Evidence
11 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-11).
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[1]CourtListener opinion search: 'USS Bastion' [court_record]
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- CourtListener opinion search 'USS Bastion' returned 1 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-bastion-acm6-cl-name-opinion
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[2]CourtListener docket search: 'USS Bastion' [court_record]
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- CourtListener docket search 'USS Bastion' returned 151 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-bastion-acm6-cl-name-docket
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[3]CourtListener opinion search: 'ACM-6' [court_record]
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- CourtListener opinion search 'ACM-6' returned 9632 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-bastion-acm6-cl-hull-opinion
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[4]CourtListener docket search: 'ACM-6' [court_record]
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- CourtListener docket search 'ACM-6' returned 26834 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-bastion-acm6-cl-hull-docket
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[5]DANFS, Bastion (ACM-6) (verbatim transcription - live NHHC pages returned HTTP 404 on 2026-09-19 at /danfs/b/bastion.html and /research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/b/bastion.html; transcription via hazegray/losthistory.net mirror) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- Full DANFS entry incl. spec block; summary/spec table at HyperWar https://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USN/ships/ACM/ACM-6_Bastion.html
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS establishes identity and service: built in 1942 by Marietta Manufacturing Co., Point Pleasant, W. Va., as the Army mine planter Colonel Henry J. Hunt; transferred to the Navy 4 January 1945; commissioned 9 April 1945, Lt. E. D. Fatkin, USNR, in command. Departed for the Pacific 17 June 1945, arrived San Diego 7 July; reported to Commander, Minecraft, Pacific, at Pearl Harbor in August; minesweeping and repair duties throughout the Marianas in September and at Okinawa October-December; left Okinawa 17 December, arrived Japan 21 December, occupation duty until 11 March 1946. Decommissioned 18 June 1946 at San Francisco and transferred to the Coast Guard the same day. 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
- 1942-1946
- 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 on both current URL schemes); canonical NHHC page needs re-locating before production use. HyperWar spec table disagrees on speed (13.5 kts) and displacement (1,300 t) - light-vs-full and transcription-variant readings; DANFS spec block carried.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-bastion-acm6-01
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[6]Shipscribe (Stephen S. Roberts), USS Chimo (ACM-1) class register - design/construction table, ACM-6 ship note, and class notes compiled from Naval Vessel Register and official design data; machinery corroborated by NavSource ACM-6 spec block and USCG Historian's Office Jonquil (1946) cutter file [other_primary]
- Locator
- Class header (design, machinery), construction/disposition tables, ship note for ACM-6; NavSource https://www.navsource.net/archives/11/0106.htm (specifications); USCG cutter file machinery block
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Class-register and official machinery data describe this hull as a 1941-42 steam-propelled vessel: twin-screw, two Combustion Engineering header-type boilers feeding Skinner Unaflow reciprocating engines (~1,200 shp); per the same register the Army's 188-foot mine-planter design was specified in November 1940 and sixteen hulls were built by Marietta Mfg. (hulls 474-489, MP-1 to MP-16); this hull is MP-2, completed 30 May 1942. 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. The USCG Historian's Office cutter file confirms the same steam machinery remained the plant through Coast Guard service ending 1969.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-19
- Study period
- 1941-1969
- Population
- Construction trades (Marietta Mfg., Point Pleasant, 1941-42); Charleston Navy Yard conversion workers (Jan-Apr 1945); Navy crew (complement 69); USCG crew (complement 52) to 1969
- Limitations
- Register compilations and the USCG machinery block document a steam plant but no source states 'asbestos' content. Does not establish quantity, individual exposure, causation, or present-day presence - the hull's post-1970 fate is undocumented. Retention of the steam plant through 1969 means era insulation, if present, plausibly persisted in service, but no survey confirms or excludes it.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-bastion-acm6-02
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[7]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), converted for Navy service (Jan-Apr 1945 at Charleston Navy Yard), and converted to a Coast Guard buoy tender (1946).
- 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-bastion-acm6-03
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[8]USCG Historian's Office cutter file 'Jonquil, 1946' (Jonquil_1946.pdf, retrieved via Wayback capture 2016-03-04); Shipscribe ACM-1 class register disposition table and ACM-6 ship note; compared against DANFS transcription and NavSource ACM-6 page [other_primary]
- Locator
- USCG cutter file spec block and Tender History narrative; shipscribe disposition table row ACM-6 and ship note; NavSource https://www.navsource.net/archives/11/0106.htm
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Source discrepancies resolved or logged: (a) Coast Guard decommissioning - the USCG Historian's Office cutter file narrative states 15 September 1969 (its own spec block typo carries '15 September 1946', impossible since she commissioned 29 August 1946 and served through the 1960s); NavSource states 15 December 1969; the shipscribe register agrees with the cutter file (in commission 29 Aug 46 - 15 Sep 69). The 15 September 1969 date is adopted; NavSource's December date is logged as the minority conflict. (b) Post-sale fate - register records 'Sold 6 May 70'; USCG file lists disposition unknown; NavSource 'fate unknown.' (c) Construction - register gives keel 1941, launch 1942, completion as MP-2 on 30 May 1942; DANFS compresses this to 'built in 1942.' (d) Strike - register lists 19 Jul 1946, the same date as sisters Barricade, Barbican, Obstructor, and Picket; corroborated by secondary sources.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- correction
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-19
- Study period
- 1941-1970
- Limitations
- The USCG cutter file is official but internally inconsistent (spec block '1946' vs narrative '1969'); the narrative date is corroborated by the register. The 1970 buyer and scrapping site are not identified in any source found - post-sale fate genuinely unknown. No asbestos content in any of these sources.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-bastion-acm6-04
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[9]USCG Historian's Office cutter file 'Jonquil, 1946' (Jonquil_1946.pdf; live uscg.mil/history.uscg.mil URLs blocked automated fetch, HTTP 403 - retrieved via Wayback capture 2016-03-04) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Cutter file spec block + 'Tender History' narrative section; WLB-330 reclassification per NavSource chronology
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Post-Navy Coast Guard career documented by the USCG Historian's Office cutter file: converted to a buoy tender and commissioned USCGC Jonquil 29 August 1946; assigned Fifth Coast Guard District, homeported Portsmouth, Virginia, servicing aids to navigation plus SAR and law-enforcement cases (documented assists 1950-1956 incl. trawler escort to Thimble Shoal, M/V Theofano Livano at Cape Henry, M/V McKittrick Hills tow, tug Mary Sheridan, F/V Elizabeth, Princess Ann ferry, M/V Paraporti); homeport shift to Morehead City, N.C. 1 September 1960; firefighting aboard USNS Potomac at Beaufort 27 September 1961; stood by tanker Gem stern section 9 March 1962; towed yacht Cid 185 miles December 1962; dewatered schooner Chawe Souris off Frying Pan light tower 28 July 1969; decommissioned 15 September 1969. Reclassified WLB-330 in 1965 per NavSource. Coast Guard-era complement 52; machinery unchanged (Skinner reciprocating steam, two Combustion Engineering boilers).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-19
- Study period
- 1946-1969
- Population
- USCG crew (complement 52), 1946-1969; buoy-tender conversion yard workers (1946, yard undocumented)
- Limitations
- Official USCG service history; documents 23 years of post-Navy steaming on the same steam plant but contains no asbestos, insulation, or materials statement - supports no asbestos claim. Buoy-tender conversion yard and scope are not stated in the file. Wayback capture of the official PDF used because the live USCG site blocks automated fetches (403).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-bastion-acm6-05
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[10]Batch-437 search ledger (this record): DANFS transcription; USCG Historian cutter file; shipscribe and NavSource class pages; MARAD ShipHistory keyword search (ambiguous); CourtListener API v4 and web UI (both blocked); general web index [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-bastion-acm6-01 through sl-uss-bastion-acm6-10
- 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 Bastion / ACM-6 / Colonel Henry J. Hunt / Jonquil hull was found in the public sources searched (see search_ledger). MARAD ShipHistory keyword GET search returned the default index page without honoring the query - an ambiguous negative, not a confirmed no-result. CourtListener opinion search was blocked by rate limiting (API HTTP 429; web UI HTTP 403) this session - litigation coverage is incomplete, not negative.
- 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 post-1970 disposition is undocumented. The blocked CourtListener pass leaves the litigation check unfinished; does not establish or defeat any exposure claim or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-bastion-acm6-06
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[11]NARA logbook guidance (RG 24, NAID 594258); NARA Guide to Federal Records record-group mapping (RG 181, RG 26) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NARA deck-log guidance page; archives.gov Guide to Federal Records groups 181/26
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Archival leads (not retrieved - no spend authorized): (a) Navy deck logs for USS Bastion (ACM-6), April 1945 - 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; many logs in the series are digitized in the National Archives Catalog - this vessel's digitization status unverified. (b) Charleston Navy Yard conversion records (January-April 1945) would lie in RG 181 (Records of Naval Districts and Shore Establishments). (c) Coast Guard cutter records for Jonquil (1946-1969), including the buoy-tender conversion work and any decommissioning/sale surveys, lie in RG 26 (Records of the U.S. Coast Guard); the 1970 sale record may be in GSA/MARAD disposal files. (d) Army mine-planter construction/acceptance records for MP-2 are dispersed across Army record groups (Quartermaster water transport and Coast Artillery Corps files).
- Verification
- unverified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-09-19
- Study period
- 1941-1970 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-bastion-acm6-07