USS City of Dalhart (IX-156)

Evidence

15 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-15).

1. [1]research packet zck-packet.md (3 sources cited) [other_primary]

   Finding type

   vessel_history

   Finding

   Identity packet verdict: VERIFIED

   Verification

   verified

   Role

   supporting

   Documentation level

   ship_specific

   Evidence ID

   uss-city-of-dalhart-ix156-pkt-zck-packet-md

2. [2]Naval History and Heritage Command, Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, 'City of Dalhart' (IX-156) [nhhc_danfs]

   Locator

   DANFS entry text (verified via Wayback web.archive.org capture 2024-05-25 and https://losthistory.net/hazegray/danfs/ix/ix156.htm)

   Finding type

   vessel_history

   Finding

   DANFS records: IX-156 (dp. 8,747 f.; l. 416'; b. 54'; dr. 18'9") was built in 1921 by Oscar Daniels Co., Tampa, Fla.; acquired by the Navy 29 February 1944; commissioned at San Francisco 2 June 1944, Lt. Comdr. C. M. Lokey, USNR, in command; reported to the Pacific Fleet; sailed 9 June 1944 with sailors and cargo for Pearl Harbor; assigned as mobile barracks for the 301st Naval Construction Battalion, departed Pearl Harbor 16 July, called at Eniwetok 3-5 August, and anchored at Guam 11 August 1944, one day after the island was declared secure; remained at Guam until 22 November, sailed for San Francisco arriving 19 December; decommissioned 28 January 1946 and returned to her owner; received one battle star for World War II service.

   Verification

   verified

   Role

   supporting

   Documentation level

   ship_specific

   Accessed

   2026-09-29

   Study period

   1944-1946

   Population

   Navy crew and embarked NCB 301 personnel (unnamed)

   Limitations

   Establishes identity, conversion role (mobile barracks), movements, and disposition framing; contains no asbestos, materials, crew-figure, or stricken-date information. Live NHHC URL returned 404 on 2026-09-29 (standing NHHC link rot); content verified against Wayback capture 2024-05-25 and the hazegray DANFS transcription mirror.

   Atlas source

   true

   Evidence ID

   ev-uss-city-of-dalhart-ix156-01

3. [3]U.S. Maritime Administration, ShipHistory database — CITY OF DALHART (IX-156), Detail 976, incl. digitized status cards 976_1776AF/AB and 976_AF and attached declassified NARA document scans [marad_nrc]

   Locator

   ShipHistory Detail 976 fields; status-card images /cards/976_1776AF.jpg, /cards/976_1776AB.jpg, /cards/976_AF.jpg; document PDFs CityOfDalhart_976_001-007

   Finding type

   vessel_history

   Finding

   MARAD record: year built 1921; Official No. 221006; shipyard Oscar Daniels Company; MARAD type USSB 1027; 416.0 ft, 54.0 ft beam; 5,878 gross / 3,689 net tons; fate 'Sold - Scrap.' Status card: former IX-156, type 'MV Cargo,' owner WSA, entered Reserve Fleet Suisun (unit X-6) 1-28-46; dimensions 401'9" x 54' x 33'11"; DWT 9,185; displacement 12,940 full / 3,755 light; USSB construction cost $1,900,510.25; condition report notes '3000 BHP' and 'Donkey Boiler'; preservation sections II and III completed 1-30-46; custody/delivery log: U.S. Lines Co. 12-30-41 → Navy Dept. 2-29-44 (Oakland, GAA/BB) → Reserve Fleet 1-28-46 (Suisun Bay, BB/LU) → Florida Pipe & Supply Co. 1-22-47 1:00 PM PST; sale card: 'Sold to Florida Pipe & Supply Co to scrap completely on PDX-237 for the sum of $10,250.00. Delivery date Jan 22, 1947,' award noted 12/23/46, delivered to 'Kaiser Co. Inc. Agent.' Attached declassified NARA scans (project NW 63684) include 1941-43 Coast Guard/port-security travel-control and arrival documents showing the vessel under U.S. Lines operation (radio call HDNP).

   Verification

   verified

   Role

   supporting

   Documentation level

   ship_specific

   Accessed

   2026-09-29

   Study period

   1921-1947

   Population

   NDRF layup crews (1946); purchaser's scrapping workforce (1947)

   Limitations

   Authoritative for government custody milestones, dimensions, tonnage, construction cost, and disposal; handwritten card entries partially legible (award date could read 12/23/46 vs ShipScribe's 19 Dec 1946). 'Donkey Boiler' and '3000 BHP' document auxiliary steam equipment aboard at layup but no material content. Contains no asbestos, insulation, or condition-of-materials information.

   Atlas source

   true

   Evidence ID

   ev-uss-city-of-dalhart-ix156-02

4. [4]Pictorial Record, 301st U.S. Naval Construction Battalion (April 1944 - December 1945), NHHC-hosted unit cruisebook, 'Life Aboard USS City of Dalhart' section (pp. 184 ff.) [other_primary]

   Locator

   Cruisebook pp. 184-197 ('Life Aboard USS City of Dalhart'), pp. 119, 191-192 (Seabreeze, post office); retrieved via Wayback capture 2025-12-10 of the live-404 NHHC URL

   Finding type

   historical_record

   Finding

   The battalion's official pictorial record describes the ship as 'a former combination freight and passenger vessel ... taken over by the Navy from the United States Lines and converted into a barracks ship with facilities for maintenance of 1200 men, at the Moore Drydock and Shipbuilding Company, Oakland, Calif.'; six compartments for enlisted men, second-deck CPO quarters, officers' quarters/mess/lounge on upper decks used partly as business offices. At Pearl Harbor (June-July 1944) Seabee 'welders, burners, shipfitters, riggers, and other skilled mechanics' pooled with ship's company on 'remodeling work'; at Guam the ship ran laundry, barber/cobbler/tailor shops, ship's store, library, sick bay with operating room/X-ray/16-bed ward, post office handling ~100 sacks/week; engineering ran 'the evaporator system operating at capacity' with 'Seabees manned two-thirds of the watches on the boilers and evaporators'; the ship fueled several hundred craft ('5,962,406 gallons of fuel passed through the tanks aboard' in nine months) and supplied refrigerated food, stores, and postal service. NCB 301 HQ strength 53 officers/1,073 men (1 Apr 1945), most living aboard until shore camp built.

   Verification

   verified

   Role

   supporting

   Documentation level

   ship_specific

   Accessed

   2026-09-29

   Study period

   1944-1945

   Population

   NCB 301 Seabees (up to ~1,073 HQ personnel embarked); ship's company ~82; Moore Dry Dock and Pearl Harbor conversion/remodeling trades

   Limitations

   Commemorative unit publication (1945-46) — a primary contemporaneous record of conditions and work aboard, but it contains no asbestos or insulation-material statement. 'Boilers and evaporators' confirms auxiliary steam machinery aboard (consistent with the MARAD card's donkey boiler) without identifying any lagging material. Some figures in the cruisebook conflict with official records (beam '60 ft' vs 54 ft; displacement '13,000' vs 12,940 t) — official figures carried.

   Atlas source

   true

   Evidence ID

   ev-uss-city-of-dalhart-ix156-03

5. [5]ShipScribe, U.S. Navy Auxiliary Ships — USS Ocelot (IX-110) class page (EFC Design 1027 IX conversions: IX-110, IX-156, IX-157, IX-216) [other_primary]

   Locator

   Class overview table, class notes (IX 156-157 paragraph), ship notes for IX-156 (EFC 747)

   Finding type

   vessel_history

   Finding

   ShipScribe's auxiliary-vessel reference records IX-156 (EFC hull 747): keel 29 July 1919 at Oscar Daniels, Tampa; launched 1920; completed 28 Feb 1921 as merchant City of Dalhart; all four class ships built with vertical triple-expansion steam engines and re-engined with diesels 1926-27 (IX-110/156 Busch-Sulzer 3,000 hp; IX-157/216 Worthington 2,900 hp). Acquisition chain: 15 Nov 1943 CinCPac requested two additional barracks ships / temporary floating storage depots; 13 Dec 1943 VCNO asked WSA for motorships City of Dalhart and Tampa; WSA approved 20 Dec; Auxiliary Vessels Board recommended acquisition 28 Dec; converted to barracks ship by Moore Dry Dock, Oakland. Table data: acquired 29 Feb 44, commissioned 2 Jun 44, decommissioned 26 Jan 46 (DANFS reads 28 Jan), stricken 25 Feb 46, to Maritime Commission custody 28 Jan 46, MA sale 19 Dec 46; 'To buyer 22 Jan 47, scrapped by 16 May 47.' Class armament for the 1943 conversions (IX-110/156/157): 1-4"/50, 1-40mm, 8-20mm; class complement 82 (1944).

   Verification

   verified

   Role

   supporting

   Documentation level

   ship_specific

   Accessed

   2026-09-29

   Study period

   1919-1947

   Population

   Auxiliary conversion crews; ship's company

   Limitations

   Compiled research reference corroborating primary records (MARAD card corroborates completion, custody, sale, and disposal dates); not itself a government record. Decommissioning date 26 Jan 1946 conflicts with DANFS/NavSource 28 Jan by two days; armament differs from NavSource's 3"/50 listing — variances logged in the correction row and gaps.

   Atlas source

   true

   Evidence ID

   ev-uss-city-of-dalhart-ix156-04

6. [6]ShipScribe, EFC Design 1027 (Oscar Daniels type): Notes & Illustrations — USSB Diesel Program Phase I notes (citing USSB Annual Reports) and design specifications [other_primary]

   Locator

   Page notes 'The USSB Diesel Program, Phase I (1924-28)' and Specifications block (EFC Design 1027, S.S. Yomachichi EFC hull 739 specs)

   Finding type

   vessel_history

   Finding

   Design 1027 (Oscar Daniels type): ten 9,500-ton shelter-deck steel cargo ships ordered 30 October 1917 by the Emergency Fleet Corporation from the Oscar Daniels Company (lessee of the Tampa Shipbuilding Company property, Tampa FL), approved by EFC naval architect Theodore E. Ferris; Isherwood longitudinal framing; as-designed machinery one triple-expansion engine with three Baden water-tube boilers, 2,800 ihp, ~11 kt. Under the USSB Diesel Program (Phase I, 1924-28, authorized by the 6 June 1924 Merchant Marine Act amendment) the Board on 7 April 1925 selected 14 steel ships for steam-to-diesel conversion — eight Design 1027s among them; City of Dalhart's 3,000 bhp two-cycle six-cylinder Busch-Sulzer engine was contracted from Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co. on 31 December 1926; all 12 executed conversions were complete by end of 1928. The ship had been delivered incomplete to the USSB 28 November 1920 and held in the James River as a steam vessel pending the diesel decision.

   Verification

   verified

   Role

   supporting

   Documentation level

   ship_specific

   Accessed

   2026-09-29

   Study period

   1917-1928

   Population

   Oscar Daniels yard trades (1919-21); Newport News conversion trades (1927-28)

   Limitations

   Reference-work synthesis citing USSB Annual Reports and McKellar's 'Steel Shipbuilding under the U.S. Shipping Board, 1917-1921' (Part III pp. 139-140a, scanned, not OCR-verifiable this batch). Engine-contract date is program-record detail; whether hull conversion work (vs engine contract) occurred at Newport News is stated by the source as the contracting yard — conversion execution location is not separately documented. No materials content.

   Atlas source

   true

   Evidence ID

   ev-uss-city-of-dalhart-ix156-05

7. [7]Merchant Vessels of the United States, year ended 30 June 1927 (Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of Navigation), pp. 42-43; The Daily News (Perth) 8 Aug 1928 port report via Trove; The Log, 6 Mar 1940 ('United States Maritime Commission: Recent Announcements'); Flying magazine vol. 112 no. 12 (Dec. 1985), 'Bax Seat: Hanging Out With the Brodies,' p. 96; Popular Mechanics (Feb. 1946), 'Nylon Airport' — merchant-service particulars transcribed via secondary compilation [reputable_press]

   Locator

   MVUS 1927 pp. 42-43; Trove article 79478977 (Daily News, Perth, 8 Aug 1928); The Log 6 Mar 1940; Flying 112(12):96; Popular Mechanics Feb 1946; MARAD card custody row 1 (12-30-41) and document scans 976_001-007

   Finding type

   historical_record

   Finding

   Merchant-era record for the hull: 1927 federal registry lists signal MCJS, 5,841 GRT / 3,750 NRT, 401.9 ft registry length, 54.2 ft beam, 31.3 ft depth, 2,800 ihp, home port Tampa, registered crew 45; shipping reports place MV City of Dalhart in Pacific/Indian Ocean trade by 1928; on 21 February 1940 the Maritime Commission awarded the former American Pioneer Line routes and ships — including this hull at a $4,776.20/month charter — to United States Lines (the MARAD custody card independently records U.S. Lines operation from 12-30-41 and the attached declassified Coast Guard files show 1941-43 arrivals/movements under U.S. Lines, call sign HDNP); in September 1943 the ship hosted the first shipboard tests of the Brodie landing system — Staff Sergeant R. A. Gregory made ten successful takeoffs and hookups with a Stinson L-5.

   Verification

   partial

   Role

   context

   Documentation level

   ship_specific

   Accessed

   2026-09-29

   Study period

   1927-1944

   Population

   Merchant crew (~45 registered); AAF test detachment (1943)

   Limitations

   Registry, charter, trade-report, and Brodie-test particulars are transcribed through secondary compilation citing the period publications named; page images were not independently verified this batch. The U.S. Lines operating agency itself is verified at primary level by the MARAD status-card custody log and declassified NARA scans (ev-02). No materials or asbestos content — merchant-service context only.

   Atlas source

   true

   Evidence ID

   ev-uss-city-of-dalhart-ix156-06

8. [8]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

   AJIM 11(3):359-373, abstract and article

   Finding type

   asbestos_application

   Finding

   Peer-reviewed historical study documents that asbestos was used extensively as insulating and fireproofing material in U.S. shipbuilding and conversion work during World War II — the window covering this hull's March-May 1944 Moore Dry Dock conversion to a 1,200-man barracks ship. For this vessel type the era-typical asbestos applications were pipe covering and boiler/steam-line insulation (the hull retained a donkey boiler and evaporator plant per the MARAD card and cruisebook), sheet packing and gaskets, asbestos-board bulkhead sheathing in accommodation conversions, flooring compounds, brake linings on winches and windlass, and electrical insulation. No ship-specific manifest, specification, or survey names these materials aboard IX-156.

   Verification

   inferred

   Role

   context

   Documentation level

   class_or_era

   Accessed

   2026-09-29

   Study period

   WWII-era shipbuilding documented; applied here to 1944 conversion window only

   Population

   Conversion-yard trades (Moore Dry Dock 1944; Newport News 1927-28; Oscar Daniels 1919-21); shipboard engineering and embarked personnel

   Limitations

   Program/era-level documentation; the article does not name this vessel or the Design 1027/IX-conversion program, and does not establish that asbestos was installed, present, disturbed, or absent aboard this hull at any period. The inference attaches to the 1944 conversion scope and auxiliary machinery, not to any verified hull material list.

   Atlas source

   true

   Evidence ID

   ev-uss-city-of-dalhart-ix156-07

9. [9]Siclana v. United States, 56 F. Supp. 444 (S.D.N.Y., Mar. 24, 1944) [court_record]

   Locator

   56 F. Supp. 444 (S.D.N.Y. 1944); companion 56 F. Supp. 442; index confirmations at openjurist.org/56/fsupp and ecases.us SDNY March 1944 listing

   Finding type

   litigation_documented

   Finding

   A docketed admiralty case naming the vessel in its merchant-service period — NOT asbestos litigation: a crew messman libeled the United States and United States Lines Company (possessor/operator 'as agent for The United States of America' under WSA) for a steel-wool puncture injury sustained aboard the SS City of Dalhart, pleading Jones Act/Suits in Admiralty Act claims. The opinion resolves a pleading-stage motion — libelant's motion to sustain exceptions and dismiss the respondent's separate defenses (contributory negligence, assumption of risk, and a public-law administrative-remedy bar); the court held Jones Act rules govern (per Arizona v. Anelich and Beadle v. Spencer), i.e., an interlocutory defense-striking disposition. A companion opinion the same day, Siclana v. United States, 56 F. Supp. 442 (S.D.N.Y. 1944), disposed of exceptions to the libel by respondent Grace Line, Inc. — a distinct respondent on a related claim.

   Verification

   partial

   Role

   context

   Documentation level

   ship_specific

   Accessed

   2026-09-29

   Study period

   1944 (injury period within WSA/U.S. Lines operation, 1941-44)

   Population

   Merchant crew member (messman), U.S. Lines operation period

   Limitations

   Personal-injury (steel wool puncture) admiralty litigation — contains no asbestos allegation, exposure finding, or disease claim; carried so the hull's litigation record is complete and to prevent the name hit being misread as asbestos evidence. Pleading-stage disposition only; the underlying claim's final resolution was not located. Reporter citation verified via OpenJurist/ecases index pages for 56 F. Supp. 442/444; CourtListener canonicalization pending under the shared fleet pacing limiter (see search_ledger).

   Atlas source

   true

   Evidence ID

   ev-uss-city-of-dalhart-ix156-08

10. [10]New York & Cuba Mail S. S. Co. v. United States (full caption: The Havana. The City of Dalhart.), 89 F.2d 23, 1937 A.M.C. 551 (2d Cir. Apr. 5, 1937) (Hand, J.) — CourtListener opinion cluster 6972255 [court_record]

    Locator

    CourtListener cluster 6972255 (89 F.2d 23; 1937 A.M.C. 551; 2d Cir. 1937-04-05); opinion text reviewed via CourtListener bulk-data mirror (hallapproved.com/us/cases/ca2/1937/6972255)

    Finding type

    litigation_documented

    Finding

    A published merits-level appellate decision naming the vessel in her merchant-service period — NOT asbestos litigation: while the City of Dalhart lay disabled at Morse's Dry Dock, Brooklyn (moored stern-in with two cylinders removed for engine repairs), she parted her moorings in an exceptional gale on the night of 8 September 1934 and drifted into the moored steamship Havana, damaging her. The district court exonerated the Dalhart and dismissed the libel; the Second Circuit REVERSED with costs, holding that the issued storm warnings made it imprudent to leave a large disabled vessel exposed on her lines alone and that the United States (owner; the ship was then in USSB ownership under agent operation) failed its burden of showing reasonable nautical skill, with directions to award libelant New York & Cuba Mail S.S. Co. (Havana's chartered owner) an interlocutory decree.

    Verification

    verified

    Role

    context

    Documentation level

    ship_specific

    Accessed

    2026-09-29

    Study period

    1934-1937

    Population

    Merchant crew and yard personnel aboard during 1934 Morse Dry Dock engine repairs

    Limitations

    Collision/mooring-negligence admiralty case — no asbestos allegation, exposure finding, or disease content; carried to classify the CourtListener name hit and complete the hull's litigation record, not as exposure evidence. Merits-level appellate disposition: reversal of the exoneration decree establishing liability; the resulting damages/interlocutory-decree proceedings were not traced.

    Atlas source

    true

    Evidence ID

    ev-uss-city-of-dalhart-ix156-09

11. [11]CourtListener API v4 authenticated sweep via batch helper cl-auth-search.py, 2026-09-29 [court_record]

    Locator

    search_ledger rows sl-uss-city-of-dalhart-ix156-05 through sl-uss-city-of-dalhart-ix156-08

    Finding type

    litigation_documented

    Finding

    CourtListener authenticated sweep, partially executed under the shared fleet pacing limiter: the exact-name opinion query '"City of Dalhart"' ran and returned 89 results; the first results page (20 opinions) was reviewed and classified — one ship-specific hit, New York & Cuba Mail S. S. Co. v. United States, 89 F.2d 23 (2d Cir. 1937), a non-asbestos collision case (row 09); the remaining reviewed hits are name collisions against the Texas municipality (e.g., City of Dalhart v. Childers, 18 F. Supp. 903 (N.D. Tex. 1937); The City of Dalhart, Texas v. Lathem (Tex. App. 2015); Texas Attorney General opinions; unrelated appeals mentioning Dalhart) — none naming the vessel and none asbestos. Still queued and unexecuted at record close: result-page continuation (69 unreviewed of 89), '"City of Dalhart"' docket search, '"IX-156"' / '"IX 156"' opinion and docket searches, and '"Siclana"' canonicalization — helper reported the fleet-wide hourly budget spent on spaced attempts; per helper guidance these are logged pending rather than retried into a throttle. Out-of-band check: a web-scale name search surfaced the Siclana admiralty libel (row 08), the collision case above, Texas municipal 'City of Dalhart' collisions (e.g., water-system asbestos reporting), and law-firm marketing pages — no asbestos litigation naming the hull was found in any consulted source.

    Verification

    partial

    Role

    negative_finding

    Documentation level

    ship_specific

    Accessed

    2026-09-29

    Study period

    2026-09-29

    Limitations

    Absence of a docketed case does not prove absence of exposure aboard; unlitigated claims, trust-fund filings, and state-court matters below CourtListener coverage are not captured — and this sweep is partially complete: the name-opinion query executed (first page classified), while hull-number, docket, deeper pagination, and Siclana-canonicalization legs remain pending. Web-name collisions against the municipality are documented; queries to be re-run when the fleet budget frees.

    Atlas source

    true

    Evidence ID

    ev-uss-city-of-dalhart-ix156-10

12. [12]Batch-4726 search ledger (this record): NHHC DANFS + Wayback; MARAD ShipHistory 976 + status cards + declassified document scans; NHHC Seabee NCB 301 cruisebook and unit log (via Wayback); ShipScribe usnaux IX-110 class and Design 1027 notes; NavSource IX-156 archive; NARA asbestos research guide; web-scale litigation/name check [other_primary]

    Locator

    search_ledger rows sl-uss-city-of-dalhart-ix156-01 through sl-uss-city-of-dalhart-ix156-12

    Finding type

    historical_record

    Finding

    No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, material manifest, abatement or demolition contract, hazmat disclosure, or asbestos-injury case naming the City of Dalhart hull was found in the public sources searched (see search_ledger). The hull was scrapped by mid-1947, foreclosing the museum/hull-survey documentation channel that produces hull-level asbestos records for surviving ships.

    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 — a 1920-built, 1944-converted naval auxiliary is era-consistent with installed asbestos-containing materials. This finding does not establish presence or absence and does not establish or defeat any exposure claim or legal eligibility.

    Atlas source

    true

    Evidence ID

    ev-uss-city-of-dalhart-ix156-11

13. [13]NARA guided topic 'Researching Asbestos aboard US Naval Vessel up through 1961' (BuShips/NAVSEA correspondence, ship specifications, command histories path); plus hull-specific archival leads documented this batch [other_primary]

    Locator

    archives.gov guided-topic page; NavSource photo captions (RG-19-LCM 19-N-77664); MARAD Detail 976 attached document scans

    Finding type

    historical_record

    Finding

    Hull-level paper trail leads, none examined in person this batch: (a) NARA RG-19-LCM BuShips photo 19-N-77664 — USS City of Dalhart near U.S. Naval Drydocks, Hunters Point, San Francisco, 3 June 1944 (referenced in NavSource captions); (b) IX-156 deck logs (RG 24) and 1944-45 war diary covering the Guam anchorage period; (c) BuShips/BuDocks conversion correspondence and Moore Dry Dock work specifications for the 1944 barracks conversion — the likeliest single source of any ship-specific material list; (d) WSA general-agent and bareboat-charter files (RG 248) and USSB construction/EFC records for hull 747 (RG 32); (e) the five declassified NARA document scans already attached to MARAD ShipHistory 976 (project NW 63684, Coast Guard travel-control/port-security series, 1941-43).

    Verification

    unverified

    Role

    archival_lead

    Documentation level

    context_only

    Accessed

    2026-09-29

    Study period

    1919-1947 records

    Limitations

    Record-group and series 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-city-of-dalhart-ix156-12

14. [14]Cross-source discrepancy reconciliation: DANFS vs ShipScribe vs NavSource vs MARAD card vs NCB 301 cruisebook [other_primary]

    Locator

    DANFS entry; ShipScribe IX-110 class table; NavSource 09/46/46156; MARAD cards 976_1776AF / 976_AF; NCB 301 cruisebook p.184

    Finding type

    historical_record

    Finding

    Date/spec conflicts resolved for the record: (a) decommissioning — DANFS and NavSource read 28 January 1946 and the MARAD card enters Reserve Fleet custody 1-28-46; ShipScribe's class table reads 26 January 1946 — the 28 January DANFS/custody date is carried. (b) Launch — NavSource photo caption reads 23 November 1920; period press cited elsewhere records launch-and-delivery the same day, 28 November 1920 — carried as November 1920 with the exact day unresolved. (c) Stricken — 25 February 1946 per NavSource and ShipScribe; DANFS is silent; a third-party source (NavalCoverMuseum) conflates the decommissioning date — 25 February carried. (d) MA sale-award date — ShipScribe table 19 Dec 1946 vs MARAD card hand-entry 'award 12/23/46' — award noted 'late December 1946'. (e) Armament — class-spec 1x4"/50 + 1x40mm + 8x20mm (ShipScribe, 1943 fit) vs NavSource 1x3"/50 + 1x40mm; no primary ordnance record located. (f) Cruisebook narrative figures (60 ft beam, 13,000 t, cargo '8,000 tons') are commemorative approximations — official MARAD/registry figures carried.

    Verification

    verified

    Role

    correction

    Documentation level

    ship_specific

    Accessed

    2026-09-29

    Study period

    1919-1947

    Limitations

    Resolves publication-level discrepancies; does not affect identity or custody timeline materially. No asbestos content in any reconciled source.

    Atlas source

    true

    Evidence ID

    ev-uss-city-of-dalhart-ix156-13

15. [15]NavSource Online, Unclassified Miscellaneous Vessel (IX) index — USS City of Dalhart (IX-156) archive entry 09/46/46156 [other_primary]

    Locator

    navsource.net/archives/09/46/46156.htm — service chronology, Asiatic-Pacific campaign table, specifications block, BuShips photo captions

    Finding type

    vessel_history

    Finding

    NavSource entry records: decommissioned 28 January 1946 and laid up that day at the National Defense Reserve Fleet, Suisun Bay, Benecia CA; struck from the Naval Register 25 February 1946; earned one battle star for World War II service, its Asiatic-Pacific Campaign table attributing it to the Marianas operation — 'Capture and occupation of Guam, 11 to 15 August 1944'; final disposition sold for scrapping 22 January 1947 to Florida Pipe & Supply Co. Specification block: 8,747 t (fl) displacement, 416' length, 54' beam, 18'9" draft; armament listed as 1x3"/50 + 1x40mm; complement listed as 'unknown'; diesel machinery with three 100 kW + three 75 kW diesel-driven DC ship's-service generators and 14,400-bbl diesel fuel capacity. Photo captions reference BuShips/NARA image 19-N-77664 (near U.S. Naval Drydocks, Hunters Point, 3 June 1944).

    Verification

    verified

    Role

    supporting

    Documentation level

    ship_specific

    Accessed

    2026-09-29

    Study period

    1919-1947

    Limitations

    Volunteer-compiled transcription of Naval Register, campaign, photo-archive, and specification data — a corroborating reference, not itself a government record; campaign attribution and strike date corroborate DANFS/MARAD figures. Armament differs from the ShipScribe class fit (reconciled at ev-13); complement not established ('unknown'). No asbestos or materials content.

    Atlas source

    true

    Evidence ID

    ev-uss-city-of-dalhart-ix156-14