Evidence
13 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-13).
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[1]research packet 956-packet.md [other_primary]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERIFIED
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-farmington-pce894-pkt-956-packet-md
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[2]NavSource Online: Patrol Craft Escort Photo Archive, Farmington (PCE 894) ex-PCE-894 - class timeline, specifications, U.S. Navy photo captions, commanding officers; states no DANFS history exists for this hull [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource Farmington (PCE 894) page - timeline block, specifications block, photo captions 1202894xx, commanding officers table
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NavSource record for this hull: laid down 7 December 1942 by the Willamette Iron and Steel Corp., Portland, OR; launched 15 May 1943; commissioned USS PCE-894 10 August 1944; placed in service as a Naval Reserve training vessel assigned to the 9th Naval District (Great Lakes); decommissioned 19 December 1947; named Farmington 25 February 1956; struck from the Naval Register 1 December 1964; transferred to Burma 31 May 1965 and renamed Yan Taing Aung; scrapped 2000. Specifications: 850 t, 184'6" x 33'1" x 9'5", 15.7 kt, complement 99; armament one 3"/50 DP mount, three twin 40mm, four twin 20mm, one Hedgehog; two 900-bhp General Motors 12-567A diesel engines, Falk single reduction gear, two shafts. U.S. Navy photos (Puget Sound Naval Shipyard Public Affairs Office series 4526-45 through 4531-45) document PCE-894 incline tests 28 September 1945 with PCE-895 and PCE-896 in frame; later photos place the named ship alongside Navy Pier, Chicago, c. winter 1958-59 and October 1964.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-04
- Study period
- 1942-2000 (source's timeline span)
- Population
- Willamette Iron & Steel construction trades 1942-44; wartime and reserve crews (complement 99); Burmese Navy crew 1965-2020
- Limitations
- Archival photo aggregator with compiled timeline - dates corroborated independently by uboat.net, NavalCoverMuseum, BGSU HCGL, and the Wikipedia class table. Contains no asbestos information. NavSource prints the reserve-training placement as 'August 1947' while all other sources give 1948 - carried in gaps. NavSource explicitly states no DANFS history exists for this hull. A NavSource sister page captions the same incline-test photo series 'Mare Island Navy Yard' - location conflict carried in gaps. Its 'scrapped 2000' disposition is contradicted by later specialist documentation photographing the hull in Myanmar service in the late 2010s - see ev-uss-farmington-pce894-08 and gaps.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-farmington-pce894-01
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[3]uboat.net Allied Warships of WWII, USS PCE-894 (PCE-894) - build data, wartime commanding officers [other_primary]
- Locator
- uboat.net USS PCE-894 warship page - build table, history line, commands table
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- uboat.net record for this hull: ordered 7 May 1942; built by Willamette Iron and Steel Corp., Portland, Oregon; laid down 7 December 1942; launched 15 May 1943; commissioned 10 August 1944; transferred to Burma in 1965 renamed Yan Taing Dong. Wartime commanding officers listed: Lt. Norman E. Hoffman, USNR (10 Aug 1944 - early 1945); Lt. H. D. Stackpole, USNR (early 1945 - mid/late 1945).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-04
- Study period
- 1942-1965
- Population
- Wartime crew under Lt. Hoffman and Lt. Stackpole, 1944-45
- Limitations
- Secondary database; corroborates NavSource dates. Spells the Burmese name 'Yan Taing Dong' (NavSource/NavalCoverMuseum 'Yan Taing Aung') - spelling conflict carried in gaps. Its appended 'Possibly in reserve in 2003 ?' note is unsourced speculation and is not carried. Contains no asbestos information and no detailed 1944-45 operations record.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-farmington-pce894-02
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[4]Naval Cover Museum, FARMINGTON PCE 894 - ship name and designation history, postmark and cover record [museum_official]
- Locator
- FARMINGTON PCE 894 page - Ship Name and Designation History table; postmarks table (1947-12-19 LDC postmark; 1964-07-18 Port Huron ASW games; 1964-10-05 Detroit)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Naval Cover Museum record for this hull: designation history matching NavSource (keel laid 7 Dec 1942; launched 15 May 1943; commissioned 10 Aug 1944; assigned to U.S. Naval Reserve at Chicago, IL in 1948; named Farmington 25 Feb 1956; struck 1 Dec 1964; transferred to Burma 31 May 1965 as Yan Taing Aung; scrapped 2000). Cover/postmark artifacts document: a 'Last Day in Commission' postmark dated 19 December 1947 (corroborating the decommissioning date); an 18 July 1964 Port Huron, Michigan cover for ASW Games 1964 listing USS Farmington PCE-894 among participants (with USS Runner SS-476, USS Amherst PCE(R)-853, USS Havre PCE-877, USS Ely PCE-880, USS Portage PCE-902, USS Daniel A. Joy DE-585); and a 5 October 1964 Detroit cover with the ship's seal - the ship had no postal facilities.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-04
- Study period
- 1947-1965
- Population
- Naval Reserve trainees and crew, 9th Naval District, 1948-1964
- Limitations
- Museum's cover/postmark documentation is artifact-based and date-verifiable; narrative fields are compiled. Confirms the 19 Dec 1947 decommissioning and Great Lakes reserve duty through late 1964. Contains no asbestos information. Its 'scrapped 2000' disposition is contradicted by later specialist documentation (see ev-08 and gaps).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-farmington-pce894-03
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[5]Historical Collections of the Great Lakes (Bowling Green State University), vessel record PCE-894 - registry, dimensions, ownership chain [museum_official]
- Locator
- greatlakes.bgsu.edu item 439217 - Registry and Rig, Dimensions, Vessel History, Vessel Names, Vessel Owners tables
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- BGSU Historical Collections of the Great Lakes registry record for this hull: steel hull, length 184.5, width 33.0; built by Willamette Iron and Steel Co., Portland, OR, 1944; U.S. Navy owner 1944-1965; assigned to U.S. Naval Reserve at Chicago, IL in 1948; name assigned 25 February 1956 (registered as FARMINGTON (PCE-894), 1956-1965); removed from Navy List 1 December 1964; transferred to Burma 31 May 1965 (registered to Government of Burma as YAN TAING DONG, 1965).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-04
- Study period
- 1944-1965
- Population
- Great Lakes Naval Reserve training population, 1948-1964
- Limitations
- Museum registry compilation; corroborates all milestone dates against NavSource/NavalCoverMuseum. Uses 'Yan Taing Dong' spelling (conflict carried in gaps). Contains no asbestos information. The record ends at the 1965 transfer; later disposition contested (see ev-08 and gaps).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-farmington-pce894-04
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[6]All Hands (Bureau of Naval Personnel, U.S. Navy), April 1956 issue, 'Cities Go on Patrol' item - official naming list for 141 Naval Reserve patrol vessels (third-party PDF mirror of the Navy magazine) [other_primary]
- Locator
- All Hands April 1956, 'Cities Go on Patrol' item, naming list (PCE section, 'PCE-894 - Farmington')
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- The U.S. Navy's own magazine documents the 1956 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 names assigned to 141 submarine chasers, escorts and rescue escorts 'were chosen from cities with a population between 2500 and 107000' and the change 'became effective in February.' The printed list includes 'PCE-894 - Farmington.' This is the contemporaneous official record of the 25 February 1956 naming given in NavSource/BGSU/NavalCoverMuseum.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-04
- Study period
- 1956
- Population
- Naval Reserve patrol vessels fleet-wide, 141 hulls named February 1956
- Limitations
- PDF is a third-party mirror (quietwarriors.wordpress.com) of the official All Hands April 1956 issue; OCR text reads 'Farmingfon' - the scan itself shows the list. The article names cities generally as namesakes without specifying which U.S. city named Farmington honored (several towns bear the name) - namesake specificity carried in gaps. Contains no asbestos information.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-farmington-pce894-05
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[7]National Archives, 'Navy Deck Logs Available in the National Archives Catalog' - Farmington (PCE-894) entry: Commission August 1944 / Decommission December 1947; Recommission (month unknown) / Decommission November 1964; digitized monthly deck logs January 1956 through November 1964 (catalog.archives.gov NAID series, e.g., 209157172 and 214905218 - verified live, HTTP 200) [other_primary]
- Locator
- archives.gov deck-log index, 'Farmington (PCE-894)' panel; sample NAIDs verified live: 209157172 (Jan 1956), 214905218 (Nov 1964)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- NARA's deck-log index lists this hull with two service periods (commissioned Aug 1944 - Dec 1947; second period ending 'Decommission: November 1964') and links digitized monthly deck logs for every month January 1956 - November 1964 - the entire named Naval Reserve training period at Chicago. Catalog records resolve (HTTP 200). The November 1964 endpoint corroborates that reserve service ended shortly before the 1 December 1964 striking.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-04
- Study period
- 1956-1964 (digitized coverage)
- Population
- Ship's company and Naval Reserve trainees, 9th Naval District, 1956-1964
- Limitations
- Index-level verification only - the log images were not pulled and reviewed; their content (personnel, operations, any materials references) is unexamined. Wartime logs (Aug 1944 - Dec 1947) are NOT in the digitized set; only 1956-1964 appears online. NARA's 'Decommission: November 1964' label is the indexer's service-period endpoint - the formal strike date is 1 December 1964.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-farmington-pce894-06
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[8]Holland City News (Holland, Michigan), vol. 82 no. 20, 14 May 1953 - Sentinel photograph and caption of PCE-894 departing Holland 'to continue training operations'; companion Holland Evening Sentinel item (Apr 1952) notes 'Pce-894 out of Chicago' stopping at Holland on a reserve-training cruise [reputable_press]
- Locator
- Holland City News, 14 May 1953, ship photo caption ('The PCE 894 ... pulled out Monday at 8 a.m. to continue training operations'); Holland Evening Sentinel, Apr 1952 cruise notice
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Contemporaneous local-press documentation of this hull's Naval Reserve training cycle on Lake Michigan: PCE-894 operated out of Chicago making port visits including Holland, Michigan, on training cruises in 1952-1953 - consistent with the 9th Naval District Great Lakes assignment that BGSU/NavalCoverMuseum record from 1948.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-04
- Study period
- 1952-1953
- Population
- Naval Reserve trainees and crew aboard PCE-894 on Lake Michigan training cruises
- Limitations
- Small-community newspaper items - documents the port-call pattern only; says nothing about ship materials or asbestos. The Holland City News PDF is hosted on the CORE academic aggregator; direct fetch returned HTTP 403 to curl (bot-blocking) - the content was surfaced via search-index extraction, and the URL is cited as the repository copy of record.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-farmington-pce894-07
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[9]wwiiafterwwii.wordpress.com, 'WWII warships still in Myanmar's navy' (1 June 2020, dated photo documentation incl. Radio Free Asia attribution) + NAVYPEDIA 'Yan Taing Aung patrol vessel (1944/1965)' page - Burmese-service record for this hull [other_primary]
- Locator
- wwiiafterwwii article, 'part II: the WWII American warships' + 'the reappearing phantom pair' sections, photo captions (2015-2019); navypedia.org/ships/myanmar/mya_es_yan_taing_aung.htm ships table + 'Naval service' line
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- The commonly-repeated 'scrapped in 2000' disposition is contradicted: this hull was documented still in Myanmar navy service in the late 2010s. As UMS Yan Tuang Aung (pennant 41; third spelling variant) she was photographed in service in the late 2010s (via Radio Free Asia) and in December 2019; a June 2020 specialist article lists her among two WWII-era warships still in the Myanmar navy that year. Her Burmese cycle: decommissioned into reserve in 1994 pending replacement frigates that never materialized, back in full service in 1997; reported decommissioned again in 2009 (Jane's Fighting Ships omitted her); active again by early 2011. Homeported on the Bago/Yangon rivers (freshwater, slowing corrosion). NAVYPEDIA corroborates the reserve periods ('decommissioned in 1994 ... many years in unmaintained reserve') while its own table prints 'in service (2019)' and gives a Burmese commissioning of 18 June 1965 - though it misdates her build to 1943-44 (laid down Dec 1943, launched May 1944), a year later than every other source.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- correction
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-04
- Study period
- 1965-2020
- Population
- Myanmar (Burmese) Navy crew, 1965-2020; Yangon Regional Command (1st Fleet)
- Limitations
- Specialist secondary sources, not official Myanmar navy records - but photo documentation through 2019-2020 is concrete evidence the 2000 scrapping date is wrong for this hull. Post-2020 status (still extant? since scrapped?) is unknown. NAVYPEDIA's one-year-later build dates are errors against all other sources - noted, not carried. The 'original WWII engines and gearboxes still onboard' claim (re-engining would require cutting the superstructure) is the author's reasoned assertion, unverified to a primary source.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-farmington-pce894-08
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[10]NavSource PCE-842-class specifications (diesel propulsion: two GM 12-567A diesels, no steam plant) + class production context (68 PCE-842-class escorts built 1942-44, Pullman-Standard Chicago and Willamette Portland) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource specifications block (propulsion line); class production data
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Class/era inference: this 1942-44 diesel-powered escort was built in the period when U.S. Navy ship construction used asbestos-containing materials as standard. Because the class has a diesel plant (two 900-bhp GM 12-567A engines) and no boilers or steam turbines, the asbestos-relevant applications aboard were the era-standard ones rather than boiler/turbine lagging: thermal insulation, machinery and exhaust lagging, gaskets, valve packing, electrical insulation, and deck coverings.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-10-04
- Study period
- 1942-1944 (construction era)
- Population
- Willamette Iron & Steel construction trades 1942-44; all embarked personnel 1944-2020
- Limitations
- Era inference only - no ship-specific document establishes that any asbestos-containing product was installed aboard this hull. The absence of a steam plant removes the largest single asbestos pathway but does not remove the inference. Quantity, locations, and whether any material survived into Burmese service are unknown.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-farmington-pce894-09
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[11]Lineaweaver v. Plant Insulation Co., 31 Cal. App. 4th 1409, 37 Cal. Rptr. 2d 902 (Cal. App. 1995) - the Atlas shipyards.json record for builder 'willamette-iron-steel' rests on this opinion (verified live via firecrawl; the opinion text places the 'Willamette Shipyard' on the San Francisco Bay waterfront alongside Todd Naval Shipyard, Alameda - not Portland, Oregon) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Lineaweaver opinion, appellants' factual recital (King work history 1966-68; 'Likewise, Pabco was used only as fill-in at Willamette in the 1960s and 1970s'); shipyards.json 'willamette-iron-steel' record (verification_status disputed)
- Finding type
- litigation_product_id
- Finding
- The only asbestos citation attached to the builder yard in the Atlas dataset is weaker than it looks: Lineaweaver documents that 'Pabco was used only as fill-in at Willamette in the 1960s and 1970s' where appellant King worked 1966-68 while splitting time with Todd Naval Shipyard on the San Francisco Bay. That 'Willamette Shipyard' is a Bay-area repair yard context - it cannot be the Willamette Iron and Steel Corp. of Portland, Oregon that built this hull (the Portland corporation closed in 1957, and the litigation window 1966-68 postdates both this hull's 1942-44 construction and her 1965 departure from U.S. service). The yard dataset itself marks the identification 'disputed.'
- Verification
- disputed
- Role
- correction
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-10-04
- Study period
- 1966-1971 (opinion window); 1995 (opinion)
- Population
- San Francisco Bay-area ship repair workers 1966-1971 (King exposure window); not this hull
- Limitations
- The published opinion is real and verified; its relevance to THIS hull's builder is nil to near-nil. Classed as a correction row so no downstream reader upgrades a name collision into builder-yard documentation for the Portland yard. Says nothing about asbestos aboard PCE-894.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-farmington-pce894-10
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[12]Mangold et al., 'Asbestos exposure control at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard,' Environmental Research (1976), PMID 1065583 (title/journal verified via NCBI eutils) + underlying shipyard report DTIC AD0715808 (1970) - the Atlas shipyards.json 'puget-sound-naval-shipyard' record (evidence_tier 1); hull presence documented by U.S. Navy photos, incline tests 28 September 1945 [other_primary]
- Locator
- PMID 1065583 (Environ Res, Apr 1976); DTIC AD0715808 (apps.dtic.mil citation page, in maintenance at access); NavSource photo captions 1202894xx (incline tests, 28 Sep 1945)
- Finding type
- gov_survey
- Finding
- Yard-level context: PCE-894 is photo-documented at the Puget Sound Navy Yard for incline tests on 28 September 1945 (USN photos 4526-45 through 4531-45, credited to the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard Public Affairs Office). The yard has tier-1 asbestos documentation: the peer-reviewed 1976 study (PMID 1065583) and its underlying 1970 shipyard report (DTIC AD0715808) document airborne amosite and chrysotile exposure during ship overhaul, rip-out, and insulation work - preformed magnesia block insulation (~15% asbestos), asbestos cements, and asbestos cloth - with concentrations routinely exceeding the pre-1972 5 mppcf reference standard, peaking ~10x during cutting/handling (study window 1962-1972 per the yard dataset).
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-10-04
- Study period
- 1945 (hull presence); 1962-1972 (yard study window)
- Population
- Puget Sound Naval Shipyard overhaul/rip-out trades, 1962-72 study window - not this hull's crew
- Limitations
- The asbestos documentation is yard-level and covers a 1962-72 overhaul window - it does NOT overlap or document this hull's brief September 1945 incline-test visit, and an incline (stability) test is not an insulation rip-out event. No asbestos work aboard this hull is documented by any source. The DTIC citation page was in scheduled maintenance at access time; the PMID was verified via NCBI eutils.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-farmington-pce894-11
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[13]Batch-8278 search ledger (this record): live-web sweeps (firecrawl), NHHC/DANFS, NavSource, uboat.net, NavalCoverMuseum, BGSU HCGL, NARA deck-log catalog, All Hands Apr 1956, NVR, Wikipedia class table (cross-check only); CourtListener attempted repeatedly, fleet pacing budget spent (blocked) [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-farmington-pce894-01 through -12
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, museum materials record, or docketed case naming PCE-894/Farmington was found in the public sources searched (see search_ledger). No DANFS entry exists for this hull. CourtListener could not be searched this session - the litigation picture is open, not negative.
- 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 1942-44 construction era and diesel plant are consistent with era-standard asbestos applications (see ev-09). The hull left U.S. custody in 1965 for Burmese service and U.S. abatement/survey records were never likely to exist; because the hull remained extant in Myanmar service into the late 2010s, whether era materials survived aboard is a live unknown, not a closed one. CourtListener litigation status is an open gap (blocked), not a negative result.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-farmington-pce894-12