Evidence
12 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-12).
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[1]DANFS, 'Captor' entry (covering Eagle AM-132 / PYc-40) - official NHHC text, verified verbatim from the hazegray/losthistory transcription mirror (transcribed 18 Mar 1999). Live history.navy.mil returns 404 for danfs/c/captor.html and all eagle-* variants probed; no Wayback capture located and archive.org CDX was temporarily offline this session - standing link rot, same as BATCH-01 [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS 'Captor' entry, specification block + full service narrative (losthistory.net/hazegray mirror, danfs/mine/am132.htm; NavSource 12/1440 links to this mirror as the DANFS entry for the hull)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Official DANFS record for this hull, filed under the Captor heading: 'AM-132: dp. 520; l. 133'7"; b. 26'1"; dph. 12'8"; cpl. 47; a. 1 x 4".' - 'Eagle (AM-132) was built in 1938 by Bethlehem Steel Co., Quincy, Mass., as Harvard (later renamed Wave); purchased by the Navy 1 January 1942; and commissioned as Eagle 5 March 1942, Lieutenant Commander L. F. Rogers, USNR, in command. The minesweeper was refitted as a Q-ship and reclassified PYc-40 on 18 April 1942 when her name was also changed to Captor. Ingeniously disguised as a fishing trawler, she sailed out of Boston throughout the war, her dangerous mission that of luring U-boats within range of her guns. While such a scheme had achieved some success when used by the British in World War I, the German Navy had become wary of just this sort of trap. Captor cruised diligently in known submarine areas but made no contacts. She was decommissioned 4 October 1944, and sold through the War Shipping Administration 21 February 1945.'
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-22
- Study period
- 1938-1945
- Population
- Bethlehem Fore River construction trades (1938); Bethlehem Steel East Boston conversion yardworkers (Jan-Feb 1942); wartime crew (design complement 47) on Q-ship patrols out of Boston, 1942-44
- Limitations
- DANFS documents identity, builder, dates, the Q-ship conversion and service narrative - not materials or asbestos content; the entry contains no materials statement of any kind. 'dph. 12'8"' is depth of hold, which NavSource reprints as 'draft' - flagged in ev-10. DANFS's parenthetical '(later renamed Wave)' does not date the Harvard-to-Wave rename; commercial registries split on the date (ev-10). Establishes the Navy service window March 1942 - October 1944 only.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-eagle-am132-01
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[2]NavSource Online: Patrol Craft/Gunboat/Submarine Chaser Photo Archive - Captor (PYc 40) ex-Eagle (AM-132), file 12/1440 (navsource.org intermittently unreachable this session; identical content verified at the navsource.net mirror and via navsource.org search-index text) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource 12/1440 - 'Eagle Class Minesweeper' chronology block, specifications block, commanding-officer table, photo credits
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NavSource per-hull record, headed 'Eagle Class Minesweeper': 'The fifth Eagle was built in 1938 as the steel hull trawler M/V Harvard by the Bethlehem Steel Co., Quincy, MA for the General Sea Foods Corp. of Boston, MA. Renamed M/V Wave. Acquired by the Navy 1 January 1942. Conversion to a Minesweeper began 8 January 1942 at the Bethlehem Steel Co., East Boston, MA. Renamed and designated Eagle (AM 132), 11 January 1942. Conversion completed 28 February 1942. Commissioned USS Eagle (AM 132), 5 March 1942. Fitted out as a "Q" ship, reclassified as a Patrol Yacht (Coastal), PYc-40 and renamed Captor 18 April 1942. Decommissioned 4 October 1944 at Boston, MA and transferred to the War Shipping Administration. Struck from the Naval Register 10 October 1944. Transferred to the War Shipping Administration 21 February 1945 for return to her owners.' Post-Navy owner chain: acquired 1959 by 40-Fathom Fisheries, Inc. of Wilmington, DE, renamed Wave; 1970 National Sea Products, Inc. of Dover, DE; 1976 Trawler Wave, Inc. of Portland, ME; 2005 R&J Shipping, Inc. of Boston, MA, renamed Harvard; out of documentation 2009; 'Fate unknown.' Spec block: 520 t.; 133'7"; 26'1"; 12'8" draft; 12.5 kts.; complement 47; one 4"/50 mount, two .50 cal. machine guns, one 20mm mount; one 650-shp Cooper Bessemer diesel engine, one shaft. Call sign Nan-Xray-Zebra-Fox. CO list: LCDR Lester Francis Rogers USNR (5 Mar 1942), LT Eric Albert Carlson USNR (13 Jan 1943), Rogers again (12 Mar 1943), Carlson (3 Apr 1943 - 4 Oct 1944). Photo credit: National Archives photo 80-G-245463, c. August 1944, 'fitted out as a Q ship.'
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-22
- Study period
- 1938-2009
- Population
- Bethlehem East Boston conversion yardworkers (1942); wartime crew (complement 47); postwar commercial fishing crews (1945-2009)
- Limitations
- Specialist secondary compilation - detailed but non-official; consistent with DANFS on acquisition, commissioning, reclassification, and decommissioning dates. Its chronology places the Harvard-to-Wave rename before Navy acquisition while Colton/Naval Marine Archive print 'Wave 1945' - unresolved, flagged in ev-10. Strike date 10 Oct 1944 vs Wikipedia's 14 Oct - flagged. Lists the 12'8" figure as 'draft' where DANFS prints depth of hold ('dph.') - flagged. First CO full name 'Lester Francis Rogers' vs Wikipedia 'Leroy E. Rogers' - flagged. Contains no asbestos information; supports no asbestos claim.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-eagle-am132-02
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[3]Shipbuilding History (Tim Colton compilation), 'Bethlehem Quincy' (Fore River) yard table - yard no. 1472 row + adjacent General Sea Foods trawler rows [other_primary]
- Locator
- bethquincy.htm - Bethlehem Quincy/Fore River yard table, yard no. 1472 row plus rows 1465, 1466, 1473
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Yard-table row for this hull: '1472 | 238001 | Harvard/Wave | General Sea Foods Corp. | Trawler | 311 [gross tons] | 134 [ft] | 18-Nov-38 | To USN 1942 as Eagle (AM 132), Captor (PYc 40) 1942, Wave 1945, Harvard 2002, active.' The same table documents the near-sister trawlers acquired with her: yard 1465 West Point (official no. 236803, 320 GT, 29-Oct-37) - 'Gale 1939, to USN 1942 as Hawk (AM 133), Gale 1944, wrecked 1945'; yard 1466 Yale (official no. 236804, 320 GT, 26-Nov-37) - 'Tide 1939, Ibis 1942, Tide 1945, Celia B. Putnam 1990, scrapped 2002'; and yard 1473 Princeton (official no. 238060, 314 GT, 20-Dec-38) - 'to USN 1942 as YP 418, Princeton 1945, Cape Charles 1957, Crest 1967.'
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-22
- Study period
- 1937-2009
- Population
- Bethlehem Fore River construction trades (1937-38 - this trawler group); postwar fishing crews
- Limitations
- Compiler's yard table, secondary - consistent with DANFS and NavSource on builder and acquisition; its '311' is gross registered tonnage, not displacement (DANFS dp. 520) - the measures differ by definition and Wikipedia's '314 long tons' likely conflates the two (flagged ev-10). 'Wave 1945' places the rename at her postwar return - conflicts with NavSource's pre-acquisition Wave rename and NavSource's 1959 Wave rename under 40-Fathom Fisheries; 'Harvard 2002' vs NavSource 'Harvard 2005' - both flagged in ev-10. 'active' reflects the table's publication snapshot; NavSource records 'out of documentation 2009, fate unknown.' Contains no asbestos information.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-eagle-am132-03
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[4]Naval Marine Archive (Canadian Collection) vessel database - 'Harvard/Wave' record, ship no. 81160 [other_primary]
- Locator
- ships.navalmarinearchive.com/ships/81160 - vessel details, construction info, other remarks
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Registry record: ship name 'Harvard/Wave'; U.S. official number U238001; rig 'Trawler'; builder's yard number 1472; date built 1938-11-18; length 134.00; gross tonnage 311.00. Remarks: 'To USN 1942 as Eagle (AM 132), Captor (PYc 40) 1942, Wave 1945, Harvard 2002, active.' Bibliographic sources: NMA staff compilation (R337) and Shipbuilding History/Colton (R370).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-22
- Study period
- 1938-2009
- Limitations
- Specialist registry, secondary; its name-chain remarks rest partly on Colton (R370) so it is not fully independent of ev-03 for the post-Navy renames. Official number and yard number independently corroborate the hull's registry identity. 'active' is a stale snapshot contradicted by NavSource's 'out of documentation 2009.' Contains no asbestos information.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-eagle-am132-04
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[5]Shipscribe (Stephen S. Roberts U.S. Navy auxiliary data sheets, hosted by Tim Colton), USS Asterion (AK-63) & Atik class page - class notes documenting the wartime Q-ship program and naming this hull [other_primary]
- Locator
- shipscribe.com/usnaux/AK/AK63.html - 'Class Notes' section, Q-ship program paragraph
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Shipscribe's Q-ship class notes name this hull explicitly: 'The Navy ultimately deployed as "Q-ships" ATIK, ASTERION, EAGLE (AM-132), IRENE FORSYTE (IX-93) and BIG HORN (AO-45) in the Atlantic and ANACAPA (AG-49) in the Pacific.' The notes document that the program 'reportedly originated with President Franklin D. Roosevelt during a meeting with the Navy leadership on 19 Jan 42'; that priority went to the freighter Q-ships Atik and Asterion, armed and fitted at Portsmouth (N.H.) Navy Yard in late February 1942; that Atik was sunk by U-123 in March 1942; and that on 14 Oct 1943 CominCh decided the Q-ship effort 'had achieved nothing' and reassigned Asterion - consistent with DANFS's finding that Captor 'made no contacts.'
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-22
- Study period
- 1942-1944
- Population
- WWII Q-ship crews (program context)
- Limitations
- Compiler's data-sheet notes, secondary - program-level documentation that names this hull among the deployed Q-ships but supplies no Captor-specific primary citation; does not date or locate Captor's own Q-ship conversion (Portsmouth NSY appears in secondary accounts - unverified, flagged in ev-10 and gaps). Contains no asbestos information.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-eagle-am132-05
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[6]DANFS, 'Atik' (AK-101) entry - official NHHC text via HyperWar/ibiblio transcription (transcribed by Patrick Clancey); documents the U.S. Navy Q-ship program into which this hull was inducted [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- HyperWar/ibiblio, DANFS Atik (AK-101) entry - program-origin and loss narrative
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- The official DANFS Atik entry documents the program Captor served: launched in response to Operation Paukenschlag U-boat attacks on the Atlantic seaboard in January 1942; 'it appears that President Franklin Roosevelt ... desired that the Navy establish a "Q-ship" program similar to that which had been used by the British with some success in the first World War'; Atik and Asterion were covertly armed at Portsmouth (N.H.) Navy Yard and commissioned 5 March 1942 - the same day Eagle was commissioned; officers were told the ships 'could expect little help if they got into trouble'; Atik was torpedoed by U-123 on 26-27 March 1942, fought back with concealed guns, and exploded with the loss of her entire crew - the operational reality behind Captor's 'dangerous mission' in DANFS's own words.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-09-22
- Study period
- 1942
- Population
- USN Q-ship crews, 1942 (program context)
- Limitations
- Program-level context only - the entry is about Atik, not this hull; it establishes the nature, origin, secrecy, and demonstrated lethal risk of the Q-ship duty Captor performed, nothing about Captor's materials or any individual exposure.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-eagle-am132-06
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[7]Consolidated era/design inference - documented propulsion plant (NavSource spec block: 'One 650shp Cooper Bessemer diesel engine, one shaft') + documented builder, construction era, and conversion history (DANFS; NavSource; Colton yard table) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource 12/1440 propulsion line; DANFS construction/service dates; Colton yard no. 1472 row
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Era/design inference: this hull is a 1938-built steel commercial trawler converted to Navy use January-February 1942, powered by a single 650-shp Cooper Bessemer diesel on one shaft - no boilers, no steam distribution. Her insulation load was materially lighter than a steam vessel's, but machinery and construction materials of the 1938 build and 1942 wartime conversion eras were commonly asbestos-containing: exhaust-system and muffler lagging, machinery gaskets and packing, electrical-cable insulation, accommodation/galley joiner insulation, winch and minesweep-gear brake linings, and deck compositions of the period. Exposure-relevant populations if any material was present: Bethlehem Fore River construction trades (1938); Bethlehem Steel East Boston conversion yardworkers (January-February 1942) plus the undocumented Q-ship fitting yard (March-May 1942 - location unverified, Portsmouth NSY in secondary accounts); the wartime crew (design complement 47) on Q-ship patrols out of Boston 1942-44; and postwar commercial fishing crews and any refit/scrapping workers through 'out of documentation' 2009 - fate unknown.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-22
- Study period
- 1938-2009
- Population
- Bethlehem Fore River trades (1938); Bethlehem East Boston conversion workers (1942); Q-ship fitting yard (unverified location); wartime crew 1942-44; fishing crews and refit/disposal workers 1945-2009
- Limitations
- Inference from documented design, machinery type, and construction/conversion era - NOT a hull materials record. No survey, specification, or material schedule naming Harvard/Wave, Eagle AM-132, or Captor PYc-40 was located; establishes no asbestos content, quantity, location, condition, individual exposure, or causation. The single-diesel plant makes even era-level inference weaker than for steam vessels of the same era. Whether any era material survived 65 postwar years of fishing service is unknown; hull fate after 2009 is undocumented.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-eagle-am132-07
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[8]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); and Fleischer, W.E., et al., 'A health survey of pipe covering operations in constructing naval vessels,' J Ind Hyg Toxicol 28(1):9-16 (Jan 1946), PMID 21016030 [other_primary]
- Locator
- AJIM 11(3):359-373 (article); PubMed PMID 21016030
- Finding type
- gov_survey
- 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 wartime conversion program under which this 1938 trawler was navalized at Bethlehem Steel's East Boston yard in early 1942. The USMC-commissioned 1944-45 industrial-hygiene survey of pipe-covering operations at Navy and contract yards documented that 'an important ingredient of pipe covering material used on U.S. Navy vessels is amosite.'
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-22
- Study period
- 1940s era documented; articles 1946/1987
- Population
- WWII shipyard and conversion-yard workers and ship crews (era context)
- Limitations
- Program/era-level documentation of asbestos use in WWII shipbuilding and naval-vessel construction generally; neither source names this vessel, this conversion yard, or the Q-ship program. Pipe-covering findings are less applicable to a diesel trawler conversion than to steam combatants. Establishes nothing about this hull's materials, condition, or any individual exposure.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-eagle-am132-08
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[9]Batch-1165 search ledger (this record): DANFS via losthistory/hazegray transcription mirror + HistoryCentral derivative check; NavSource 12/1440 + mine index + sister-hull pages; Colton Bethlehem Quincy yard table; Naval Marine Archive ship 81160; Shipscribe AK-63 class notes; HyperWar DANFS Atik; CourtListener API v4 opinion + RECAP sweeps (authenticated); NVR; MARAD ShipHistory [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-eagle-am132-01 through sl-uss-eagle-am132-15
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located for Harvard/Wave, USS Eagle AM-132, or USS Captor PYc-40: no asbestos survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, materials specification, court finding, or docketed asbestos case naming this hull was found in the public sources searched. CourtListener authenticated sweeps (type=o): 'USS Captor' 0, 'PYC-40' 0, 'PYc-40' 0, 'Captor'+'PYC-40' 0, 'USS Eagle' 0, 'USS Eagle' asbestos 0, 'USS Eagle'+'AM-132' 0, 'aboard the Captor' 0, 'aboard the Eagle' asbestos 0, 'trawler Harvard' asbestos 0, 'AM-132'+'minesweeper' 0. 'AM-132' alone returned 49 opinion hits - all token collisions (labor, insurance, municipal, criminal, and docket-number uses; the single 'AM-132'+'vessel' co-occurrence is Committee to Save Cleveland's Huletts v. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, N.D. Ohio 2001, a CERCLA/NRHP ore-unloader case - no relation). RECAP (type=r): 'USS Captor' 0, 'PYC-40' 0; 'USS Eagle' 3 dockets - all collisions (MLCJR LLC bankruptcy, S.D. Tex. 2023; JJM LLC v. S/V Delhi marine contract, D. Me. 2024; Kingery v. Quicken Loans, S.D. W.Va. 2012 - none involve this hull); 'AM-132' 254 raw hits - form-number/token collisions with no vessel association. A mesothelioma.com minesweeper-jobsites listicle prints 'USS Eagle | AM-132 | 3/5/1942 | Sold, 1945' in a generic roster table - excluded per source rules; it carries no hull-specific evidence.
- 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 1938-built, 1942-converted vessel is era-consistent with asbestos-containing materials even accounting for her lighter diesel insulation load. The hull's 'fate unknown' disposition after 2009 de-documentation forecloses any present-day survey pathway. Does not establish presence or absence; does not establish or defeat any exposure claim or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-eagle-am132-09
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[10]Source-discrepancy resolution - official DANFS text (losthistory/hazegray mirror) vs NavSource 12/1440 vs Colton Bethlehem Quincy yard table vs Naval Marine Archive registry vs Wikipedia derivative pages [other_primary]
- Locator
- losthistory.net/hazegray/danfs/mine/am132.htm; navsource.net/archives/12/1440.htm; shipbuildinghistory.com bethquincy.htm; ships.navalmarinearchive.com/ships/81160; en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Eagle_(AM-132) and /wiki/USS_Captor_(PYc-40) (collision-check only, never cited as evidence); historycentral.com/navy/Minelayer/Captor.html (DANFS derivative)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Source discrepancies logged, not silently merged: (a) Strike date - NavSource prints 'Struck from the Naval Register 10 October 1944'; Wikipedia prints '14 October 1944'; DANFS is silent - NavSource carried, unresolved. (b) Conversion yard - NavSource documents the minesweeper conversion at 'the Bethlehem Steel Co., East Boston, MA' (8 Jan - 28 Feb 1942); Wikipedia places it at 'the Portsmouth Navy Yard in Kittery, Maine' - NavSource carried; a second, later Q-ship refit (March-May 1942) at Portsmouth is plausible given that program's documented Portsmouth base but rests only on secondary accounts - unverified, in gaps. (c) Eagle name-count - NavSource calls her 'the fifth Eagle'; Wikipedia 'the seventh ship to bear the name USS Eagle' - neither adopted, flagged. (d) First CO - DANFS 'Lieutenant Commander L. F. Rogers, USNR' and NavSource 'LCDR Lester Francis Rogers' vs Wikipedia 'Leroy E. Rogers' - DANFS/NavSource carried. (e) Tonnage - DANFS spec block 'dp. 520' (displacement) vs Colton/NMA '311' gross registered tons vs Wikipedia '314 long tons' - the first two are different legitimate measures and both carried; the 314 likely conflates gross tonnage with displacement. (f) 'dph.' vs 'draft' - DANFS prints 'dph. 12'8"' (depth of hold); NavSource reprints it as draft - DANFS reading carried. (g) Armament - DANFS '1 x 4"' vs NavSource 'one 4"/50, two .50 cal, one 20mm' vs Wikipedia's added '4 depth charge throwers, 2 .30-cal Lewis guns' - genuine per-source variance, DANFS/NavSource carried. (h) Name chain - DANFS 'built ... as Harvard (later renamed Wave)'; NavSource lists 'Renamed M/V Wave' before Navy acquisition AND 'renamed Wave' again in 1959 under 40-Fathom Fisheries; Colton/NMA print 'Wave 1945, Harvard 2002' - the pre-Navy name state and the 2002-vs-2005 Harvard rename are unresolved. (i) Acquisition authority - Wikipedia's 'as part of the Auxiliary Vessels Act' is unsourced and not corroborated by DANFS/NavSource - not carried. (j) Sister original names - DANFS prints Hawk 'built in 1937 as Gale' and Ibis 'built as Tide'; Colton/NavSource document original names West Point (renamed Gale 1939) and Yale (renamed Tide 1939) - registry chronology carried for context only. (k) Wikipedia 'IMO number 5386825' and callsign 'WB4343' - not corroborated in located sources; not carried.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- correction
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-22
- Study period
- 1938-2009
- Limitations
- Resolves publication-level discrepancies among the official DANFS text, specialist compilations, and derivative pages, adopting the better-supported values and flagging the rest. No asbestos content in any of these sources.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-eagle-am132-10
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[11]Air & Liquid Systems Corp. v. DeVries, 586 U.S. 446 (2019), CourtListener 4601080 [court_record]
- Locator
- CourtListener opinion 4601080
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- No case located names this hull under any of her identities (see negative_finding row and search_ledger). Doctrinal context only for the vessel's type: claims arising from WWII-era Navy-vessel asbestos exposure ran under maritime law against equipment manufacturers, and the Supreme Court's DeVries decision settled the 'bare-metal defense' framework - manufacturers that supplied bare equipment had a duty to warn where their products required asbestos-containing parts. It illustrates the litigation posture a claim arising from service aboard this WWII diesel Q-ship would have faced; no such claim naming Harvard/Wave, Eagle, or Captor was located.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-22
- Study period
- 2019 decision
- Limitations
- Doctrinal context only - the cited case does not name or involve this hull, and DeVries addressed manufacturers' duty to warn for asbestos-containing components on Navy vessels generally. Classification note: a complaint's vessel list would be a pleading allegation, not a finding; no pleading naming this hull was located. Does not establish or defeat any exposure claim or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-eagle-am132-11
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[12]Archival leads - NARA photo 80-G-245463 (c. August 1944 Q-ship configuration, credited by NavSource); NARA RG 24 deck logs for the commissioned period (Mar 1942 - Oct 1944); NARA WWII muster rolls for this hull; NARA RG 19 Bureau of Ships conversion files and First Naval District / Boston Section Base records covering the minesweeper conversion (Bethlehem East Boston) and the secret Q-ship refit (yard unverified - Portsmouth NSY records are the lead given the program's documented Portsmouth base); WSA vessel disposal file for the 21 Feb 1945 sale; U.S. merchant-vessel documentation file for official no. 238001 (Harvard/Wave through 2009); Canadian-registry or wreck/disposal records for post-2009 fate [other_primary]
- Locator
- catalog.archives.gov returns SPA shell to automated fetch; NavSource 12/1440 photo credit (NARA 80-G-245463); archives.gov RG 19/24 group guides
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Archival leads (not retrieved - require research-room or reproduction order; no spend authorized; NARA catalog API requires a key and returns only the SPA shell): (a) NARA photo 80-G-245463 shows the ship 'fitted out as a Q ship' c. August 1944 - the visual record of her concealed-armament configuration; (b) NARA RG 24 deck logs and WWII muster rolls for Mar 1942 - Oct 1944 - personnel/operations records that would resolve the Q-ship refit yard and patrol areas; (c) NARA RG 19 Bureau of Ships / First Naval District files for the January-February 1942 Bethlehem East Boston minesweeper conversion and the subsequent Q-ship refit - the plausible home of hull-level material specifications; (d) the WSA disposal file for the 21 Feb 1945 sale and U.S. Coast Guard merchant-vessel documentation file for official no. 238001 - the resolution path for the postwar name chain and the undocumented post-2009 disposition.
- Verification
- unverified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-09-22
- Study period
- 1942-2009 records
- Limitations
- Record-group mapping only - no box-level retrieval performed; existence of asbestos-specific documents for this hull is unknown until surveyed in person. Muster rolls, deck logs, and the photo are personnel/operations/imagery records, not materials documentation. Nothing in this row is an asbestos finding.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-eagle-am132-12