Evidence
11 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-11).
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[1]research packet 950-packet.md [other_primary]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERIFIED
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-eunice-pce846-pkt-950-packet-md
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[2]NavSource Online: Patrol Craft Escort Photo Archive - Eunice (PCE 846), ex-PCE-846, ex-PCE(R)-846 (verified live 200 on 2026-10-04; the deprecated .org host is dead - .net is canonical) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource PCE-846 page - specifications block, narrative chronology, commanding-officer table, photo captions
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NavSource vessel record for this hull: laid down 10 August 1943 as PCE(R)-846 (rescue-configured variant) by Pullman Standard Car Manufacturing Co., Chicago, IL; reclassified Patrol Craft Escort PCE-846; launched 20 December 1943; commissioned USS PCE-846 4 March 1944; delivery voyage down the Mississippi; convoy duty Caribbean and east coast; Bermuda patrol and North Atlantic/Africa/Gibraltar convoys; after VE Day escorted captured German submarine U-505 on the first War Bond Tour (five days each Norfolk, Washington DC, Philadelphia, New York City - corroborated by the NavSource U-505 photo index caption 'the first War Bond Tour with PCE 846'); shipyard period at Staten Island for fire-control changes, twin 40mm mounts, and an aerographer's shack for radiosonde balloons with five aerographers added - weather-reporting duty in the Sea of Japan in support of the planned invasion of Japan; placed in service August 1947 as Naval Reserve training vessel, 8th Naval District (New Orleans); named Eunice February 1956; transferred to Ecuador 29 November 1960 under the Military Assistance Program as Esmeraldes (E 03); struck from the Naval Register 31 March 1978; permanently transferred to Ecuador 30 August 1978; reclassified E-2 and P-21 in Ecuadorian service; struck from the Ecuadorian Navy list 1982; fate unknown. Specifications: 850 t; 184'6" x 33'1" x 9'5"; 15.7 kt; complement 99; two 1,800bhp General Motors 12-567A diesels, Falk single-reduction gear, two shafts. CO list and deck-log photo pages (4 Mar 1944; 9-10 May 1945) archived on the same page.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-04
- Study period
- 1943-1982
- Population
- Pullman-Standard construction workforce 1943-44; USN crew (complement ~99) 1944-47; Naval Reserve training complement 1947-60; Ecuadorian crew 1960-82
- Limitations
- Curated photographic archive, not a primary government record - no DANFS entry exists for this hull against which to verify its narrative; build/transfer milestones converge with the builder yard list and uboat.net, but several spec fields conflict across sources (engine model, displacement, complement) and are carried in gaps. Contains no asbestos or materials information.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-eunice-pce846-01
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[3]Naval History and Heritage Command, Online Image Catalog, NH 85159 'USS PCE-846' - caption 'Later EUNICE, photographed circa 1945-46', courtesy of William H. Davis, 1977 [other_primary]
- Locator
- NHHC Online Image Catalog entry NH 85159 (title/caption/description fields)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- NHHC's official image catalog holds a photograph of this hull, cataloged 'USS PCE-846' with the caption 'Later EUNICE, photographed circa 1945-46' - official confirmation of the hull identity and the postwar name. This is the only NHHC web artifact located for the vessel; no DANFS entry exists.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-04
- Study period
- circa 1945-1946 (photo date)
- Limitations
- Photo catalog metadata only - no service narrative, specifications, or materials information. Page is live but user-agent gated (plain curl returned 404; browser UA returned 200 on 2026-10-04).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-eunice-pce846-02
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[4]All Hands (official magazine of the Bureau of Naval Personnel), No. 470, April 1956 - 'Cities Go on Patrol' feature and naming table (scanned issue via Internet Archive; official allhands.navy.mil archive is JS-gated to automated fetch) [other_primary]
- Locator
- All Hands No. 470 (April 1956), 'Cities Go on Patrol' article text and hull/name table ('PCE-846-Eunice')
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Official USN magazine documents this hull's naming: 'Patrol vessels, which previously were known only by hull numbers, will now be recognized by individual names, after cities of the United States... The change, which became effective in February [1956]... Of the 141 patrol vessels named, 32 are in commission and the remainder are in the inactive fleet.' The naming table lists 'PCE-846-Eunice' among 17 PCEs named for U.S. cities of 2,500-10,000 population.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-04
- Study period
- 1956
- Limitations
- Confirms the name Eunice effective February 1956 and the program context (named for a small U.S. city); does not give a specific day, does not state which city is honored (Eunice, LA / Eunice, NM are candidates, consistent with her 8th Naval District New Orleans station), and contains no asbestos or materials information.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-eunice-pce846-03
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[5]Naval Marine Archive mirror of the shipbuildinghistory.com yard table - 'Pullman Standard Car Manufacturing Company, Chicago IL' (live 200 on 2026-10-04; shipbuildinghistory.com pullman.htm itself 404s) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Yard table, PCER 846 line item; yard-history paragraph (40-ton block fabrication, 34 PCEs + 44 LSMs)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Builder yard record: Pullman Standard Car Manufacturing Company established a shipbuilding division in 1943; hulls fabricated in 40-ton blocks in a shop on 111th Street and moved to the Calumet yard on gondola cars; over two years the plant delivered 34 PCEs and 44 LSMs. The yard table lists 'PCER 846 | US Navy | 850 t | 4-Mar-44 | Named Eunice 1956, to Ecuador 1960 as Esmeraldes (E 03)' - corroborating the commissioning/delivery date, the original PCER order designation, the 1956 naming, and the 1960 Ecuador transfer.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-04
- Study period
- 1943-1945 (yard production); table runs through dispositions
- Population
- Pullman-Standard shipbuilding workforce, Chicago, 1943-45
- Limitations
- Compiled secondary yard table (shipbuildinghistory.com lineage via a museum archive mirror) - 'delivery' date equals the commissioning date (4 Mar 1944) rather than a distinct delivery event; no material specifications or asbestos information. Pullman-Standard's Calumet yard is not an entry in the Atlas shipyards.json dataset.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-eunice-pce846-04
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[6]Pullman Museum, 'Pullman Goes to War - PCE(R)' exhibit page, quoting Mary Watters, Illinois in the Second World War (1952 state report), Vol. II p. 91 [museum_official]
- Locator
- Pullman Museum 'Pullman Goes to War' PCE(R) page - quoted Illinois in the Second World War passage
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Yard-level documentation of the builder's PCE program: the 1952 State of Illinois report records Pullman Standard Car Company as 'the outstanding producer in the United States for the large type patrol boat (submarine chaser)' whose boats 'were assembled in 14 sections in its Calumet yard without the laying of a keel.' The museum page documents sister hulls PCE(R)-851/-852/-853 of the same production run.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-10-04
- Study period
- 1943-1945; report 1952
- Population
- Pullman-Standard Calumet yard workforce 1943-45
- Limitations
- Yard- and program-level context; the quoted state report addresses Pullman's PCE production generally, not this hull, and contains no materials or asbestos information. Does not establish any ship-specific fact beyond builder context.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-eunice-pce846-05
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[7]NHHC / National Museum of the U.S. Navy, '1944: June 4: Capture of German Submarine U-505' (U-505 Seventh War Loan Drive tour) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NHHC U-505 page - capture/tour narrative
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- NHHC documents that the captured U-505 'went on tour as part of the Seventh War Loan Drive to raise funds for the war against Japan' - official context corroborating the NavSource record that this hull escorted U-505 on the first War Bond tour in 1945 (the NHHC page itself does not name PCE-846).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-10-04
- Study period
- 1945
- Limitations
- Documents the war-bond tour only as regards U-505; the escort assignment to this hull rests on NavSource (both the PCE-846 archive and the U-505 photo index caption). No asbestos or materials information.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-eunice-pce846-06
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[8]NavSource PCE-846 specification block (two GM diesels, Falk gear, two shafts; 15.7 kt; cpl 99) + class design literature (PCE-842 class, Admirable-class minesweeper derivative, 850 t) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource specification block (propulsion); class design summary (Admirable derivative)
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Era/class inference: a U.S. Navy patrol craft escort built 1943-44 with a two-shaft diesel plant (no steam plant aboard) would have carried era-standard small-combatant asbestos applications rather than boiler/turbine lagging - thermal insulation on exhaust uptakes and silencers, machinery and piping insulation, gaskets, valve packing, electrical insulation, and deck coverings. The PCE-842 class (68 USN units) derived from the Admirable-class minesweeper design and was mass-produced at three small yards inside the Navy's documented asbestos-use era.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-10-04
- Study period
- 1943-1982
- Population
- Pullman-Standard construction trades 1943-44; USN crew 1944-60; Ecuadorian crew 1960-82
- Limitations
- Class/era and builder-yard inference only - no ship-specific finding. The diesel plant eliminates the boiler/turbine lagging pathway; remaining applications are inference from period construction practice, not documented aboard this hull. Does not establish quantity, products, or present-day presence.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-eunice-pce846-07
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[9]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 construction (1943-44), U.S. service (1944-60), and part of her Ecuadorian service under MAP loan.
- 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, confirmed 2026-10-04) - content via product-page description.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-eunice-pce846-08
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[10]NARA RG 24 deck logs for USS PCE-846 (pages photographed in NavSource archive: 4 March 1944 commissioning log; 9-10 May 1945); NARA catalog not searchable for this hull by automated fetch (JS-rendered) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource PCE-846 photo index (deck-log images 120284619/120284621-22); NARA catalog.archives.gov (JS-blocked)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Deck logs for this hull survive in NARA RG 24 - the NavSource archive hosts photographed pages for 4 March 1944 (commissioning day) and 9-10 May 1945. The complete logs, Pullman builder's records, the 1945 Staten Island conversion work package, and the 1960 MAP transfer file are undigitized archival leads for hull-level material documentation.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-04
- Study period
- 1944-1945 (logs); undated for other records
- Limitations
- Lead only - the photographed log pages prove existence of the records but were not reviewed for contents; NARA catalog search for this hull was not completable by automated fetch (JS-rendered catalog). No asbestos content established or ruled out by this row.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-eunice-pce846-09
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[11]Batch-8241 search ledger (this record): NavSource vessel archive; NHHC image catalog NH 85159; All Hands No. 470 (Apr 1956) naming table; Pullman yard list (Naval Marine Archive mirror); Pullman Museum / Illinois in the Second World War; NHHC U-505 page; GAO HRD-80-2 product page; CourtListener authenticated helper; NARA catalog; secondary web litigation sweep [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-eunice-pce846-01 through sl-uss-eunice-pce846-14
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, or verified litigation naming USS Eunice / PCE-846 was found in the public sources searched (see search_ledger). CourtListener queries (authenticated helper, 2026-10-04): '"USS Eunice"' returned zero in both the opinion and RECAP docket indexes; '"PCE-846"' returned zero in the opinion index; the '"PCE-846"' docket query could not be completed - the fleet-wide request pacer returned stand-down directives across repeated attempts and is logged as blocked, not as a negative result. Secondary web sweeps surfaced ship-reunion notices and law-firm listicle content only - no qualifying litigation and no primary asbestos documentation; law-firm marketing content 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 - and the litigation repository search retains one open gap (the '"PCE-846"' docket query was throttled and never run; a docket could reference the hull without the ship's display name). Deck logs, builder records, the 1945 conversion work package, MAP transfer files, and any Ecuadorian disposal record are undigitized leads. Does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-eunice-pce846-10