Evidence
10 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-10).
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[1]research packet r1-packet.md [other_primary]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: USS Chukawan (AO-100) — real identity: USS Chukawan
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-chukawan-ao100-pkt-r1-packet-md
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[2]Cox v. Carrier Corp. (In re Asbestos Litigation), No. 19-548-MN-SRF, D.I. 156 Memorandum Opinion (D. Del. Aug. 18, 2021) (Noreika, J.), adopting D.I. 148 Report and Recommendation (Fallon, M.J.) [court_record]
- Locator
- D.I. 156 at 3-5, 7-9 (exposure history; Lowell testimony); RECAP doc gov.uscourts.ded.68171.156.0
- Finding type
- litigation_product_id
- Finding
- Federal-court record identifies four Foster Wheeler boilers in USS Chukawan's boiler room. Decedent Harold E. Cox testified he served aboard as E-2 fireman then E-4 boiler tender Jan 1967-Oct 1968 and saw the Foster Wheeler name on each boiler; plaintiff's expert Captain William Lowell (30-yr naval engineering officer) confirmed four Foster Wheeler boilers would have been present and testified they would have been delivered with asbestos-containing packing, gaskets, and insulation, intended to be serviced with asbestos-containing replacement parts, and that Foster Wheeler boilers used asbestos-containing gaskets 1964-1980. Corroborated independently by NavSource's ship spec: four Foster & Wheeler K-type boilers.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-25
- Study period
- 2019-2021 (litigation); exposure period alleged 1967-1968
- Population
- Harold E. Cox (boiler tender, aboard 1967-1968; died 2019, alleged mesothelioma); boiler-room crew of that era
- Limitations
- Summary-judgment-stage record: the product-identification and asbestos-content statements are deposition and expert testimony found sufficient to reach a jury, not adjudicated facts. Does not quantify material aboard, does not establish exposure or causation for any individual, and does not address legal eligibility. Cox's Nov 2019 death and the Aug 2021 SJ denial are the last retrieved docket events.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-chukawan-ao100-01
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[3]Cox v. Carrier Corp. (In re Asbestos Litigation), No. 19-548-MN-SRF, D.I. 156 Memorandum Opinion (D. Del. Aug. 18, 2021): Foster Wheeler objections OVERRULED, Report ADOPTED, summary judgment DENIED [court_record]
- Locator
- D.I. 156 at 1-2 (disposition), 6-8 (substantial-factor analysis)
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- District court denied Foster Wheeler LLC's motion for summary judgment, finding a genuine fact issue under maritime law on whether Mr. Cox's exposure to Foster Wheeler's asbestos-containing boilers aboard USS Chukawan was a substantial factor in his mesothelioma: ~12 hours/day for 21 months in the boiler room, working on or in close proximity to the boilers, sweeping settled dust. Deposition-described work: removing boiler doors and rope seals, scraping/replacing boiler-door gaskets, and 'punching' (scraping) ~15 eight-foot fire tubes over two 12-hour days.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-25
- Study period
- 2021 (opinion); exposure period alleged 1967-1968
- Population
- Harold E. Cox estate; USS Chukawan boiler-room personnel
- Limitations
- Denial of summary judgment means the evidence could go to a jury; it is NOT an adjudicated finding that asbestos was aboard or that it caused the illness. No trial verdict, settlement, or post-Aug-2021 disposition was retrieved. The exposure descriptions are the plaintiff's deposition testimony.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-chukawan-ao100-02
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[4]Cox v. Carrier Corp., No. 19-548-MN-SRF, D.I. 149 Report and Recommendation (D. Del. July 16, 2021) (Fallon, M.J.) re Nash Engineering Co. motion for summary judgment [court_record]
- Locator
- D.I. 149 at 1-2, 8-10 (OCR); RECAP doc gov.uscourts.ded.68171.149.0
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- The magistrate judge recommended GRANTING defendant Nash Engineering Co.'s summary-judgment motion: plaintiff offered no product-identification evidence that any Nash product was aboard or contributed to exposure aboard USS Chukawan, and Mr. Cox never testified to working on or around Nash products.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-25
- Study period
- 2021
- Limitations
- Merits-level negative for that plaintiff's claim against that defendant only - a defense summary-judgment recommendation is not exposure evidence and says nothing about other products aboard. Formal adoption order not individually retrieved from the 275-entry docket. Scanned PDF; text obtained via OCR.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-chukawan-ao100-03
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[5]Agena v. Cleaver-Brooks, Inc., No. 1:19-cv-00089-DKW-WRP, D.I. 11-4 Complaint (D. Haw. filed 2019-02-28; removed from Haw. Cir. Ct. No. 19-1-0074-01 JHA); case terminated 2021-08-31 [court_record]
- Locator
- D.I. 11-4 at para. 14 (p.10 of 48, PageID 205)
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- Multi-plaintiff asbestos personal-injury complaint (Toxic Tort/Asbestos Personal Injury) against boiler manufacturer Cleaver-Brooks, Inc. lists 'USS CHUKAWAN from 1966 to 1968' in the service roster of plaintiff-side decedent Homer W. Means (Navy steward; also USS Walton DE-361, Renshaw DD-499, Holder DD-819, Robert L. Wilson DD-847, Bainbridge DLGN-25, Leahy DDG-16, Guadalcanal LPH-7). The complaint's product allegations center on Cleaver-Brooks asbestos products at Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-25
- Study period
- 2019-2021 (litigation)
- Population
- Homer W. Means (aboard 1966-1968 per complaint); mass-action plaintiff cohort
- Limitations
- Pleading-stage allegation only: the hull appears in a plaintiff's service-history list with no product identified aboard and no exposure finding. Unadjudicated; does not establish asbestos aboard this hull or any individual exposure. Docket bears a RICO cause label (18:1962) alongside the asbestos PI complaint; the case terminated 2021-08-31 - disposition detail not retrieved.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-chukawan-ao100-04
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[6]DANFS entry 'Chukawan' (NHHC; live page 404 - verbatim text via Wayback capture 2025-02-02 of canonical URL .../danfs/c/chuckawan.html) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS Chukawan entry, full text (3 paragraphs + stat block)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Official ship history: launched 28 Aug 1945 by Bethlehem Steel Co., Sparrows Point, Md.; sponsored by Miss M. McCrea; commissioned 22 Jan 1946, CDR G. H. Burrows, USNR; reported to the Atlantic Fleet; homeported Norfolk, Va.; Sixth Fleet Mediterranean deployments 1947, 1950, 1951-52, 1954, 1955-56, 1957, 1958, 1960; Suez-crisis standby sortie Nov 1956; support to Sixth Fleet during the 1958 Lebanon crisis. DANFS stat block: dp. 7,470; l. 553'; dr. 32'4"; s. 18 k.; cpl. 304; cl. Cimarron.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-25
- Study period
- 1945-1963 (entry coverage); ship in service to 1972
- Population
- Crew (~304 complement)
- Limitations
- Historical narrative ends ~1963 (DANFS vintage) and contains no asbestos information. DANFS body text spells the name 'Chuckawan' and its stat-block beam reads 45' - both apparent typos (MARAD lists 75.25' beam); the ship's registered name is Chukawan.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-chukawan-ao100-05
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[7]MARAD Vessel History Database, CHUKAWAN (AO-100), detail 5766 [marad_nrc]
- Locator
- MARAD Vessel History detail page 5766 (fields + status-card tab)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Federal registry record: Year Built 1946; Shipyard 'Bethlehem Steel Shipbuilding Division'; Naval Auxiliary / AO Oiler; MARAD Type T3-S2-A1; length 553 ft; beam 75.25 ft; 11,316 gross tons; displacement 25,440 t summer / 7,236 t lightweight; fate 'Sold -NTU' (non-transportation use = scrapping). Two status-card scans exist for the hull (images 1DJ_01 and 5766_AF) - unretrieved archival lead.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-25
- Study period
- 1945-1973 (record coverage)
- Limitations
- Registry contains no asbestos or hazardous-material information. MARAD type T3-S2-A1 conflicts with the T3-S2-A3 label used by NavSource's header text and Wikipedia; the 553-ft hull and NavSource's own 13,500-shp propulsion block favor T3-S2-A1, but the conflict is unresolved and logged in gaps.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-chukawan-ao100-06
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[8]Weaver Boos, Phase I Environmental Site Assessment, Sparrows Point Facility (filed with Maryland Dept. of the Environment, May 2014); EPA RCRA Corrective Action site file MDD053945432 (1997 Bethlehem Steel consent decree; Tradepoint Atlantic redevelopment) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Phase I ESA section 6 findings (pp. ~6-1 and findings 242, 250, 258); EPA RCRA ID MDD053945432
- Finding type
- environmental_record
- Finding
- The 3,100-acre former Bethlehem Steel site at Sparrows Point - the yard that built this hull - is a documented asbestos-contaminated industrial property in EPA RCRA corrective action: the 2014 Phase I ESA records suspect asbestos-containing friable debris piles near Machine Shop #2, cold-box insulation, suspect ACM (transite panels) in Reservoir Warehouses, asbestos-flagged materials-processing buildings, and ongoing pre-demolition asbestos abatement at the site.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-09-25
- Study period
- 2014 (assessment); site industrial history 1887-2012
- Population
- Sparrows Point site demolition/remediation workers (2010s)
- Limitations
- Context only: documents 2014 site conditions ~70 years after this hull's construction; establishes the builder yard sits inside a regulated asbestos-contaminated landscape, not 1945 shipbuilding conditions and nothing about material aboard this hull.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-chukawan-ao100-07
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[9]NavSource Online, USS Chukawan (AO-100) Service Ship Photo Archive page (compilation of official specs, CO roster, awards block, photo captions incl. NHHC accession L45-50.02.03) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource page 19100.htm, header block + specifications + CO roster
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Ship-specific compiled record: laid down 25 Jan 1945 as Maritime Commission hull 2562 at Bethlehem Steel Sparrows Point; propulsion spec of two Bethlehem geared turbines, four Foster & Wheeler K-type boilers (450 psi, 750F), double Falk reduction gears, twin screws, 13,500 shp; complement 22 officers + 282 enlisted; awards incl. three Navy Meritorious Unit Commendations and Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal (Lebanon); decommissioned 13 Jun 1972 Pier 2 Naval Station Norfolk; struck 1 Jul 1972; sold for scrapping by DRMS 1 Mar 1973.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-25
- Study period
- 1945-1973
- Limitations
- Non-official compilation (NavSource Naval History) used as archival lead and corroboration - its spec block independently matches the four-Foster-Wheeler-boiler configuration testified to in Cox, but individual entries are uncited and the header's 'T3-S2-A3' label conflicts with MARAD's T3-S2-A1. Not itself an asbestos source.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-chukawan-ao100-08
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[10]Batch-1837 search ledger (this record): CourtListener opinion index, MARAD/NVR, museum/abatement channels [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-chukawan-ao100-01 through -08
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No published or indexed court opinion names USS Chukawan or AO-100 (opinion-index search: zero qualifying hits; the single 'AO-100' hit is a Texas receivership token collision). No asbestos survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, or materials list for the hull was located in the public sources searched - consistent with sale for scrapping in 1973, before the Navy's asbestos-management era.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-25
- Study period
- 2026-09-25
- Limitations
- Absence of a located record does not prove absence of asbestos aboard; the litigation record (ev-01) supplies the only asbestos-related documentation and it is testimony-level. Does not establish or defeat any exposure or eligibility claim.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-chukawan-ao100-09