Evidence
12 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-12).
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[1]research packet 974-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-58-pe58-pkt-974-packet-md
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[2]DANFS, Vol. VI pp. 744-747, Appendix II 'Eagle-Class Patrol Craft (PE)' - Eagle No. 58 numerical-summary line and class general characteristics (verbatim transcription; live NHHC page not located - standing NHHC link rot) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS Appendix II numerical summary, Eagle No. 58 line; General Characteristics block
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Documented for this hull in the DANFS numerical summary: 'Eagle No. 58 - Keel laid 3/25/19. Launched 8/2/19. Commissioned 10/20/19. Classified as PE-58 7/17/20. Disposed of 6/30/40.' Class general characteristics (same entry): length overall 200'9"; beam 33'1"; maximum speed 18.32k; displacement 615 t.; draft 8'6"; complement officers 5, enlisted 56; propulsion 1 shaft, 2,500 SHP, Poole geared turbine; armament 2 4"/50 cal., 1 3"/50 cal., 2 .50 cal. mg., 1 Y-gun (Eagles 4 through 7 only - not this hull).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-04
- Study period
- 1919-1940
- Population
- Ford Rouge construction workforce (1919); crew (1919-1934)
- Limitations
- Ship-specific milestone line plus class-level characteristics; no asbestos or material content. DANFS gives no decommission date for PE-58 - that milestone comes from other rows. Live NHHC DANFS page not located on 2026-10-04 (hazegray.org DNS also fails from this network); verbatim DANFS transcription used via losthistory.net mirror.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-eagle-no-58-pe58-01
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[3]DANFS, Vol. VI pp. 744-747, Appendix II 'Eagle-Class Patrol Craft (PE)' - class design and Ford construction narrative (verbatim transcription) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS Appendix II class narrative
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Class-level construction narrative: steel anti-submarine patrol vessels designed by the Bureau of Construction and Repair for rapid construction by an inexperienced yard; built by Ford Motor Company at a new Rouge River plant outside Detroit on a 1,700-foot step-by-step production line, with machinery and fittings largely built at Ford's Highland Park plant. Ford persuaded the Navy to accept steam turbines over reciprocating engines and flat hull plates for mass production. 112 boats ordered, cut to 60 on the Armistice; 7 commissioned 1918, 53 in 1919. Labor force peaked at 8,000. 'The Eagle Boats never saw service in World War I'; some served as aircraft tenders at Midway (1920) and the Hawaiian Islands (1921), some went to the Coast Guard in 1919, and the balance were sold in the 1930s and early 1940s.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-10-04
- Study period
- 1917-1940s
- Population
- Ford Rouge assembly-line workforce (peaked 8,000); class crews
- Limitations
- Class-level narrative; does not name this hull for any individual event and contains no asbestos or material content. Useful for construction-era population and plant context only.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-eagle-no-58-pe58-02
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[4]NavSource Online: Eagle-Class Patrol Craft Photo Archive, PE-58 - timeline, specifications, commanding officers, photo captions (live page verified 2026-10-04) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource 12/0458.htm header block, specifications block, Commanding Officers table, photo captions
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NavSource timeline for this hull: laid down 25 March 1919 by Ford Motor Co., Detroit, MI; launched 2 August 1919; commissioned USS Eagle No. 58, 20 October 1919; designated PE-58, 17 July 1920; decommissioned 27 April 1934; disposed of 30 June 1940 - 'Fate unknown.' Specifications: displacement 615 t., length 200'9", beam 33'1", draft 8'6", speed 18.3 kts., complement 61; armament two 4"/50 mounts and two .50 cal. machine guns; propulsion two 250-psi Thornycroft Bureau Mod. boilers, one 2,500-shp Poole turbine, Ford single reduction gear, one shaft. Commanding officers (courtesy Wolfgang Hechler and Ron Reeves): LCDR Henry Parsons Samson 4 June 1924; LCDR Louis Robert Moore 16 July 1927; LCDR Frank Riley Dodge 2 January 1930; LCDR John Frederick Bates Jr. 1934. Photo captions document: drydocked at Charleston, SC (undated crew photographs); NHHC photo NH 67639; Coco Solo, Canal Zone, 1920s with PE-47 and PE-35 (NH 76131); Mare Island Submarine Base December 1920/January 1921 with nine sister boats (NH 54315; Mare Island yard photo PE 86785); Guantanamo Bay April 1927 alongside PE-35; Tampa, FL February 1928; crew photos c. 1927/28 and c. 1931 Washington, DC.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-04
- Study period
- 1919-1940
- Population
- Crew (1919-1934); yard trades at documented drydock/port calls (Charleston, Mare Island); Edgewood Arsenal caretakers (1934-1940)
- Limitations
- NavSource is a volunteer secondary compilation, not a primary registry - its milestone dates generally track DANFS/registry data; the CO list is researcher-compiled (Hechler/Reeves, likely from Navy Registers) and is unverified against the registers themselves. Contains no asbestos content. NHHC photo pages cited in captions (NH 67639, NH 76131, NH 54315) return 404 live - captions carried as transcribed.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-eagle-no-58-pe58-03
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[5]NavalCoverMuseum, EAGLE 58 PE 58 - designation history and postmark catalog (physical cover artifacts imaged on-page) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavalCoverMuseum wiki page EAGLE_58_PE_58: Ship Name and Designation History; Postmarks table (1934-03-03 Guantanamo; 1934-04-27 decommission)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Designation history for this hull: commissioned USS Eagle No. 58, 20 October 1919; designated USS Eagle (PE-58), 17 July 1920; decommissioned 27 April 1934; sold 30 June 1940. Postmark catalog documents: Locy Type 3s 'GUANTANAMO / BAY' killer bar postmarked 3 March 1934; and Locy Type LDC 3s 'DECOMMISSION / THIS DATE' postmarked 27 April 1934, described as 'Last Day of Commissioning' - a physical cover artifact corroborating the decommission date.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-04
- Study period
- 1919-1940
- Population
- Crew at Guantanamo Bay (March 1934) and decommissioning (April 1934)
- Limitations
- Philatelic documentation: the postmarked cover is a physical primary artifact for the 27 April 1934 decommission date; the 'sold' disposition line is the museum's own designation summary and conflicts with 'disposed of' (DANFS) and 'discarded' (MaritimeQuest/Friedman) - buyer and fate undocumented. Decommission location is not stated. No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-eagle-no-58-pe58-04
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[6]MaritimeQuest, USS Eagle 58 PE-58 Ship's Data - station list transcribed from Navy 'Ships' Data U.S. Naval Vessels' quarterly listings [other_primary]
- Locator
- MaritimeQuest eagle_pe58 data page, Ship's History table (Mar 1923 - Jun 1940 entries)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Station list for this hull as transcribed from Navy Ships' Data listings: by March 1923 assigned to 14th Naval District, U.S.N.R.F., Pearl Harbor, T.H.; July 1923 Eagle Division 1, Battle Fleet, Pearl Harbor; between July 1925 and October 1926 reassigned Eagle Division 1, B.F., Mare Island, Vallejo, CA; October 1926 Eagle Division 1, Submarine Divisions, Battle Fleet, Mare Island; between January and April 1927 reassigned Eagle Division 1, Submarine Divisions, Control Force, Norfolk, VA; between January and April 1931 reassigned Eagle Division 1, SubFor, Norfolk, VA; July 1934 out of commission at Edgewood Arsenal, Edgewood, MD (placed out of commission between April and July 1934); 30 June 1940 discarded by U.S. Navy.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-04
- Study period
- 1923-1940
- Population
- Crew at Pearl Harbor (1923-1926), Mare Island (1926), Norfolk (1927-1934); Edgewood Arsenal lay-up caretakers (1934-1940)
- Limitations
- Researcher transcription of primary station listings; the underlying quarterly Ships' Data volumes were not independently fetched this session (HathiTrust-bound, not on Internet Archive - open archival lead). Station assignments document operating location, not yard availabilities. No asbestos content. Page's 'Ordered March 4, 1917' field is internally inconsistent with the DANFS January-1918 program date and is excluded - see gaps.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-eagle-no-58-pe58-05
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[7]USNI Proceedings, 'Chemical Warfare' (April 1936, Vol. 62/4/398) - contemporaneous description of Edgewood Arsenal experimental establishment [reputable_press]
- Locator
- USNI Proceedings April 1936, 'Chemical Warfare', third paragraph (Edgewood establishment description)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Contemporaneous 1936 documentation that a Navy Eagle boat was part of the Chemical Warfare Service experimental establishment at Edgewood Arsenal: 'A battalion of Chemical Warfare troops, an aviation unit, a Navy Eagle boat, and a regiment of Field Artillery from adjacent Fort Hoyle furnish the personnel and material for experimental work.' PE-58 is documented out of commission at Edgewood Arsenal in the July 1934 station list and was disposed of in 1940 - her Edgewood lay-up spans the period this article describes.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-10-04
- Study period
- 1934-1940 (overlap window)
- Population
- CWS experimental personnel and the unnamed Eagle boat's caretaker crew, Edgewood Arsenal (c. 1935-36)
- Limitations
- The article does not name which Eagle boat served the CWS - the association of this role with PE-58 is a plausible inference from her documented Edgewood lay-up (1934-1940), not an identification. No asbestos content; a chemical-agent test or target role would be a contamination-relevant but unconfirmed detail.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-eagle-no-58-pe58-06
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[8]Era inference built on: NavSource/DANFS documented steam plant (two water-tube boilers, Poole geared turbine, one shaft); Bureau of Steam Engineering, Engineering Instructions 1917 (ev-08); GAO HRD-80-2 (ev-09) [other_primary]
- Locator
- DANFS/NavSource propulsion lines; Engineering Instructions 1917 art. 66(2)(f) area (boiler overhaul lagging item); GAO HRD-80-2 product page
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- A 1919 Navy steam-plant patrol craft carried the era-standard insulation set: boiler lagging on the two water-tube boilers, lagging on steam lines between boiler and engine spaces, turbine insulation, flange gaskets, and valve/stem packing - the applications the Navy's own 1917 Bureau of Steam Engineering instructions treat as standard maintained equipment ('examine and repair... all parts of the lagging, casing, and seating' in boiler overhaul). Within that era the standard Navy lagging/gasket/packing materials contained asbestos (GAO-era documentation of extensive Navy asbestos insulation use).
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-10-04
- Study period
- 1919-1940
- Population
- Ford Rouge construction trades (1919); engine-room crew (1919-1934); maintenance trades at documented availabilities; disposal workforce (1940)
- Limitations
- Class/era inference only - no hull-specific insulation spec, material list, work package, survey, or abatement record located for PE-58. The 1917 instructions document lagging as standard equipment but do not name asbestos; fiber content is era-typical inference, not a ship finding. No quantity. Product names are normalized era terms; no manufacturer attribution for this hull.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-eagle-no-58-pe58-07
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[9]Navy Department, Bureau of Steam Engineering, Engineering Instructions 1917 (Washington: GPO, 1917) - full text via Internet Archive [other_primary]
- Locator
- Engineering Instructions 1917, boiler-overhaul articles (djvu full text, Internet Archive identifier engineeringinstr00unit)
- Finding type
- regulatory
- Finding
- Contemporaneous official instruction treating boiler lagging as standard maintained equipment on Navy water-tube boilers of this hull's era: the boiler-overhaul checklist directs crews to 'examine and repair, as required, all parts of the lagging, casing, and seating' and to test for 'tightness of casing' - lagging overhaul was routine ship's-force work, a routine disturbance pathway. Applies to the Thornycroft/Bureau-pattern water-tube boilers documented aboard this hull.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-10-04
- Study period
- 1917 (issue); applies to 1919 construction/service era
- Population
- Engine-room and boiler-maintenance crews, era Navy
- Limitations
- Era regulatory document; does not name this hull or the class, and does not use the word 'asbestos' anywhere in the OCR'd text - it establishes that lagging was standard equipment subject to crew maintenance, not its fiber content. OCR scan is a pamphlet-length section extract; the full manual may contain material specs not captured here.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-eagle-no-58-pe58-08
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[10]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 - a use pattern that brackets this hull's entire construction (1919) and service era (1919-1934).
- 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 blocks automated fetch, HTTP 403, confirmed 2026-10-04) - content via product-page description.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-eagle-no-58-pe58-09
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[11]Robert J. Cressman, 'Historic Fleets - Prepared for the Work of War,' USNI Naval History, August 2014, Vol. 28 No. 4 (class service history); corroborated by Frank A. Cianflone, 'The Eagle Boats of World War I,' USNI Proceedings, June 1973, Vol. 99/6/844 [reputable_press]
- Locator
- USNI Naval History Aug 2014 'Historic Fleets' (class narrative + spec box); USNI Proceedings Jun 1973 'The Eagle Boats of World War I' (construction, characteristics block)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Class service context: by New Year's Day 1921, 15 Eagles lay in ordinary at Portsmouth Navy Yard while others served at naval air stations, tended submarines, or trained reservists across seven naval districts - the employment pattern matching this hull's documented Submarine-Division and district stations. Eight of the 60 survived to WWII service (ASW, sonar training, target towing, bombing practice, none outside CONUS waters); PE-56 was torpedoed by U-853 off Portland, Maine, 23 April 1945. Cianflone adds design authorship (hull by Cdr Robert Stocker under Adm. Taylor; power plant by Cdr S.M. Robinson), contract terms (14 January 1918, ~$275,000 per ship), and class characteristics including 'Boilers: (2) Bureau Express' - a naming variant for the NavSource 'Thornycroft Bureau Mod.' line (see gaps).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-10-04
- Study period
- 1918-1945
- Population
- Class crews 1919-1945
- Limitations
- Secondary class literature; does not name this hull except as one of the 60. Its spec box carries variant figures (complement 73; Y-gun 'Eagle 1 to Eagle 7' vs DANFS 'Eagles 4 through 7'; beam printed 25'6" vs 33'1" elsewhere) - variants flagged in gaps, not propagated. No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-eagle-no-58-pe58-10
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[12]Batch-8409 search ledger (this record): DANFS transcription (losthistory.net mirror); NavSource PE-58 page; NavalCoverMuseum cover catalog; MaritimeQuest Ships' Data transcription; NARA catalog; Bureau of Steam Engineering 1917 instructions; GAO HRD-80-2 product page; USNI Proceedings/Naval History; CourtListener v4 opinion + docket queries; secondary web litigation sweep [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-eagle-no-58-pe58-01 through -16
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, or verified litigation naming USS Eagle No. 58 / PE-58 was found in the public sources searched (see search_ledger). CourtListener returned 0 opinions and 0 dockets for 'Eagle No. 58'; the 'PE-58' opinion query returned 5 hits and the 'PE-58' docket query returned 54 hits - all examined results are token collisions ('PE-58' appearing as an exhibit/docket fragment) in non-maritime, non-asbestos cases; the asbestos-qualified variant on the overflowing docket query was blocked by fleet-wide quota saturation (logged blocked, not negative) - 34 of 54 docket hits remain unexamined. Secondary web sweeps surfaced no qualifying case; the only asbestos-litigation 'Eagle' hits are name collisions on Eagle, Inc., a Louisiana insulation supplier in Avondale-era suits - not the ship.
- 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 hull's 1919 steam plant sat squarely inside the Navy's documented asbestos-use era. Pre-1941 deck logs (RG 24), Ford construction records, and any 1940 disposal/sale documentation are undigitized leads. Does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-eagle-no-58-pe58-11