Evidence
8 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-8).
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[1]Bureau of Ships, Ships' Data, U.S. Naval Vessels, Vol. 2 (1945 ed.), 'Mine Vessels - Mine Sweepers (Coastal) (AMc)' tables, per-hull rows for DEVELIN AMC45 (pp. 46-49) [other_primary]
- Locator
- SDB 1945 Vol. 2, AMc tables pp. 46-49: dimensions/displacement row (p.46), accommodations/armament row (p.47), machinery row (p.48), construction-dates row (p.49)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Official wartime BuShips publication carries per-hull rows for DEVELIN AMC45: length overall 97'1"; extreme beam 21'8"; limiting and maximum navigational draft 9'0"; standard displacement 200 tons, full-load 224 tons; trial speed 10.0 knots; accommodations 3 officers + 14 enlisted; armament .50-cal AA machine gun (footnote: 'All AMC's except AMc203 and 204 have .50 cal. AAMG'); machinery 1 Superior Diesel K.N.A., 400 shaft horsepower, 1 propeller; ship's service generators 2 diesel-driven 25 kW D.C.; diesel oil capacity 98 barrels. Construction row: built by Gibbs Gas Engine Co., Jacksonville, Fla.; keel laid 21 Jan 1941; launched 10 Apr 1941; first commission/placed-in-service date 9 Jul 1941 (footnote 3: 'Placed in service').
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-23
- Study period
- 1941-1945
- Population
- Construction trades (Gibbs Gas Engine Co., Jacksonville, 1941); ship's company (3 officers + 14 enlisted)
- Limitations
- Authoritative wartime BuShips publication naming this hull - confirms identity, builder, construction dates, machinery plant, manning, and armament. Scanned table OCR is columnar and partially garbled; values cross-verified against DANFS and NavSource. Contains no asbestos, insulation, or materials information whatsoever; supports no asbestos claim.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-develin-amc45-01
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[2]DANFS, 'Develin' entry (verbatim transcription; live NHHC page unavailable - HTTP 404) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS entry 'Develin' - single paragraph, no specifications block
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS records: 'Develin - The common swift. Develin (AMc-45) was launched by the Gibbs Gas Engine Co., Jacksonville, Fla., on 10 April 1941. She was placed in service on 9 July 1941 and served in the 8th Naval District and the Potomac River Naval Command. She was removed from the Navy List on 31 July 1946.'
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-23
- Study period
- 1941-1946
- Population
- Ship's company, 1941-1946
- Limitations
- Primary Navy historical entry - authoritative for identity, builder, launch/in-service/striking dates, and service assignment, but unusually terse: omits laid-down date, specifications, complement, propulsion, decommissioning date, and disposal. Live NHHC DANFS URL returned 404 on 2026-09-23 (standing link rot, cf. BATCH-01); cited via Wayback capture of the Haze Gray & Underway DANFS transcription (transcriber Y. Hubert). Contains no asbestos information.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-develin-amc45-02
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[3]Consolidated era/design inference - BuShips SDB 1945 Vol. 2 machinery row for this hull (single Superior diesel, no steam plant) + Accentor-class construction data (wooden hull per secondary compilations) [other_primary]
- Locator
- SDB 1945 Vol. 2 p.48 machinery row for DEVELIN; class design per secondary compilations
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Era/design inference bounding this hull's plausible asbestos scope: the documented plant is one 400-shp Superior K.N.A. diesel on a single shaft with diesel-driven service generators - no boilers, no steam piping - so the WWII systems most heavily asbestos-insulated (boiler casings, fireroom insulation, main/auxiliary steam-line lagging) were absent by design. On a wooden-hulled 97-ft coastal minesweeper, era-typical asbestos applications narrow to machinery gaskets and packing, exhaust/muffler lagging, electrical insulation, and friction materials such as sweep-winch and windlass brake linings.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-23
- Study period
- 1941-1946
- Population
- Construction trades (1941); engine-room and deck crew (1941-1946)
- Limitations
- Inference from the documented machinery plant and construction era - NOT a hull record. No survey, specification, or material schedule naming AMc-45 was located. Establishes no asbestos content, quantity, location, individual exposure, or causation. Wooden-hull construction rests on secondary compilations (class references); neither DANFS nor SDB states hull material for this vessel.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-develin-amc45-03
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[4]Fleischer, W.E., Viles, F.J. Jr., Gade, R.L., and Drinker, P., 'A health survey of pipe covering operations in constructing naval vessels,' J Ind Hyg Toxicol 28 (1946) - U.S. Maritime Commission-commissioned industrial-hygiene survey of WWII naval construction [other_primary]
- Locator
- PubMed 21016030; survey conducted 1944-45
- Finding type
- gov_survey
- Finding
- The USMC-commissioned industrial-hygiene survey of WWII pipe-covering operations at two Navy yards and two Navy contract yards documented that 'an important ingredient of pipe covering material used on U.S. Navy vessels is amosite' - i.e., asbestos insulation was standard material in wartime naval-vessel construction of this hull's era.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-23
- Study period
- 1944-1946
- Population
- Shipyard pipe coverers and construction trades (WWII era)
- Limitations
- Era-level documentation of asbestos use in naval construction generally; does not name this vessel, class, or builder yard. Its subject is steam-plant pipe covering - directly relevant to steam vessels, only peripherally applicable to this diesel-driven hull; establishes nothing about this hull's materials.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-develin-amc45-04
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[5]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 (1987) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Am J Ind Med 11(3):359-373 (1987)
- Finding type
- regulatory
- 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 construction program under which this wooden-hulled coastal minesweeper was built - and that wartime demand drove unprecedented asbestos utilization across shipboard applications including insulation, gaskets, packing, and friction materials.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-23
- Study period
- 1939-1945
- Population
- WWII shipbuilding workforce (program-level)
- Limitations
- Program/era-level scholarship; does not name this vessel or class. Does not establish that asbestos was or remains aboard this hull, nor quantity, location, condition, exposure, or causation. Bounds: this hull's diesel plant carried no boilers/steam system, the era's dominant asbestos applications.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-develin-amc45-05
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[6]NavSource Online, Mine Warfare Vessel Photo Archive - Develin (AMc-45) page (secondary compilation) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource file 11/03045 - Develin (AMc 45)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Specialist secondary compilation corroborates the Navy record (laid down 21 Jan 1941 Gibbs Gas Engine Co., Jacksonville FL; launched 10 Apr 1941; in service 9 Jul 1941; struck 31 Jul 1946) and adds the post-Navy chain: transferred to the War Shipping Administration November 1946; acquired 1947 by Samuel G. Stuart, Brooklyn NY, as fishing boat Lady Stuart; Elwa (1949, Elmer Jacobsen, Dania FL); Eleanor & Elsie (1950); Jo Ann & Donna (1961, John H. Abrams estate, New Bedford MA); George E. Fenner, Fairhaven MA (1970); Cutty Sark (1973, JoJack Fishing Corp., New Bedford); Joan & Helena (1975); Joan Marie (1976); registered as Melinda-Lee November 1981; fate unknown.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-23
- Study period
- 1941-1981
- Population
- Post-Navy fishing crews (1947-1981+), if chain verified
- Limitations
- Volunteer specialist compilation - non-official; Navy-era entries consistent with DANFS and BuShips SDB (verified). The post-1946 merchant chain is unverified against primary records - underlying sources are USCG vessel documentation / 'Merchant Vessels of the United States' annuals and WSA disposal records, not yet independently checked. No asbestos information.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-develin-amc45-06
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[7]Batch-1580 search ledger (this record): NHHC/DANFS via Wayback; BuShips SDB 1945 v2 (shipscribe scan); NavSource 11/03045; NARA Special List 44; NARA catalog; NVR; MARAD ShipHistory; CourtListener API v4 (opinion and docket indexes) [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-develin-amc45-01 through -13
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, court finding, or docketed asbestos case naming USS Develin / AMc-45 / AMC-45 was found in the public sources searched (see search_ledger). CourtListener opinion search '"USS Develin"' returned count 0; 'Develin minesweeper asbestos' returned count 0; bare 'Develin' opinion and docket searches returned only person-name collisions (248 opinions, 64 dockets - none vessel- or asbestos-related in results reviewed); the hull-number query '"AMC-45" OR "AMc-45"' returned a single non-qualifying collision (AMC Entertainment Holdings, Inc. v. XL Specialty, Del. Super. Ct. 2025 - theater chain, not the vessel). MARAD ShipHistory returned 'No results found' for Develin (hull never in MARAD custody - sold outright by WSA 1946-47).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-23
- Study period
- 2026-09-23
- Limitations
- Absence of a located public record does not prove absence of asbestos aboard - 1941 Navy construction is era-consistent with some asbestos-containing materials even on a diesel hull, and her decades of post-Navy fishing service are undocumented for materials. Does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-develin-amc45-07
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[8]NARA, 'List of Logbooks of U.S. Navy Ships, Stations, and Miscellaneous Units' (Special List 44), ship-number index entries for AMC-45 (Develin) [other_primary]
- Locator
- SL-44 ship-number index, 'AMC-45 (Develin)' entries (two rows); NARA College Park, RG 24
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- NARA Special List 44 indexes deck logs held for USS Develin (AMC-45): two runs, 1942-04-01 to 1942-09-30 and 1943-04-01 to 1945-09-30. District-level operational context for her 8th Naval District service may also exist in the digitized COMINSHPAT 8th ND war diaries (catalog.archives.gov file units).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-23
- Study period
- 1942-1945 (log coverage)
- Population
- Ship's company recorded in logs, 1942-1945
- Limitations
- Holdings index only - confirms logs exist, not their contents; deck logs record operations, positions, and personnel, not hull materials or asbestos conditions. Listed coverage has a gap (Oct 1942 - Mar 1943) and ends Sep 1945, short of her 1946 striking. No digitized file unit for this hull was located in catalog.archives.gov search; retrieval requires NARA research-room or reproduction request.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-develin-amc45-08