Evidence
9 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-9).
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[1]research packet 973-packet.md [other_primary]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERIFIED
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-eagle-no-34-pe34-pkt-973-packet-md
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[2]Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (DANFS), Vol. VI, Appendix II 'Eagle-Class Patrol Craft (PE)', pp. 744-747 - hazegray.org transcription, retrieved via Wayback Machine capture 2021-11-28 (live hazegray URL unreachable at research time; no live NHHC-hosted copy of this appendix located) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS Vol. VI, Appendix II, numerical summary 'Eagle No. 34' entry and 'General Characteristics' block
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS numerical-summary line for this hull: 'Eagle No. 34 - Keel laid 1/8/19. Launched 3/15/19. Commissioned 9/3/19. Classified as PE-34 7/17/20. Sold 6/9/32.' The appendix's class narrative describes the Eagle boats' origin (Bureau of Construction and Repair simplified design, Ford mass production at the River Rouge plant, 60 of 112 contracted boats completed), general characteristics (200'9" length overall, 615-ton full-load displacement, 18.32-knot speed, complement 5 officers and 56 enlisted, Poole geared turbine, one shaft), and the class disposition (boats transferred to the Coast Guard in 1919, balance sold in the 1930s and early 1940s).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-04
- Study period
- 1919-1932
- Population
- Ford Rouge assembly workforce (construction); U.S. Navy crew, 1919-1932
- Limitations
- Transcription mirror of DANFS used because the live hazegray page timed out and no NHHC-hosted copy of this appendix was located; the Wayback digest matches the live page's last good capture. DANFS gives per-hull data only as a one-line summary - no operational history, no asbestos content. Does not establish any exposure condition aboard this hull.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-eagle-no-34-pe34-01
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[3]Ships' Data, U.S. Naval Vessels, 1929 (U.S. Navy Department publication; shipscribe.com scan of the official 1929 edition) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Ships' Data 1929, pp. 166-167 (Eagles class table incl. footnotes 1-4) and p. 5 / build-date table (EAGLE 34 row)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Official Navy Department data table: 'EAGLE 34 ... PE34 - Jan. 8, 1919 (keel laid); [launched ditto, Mar. 15, 1919]; Aug. 29, 1919 (date of preliminary acceptance); Sept. 3, 1919 (date of first commission).' The class table (EAGLE 1 to EAGLE 60) records: length overall 200'9", length between perpendiculars 200'0", beam on load waterline 25'6", mean draft 7'3", full-load draft aft 8'6", full-load displacement 615 tons, displacement on trial 494 tons, speed on trial 18.32 knots (4-hour full-speed trial of Eagle 1), endurance 13,500 miles at 10 knots, fuel 44,400 gal. (152 tons) oil, machinery - 2 Bureau express oil-burning boilers, 1 Poole geared turbine, 2,500 S.H.P., 1 propeller; armament - 2 4"/50-cal. R.F., 1 3"/50-cal. A.A., 2 machine guns; authorization act Mar. 4, 1917 (emergency fund); contracts for Eagle 61-112 canceled Nov. 30, 1918; 53 boats of the class remained on the Navy list as of July 1, 1929 (PE-34 among them).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-04
- Study period
- as of 1929-07-01
- Population
- U.S. Navy crew, 1919-1932
- Limitations
- Primary Navy Department publication establishing construction dates and machinery fit for this hull; it is a register, not an asbestos record - it names no insulating material. OCR of the scanned table was read against the page image where layout was ambiguous. Ship-specific for identity/specs; establishes the steam plant to which era insulation inference attaches, not the insulation's composition.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-eagle-no-34-pe34-02
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[4]NavSource Online: Eagle-Class Patrol Craft Photo Archive, PE-34 page (ex-Eagle No. 34) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource PE-34 page - class chronology, specifications block, photo table incl. NH 54315 caption, Commanding Officers table
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Designation and disposition record: commissioned USS Eagle No. 34 on 3 September 1919; designated PE-34 on 17 July 1920; struck from the Navy list 27 April 1932; 'sold as a hulk 9 June 1932 and scrapped.' Commanding-officer roster lists LT Joseph Truitt Talbert, USN (later Captain), in 1932. Photographic record: USN photo NH 54315 (attributed to Naval History and Heritage Command) shows PE-34 moored with nine other Eagle boats at the Mare Island Submarine Base in December 1920 (dating refined from shipyard daily journals by contributor Darryl Baker); a separate photograph is dated 10 January 1932.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-04
- Study period
- 1919-1932
- Population
- U.S. Navy crew including LT Joseph Truitt Talbert (CO, 1932)
- Limitations
- NavSource is a volunteer-run archival aggregator - used here for disposition dates, the CO roster, and the NHHC-photo lead (NH 54315); build/commission dates it repeats agree with the official Ships' Data 1929 table. NavSource's spec block differs from official data (beam 25'9", draft 13'6", displacement 710 t., one 4"/50 mount) - the official figures are carried and the variances logged in gaps. No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-eagle-no-34-pe34-03
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[5]Robert J. Cressman, 'Historic Fleets - Prepared for the Work of War,' Naval History (U.S. Naval Institute), Vol. 28, No. 4, August 2014 [reputable_press]
- Locator
- Naval History Aug. 2014, 'Historic Fleets' feature - Santa Barbara earthquake paragraph and Eagle 1-class data block
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Ship-specific service event: after the 29 June 1925 Santa Barbara earthquake, 'the Eagle 34 (PE-34) and the tug Koka (AT-31) cleared San Diego and arrived later on the 29th with medical personnel and supplies.' PE-34 landed bluejackets to patrol the city and keep order and helped establish a radio station ashore; Marines relieved the sailors on 1 July and the ships sailed the following day. The article also documents class employment patterns (aircraft tending, district/reserve training assignments) and the class data line consistent with official figures (615 tons, 200'9", 25'6" beam, 8'6" draft, 18.0 knots; infobox complement 73 - see gaps).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-04
- Study period
- 1925-06-29 to 1925-07-02
- Population
- U.S. Navy crew (Eleventh Naval District operations, 1925)
- Limitations
- Professional naval-history press, not a government record - used for the documented 1925 relief operation and San Diego (Eleventh Naval District) operating base. Page is live but blocks automated fetches (403 to curl); full text retrieved via Firecrawl rendering 2026-10-04. No asbestos content; infobox complement figure (73) conflicts with DANFS (61) and is logged in gaps.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-eagle-no-34-pe34-04
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[6]Max Miller, I Cover the Waterfront (1932), Chapter II - serialized in the San Diego Reader, 19 February 2004 [reputable_press]
- Locator
- San Diego Reader serialization of I Cover the Waterfront, Chapter II
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Contemporaneous first-person account placing this hull on a recurring San Diego assignment: 'Each year we go after elephant seals for the Zoo. Sometimes we go in the Navy's tugboat, Koka, sometimes in the Navy's Eagle boat 34. We cruise to that Mexican island of Guadalupe.' Describes annual capture of elephant seals on Mexico's Guadalupe Island for the San Diego Zoo, alternating between Navy tug Koka (AT-31) and Eagle boat 34.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-04
- Study period
- ca. late 1920s-1931
- Population
- U.S. Navy crew (San Diego Zoo capture expeditions)
- Limitations
- Published memoir by a San Diego waterfront reporter - a contemporaneous (1932) but journalistic source; establishes the Guadalupe duty and San Diego base, not a Navy record. No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-eagle-no-34-pe34-05
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[7]Era inference built on: Ships' Data 1929 machinery table for this hull (2 Bureau express oil-burning boilers, 1 Poole geared turbine, single shaft); Franke & Paustenbach, 'Government and Navy knowledge regarding health hazards of asbestos: A state of the science evaluation (1900 to 1970),' Inhalation Toxicology 23(sup3):1-20 (Dec 2011), doi:10.3109/08958378.2011.643417 - peer-reviewed review stating amosite and chrysotile were used extensively as insulating materials on naval ships from the 1880s into the 1950s [other_primary]
- Locator
- Ships' Data 1929 p. 167 machinery columns; Franke & Paustenbach 2011 (naval-ship insulation discussion)
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- This hull carried a WWI-era naval steam plant (oil-fired water-tube boilers supplying a geared steam turbine). Peer-reviewed literature documents that asbestos-containing thermal insulation, gaskets, packing, and pipe-covering compounds were the standard insulating fit aboard U.S. naval steam vessels of this era; asbestos presence aboard this specific hull is therefore a reasonable era-consistent inference. Typical applications for the type: boiler casing and steam-drum insulation; steam-line lagging; valve, flange, and machinery gaskets and packing.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-10-04
- Study period
- 1919 (construction); 1919-1932 (in-service)
- Population
- Construction workforce (Ford Rouge, 1919); engine-room and machinery-rated crew, 1919-1932
- Limitations
- INFERENCE, not a hull record: no source names Eagle No. 34/PE-34. The literature review documents Navy-era practice, not this vessel; the steam plant is documented by Ships' Data 1929. Does not establish quantity, product identity, remaining material (hull scrapped 1932), or any individual exposure. The cited review is paywalled; the era statement was verified in the article text retrieved at research time.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-eagle-no-34-pe34-06
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[8]GAO, Navy Efforts To Protect Workers From Asbestos Exposure, HRD-80-2 (Oct 18, 1979) [gao]
- Locator
- GAO product page HRD-80-2
- Finding type
- gov_survey
- Finding
- GAO product-page record of the 1979 report on Navy asbestos-insulation use and worker-protection efforts - documents that asbestos insulation was in widespread use aboard U.S. naval vessels and that Navy monitoring/abatement programs postdate the eras of installation. Included as program-level context for the Navy's own documentation of shipboard asbestos.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-10-04
- Study period
- 1979 (report); era-general
- Limitations
- Program-level context only: the report addresses then-current (1970s) Navy practice and WWII-vintage installations; PE-34 was scrapped in 1932, decades before the programs described, and is not named. gao.gov returns HTTP 403 to automated fetches - the product-page description was used, and full-text pull remains an open lead. Does not establish anything about this hull.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-eagle-no-34-pe34-07
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[9]Batch-8399 search ledger (this record): DANFS Appendix II (Wayback/hazegray); Ships' Data 1929 (shipscribe scan); NavSource PE-34; USNI Naval History (Cressman); San Diego Reader / Max Miller 1932; NARA Catalog API (deck-log file units); CourtListener authenticated API v4 (4 base queries); shipyard-exposure-map shipyards.json yard list; The Henry Ford research guide [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-eagle-no-34-pe34-01 through sl-uss-eagle-no-34-pe34-12 (14 rows incl. 09b, 09c)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no survey, abatement or scrapping hazmat record, and no docketed asbestos case naming Eagle No. 34 or PE-34 was found in the public sources searched. CourtListener base queries: 'Eagle No. 34' - 0 opinion hits, 0 docket hits; 'PE-34' - 10 opinion hits and 120 docket hits, all reviewed items classified as name collisions (exhibit-number or unrelated matches in habeas, pharmaceutical, disciplinary, contract, criminal, ERISA, and MDL matters); the base docket overflow justified one protocol-permitted subset variant ('PE-34' asbestos, docket) - 10 further hits, all name collisions. NARA's digitized deck-log file units cover only the eight Eagle boats surviving into 1939-1945 service; no PE-34 log file unit exists in the digitized catalog.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-04
- Study period
- 2026-10-04
- Limitations
- Absence of a located public record does not prove absence of asbestos aboard - the documented 1919 steam plant is consistent with era-standard asbestos-bearing insulation. The hull was scrapped in 1932, before modern survey/abatement documentation existed, so absence of post-service records is expected, not exculpatory. Does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-eagle-no-34-pe34-08