Evidence
9 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-9).
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[1]U.S. Navy, Bureau of Ships, NAVSHIPS 1851, 'Yachts Acquired Since September 1939 from Private Owners' (24 July 1946), p. 3 (page marked '-2-') - AMc 33 row (scanned official document, rendered to image and read visually) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NAVSHIPS 1851, p. 3 (PDF p. 3, labeled '-2-'), AMc-33 row
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Official BuShips register of small-craft acquisitions records: 'AMc 33 FIRECREST - S. G. Guiseppe - Purchase - 11/15/40 - S. S. Guiseppe Fishing Corp. - San Diego, Calif.' Establishes the Navy acquired this hull by purchase (not charter) from a fishing corporation and took possession at San Diego.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-23
- Study period
- 1940 (record compiled 1946)
- Limitations
- Acquisition record only - establishes method, seller, and place of acquisition but says nothing about conversion scope, materials installed or removed, or any asbestos content. Date reads 11/15/40 versus DANFS's 5 November 1940 and NavSource's 14 November 1940 - a three-way discrepancy between official/archival sources, unresolved. NAVSHIPS names the seller 'S. S. Guiseppe Fishing Corp.' versus DANFS's individual 'M. B. Giuseppe' - also unresolved.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-firecrest-amc33-01
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[2]DANFS, Firecrest I (AMc-33) - verbatim text via Wayback capture 2012-10-24 of history.navy.mil/danfs/f2/firecrest_i.htm (live NHHC DANFS pages returned 404 on 2026-09-23) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS Firecrest I entry, full text (spec line + 5 paragraphs + namesake note incl. never-built AM-394)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS documents: the first Firecrest (AMc-33), a wooden-hulled purse seiner built in 1937 as S. G. Giuseppe at Wilmington, Calif., by boatbuilders Trigoning and Carlson; acquired by the Navy from M. B. Giuseppe of San Pedro 5 November 1940, with delivery and acceptance by the Commandant, 11th Naval District the same day; converted to a coastal minesweeper at Campbell Machine Co., San Diego; renamed Firecrest, designated AMc-33, placed in service 4 April 1941, Ens. Charles S. Judson Jr., USNR, officer-in-charge. Operated out of Section Base San Diego with Courser (AMc-32) on daily harbor sweeping (magnetic/acoustical gear), patrol, and training; lost a 400-pound anchor in a towing operation 17 July 1941; out of commission 3-4 December 1941 awaiting parts for her '540 kilowatt generator engine'; resumed operations 5 December 1941 planting drill mines; Pearl Harbor attack brought emergency harbor-entrance duty and four added crew. Home yard Mare Island, Vallejo; home port San Diego. Transferred from Western Sea Frontier to Naval Local Defense Forces, 11th Naval District, 16 March 1943; coastal patrol and minesweeping into summer 1944; ordered stripped of military equipment 20 July 1944; out of service 18 September 1944; stricken from the Navy Register 14 October 1944; delivered to the War Shipping Administration 3 April 1945; reverted to S. G. Giuseppe under Antonio D'Ambra of Los Angeles, fishing into the early 1950s. Spec line: '(AMc-33: displacement 170 (standard); length 76'6" (overall); b. 21'5"; draft 4'5"; speed 9.0 knots; armament: 2 .50-caliber machine guns, 4 rifles)'.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-23
- Study period
- 1937-1950s
- Population
- Wartime crew (complement not stated); conversion yard workers, Campbell Machine Co., San Diego; Mare Island home-yard maintenance workers
- Limitations
- Authoritative Navy ship-history entry; contains no asbestos, materials, or industrial-hygiene information whatsoever. 'Placed in service' is DANFS's wording - small-craft conversions of this type were not commissioned in the combatant sense. DANFS's 5 November 1940 acquisition date conflicts with NAVSHIPS 1851 (11/15/40) and NavSource (14 November 1940) - unresolved. No complement figure is stated.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-firecrest-amc33-02
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[3]U.S. Navy, Bureau of Ships, 'Ships' Data, U.S. Naval Vessels, 1945' Vol. II (NAVSHIPS 250-011) - vessel index, stricken-vessel table, name index, and coastal minesweeper (AMc) characteristics sections [other_primary]
- Locator
- SDB1945v2.pdf - AMc index ('FIRECREST (returned)'); stricken-vessel table ('AMc33 ... 14 Oct 44'); name index ('Firecrest AMc33'); AMc characteristics footnote ('All AMC'S are wood hulls')
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- The official 1945 Ships' Data volume carries three corroborating entries for this hull: the AMc index lists 'FIRECREST (returned)' - an official disposition marker consistent with delivery to WSA for disposal; the stricken-vessel table records 'FIRECREST - AMc33 - Mine sweeper, coastal - 14 Oct 44', matching the DANFS strike date; and the alphabetical name index maps 'Firecrest - AMc33 - Mine Vessel-Mine Sweeper, Coastal' (with a second 'Firecrest - AM394 - Mine Vessel-Mine Sweeper' entry for the never-built namesake). The AMc characteristics-section footnote states 'All AMC'S are wood hulls.' The hull does not appear in the characteristics tables proper - consistent with her October 1944 striking before publication.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-23
- Study period
- 1945
- Limitations
- Official index/disposition corroboration only - confirms type, hull number, strike date, and wood-hull class note; contains no materials or asbestos information and no characteristics row for this stricken hull to corroborate the DANFS/NavSource spec figures.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-firecrest-amc33-03
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[4]NavSource Online, Mine Warfare Vessel Photo Archive - Firecrest (AMc 33) page (service chronology, specifications block, post-war ownership chain; call sign Nan-Able-Dog-Oboe) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource AMc-33 page, service chronology and 'Specifications' block
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- NavSource specification block for this hull: displacement 170 t.; length 76'6"; beam 21'5"; draft 4'5"; speed 9 kts.; complement 17; armament two .50 cal. machine guns and four rifles; propulsion one diesel engine, one shaft. The diesel/single-shaft datum is the material fact for exposure assessment - the vessel had no steam plant. NavSource also supplies the post-Navy ownership chain absent from DANFS: Antonio D'Ambra, San Pedro (1945, renamed S. G. Giuseppe); Giro G. DiMeglio (1951); S. G. Guiseppe Fishing, Inc. (1959); Arcangelo Savasta (1973, renamed Gianni Boy); out of documentation 1985; fate unknown. The page carries no ship photographs - only a namesake (kinglet) image.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-23
- Study period
- 1937-1985
- Population
- Crew (17 per NavSource - unverified); post-war fishing crews 1945-1985
- Limitations
- NavSource is a volunteer-compiled archive of official records, not itself a primary source; the diesel datum is consistent with the vessel's purse-seiner origin and the DANFS narrative. Acquisition date given as 14 November 1940 - conflicting with DANFS (5 Nov) and NAVSHIPS (15 Nov), unresolved. Complement figure (17) is not stated in DANFS or Ships' Data 1945 and is treated as unverified. Contains no asbestos information.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-firecrest-amc33-04
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[5]National Labor Relations Board v. Fishermen & Allied Workers Union, Local 33, ILWU, 448 F.2d 255 (9th Cir. 1971) - CourtListener opinion 299004 [court_record]
- Locator
- Opinion text, paragraph 2 (facts section): 'Around October 1, 1968, Ciolino began working for S. G. Giuseppe Fishing, Incorporated'
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- A published Ninth Circuit labor opinion independently corroborates the documented post-1959 owner: the opinion records that 'around October 1, 1968, Ciolino began working for S. G. Giuseppe Fishing, Incorporated (Company), which had a collective bargaining agreement with the Union' - confirming that the S. G. Giuseppe Fishing, Inc. named by NavSource as this hull's owner from 1959 existed and operated crewed fishing vessels under union contract in San Pedro. The dispute (union-security clause and reinstatement fee) is ordinary labor litigation with no asbestos, exposure, or vessel-condition content.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-09-23
- Study period
- 1968-1971
- Population
- San Pedro fishing-vessel crew labor context (1968-1971)
- Limitations
- The opinion names the owning company, not the hull - it corroborates the corporate link in NavSource's ownership chain but does not itself establish that this hull was the company's vessel in 1968 (the company presumably took its name from the boat, consistent with the NavSource chain). Classification per batch discipline: other litigation, not asbestos litigation; no exposure evidence of any kind.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-firecrest-amc33-05
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[6]Dept. of the Navy / City of Vallejo, Final EIS/EIR for Disposal and Reuse of Mare Island Naval Shipyard (April 1998), DTIC ADA344388/ADA344389, SCH# 94093029 - as carried in the Atlas yard record for mare-island-naval-shipyard [other_primary]
- Locator
- DANFS home-yard sentence; Atlas yard record mare-island-naval-shipyard evidence rows ev-mare-island-01/02
- Finding type
- environmental_record
- Finding
- DANFS documents Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, as this hull's home yard during her 1941-1944 service - the site of any Navy maintenance, repair, and overhaul work on the vessel. The yard's own Atlas record carries verified asbestos documentation: the 1998 Navy/Vallejo Final EIS/EIR documents asbestos-containing material in shipyard buildings (Appendix J IR01), and Collins v. Plant Insulation Co. (185 Cal. App. 4th 260 (2010)) is decided litigation involving a Mare Island welder. Firecrest's home-yard status is a documented maintenance pathway to a yard with an asbestos record.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-09-23
- Study period
- 1941-1944 (home-yard period); 1998 (EIS documentation)
- Population
- Mare Island yard workers who may have serviced this hull 1941-1944 (undocumented)
- Limitations
- Yard-level context only - the EIS documents ACM in yard facilities as of the 1990s and the Collins exposure period (1976-1994) postdates this hull's service by three decades; no record ties any asbestos work, materials, or exposure aboard or alongside this hull to Mare Island. Establishing the pathway would require NARA RG-181 (11th Naval District) or Mare Island workload records naming this hull - none located. DTIC PDF returns HTTP 403 to automated fetch (same standing limitation as Batch 01 GAO); citation and content as verified in the Atlas yard record.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-firecrest-amc33-06
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[7]GAO, 'Navy Efforts To Protect Workers From Asbestos Exposure,' HRD-80-2 (18 October 1979) - era documentation of asbestos use in naval vessel insulation, gasketing, packing, and deck materials [gao]
- Locator
- GAO product page HRD-80-2 (full text blocked, HTTP 403)
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- GAO-era documentation establishes that asbestos was standard in Navy ship construction and overhaul materials of the period (thermal insulation, gaskets, packing, deck tile). For a wooden-hulled diesel purse-seiner conversion with no steam plant, the plausible subset on this hull type is confined to machinery-exhaust lagging, gaskets, packing, electrical insulation, and deck materials - a materially smaller asbestos profile than steam-powered combatants.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-23
- Study period
- 1937-1945
- Population
- Conversion yard workers (Campbell Machine Co., San Diego, 1940-41 - undocumented); wartime crew
- Limitations
- Program-level era context only - the GAO report does not name this hull, the AMc type, or small diesel conversions, and its fieldwork concerned naval shipyards, not district-craft conversions. No application aboard this hull is established; equally, absence of the steam-plant pathway is a structural inference from the documented diesel propulsion, not a certification that no asbestos was present. Full text not retrieved (gao.gov blocks automated fetch, HTTP 403) - content via product-page description, same limitation as Batch 01.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-firecrest-amc33-07
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[8]Batch-1569 search ledger (this record): NHHC/DANFS; NAVSHIPS 1851; Ships' Data 1945; NHC Online Library; NavSource; CourtListener API v4 opinion and RECAP docket indexes; MARAD vesselhistory; open-web legal index [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-firecrest-amc33-01 through sl-uss-firecrest-amc33-10
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, museum record, or docketed case naming USS Firecrest (AMc-33) was found in the public sources searched (see search_ledger). CourtListener returned zero hits for 'AMc-33'/'AMC-33', only Fircrest-WA address collisions for 'Firecrest', and one labor opinion naming the post-1959 owning company. The vessel left federal custody in 1945, before the Navy's asbestos-control era and before the exposure-litigation era.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-23
- Study period
- 2026-09-23
- Limitations
- Absence of a located record is not proof asbestos was absent aboard - era materials on small diesel craft are plausible but undocumented. Does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility. 'Firecrest' collides with 'Fircrest, WA' in legal databases; collision hits were classified and excluded, not counted.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-firecrest-amc33-08
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[9]NARA RG-19 (BuShips) conversion/alteration files and RG-181 (11th Naval District) records for the 1940-41 Campbell Machine Co. conversion and San Diego service; WSA/Maritime Commission disposal case file for the 3 April 1945 delivery; post-1985 vessel documentation (USCG documentation office records) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NARA RG-19/RG-181 series (not digitized); WSA disposal case file; USCG vessel documentation records
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Identified archival leads not yet digitized: the 11th Naval District and BuShips files on the Campbell Machine Co. conversion would be the likeliest records of what materials were installed or removed in 1940-41; the WSA disposal file could document condition at transfer and the resale chain into the fishing fleet; and USCG documentation files could close the post-1985 fate ('out of documentation', fate unknown per NavSource). No asbestos content is expected or implied by these leads - they are the remaining paper trail for a hull that left federal custody before the asbestos-control era.
- Verification
- unverified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-23
- Study period
- 1940-1985
- Limitations
- Leads only - none of these files was examined; catalog.archives.gov record pages render as a JS application and could not be machine-read in session. MARAD vesselhistory is admin-gated to automated fetch. The conversion-scope and post-disposal records may not exist in retrievable form.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-firecrest-amc33-09