Evidence
8 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-8).
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[1]Naval History and Heritage Command, Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, "Bunting I (AMc-7)" (Robert J. Cressman, updated 4 August 2022) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- Full entry text, all paragraphs. Live URL returned HTTP 404 on 2026-09-23 (standing NHHC link-rot issue); retrieved via Wayback Machine capture https://web.archive.org/web/20250531224404/https://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/b/bunting-i.html (2025-05-31 snapshot, HTTP 200)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Official DANFS entry: the wooden-hulled purse seiner Vagabond, built 1935 at Tacoma, Wash., by the Martinac Shipbuilding Co., was acquired by the Navy from Marko Bokich, et al., on 22 October 1940; designated AMc-7 shortly thereafter; renamed Bunting on 6 November 1940; converted to a coastal minesweeper by the Campbell Machine Co. at San Diego, Calif.; and placed in service at the Destroyer Base, San Diego, on 6 June 1941, Ens. Paul H. McBride, D-M, USNR, in command. Specifications: tonnage 115; length between perpendiculars 79'3"; beam 21'6"; depth of hold 9'6"; speed 8.5 knots; complement 16; armament 2 .30-caliber machine guns. Assigned to the Twelfth Naval District, Bunting reported to the Section Headquarters, Treasure Island, San Francisco, Calif., on 19 June 1941, and spent the remainder of 1941 and the first five months of 1942 training officers, minesweeping, patrolling San Francisco Bay, and participating in local Army-Navy exercises. While patrolling from Line Mile Rock to Point Diablo, Bunting collided with the patrol craft PC-569 on 3 June 1942 and sank. Her name was stricken from the Naval Register on 24 June 1942.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-23
- Study period
- 1935-1942
- Limitations
- Establishes identity, conversion, specifications, service, and loss. Contains no asbestos, materials, insulation, or hazmat information of any kind; supports no asbestos claim. Does not document any shipyard overhaul, boiler, or propulsion-plant detail beyond speed (8.5 knots).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-bunting-amc7-01
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[2]Naval History and Heritage Command, "Casualties: Navy and Coast Guard Ships" [other_primary]
- Locator
- "Mine sweeper, Coastal (AMc)" section, Bunting (AMc-7) entry. Live URL returned an empty/blocked response on 2026-09-23; retrieved via Wayback Machine capture https://web.archive.org/web/20251208190319/https://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/casualties-navy-and-coast-guard-ships.html (2025-12-08 snapshot, HTTP 200)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Official NHHC ship-casualties listing corroborates the loss: "USS Bunting (AMc-7) sunk by collision in San Francisco Bay, California, 3 June 1942," listed under "Mine sweeper, Coastal (AMc)."
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-23
- Study period
- 1942
- Limitations
- A one-line cause-of-loss corroboration only; independently confirms date, location, and cause (collision) already given in the DANFS entry. Contains no asbestos or materials information; supports no asbestos claim.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-bunting-amc7-02
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[3]Naval History and Heritage Command, DANFS, "Bunting I (AMc-7)"; NHHC, "Casualties: Navy and Coast Guard Ships" ("Mine sweeper, Coastal (AMc)" section) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- Hull-symbol usage throughout both cited pages
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- The official Navy hull symbol for this vessel, as recorded by DANFS and the NHHC casualties list, is "AMc-7" (lower-case c, denoting a converted coastal minesweeper), not "AMC-7." The batch tasking sheet's "AMC-7" is an informal capitalization of the same hull; both designations refer to this one record. This record uses "AMc-7" as the hull_number field value to match the primary sources.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- correction
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-23
- Study period
- 1940-1942
- Limitations
- Notational clarification only; does not affect identity, dates, or any substantive finding.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-bunting-amc7-03
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[4]Naval History and Heritage Command, DANFS, "Bunting II (YMS-170)" [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- Full entry text (specifications block; construction, redesignation, and disposition paragraphs). Live URL returned HTTP 404 on 2026-09-23 (standing NHHC link-rot issue); retrieved via Wayback Machine capture https://web.archive.org/web/20250406150058/https://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/b/bunting-ii.html (2025-04-06 snapshot, HTTP 200)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- A second, entirely distinct Navy vessel also named Bunting exists in NHHC records: "Bunting II" (YMS-170), a 320-ton (full load) steel motor minesweeper laid down 1 October 1942 at Benton Harbor, Mich., by the Dachel-Carter Shipbuilding Corp., launched 29 May 1943, and commissioned 23 July 1943 — more than a year after this hull (AMc-7, Bunting I) was lost. YMS-170 was renamed Bunting and redesignated AMS-3 in 1947, redesignated MHC-45 on 7 February 1955, decommissioned and stricken 1 June 1960, and sunk as a target in 1962. Bunting II / YMS-170 / AMS-3 / MHC-45 is a different hull with a different builder, different specifications, and an entirely separate service history; it is not an alias of this record (Bunting I, AMc-7) and is not merged into it.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- correction
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-23
- Study period
- 1942-1962
- Limitations
- Disambiguation only — sourced to confirm the two Bunting hulls are not duplicates, per batch tasking note that a same-name PRIMARY record (MHC-45, tier 2) exists. This row asserts nothing about asbestos aboard either hull; Bunting II's asbestos documentation, if any, belongs to its own separate vessel record, not this one.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-bunting-amc7-04
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[5]CourtListener v4 API search (authenticated via fleet helper cl-auth-search.py), queries: "USS Bunting AMc-7"; "\"USS Bunting\" asbestos"; "AMc-7 Bunting"; "\"AMc-7\"" (opinion type) [court_record]
- Locator
- See search_ledger rows sl-uss-bunting-amc7-04 through sl-uss-bunting-amc7-06
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos litigation record was located for this vessel. Authenticated CourtListener v4 searches (via the batch fleet helper) for "USS Bunting AMc-7" (opinion search), "\"USS Bunting\" asbestos", "AMc-7 Bunting", and "\"AMc-7\"" returned either zero results or name-collision-only hits: a single unrelated 1982 barge-collision case (Consolidated Grain & Barge Co. v. Flowers Transp., 538 F. Supp. 65, E.D. Mo.) whose case name coincidentally contains "Bunting" as an attorney surname ("Jane Briggs-Bunting"), and no result naming the Navy vessel or hull symbol in any asbestos context.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-23
- Study period
- 2026-09-23 (search date)
- Limitations
- Absence of a located litigation record does not prove no asbestos-related claim was ever filed naming this vessel — CourtListener's opinion corpus does not cover unpublished trial-court filings or PACER-gated dockets not separately searched. Given the vessel's total loss in June 1942 after roughly one year in service and a wartime complement of 16, the population of former crew who could have filed a later occupational-exposure claim is inherently very small; this context is offered as an explanation, not a finding.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-bunting-amc7-05
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[6]Batch-1607 search ledger (this record): DANFS "Bunting I (AMc-7)"; DANFS "Bunting II (YMS-170)" (disambiguation only); NHHC casualties list; CourtListener v4 authenticated searches; NARA RG 181 guide (12th Naval District, San Francisco) [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-bunting-amc7-01 through sl-uss-bunting-amc7-07
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No ship-specific asbestos survey, abatement record, hazmat disclosure, product-identification record, or shipyard-overhaul documentation was located for this hull in the DANFS entry, the NHHC casualties list, or the CourtListener litigation search performed for this record.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-23
- Study period
- 2026-09-23
- Limitations
- Absence of a located public record does not prove the absence of asbestos-containing material aboard this hull during its 1941-42 service — asbestos gaskets, packing, and insulation felts were common shipboard materials in this era regardless of vessel type. It does mean no source reviewed supports a ship-specific asbestos claim; none is asserted here. Does not establish or defeat any exposure claim or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-bunting-amc7-06
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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; DOI resolution verified 2026-09-23 (redirects to onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Peer-reviewed historical scholarship documents that asbestos was used extensively as a fireproofing and insulating material in U.S. shipbuilding during World War II. This is general era/program documentation; it does not name this vessel, and it concerns steel-hulled, steam-powered Navy and Maritime Commission construction rather than a converted wooden commercial fishing vessel of the kind this hull originally was. Applicability to this specific hull's actual construction and machinery is not established and is treated here as background only.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-09-23
- Study period
- 1940s era documented; article published 1987
- Population
- WWII shipyard workers generally (class/era context; not shown applicable to this hull's actual construction type)
- Limitations
- Program/era-level scholarly documentation of asbestos use in WWII shipbuilding generally, concentrated on steel/steam construction; does not name this vessel, does not establish that asbestos was aboard this specific wooden-hulled, non-steam small craft, and does not establish quantity, location, condition, exposure, or causation. Carried as context only, not as class-consistent inference, per this record's asbestos_documentation_level.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-bunting-amc7-07
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[8]NARA, Guide to Federal Records, Record Group 181 (Naval Districts and Shore Establishments) and Record Group 38 (Office of the Chief of Naval Operations) [other_primary]
- Locator
- RG 181 Twelfth Naval District (San Francisco) series; RG 38 war diary/casualty series
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Archival lead (not retrieved — requires research-room visit or reproduction order; no spend authorized): NARA Record Group 181 (Records of Naval Districts and Shore Establishments) holds Twelfth Naval District (San Francisco) administrative records, which may include a Board of Investigation report on the 3 June 1942 Bunting/PC-569 collision; RG 38 (Office of the Chief of Naval Operations) holds wartime war-diary and casualty-report series that may include a loss report for this hull.
- Verification
- unverified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-09-23
- Study period
- 1942 records
- Limitations
- Record-group mapping only — no box-level retrieval performed; whether any collision-investigation or loss-report record exists for this hull, and whether it would contain any materials/asbestos information, is unknown until surveyed in person. Nothing in this row is an asbestos finding.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-bunting-amc7-08