not establish or defeat any exposure claim or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-barricade-acm3-08
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[13]NARA logbook guidance (RG 24, NAID 594258); NARA Guide to Federal Records record-group mapping (RG 181, RG 26); USCG Historian's Office CG Military Muster Rolls 1941-49 finding aid (history.uscg.mil); USCG Board of Investigation reporting per Seattle Times 9 Jun 2005 [other_primary]
- Locator
- NARA deck-log guidance page; archives.gov Guide to Federal Records groups 181/26; https://www.history.uscg.mil/Research/Finding-Aids/Revenue-Cutter-and-Coast-Guard-Muster-Rolls-1831-1949/CG-Military-Muster-Rolls-1941-49/ (collision note); Seattle Times investigation coverage
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Archival leads (not retrieved - no spend authorized): (a) Navy deck logs for USS Barricade (ACM-3), April 1944 - June 1946, are in NARA RG 24 (Bureau of Naval Personnel), series 'Logbooks of the U.S. Navy Ships and Stations, 1941-1978' (NAID 594258), National Archives at College Park; digitization status unverified. (b) Norfolk Navy Yard conversion records (11-29 April 1944) lie in RG 181 (Records of Naval Districts and Shore Establishments); the 1945 Jacksonville work was at a commercial yard (contractor not identified - no naval shipyard existed at Jacksonville). (c) USCG-era records (Magnolia, 1946-1971) lie in RG 26, incl. cutter logbooks and the muster rolls series - note the muster-roll finding aid's 'Magnolia 1942-1944' folders belong to the EARLIER USCGC Magnolia (WAGL-231, 1904 lighthouse tender), a name collision excluded. (d) The USCG Marine Board of Investigation file on the Galaxy casualty (declared a major marine casualty October 2002; report released June 2005) is the authoritative casualty record - FOIA/released copy not retrieved. (e) The 1946-47 Bethlehem San Francisco buoy-tender conversion contract and any 1976 Marine Industries Northwest work records are not located in public sources.
- Verification
- unverified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-09-19
- Study period
- 1941-2005 records
- Limitations
- Record-group mapping only - no box-level retrieval performed; existence of asbestos-specific documents for this hull is unknown until surveyed. Nothing in this row is an asbestos finding.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-barricade-acm3-09