Evidence
10 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-10).
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[1]research packet 369-packet.md (5 sources cited) [other_primary]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERIFIED
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-canandaigua-ix233-pkt-369-packet-md
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[2]Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (NHHC), 'Canandaigua III (IX-233)' entry [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- NHHC DANFS online, Canandaigua III (IX-233) entry body
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS entry: 'The third Canandaigua (IX-233) was acquired by the Navy 20 September 1945 and placed in service. She sank 22 November but was raised and was placed out of service at New London, Conn., on 5 January 1946. She was sold there 31 October 1946.' Third ship named for Canandaigua, NY (a city and lake in New York State).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1945-1946
- Limitations
- Terse official entry. 'Acquired 20 September 1945' is the CNO transfer-authorization date; actual custody transfer was 30 Oct and in-service 31 Oct per the fuller Navy-record transcription (see ev-02). Gives no builder, dimensions, propulsion, wartime Coast Guard service detail, or casualty cause, and contains no asbestos or materials information.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-canandaigua-ix233-01
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[3]Stephen S. Roberts, 'USS Small IX: Miscellaneous Types (4),' Shipscribe (compiled from U.S. Navy records - BuShips/Naval Vessel Register data), IX-233 construction, disposition, and ship-note entries [other_primary]
- Locator
- Shipscribe IX-233 ship note and Construction/Disposition tables (IX-233 CANANDAIGUA rows)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- IX-233 CANANDAIGUA ship note: 'Ex Coast Guard CG-81006, ex yacht JANE DORE, ex LADONA. Auxiliary schooner. 50 tons light, 61 tons gross. 81.0' oa, 61.0' wl x 20.4' x 10.0'. 1 Hall-Scott gas engine (fitted 1934).' Built by Hodgdon Bros, East Boothbay, Maine, launched 1922; owner in 1942 Hobart Ford of Norwalk and Bridgeport, Conn.; Coast Guard acquired her later in 1942, designated CG-81006, offshore patrol duty 3rd Naval District 2 Nov 1942 - 30 Oct 1945. CNO dispatch 20 Sep 1945 authorized Com-3 to accept CG-81006 for permanent transfer and asked BuShips to assign an IX number; CNO letter of 9 Oct 1945 approved by SecNav 15 Oct 1945 changed classification to IX-233 and assigned the name. Transferred 30 Oct 1945, in service 31 Oct 1945, assigned to the Underwater Sound Laboratory, New London. 'Sunk at pier 22 Nov 45' (hull damage alongside pier in a nor'easter); struck from the Naval Vessel Register 12 Apr 1946; disposal 31 Oct 1946 - 'sold in October 1946 to Russel Earl Clifton Martin, Saten Is. [Staten Island], N.Y., for scrap.'
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1922-1946
- Population
- USCG Reserve picket crew (1942-45); Navy caretaker/assignment crew at USL New London (Oct-Nov 1945)
- Limitations
- Secondary compilation of official Navy records (Roberts/Shipscribe IX series transcribes BuShips and NVR data) - reliable for identity, dates, and specifications but it is a transcription, not the underlying document. 'Sold ... for scrap' records the sale's stated purpose; the hull demonstrably was not scrapped (see ev-06). Contains no asbestos or insulation-materials information.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-canandaigua-ix233-02
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[4]Mystic Seaport Museum digital collection - Richard Pratt Sylvia photographs: 'Auxiliary schooner JANE DORE (built as LADONA, 1922), CG-81006,' underway 1944-10-10 (obj. 2007.44.2.1); port view under shortened sail 1944-10-10 (2007.44.2.57); Fort Tilden, NY Coast Guard basin 1944-08-20 with AVANTI, CGR-3042, GANDER, CG-66004 (2007.44.1.19); rafted with NORDLYS/CGR-3083 (2007.44.1.16) [museum_official]
- Locator
- Mystic Seaport mobius object records, accession 2007.44.1.19 / 2007.44.2.1 / 2007.44.2.57 / 2007.44.1.16
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Museum-held 1944 photographs document the auxiliary schooner JANE DORE (built as LADONA, 1922) in Coast Guard service as CG-81006, at the Fort Tilden, N.Y. Coast Guard basin and underway - confirming the identity chain LADONA -> JANE DORE -> CG-81006 in wartime Coast Guard configuration.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1944
- Population
- USCG crew of CG-81006 (3rd Naval District offshore patrol)
- Limitations
- Photographic record only - documents identity and wartime configuration visually; no materials, equipment-fit, or asbestos information. The museum captions describe the vessel, not its construction details.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-canandaigua-ix233-03
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[5]U.S. Coast Guard Historian's Office (MyCG 'The Long Blue Line'), 'Coast Guard's Corsair Fleet of World War II' [other_primary]
- Locator
- MyCG Long Blue Line article body (Corsair Fleet/Coastal Picket Patrol program description)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- CG-81006 belonged to the Coast Guard Reserve Coastal Picket Force (the 'Corsair Fleet'): after Operation Drumbeat, the service acquired private sailing yachts and fishing craft for offshore anti-submarine picket patrol; typical conversion was minimal - the yachts 'equipped with machine guns, a few depth charges and a radio.'
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1942-1945
- Population
- Coast Guard Reserve picket crews (era context)
- Limitations
- Program-level official history; does not describe CG-81006 individually, her specific conversion, or any materials - supports only the conclusion that wartime alteration of this hull was minimal in scope. No asbestos information.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-canandaigua-ix233-04
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[6]James T. Flynn Jr., 'U.S. Coast Guard Small Cutters and Patrol Boats, 1915-2012' (U.S. Coast Guard Historian's Office publication, media.defense.gov) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Flynn PDF, WWII 'miscellaneous former civilian boats' photo section (CG-81006 caption)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Flynn's official small-craft compilation includes a photo captioned 'CG-81006 under sail' among 'miscellaneous former civilian boats which served in the Coast Guard' and notes that 'a complete listing of these vessels appears in Robert L. Scheina's U.S. Coast Guard Cutters and Craft of World War II' - the authoritative craft-level listing for CG-81006's entry, which is not digitized.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1942-1945
- Limitations
- Only a photo caption for this craft; the craft-level record exists in Scheina (print only). No asbestos or materials information in either source. Archival lead, not a findings source.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-canandaigua-ix233-05
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[7]PenBay Pilot (Thomaston, ME), 'The Ladona gets rebuilt, stem to stern, keel to deck' (2016); Boothbay Register, 'centennial celebration year for Schooner Ladona' (2022); Penobscot Marine Museum digital collection, NATHANIEL BOWDITCH photo records (LB.2005.24 / LB.200); schoonerladona.com history page [reputable_press]
- Locator
- penbaypilot.com 2016 relaunch article; boothbayregister.com centennial article; penobscotmarinemuseum.historyit.com items 202621, 195047; schoonerladona.com/history
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- The hull was not scrapped: after the 1946 sale, the schooner worked as a fishing dragger out of Stonington, Conn.; Roger Brainerd and Carl Chase pulled her from the Connecticut fishing fleet in 1971 and she was rebuilt as the sail-training vessel NATHANIEL BOWDITCH; the name chain includes JOSEPH W. HAWKINS (Penobscot Marine Museum captions); Captain Gil Philbrick with partners Dick Klain and Kip Leach bought her mid-1970s for windjammer sailing from Rockland; Noah and Jane Barnes with Capt. J.R. Braugh rebuilt her stem-to-stern at Lyman-Morse boatyard, Thomaston (2014-2016), restored the original name LADONA, and she has sailed the Maine windjammer fleet since 2016. This corrects NavSource's 'Final Disposition, fate unknown' and the 'sold for scrap' framing of the Navy disposal record.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- correction
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1946-present
- Population
- Postwar fishing crew; windjammer passengers/crew (1970s-present)
- Limitations
- Press and museum-caption sources, not official records; ownership/dating details vary slightly between tellings (PMM captions give 'built 1923' and 1975/1976 purchase dates vs. 1922 and 1971 in other sources - see gaps). The post-1946 chain between scrap buyer Russel E.C. Martin and the Stonington dragger period is undocumented. No asbestos information.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-canandaigua-ix233-06
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[8]Batch-4786 search ledger (this record): NHHC DANFS, NavSource photo index, Shipscribe IX series, USCG Historian's Office cutter index and Flynn small-craft compilation, Mystic Seaport and Penobscot Marine Museum collections, NVR, MARAD ShipHistory, vessel-operator and windjammer-association sites, CourtListener opinion/docket sweep [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-canandaigua-ix233-01 through sl-uss-canandaigua-ix233-19
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, casualty-report materials reference, or docketed case naming this hull (as USS Canandaigua IX-233, CG-81006, Jane Dore, or Ladona) was found in the public sources searched (see search_ledger). The vessel's design - a wooden-hulled auxiliary sailing schooner with a single gasoline engine, no boilers or steam plant - is not an asbestos-associated type, and its 3-week Navy service predated no documented refit.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 2026-09-29
- Limitations
- Absence of a located public record does not prove absence of asbestos aboard - era-typical gaskets, exhaust lagging, or wiring could have contained asbestos and would leave no public trace for a vessel of this size. Nothing here establishes that asbestos is or is not present, or bears on any claim of exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-canandaigua-ix233-07
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[9]CourtListener API v4 opinion and docket searches, 2026-09-29 (authenticated, fleet-paced) [court_record]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-canandaigua-ix233-10 through sl-uss-canandaigua-ix233-18
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- No qualifying litigation located. Opinion searches: 'USS Canandaigua' 0; 'Jane Dore' 0; 'CG-81006' 0; 'Canandaigua' asbestos 6 hits, all name collisions (Canandaigua, N.Y. place/entity names - e.g., Finn of Canandaigua Inc. in In re Seventh Judicial District Asbestos Litigation; Canandaigua Land Dev. and Canandaigua Securities Litigation cited as bankruptcy/securities precedents); 'IX-233' 4 hits, all collisions (internal codes/docket fragments); 'Ladona' schooner 1 hit - The Capitaine Faure, 10 F.2d 950 (2d Cir. 1926) - collision: the 'Ladona' there is a different vessel quoted from a 19th-century Louisiana bill-of-lading case, not this 1922 schooner. Docket searches: 'USS Canandaigua' 0; 'IX-233' 19 hits, all collisions (docket-number/index designators in unrelated cases).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 2026-09-29
- Limitations
- CourtListener is a secondary index of opinions/dockets, not the full docket record; a name match is not a finding. 'Canandaigua' is a high-collision name (city/lake, NY - ~1,946 raw opinion hits, all place-name entities). Small craft of this type would in any event appear in litigation under owner/operator names, not hull designators. Sweep completed 2026-09-29; several queries required retries around the shared fleet pacing budget.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-canandaigua-ix233-08
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[10]National Archives (NARA) record path for this hull: RG 26 U.S. Coast Guard records (CG-81006 acquisition from Hobart Ford, 1942 conversion and offshore-patrol logs, Fort Tilden/3rd Naval District files); RG 24 Navy deck logs and records of the 22 Nov 1945 foundering/board of inquiry at the Underwater Sound Laboratory, New London; RG 19 BuShips IX-233 classification correspondence (CNO letter 9 Oct 1945, SecNav approval 15 Oct 1945); RG 38 CNO records (20 Sep 1945 dispatch) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NARA catalog lead mapping; no digitized holdings located for this craft
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- The craft-level primary record path is mapped but unretrieved: USCG craft file/logbooks (RG 26), the Navy in-service period and foundering records including any board of inquiry into the 22 Nov 1945 sinking (RG 24/RG 38), and the BuShips classification correspondence (RG 19). These holdings are not digitized; none was pulled.
- Verification
- unverified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1942-1946
- Limitations
- Archival lead only - no box-level retrieval performed; the foundering inquiry file, if it survives, is the most likely single source for ship-specific condition/materials detail. Nothing asserted from these holdings.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-canandaigua-ix233-09