Evidence
10 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-10).
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[1]research packet 366-packet.md (3 sources cited) [other_primary]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERIFIED (with acquisition nuance) — real identity: Domino. Verified hull/designation: IX-208 (approved, but the
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-domino-ix208-pkt-366-packet-md
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[2]Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, 'Domino (IX-208)' (hazegray/losthistory transcription mirror; canonical NHHC page https://www.history.navy.mil/content/history/nhhc/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/d/domino.html returns 404 live; verbatim text confirmed in Wayback capture 2024-05-25) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS IX section, ix208.htm; Wayback capture web.archive.org/web/20240525231226/...domino.html
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS entry, complete: 'Former name retained. The freighter Domino was acquired from the War Shipping Administration in May 1945. Available records indicate that the classification IX-208 was reserved for her, but that she was never taken up on the list of naval vessels, and that no classification was ever assigned to her. She was returned to the War Shipping Administration in February 1946.'
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1945-1946
- Population
- Navy custodial/tow personnel only (1945-1946) - no commissioned ship's company ever existed
- Limitations
- Official Navy dictionary entry; the terse text documents that IX-208 was a reserved designation only - the hull never entered the naval vessel inventory. Transcription mirror cited because the live NHHC URL returns 404 (standing NHHC link-rot per BATCH-01); text verified verbatim against Wayback capture of the canonical page. Contains no asbestos or material-content information.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-domino-ix208-01
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[3]MARAD Vessel History Database, DOMINO record 1278, including scanned vessel status card (card images 1278_2335AF.jpg / 1278_2335AB.jpg, read directly) and declassified NARA USCG documents (Domino_1278_001-005.pdf) [marad_nrc]
- Locator
- vesselhistory.marad.dot.gov/ShipHistory/Detail/1278 - status card front/back fields 1-22 and operator table
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- The official MC/WSA vessel status card documents: DOMINO ex DELCO, cargo type, official no. 218816, 5100 dwt / 3170 gross / 1903 net / 7210 disp, built 'Beth. Steel Corp.' Wilmington Del., completed Sept. 1919, IHP 1650, '2 SEB' (2 Scotch boilers). Basis to WSA 1942-05-28 Port Everglades Fla. from American Sugar Refining Co. (requisition); WSA title at Mobile Ala. 1944-11-01. Operator chain on card: American Sugar Refining Co. (TCA, Port Everglades 5-28-42), Agwilines Inc. (TCA 6-17-42), Alcoa SS Co. (TCA, Tampa 7-3-42), redelivered to American Sugar Refining at Mobile 1-18-44, Lykes Bros. SS Co. (GAA, Mobile 11-1-44), 'Navy Dept.' (bareboat charter, Pearl Harbor 5-15-45 11:00 AM), Reserve Fleet Suisun Bay (2-13-46 2:00 PM PST). Card reverse: 'Towed by WSA tug GAY HEAD from PEARL HARBOR / Redelivery by Navy.' Sale award to Walter W. Johnson Co. noted 1947-07-24; withdrawn from fleet and 'delivered to' purchaser 1947-11-22 0810 hrs, 'scrap' noted; termination port last voyage San Francisco; fleet unit Suisun C-15.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1919-1948
- Population
- Merchant/WSA crews (1942-1946); Navy bareboat custodial personnel (1945-1946); Suisun Bay reserve-fleet lay-up personnel (1946-1947); Walter W. Johnson Co. scrapping workforce (1947-1948)
- Limitations
- Administrative custody record - documents build, wartime operator chain, Navy bareboat transfer, lay-up, and disposal; contains no material-content or asbestos information. Handwritten card entries carry minor date discrepancies vs. register compilations (award 7-24-47 card vs. MA sale 7-25-47 shipscribe table). Card's 'CONDITION REPORT' note points to an unpublished lay-up condition report - open archival lead.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-domino-ix208-02
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[4]Stephen S. Roberts, shipscribe.com U.S. Navy auxiliary register, DOMINO (IX-208) page (compiled from official registers/records, 2002-2010) [other_primary]
- Locator
- shipscribe.com/usnaux/IX4/IX208.html - construction/disposition tables, class notes, ship notes
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Register compilation documents the uncompleted Navy acquisition: VCNO asked WSA 1944-10-25 for hulks for BuDocks construction equipment incl. DOMINO (laid up Mobile); WSA allocated to Navy 1944-11-03; CNO authorized CinCPOA delivery 1944-11-23 expressly as BuDocks construction equipment - not to be classified, commissioned, placed in service, or taken up on the List of Naval Vessels. Inspected and found satisfactory as mobile dry storage 1945-01-26; CNO directed commissioning as IX 1945-01-28; name DOMINO and IX-208 approved 1945-01-30; Auxiliary Vessels Board recommended acquisition/commissioning 1945-02-03. Board of Inspection and Survey (Hawaii) reported 1945-04-23 the vessel in poor material condition throughout (~4 months, ~$250,000 to put in proper condition) and recommended non-acceptance; CNO cancelled commissioning directive 1945-05-03. Transferred WSA-to-Navy at Pearl Harbor 1945-05-15; IX-208 listed 'not acquired' as of 1945-06-25. Retained at Pearl Harbor for possible blockship use, not used; towed to West Coast 1946-01-18 to 01-31 with a Navy crew aboard; delivered to MC reserve fleet Suisun Bay 1946-02-13. To buyer 1947-11-22; scrapped by 1948-06-01. Ship note: 'Ex merc. DELCO (ID-4226, completed 22 Sep 19) 1922. Acquisition as naval vessel cancelled 25 Jun 45.'
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1944-1948
- Population
- Navy custodial personnel (1945-1946); BuDocks/Seabee handlers; tow crew for January 1946 passage
- Limitations
- Secondary compilation of official register/board records, not itself an official document. No asbestos content. Documents that the Navy relationship was a non-acquisition: no commissioning, no refit, no conversion - the ship's material baseline remained 1919 construction plus undocumented merchant repairs. Citation URLs on the page were compiled 2002-2010.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-domino-ix208-03
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[5]shipscribe.com McKellar EFC design notes, 'EFC Design 1094: Notes & Illustrations' (Harlan Plant construction program; S.S. Domino ex Delco photo captions from MARAD Vessel History Database) [other_primary]
- Locator
- shipscribe.com/mckellar/pix/1094.html - design notes, spec block, Domino photo captions (MARAD images 1278_006-009)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- EFC Design 1094 was a Bethlehem Shipbuilding steel cargo design (~5,100 dwt; 328' pp x 46' x 25.5' depth, 21.3' draft; 1 screw, triple-expansion engine, 2 Scotch boilers; spec figure 2,400 IHP, 11 kts). Seven Design 1094 ships were ordered 1918-05-15 from the Harlan Plant (former Harlan & Hollingsworth, by then part of Bethlehem Steel) under EFC Contract 315, hulls 1975-1981; the last two were reassigned to the Moore Plant (Elizabethport NJ) and sold foreign before completion. Photo captions identify S.S. Domino ex Delco as EFC hull 1975.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1917-1919
- Population
- Harlan Plant/Bethlehem Wilmington construction workforce (1918-1919)
- Limitations
- Design/class documentation; the page internally labels the spec ship Bethnor 'EFC Hull 1975' in the spec line while its caption says 1976 - Delco/Domino = EFC 1975 rests on photo captions, not independently confirmed. No asbestos or material-content statement; plant description (triple expansion + Scotch boilers) is the asbestos-relevant detail by era inference only.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-domino-ix208-04
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[6]Declassified NARA documents hosted on the MARAD record (Declassified NARA Project NW 63684): USCG Captain-of-the-Port armed-vessel report, Ft. Lauderdale, 1942-04-21; USCG boarding/radio-sealing forms (New Orleans 1943-03; Mobile); USCG dispatch April 1942 [other_primary]
- Locator
- MARAD record 1278 'Historical Documents' - Domino_1278_001.pdf (New Orleans boarding form 1943-03), _002/_003.pdf (Mobile boarding forms), _004.pdf (COTP Ft. Lauderdale armed-vessel report 1942-04-21), _005.pdf (USCG dispatch April 1942)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Wartime USCG documents aboard S.S. DOMINO: the 1942-04-21 armed-vessel report lists armament (one 4"/50 gun; .50-caliber Browning and .30-caliber Lewis machine guns) and ammunition stowage; the March 1943 New Orleans boarding form records master J. Wilson, arrival from Guantanamo Bay, general cargo, 'Officers 9, Crew 23, Navy gun crew 9,' 'Armed and degaussed.' Documents the ship's WWII service as an armed merchant freighter in Caribbean/Gulf trades carrying Navy Armed Guard detachments.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1942-1945
- Population
- Merchant crew 32 (9 officers + 23 crew) plus 9 Naval Armed Guard - March 1943 voyage; wartime merchant complement generally 1942-1945
- Limitations
- Primary wartime documents (OCR-variable scans read as images/PDF text); they document crew size and armament, not material content. Gun-crew figure documents the Navy-population presence aboard in merchant service; no asbestos information.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-domino-ix208-05
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[7]ATSDR Case Studies in Environmental Medicine (CSEM), 'Asbestos Toxicity: Where Is Asbestos Found?' (CDC archive) [other_primary]
- Locator
- ATSDR CSEM asbestos course, 'Where Is Asbestos Found?' page (archived CDC copy)
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- ATSDR states: 'Until the 1970s, asbestos was widely used in the construction, shipbuilding, and automotive industries,' listing among former uses boilers and heating vessels, pipe covering, insulation products, and heat-resistant textiles, and notes these materials 'remain in many buildings, ships, and automobiles built before 1975.' A 1919 steam freighter powered by a triple-expansion engine with 2 Scotch boilers falls squarely within this documented era application (boiler and steam-line lagging, pipe covering, gaskets, packing).
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1918-1948
- Population
- Construction workforce (Harlan Plant, Wilmington, 1918-1919); merchant/WSA engine-room crew and Armed Guard (1919-1946); Navy custodial/tow personnel (1945-1946); reserve-fleet lay-up and scrapping workforces (1946-1948)
- Limitations
- Industry-level public-health documentation; does not name this hull and does not establish that asbestos was or remained present aboard IX-208/Domino/Delco. Era-consistent inference only - no quantity, product identity, or individual exposure is established. Hull scrapped 1947-48; whether materials remained at disposal is undocumented.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-domino-ix208-06
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[8]CourtListener API v4 authenticated search (helper cl-auth-search.py): type=o queries "USS Domino" and "IX-208"; mitigation site-scoped index check of courtlistener.com [court_record]
- Locator
- CourtListener API v4 /search/ type=o results count=0 for both queries; type=r attempt returned pacing stand-down
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- CourtListener opinion index: "USS Domino" - 0 results; "IX-208" - 0 results (authenticated queries run 2026-09-29). Docket-index and bare-name "Domino" queries could not run - the fleet-wide pacing limiter returned stand-down on repeated spaced attempts. Site-scoped courtlistener.com index check returned only name collisions: Joseph C. Domino, Inc. (towing company in Katrina Canal Breaches limitation litigation, E.D. La.), Daniel J. Domino (criminal appeal, 2d Cir. 1969), Domino's Pizza, Domino LLC - no hit naming the vessel and no qualifying asbestos litigation located.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 2026-09-29
- Limitations
- Partial sweep: opinion index verified clear, docket index not yet swept (fleet pacing budget spent; helper directed non-CL work and later retry). 'Domino' is a high-collision name (sugar brand, towing company, surname, pizza chain) - any future free-text hit requires case-by-case classification. Absence of located litigation does not prove no exposure claim was ever filed (state courts and MDL-875 vendor dockets may not be indexed).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-domino-ix208-07
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[9]Batch-4765 search ledger (this record): NHHC/DANFS live + Wayback + mirror; MARAD Vessel History Database and status card; shipscribe auxiliary register and EFC design notes; NARA-declassified USCG documents via MARAD; CourtListener ship-name and hull-number search; Atlas shipyards.json yard cross-check [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-domino-ix208-01 through sl-uss-domino-ix208-10
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, material schedule, abatement contract, condition-report hazmat section, museum disclosure, or docketed case naming Domino (IX-208), SS Domino, or SS Delco was found in the public sources searched (see search_ledger). The record's asbestos relevance is era/plant-type inference only.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 2026-09-29
- Limitations
- Absence of a located public record does not prove absence of asbestos aboard - the ship predates every survey regime and was scrapped in 1947-48, before any asbestos documentation practice existed. The litigation sweep is partial (docket index unrun). Does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-domino-ix208-08
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[10]Archival leads flagged in primary records: MARAD status card 'CONDITION REPORT' note and PD-X disposal-file references; NARA RG 19 (BuShips/Board of Inspection and Survey) and RG 38 (CNO) series for the 1944-45 acquisition correspondence and 1945-04-23 inspection report; WSA vessel file for official no. 218816 (RG 32) [other_primary]
- Locator
- MARAD card 1278_2335AB.jpg reverse notations; shipscribe IX-208 class notes (citing official correspondence)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- The status card's reverse bears a 'CONDITION REPORT' notation indicating a lay-up condition report exists in the vessel file (not published); the card references disposal ship papers PD-X-309, PD-X-360, PD-X-248. The April 1945 Board of Inspection and Survey material-condition report and the VCNO/CNO/CinCPOA acquisition correspondence summarized by shipscribe exist in NARA holdings but were not retrieved; WSA/MC vessel files for official no. 218816 would carry operator and repair detail.
- Verification
- unverified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1944-1948
- Limitations
- Leads only - none of the underlying documents was reviewed; their contents are unknown and may or may not address materials/insulation. No digitization located.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-domino-ix208-09