Evidence
10 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-10).
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[1]research packet 882-packet.md [other_primary]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERIFIED
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-corinth-pc1547-pkt-882-packet-md
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[2]NavSource Online, Submarine Chaser Photo Archive: Corinth (PC 1547) ex-PC-1547 (timeline, specifications block, photo record, call sign NITQ) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource Corinth (PC 1547) page - timeline block and specifications block
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NavSource timeline for this hull: laid down 4 December 1943 by Consolidated Shipbuilding Corp., Morris Heights, NY; launched 8 February 1944; commissioned USS PC-1547 at 11:30am on Saturday 8 July 1944 at the New York Navy Yard, Brooklyn, NY; decommissioned in January 1947 at Green Cove Springs, FL and laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Florida Group; named Corinth 15 February 1956; 'Fate unknown.' Specifications: 450 t displacement; 173'8" x 23' x 10'10"; 20.2 kts; complement 65; one 3"/50 dual-purpose mount, one 40mm, five 20mm, two depth-charge projectors, two depth-charge tracks, two rocket launchers; two 2,880 bhp General Motors 16-278A diesels (serial nos. 7319 and 7320), Farrel-Birmingham single-reduction gear, two shafts. NavSource catalogs this hull under its 'PC-533 Class Submarine Chaser' label and states no DANFS history exists; crew-donated photographs include the collection of Frank DeRoeck, crew member July 1944 - late 1945.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 1943-1956
- Population
- Consolidated Shipbuilding construction trades 1943-44; wartime crew (design complement 65)
- Limitations
- Photographic-archive compilation, not a primary registry - but its milestone dates corroborate independently against shipbuildinghistory's yard table and five contemporaneous war diaries. 'PC-533 class' is NavSource's house label for the PC-1546+ construction block; standard references (uboat.net, Wikipedia class article) place PC-1547 in the PC-461 class - the same standard 173-ft design. Contains no asbestos or materials information.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-corinth-pc1547-01
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[3]NARA, file unit 'PC-1547, 7/8/44-6/11/46' (NAID 192136515; RG 24 Muster Rolls of U.S. Navy Ships, Stations, and Other Naval Activities; Roll 6034; 213 images) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NARA catalog file unit NAID 192136515
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Ship-specific personnel record digitized in the NARA catalog: muster rolls for PC-1547 spanning the entire commissioned period, 8 July 1944 through 11 June 1946 - the name-by-name crew rosters for this hull.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 1944-1946
- Population
- All hands, PC-1547, 1944-1946
- Limitations
- Rosters document who served aboard, not conditions aboard; contains no asbestos or materials information. Useful to researchers corroborating claimed service aboard this hull. Not individually reviewed.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-corinth-pc1547-02
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[4]NARA, USS MIGHT (PG-94) War Diary, 11/1-30/44 (NAID 78707998; RG 38 WWII War Diaries; Fold3 file 292558429; 9 pages read in full) [other_primary]
- Locator
- War diary entries for 7 and 8 November 1944, diary pp. 2-3 (Fold3 images 1108-1109), NARA NAID 78707998
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Contemporaneous primary record naming this hull in the Atlantic: the Might war diary records that on 7 November 1944, while Might was on patrol duty off the U.S. East Coast (positions around 38-29N 71-45W), it went to general quarters at 2010 investigating a radar contact and at '2012 Target identified at [as] U.S.S. PC 1547'; again on 8 November 1944 at 2235 GQ for a radar contact, '2259 Target identified as U.S.S. PC 1547.' Might was a Coast Guard-crewed patrol gunboat of the Tompkinsville (Staten Island) Naval Frontier Base group working Eastern Sea Frontier patrol/convoy duty - the entries place PC-1547 operating in the same Western Atlantic/Eastern Sea Frontier operating area in November 1944, four months after commissioning.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 1944-11
- Population
- PC-1547 crew; Might (PG-94) crew
- Limitations
- Documents two radar-contact identifications of this hull by name, not her mission or task organization - consistent with Eastern Sea Frontier patrol/escort duty but the diary does not state her orders. Contains no asbestos or materials information.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-corinth-pc1547-03
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[5]NARA, USS KENMORE (AK-221) War Diary, 7/1-31/45 (NAID 83569877; RG 38 WWII War Diaries; Fold3 file 300337211; 6 pages read in full) [other_primary]
- Locator
- War diary entries for 17-27 July 1945 (diary p.1) and 28 July 1945 (diary p.3), NARA NAID 83569877
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Contemporaneous primary record naming this hull as convoy Escort Commander in the Pacific: on 17 July 1945 Kenmore departed Pearl Harbor for Eniwetok in convoy PD 500-T, 'with escorts, U.S.S. PG 1547, Escort Commander (Lt. George M. BROOKS, USNR), U.S.S. PC 812 in screening stations'; arriving Eniwetok 27 July. The same diary's 28 July entry - written by the same diarist - records Task Unit 96.6.7 departing Eniwetok for Guam composed of 'USS KENMORE (AK-221) (CTU 96.6.7), USS PC 1547 Escort Commander (Lt. George M. BROOKS USNR), USS PC 812, USS PC 1149.' The 'PG 1547' spelling on the first page is a typist's error - no vessel PG-1547 existed; the second entry's 'PC 1547' confirms the hull. PC-1547 thus carried a named officer, Lt. George M. Brooks, USNR, embarked as escort commander of both convoy legs, placing this hull in the Central Pacific by mid-July 1945.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 1945-07
- Population
- PC-1547 crew incl. Lt. George M. Brooks, USNR (escort commander); Kenmore, PC-812, PC-1149 crews
- Limitations
- Documents escort-commander duty for two convoy legs naming this hull; whether Lt. Brooks was PC-1547's commanding officer or a unit commander embarked aboard is not stated in the diary. Contains no asbestos or materials information.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-corinth-pc1547-04
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[6]NARA, USS GILMORE (DE-18) War Diary, 9/1-30/45 (NAID 77516381; RG 38 WWII War Diaries; Fold3 file 300766349; 6 pages read in full) [other_primary]
- Locator
- War diary entries for 1, 4, 5, and 10 September 1945 (diary pp. 1-4), NARA NAID 77516381
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Contemporaneous primary record naming this hull on convoy-screen duty in the Marianas-Okinawa shuttle: on 1 September 1945 Gilmore was 'designated CTU 94.19.18 which consists of this vessel and U.S.S. PC 1547 and is screen for Convoy SOK-32' (ComLST Group 98 in USS LST-1126 as OTC), Saipan to Okinawa, anchoring Buckner Bay 4 September; on 5 September the two vessels formed the screen for convoy OKS-24, Okinawa to Saipan; on 10 September both were detached from OKS-24 and anchored in the outer harbor at Saipan.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 1945-09
- Population
- PC-1547 crew; Gilmore (DE-18) crew; convoy SOK-32 and OKS-24 ship crews
- Limitations
- Documents ten days of convoy-screen service naming this hull; contains no asbestos or materials information.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-corinth-pc1547-05
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[7]NARA, three war diaries documenting this hull's patrol/station duty and homeward passage: USS PC-1569 10/1-11/2/45 (NAID 77593485); USS PC-1257 11/1-30/45 (NAID 140082104); USS O'FLAHERTY (DE-340) 10/1-11/30/45 (NAID 77593301) - all read in full [other_primary]
- Locator
- PC-1569 diary 4-7 October entry (p.1), NAID 77593485; PC-1257 October diary 14 October entry and November diary 23 November entry, NAIDs 77552721 and 140082104; O'Flaherty diary 2 November entry (p.5), NAID 77593301
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Contemporaneous primary records naming this hull across the Oct-Nov 1945 Marianas-Truk arc: PC-1569's diary records '0733 on 7th [October] relieved by U.S.S. PC-1547' - PC-1547 took over air-sea-rescue patrol station number seven off the north shore of Guam under CTU 94.7.1. PC-1257's October diary records 'USS PC-1547 came alongside and relieved us of patrol at 0900' on 14 October at Truk. O'Flaherty's diary records that on 2 November she made rendezvous and was 'relieved by PC 1547 at 0827,' PC-1547 taking over station-ship duty at Truk (Moen anchorage) under CTU 94.7.1 dispatch 010016 during the Japanese-garrison evacuation period. PC-1257's November diary then records PC-1547 departing Guam 23 November 1945 for Pearl Harbor in Task Unit 94.19.6 (Lt. B. Lasswell in USS PC-570, guide) with PC-581, PC-824, PC-813, PC-1547 and PC-1257, refueling at Eniwetok 27 November.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 1945-10 to 1945-11
- Population
- PC-1547 crew; PC-1257, PC-1569, PC-570, PC-581, PC-813, PC-824, O'Flaherty crews
- Limitations
- Documents patrol, station-ship, and homeward-convoy movements naming this hull; 'station ship' duty at Truk is consistent with harbor-entrance control during the Japanese garrison evacuation, though the diaries do not spell out her orders in those words. Contains no asbestos or materials information.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-corinth-pc1547-06
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[8]ShipbuildingHistory (Tim Colton), Consolidated Shipbuilding yard production table, Morris Heights NY [other_primary]
- Locator
- ShipbuildingHistory Consolidated Shipbuilding table, PC 1547 row
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Builder-yard record for this hull: PC 1547 appears in the Consolidated Shipbuilding Corp. (Morris Heights, NY) production table as a US Navy 'Sub Chaser,' 463d type / 173 ft, dated 8-Jul-44, annotated 'Named Corinth 1956' - consistent with the NavSource timeline and confirming the 8 July commissioning date over uboat.net's 7 July variant. The table documents Consolidated's wartime PC construction run in the PC-1546-PC-1569 block for the Navy.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 1943-1944
- Population
- Consolidated Shipbuilding construction trades, Morris Heights, 1943-44
- Limitations
- Specialist secondary compilation (yard production tables), corroborating - not a primary yard ledger. No yard hull number is given for this hull (table cell blank). Contains no asbestos or materials information.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-corinth-pc1547-07
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[9]U.S. Naval Institute, Naval History Magazine, 'Historic Fleets' by A. D. Baker III (February 1996): PC-461-class program history [other_primary]
- Locator
- USNI Naval History 'Historic Fleets' Feb 1996 (class program); NavSource specifications block (diesel plant)
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Era/class inference: a PC-461-design submarine chaser built 1943-44 to the standard 173-ft steel design (403 craft in the original program; 15 yards participated; 24 completed as PGM gunboats; 35 adapted as amphibious control vessels) with a diesel propulsion plant - two General Motors 16-278A diesels, no boilers or steam system - would have carried era-standard asbestos applications appropriate to a diesel patrol craft: exhaust and machinery insulation, gaskets and packing, electrical insulation, brake linings on winches and windlass, and deck coverings - but no boiler or steam-line lagging.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 1943-1947
- Population
- Consolidated Shipbuilding construction trades 1943-44; wartime crew
- Limitations
- Class/era inference only - NOT a hull-specific finding. No material survey, insulation inventory, or work package for PC-1547 exists in located records; the diesel plant means the largest asbestos categories of steam ships do not apply. Does not quantify material or establish any individual's exposure.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-corinth-pc1547-08
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[10]Batch-7764 search ledger (this record): NHHC/DANFS (no entry exists); NavSource; NARA catalog (muster rolls + seven war diaries read in full); shipbuildinghistory; NavalCoverMuseum (no page); uboat.net; USNI; Wikipedia class article; CourtListener API v4 via fleet helper (see search_ledger for status at file time) [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-corinth-pc1547-01 through sl-uss-corinth-pc1547-11
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located for PC-1547: no hull ACM survey, abatement contract, regulatory or museum hazmat disclosure, or qualifying asbestos litigation naming this hull was found in the public sources searched (see search_ledger for query coverage). CAVEAT: only one of the four required CourtListener base queries reached the index this session - 'USS Corinth' docket returned 87 hits, all name collisions on the examined first page (Corinth, Mississippi litigants/places; no vessel-related case); the other three base queries and the authorized asbestos variant were blocked all session by the shared fleet pacing budget - logged as blocked, not as a negative result.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 2026-10-03
- Limitations
- Absence of a located public record does not prove absence of asbestos aboard - era materials could have been present by class/era inference - and the litigation repository search is a genuine open gap (3 of 4 base queries never reached the index). 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-corinth-pc1547-09