Evidence
10 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-10).
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[1]research packet 956-packet.md [other_primary]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERIFIED
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-crestview-pce895-pkt-956-packet-md
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[2]NavSource Online: Patrol Craft Escort Photo Archive, Crestview (PCE 895) ex-PCE-895 - timeline, specifications, commanding officers, photo captions (live page verified 2026-10-04) [other_primary]
- Locator
- navsource.net/archives/12/02895.htm header block, specifications block, commanding-officers table, and photo captions
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NavSource timeline for this hull: laid down 2 December 1942 by Willamette Iron and Steel Corp., Portland, OR; launched 18 May 1943; commissioned USS PCE-895 30 October 1944; named Crestview 15 February 1956; transferred to South Vietnam 29 November 1961 and renamed Dong Da II (HQ 07); escaped to the Philippines in 1975 and renamed RPS Sultan Kudarat (PS 22); fate unknown per NavSource. Specifications: 640 t., 184'6" x 33' x 9', 15.7 kts, complement 99; armament one 3"/50 DP mount, three twin 40mm mounts, two depth charge tracks, four depth charge projectors, one hedgehog; propulsion two 2,000-shp General Motors 12-278A diesels, Falk single reduction gear, two shafts. Photo-caption record places the hull at Pearl Harbor in 1945 (crew-collection photo), at Mare Island Navy Yard 28 September 1945 (USN photo 4528-45 - bows of PCE-895 visible behind PCE-894 incline tests), Halifax, Nova Scotia c. 1955-56, Nha Be, South Vietnam 1971, and - as Dong Da II - at buoy No. 1, Subic Bay, 31 May 1975 among the ex-South Vietnamese refugee flotilla (National Archives photo K-109092, credited via NHHC).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-04
- Study period
- 1942-2019
- Population
- Willamette construction trades 1942-44; USN crew (complement 99) 1944-61; RVN crew 1961-75; Philippine Navy crew 1976-2019
- Limitations
- NavSource is a volunteer secondary compilation, not a primary registry - milestone dates generally track NVR/DANFS but no DANFS entry exists for this hull to cross-check. No USN decommissioning or striking date is given. Photo captions establish presence at locations, not work performed there (a Mare Island quay appearance is not an availability record). Spec block likely reflects as-modernized Philippine-era machinery - the as-built engine fit is disputed by secondary sources (see gaps). Contains no asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-crestview-pce895-01
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[3]NHHC photo catalog record USN 1042811 'USS Crestview (PCE-895)', circa 1959, black-and-white photograph, National Archives accession (live page verified 2026-10-04) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- NHHC USN numerical list, USN-1040000 series, catalog # USN 1042811
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- The Naval History and Heritage Command's online catalog holds one digitized artifact for this hull: photograph USN 1042811, captioned 'USS Crestview (PCE-895)', cataloged circa 1959 - official confirmation of the hull's name-number pairing during its late USN service period.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-04
- Study period
- circa 1959
- Limitations
- A cataloged photograph establishes identity and date, nothing more - no operational, material, or asbestos content. NHHC hosts no DANFS entry for this hull (confirmed via NHHC site search and the absence of any transcription-mirror entry; NavSource also states 'There is no DANFS history available for Crestview (PCE 895)').
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-crestview-pce895-02
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[4]NARA catalog - 'Logbooks of U.S. Navy Ships and Stations' (RG 24): file unit 'Crestview (PCE-895) - March, 1957', NAID 24302685, 65 digitized images; catalog search returns 368 file units for this hull (examples verified span 1956-1959) [other_primary]
- Locator
- catalog.archives.gov search 'PCE-895' (368 file units); example record NAID 24302685
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- The National Archives Catalog holds digitized deck logs for USS Crestview (PCE-895) as monthly file units in Record Group 24 ('Logbooks of U.S. Navy Ships and Stations'). A catalog search for 'PCE-895' returns 368 file units; verified examples include February 1956 through 1959 (e.g., NAID 24302685, March 1957, 65 images). These are primary-source daily records of the ship's late-USN service period.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-04
- Study period
- 1956-1959 (verified examples); possibly wider within the 368-unit result set
- Population
- USN crew, 1956-1959+
- Limitations
- Archival lead only - log contents were not reviewed, so nothing herein documents materials, work, or asbestos aboard. Deck logs record positions, personnel, and events, not material inventories. The digitized span observed (1956-1959+) postdates WWII service; wartime-era log availability for this hull was not confirmed in the catalog search's first page of results.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-crestview-pce895-03
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[5]Philippine Daily Inquirer, 'Navy legacy ship decommissioned' (Jeannette I. Andrade, 5 July 2019) - live page verified via fetch 2026-10-04 [reputable_press]
- Locator
- Inquirer newsinfo.inquirer.net article 1138083, body paragraphs
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Contemporaneous press documents this hull's end of service: BRP Sultan Kudarat (PS-22), 'formerly the US Navy's patrol craft USS Crestview, launched in 1943, before it was transferred to the Vietnamese Navy in 1961,' was deactivated/decommissioned by the Philippine Navy on Friday 5 July 2019 after 43 years with the Philippine fleet's offshore combat force. Rites were held at Captain Salvo Pier, Naval Base Heracleo Alano, Sangley Point, Cavite City, per Philippine Fleet commander Rear Adm. Giovanni Carlo Bacordo; the decommissioning was part of the Navy's phase-in/phase-out of legacy ships pending arrival of a donated Pohang-class corvette.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-04
- Study period
- 2019 (event); service arc 1976-2019
- Population
- Philippine Navy crew at disposal (2019); Naval Base Heracleo Alano disposal personnel
- Limitations
- Press account quoting the fleet commander - authoritative for the decommissioning event and identity chain, not a technical record. The article's 'transferred to the Vietnamese Navy in 1961' phrasing compresses the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam) destination. No material or hazmat content. Companion GMA report states the ship was rehabilitated at Cavite Naval Shipyard from 10 January 1976 and commissioned into the Philippine Navy 27 July 1976 - but dates USN commissioning 'October 30, 1943,' a one-year error versus the documented 30 October 1944 (see ev-09).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-crestview-pce895-04
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[6]ABS-CBN News, 'Already decommissioned: PH Navy clarifies photos of half-submerged vessels' (30 October 2022) - live page verified via fetch 2026-10-04 [reputable_press]
- Locator
- abs-cbn.com news article 10/30/22, Philippine Navy statement paragraphs
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- The Philippine Navy confirmed on 30 October 2022 that three decommissioned hulls seen half-submerged in photographs - the former BRP Rajah Humabon, BRP Sultan Kudarat (this hull, ex-USS Crestview PCE-895), and BRP Cebu - were 'currently in the Navy's Graveyard Dock in Cavite,' had been 'stripped of all serviceable equipment and usable materials,' and that no casualties resulted from Severe Tropical Storm Nalgae (Paeng), whose floods accompanied the vessels' partial submergence.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-04
- Study period
- 2022 (event); hulk status as of reporting
- Population
- Disposal/graveyard-dock personnel; any future breakers or salvors
- Limitations
- Establishes present condition - a stripped hulk partially submerged at the Navy's disposal dock - and is asbestos-relevant only in that the hull still exists with any remaining materials undocumented. 'Stripped of serviceable equipment and usable materials' is a Navy statement about salvage, not a hazmat or ACM survey; no abatement, encapsulation, or disposal record for any material aboard was located. Event is a submergence during flooding, not a documented sinking or scrapping.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-crestview-pce895-05
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[7]Era inference built on: NavSource spec block for this hull (GM diesels, no steam plant); PCSA/WWII patrol-craft program context (68 PCEs delivered of 134 ordered; steel escorts built to wartime-commercial marine practice); general WWII-era naval construction practice [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource 12/02895.htm spec block (diesel propulsion); ww2pcsa.org patrol-craft-escort program page (class context)
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- A steel-hulled patrol craft escort built 1942-44 at a commercial yard sits inside the WWII-era construction window in which asbestos insulation was era-standard in naval auxiliaries and small combatants: thermal insulation on piping and machinery, diesel-exhaust lagging, gaskets, valve packing, electrical insulation, and deck coverings. As a twin-diesel vessel she carried no boiler or steam turbine - the boiler/turbine lagging pathway of steam vessels does not apply, but machinery-space, exhaust-system, and accommodation-space applications remain era-consistent.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-10-04
- Study period
- 1942-2019
- Population
- Willamette construction trades 1942-44; USN crew 1944-61; RVN and Philippine Navy crews and yard workers 1961-2019 (incl. 1990-91 refit reported by secondary sourcing)
- Limitations
- Class/era inference only - no hull-specific insulation survey, material list, work package, or bulk-sampling record located for PCE-895. Names era-standard applications, not confirmed installed materials. No quantity. Product names are normalized era terms; no manufacturer attribution for this hull.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-crestview-pce895-06
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[8]Lineaweaver v. Plant Insulation Co., 31 Cal. App. 4th 1409, 37 Cal. Rptr. 2d 902 (Cal. App. 1 Dist. 1995) - published opinion via vLex mirror (verified loading 2026-10-04; law.justia.com URL returns HTTP 403 from this network - access gap noted) [court_record]
- Locator
- Lineaweaver v. Plant Insulation Co., 31 Cal. App. 4th 1409 (1995), statement-of-facts exposure narrative; yard linkage per shipyard-exposure-map dataset row ev-willamette-01
- Finding type
- litigation_product_id
- Finding
- The builder's yard appears in a published appellate record: the Lineaweaver opinion's exposure narrative states that Pabco (Fibreboard) insulation 'was used only as fill-in at Willamette in the 1960s and 1970s.' This documents asbestos-containing product use at a 'Willamette Shipyard' during repair-era years - context for the yard that built this hull, not evidence about this hull.
- Verification
- disputed
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-10-04
- Study period
- 1966-1968 per dataset study period; opinion 1995
- Population
- Shipyard insulators at 'Willamette Shipyard', 1960s-1970s
- Limitations
- Yard-level context, era-mismatched and identification-disputed: the opinion names only 'Willamette Shipyard' with no corporate name or state; identifying it as Willamette Iron & Steel Corp. of Portland, OR is an inference (the shipyards dataset carries this finding as 'disputed'). The documented window (1960s-1970s repairs) postdates this hull's 1942-44 construction by two decades and the yard closed in 1957 - which itself conflicts with the opinion's stated decades. Establishes nothing about materials aboard PCE-895.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-crestview-pce895-07
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[9]Batch-8279 search ledger (this record): NHHC/DANFS index and site search; NavSource; NARA catalog; NVR; Philippine press; CourtListener API v4 (7 queries); secondary web sweep [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-crestview-pce895-01 through -11
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, museum/curatorial material record, or docketed asbestos litigation naming USS Crestview or PCE-895 was found in the public sources searched. CourtListener ran clean across seven completed queries: every hit was a tokenization or place-name collision ('PCE' matches PACER judge-initials suffixes such as '4:09-cv-02778-PCE'; 'Crestview' matches Crestview, Florida and Crestview Farms corporate references) - zero opinions or dockets reference the vessel. The 62-hit 'PCE-895' opinion page, the 6-hit and 189-hit 'PCE-895 asbestos' variants, and the 23-hit 'USS Crestview asbestos' docket variant were all reviewed; every hit matched the tokens in non-vessel contexts. No DANFS entry exists for this hull (NavSource statement corroborated by NHHC index and site search). The hull is also absent from the online Naval Vessel Register, which excludes ships disposed of before 1987.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-04
- Study period
- 2026-10-04
- Limitations
- Absence of a located public record does not prove absence of asbestos aboard. The litigation negative is a repository-negative, not a merits finding - CourtListener coverage is limited to indexed opinions and RECAP dockets, and no result text was reviewed beyond the returned first pages except where noted (full-response grep confirmed zero vessel-string occurrences). Deck logs, builder yard records, RVN/PN maintenance files, and any disposal-condition survey are undigitized leads. Does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-crestview-pce895-08
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[10]Designation/date cross-check: NavSource timeline + NavalCoverMuseum designation list (PCE-895 throughout); Wikipedia 'BRP Sultan Kudarat' article (lead paragraph vs infobox conflict); GMA News Online report 4 July 2019 [other_primary]
- Locator
- Wikipedia 'BRP Sultan Kudarat' lead vs infobox; GMA article body; NavSource 12/02895.htm header; navalcovermuseum.org/wiki/CRESTVIEW_PCE_895
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- CORRECTION: two errors circulate in secondary sourcing. (1) The Wikipedia 'BRP Sultan Kudarat' lead paragraph states the ship 'was originally built as USS PCE-881' - contradicted by the same article's infobox and history text and by NavSource, NavalCoverMuseum, and Philippine press, all of which document this hull as PCE-895 (PCE-881 was a different hull, later Philippine Navy's BRP Cebu). (2) GMA News Online dates USN commissioning 'October 30, 1943' - one year early; the documented date is 30 October 1944 (a 1943 commissioning would precede the 18 May 1943 launch's fitting-out by only five months and is contradicted by NavSource and the NavalCoverMuseum designation list).
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- correction
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-04
- Study period
- 1942-1944 (dates at issue)
- Limitations
- Corrects circulating secondary-source errors, not a material claim. The corrected values (PCE-895 identity; 30 October 1944 commissioning) themselves rest on secondary compilation (NavSource) absent a DANFS entry - consistent across NavSource, NavalCoverMuseum, uboat.net, and the Wikipedia infobox.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-crestview-pce895-09