Evidence
9 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-9).
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[1]research packet crew-cu-packet.md (3 sources cited) [other_primary]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERIFIED — real identity: USS Carib | Hull: AT-82, later ATF-82 (15 May 1944)
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-carib-at82-pkt-crew-cu-packet-md
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[2]NHHC DANFS, 'Carib II (AT-82)' (history.navy.mil ship-history page) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS 'Carib II (AT-82)' full entry - spec block plus three service paragraphs
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS numbers her 'the second Carib' - the first, Carib (No. 1765), was a WWI cargo freighter built 1916 by Detroit Shipbuilding Co., Detroit, Mich. (DANFS 'Carib I' page, verified live). DANFS: the second Carib (AT-82) was launched 7 February 1943 by Charleston Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., Charleston, S.C.; sponsored by Mrs. N. R. Wade; commissioned 24 July 1943, Lieutenant A. H. Gunn in command. Spec block: dp. 1,235; l. 205'; b. 38'6"; dr. 15'4"; s. 16.5 k.; cpl. 85; a. 1 3"; cl. Cherokee. Service narrative: cleared Norfolk 3 Sep 1943 for Commander Service Force Atlantic; Recife, Brazil 17 Oct 1943; escort/towing/salvage on the Brazilian coast through June 1944; cleared for the Mediterranean 6 Jun 1944, returned to New York 22 Jul towing battle-damaged 'Menaes' (DE-320 - the ship is USS Menges, see correction row); antisubmarine-equipment development at Quonset Point R.I. and Port Everglades Fla. through the next year; cleared Port Everglades 1 Jun 1945 for the Pacific towing APL-28 to the Canal Zone and the 10,000-ton concrete floating drydock ARDC-2 to Pearl Harbor; towed battle rafts to Eniwetok and Okinawa; reported to Fifth Fleet Service Squadron 10 at Buckner Bay 21 Oct; towing in support of the occupation of Japan and China redeployments to Japan and Shanghai from Okinawa until 9 Jan 1946; towed Edgar Allen Poe (IX-103) to Subic Bay arriving 6 Feb; Philippines until 6 Apr; returned to San Pedro 29 May; out of commission in reserve at San Diego 24 Jan 1947.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-06
- Study period
- 1943-1947
- Population
- Crew (1943-1947 active service)
- Limitations
- Establishes identity, construction, sponsor, commissioning, and wartime/peacetime service through decommissioning. Contains no laid-down date, no post-1947 disposition, no reclassification note, and no asbestos or materials information of any kind; supports no asbestos claim.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-carib-at82-01
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[3]NavSource Online: Service Ship Photo Archive, 'USS Carib (ATF-82) ex-USS Carib (AT-82)' page 09/39/39082 [other_primary]
- Locator
- Page header designation line; milestone chronology; awards/ribbon table; specifications block; commanding-officer table
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NavSource designation and milestone record: laid down 7 September 1942 at Charleston Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., Charleston, S.C.; launched 7 February 1943; commissioned USS Carib (AT-82) 24 July 1943, LT Aubrey H. Gunn USN; reclassified Fleet Ocean Tug (ATF-82) 15 May 1944; decommissioned 24 January 1947 at San Diego and laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet, San Diego Group; struck from the Naval Register 1 July 1963; sold to Colombia under the Security Assistance Program 14 February 1978 and renamed ARC 'Sebastián de Benalcázar' (RM-73) [sic - official Colombian spelling Belalcázar, see correction row]; ribbon table confirms Navy Occupation Service Medal 21 Oct-18 Dec 1945 and China Service Medal (extended) 22 Dec 1945-20 Jan 1946. Specifications: 1,235 t light / 1,675 t full; 205' x 38'6" x 15'4"; 16.5 kts trial; complement 5 officers + 80 enlisted; one 3"/50 DP, two single 40mm, two single 20mm; four General Motors 12-278 diesel-electric main engines, Fairbanks Morse main reduction gears, single propeller 3,000 shp.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-06
- Study period
- 1942-1978
- Limitations
- Volunteer-curated private archive (secondary compilation, not a government record) - milestones carried here are consistent with DANFS where the two overlap. Its 'sunk by the Colombian Navy in June 2007' disposition line is the ex-Choctaw/Pedro de Heredia reefing, contradicted by the Armada Nacional's own record (April 2004) - see correction row; the Colombian name spelling 'Benalcázar' is also superseded. No asbestos information; supports no asbestos claim.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-carib-at82-02
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[4]Armada Nacional de Colombia (armada.mil.co): 'EL ARC "SEBASTIAN DE BELALCÁZAR" SE DESPIDE EN LAS AGUAS DEL PACÍFICO' and 'Buzos Militares de la Armada Nacional evitan catástrofe ecológica en el río Magdalena' (diver operational chronology) [other_primary]
- Locator
- buzos article operational chronology (Abril 2004 / Junio 2007 entries); ceremony article https://www.armada.mil.co/es/content/el-arc-%E2%80%9Csebastian-de-belalc%C3%A1zar%E2%80%9D-se-despide-en-las-aguas-del-pac%C3%ADfico
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Colombian Navy (Armada Nacional) official pages: (a) ceremony article records that the ARC 'Sebastián de Belalcázar' was sunk in Pacific waters near Bahía Solano (Chocó) to become a coral reef, with the Minister of Defense, the Comandante de la Armada and the Pacific Naval Force commander present; it records '20 años al servicio de la Armada Nacional,' service as 'Unidad Insignia del Pacífico Colombiano,' and the 14 November 1981 interception and sinking in combat of the motor vessel 'Karina,' which was carrying arms, munitions and explosives for the M-19 movement. (b) The Armada's diver-unit operational record lists: 'Abril 2004 - Hundimiento de ARC "Sebastián de Belalcázar" con cargas controladas de explosivos en las aguas de Bahía Solano para dar vida a un arrecife coralino' and separately 'Junio 2007 - Hundimiento ARC "Pedro de Heredia"... frente a la isla de Tierrabomba' as an artificial reef.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-06
- Study period
- 1978-2004
- Population
- Colombian Navy crew (c. 1979-2004)
- Limitations
- Foreign-navy official record; authoritative for the Colombian-era fate and the April 2004 reefing, but gives no build/ex-USN detail. '20 años al servicio' conflicts loosely with a 1978/79 acquisition (c. 25 years) - approximate rounding, flagged in gaps. No asbestos information; supports no asbestos claim.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-carib-at82-03
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[5]Era inference built on: DANFS spec block and build dates; NavSource specifications (diesel-electric GM 12-278 plant); GAO HRD-80-2 Navy asbestos-era program documentation (see ev-05) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource specifications block; DANFS spec block; GAO product page HRD-80-2
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- A diesel-electric fleet tug built September 1942-July 1943 under U.S. Navy contract sits inside the documented Navy asbestos era (see GAO row). As a diesel-electric ship she carried no steam plant - the boiler/turbine lagging pathway does not apply - but era-standard asbestos applications aboard a WWII auxiliary of this type were thermal insulation, machinery and diesel-exhaust lagging, gaskets, valve packing, and electrical insulation, in a small hull with confined machinery spaces.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-10-06
- Study period
- 1942-2004
- Population
- Charleston SBD&D construction trades (1942-43); crew (1943-47); reserve-fleet caretakers; Colombian service crew (c. 1979-2004); Colombian reefing/preparation crews (2004)
- Limitations
- Class/era inference only - no hull-specific insulation survey, material list, or work package located for AT-82/ATF-82. Names era-standard applications, not confirmed installed materials. No quantity. Product names are normalized era terms; no manufacturer attribution for this hull.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-carib-at82-04
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[6]GAO, 'Navy Efforts To Protect Workers From Asbestos Exposure,' HRD-80-2 (published Oct 18, 1979; publicly released Oct 22, 1979) [gao]
- Locator
- GAO product page HRD-80-2, Highlights section
- Finding type
- gov_survey
- Finding
- GAO documented the Navy's use of asbestos insulation aboard ships and its protection/removal policies: the Navy's 1975 policy was to remove and replace with nonasbestos materials only insulation that was damaged or had to be removed for necessary repairs, modified in 1979 to include selectively replacing asbestos insulation in high-maintenance areas - spanning this hull's U.S. construction (1942-43), active era (1943-47), and reserve custody (1947-78).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-10-06
- Study period
- 1979 (report); era 1940s-1979
- Population
- Navy shipyard workers; asbestos program review
- Limitations
- Program-level documentation (fieldwork yards were Long Beach and Norfolk Naval Shipyards); supports era context only, not any fact specific to this hull. Full-text PDF not retrieved this session (direct curl to gao.gov returns HTTP 403; product-page Highlights text obtained via Firecrawl).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-carib-at82-05
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[7]Batch-2821 search ledger (this record): DANFS Carib I/II; NavSource 09/39/39082; armada.mil.co ceremony + diver-record pages; shipbuildinghistory.com Charleston yard table; NIOSH/CDC site sweep; CourtListener base queries; secondary web litigation sweep [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-carib-at82-01 through sl-uss-carib-at82-16
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, or qualifying litigation naming USS Carib (AT-82/ATF-82), ARC Sebastián de Belalcázar, or the Charleston Shipbuilding and Dry Dock yard build was found in the public sources searched. CourtListener returned zero opinions and zero dockets for the exact-name query "USS Carib"; the bare hull token "AT-82" produced only tokenization noise (23,532 opinion / 36,635 docket hits matching 'at'+'82' across the entire corpus; the asbestos-qualified variants 434/828 - none of the returned top-page records contains the literal string 'AT-82', 'ATF-82', or 'Carib'). No docketed case naming this hull was located.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-06
- Study period
- 2026-10-06
- Limitations
- Absence of a located public record does not prove absence of asbestos aboard - a 1943 naval tug is era-consistent with asbestos-containing materials at construction, and no survey was located at any career stage including the Colombian reefing preparation. Does not establish presence or absence; does not establish or defeat any exposure claim or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-carib-at82-06
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[8]Armada Nacional diver operational record + ceremony article (dates, name spelling); NavSource milestone lines (sale, name); Colton shipbuilding-history Charleston yard table (hull no. 8 disposition, Choctaw to Pedro de Heredia RM-72); Wikipedia USS Carib (AT-82) infobox (conflicted name); HyperWar ATF-82 page (class and commissioning-date errors); DANFS text ('Menaes') [other_primary]
- Locator
- buzos article chronology; shipbuildinghistory.com yard table rows 4 and 8; en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Carib_(AT-82) infobox and class navbox; ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USN/ships/ATF/ATF-82_Carib.html; DANFS service paragraph 2
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Cross-source discrepancy resolution: (a) Colombian name - Wikipedia's infobox says she became 'ARC Pedro de Heredia,' but the Armada Nacional's own pages, the NavSource title line, and the Colton yard list (hull no. 8 = ATF-82 Carib to 'Sebastian de Belalcazar (RM 73)') agree she became ARC Sebastián de Belalcázar (RM-73); Pedro de Heredia (RM-72) was the Colombian name of her sister ex-USS Choctaw (AT-70), transferred 1961. (b) Sinking date - NavSource's 'June 2007' and Wikipedia's 'June 2007' repeat the Pedro de Heredia reefing date; the Armada's diver record dates the Sebastián de Belalcázar sinking to April 2004 (corroborated by Colton 'reefed 2004'), consistent with the attendance of Defense Minister Uribe Echavarría, who left office July 2006. (c) NavSource spells the name 'Benalcázar'; the Armada's own spelling is 'Belalcázar.' (d) HyperWar's 'Abnaki class' label and 'Commissioned 7 February 43' line are errors - Abnaki is the follow-on ATF-96+ design, and 7 February 1943 was the launch, not the commissioning (24 July 1943). (e) DANFS prints 'Menaes (DE-320)'; the hull number identifies the towed ship as USS Menges (DE-320).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- correction
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-06
- Study period
- 1943-2007
- Limitations
- Resolves propagated secondary-source errors against the Colombian Navy's own operational record and an independent yard table; the corrected April 2004 date is adopted for current_status. Wikipedia/NavSource values remain visible in sources but are not carried as fact. No asbestos content in any source cited here.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-carib-at82-07
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[9]NARA RG-19-LCM photo 19-N-48521 + Navy Yard Charleston photo series (identifiers transcribed from NavSource captions); NARA RG 24 deck-log series; Colton shipbuildinghistory.com yard-history note [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource 09/39/39082 photo captions (19-N-48521; 1152-43; 1170/1173/1174/1176/1177/1178-43); catalog.archives.gov v1 API deprecated this session - NAID-level verification open
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Archival leads (not retrieved): (a) NARA RG-19-LCM Bureau of Ships photograph 19-N-48521 - 'USS Carib (AT-82) underway near Charleston Navy Yard probably shortly after commissioning in July 1943' (captioned in the NavSource photo archive, courtesy Shipscribe.com) plus Navy Yard Charleston construction-period photos 1152-43 (commissioning), 1170-43 through 1178-43 (2 August 1943 Cooper River series). (b) RG 24 deck logs for AT-82/ATF-82 (1943-1947) are not publicly digitized - NARA College Park. (c) Yard records: Charleston Shipbuilding & Dry Dock operated under Navy control from 1942 (Colton); contract construction/outfitting specifications for the yard's fifteen Navajo/Cherokee-class tugs (yard hulls 1-15) would sit in Navy contract records rather than the yard's commercial files.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-10-06
- Study period
- 1942-1947 records
- Limitations
- Record-group and photo-identifier mapping only - identifiers transcribed from NavSource captions, not verified against the NARA catalog (catalog API is JS-gated from this session). No box-level retrieval; 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-carib-at82-08