Evidence
11 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-11).
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[1]research packet l-packet.md (2 sources cited) [nhhc_danfs]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERIFIED (DANFS) — real identity: USS Crockett — https://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/c/crockett.html
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-crockett-apa148-pkt-l-packet-md
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[2]Consolidated era inference - BuShips Ships' Data 1945 v3 (APA machinery spec) + Corn & Starr AJIM 1987 (WWII shipbuilding asbestos documentation) [other_primary]
- Locator
- SDB1945v3 APA machinery table (APA-117 Haskell class row, VC2-S-AP5 type); AJIM 11(3):359-373
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- No ship-specific material record exists; era/design inference only. Crockett is a VC2-S-AP5 Victory-derived attack transport with a superheated geared-steam plant (2 B&W boilers, 465 psi/750 deg F) built October 1944-January 1945 at Kaiser Vancouver - the peak period of asbestos consumption in U.S. shipbuilding. Typical applications for this machinery arrangement in the era: boiler and steam-drum insulation, steam-line and turbine lagging, valve/flange gaskets, machinery packing, accommodation insulation, winch/windlass brake linings.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-25
- Study period
- 1944-1945 (construction); 1945-1946 (active service)
- Population
- Construction trades (Kaiser Vancouver, 1944-45); embarked troops and crew under way
- Limitations
- Class/design and era inference, not a hull record - no source searched names this vessel's materials. Does not establish that asbestos was or remains aboard this hull, nor quantity, location, condition, individual exposure, or causation.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-crockett-apa148-01
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[3]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 program under which this VC2-S-AP5 hull was built - and that wartime demand drove unprecedented asbestos utilization aboard merchant-type and naval auxiliary hulls.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-25
- 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 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-crockett-apa148-02
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[4]NHHC, DANFS, 'Crockett' (APA-148) entry - live page via Wayback capture 2025-12-09 (live URL returns 404 as of 2026-09-25); HyperWar/ibiblio transcription mirror consulted [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS > C > Crockett; mirror https://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USN/ships/dafs/APA/apa148.html (mirror contains transcription typos - see correction row ev-09)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS entry: Crockett (APA-148; Haskell class) launched 28 November 1944 by Kaiser Co., Inc., Vancouver, Wash., under Maritime Commission contract; sponsored by Mrs. L. D. Whitgrove; acquired and commissioned 18 January 1945, CDR J. R. Bagshaw, Jr., USNR in command. Departed San Diego 5 April 1945; Pearl Harbor 12-27 April; carried construction battalion to Samar (arrived 17 May); unloaded under air attack at Okinawa 24-27 June and embarked survivors of ships lost at Okinawa; stateside availability 17-30 July; transport duty Guam/Manila-to-Aomori occupation lift; Magic Carpet duty; arrived San Diego 21 October; second Okinawa voyage returned 8 December; Seattle to Norfolk January 1946; in commission in reserve 5 June 1946; out of commission in reserve 15 October 1946; transferred to Maritime Commission for disposal 1 October 1958; one battle star for WWII.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-25
- Study period
- 1944-1958
- Population
- Crew of 536 plus embarked troops during 1945-1946 operations
- Limitations
- Establishes identity, construction, wartime service, reserve and disposal chronology. Contains no asbestos, insulation-material, or hazardous-material statement; supports no asbestos claim.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-crockett-apa148-03
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[5]U.S. Maritime Administration, ShipHistory database - CROCKETT (APA-148), Ship History Detail 1142, incl. digitized USMC Vessel Status Card [marad_nrc]
- Locator
- ShipHistory Detail 1142, milestone table; card images /cards/1142_2071AF.jpg and documents/dedd19b8-...-f4bc6684f360.pdf (status card scan)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- MARAD ShipHistory record for CROCKETT (APA-148): type VC2-S-AP5, built 1945 by Kaiser Company; 455 ft, beam 62 ft, gross 7,750 tons, displacement 6,873 light / 14,837 summer tons; fate 'Scrapped'; milestones Entry 1959-01-26, Disposition and Withdrawal 1985-05-16. Digitized USMC Vessel Status Card (Form MC-7146a): name CROCKETT (APA-148), flag U.S. Navy, hull MCV-813, built by Kaiser Co., Inc. #429 at Vancouver, Wash., completed 1-17-45; 'Basis to Navy Department 10-15-46'; Reserve Fleet (Permanent Transfer) delivered James River 1-26-59 1:30pm EST; annotated 'Scrapped 7/85'.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-25
- Study period
- 1945-1985
- Population
- Reserve-fleet caretakers and disposal/scrapping workforce (1959-1985 custody; scrapping 1985)
- Limitations
- Authoritative for government custody milestones and disposal. Milestone 'Disposition/Withdrawal 5/16/1985' and card annotation 'Scrapped 7/85' differ by ~2 months (withdrawal vs scrapping completion - not resolved); scrapping contractor not named in MARAD record. Contains no asbestos, materials, or condition-survey information; supports no asbestos claim.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-crockett-apa148-04
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[6]DANFS appendix, 'U.S.S. Crockett (APA-148) Sailing List' (reproduced ship document, HyperWar/ibiblio transcription) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- ibiblio HyperWar, dafs/APA/apa148-sailing.html (full port-by-port table)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Reproduced ship's sailing list (published with the DANFS compilation): commissioned at Vancouver, Wash. 18 Jan 1945; Columbia River/Astoria departure 28 Jan; Seattle, San Francisco, San Pedro shakedown Feb-Mar; San Diego 4 Apr - departed 6 Apr; Pearl Harbor 12-15 Apr, Hilo 16-19 Apr, Eniwetok 20 Apr-7 May; Samar 17 May, Leyte 22 May; Anguar 31 May-4 Jun; Ulithi 8 Jun; Okinawa operations late Jun; Guam, Manila 31 Aug-5 Sep, Tacloban 8-18 Sep, Aomori (Honshu) 25 Sep; Saipan/Guam early Oct; San Diego 27 Oct; Okinawa 30 Nov-23 Nov (list as printed), Seattle Pier 42 8 Dec; departed Seattle 12 Jan 1946; Panama Canal 27 Jan; Norfolk 1 Feb; Yorktown River anchorage 8 Feb 1946.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-25
- Study period
- 1945-01-18 to 1946-02-08
- Population
- Crew and embarked troops in transit
- Limitations
- Ship-generated movement record transcribed on a mirror site; one internal anomaly noted (Okinawa arrival printed 30 Nov / departure 23 Nov 1945 - departure precedes arrival as transcribed; likely a transposition in the source document or transcription). Contains no asbestos or materials information.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-crockett-apa148-05
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[7]Bureau of Ships, Ships' Data, U.S. Naval Vessels, Vol. 3 (Jan 1945), APA section (shipscribe.com scan, OCR) [other_primary]
- Locator
- SDB1945v3 APA machinery table, Haskell (APA-117) class row - single-ship row read applies to the VC2-S-AP5 type
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Bureau of Ships Ships' Data 1945, Vol. 3 (auxiliaries), APA section: Haskell-class APA type data - 455 ft oa, Westinghouse geared turbine 8,500 shp, 2 Babcock & Wilcox boilers, steam conditions 465 psi / 750 deg F - official machinery confirmation of the superheated geared-steam plant fitted in this VC2-S-AP5 hull.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-25
- Study period
- 1945
- Population
- Engine-room and fireroom crew (machinery context)
- Limitations
- Official BuShips data for the class/type, not a hull-specific machinery history; OCR-degraded cells in scan. Establishes plant type only - no insulation-material statement.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-crockett-apa148-06
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[8]CourtListener RECAP docket 15808518, Jacob v. Plastics Engineering Co. (D. Guam 1:19-cv-00108), complaint Exhibit A; NavSource Online PG-88 Crockett (ex-PGM-88) archive page; Wikipedia USS Crockett disambiguation - docket and secondary compilations used for disambiguation only [court_record]
- Locator
- RECAP complaint doc 1, Exhibit A 'Guam Naval Repair Facility Deck Log Rule 1006 Summary' table - rows 'USS Crockett PG-88' (1970-1974 SRF visits/drydocks); NavSource 12/11088.htm; en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Crockett index
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Disambiguation: two U.S. Navy vessels carried the name Crockett - this hull, APA-148 (in commission 1945-1946, scrapped 1985), and USS Crockett (PG-88), an Asheville-class patrol gunboat built at Tacoma Boatbuilding (laid down as PGM-88, commissioned 24 June 1967, decommissioned 1 October 1976, stricken 15 December 1976, later EPA vessel Rachel Carson). The gunboat appears on non-authoritative attorney-compiled asbestos ship lists, and the collision is live in the docket record: the complaint in Jacob v. Plastics Engineering Co. (D. Guam 1:19-cv-00108, filed 2019-06-20, Diversity-Asbestos) lists 'USS Crockett PG-88' in its Exhibit A Guam Naval Ship Repair Facility deck-log table (SRF visits/drydocks 1970-1974) - a pleading-stage allegation against the gunboat hull, not evidence about APA-148. Name-only hits cannot be attributed to APA-148.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-09-25
- Study period
- 1966-1982 (PG-88)
- Limitations
- Litigation-stage discipline: the Jacob listing is a complaint exhibit - a pleading allegation, not an adjudicated finding - and it names the PG-88 gunboat hull, not APA-148. Row exists solely to keep name collisions from being misattributed to this hull; it asserts nothing about APA-148 and nothing about the merits of the Jacob claims.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-crockett-apa148-07
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[9]Batch-2219 search ledger (this record): NHHC DANFS + Wayback; ibiblio HyperWar DANFS mirror + sailing list; MARAD ShipHistory 1142 + status card; CourtListener API v4 name/hull searches; Haskell-class profile member sweep [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-crockett-apa148-01 through sl-uss-crockett-apa148-10
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, or docketed case naming Crockett (APA-148) was found in the public sources searched - NHHC DANFS entry and sailing list contain no asbestos or insulation-material statement; MARAD record and status card contain none; CourtListener opinion search 'USS Crockett' returned zero results; docket search 'USS Crockett' returned 2 hits, both name collisions - Jacob v. Plastics Engineering (D. Guam 2019) names USS Crockett PG-88, a different hull, and United States v. QTC Medical Services (C.D. Cal. 2014) is a False Claims Act matter with only an incidental mention; 'APA-148' returned only Administrative Procedure Act collisions (2 opinion hits - Syracuse Peace Council v. FCC, Brackeen v. Haaland; 23 docket hits, all administrative-law matters); class-level sweep for Haskell members located no member-naming asbestos docket (see search_ledger).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-25
- Study period
- 2026-09-25
- Limitations
- Absence of a located public record does not prove absence of asbestos aboard - a 1944-45 geared-steam auxiliary is era-consistent with asbestos-containing insulation. The hull was scrapped in 1985, before MARAD's systematic NDRF asbestos-survey era; construction-phase documentation would sit in NARA record groups not yet pulled. Does not establish presence or absence; does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-crockett-apa148-08
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[10]NHHC DANFS 'Crockett' (APA-148) live text via Wayback 2025-12-09 vs ibiblio HyperWar transcription; MARAD ShipHistory 1142; NavSource APA-148 chronology [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- Wayback NHHC capture (controlling text); mirror https://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USN/ships/dafs/APA/apa148.html; NavSource 10/03/03148.htm
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Source discrepancies resolved: the HyperWar/ibiblio transcription of the DANFS Crockett entry contains three errors against the live NHHC text (Wayback capture 2025-12-09): (a) acquisition/commission year printed '1946' - NHHC and the ship's own sailing list confirm 18 January 1945; (b) length printed '466 ft' - NHHC prints 455 ft, matching MARAD (455.00 ft); (c) transfer-for-disposal printed '1 October 1968' - NHHC prints 1958, consistent with MARAD permanent transfer delivered 1959-01-26 (a 1968 transfer is impossible given 1959 NDRF custody). Also unresolved across sources: stricken date - NavSource records 'Struck from the Naval Register, 10 January 1958' while DANFS's 1 October 1958 is the disposal-transfer date; Wikipedia's infobox conflates the two (Stricken: 1 October 1958).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- correction
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-25
- Study period
- 1945-1985
- Limitations
- Resolves transcription-level discrepancies in the mirror; the NavSource 10 January 1958 strike date is a secondary-compilation value not yet verified against the Naval Vessel Register itself (NVR has no live APA-148 page). No asbestos content in any cited source.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-crockett-apa148-09
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[11]NARA Guide to Federal Records: RG 24 (deck logs), RG 19 (Bureau of Ships), RG 178 (U.S. Maritime Commission); MARAD ShipHistory disposal record as lead [other_primary]
- Locator
- RG 24 / RG 19 / RG 178 record-group pages; MARAD Detail 1142 Documents section
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Archival leads (not retrieved - require research-room or reproduction order; no spend authorized): NARA RG 24 (Bureau of Naval Personnel deck logs) holds APA-148 deck logs for 1945-1946; RG 19 (Bureau of Ships) holds APA/VC2-S-AP5 outfitting and machinery specifications; RG 178 (U.S. Maritime Commission) construction records may hold the MCV-813 Kaiser Vancouver contract file; the MARAD vessel disposal/sale file for the 1985 withdrawal would name the scrapping purchaser and terms (secondary sources say Chesapeake Salvage, Portsmouth, VA). James River NDRF lay-up records cover the 1959-1985 custody phase.
- Verification
- unverified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-09-25
- Study period
- 1944-1985 records
- Limitations
- Record-group mapping only - no box-level retrieval performed; existence of asbestos-specific documents for MCV-813 is unknown until surveyed in person. Nothing in this row is an asbestos finding.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-crockett-apa148-10