Evidence
7 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-7).
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[1]DANFS, Frigate Bird II (AMS-191) - NHHC, published 2015-07-09 (live page 404s as of 2026-09-23; text verified via Wayback capture 2025-02-20 and hazegray.org transcription capture 2024-06-18) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- NHHC DANFS 'Frigate Bird II (AMS-191)' entry (pub. 2015-07-09); Wayback 20250220175100; hazegray.org/danfs/mine/ams191.htm via Wayback 2024-06-18
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS entry for Frigate Bird II: '(AMS-191: dp. 290; l. 144'; b. 28'; dr. 9'; s. 13 k.; cpl. 39; a. 2 20 mm.; cl. Bluebird).' The second Frigate Bird (AMS-191) was launched 24 October 1953 by Quincy Adams Yacht Yard, Inc., Quincy, Mass.; sponsored by Mrs. Matthew Cushing; and commissioned 13 January 1955, Lieutenant (junior grade) G. B. Shick, Jr., in command. Reclassified MSC-191 on 7 February 1955. Joined Mine Force, Atlantic Fleet, at Charleston, S.C., 21 February 1955 for east coast and Caribbean training and experimental operations through 1960 - amphibious exercises near Camp Lejeune, N.C., ocean-current surveying, testing a new can buoy, fleet exercises. From July 1958 homeported at Little Creek, Va., serving frequently with the Operational Development Force.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-23
- Study period
- 1953-1960
- Population
- Crew and Mine Force Atlantic Fleet personnel, 1955-1960
- Limitations
- DANFS establishes identity, specifications, and the 1955-1960 operating record; the entry ends in 1960 and contains no information on inactivation, transfer, disposal, construction materials, or asbestos. The NHHC live URL 404s (standing NHHC link-rot issue first logged in Batch 01); text cited from Wayback capture of the canonical NHHC page and cross-checked against the hazegray.org verbatim transcription.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-frigate-bird-ams191-01
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[2]NavSource Online, Mine Warfare Vessel Photo Archive - Frigate Bird (MSC 191) ex-AMS-191 (Falcon Class Motor Minesweeper; build/disposition record, specifications, commanding-officer table, official USN photo captions) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource 11/05191.htm, ship-data block, commanding-officer table, photo-caption credits (NH 81800, NH 91835; All Hands June 1956); via Wayback capture 2025-02-20 (live fetch blocked)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NavSource compiles the hull's record: laid down 20 July 1953 as AMS-191 by Quincy Adams Yacht Yard, Quincy, MA; launched 24 October 1953; commissioned USS Frigate Bird (AMS-191) 13 January 1955; reclassified coastal minesweeper MSC-191 on 7 February 1955; transferred to Indonesia in 1971 and renamed Pulau Atang (M 721); struck from the Naval Register 1 May 1976; scrapped 1 September 1976. Specifications: 290 t., 144'3" x 28' x 9', 13 kts., complement 39, two 20mm mounts, '600shp Packard diesel engines, two shafts.' Fourteen officers listed through 31 December 1968 (final entry an officer-in-charge). Photo captions document an 8 October 1966 visit to the U.S. Navy Marine Engineering Laboratory (Annapolis) for operational systems evaluation under skipper LT James E. Hancock, and a June 1956 All Hands photo of five MSCs at Charleston.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-23
- Study period
- 1953-1976
- Population
- Crew, 1955-c.1968; MEL evaluation personnel 1966
- Limitations
- NavSource is a secondary compilation of official data (Naval Register dates, NHHC photo credits, CO research) - underlying register entries not directly inspected. Contains no asbestos or materials information. No explicit U.S. decommissioning date is given; the CO table ending 1968-12-31 with an officer-in-charge is consistent with but does not prove inactivation then.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-frigate-bird-ams191-02
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[3]Shipbuilding History, Quincy Adams Yacht Yard (47 Palmer Street, Germantown, Quincy MA) yard list - MSC-191 Frigate Bird and Falcon-class sister rows [other_primary]
- Locator
- Shipbuilding History Quincy Adams Yacht Yard page, build-table row for MSC-191
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- The Quincy Adams Yacht Yard build list records MSC-191 Frigate Bird as a 390-ton-design U.S. Navy minesweeper completed/delivered 13 January 1955, 'to Indonesia 1971 as Pulau Atang (M-721): struck 1976.' Sister rows show the yard built all five Quincy Adams Falcon-class hulls: MSC-190 Falcon (Pulau Aru M-722), MSC-191 Frigate Bird (Pulau Atang M-721), MSC-192 Hummingbird (Pulau Impalasa M-720), MSC-193 Jacana (Pulau Aruan M-718), MSC-194 Kingbird (scrapped 1973) - plus MDAP hulls MSC-77/78 and MSC-265-267.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-23
- Study period
- 1953-1976
- Population
- Construction trades at Quincy Adams Yacht Yard (1953-1955)
- Limitations
- Compiler's yard list corroborates build identity and the Indonesia transfer chain; it is a secondary compilation, not the yard's own records. '390d' is the design-series tonnage figure used across the yard table; DANFS gives 290 t. for this hull. No asbestos or materials content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-frigate-bird-ams191-03
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[4]NavSource Motor Minesweeper (AMS) / Coastal Minesweeper (MSC) index + Navypedia 'Bluebird coastal minesweepers (1953-1961)' (SCB-69) design summary - class assignment and design context [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource AMS/MSC index 'Falcon Class (MSC-190 to MSC-199)' block (Wayback 2024-12-07); navypedia.org/ships/usa/us_ms_bluebird.htm project-history section
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Class-designation reconciliation: the hull is postwar new construction, not a WWII/YMS-1 conversion. NavSource groups MSC-190 through MSC-199 as the Falcon Class (Falcon, Frigate Bird, Hummingbird, Jacana, Kingbird, Limpkin, Meadowlark, Parrot, Peacock, Phoebe); DANFS's own specification block prints 'cl. Bluebird'; Navypedia treats the whole SCB-69 series (1953-1961, ~159 units) as the Bluebird class, 'often called the Adjutant class' for the MDAP foreign-transfer hulls. Per Navypedia the type descends from the WWII YMS but was a new non-magnetic design - wooden-framed U.S. hulls, Packard or GM diesel options, controllable-pitch propellers, twin 20mm forward - built largely for Military Defense Assistance Pact transfer.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- correction
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-23
- Study period
- 1953-1961 (SCB-69 program)
- Limitations
- Class assignments for the MSC-190 series differ across references (NavSource 'Falcon class' vs DANFS 'cl. Bluebird' vs Navypedia's umbrella Bluebird/Adjutant). The record carries 'Falcon class' per the NavSource hull grouping; all sources agree on the postwar SCB-69 non-magnetic wooden diesel design. No source describes hull materials or insulation for MSC-191 specifically.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-frigate-bird-ams191-04
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[5]Era/type inference for a wooden-hulled diesel coastal minesweeper of 1953-54 construction (synthesis of DANFS/NavSource specifications and the Navypedia SCB-69 design summary cited in ev-uss-frigate-bird-ams191-04) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Inference bounded by the documented design (wooden hull, diesel, no steam) in ev-...-01/-02/-04
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Asbestos-era inference for this vessel type is limited: the Falcon-class MSC was a 290-ton wooden-hulled non-magnetic minesweeper with diesel propulsion - no boilers, no steam lines, none of the extensive thermal insulation that drives ship-specific asbestos findings on steam-driven hulls. Era-typical asbestos applications plausible aboard such a vessel are confined to diesel exhaust lagging, flange/valve gaskets and machinery packing, electrical wire insulation, and friction materials (winch, windlass, and sweep-gear brake linings).
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-23
- Study period
- 1953-1976
- Population
- Quincy Adams construction trades (1953-54); crew and maintenance personnel (1955-1971 USN, 1971-1976 TNI-AL)
- Limitations
- Type-level inference only - no source located documents any asbestos product installed aboard this hull, and the list deliberately excludes the boiler/steam-system applications common on larger hulls because this vessel had no steam plant. Does not establish presence, quantity, location, or any individual exposure.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-frigate-bird-ams191-05
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[6]NHHC photographic holdings and NARA records - archival leads identified but not directly retrieved [other_primary]
- Locator
- NH 81800 / NH 91835 via NavSource photo credits; catalog.archives.gov query 'Frigate Bird' 2026-09-23
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Located leads: NHHC photographs NH 81800 and NH 91835 (the latter captioned c. September 1962) credited by NavSource; a U.S. Navy All Hands magazine photo (June 1956) showing Frigate Bird nested with Falcon, Hummingbird, Redwing, and Shrike at Charleston; and the 8 October 1966 official USN photo of the ship at the Navy Marine Engineering Laboratory, Annapolis. NARA catalog search on 'Frigate Bird' returns ~1,025 items dominated by name collisions (Operation Dominic 'Frigate Bird' Polaris missile test photography viewed from USS Maddox, and USFWS bird photographs); deck logs for this hull (RG 24) are the expected remaining archival source but were not located in the digitized catalog.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-23
- Study period
- 1955-1968
- Limitations
- Photo numbers and the All Hands/Annapolis images are NavSource attributions; the NHHC and NARA catalog records were not directly retrieved (NARA catalog query returned only collisions). None of the located material bears on asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-frigate-bird-ams191-06
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[7]Batch-1693 search ledger (this record): CourtListener opinion and RECAP-docket searches on vessel name, both hull numbers, and Indonesian name; NHHC/DANFS; NavSource; Shipbuilding History; Navypedia; NVR; NARA catalog [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-frigate-bird-ams191-01 through sl-uss-frigate-bird-ams191-12
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, or litigation naming this hull exists in the public sources searched (see search_ledger), and none is expected - the vessel was transferred to Indonesia in 1971 and scrapped abroad in 1976, passing outside U.S. documentation regimes before they existed. CourtListener: 'Frigate Bird' opinions = 0; 'Frigate Bird' dockets = 12 hits, all full-text collisions on the bird species in environmental/ESA/trademark/criminal filings; 'AMS-191'/'MSC-191'/'MSC 191'/'AMS 191' opinions = 0 and dockets = 4, all OCR/exhibit-text collisions (debt-collection, pharma speaker database, securities, PREPA bankruptcy creditor matrices); 'Pulau Atang'/'Pulau Antang' opinions = 0. NVR returns no entry (disposals before 1987 are not included).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-23
- Study period
- 2026-09-23
- Limitations
- Absence of a located public record does not prove absence of asbestos aboard - though for this hull the era inference itself is limited (small wooden diesel vessel, no steam plant). Does not establish that asbestos was or was not present; does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-frigate-bird-ams191-07