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-36-pe36-pkt-973-packet-md
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[2]DANFS Vol. VI pp. 744-747, Appendix II 'Eagle-Class Patrol Craft (PE)' - class narrative and numerical summary incl. Eagle No. 36 (verbatim transcription; live NHHC page returned 404) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS Vol. VI Appendix II - class narrative, general characteristics block, and numerical summary line for Eagle No. 36
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Documented for this hull in the DANFS class numerical summary: 'Eagle No. 36 - Keel laid 1/22/19. Launched 3/22/19. Commissioned 8/20/19. Classified as PE-36 7/17/20. Sold 2/27/36.' Class context documented in the same entry: design by the Bureau of Construction and Repair for mass production by an inexperienced yard; Henry Ford directed to build 100 (later 112, cut to 60 at the Armistice) at a new plant on the Rouge River on the outskirts of Detroit, machinery and fittings largely built at Ford's Highland Park plant; 7 boats commissioned 1918, 53 in 1919; several used as aircraft tenders (Midway 1920, Hawaiian Islands 1921); some transferred to the Coast Guard in 1919, the balance sold in the 1930s-40s. Class characteristics: displacement 615 t; length 200'9"; beam 33'1"; draft 8'6"; speed 18.32 k; complement 5 officers + 56 enlisted; one Poole geared turbine, 2,500 shp, 1 shaft; armament two 4"/50, one 3"/50, two .50 cal mg, Y-gun (Eagles 4 through 7 only).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-04
- Study period
- 1917-1936
- Population
- Ford Rouge plant workforce (1918-19, peaked ~8,000); commissioning crew (1919)
- Limitations
- The DANFS Eagle entry is a single class appendix - it gives per-hull milestones (laid down, launched, commissioned, classified, sold) but no service narrative, commanding officers, decommissioning, or striking dates for this hull. No asbestos or material content. Live NHHC DANFS page for this appendix returned 404 on 2026-10-04; verbatim transcription used via the losthistory.net/hazegray mirror.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-eagle-no-36-pe36-01
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[3]NavSource Online: Eagle-Class Patrol Craft Photo Archive, PE-36 (ex-Eagle No. 36) - timeline, specifications, commanding officers, photographs [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource 12/0436.htm header timeline, specifications block, commanding-officers table, photo captions
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NavSource timeline for this hull: laid down 22 January 1919 by the Ford Motor Co., Detroit, MI; launched 22 March 1919; commissioned USS Eagle No. 36, 22 August 1919; designated PE-36, 17 July 1920; struck from the Naval Register 6 August 1935; sold 27 February 1936; fate unknown. Specifications listed: displacement 710 t; length 200'9"; beam 25'9"; draft 13'6"; speed 18.32 kts; complement 61; armament one 4"/50, one 3"/50, two .50 cal machine guns, one Y-gun depth charge projector; propulsion two Thorny-Croft Bureau Mod. boilers, one 2,500 shp Poole turbine, Ford single reduction gear, one shaft. Named commanding officers establish commissioned service into the mid-1930s: LTJG James Herbert Carrington USN (1934), LTJG Leonidas W. Paucoast USN (1934), LTJG Clyde Marcus Jensen USN (1935). Photography includes a c.1920 image credited 'Naval History and Heritage Command photo NH 54322.'
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-04
- Study period
- 1919-1936
- Population
- Commissioning and interwar crews (1919-1935); 1934-35 named COs
- Limitations
- NavSource is a volunteer secondary compilation tracking NVR/DANFS conventions, not a primary registry - several specifications conflict with the DANFS class characteristics (beam 25'9" vs 33'1"; draft 13'6" vs 8'6"; displacement 710 t vs 615 t; one 4"/50 vs two; Y-gun listed though DANFS restricts Y-guns to Eagles 4-7) and its 22 August commissioning date conflicts with DANFS's 20 August - see gaps. Commissioning/stricken dates here are the carried values. The steam plant (two water-tube boilers + geared turbine) is the asbestos-relevant detail, relevant to era inference only. Contains no asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-eagle-no-36-pe36-02
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[4]NavalCoverMuseum, EAGLE 36 PE 36 - designation history and postal cover record [museum_official]
- Locator
- NavalCoverMuseum wiki EAGLE_36_PE_36 - Ship Name and Designation History; Postmarks table (Houston, TX 1927-05-16)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Independent designation timeline matching NavSource: commissioned 22 August 1919; designated (PE) 17 July 1920; decommissioned (date unknown); struck from the Naval Register 6 August 1935; sold 27 February 1936; fate unknown. The cover record documents a USPO machine postmark, Houston, TX, dated 16 May 1927, on a PE-36 cover - physical-artifact evidence placing the ship on the Gulf Coast in 1927, consistent with 8th Naval District (Gulf) assignment; the page notes the ship had no postal facilities.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-04
- Study period
- 1919-1936; cover dated 1927-05-16
- Population
- Crew during Gulf-coast operations (1927)
- Limitations
- Philatelic documentation: a postmark cover establishes the ship's presence at (or mail associated with) Houston in May 1927, not her duties there, and the museum's postmark dates reflect only covers in its collection. No asbestos content. NavalCoverMuseum is a curated philatelic archive - primary artifacts, secondary presentation.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-eagle-no-36-pe36-03
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[5]MaritimeQuest, USS Eagle 36 PE-36 ship's data page - build/milestone table and dated service-station notes (secondary compilation) [other_primary]
- Locator
- MaritimeQuest PE-36 data page - milestones table, notes (a)/(b), Ship's History dated entries
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Secondary-compilation service details not present in DANFS or NavSource: commissioned 20 August 1919 and decommissioned 29 September 1919 (initial ~5-week commission); recommissioned before March 1923; March 1923 assigned to 8th Naval District, Portsmouth, NH; April 1933 homeport shifted to New Orleans, LA; July 1934 assigned to 6th Naval District, Charleston, SC; decommissioned between April and October 1935; struck 'August 6, 1936'; sold 27 February 1936.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-04
- Study period
- 1919-1936
- Population
- Crew during interwar district assignments (1923-1935)
- Limitations
- MaritimeQuest is an unsourced secondary compilation and this page contains internally anomalous data - '8th Naval District, Portsmouth, NH' is inconsistent (the 8th Naval District was the Gulf district; Portsmouth, NH lay in the 1st), and its 6 August 1936 striking year conflicts with NavSource's 6 August 1935 (carried). The 1919 initial decommissioning and April-October 1935 decommissioning window are unverified against a primary source - carried in prose as secondary-sourced and flagged in gaps. No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-eagle-no-36-pe36-04
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[6]Era inference built on: DANFS class characteristics (Poole geared turbine, 2,500 shp, 1 shaft); NavSource specifications (two Thorny-Croft Bureau Mod. water-tube boilers, Ford single-reduction gear); documented 1919 build date [other_primary]
- Locator
- DANFS general characteristics propulsion line; NavSource specifications block
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- A steam-powered patrol craft completed in 1919 carried a two-boiler, single geared-turbine plant; marine steam-plant insulation practice of the WWI era used asbestos-containing materials for the heat-retention applications the plant required: boiler and steam-line lagging (magnesia/asbestos sectional pipe covering was the standard marine steam-pipe insulation of the period), turbine-casing insulation, flange and valve gaskets, and valve-stem packing. These are era-standard applications for the plant type, not confirmed installed materials for this hull.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-10-04
- Study period
- 1919-1935
- Population
- Ford construction workforce (1919); engineering crew (1919-1935); any maintenance trades during availabilities
- Limitations
- Class/era inference only - no hull-specific material list, builder spec sheet, insulation schedule, or survey was located for Eagle No. 36/PE-36, and the 1919 construction date predates the better-documented WWII-era expansion of shipboard asbestos use. Names era-standard applications, not confirmed installed materials; establishes no quantity and no present-day presence (hull sold 1936, fate unknown).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-eagle-no-36-pe36-05
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[7]GAO, Navy Efforts To Protect Workers From Asbestos Exposure, HRD-80-2 (Oct 18, 1979) [gao]
- Locator
- GAO product page HRD-80-2 (full text blocked, HTTP 403)
- Finding type
- gov_survey
- Finding
- GAO documented that the Navy used asbestos insulation extensively aboard ships and did not begin substituting alternative insulation materials until the early 1970s - documentation of a shipbuilding practice extending back through this hull's 1919 construction era.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-10-04
- Study period
- 1979
- Population
- Navy shipyard workers; asbestos program review
- Limitations
- Program-level documentation; supports era context only, not any fact specific to this hull. The report's fieldwork and focus are mid-20th-century yards and vessels, making it a weaker anchor for a 1919-built craft than for WWII-era hulls; the era inference for this hull rests primarily on the documented steam plant. Full text not retrieved (gao.gov blocks automated fetch, HTTP 403, confirmed 2026-10-04) - content via product-page description.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-eagle-no-36-pe36-06
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[8]Archival leads: NARA RG 24 deck logs (1919-1935); NHHC photographic collection, image NH 54322 (c.1920 view of this ship, displayed via NavSource with NHHC credit) [other_primary]
- Locator
- catalog.archives.gov (unsearched, JS-rendered); NavSource 12/0436.htm photo caption crediting NHHC NH 54322
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Open archival leads for this hull: (1) NARA holds U.S. Navy deck logs in RG 24; whether Eagle No. 36/PE-36's 1919-1935 logs were accessioned is unverified - catalog.archives.gov is JS-rendered and could not be searched this session. (2) NHHC photograph NH 54322 shows this ship c.1920 (image displayed in the NavSource archive with NHHC credit); the former NHHC numerical photo-page URL pattern returns 404.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-04
- Study period
- 1919-1935
- Limitations
- Archival leads only - neither record was retrieved. Deck logs would document operations and locations, not materials; no asbestos content is expected from either source. NAID for the deck logs not established.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-eagle-no-36-pe36-07
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[9]Batch-8401 search ledger (this record): DANFS class appendix via losthistory.net/hazegray mirror; NavSource 12/0436; NavalCoverMuseum; MaritimeQuest; Dreadnought Project; NVR; NARA catalog; CourtListener (pending pacing window); secondary web litigation sweep [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-eagle-no-36-pe36-01 through -13
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, material list, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, or verified litigation naming Eagle No. 36/PE-36 was found in the public sources searched (see search_ledger). The CourtListener opinion index returned zero hits for 'Eagle No. 36'. The hull was sold in 1936 and its fate is unknown - there is no museum, registry, or custodial body publishing material condition for it. CAVEAT: the CourtListener sweep is partial - three of four base queries were fleet-pacing-blocked across ~45 minutes of spaced attempts and are logged as blocked, not as negative results.
- 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 era-consistent inference for a 1919 steam plant stands on its own terms. Sale to private hands in 1936 pre-dates modern material-disclosure practice; no post-sale condition record exists to find. The blocked CourtListener queries (docket index for 'Eagle No. 36', opinion and docket indexes for 'PE-36') are a genuine open gap, not a negative result. Does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-eagle-no-36-pe36-08