Evidence
9 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-9).
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[1]Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, 'Cybele' entry (Naval Historical Center / history.navy.mil), via Internet Archive Wayback capture 2012-10-24 [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- Wayback capture of history.navy.mil/danfs/c16/cybele.htm; live NHHC DANFS URL returns 404 (standing NHHC link-rot issue noted in BATCH-01)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS establishes identity and service record: launched as William Hackett 1944-10-09 by Delta Shipbuilding Co., New Orleans, under a Maritime Commission contract; sponsored by Mrs. H. McCall; transferred to the Navy 1944-11-14; converted at Tampa Shipbuilding Co., Tampa, FL; commissioned in full 1945-04-16, CDR J. H. Church USNR. Pacific service: departed Galveston 1945-05-15, loaded general stores Bayonne NJ, sailed 1945-06-04 for Pearl Harbor (arrived 06-30), cleared 07-13 for San Pedro Bay PI issuing stores until 08-21, arrived Tokyo Bay 1945-08-31 and issued stores to occupation shipping until 10-12, then Samar load for Tsingtao; issued general stores at Japanese ports 1945-12-04 to 1946-01-15; after Saipan reload issued cargo supporting occupation troops at Tsingtao and Taku, China and Jinsen, Korea until 1946-04-15; arrived San Francisco 1946-05-22; decommissioned Pearl Harbor 1946-08-22; towed to San Francisco; transferred to Maritime Commission for disposal 1947-04-24. DANFS stats line: dp. 5,244; l. 441'6"; b. 56'11"; dr. 28'4"; s. 12 k.; cpl. 193; a. 1 5", 4 3"; cl. Acubens.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-22
- Study period
- 1944-1947
- Population
- Ship's company ~193 (DANFS), commissioned service 1945-04 to 1946-08
- Limitations
- Authoritative ship-specific service history and characteristics. Contains no asbestos, insulation, or materials statement; supports no asbestos claim. DANFS gives complement 193 and armament 1x5"/4x3" - both conflict with secondary compilations (see gaps). Laid-down date not stated in DANFS; supplied by shipscribe/shipbuildinghistory tables.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-cybele-aks10-01
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[2]U.S. Maritime Administration, ShipHistory database - CYBELE (AKS-10) Detail 1164 and WILLIAM HACKETT Detail 12824 (incl. digitized status card) [marad_nrc]
- Locator
- ShipHistory Detail/1164 (milestones table, documents: CYBELE.pdf status card) and Detail/12824 (name history)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- MARAD ShipHistory database confirms the hull's type and custody chain: CYBELE (AKS-10), built 1944 by Delta Ship Building Company, MARAD type EC2-S-C1, naval auxiliary / AKS general stores issue ship, 441.5 ft x 56.8 ft, lightweight displacement 5,240 tons, cargo capacity 500,000 sq ft, gross 7,176 / net 4,380 tons; milestones - Entry and Acquisition 1947-04-24, Disposition and Withdrawal 1965-04-12; fate 'Sold - Scrap'; vessel name history CYBELE (AKS-10) <-> WILLIAM HACKETT (linked record Detail/12824). The attached digitized status card (CYBELE.pdf) contains only blank transfer-log faces - no legible custody entries.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-22
- Study period
- 1944-1965
- Limitations
- Authoritative for government custody milestones and hull type. Status card scan is blank (form faces only, no entries); milestone dates not broken down beyond entry/acquisition/disposition/withdrawal. Contains no asbestos, materials, or condition-survey information; supports no asbestos claim.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-cybele-aks10-02
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[3]shipscribe.com, 'USS Acubens (AKS-5) Class' data page (compiled U.S. Navy auxiliary vessel records, incl. NVR-derived dates and class program notes) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Class construction/disposition tables (AKS-10 rows) and Class Notes / Ship Notes sections
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- shipscribe compilation (S.S. Roberts, USN auxiliary data) supplies build and disposal detail and class context: CYBELE = MC hull 2820, ex-merc. WILLIAM HACKETT; keel 1944-08-29, launch 1944-10-09, delivered/acquired 1944-11-14; ferry commission 1944-11-14 to 11-17; converted by Tampa Shipbuilding Co., Tampa, FL; commissioned 1945-04-16; decommissioned 1946-08-22; stricken 1947-05-22; disposal to MC 1947-04-24; MARAD sale 1965-02-15, to buyer 1965-04-12, scrapped by 1965-10-08. Class notes: the Acubens class (AKS-5 through AKS-15) were EC2-S-C1 conversions distributed among five yards with Tampa Shipbuilding as lead conversion yard; conversion consisted primarily of two extra 'tween decks in holds 2, 3, 4 and 5 plus minor compartment alterations and standard Navy equipment incl. radar; the entire class was among 30 EC2 auxiliaries selected by CNO in Nov 1945 for 'special explosive tests' (Operation Crossroads), ordered to Pearl Harbor to decommission pending the tests, deleted from Crossroads plans Feb 1946, and towed to San Francisco for disposal in 1947.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-22
- Study period
- 1943-1965
- Population
- Conversion-yard trades (Tampa Shipbuilding, Nov 1944-Apr 1945); construction trades (Delta, Aug-Nov 1944)
- Limitations
- Secondary compilation of official Navy/Maritime Commission data - keel/launch/strike/sale dates corroborated where overlapping by DANFS and MARAD (laid-down and strike dates not in DANFS or the MARAD milestones; NavSource reports the strike date as 'unknown'). The conversion-scope description is class-level (drawn from the AKS-12 history) applied here as context, not a hull-specific work package. Contains no asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-cybele-aks10-03
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[4]Naval Historical Center, Online Library of Selected Images - USS Cybele (AKS-10), 1945-1965 (photo NH 83308 caption and ship summary), HyperWar/ibiblio mirror [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- NHHC Online Library page text for AKS-10 (NH 83308)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NHHC Online Library record for this hull (photo NH 83308) adds post-Navy detail not in DANFS: while laid up at Suisun Bay her name reverted to William Hackett until October 1954, when she was again named Cybele; she was sold for scrapping in April 1965. Confirms commissioned-period description: a 5,244-ton Acubens-class stores issue ship, carried cargo to the western Pacific June-July 1945, brief Philippines service, Tokyo Bay late August 1945, eight months of occupation logistics support in Japan and China, return to the U.S. May 1946, decommission August 1946, transfer to the Maritime Commission April 1947.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-22
- Study period
- 1945-1965
- Limitations
- Official NHHC photo-caption history; the October 1954 re-renaming and April 1965 sale statements are unique to this source among those reviewed (MARAD milestone dates differ slightly: withdrawal 1965-04-12 vs 'sold for scrapping April 1965' - consistent sequence). No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-cybele-aks10-04
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[5]U.S. Maritime Commission, Instruction Manual for Operating and Maintaining 2500 H.P. Triple Expansion Marine Steam Engines, EC2-S-C1 Cargo Vessels (mirrored excerpt) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Mirrored excerpt, engine-cylinder insulation section
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- The U.S. Maritime Commission instruction manual for the EC2-S-C1 plant - the verified design of this hull (MARAD type record) - describes cylinder insulation of magnesia under sheet-iron lagging; insulation products of this era were commonly manufactured with asbestos fiber, and period steam-system gaskets, packing, and insulation felts commonly contained asbestos. Liberty-type hulls were built to emergency USMC specifications during the period when the federal government had reserved asbestos supply for shipbuilding.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-22
- Study period
- 1944-1945 construction/conversion; 1945-46 service
- Population
- Construction trades (Delta, New Orleans, Aug-Nov 1944; Tampa Shipbuilding conversion, Nov 1944-Apr 1945); ship's engineering crew
- Limitations
- Class/design documentation, not a hull record - the manual names the type, not this vessel, and does not itself state 'asbestos' content (magnesia lagging of the era was typically asbestos-fiber-reinforced, but the manual text is silent on fiber). The AKS conversion's added 'tween decks and Navy outfit are not covered by this document. Asbestos presence aboard this hull is design/era inference, not ship-proven. Does not establish quantity, condition, present-day presence (ship scrapped 1965), individual exposure, or causation.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-cybele-aks10-05
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[6]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 shipbuilding program under which this EC2-S-C1 hull was built (Delta, 1944) and converted (Tampa, 1944-45) - and that wartime demand drove unprecedented asbestos utilization aboard merchant-type hulls.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-22
- 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, class, or either yard and does not establish that asbestos was aboard this hull, nor quantity, location, condition, exposure, or causation.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-cybele-aks10-06
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[7]Marcel v. Delta Shipbuilding Co., La. App. 4 Cir., 2010-08-04 (CourtListener opinion 2535769) [court_record]
- Locator
- CourtListener opinion 2535769, Facts and Proceedings Below section
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- Marcel v. Delta Shipbuilding Co. (La. App. 4 Cir. 2010): children of yard worker Henry Marcel alleged his mesothelioma resulted from asbestos exposure while working for Delta Shipbuilding Co. during 1942-1948 - the window covering this hull's construction (Aug-Nov 1944) at the same New Orleans yard. The appeal decided only a procedural question - whether a direct action could proceed against Continental as the dissolved corporation's former insurer (the trial court's no-right-of-action dismissal was reversed on that ground). Two further CourtListener hits under 'Delta Shipbuilding' + asbestos (Blow v. OneBeacon America Ins. Co., La. App. 2016; Mentz Constr. v. Poche, La. App. 2012) were not text-verified.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-22
- Study period
- 1942-1948 alleged exposure; opinion 2010
- Population
- Delta Shipbuilding construction trades, 1942-1948 (pleaded window)
- Limitations
- Pleading-stage allegation only - the appellate disposition is purely procedural (insurer liability after corporate dissolution); the exposure allegation was never adjudicated on the merits. Names the builder yard, not this hull. Establishes that asbestos-exposure claims were pleaded against the builder for the construction era; establishes no exposure fact for this vessel. Companion hits (Blow, Mentz) unverified for content - carried as ledger notes only.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-cybele-aks10-07
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[8]Batch-1117 search ledger (this record): DANFS (Wayback), NHHC Online Library, MARAD ShipHistory 1164/12824 + status card, shipscribe AKS-5 class page, shipbuildinghistory.com and usmm.org Delta tables, CourtListener API v4 name/hull/class sweeps, NARA catalog attempt (API key required) [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-cybele-aks10-01 through sl-uss-cybele-aks10-10
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, abatement contract, or hazmat disclosure exists for a hull scrapped in 1965 (pre-survey era); no docketed case names USS Cybele, AKS-10, or SS William Hackett - CourtListener authenticated sweeps (2026-09-22) returned zero hits for 'USS Cybele', 'Cybele' + asbestos, 'AKS-10' + asbestos, and 'SS William Hackett'; the 35 'Cybele' opinion hits and 803 RECAP docket hits are all name collisions (Cybele Magna Mater religious-organization litigation, bankruptcy debtors and litigants with the given name Cybele); the 9 'Acubens' hits are an Ohio LLC in workers'-comp cases. No survey/abatement documentation exists because none would have been produced for a 1965 scrapping.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-22
- Study period
- 2026-09-22
- Limitations
- Absence of a located public record does not prove absence of asbestos aboard - a 1944 EC2 hull built and Navy-converted in wartime yards is era-consistent with asbestos-containing materials in machinery spaces and outfit. 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-cybele-aks10-08
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[9]NARA Guide to Federal Records: RG 24 (Navy logbooks), RG 19 (Bureau of Ships), RG 181 (Naval Districts), RG 178 (U.S. Maritime Commission) [other_primary]
- Locator
- archives.gov/research/guide-fed-records/groups/024.html, /019.html, /181.html, /178.html
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Archival leads (not retrieved - require research-room or reproduction orders; no spend authorized): NARA RG 24 (Logbooks of U.S. Navy Ships and Stations) holds WWII-era deck logs for AKS-10 covering Apr 1945-Aug 1946 at NARA II, College Park - digitization status unverified (catalog API required key not held). RG 19 (Bureau of Ships) and RG 181 (naval district records; Tampa lay in the 7th Naval District, New Orleans the 8th) may hold AKS conversion work packages/correspondence for MC hull 2820. RG 178 (U.S. Maritime Commission) Construction Division records may hold the hull-2820 contract file and outfitting specifications. MARAD status card for this hull was retrieved and is blank.
- Verification
- unverified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-09-22
- Study period
- 1944-1965 records
- Limitations
- Record-group mapping only - no box-level retrieval performed; existence of asbestos-specific documents for MC hull 2820 or the Tampa conversion is unknown until surveyed in person. Nothing in this row is an asbestos finding.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-cybele-aks10-09