Evidence
12 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-12).
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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-38-pe38-pkt-973-packet-md
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[2]DANFS, 'Eagle No. 31 Through Eagle No. 40' (grouped numerical-summary entry covering Eagle No. 38) - live NHHC page, verified 2026-10-04 [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- NHHC DANFS page 'Eagle No. 31 Through Eagle No. 40', Eagle No. 38 line and program footnote
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS numerical summary for this hull: 'Eagle No. 38 - Keel laid 1/31/19. Launched 3/29/19. Commissioned 7/30/19. Classified as PE-38 7/17/20. Sold 3/3/47.' DANFS footnote: 'All Eagle Boats were built at Detroit, Mich., by the Ford Motor Co.' The DANFS entry carries no striking or decommissioning date for this hull - those come from NavSource (struck 3 January 1946) and Naval Cover Museum (decommissioned 6 December 1945).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-04
- Study period
- 1919-1947
- Population
- Ford Rouge plant construction workers (1919); crew (1919-1945)
- Limitations
- Ship-specific milestones only; no asbestos or material content. The grouped entry gives no narrative for this hull. A secondary-source laid-down variant (30 January 1919) circulates - see gaps.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-eagle-no-38-pe38-01
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[3]DANFS Vol. VI, Appendix II, 'Eagle-Class Patrol Craft (PE)', pp. 744-747 - class program narrative and general characteristics (ARCHIVED verbatim transcription via Wayback capture of hazegray.org, 2025-04-25; live hazegray domain now fails DNS, no live NHHC page for the Appendix II text located) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS Vol. VI pp. 744-747, Appendix II narrative + general characteristics block (Wayback capture)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS class narrative: in late 1917 the Navy needed steel antisubmarine vessels smaller than destroyers with greater operational radius than the 110-foot wooden submarine chasers; the Bureau of Construction and Repair produced a simplified design for inexperienced yards; Henry Ford accepted the task in January 1918 (contract for 100, raised to 112, cut to 60 after the Armistice; seven commissioned 1918, 53 in 1919); a purpose-built assembly plant on the Rouge River outside Detroit turned out hulls by mass-production methods, with machinery and fittings largely from Ford's Highland Park plant; boats transited the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River to the Atlantic coast; the boats never saw WWI service; some served as aircraft tenders (Midway 1920, Hawaiian Islands 1921); a number transferred to the Coast Guard in 1919; the balance sold in the 1930s and early 1940s. Class general characteristics: length 200'9"; beam 33'1"; maximum speed 18.32 k.; displacement 615 t.; draft 8'6"; complement 5 officers, 56 enlisted; propulsion 1 shaft, 2,500 SHP, Poole geared turbine; armament 2 x 4"/50 cal., 1 x 3"/50 cal., 2 x .50 cal. mg., 1 Y-gun (Eagles 4 through 7 only).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-10-04
- Study period
- 1917-1940s
- Population
- Ford Rouge plant workforce - peaked at 8,000 (1918-19); Eagle Boat crews across the class
- Limitations
- Class-level program history - contextualizes this hull's builder and design but is not hull documentation. Eagle No. 38 was NOT among the Coast Guard transfers (those were Nos. 16, 20, 21, 22, 30). No asbestos or material content. Live hazegray.org fails DNS resolution as of 2026-10-04; the 2025-04-25 Wayback capture is cited and labeled archived.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-eagle-no-38-pe38-02
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[4]NavSource Online: Eagle-Class Patrol Craft Photo Archive, PE-38 (12/0438) - designation timeline, specifications, commanding-officer list, photo captions (live fetch verified 2026-10-04) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource 12/0438.htm header block, specifications block, commanding-officer table, photo captions
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NavSource timeline for this hull: laid down 31 January 1919 by the Ford Motor Co., Detroit, MI; launched 29 March 1919; commissioned USS Eagle No. 38, 30 July 1919; designated PE-38, 17 July 1920; 'On 27 August 1942, PE-38 together with USS Lea (DD 118) picked up 33 survivors from the British tanker San Fabian that was torpedoed and sunk by German submarine U-511 about 120 nautical miles south-south-east of Guantanamo Bay, Cuba in position 18°09'N, 74°38'W'; struck from the Naval Register 3 January 1946; sold 3 March 1947; 'Fate unknown.' Specifications: displacement 615 t.; length 200'9"; beam 25'9"; draft 13'6"; speed 18.32 kts.; complement 68; armament two 4"/50 gun mounts and two .50 cal. machine guns; propulsion 'Two Thorny-Croft Bureau Model 250psi boilers, one 2,500shp Poole geared turbine, Ford single reduction gear, one shaft.' Photo captions place this hull at Mare Island December 1920 - March 1921 (sub-base moorings with nine other Eagle boats). Commanding officers listed: LT Van Rensselaer Moore, USN (1934); LT Ray Andes Mitchell, USN (1936); LT Donald Jacob Sass, USN (1939); LT/LCDR Herbert Vincent Perron, USN (1941 - September 1944); LT Frank G. Morris, Jr., USNR (September - December 1944); LT Robert A. Leach, USNR (December 1944 - October 1945); LT Curtis L. Godfrey, USNR (October 1945 - 7 December 1945).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-04
- Study period
- 1919-1947
- Population
- Ford construction trades (1919); crew (1919-1945); 33 rescued merchant mariners and gunners (Aug 1942)
- Limitations
- NavSource is a volunteer secondary compilation, not a primary registry - milestone dates track DANFS (verified identical except the complement/beam/draft figures, which conflict with DANFS class characteristics - see gaps). The San Fabian rescue attribution to this hull CONFLICTS with uboat.net, which credits USS SC-522 with picking up all 33 survivors - the rescue event is corroborated across sources but the rescuing-unit attribution is disputed; see gaps and ev-08. Contains no asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-eagle-no-38-pe38-03
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[5]Robert J. Cressman, 'Historic Fleets - Prepared for the Work of War', Naval History Magazine (U.S. Naval Institute), Vol. 28 No. 4 (August 2014) - Eagle Boat class history incl. this hull's 1940 reduced-commissioning (live fetch verified 2026-10-04) [reputable_press]
- Locator
- USNI Naval History Aug 2014, para. beginning 'By the time the shadows of war began to darken'
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- USNI Naval History (by NHHC historian Robert J. Cressman) names this hull directly: 'The Eagle 38 (PE-38) was the first to be placed "in reduced commission" on 31 May 1940 at the Puget Sound Navy Yard' - the first of the surviving Eagles earmarked for naval-district local-defense organizations ahead of WWII (followed by PE-19 at Boston, PE-27 at Boston, PE-32 at Puget Sound, PE-56 at Norfolk, PE-57 at Seattle, with PE-48 and PE-55 placed in full commission 16 September 1941). Class context: 60 boats mass-produced at Ford's River Rouge facilities; interwar employment as aircraft tenders, submarine tenders, naval-air-station craft, and reservist trainers across seven naval districts.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-04
- Study period
- 1940
- Population
- Crew at Puget Sound Navy Yard (1940); local-defense crew (1940-45)
- Limitations
- Documents the reduced-commissioning event and location, not the duration of the Puget Sound assignment or subsequent WWII stations. The command list (Perron from 1941; the uboat.net command table dates his tenure from 31 May 1940) is consistent with a 1940-44 Pacific Northwest/Caribbean assignment chain, but the specific transfer chronology is undocumented in located sources - see gaps. No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-eagle-no-38-pe38-04
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[6]NHHC, 'United States Pacific Fleet Organization, 1 May 1945' - official wartime organization listing: 'PE 38, Lt. R. A. Leach (USNR)' (live fetch verified 2026-10-04) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NHHC Online Reading Room, 'United States Pacific Fleet Organization, 1 May 1945', small-craft listing (PE 32, PE 38 lines)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- An official Navy organization document lists 'PE 38' in the Pacific Fleet organization as of 1 May 1945, commanded by Lt. R. A. Leach (USNR) - consistent with the NavSource/uboat.net command lists (Leach December 1944 - late 1945) and confirming this hull was an operational commissioned unit of the Pacific Fleet in the war's final months, after her documented 1942 Caribbean service.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-04
- Study period
- 1945
- Population
- Crew (May 1945)
- Limitations
- The document lists the hull and commanding officer within the Pacific Fleet's patrol/minecraft small-craft organization; it does not state her base or daily employment, and does not identify which intermediate command she reported through. No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-eagle-no-38-pe38-05
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[7]NARA Special List 44, 'List of Logbooks of U.S. Navy Ships, Stations, and Miscellaneous Units, 1801-1947' (RG 24, Records of the Bureau of Naval Personnel, Entry 118, NAID 581208) - ship-name list entries for Eagle 38 (live fetch verified 2026-10-04) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Special List 44 ship-name list, 'Eagle 38' entries (six rows)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- NARA's comprehensive logbook inventory records six runs of logs for Eagle 38: 7/30/1919 - 9/30/1919; 6/8/1920 - 12/31/1921; 1/1/1923 - 3/31/1930; 4/1/1931 - 3/31/1940; 11/1/1940 - 12/31/1940; and 9/1/1944 - 12/7/1945. Coverage gaps (October 1919 - June 1920; 1922; April 1930 - March 1931; January 1941 - August 1944) mark likely laid-up or reduced-status intervals; notably, the January 1941 - August 1944 gap spans the 27 August 1942 San Fabian operation. The final run ends 7 December 1945, consistent with her 6 December 1945 decommissioning. These logbooks are the primary archival lead for her movements, availabilities, and daily population.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-04
- Study period
- 1919-1945 (coverage inventory)
- Population
- Crew across all active periods (1919-1945)
- Limitations
- Special List 44 is an inventory of surviving logbook runs, not the logs themselves - it documents coverage for these date ranges, not ship status within them. The 1941-1944 gap means no standard deck-log run for the Caribbean period is inventoried here; whether logs for that interval survive in other series is undetermined. Logs are undigitized - contents unverified. No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-eagle-no-38-pe38-06
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[8]Naval Cover Museum, 'EAGLE 38 PE 38' wiki entry - designation chronology, postmark record (Portland, Oregon, 1932-09-14 and later markings), postal-service dates 1941-1945, decommissioning date (live fetch verified 2026-10-04) [museum_official]
- Locator
- Naval Cover Museum wiki, EAGLE 38 PE 38 - 'Names and Designations' table and postmark gallery
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Naval Cover Museum records this hull's name chronology (commissioned USS Eagle No. 38, 30 July 1919; designated PE-38 17 July 1920; decommissioned 6 December 1945; sold 3 March 1947) and a philatelic record placing her in Portland, Oregon, in September 1932 ('U.S.S. EAGLE #38 / Portland Oregon' return-side marking dated 1932-09-14) with shipboard postal service documented 29 May 1941 - 6 December 1945. The Portland marking corroborates the Thirteenth Naval District (Pacific Northwest) assignment implied by her 1940 Puget Sound reduced-commissioning.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-04
- Study period
- 1932-1945
- Population
- Crew at Portland (1932); crew (1941-1945)
- Limitations
- A postmark documents presence at Portland on the marked dates, not the duration of the assignment. The decommissioning date (6 December 1945) is corroborated by the command-list endpoint (7 December 1945) and the logbook-run endpoint (7 December 1945). No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-eagle-no-38-pe38-07
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[9]uboat.net, 'San Fabian' casualty record (convoy TAW-15, U-511, 27 August 1942) - conflicting rescue attribution; corroborating detail from uboat.net 'Rotterdam' record, uboat.net warship file USS PE-38 (8478), and The Official Chronology of the U.S. Navy in World War II (28 August 1942 Caribbean entries) [other_primary]
- Locator
- uboat.net merchant records 2098 (San Fabian) and 2096 (Rotterdam), warship file 8478; ibiblio HyperWar USN-Chron-1942.html, 27-28 August 1942 Caribbean entries
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- The San Fabian rescue attribution to this hull is contested. uboat.net's San Fabian casualty record states: 'The master, 29 crew members and three gunners were picked up by USS SC-522 and landed at Guantanamo Bay' - all 33 survivors credited to the submarine chaser, not to PE-38 and Lea (the same source credits SC-522 with Rotterdam's 38 survivors). The Official Chronology of the U.S. Navy in World War II records the attack (U-511 vs. convoy TAW 15, ~120 miles SSE of Guantanamo, San Fabian and Rotterdam sunk) but names no rescuer for the merchant survivors; its adjacent 28 August entry credits destroyer Lea and HMCS Oakville with picking up survivors of U-94 - a different event the same day, which may be the origin of the Lea attribution in secondary retellings. uboat.net's own warship file for PE-38 confirms her WWII command chain (Lt. H. V. Perron, USN, from 31 May 1940 to 21 September 1944) and dates, not the rescue claim.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- correction
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-04
- Study period
- 1942
- Population
- 33 San Fabian survivors; TAW-15 escort crews
- Limitations
- This row documents a source conflict, not a resolution: NavSource attributes all 33 pickups to PE-38 + Lea; uboat.net attributes all 33 to SC-522; Legion Magazine attributes all 33 to Lea alone; the official Navy chronology names no rescuer for the merchant crews. The rescue event itself (33 survivors saved after U-511 sank San Fabian in convoy TAW-15 on 27 August 1942) is consistent across every source. Which escort physically embarked the survivors is unresolved in located sources - PE-38's own deck logs for the period are not inventoried in NARA Special List 44 (see ev-06).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-eagle-no-38-pe38-08
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[10]Era inference built on: NavSource specifications (two Thornycroft Bureau Model 250-psi boilers, one 2,500-shp Poole geared turbine, single shaft - a steam plant); DANFS class characteristics (Poole geared turbine, 2,500 SHP); build year 1919 inside the Navy's documented asbestos-insulation era (see ev-10, GAO HRD-80-2) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource 12/0438 specifications block; DANFS class characteristics; GAO HRD-80-2 era documentation
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- A steam-driven patrol craft built in 1919 sits inside the era in which marine steam plants were insulated with asbestos-containing products; era-standard applications aboard a vessel of this type were boiler casing lagging, steam-line insulation between boiler room and engine room, flange gaskets, valve and turbine packing, and thermal insulation in machinery spaces. With a 615-ton steel hull and a single-shaft 2,500-shp plant, the confined engineering spaces of this class concentrate the exposure pathway.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-10-04
- Study period
- 1919-1947
- Population
- Ford construction trades (1919); crew (1919-1945); any yard trades at availabilities; 1947 buyers/scrappers
- Limitations
- Class/era inference only - no hull-specific insulation survey, material list, or construction work package located for Eagle No. 38; Ford Rouge plant records for the Eagle program are not located in public sources. Names era-standard applications, not confirmed installed materials. No quantity. No manufacturer attribution for this hull. WWI-era construction precedes the peak documented asbestos era but falls inside the period when magnesia/asbestos marine lagging was standard - inference strength noted, not upgraded.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-eagle-no-38-pe38-09
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[11]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 - spanning this hull's entire construction (1919) and service era (1919-1945).
- 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. Full text not retrieved - gao.gov returns HTTP 403 to automated fetch (standing defect since BATCH-01); content via product-page description.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-eagle-no-38-pe38-10
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[12]Batch-8402 search ledger (this record): live NHHC DANFS grouped entry; DANFS Appendix II transcription via hazegray/Wayback; NavSource; USNI Naval History (Cressman); NHHC Pacific Fleet organization 1 May 1945; NARA Special List 44; Naval Cover Museum; uboat.net warship/merchant records; USN WWII official chronology; NVR (no entry - predates coverage); CourtListener (paced most of session); secondary web litigation sweep [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-eagle-no-38-pe38-01 through -11
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, or verified litigation naming Eagle No. 38 / PE-38 was found in the public sources searched (see search_ledger). The hull was sold 3 March 1947 - decades before asbestos-survey or abatement documentation regimes existed, so absence of such records is expected, not informative. CourtListener coverage this session is PARTIAL: both exact-name queries ('Eagle No. 38', opinion and docket) returned zero results; the 'PE-38' hull-number opinion query returned 6 hits, all reviewed and all name collisions (see search_ledger); the 'PE-38' hull-number docket query was blocked by the fleet pacing budget on every attempt - logged as blocked/partial in search_ledger, not as a clean negative result. Secondary web sweeps surfaced no qualifying case; the only 'asbestos' material is law-firm marketing content (navy-ship listicles naming 'USS Eagle' generically - most referring to AM-132, a different hull - plus an Eagle-class patrol-boat mention) - excluded by source policy.
- 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 - for a 1947-disposed hull no documentation regime ever applied. The litigation repository search is a partial gap (3 of 4 base queries run; both exact-name indexes clean, hull-number opinion index all collisions, only the 'PE-38' docket query unsearched). The NARA RG 24 logbooks (1919-1945 coverage, six runs) are the primary undigitized lead. Does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-eagle-no-38-pe38-11