Evidence
14 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-14).
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[1]research packet ln-packet.md (1 sources cited) [other_primary]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERDICT: VERIFIED — real identity: USS Cook — hull DE-714 (assigned at laydown), redesignated APD-130 before launch (S).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-cook-de714-pkt-ln-packet-md
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[2]DANFS, Cook (APD-130) (namesake biographies, construction, service narrative through 1960; verbatim transcription - live NHHC page serves 404) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS entry, specifications block + namesake paragraphs + full service narrative
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS record for this hull: launched 26 August 1944 by Defoe Shipbuilding Co., Bay City, Mich., sponsored by Mrs. A. F. Cook, mother of second lieutenant Cook and sergeant Cook; commissioned 25 April 1945, Lt. Comdr. D. N. Hamilton, USNR, in command. Sailed Norfolk 19 June 1945 for San Diego (arriving 2 July) for training; arrived Tokyo 20 September carrying underwater demolition teams; troops to Okinawa; reconnoitered Hakodate before its occupation; home via Guam, Eniwetok, Pearl Harbor to San Diego, arriving 13 November; January troop transport along the west coast; out of commission in reserve 31 May 1946, San Diego. Recommissioned 6 October 1953; training and landing exercises off San Diego; Mare Island Naval Shipyard conversion to an APD flagship 28 November 1953-15 March 1954; sailed for the Far East 19 November; amphibious exercises off Korea; flagship for Operation 'Passage to Freedom' (refugee evacuation from North Vietnam) 21 January-19 May 1955; San Diego 12 June 1955; primary control vessel/antisubmarine ship exercises, combined operation with Canadian forces November; submarine-target duty; Kauai amphibious exercise as control vessel from 21 March 1956; San Diego 23 April 1956; departed 22 August 1957 for WestPac tour based at Yokosuka, standing by off Borneo during the Indonesian crisis 14-22 December; San Diego 10 April 1958; Far East cruise 13 October 1959-29 April 1960; west coast operations through 1960. Specs block: dp. 1,450; l. 306'; b. 36'10"; dr. 13'; s. 24 k.; cpl. 256; a. 1 5"; cl. Crosley. Namesakes: 2d Lt. Andrew Fred Cook Jr., USMC (b. 2 January 1920, Alpoca, W.Va.; KIA Guadalcanal 4 November 1942, Navy Cross) and Sgt. Dallas Harry Cook, USMC (b. 19 May 1921, Robinette, W.Va.; KIA Makin Island raid 18 August 1942, Navy Cross).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1944-1960 (DANFS coverage)
- Population
- Defoe Shipbuilding construction trades 1944-45; wartime and postwar crew (cpl. 256 per DANFS); embarked UDT detachments and troops; Mare Island NSY workers during the 1953-54 flagship conversion
- Limitations
- DANFS documents identity, builder, service history, and specifications - not materials or asbestos content. Transcribed entry ends at 1960 (entry predates the 1969 disposal); disposition rests on USNI/NavSource. Live NHHC page returns 404 (documented link-rot pattern); verbatim ibiblio/HyperWar transcription cited. The DE number and the 7 May 1944 keel date are not stated in this DANFS text - they rest on the BuShips SDB 1945 rows and secondary compilations.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-cook-de714-01
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[3]Bureau of Ships, Ships' Data, U.S. Naval Vessels, 1945 edition, Vol. III (NAVSHIPS 250-012, 15 April 1945), Auxiliaries - High Speed Transports (APD) section, per-hull rows for COOK APD-130; plus Vol. II alphabetical index entry 'Cook (ex-DE714) ... APD130' (shipscribe.com scan of the official wartime publication) [other_primary]
- Locator
- SDB 1945 v3, APD section pp. ~286-297 (characteristics/accommodations/machinery/armament/construction tables; construction row p. ~297); SDB 1945 v2 alphabetical vessel index 'Cook (ex-DE714)'
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Official BuShips Ships' Data 1945 carries per-hull rows for COOK (APD-130): construction row 'Defoe S. B. Co., Bay City, Mich. | keel laid 7 May 44 | launched 26 Aug 44 | first commission 25 Apr 45 | COOK ... APD130'; machinery row '2 propellers, do. [G.E. turbo-elec.], 12,000 shp, 2 boilers, do. ["D" Exp type], 435 psi, 750 deg F'; accommodations row 'limiting displacement 2,130 t, 20 tons/inch immersion, limiting draft 12'7", 192 enlisted ship's company, troop capacity 12 officers + 150 enlisted, largest boom 10 t'. The Vol. II alphabetical index lists 'Cook (ex-DE714) ... APD130, Auxiliary - High Speed Transport' - the contemporaneous official confirmation that this hull was built as DE-714 (the same index separately lists 'Cooke, DE-267' and 'Cook Inlet, AVP-36').
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1945 (publication); construction 1944-45
- Population
- Accommodations documented: 192 enlisted ship's company + 12 officers/150 enlisted troop capacity
- Limitations
- Contemporaneous official Navy data naming this hull - the strongest identity/specification source in the file, published 15 April 1945 (10 days before commissioning, so some entries reflect as-planned state). Documents machinery, accommodations, and construction milestones; contains no asbestos or insulation-material statements. The ship's-company officers cell in the accommodations row is illegible in the scan (class-consistent value is 12); the name column for this hull in the dimensions table is OCR-garbled, so dimensional values are carried at class level only.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-cook-de714-02
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[4]Robert J. Cressman, 'Historic Fleets - A Cook With Plenty To Do,' Naval History (U.S. Naval Institute) Vol. 29 No. 2, April 2015 (via Wayback capture 2024-09-10; live page returns 403 to automated fetch) [reputable_press]
- Locator
- Naval History Apr 2015 article text (namesake/SecNav paragraph; construction paragraph; Stanvac Sumatra photo caption; Tra Bong River narrative; LPR-130 reclassification and disposal paragraphs; Crosley-class spec box)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- USNI Naval History feature for this hull: after the Navy informed Mrs. Cook that the name was assigned to a destroyer escort, she asked that it honor both sons; Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox approved adding Sgt. Dallas H. Cook on 20 April 1944. Defoe laid the ship down 7 May 1944; need for high-speed transports to replace flush-decker conversions resulted in reclassification to APD-130 on 17 July; launched 26 August; fitted out at the Naval Frontier Base, Burrwood, La.; commissioned 25 April 1945, LCDR Drayton N. Hamilton, USNR. Post-1960 record (beyond DANFS): UDT frogmen embarked in Cook helped rescue 25 survivors of the foundering tanker Stanvac Sumatra 28 January 1962 in the South China Sea; shifted to the Caribbean for contingency operations during late-1962 Cuba tension; 23 April 1965 Tra Bong River (South Vietnam) reconnaissance - VC ambush killed EN2 Richard H. Langford, mortally wounded TM3 William R. Fuhrman, and fatally wounded Marine Cpl. Lowell H. Merrell aboard; four more Vietnam deployments, two Meritorious Unit Commendations and five engagement stars; reclassified amphibious transport (small) LPR-130 on 1 January 1969; judged 'inadequate to meet future Amphibious Warfare requirements' with modernization 'prohibitively costly'; returned to San Diego 24 September 1969; decommissioned 15 November 1969; stricken from the Naval Vessel Register simultaneously; moved to the Inactive Ship Facility, San Diego; towed 24 July 1970 by the tug Pacific Genie to National Metal and Steel Corporation.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1944-1970
- Population
- Crew 1962-1969 incl. Vietnam deployments; embarked UDT and Marine detachments
- Limitations
- Secondary feature journalism (USNI/Cressman) citing official records - the only located source covering the 1960-1969 decade and the disposal. The article twice prints 'DE-719' for the construction designation - a misprint (DE-719 was sister hull Weiss, APD-135); correction documented in ev-04. Documents operations and disposition, not materials or asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-cook-de714-03
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[5]Designation correction: USNI Naval History (Apr 2015) prints 'DE-719' twice (name-assignment paragraph and construction paragraph); the contemporaneous BuShips Ships' Data 1945 Vol. II index reads 'Cook (ex-DE714) ... APD130,' and NavSource, Wikipedia, and the Naval Cover Museum concur. DE-719 was the sister hull that became APD-135 (USS Weiss). [reputable_press]
- Locator
- SDB 1945 v2 alphabetical index line 'Cook (ex-DE714) APD130'; USNI article paragraphs; NavSource APD-130 page chronology ('Laid down 7 May 1944 as Cook (DE-714)')
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Canonical construction designation corrected to DE-714: the ship was ordered as Rudderow-class DE-714, reclassified Crosley-class APD-130 on 17 July 1944 during construction, and completed as a high-speed transport. The USNI feature's 'DE-719' reading is rejected: BuShips' own 1945 index names 'Cook (ex-DE714),' and the sequential Defoe hull run (DE-710 Gosselin/APD-126 through DE-720 Carpelotti/APD-136) places DE-714 at APD-130. This record consolidates DE-714, APD-130, and LPR-130 as one physical vessel; other same-name hulls (Cooke DE-267; Cook Inlet AVP-36; Cook FF-1083, a later Knox-class frigate of a different namesake) are separate vessels, not aliases.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- correction
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1944
- Limitations
- The correction rests on the official SDB index entry plus concordant secondary compilations; the USNI misprint is documented, not silently overridden. A pre-1944 Navy letter assigning the name to a specific hull number was not located.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-cook-de714-04
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[6]U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, 'Navy and Coast Guard Ships Associated with Service in Vietnam and Exposure to Herbicide Agents' (ships list, tf116.org mirror of the VA compilation), p. 18 entry for USS Cook [other_primary]
- Locator
- Vietnam_Ship_List.pdf p. 18, alphabetical entry 'USS Cook (APD-130)'
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- The VA's official ships list names this hull by designation: 'USS Cook (APD-130) [High Speed Transport] conducted tactical beach surveys with crew members ashore along Vietnam coast during June and July 1966' - a government vessel roster documenting in-country operations with crew ashore (the criterion the list applies for Agent Orange exposure presumption under 38 CFR 3.307(a)(6)(iii)).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1966
- Population
- Cook crew members ashore on tactical beach surveys, Vietnam coast, June-July 1966
- Limitations
- Herbicide-exposure (Agent Orange) documentation, not an asbestos record - the list exists for VA presumption adjudication. It establishes the hull's June-July 1966 in-country operations window and that crew went ashore; it says nothing about shipboard materials, asbestos, or any individual's exposure to anything.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-cook-de714-05
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[7]NavSource Online Amphibious Photo Archive, USS Cook (APD-130) (construction designation, chronology, campaign/awards table, commanding officers, specifications, disposal) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource APD-130 page - chronology block, awards/campaigns tables, commanding-officers table, specifications block, final disposition line
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NavSource record for this hull: 'Laid down, 7 May 1944, as Cook (DE-714), a Rudderow Class Destroyer Escort, at Defoe Shipbuilding Co., Bay City, MI'; launched 26 August 1944; redesignated Crosley-class high-speed transport while under construction; commissioned USS Cook (APD-130) 25 April 1945, LCDR Drayton N. Hamilton, USNR. WWII assignment Asiatic-Pacific, TransRon Twenty-Three (COMO A. S. Witherspoon) / TransDiv One Hundred Eight; occupation service 4 September-18 October 1945; decommissioned 31 May 1946 at San Diego, Pacific Reserve Fleet San Diego Group; recommissioned 6 October 1953, CDR Wendell C. Mackey. Vietnam campaign table: Vietnam Advisory Campaign periods 1960-1965; Vietnamese Counteroffensive Phases II-V (1966-1969); Tet Counteroffensive 1968; Tet 69/Counteroffensive; Vietnam Summer-Fall 1969 - seven Vietnam campaign stars plus Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal (Quemoy-Matsu, Cuba, Vietnam), Combat Action Ribbon (21 and 23 April 1965, 12 May and 1 July 1969), Navy Meritorious Unit Commendation (29-31 July 1966). Redesignated LPR-130 1 January 1969; decommissioned and struck from the Naval Register 15 November 1969 at NOB San Diego; sold for scrapping 24 July 1970 to National Metal & Steel Corp., Terminal Island, CA. Specs: 1,400 t; 306' ovl x 37' x 12'7" limiting; 23.6 kts trial; 6,000 nm at 12 kt; complement 12-15 officers + 189-192 enlisted, troop accommodations 12 officers/150 enlisted; four LCVP; one 5"/38 DP, three twin 40mm, six single 20mm, two depth-charge tracks; propulsion two Combustion Engineering 'D' Express boilers, two GE turbines (turbo-electric drive), twin propellers, 12,000 shp.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1944-1970
- Population
- Crew 1945-46 and 1953-69; embarked UDT/Marine detachments; Vietnam-era crew (1960, 1962, 1963, 1965-69 periods)
- Limitations
- Secondary compilation citing official records and photo captions - not itself a primary document. The 15 November 1969 strike and 24 July 1970 sale rest on NavSource's compilation and concur with USNI; no primary NVR extract was located. Boiler maker 'Combustion Engineering' is NavSource's compilation (SDB lists only boiler type '"D" Exp'). Documents operations and machinery, not materials or asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-cook-de714-06
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[8]Bert C. Brennan, 'Fighting Ships from Bay City,' Inland Seas, July 1945 (republished by the National Museum of the Great Lakes) - contemporaneous account of the Defoe Shipbuilding DE/APD program [other_primary]
- Locator
- NMGL republication of the July 1945 Inland Seas article (Defoe yard description, DE/APD program paragraphs, delivery-route narrative)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Contemporaneous (July 1945) account of Cook's builder during her construction and delivery window: Defoe Shipbuilding, Bay City, employed ~4,000 and by mid-1945 had produced seventeen destroyer escorts plus 'auxiliary personnel destroyers (APD)' among ~135 wartime hulls; describes the Defoe DE/APD as powered by 'steam turbo-electric drive, oil fired express type boilers' with 5.6 miles of pipe, ~105 miles of single-conductor wire, 2,010 valves, and 9,018 pipe fittings; documents the 'roll-over' build method and the delivery route down the Illinois and Mississippi rivers to New Orleans 'where the ship is refitted, handed over to the Navy and commissioned' - the pattern Cook followed (commissioned New Orleans/Burrwood area 25 April 1945).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1941-1945
- Population
- Defoe Shipbuilding workforce (~4,000 employees, 1941-45); civilian delivery crews (Capt. William H. Booth Sr.)
- Limitations
- Program-level journalism contemporary with construction - documents the builder, machinery type, build method, and delivery/commission pattern, not materials; contains no asbestos statement. Defoe Shipbuilding is NOT in the Atlas shipyard dataset (37 yard_ids checked) - the missing yard is carried in gaps rather than mapped.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-cook-de714-07
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[9]Consolidated era/design inference - BuShips SDB 1945 v3 machinery row for this hull + DANFS-documented Mare Island NSY availability + Atlas shipyard dataset, Mare Island record (litigation-documented ACM products at yard level) [other_primary]
- Locator
- SDB 1945 v3 machinery row COOK APD130; DANFS narrative (Mare Island 1953-54); Atlas shipyards.json record 'mare-island-naval-shipyard'
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Era/yard inference: a Crosley-class high-speed transport completed April 1945 on a Rudderow-class destroyer-escort hull, with a turbo-electric steam plant (two 'D' Express boilers at 435 psi/750 deg F, GE turbo-electric drive, 12,000 shp - official SDB 1945 machinery row for this hull), built at a wartime contract yard during peak asbestos usage, would have carried period-standard asbestos applications - boiler insulation, turbine lagging, steam-line and pipe lagging, gaskets and packing, fireproofing, deck coverings, and bulkhead insulation. Documented naval-shipyard availability where era insulation work would apply: Mare Island NSY APD-flagship conversion 28 November 1953-15 March 1954 (DANFS); Mare Island is a documented asbestos-era yard in the Atlas shipyard dataset (yard-level litigation documentation of ACM products).
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1944-1970
- Population
- Defoe construction trades 1944-45; crew and embarked troops/UDT 1945-69; Mare Island NSY workers Nov 1953-Mar 1954
- Limitations
- Class/era and builder-yard inference only - NOT a hull-specific finding; no ship-specific asbestos row exists in this record. Yard-level ACM documentation at Mare Island does not establish that asbestos work was performed on this hull during the 1953-54 conversion availability. No Defoe yard-level asbestos record was located (Defoe absent from the Atlas yard dataset). NARA RG19 General Information Books and Defoe material schedules not retrieved.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-cook-de714-08
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[10]Fleischer, W.E., Viles, F.J. Jr., Gade, R.L., and Drinker, P., 'A health survey of pipe covering operations in constructing naval vessels,' J Ind Hyg Toxicol 28(1):9-16 (Jan 1946), PMID 21016030 [other_primary]
- Locator
- Abstract and article, J Ind Hyg Toxicol 28(1):9-16
- Finding type
- gov_survey
- Finding
- The U.S. Maritime Commission-commissioned industrial-hygiene survey of WWII pipe-covering operations at Navy yards and Navy contract yards documented that 'an important ingredient of pipe covering material used on U.S. Navy vessels is amosite' - i.e., asbestos insulation was standard material in wartime naval-vessel construction of exactly this hull's era.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- Survey wartime; article 1946
- Population
- WWII shipyard pipe coverers and nearby trades (class context)
- Limitations
- Era-level documentation of asbestos use in naval construction generally; does not name this vessel, class, or builder yard (whether Defoe Shipbuilding was among the surveyed contract yards is unverified) and establishes nothing about this hull's materials, condition, or any individual exposure. Per the Atlas shipyards record, C&EN (July 2026) reported a retraction call for this paper alleging understatement of asbestos hazards - noted for transparency.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-cook-de714-09
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[11]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
- Abstract and article, AJIM 11(3):359-373
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Peer-reviewed historical study documents that asbestos was used extensively as a fireproofing and insulating material in U.S. shipbuilding during WWII - the era and emergency naval construction program under which this Rudderow-hull APD was built - and that wartime demand drove unprecedented asbestos utilization in shipbuilding.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1940s era documented; article 1987
- Population
- WWII shipyard workers and ship crews (class context)
- Limitations
- Program/era-level scholarly documentation of asbestos use in WWII shipbuilding generally; does not name this vessel or class and does not establish that asbestos was or remains aboard this hull, nor quantity, location, condition, exposure, or causation.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-cook-de714-10
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[12]Batch-4495 search ledger (this record): CourtListener API v4 sweeps for "USS Cook", "U.S.S. Cook", "APD-130", "DE-714", "LPR-130", "Cook" + asbestos (opinion and docket indexes) - see search_ledger for per-query disposition [court_record]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-cook-de714-07 through -10
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- No qualifying asbestos litigation naming this hull located. This session's completed sweeps: opinion searches for exact name "USS Cook" and hull number "APD-130" each returned zero hits; "DE-714" returned 7 opinion hits, all identifier collisions on metadata review (incl. Sayers v. DVA, Fed. Cir. 2020, where 'DE-714' matches MSPB docket SF-0714-18-0067-I-1 and 38 U.S.C. 714 references - no vessel). Cross-referenced from the sibling batch-2417 record for this same hull (uss-cook-apd130, verified 2026-09-25): "LPR-130" returned 2 opinion hits, both Puerto Rico Supreme Court ('LPR' = Laws of Puerto Rico citation - collisions); the "APD-130" docket sweep returned 1 hit (Sims v. Wingate Management Co., N.D. Ga. 1:22-cv-01696, premises personal-injury; 'APD' = Atlanta Police Department - collision, non-vessel, non-asbestos). The "USS Cook"/"U.S.S. Cook" docket-index layer could not be completed in either session - the shared fleet quota was paced throughout; logged as a blocked gap rather than retried into a ban. Residual collision hazards: a later USS Cook (Knox-class frigate FF-1083, in commission 1971-1992, different namesake) shares the name, and 'Cook' is a common surname - any future hit requires hull-number or service-window confirmation.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 2026-09-29
- Limitations
- Absence of located litigation does not prove absence of exposure or of asbestos aboard. Public court indexes do not cover non-indexed state-court filings, settled cases, or asbestos trust claims. 'Cook' is a high-collision surname - any future hit requires hull-number or service-window confirmation before attribution to this vessel; same-name hulls (Cooke DE-267, Cook Inlet AVP-36, Cook FF-1083) require designation-level disambiguation.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-cook-de714-11
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[13]Batch-4495 search ledger (this record): NHHC DANFS (via verbatim HyperWar/ibiblio transcription; live NHHC page 404s), BuShips Ships' Data 1945 vols. II-III, USNI Naval History, VA ships list, NavSource, NMGL/Inland Seas, CourtListener, Atlas shipyard dataset, MARAD/NDRF, NARA catalog, open-web lead detection - none contains a ship-specific asbestos record for this hull [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-cook-de714-01 through -13
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, court finding, or docketed asbestos case naming USS Cook / DE-714 / APD-130 / LPR-130 was found in the public sources searched (see search_ledger).
- 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 1944-45 wartime steam-hull construction is era-consistent with asbestos-containing insulation. Does not establish that asbestos is or is not present; does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-cook-de714-12
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[14]NARA Guide to Federal Records: RG 24 (Navy deck logs), RG 19 (Bureau of Ships), RG 181 (Mare Island NSY); Crosley-class Booklet of General Plans, 1945 (APD-117/118/119, Consolidated Steel), archive.org item apdcrosleybogp1945 (NARA RG 19 'Alphabetical Series of Ship Engineering Drawings, 1789-1967') [other_primary]
- Locator
- https://www.archives.gov/research/guide-fed-records/groups/024.html ; https://www.archives.gov/research/guide-fed-records/groups/019.html ; https://archive.org/details/apdcrosleybogp1945
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Archival leads: (a) DIGITIZED deck logs exist for this hull - NARA Catalog monthly file units 'Cook (APD-130)', RG 24, scanned under the VA Blue Water Navy Deck Log Project (e.g., January 1964 = NARA ID 220441761, October 1964 = NARA ID 220442889; image series APD-130_BWN00075398/BWN00075389); located via the batch-2417 record for this same hull (uss-cook-apd130, 2026-09-25), catalog is a SPA - IDs not re-verifiable by API in-session; (b) NARA RG 19 Bureau of Ships records incl. Rudderow/Crosley General Information Books and material schedules - the class BOGP survives digitized only for Consolidated Steel-built sisters APD-117/118/119 (archive.org apdcrosleybogp1945), not for the Defoe hull; (c) NARA RG 181 Mare Island NSY work packages for the 28 November 1953 - 15 March 1954 APD-flagship conversion - the likeliest hull-level material record; (d) Defoe Shipbuilding records (National Museum of the Great Lakes / local collections, Bay City); (e) NHHC photographic records for APD-130/LPR-130.
- Verification
- unverified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1944-1970 records
- Limitations
- Record-group/collection mapping only - no box-level retrieval performed; existence of asbestos-specific documents for this hull is unknown until surveyed in person. Nothing in this row is an asbestos finding.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-cook-de714-13