USS Control (AMC-141)

Evidence

7 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-7).

1. [1]NavSource Online, Mine Warfare Vessel Photo Archive - 'Control (MSF 164) ex-AM-164 ex-AMc-141' page 11/02164 (navsource.net mirror fetched live HTTP 200 this session; navsource.org DNS unresolvable, same as canonical record) [other_primary]

   Locator

   NavSource 11/02164 - page heading ('ex-AMc-141') + 'Admirable Class Minesweeper' chronology block + specifications/CO/photo blocks

   Finding type

   vessel_history

   Finding

   NavSource designation chronology for this hull: 'Originally planned as Coastal Minesweeper Control (AMc 141). Reclassified as a Minesweeper AM-164, 21 February 1942. Laid down 15 June 1942 by the Willamette Iron and Steel Corp., Portland, OR. Launched 28 January 1943. Commissioned USS Control (AM 164), 11 May 1944.' The Willamette contract was thus an AMc-designated order redesignated to the Admirable-class fleet-minesweeper program months before keel-laying; the AMc-141 number was never carried by a ship in service. NavSource also carries: decommissioned 6 June 1946 at San Diego, CA; the NVR of 1 January 1949 listing 'out of commission, in reserve' as of December 1945; 'Reclassified as a Fleet Minesweeper (Steel Hull), MSF-163 [sic], 7 February 1955'; 'Sold for scrap 30 March 1959'; call sign NDQM; COs LCDR Stanley Arthur Brand USNR (11 May 1944 - 16 April 1945) and LT Ernest Treadwell Chadwell, Jr. USN (16 April 1945); spec block 650 t., 184'6" x 33' x 9'9", 14.8 kts, complement 104, 1x3"/50 DP + two twin 40mm + hedgehog + two depth-charge tracks, two 1,710shp ALCO 539 diesels / Farrel-Birmingham single reduction gear / two shafts; no photo of the hull is held in the archive.

   Verification

   partial

   Role

   supporting

   Documentation level

   ship_specific

   Accessed

   2026-09-22

   Study period

   1941-1959

   Population

   Willamette Iron & Steel construction trades (1942-43); USN crew 1944-46 (complement 104)

   Limitations

   Volunteer-compiled archival page - the sole primary-grade authority located for the AMc-141 designation and the 21 Feb 1942 redesignation date; the official DANFS entry is silent on the AMc designation entirely (ev-02). Corroborated by the uswarships.jounin.jp AMc index ('Control | AMc-141 | Willamette Iron & Steel Corp. | 1944/5/11 | 1946/6/6 | ... 1942/2/21 -> AM-164') - secondary reference used for corroboration only, not cited as evidence. Its 15 Jun 1942 laid-down date conflicts with the official NAVSHIPS 250-011 register (18 Jun 1942) - the register value is carried in the canonical record and the conflict lives in its gaps. Page text's 'MSF-163' is a transcriber typo (its own header and DANFS read MSF-164). Contains no asbestos information.

   Atlas source

   true

   Evidence ID

   ev-uss-control-amc141-01

2. [2]DANFS, 'Control (AM-164)' entry - verbatim NHHC text via Wayback capture 2021-07-23 of history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/c/control.html (live NHHC page returns 404 - standing link rot, same as BATCH-01; fetched HTTP 200 this session) [nhhc_danfs]

   Locator

   DANFS entry 'Control (AM-164)' - specification block + full service narrative (Wayback capture of history.navy.mil, 2021-07-23)

   Finding type

   vessel_history

   Finding

   The official DANFS entry knows this hull only as AM-164: '(AM-164: dp. 530; l. 184'6"; b. 33'; dr. 9'9"; s. 15 k.; cpl. 104; a. 1 3"; cl. Admirable)' - 'launched 28 January 1943 by Willamette Iron and Steel Corp., Portland, Oreg.; and commissioned 11 May 1944, Lieutenant Commander S. A. Brand, USNR, in command.' A page-wide check of the entry text returns ZERO mentions of AMc-141, AMc, or any pre-construction designation - the AMc-141 contract identity rests on NavSource (ev-01) and secondary-index corroboration, not on the official DANFS text. Service narrative: reached Pearl Harbor 29 July 1944; during August removed mines previously planted in the defenses of French Frigate Shoals; 5 September - 30 November patrolled and escorted from Eniwetok to Saipan, Ulithi, and Manus; Kossol Roads patrol duty off the Palaus until arriving Guam 1 February 1945 to sweep Apra Harbor; convoy escort from Eniwetok until June, then Pearl Harbor for brief overhaul; 1 July - 11 August 1945 cleared the harbor at Eniwetok and planted navigational buoys; served at Okinawa 25 September - 13 October; returned to the west coast; decommissioned and placed in reserve at San Diego 6 June 1946; classification changed to MSF-164 on 7 February 1955; 'Control was sold on 30 March 1959.'

   Verification

   verified

   Role

   supporting

   Documentation level

   ship_specific

   Accessed

   2026-09-22

   Study period

   1942-1959

   Population

   Willamette Iron & Steel construction trades (1942-43); wartime crew (design complement 104), Pacific Fleet 1944-45

   Limitations

   DANFS documents the built hull's identity and service narrative - not the AMc designation chain and not materials or asbestos content; the entry contains no materials statement, no laid-down date, no stricken date, and no battle-star line (the canonical record carries these absences in its gaps). Live NHHC page 404s; text read via the 2021-07-23 Wayback capture.

   Atlas source

   true

   Evidence ID

   ev-uss-control-amc141-02

3. [3]Atlas canonical record uss-control-am164.atlas.json (branch batch-1188/uss-control-am164, Tier 2, researched 2026-09-22) + designation-chain rows ev-01 (NavSource) and ev-02 (DANFS) of this record [other_primary]

   Locator

   uss-control-am164.atlas.json (canonical, 12 evidence rows, 15 ledger rows); this record's evidence rows ev-01, ev-02; hull-list-verify master-hull-list.json

   Finding type

   vessel_history

   Finding

   All-tier consolidation: AMc-141 and AM-164 are one contract hull, not two vessels. The master-hull-list row 'USS Control / AMC-141 / Coastal Minesweeper / Admirable / WWII / tier 2' resolves to the canonical record uss-control-am164 (Tier 2), which carries the full service history (commissioned 11 May 1944; Pearl Harbor arrival 29 Jul 1944; French Frigate Shoals defensive-mine removal; Eniwetok-Saipan-Ulithi-Manus escort and Kossol Roads Palaus patrol; Apra Harbor sweep from 1 Feb 1945; Eniwetok convoy escort and Pearl Harbor brief overhaul; Eniwetok harbor clearance and buoy planting Jul-Aug 1945; Okinawa service 25 Sep-13 Oct 1945; decommission San Diego 6 Jun 1946; Pacific Reserve Fleet; MSF-164 7 Feb 1955; sold 30 Mar 1959, scrapped), the NAVSHIPS 250-011 register data (keel 18 Jun 1942, Alco 539 / 1,710 shp / Farrel-Birmingham gear, AM136-165 class block), the documented source conflicts (keel-date, spec-drift, NVR-quirk, NavSource 'MSF-163' typo), the NARA archival leads, and the era/type asbestos inference. Verified not a Project Hula transfer - the canonical record checked the Russell NHC appendix: the Willamette-built transfers run AM-152 and AM-154 through AM-158 (AM-153 excepted); AM-159 through AM-165 all stayed in U.S. custody, so Control's 1946-1959 reserve layup and domestic sale make her layup/disposal files the plausible home of any material records. This record exists so the former designation resolves to the canonical hull rather than reading as a second vessel.

   Verification

   verified

   Role

   correction

   Documentation level

   ship_specific

   Accessed

   2026-09-22

   Study period

   1941-1959

   Limitations

   Internal consolidation statement - asserts only the one-hull identity, itself supported by the NavSource/DANFS rows ev-01/ev-02 and the canonical record's evidence chain; the underlying service history and asbestos assessment are the canonical record's and are not duplicated here.

   Atlas source

   true

   Evidence ID

   ev-uss-control-amc141-03

4. [4]NARA, Special List 44 - Named Vessels (finding aid to Vessel and Station Log Books, RG 24; fetched live HTTP 200 this session) + NARA 'Researching Asbestos aboard US Naval Vessels up through 1961' guided-topic page (archives.gov/research/military/navy/guided-topics/asbestos, HTTP 200 this session) [other_primary]

   Locator

   Special List 44 named-vessels table, 'Control (AM-164) 5/11/1944 6/30/1945' row; archives.gov asbestos guided topic, 'General Information Books' and 'Ship Engineering Drawings' sections

   Finding type

   historical_record

   Finding

   All federal archival records for this hull are indexed under AM-164, not the AMc designation: NARA Special List 44 indexes the hull as 'Control (AM-164)' with logbook coverage 5/11/1944-6/30/1945 - commissioning through mid-1945, ending about eleven months before the June 1946 decommissioning (partial commission coverage: the post-surrender Okinawa-service period and the decommissioning itself fall outside the listed span). A page-wide check returns no AMc-141/AMC-141 entry for this hull - though the index does carry AMC designations for other vessels, including a Willamette-block sister ('Bond (AM-152, AMC-129)'), so AMC indexing exists where applicable. NARA's asbestos-research guide identifies the series that would hold hull-level material specifications: RG 19 Entry P-11 'Minesweeper and Minelayer General Information Books [Item S-68], 1940-1962' and the hull-number-arranged Ship Engineering Drawings under the S filing codes - 'S103-Booklets of General Plans, S39-Insulation and Lagging, and sometimes S48-Piping.' Any researcher tracing 'AMc-141' must search the archive as AM-164.

   Verification

   verified

   Role

   archival_lead

   Documentation level

   ship_specific

   Accessed

   2026-09-22

   Study period

   1944-1945 (logbook coverage); guide current as of 2026-09-22

   Population

   USN complement aboard the built hull, May 1944 - Jun 1945 (indexed coverage)

   Limitations

   Archival lead only - documents which series exist and under which hull number, not that hull-specific material survives in them; the guide itself notes GIB coverage is incomplete per ship (sister-ship volumes may fill gaps) and that S39/S48 drawings are relatively rare in the paper series. No drawing or GIB was retrieved or confirmed. Deck logs are operational records, not materials documentation. The 6/30/1945 coverage end date is the index's own figure - whether later Control logs exist elsewhere in RG 24 is unverified.

   Atlas source

   true

   Evidence ID

   ev-uss-control-amc141-04

5. [5]CourtListener API v4 (authenticated) + web UI - this-session designation queries: API 'AMC-141' (type=o) HTTP 429 (shared 2800/day cap, ~9,225s); web UI 'AMC-141' (type=o) completed = 0 results; further web-UI queries ('AMc-141' type=o, 'AMC-141' type=r, 'USS Control') blocked by anti-bot HTTP 202 challenge after the first completed query; canonical same-day API sweep likewise quota-blocked [court_record]

   Locator

   search_ledger rows sl-uss-control-amc141-06 through sl-uss-control-amc141-08; canonical record search_ledger sl-uss-control-am164-10 through sl-uss-control-am164-11

   Finding type

   historical_record

   Finding

   No qualifying asbestos litigation naming this hull under any designation was located in completed searches: (a) CourtListener web UI this session - 'AMC-141' opinion-index query returned 0 results (a real exact-name negative, HTTP 200 page titled '0 Results'); (b) the canonical record's same-day web-index spot checks surfaced only marketing listicles naming the ship (mesothelioma.com minesweeper jobsites table 'USS Control | AM-164 | Admirable | 5/11/1944 | Scrapped, 1959'; mesotheliomahelp.org minesweeper list - name-list mentions only, excluded per source rules) and one unrelated name collision (Edmonds, USS Saratoga asbestos case, M.D. Fla. 2022 - 'control' as ordinary text); (c) this session's authenticated API query ('AMC-141', type=o) returned HTTP 429 - logged blocked, not retried into a ban; subsequent web-UI queries ('AMc-141' type=o, 'AMC-141' type=r dockets, 'USS Control' both indexes) returned HTTP 202 anti-bot challenge pages and could not complete - 'Control' is a high-collision term whose 'USS Control' docket sweep is owed in any future pass; (d) sister-hull precedent: completed sweeps for Admirable AM-136 (batch-1169), Eagle AM-132 (batch-1165), and Bombard AM-151 (batch-1175) returned zero qualifying litigation, and sibling batch-1484's completed 'AMC-139' UI sweep returned 0 opinions - consistent with this result but not a substitute for the unrun passes.

   Verification

   verified

   Role

   negative_finding

   Documentation level

   ship_specific

   Accessed

   2026-09-22

   Study period

   2026-09-22

   Limitations

   Negative finding from index search is not proof no claim was ever filed - CourtListener coverage skews to digitized federal opinions and RECAP dockets; state-court filings and non-digitized dockets are underrepresented. The authenticated API structured pass remains UNRUN at both levels (shared 2,800/day quota exhausted by parallel batch runs; HTTP 429, ~2.5h to reset), and the web UI went behind an HTTP 202 anti-bot challenge after the first completed query - only the 'AMC-141' opinion-index negative is a completed result; the 'AMc-141' variant, the RECAP docket sweep, and all 'USS Control' queries are open re-run items, recorded honestly rather than rounded up to 'no litigation.'

   Atlas source

   true

   Evidence ID

   ev-uss-control-amc141-05

6. [6]DANFS AM-164 entry (vessel type, builder, 1942-43 construction) + NAVSHIPS 250-011 / NavSource propulsion data (diesel plant) - era/type assessment maintained at uss-control-am164 ev-05, era-level citations (Corn & Starr 1987; Fleischer et al. 1946, PMID 21016030) at ev-06 [nhhc_danfs]

   Locator

   NAVSHIPS 250-011 propulsion row + NavSource 11/02164 propulsion line ('Two 1,710shp ALCO 539 diesel engines, Farrel-Birmingham single reduction gear, two shafts'); DANFS construction/service dates; canonical rows ev-uss-control-am164-05, ev-uss-control-am164-06

   Finding type

   asbestos_application

   Finding

   Era/type inference for the physical hull - built as AM-164, a steel Admirable-class fleet minesweeper at Willamette Iron & Steel, Portland, 1942-43, during the period when asbestos supply was federally reserved for shipbuilding - plausibly carried period-standard asbestos-containing materials in applications typical for the type: exhaust-system and muffler lagging, machinery gaskets and packing, electrical-cable insulation, accommodation/galley joiner insulation, winch/windlass and minesweep-gear brake linings, and deck coverings. Because the plant was diesel direct-drive (two ALCO 539 engines, Farrel-Birmingham single reduction gear, no boilers or steam distribution), the dominant WWII asbestos pathway aboard steam vessels - boiler and steam-line lagging - did not exist on this hull, and the era inference is correspondingly weaker. This inference applies identically here because AMc-141 is the same hull's pre-construction designation.

   Verification

   inferred

   Role

   supporting

   Documentation level

   class_or_era

   Accessed

   2026-09-22

   Study period

   1942-1959

   Population

   Willamette construction trades (1942-43); U.S. crew 1944-46; reserve-fleet caretakers 1946-59; scrapping workers 1959

   Limitations

   Inference from documented design, machinery type, and construction era - NOT a hull materials record. No survey, specification, or material schedule naming Control, AM-164, AMc-141, or MSF-164 was located; establishes no asbestos content, quantity, location, condition, individual exposure, or causation. Applies to the built hull AM-164; the AMc-141 designation itself carried no ship and so has no asbestos history of its own. The hull was scrapped after U.S. sale in 1959 - no present-day survey pathway exists.

   Atlas source

   true

   Evidence ID

   ev-uss-control-amc141-06

7. [7]Atlas shipyard dataset record 'willamette-iron-steel' (shipyards.json): Willamette Iron & Steel Corporation, Portland, OR (aliases WISCO, Willamette Shipyard), WWII peak employment 12,000, evidence_tier 3, asbestos_products_documented 'Pabco (Fibreboard)' [other_primary]

   Locator

   shipyards.json record 'willamette-iron-steel' (evidence row ev-willamette-01, verification_status 'disputed'); Lineaweaver v. Plant Insulation Co., 31 Cal. App. 4th 1409 (1995); canonical rows ev-uss-control-am164-08, ev-uss-control-am164-09

   Finding type

   asbestos_application

   Finding

   Builder-yard context: the Atlas shipyards dataset carries Willamette Iron & Steel - the contract holder for the AMc-141 order and builder of the hull as AM-164 - at evidence_tier 3 with one yard-level asbestos finding: 'Pabco (Fibreboard) used as fill-in insulation on ships at Willamette in the 1960s and 1970s' (Lineaweaver v. Plant Insulation Co., 31 Cal. App. 4th 1409, 1995). WWII peak employment 12,000. The canonical record additionally carries the published Ninth Circuit opinion Albina Engine & Machine v. Director, OWCP, 627 F.3d 1293 (9th Cir. 2010) - a stipulated mesothelioma death of WISCO carpenter James McAllister, whose documented WISCO employment window was 1956.

   Verification

   partial

   Role

   context

   Documentation level

   context_only

   Accessed

   2026-09-22

   Study period

   1942-1944 (construction window); findings cover 1956 and 1960s-1970s

   Population

   Willamette Iron & Steel trades, 1941-1945 peak (this hull's construction window as AM-164)

   Limitations

   Yard-level documentation, not a hull record - and weaker than usual: the documented finding covers 1960s-70s repair work (Lineaweaver) and a 1956 employment window (Albina Engine), both post-dating this hull's 1942-43 construction by more than a decade, and the dataset itself flags the Lineaweaver finding 'disputed' (the opinion names only 'Willamette Shipyard'; identification as Willamette Iron & Steel of Portland is an inference the source does not make). Unlike her Project Hula sisters, this hull did survive into the 1959 U.S. sale/scrapping window, so the yard's postwar repair-era row is at least temporally adjacent to her custodial tail - but it still establishes nothing about materials aboard this hull; carried so the yard link is transparent, not as exposure evidence.

   Atlas source

   true

   Evidence ID

   ev-uss-control-amc141-07