Evidence
8 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-8).
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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-35-pe35-pkt-973-packet-md
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[2]DANFS, Appendix II 'Eagle-Class Patrol Craft (PE)', Vol. VI pp. 744-747 (verbatim transcription via hazegray.org, Wayback capture 2020-10-20; live hazegray.org DNS fails and live NHHC DANFS pages for the type return 404) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS Appendix II numerical summary, 'Eagle No. 35' entry; class narrative and General Characteristics block
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS numerical summary for this hull: 'Eagle No. 35 - Keel laid 1/13/19. Launched 3/22/19. Commissioned 8/22/19. Classified as PE-35 7/17/20. Sold 6/7/38.' Class narrative: type designed by the Bureau of Construction and Repair for mass production by Ford Motor Company at a purpose-built River Rouge plant; contract for 100 (raised to 112) cut to 60 after the Armistice; all 60 built at Detroit by Ford; general characteristics 615 t displacement, 200'9" length, 33'1" beam, 8'6" draft, 18.32 kt, complement 5 officers + 56 enlisted, single screw, Poole geared turbine 2,500 shp.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-04
- Study period
- 1918-1938
- Population
- Ford River Rouge construction workforce 1918-1919; crew 1919-1931
- Limitations
- DANFS documents identity, dates, builder and class specifications - not materials or asbestos content, and gives no decommissioning date for this hull (decommissioning rests on NavalCoverMuseum plus NARA logbook coverage ending 6/1/1931). Transcription cited via archived mirror; live hazegray.org DNS resolution failed and candidate live NHHC DANFS URLs returned 404 on 2026-10-04.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-eagle-no-35-pe35-01
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[3]NARA Special List No. 44, 'List of Logbooks of US Navy Ships, Stations, and Miscellaneous Units, 1801-1947', named-vessels list; parent series RG 24 Entry 118 / NAID 581208. (The companion ship-number PDF, https://www.archives.gov/files/research/military/logbooks/sl-44-ship-number.pdf, indexes post-1941 logs by hull number and lists PE-27/32/38/48/55/57 only - this hull's logs are filed under the name 'Eagle 35'.) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Special List 44 named-vessels page, 'Eagle 35' rows
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- NARA's official logbook inventory lists three logbook units for 'Eagle 35': coverage 8/21/1919-9/29/1919; 6/8/1920-6/1/1931; and 1/1/1931-6/1/1931 (the last annotated 'see Eagle 27, 1925'). Log coverage ending 6/1/1931 corroborates the documented 1 June 1931 decommissioning date, which DANFS itself does not state.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-04
- Study period
- 1919-1931
- Limitations
- Inventory-level documentation of logbook existence and date coverage - the logbooks themselves (RG 24, held at the National Archives, Washington DC; pre-1941 logs are partially imaged under NAID 581208) were not read for this record. Coverage end-date corroborates, but does not itself state, the decommissioning.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-eagle-no-35-pe35-02
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[4]NavalCoverMuseum (USCS naval cover archive), 'EAGLE 35 PE 35' ship page - designation history and documented ship post-office periods [other_primary]
- Locator
- EAGLE 35 PE 35 wiki page, 'Ship Name and Designation History' + 'Postmarks' sections
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Designation history: 'USS EAGLE No. 35 - Commissioned August 22 1919'; 'USS EAGLE PE-35 - Designated (PE) July 17 1920; Decommissioned June 1 1931; Sold June 7 1938'. Ship's post office documented: established 15 February 1920, disestablished 21 November 1920; reestablished 24 December 1925, disestablished 28 May 1931 - activity windows consistent with the photographic record (inactive at Mare Island winter 1920-21; active service mid-1920s; decommissioning 1 June 1931, four days after postal closure).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-04
- Study period
- 1919-1938
- Limitations
- Specialist philatelic archive - designation history and post-office dates are documentary, but it does not state where she decommissioned, where she served between postal windows, or anything about materials/asbestos.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-eagle-no-35-pe35-03
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[5]NavSource Online, Eagle-Class Patrol Craft Photo Archive, PE-35 page (verified live at navsource.net - navsource.org is defunct) + NHHC photo NH 106629 picture-data page (ibiblio Online Library mirror) + NavSource SS-168 page for the Library of Congress photo 36368a provenance (Evening Star, Washington DC, 14 April 1931, Image 17, chroniclingamerica.loc.gov) [other_primary]
- Locator
- navsource.net/archives/12/0435.htm photo captions, commanding-officer list, timeline; ibiblio.org/hyperwar/OnlineLibrary/photos/images/i06000/i06629c.htm (NH 106629); navsource.net/archives/08/08168.htm (LoC 36368a provenance)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Photographic and roster record for this hull: PE-35 photographed at Coco Solo, Canal Zone, during the 1920s with PE-47 and PE-58 (U.S. Navy photo NH 76131); in the inactive PE raft at Mare Island Submarine Base c. December 1920-January 1921 (Mare Island Navy Yard photo PE 86785); Thanksgiving Day menu 1926; at Guantanamo Bay April 1927 inboard of PE-58; NH 106629 'USS Eagle 35 (PE-35) Photographed circa the 1920s or 1930s' (NHHC photo, Kulikowski donation, verified on the NHHC Online Library picture-data mirror); and at the Washington Navy Yard c. April 1931 in the background of an Evening Star photograph of V-6/Nautilus (Library of Congress photo 36368a). Commanding officers listed: LCDR Archibald Nelson Offley (29 June 1925), LCDR James Kepler Davis (1927-1928). Timeline repeats DANFS dates: laid 13 Jan 1919 by Ford Motor Co., Detroit; launched 22 Mar 1919; commissioned 22 Aug 1919; designated PE-35 17 Jul 1920; sold 7 Jun 1938 - 'Fate unknown.'
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-04
- Study period
- 1919-1931
- Population
- Crew aboard during photographic windows (complement 61)
- Limitations
- NavSource is a secondary photographic aggregator - contents are captioned official/donated photographs; dates read 'during the 1920s'/'c. April 1931' rather than exact. The page's specification block conflicts with DANFS (710 t, 25'9" beam, 13'6" draft, one 4"/50) and is internally inconsistent with NavSource's own earlier (2008) capture matching DANFS - the DANFS class characteristics are carried and the variance is in gaps. Photo presence establishes location, not activity or materials.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-eagle-no-35-pe35-04
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[6]Commander Carlos Bean, U.S. Navy (ASNE member), 'U.S.S. Eagle Boats. Description', Journal of the American Society of Naval Engineers, Vol. XXXI, No. 4 (November 1919), pp. 818-848 (scan via Internet Archive, SIM microfilm collection) [other_primary]
- Locator
- JASNE Vol. XXXI No. 4, pp. 845-846, 'WEIGHTS' table, group 14 (scanned page images, archive.org item sim_naval-engineers-journal_1919-11_31_4, leaf n82-n83)
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Contemporaneous Navy technical description of this class's design and construction, by a serving U.S. Navy commander writing in the official engineering journal: the machinery 'WEIGHTS' table (pp. 845-846; 'Group No. / Description. / Weights.') itemizes group 14 'Asbestos pipe covering and clothing - 5,750' pounds and its companion entry 'Sheet metal jacketing - 1,500' pounds; a separate line reads 'Piping, lagging and fitting on auxiliary condenser lines - 1,229' pounds. Documents a specified asbestos application - roughly 2.9 tons of asbestos pipe covering and clothing - in the class machinery fit as designed and described in November 1919.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-10-04
- Study period
- 1918-1919 (design/construction)
- Population
- Ford River Rouge construction workforce 1918-1919 (class-wide); engine-room/fire-room crew 1919-1931 (class-wide)
- Limitations
- Class design documentation, not a hull-specific record - the article describes the Eagle-class design generally and does not name hull No. 35 or certify the as-installed condition of any one boat; it does not address crew-era disturbance, deterioration, or individual exposure. The 5,750-lb figure covers pipe covering and clothing only - boiler lagging, gaskets, packing and other period asbestos uses are not separately quantified in this table.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-eagle-no-35-pe35-05
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[7]Benson Ford Research Center (The Henry Ford), AskUs Research Guide: Eagle Boats - program history and archival holdings inventory [museum_official]
- Locator
- askus.thehenryford.org research guide 'Eagle Boats' - history text + 'Archival' bibliography
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Official museum research guide documenting the builder program: Ford Motor Company accepted the Navy contract 14 January 1918 (100-500 boats at a tentative $275,000 per vessel; $3.5M government-funded River Rouge plant); Albert Kahn assembly building 1,700 ft long with three lines of seven boats each; workforce 4,380 in July 1918 peaking near 8,000; 60 boats completed May 1918-August 1919 (final launch 13 August 1919). Archival holdings identified for construction research: Acc. 116 WWI Production Record (Navy contract correspondence, blueprints of patrol-boat parts), Acc. 488 Frank Hadas Papers ('Record of the Electric Installation on Eagle Boats,' 1919), Acc. 62/285 Henry Ford Office Papers (naval patrol boats), engineering/aperture cards drawer 4, photographic vertical files, and clipping books 1918-1920.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-10-04
- Study period
- 1918-1919
- Population
- Ford River Rouge workforce (peak ~8,000), 1918-1919
- Limitations
- Program-level builder documentation and an archival-lead inventory - none of the listed holdings were read for this record, and the guide contains no asbestos or insulation-material information. Useful for hull-level construction records retrieval, not itself evidence of material content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-eagle-no-35-pe35-06
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[8]Batch-8400 search ledger (this record): DANFS Appendix II (archived hazegray transcription); NARA Special List 44; NavSource photo archive + NHHC Online Library mirror; NavalCoverMuseum; Bean 1919 JASNE via Internet Archive; Benson Ford Research Center guide; CourtListener authenticated API v4 (see search_ledger for query status) [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-eagle-no-35-pe35-01 through -10
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located for this hull: beyond the class-design asbestos itemization (ev-05), no hull survey, abatement contract, museum or scrapping-yard hazmat disclosure, or docketed case naming Eagle No. 35 / PE-35 was found in the public sources searched (see search_ledger). The vessel was sold 7 June 1938 and her fate after sale is unknown - no disposal-site record exists to check for ACM handling.
- 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 contemporaneous class design itemizes asbestos pipe covering and clothing, and era-consistent presence on this hull is reasonable but not ship-proven. CourtListener query status is recorded in the search_ledger; any throttle is logged as blocked, not as a negative result.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-eagle-no-35-pe35-07