Evidence
7 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-7).
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[1]research packet 978-packet.md [other_primary]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERIFIED
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-emporia-pf28-pkt-978-packet-md
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[2]DANFS, Emporia (PF-28), Naval History and Heritage Command (live page verified 2026-10-04) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS entry 'Emporia' (PF-28), specifications block + two-paragraph service narrative
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS record for this hull: Tacoma-class patrol frigate (dp. 1,264; l. 303'11"; b. 37'6"; dr. 13'8"; s. 20 k.; cpl. 214; a. 3 3-inch guns). Launched 30 August 1943 by Walter Butler Shipbuilding Co., Superior, Wis.; sponsored by Mrs. George M. Barnaby; placed in service between 12 and 22 June 1944 for passage to Houston, Tex.; commissioned 7 October 1944, Lt. Cmdr. L. Anderson, USCGR, in command. Arrived Argentia, Newfoundland, 3 December 1944 and relayed weather reports from stations at sea between Newfoundland and Bermuda, operating primarily in northern latitudes; continued the duty after the war to aid movement of troops home from Europe. Arrived New Orleans 22 August 1946; decommissioned 14 March 1946 and immediately recommissioned as a U.S. Coast Guard ship; decommissioned (Coast Guard) 28 August 1946; sold to France 26 March 1947 for continued weather patrol service.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-04
- Study period
- 1943-1947
- Population
- Walter Butler Shipbuilding construction trades 1943-44; Houston fitting-out workers 1944; USCG-manned wartime complement (cpl. 214)
- Limitations
- DANFS documents service history and specifications, not materials or asbestos content. The entry is internally inconsistent on the New Orleans sequence (arrival dated 22 August 1946 but decommissioning there dated 14 March 1946 - the arrival date is suspect and carried in gaps). Coast Guard manning is implied only by the commanding officer's USCGR designation. Mirror not needed - live NHHC page verified.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-emporia-pf28-01
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[3]U.S. Coast Guard Historian's Office, 'USS Emporia, PF-28' asset page (citing The Coast Guard at War, Transports and Escorts, Vol. V No. 1; Conway's 1922-1946; DANFS Vol. II p. 349) [other_primary]
- Locator
- USCG Historian's Office asset page, specifications block + History paragraph
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- USCG Historian's Office record for this hull: builder Walter Butler Shipbuilding Co., Superior, Wisconsin; propulsion 2-shaft VTE with 3 boilers; complement 190; armament 3 x 3"/50, 2 x 40mm (2x2), 9 x 20mm, 1 Hedgehog, 8 depth-charge projectors, 2 depth-charge racks - with the class note that frigates fitted out for weather patrol duty had the after 3-inch gun removed and a weather balloon hangar added aft. Repeats the DANFS history: commissioned 7 October 1944 under LCDR L. Anderson USCGR; Argentia weather-patrol duty; decommissioned at New Orleans 14 March 1946 and immediately recommissioned as a Coast Guard ship (USCGC Emporia); Coast Guard decommissioning 28 August 1946; sold to France 26 March 1947 for continued weather patrol service.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-04
- Study period
- 1943-1947
- Population
- USCG crew 1944-1946 (ship Coast Guard-manned under USCGR officers)
- Limitations
- Documents Coast Guard operation of this hull and the weather-ship outfit change; contains no asbestos or materials statement. Complement (190) and draft (12'8") figures differ from DANFS (214; 13'8") - discrepancy carried in gaps. Sources cited are the official USCG war history, Conway's, and DANFS.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-emporia-pf28-02
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[4]NavSource Online: Frigate Photo Archive, USCGC Emporia (PF 28) ex-USS Emporia (PF 28) ex-PG-136 [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource PF-28 page, class/timeline block, specifications block, commanding-officer table
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NavSource timeline for this hull: authorized as patrol gunboat PG-136 (MC type T. S2-S2-AQ1); reclassified patrol frigate PF-28 on 15 April 1943; laid down 14 July 1943 under a Maritime Commission contract by Walter Butler Shipbuilding Co., Superior, Wisconsin; launched 30 August 1943; commissioned USS Emporia (PF-28) 12 June 1944; decommissioned 14 March 1946 at New Orleans, LA and turned over to the Coast Guard, commissioned USCGC Emporia (PF 28) the same day; Coast Guard decommissioning 28 August 1946 and returned to U.S. Navy custody; sold to France 26 March 1947 as weather ship Le Verrier; scrapped 1958. Commanding-officer roster lists six officers, all USCGR (PCU LCDR George Henry Miller April-September 1944; LCDR Langford Anderson 7 October 1944 - 9 February 1945; four successors through 30 August 1946). Propulsion: two 3-drum express boilers, two 5,500 ihp vertical triple-expansion Diamond Iron Works engines, two shafts.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-04
- Study period
- 1943-1958
- Population
- Walter Butler Shipbuilding trades 1943-44; USCG-manned complement (roster all USCGR) 1944-1946
- Limitations
- NavSource is a volunteer-maintained secondary compilation, not an official record; its 12 June 1944 commissioning date conflicts with DANFS (placed-in-service 12-22 June 1944, commissioned 7 October 1944) and is read as the delivery-voyage commissioning - carried in gaps. Boiler count (two 3-drum) differs from the USCG page (3 boilers) - carried in gaps. Scrapped-1958 and Le Verrier details are consistent with DANFS disposal.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-emporia-pf28-03
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[5]ShipbuildingHistory (Tim Colton compilation), Walter Butler Shipbuilders, Superior WI yard table [other_primary]
- Locator
- Walter Butler Shipbuilders Superior WI table, row PF-28/Emporia (MC 1439)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Yard production table for this hull: Walter Butler Shipbuilders, Inc. took over Lake Superior Shipbuilding (yard at North 1st and Hammond Avenue, Superior, WI); Emporia listed as hull 25, PF-28, customer WSA, type frigate, Maritime Commission hull number 1439, LDT 1,430, delivered 12 June 1944, note 'weather ship 1944'.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-04
- Study period
- 1943-1944
- Population
- Walter Butler Shipbuilders construction trades 1943-44
- Limitations
- Secondary compilation, not an official record; its 'to France 1945 as Le Verrier' conflicts with the primary 26 March 1947 sale date (DANFS/USCG) and is treated as a typo. Confirms the Maritime Commission contract identity (MC 1439) and the 12 June 1944 delivery/commissioning window. No asbestos or materials statement.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-emporia-pf28-04
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[6]NavSource specifications block (Tacoma class, MC type T. S2-S2-AQ1; 3-drum express boilers, VTE engines) + USCG Historian's Office propulsion line (2-shaft VTE, boilers) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource PF-28 specifications block; USCG Historian's Office specifications block
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Class/era inference: a Maritime Commission-contracted patrol frigate built 1943-44 with oil-fired 3-drum express boilers and vertical triple-expansion steam machinery would have carried period-standard asbestos applications - boiler and steam-drum insulation, steam-line lagging between fireroom and engineroom, valve and flange gaskets, machinery packing, and fireproofing. No ship-specific materials statement exists for this hull.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-10-04
- Study period
- 1943-1958
- Population
- Walter Butler Shipbuilding trades 1943-44; Houston-area fitting-out trades 1944; USCG-manned engineering crew 1944-1946; French Navy crew 1947-1958
- Limitations
- Class/design-era inference only - the cited sources document the propulsion plant type, not materials content; asbestos aboard this hull is not ship-proven. Does not establish quantities, locations, present-day presence (hull scrapped 1958), or any individual exposure.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-emporia-pf28-05
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[7]Batch-8431 search ledger (this record): DANFS/NHHC; USCG Historian's Office; NavSource; MARAD ShipHistory database; Naval Vessel Register; CourtListener API v4 name and hull searches [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-emporia-pf28-01 through sl-uss-emporia-pf28-12
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, or docketed case naming this hull was found in the public sources searched. MARAD ShipHistory database returns 'No results found' for Emporia (the hull was never in MARAD custody - Navy/Coast Guard service, then foreign sale). Naval Vessel Register coverage excludes vessels disposed before 1987. CourtListener sweep complete: 'USS Emporia' returned zero in opinion and docket indexes; 'PF-28' returned only name collisions (2 opinion hits - employment-exam and pharmaceutical-environmental cases; 81 docket hits, all non-asbestos collisions on page/PACER-form markers; the justified 'PF-28 asbestos' docket variant returned 5 collisions including the W.R. Grace bankruptcy where PF-28 is a page marker, not the ship). See search_ledger.
- 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 - a 1943-44 steam-driven hull is era-consistent with asbestos use. Does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility. The PF-28 docket base query overflowed its 20-result page on a high-collision hull number; the asbestos-qualified variant (a subset) returned only collisions, so no deeper pagination was run.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-emporia-pf28-06