Evidence
12 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-12).
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[1]CourtListener opinion search: 'USS Corregidor' [court_record]
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- CourtListener opinion search 'USS Corregidor' returned 0 results (2026-10-07)
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Limitations
- zero-hit search; absence of hits is not proof of no litigation
- Evidence ID
- uss-corregidor-cve58-cl-name-opinion
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[2]CourtListener docket search: 'USS Corregidor' [court_record]
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- CourtListener docket search 'USS Corregidor' returned 15 result(s) (2026-10-07); individual records not reviewed
- Verification
- unverified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Limitations
- hit count only — underlying dockets/opinions not individually reviewed; name query may match same-named vessels
- Evidence ID
- uss-corregidor-cve58-cl-name-docket
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[3]CourtListener opinion search: 'CVE-58' [court_record]
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- CourtListener opinion search 'CVE-58' returned 158 result(s) (2026-10-07); individual records not reviewed
- Verification
- unverified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Limitations
- hit count only — underlying dockets/opinions not individually reviewed
- Evidence ID
- uss-corregidor-cve58-cl-hull-opinion
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[4]CourtListener docket search: 'CVE-58' [court_record]
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- CourtListener docket search 'CVE-58' returned 3737 result(s) (2026-10-07); individual records not reviewed
- Verification
- unverified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Limitations
- hit count only — underlying dockets/opinions not individually reviewed
- Evidence ID
- uss-corregidor-cve58-cl-hull-docket
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[5]DANFS, Corregidor (CVE-58) entry - Naval History Division transcription (live NHHC page 404s on 2026-09-19; verbatim HyperWar/ibiblio transcription, corroborated by hazegray DANFS mirror at losthistory.net) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS Corregidor entry, spec block and construction paragraph; shipbuildinghistory.com kaiservancouver.htm row 304; usmaritimecommission.de MC-1095 record
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS documents construction and identity: ordered as Anguilla Bay (AVG-58; DANFS prints 'Auguilla'), reclassified ACV-58 on 20 August 1942; launched as Corregidor on 12 May 1943 by Kaiser Co., Inc., Vancouver, Wash., under a Maritime Commission contract, sponsored by Mrs. J. Hallett; reclassified CVE-58 on 15 July 1943; acquired by the Navy 31 August 1943 and commissioned the same day, Captain R. L. Bowman in command. Spec block: 7,800 tons; complement 860; 20 knots; class Casablanca. The hull is Kaiser Vancouver yard no. 304, Maritime Commission hull 1095, type S4-S2-BB3 (Kaiser yard table, MC hull database).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-19
- Study period
- 1942-1943
- Population
- Kaiser Vancouver construction trades (1942-43); crew ~860 plus embarked squadron
- Limitations
- Authoritative Navy history for identity and construction milestones; contains no insulation, material, or asbestos information. Live history.navy.mil DANFS page returned 404 on URL variants this session - the verbatim transcription is the cited text. Yard/MC hull numbers corroborated by compiled Kaiser Vancouver production table and the USMC hull database.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-corregidor-cve58-01
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[6]DANFS, Corregidor (CVE-58) entry - service narrative and documented repair/overhaul/inactivation windows [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS Corregidor entry, service and fate paragraphs
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Documented service and material-disturbance-relevant windows: departed San Diego 26 October 1943 for Carrier Division 24 operations at Pearl Harbor; Gilbert Islands air strikes 10 Nov-6 Dec 1943; returned to San Diego 'to undergo repairs' and load aircraft and men (Dec 1943-Jan 1944 window); Kwajalein air cover 22 Jan-3 Mar 1944; Emirau cover 30 Mar; Hollandia air ops 22-26 Apr; Saipan CAP/AA support 15-25 Jun 1944 (at least eight enemy planes); Eniwetok logistics cover 1-3 Jul; Guam softening-up and invasion cover to 28 Jul 1944; 'returned to San Diego for overhaul' (Aug-Oct 1944 window); pilot qualifications Pearl Harbor 12 Oct-21 Nov; hunter-killer group patrols Nov 1944-Feb 1945; ASW patrol Wotje/Maloelap 21 Mar-27 Apr 1945; training ship at Pearl Harbor from 4 May 1945; repatriation voyages Pearl Harbor-San Diego Oct 1945-Jan 1946; cleared San Diego 18 Jan 1946 for Norfolk (arrived 4 Feb), 'placed out of commission in reserve 30 July 1946.' Recommissioned 19 May 1951 for MSTS - NATO ferry runs under the Mutual Defense Assistance Plan plus five Panama Canal transits carrying men and cargo to UN forces in Korea 1952-1954; Lebanon-crisis lift from Brindisi summer 1958; decommissioned 4 September 1958; sold 28 April 1959. Four battle stars for WWII service.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-19
- Study period
- 1943-1959
- Population
- Crew ~860 plus embarked squadron; San Diego repair/overhaul workforces (unnamed facility); Norfolk inactivation workforce; MSTS civil-service mariners (1951-58)
- Limitations
- The repair period (San Diego, winter 1943-44), the overhaul (San Diego, Aug-Oct 1944), the Norfolk inactivation (Feb-Jul 1946), and the 1951 MSTS reactivation are documented as events; no facility is named for the San Diego work and the asbestos rip-out or insulation scope of every window is unrecorded - class/era inference only. Does not establish exposure for any individual worker or crewmember.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-corregidor-cve58-02
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[7]Grossnick, Roy A., 'United States Naval Aviation 1910-1995' (Naval Historical Center/NHHC, 4th ed. 1997), Appendix 3 'Aviation Ships,' Carrier Listing for CVE Designations - official NHHC publication PDF [other_primary]
- Locator
- Appendix 3, 'Carrier Listing for CVE Designations-Continued,' hull 58 row (PDF p. ~421ff of the appendices volume; verified by pdftotext extraction)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Official NHHC carrier table documents the hull's designation and disposition milestones: '58 Corregidor - 31 Aug 1943 / 4 Sep 1958' (commission/decommission dates) - 'CVU 58' designation change dated '12 Jun 1955' - Comments: 'Stricken 1 Oct 1958.' Confirms commissioned 31 August 1943, reclassified CVU-58 on 12 June 1955, decommissioned 4 September 1958, and stricken from the Navy list 1 October 1958; DANFS records the subsequent sale on 28 April 1959.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-19
- Study period
- 1943-1958
- Population
- n/a (register data)
- Limitations
- Official publication verifying the designation-change and disposition dates; contains no insulation, material, or asbestos information. The stricken date (1 Oct 1958) is the NHHC figure; DANFS gives the sale date but no stricken date. Scrapping buyer/location not stated in this or other located sources.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-corregidor-cve58-03
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[8]NavSource Online, Escort Carrier Photo Archive, USS Corregidor (CVE-58, later CVU-58) - naming record, machinery block, MSTS-era documentation, NARA/NHHC-credited photography [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource CVE-58 page - name-history block, machinery block, photo captions NS0305802/-5/-6 (Bremerhaven, hull crack, Lebanon)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- NavSource documents: ACV-58 was named Anguilla Bay on 22 January 1943 ('not Auguilla, as many sources incorrectly spell') for a bay in Maurelle Island, Alexander Archipelago, Alaska; renamed Corregidor 3 April 1943 to commemorate the Philippine garrison surrendered 6 May 1942. Machinery block: 9,000 ihp; 2 Skinner Uniflow engines; 2 screws; 19 knots; crew 860; armament 1 x 5-inch/38, 8 x 40mm, 12 x 20mm; 27 aircraft. MSTS career documented photographically: USNS Corregidor (T-CVU-58) at Bremerhaven 27 February 1956 delivering 21 Sikorsky H-34 and 2 Bell H-13 helicopters of the US Army 587th Transportation Company plus the first H-34G batch for the West German Army (NARA NAID 2569619); circa-1956 deck cargo of cocooned F-86D/K Sabres; an AP Wirephoto caption documents a hull crack in heavy Atlantic seas on 2 April 1958 with an emergency limp to the Azores; Naval Aviation News (Oct 1958) and All Hands (May 1960) photography documents July 1958 Lebanon operations with US Army L-20 Beavers and H-34 Choctaws off the coast. Awards ribbon bar: Asiatic-Pacific Campaign (4 stars), Korean Service, UN Korean, Armed Forces Expeditionary among them.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-19
- Study period
- 1943-1960
- Population
- MSTS civil-service mariners and embarked Army aviation units (1951-58); Azores emergency-repair workforce (Apr 1958)
- Limitations
- Compiled secondary archive consistent with DANFS and NHHC on overlapping facts; the MSTS-era events (Bremerhaven delivery, April 1958 hull crack, Lebanon operations) are documented as photograph-caption events, not work packages - no insulation or asbestos content anywhere on the page. The 2 April 1958 hull-crack date conflicts with a navysite.de accident table reading 3 March 1958 (see gaps). navsource.org did not resolve this session; navsource.net is the live domain.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-corregidor-cve58-04
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[9]U.S. Navy, Bureau of Ships Technical Manual, NAVSHIPS 250-000, Chapter 39 'Thermal Insulation' (1960, page date 15 April 1959) - specification-level document for Navy shipboard insulation materials [other_primary]
- Locator
- BuShips TM ch.39, sections 39-11 through 39-13 (materials)
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- The 1960 BuShips Technical Manual's insulation chapter enumerates the asbestos material suite standard to Navy ships of this hull's construction era: MIL-I-2781 pipe covering including 85% magnesia 'formed from a combination of 85 percent magnesium carbonate with about 15 percent asbestos fiber' and a class 'formed from a uniform mixture of amosite asbestos fibers'; roll asbestos felt MIL-I-15091; asbestos cloth/tape SS-C-466 (80-95% chrysotile) as lagging; asbestos millboard HH-M-351; asbestos finishing cement; molded asbestos block for high-temperature service. This hull's four Babcock & Wilcox boilers, two Skinner Uniflow reciprocating steam engines, and steam piping are the equipment classes these specifications address; her Dec 1942-Aug 1943 Kaiser Vancouver construction sits inside the asbestos-specification era.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-19
- Study period
- 1960 (manual); describes era-standard specifications
- Population
- Kaiser Vancouver construction trades (1942-43); ship's company (~860) and embarked squadrons; repair/overhaul/inactivation workforces 1943-46; MSTS civil-service mariners 1951-58; scrapping-yard workforce 1959-60
- Limitations
- Specification-level documentation of materials the Navy specified, not a ship-specific installation record - establishes the era insulation suite, not what was installed on this hull. The San Diego repair period (1943-44), San Diego overhaul (1944), Norfolk inactivation (1946), and MSTS-era availabilities (1951-58) are material-disturbance events whose insulation scope is undocumented. Retrieved PDF is a scan hosted in the Garlock bankruptcy Daubert-appendix repository; the document itself is the government manual (carried from the 2026-09-16 class-d verification).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-corregidor-cve58-05
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[10]Washington State Department of Ecology, cleanup site page 'Kaiser Shipyard Debris Pile' (csid 1831) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Ecology site record - site history paragraph (Kaiser Vancouver yard role and fill debris); carried from the 2026-09-16 class-d verification
- Finding type
- environmental_record
- Finding
- Official state environmental record for the 'Kaiser Shipyard Debris Pile': in 1942 the site was developed as part of the Kaiser Vancouver Shipyard, which 'was responsible for construction of liberty ships, escort carriers, and transport ships used during World War II'; shipyard debris (metal, pipes, firebrick, ceramics) was used as fill 1940-1946. Confirms the builder yard's escort-carrier construction role - the yard that built this hull (yard no. 304).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-19
- Study period
- 1940-1946 yard operations; periodic review 2024
- Population
- Kaiser Vancouver yard workforce (1940-1946)
- Limitations
- Official record confirming the builder yard's escort-carrier program and industrial debris stream; the record does not itself list asbestos among documented debris constituents. Yard-level context only - documents the builder's environmental record, not materials installed on this hull.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-corregidor-cve58-06
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[11]NARA catalog record: 'USS CORREGIDOR - Act Rep of Ops, 6/10-28/44, Marianas Operation' (NAID 78501727), series 'World War II War Diaries, Other Operational Records and Histories' (HMS/MLRs P 17, UD-WW 46); ship's War Diary held and cited by NavSource contributors (Ron Reeves & Wolfgang Hechler) [other_primary]
- Locator
- catalog.archives.gov NAID 78501727; NavSource CVE-58 commanding-officers page (058co.htm, war-diary sourcing note)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Ship-specific primary operational records exist at NARA: the catalog indexes a USS Corregidor action report for the Marianas operation 10-28 June 1944 (micro serial 77692, serial 0004, file A16-3) within the WWII War Diaries series, and a Guam operation report for 17 Jul-4 Aug 1944 (micro serial 83156). NavSource's commanding-officers page for this hull is sourced to the ship's own War Diary. These are hull-level primary records that could anchor material/maintenance research - not digitized for asbestos or insulation review.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-19
- Study period
- 1944 records; catalog accessed 2026-09-19
- Population
- n/a (archival holdings)
- Limitations
- Catalog listing verified via NARA search-index snippet; the catalog detail page was not fully retrievable this session and the records themselves are unreviewed. Deck logs and operational reports describe operations, not insulation inventories; no asbestos content should be presumed from their existence.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-corregidor-cve58-07
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[12]Batch-251 search ledger (this record): DANFS/HyperWar + NHHC App. 3 + NavSource + Kaiser yard table + USMC hull database ship records; CourtListener-domain searches by exact name and hull number; builder-yard environmental record; NARA catalog; BuShips TM era specification; 2026-09-16 class-profile member-name sweep [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-corregidor-cve58-01 through -12
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, insulation specification, abatement contract, museum/operator hazmat disclosure, or docketed asbestos case naming USS Corregidor (AVG-58/ACV-58/CVE-58/CVU-58), Anguilla Bay, or MC hull 1095 was found in the public sources searched (see search_ledger). Litigation-index sweeps returned only name collisions - Bataan/Corregidor POW slave-labor litigation against Japanese firms (e.g., Mitsubishi Materials v. Superior Court), an HSI criminal investigation codenamed 'Operation Corregidor,' and software-CVE strings in court exhibits - no opinion naming this ship. The class profile's 2026-09-16 CourtListener member-name sweeps across CVE-55 through CVE-104, including Corregidor, likewise returned no qualifying asbestos opinion.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-19
- Study period
- 2026-09-19
- Limitations
- Absence of a located public record does not prove absence of asbestos aboard - a Dec 1942-Aug 1943 Kaiser steam-plant construction sits inside the asbestos-specification era, and the negative reflects record availability, not hull condition. CourtListener API v4 was rate-limited (HTTP 429, 125/day cap) on 2026-09-19; the domain-restricted index sweep is a degraded but honest substitute, logged in the ledger. Does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-corregidor-cve58-08