Evidence
9 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-9).
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[1]Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, 'General LeRoy Eltinge' entry (NHHC, published 2015-07-10; canonical NHHC page 404s - 2024-12-25 Wayback capture used) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS entry text (namesake paragraph, launch/commission paragraph, WWII voyages, MSTS era, Vietnam, ready reserve Jan 1967)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS entry (Naval Historical Center; archived NHHC page): launched 20 September 1944 by Kaiser Shipbuilding Co., Inc., Yard 3, Richmond, Calif., sponsored by Mrs. James McCloud; acquired and commissioned 21 February 1945, Capt. W. Wakefield in command. Ship description: dp. 9,950 (lt.); l. 522'10"; b. 71'6"; dr. 24'; s. 16 k.; cpl. 356; trp. 3,823; a. 4 5", 4 40mm., 16 20mm.; cl. General G. O. Squier; T. C4-S-A1. Full operational chronology through Vietnam sealifts and January 1967 ready-reserve status. Named for Brig. Gen. LeRoy Eltinge, USA (1872-1931), Silver Star (Philippines 1898-99), DSM (WWI A.E.F. Deputy Chief of Staff).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-25
- Study period
- 1945-1967
- Population
- Ship's company (Navy crew, ~256-356 depending on source) and up to 3,823 embarked troops per voyage
- Limitations
- Authoritative official ship history for identity, construction, and service chronology; contains no asbestos, insulation-material, or environmental statement. One internal date quirk ('sailed 20 June' for Atlantic Magic Carpet duty vs. 27 June San Francisco arrival) is internally inconsistent and carried in gaps. Live NHHC URL currently 404s - same link rot noted in BATCH-01.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-general-leroy-eltinge-ap154-01
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[2]NavSource Online, Service Ship Photo Archive, 'USNS General LeRoy Eltinge (T-AP-154)' page 09/22/22154 (Wayback capture 2024-12-25; navsource.org direct fetch failed) + Shipscribe, 'USS General G. O. Squier (AP-130) Class' construction/disposition/ship-notes (NVR-derived compilation) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource AP-154 archive page (milestones, campaign tables, photo index incl. NARA photos 80-G-428657/80-G-428659 and USASC CC-31800, CO list); https://www.shipscribe.com/usnaux/AP/AP130.html (construction table, disposition table, ship-notes for AP-154)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NavSource service-ship archive and Shipscribe AP-130 class ship-notes assemble the construction and full custody chain: laid down (Shipscribe: 24 May 1944) as MC type C4-S-A1 under Maritime Commission contract at Kaiser Co. Inc., Yard No. 3, Richmond, CA (MC hull 711); launched 20 Sep 1944; commissioned 21 Feb 1945; decommissioned and returned to Maritime Commission for Army assignment (Shipscribe: decomm/to MC/to Army 29 May 46, stricken 19 Jun 46; NavSource: 'Decommissioned and struck from the Naval Register, 29 June 1946'); USAT 1946-50 (initial Army conversion by Arthur Tickle Engineering Works, Brooklyn, ca. May-July 1946 per Shipscribe); declared surplus by the Army 8 Dec 1949 (one of only two Army C4s so declared, with AP-152, per Shipscribe class notes) and returned to MC Olympia WA 17 Feb 1950; reacquired and reinstated 20 Jul 1950 as USNS T-AP-154; reduced status San Francisco 1 Aug 1962; returned to service 13 May 1965; ready reserve Jan 1967; one Vietnam campaign star (Vietnamese Counteroffensive Phase II, 21-26 Oct 1966 and 27 Dec 1966-1 Jan 1967); to Maritime Commission 2 Jul 1968 for NDRF Suisun Bay; title transfer to Waterman SS Corp. (Exchange Program) 27 Jan 1969; rebuilt as a partial container ship and renamed SS Robert E. Lee (Sep 1969) then SS Robert Toombs (3 Oct 1973); sold at sea to Waterman (Trade-in and Build) 21 Nov 1978; title returned to MARAD 2 May 1980; sold for scrapping same day to Chien Yu Steel Industrial Co., Ltd., Taiwan. Dated photo captions document the first infantrymen embarking for home under the rotation system at Sasebo 24 Apr 1951, the ship departing Sasebo 30 Apr 1951 with over 1,500 Korean War veterans (NARA 80-G-428657, 80-G-428659), a USAF unit boarding at Charleston SC June 1953 for Sembach (303rd Tactical Reconnaissance Sq., 66th TRG), and the 1st Brigade 101st Airborne Division arriving Cam Ranh Bay 29 Jul 1965 (USASC CC-31800). CO list: CAPT William Wakefield (21 Feb-21 Jul 1945), CAPT Thomas Blau (21 Jul-22 Aug 1945), CDR Gideon A. Cox (22 Aug-29 Sep 1945), CDR Leroy J. Alexanderson (29 Sep 1945-29 Jun 1946).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-25
- Study period
- 1944-1980
- Population
- Navy/USAT/MSTS crews; embarked troops and refugees (documented lifts incl. 1st Bde 101st Airborne to Cam Ranh Bay 29 Jul 1965, USASC photo CC-31800)
- Limitations
- Volunteer-compiled archive and expert NVR-derived compilation - not original government documents; used for milestone chain, keel date, campaign stars, CO list, and merchant/disposition chain. Contains no asbestos or insulation-material statement. Date-level conflicts with DANFS (decommission/strike) and with its own sibling table (MC hull 706 vs ship-note MC 711) are carried in the correction row and gaps.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-general-leroy-eltinge-ap154-02
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[3]U.S. Maritime Administration, ShipHistory database - GENERAL LEROY ELTINGE (AP-154), Ship History Detail 1828 [marad_nrc]
- Locator
- ShipHistory Detail 1828 - vessel particulars, mission list, milestones table, status-card image links (1828_3385AF.jpg, 1828_3385BF.jpg, two PNG cards)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- MARAD ShipHistory database record for GENERAL LEROY ELTINGE (AP-154), Detail 1828: U.S. Official No. 523346; year built 1945; shipyard Kaiser Company; general type Naval Auxiliary, specific type AP Transport; MARAD type C4-S-A1; length 522.84 ft, beam 71.50 ft; gross 10,562 tons; displacement 17,250 summer / 9,950 lightweight tons. Mission listing: World War II, Korean War, Vietnam War. Milestones: Entry/Acquisition 17 Feb 1950 (matches the Olympia reserve-fleet redelivery); Disposition/Withdrawal 18 Feb 1969 'EXCHANGE PROGRAM'; Cause 'Sold - Scrap'. Four status-card images linked on the record.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-25
- Study period
- 1945-1980
- Limitations
- Authoritative government-custody record for identity, official number, and disposition milestones; 'Historical Narrative' field is empty and there is no asbestos, hazmat, or condition statement. Milestone 'Disposition 2/18/1969 EXCHANGE PROGRAM' conflicts at day level with NavSource/Shipscribe title-transfer date 1/27/1969 - both carried. Status-card images not machine-readable in this pass (archival lead).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-general-leroy-eltinge-ap154-03
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[4]Harrod v. United States, 99 F. Supp. 577, 1951 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 4141 (W.D. Wash., decided 1951-08-09, McLaughlin, J., docket No. 7616); CourtListener opinion 8754295 [court_record]
- Locator
- Opinion text at 577-580: Public Vessels Act/Jones Act framing; E-deck quarters findings; cork paint and 'glass insulation' testimony; TB causation finding; $30,000 award
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- Ship-specific, decided (non-asbestos) occupational-disease litigation: in Harrod v. United States, 99 F. Supp. 577 (W.D. Wash. 1951), a Black steward hired by the Army Transport Service in 1949 (pre-employment chest X-ray clear) sued under the Public Vessels Act/Jones Act, alleging tuberculosis contracted aboard USAT General LeRoy Eltinge from damp, cold, under-ventilated E-deck quarters. After trial the court FOUND for the libelant: defective heating/ventilation, condensation on cork-painted bulkheads, and a leaking pipe elbow rendered the quarters unhealthy and caused the disease; libelant awarded $30,000 (thoracoplasty performed). The opinion contains ship-specific insulation testimony - cork paint on the skin-side bulkhead documented; one captain's claim of 'glass insulation' on the ceiling was rejected as confused.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-25
- Study period
- 1949-1951 (conditions period and judgment)
- Population
- USAT-era civilian crew (stewards' department quarters, E-deck), 1949-1950
- Limitations
- A merits-level trial finding (post-trial findings of fact) naming this exact hull - but it is NOT asbestos litigation and supports no asbestos claim. Its value is ship-specific contemporaneous description of crew quarters and non-asbestos insulation materials (cork paint; rejected 'glass insulation' testimony) plus demonstration that vessel conditions litigation exists for this hull. Whether the opinion was appealed or satisfied is not located. Reporter citation verified via CourtListener cluster 8754295; text read via hallapproved mirror of the same opinion (aggregator used for text access only - citation is the CourtListener opinion).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-general-leroy-eltinge-ap154-04
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[5]Corn, Jacqueline Karnell, and Jennifer Starr, 'Historical perspective on asbestos: Policies and protective measures in World War II shipbuilding,' American Journal of Industrial Medicine 11(3):359-373 (1987) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Article, AJIM 11(3):359-373
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Class/era inference only: this hull is a WWII Maritime Commission C4-S-A1 steam transport built 1944-45 at Kaiser Richmond Yard No. 3 - squarely inside the era and program for which peer-reviewed scholarship documents that asbestos was used extensively as fireproofing and insulating material in U.S. shipbuilding and that wartime demand drove unprecedented asbestos utilization aboard government ship programs. Typical applications for a single-screw steam transport of the period: boiler/steam-drum insulation, steam-line lagging, turbine insulation, valve and flange gaskets, machinery packing, accommodation and galley insulation, brake linings on deck machinery.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-25
- Study period
- 1944-1980 (service span); scholarship published 1987
- Population
- Construction trades (Kaiser Richmond Yard 3, 1944-45); Navy/USAT/MSTS crews and embarked troops; shipbreakers (Taiwan, 1980)
- Limitations
- Era/program-level scholarship; does not name this vessel and no C4-S-A1 material schedule was located. Asbestos presence aboard this hull is era inference, not ship-proven. Does not establish quantity, condition, location, present-day presence (hull scrapped 1980), individual exposure, or causation.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-general-leroy-eltinge-ap154-05
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[6]National Park Service, 'Richmond Shipyard Number Three' place page (Rosie the Riveter/WWII Home Front NHP) + Polakoff, P.L., Bay Area Asbestos Surveillance Project (BAASP), NIOSH contract 210-78-0113, 1980 (NIOSHTIC 00163534; NTIS PB87-105466; CDC Stacks cdc:185002) [nps]
- Locator
- NPS place page text; CDC Stacks record cdc:185002 (abstract: screened WWII shipyard/longshore workers, x-ray abnormality rates) - https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/185002
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Builder-yard context: NPS documents Kaiser Richmond Shipyard No. 3 - the yard that built this hull - as part of the four-yard Kaiser Richmond complex that built 747 ships during WWII, the largest wartime shipbuilding complex on the West Coast, with surviving Yard No. 3 structures (general warehouse, five assembly quays/slips) preserved in the Rosie the Riveter WWII Home Front NHP. A NIOSH-contract surveillance project (Bay Area Asbestos Surveillance Project, Polakoff 1980) screened San Francisco Bay Area WWII shipyard and longshore workers who believed they had been exposed to asbestos before 1963: of 2,244 workers examined by x-ray, 46% showed potentially serious abnormality and 30% questionable abnormality.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-09-25
- Study period
- 1941-1945 (construction era); 1980 (BAASP report)
- Population
- Kaiser Richmond wartime workforce (builder population context); Bay Area WWII shipyard and longshore workers (BAASP cohort)
- Limitations
- Yard-level and regional-population context only: NPS page documents the builder yard's existence and scale but says nothing about asbestos aboard any hull; BAASP screened Bay Area shipyard workers generally - it does not name Kaiser Yard No. 3 workers as a documented subgroup in its abstract, does not name this vessel, and does not establish exposure aboard this ship. DTSC's Kaiser Richmond Shipyard cleanup page (cited inside shipyards.json) returned HTTP 403 to automated fetch - not verified in this pass.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-general-leroy-eltinge-ap154-06
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[7]Batch-2082 search ledger (this record): DANFS via archived NHHC page; NavSource archive (Wayback); MARAD ShipHistory Detail 1828 + status-card links; Shipscribe AP-130 class page; CourtListener opinion + docket searches; CDC Stacks NIOSH BAASP; NPS Richmond Shipyard No. 3; Kaiser Yard 3 hull table [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-general-leroy-eltinge-ap154-01 through -13
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, abatement contract, hazmat or condition disclosure, and no asbestos docket or opinion naming USS/USNS/USAT General LeRoy Eltinge, AP-154, or T-AP-154 was found in the repositories searched (see search_ledger). The only vessel-specific litigation located (Harrod, 1951) is a non-asbestos occupational-disease case; all docket hits for 'Eltinge' are person/company name collisions.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-25
- Study period
- 2026-09-25
- Limitations
- Absence of a located public record does not prove absence of asbestos aboard - a 1944-45 steam transport is era-consistent with retained asbestos-containing materials, and the Harrod record confirms insulation materials were aboard and litigated over (though non-asbestos types). This finding does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility. Hull scrapped 1980 - no present-day ACM question remains.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-general-leroy-eltinge-ap154-07
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[8]Cross-source comparison: DANFS (archived NHHC), NavSource 22154, Shipscribe AP-130 class page + ship-notes, MARAD Detail 1828, Kaiser Permanente No. 3 hull table (shipbuildinghistory.com) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Shipscribe construction table (keel 24 May 44), disposition table (strike 9 Oct 69, MA sale 27 Jan 69), ship-notes (MC 711, Arthur Tickle conversion); Kaiser yard table (MC 706); NavSource milestones/CO table; MARAD milestones
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Source discrepancies documented and handled at source level (none material to identity): (a) MC hull number - NavSource 'MC hull 711' and Shipscribe ship-notes 'MC 711' agree; the Kaiser Permanente No. 3 yard hull table lists 'MC # 706' for yard hull 20 - carried as a conflict, MC 711 adopted (two independent-source agreement); (b) decommission/strike - DANFS and Shipscribe give decommissioning 29 May 1946, Shipscribe gives strike 19 June 1946; NavSource lumps 'decommissioned and struck 29 June 1946,' matching its CO-table end date - all forms carried; (c) complement - NavSource specification 32 officers + 224 enlisted ship's company (256) vs DANFS cpl. 356 vs Shipscribe class table 340 (1944) - figures kept separate; (d) SS Robert E. Lee rename dated September 1969 (NavSource) vs December 1969 (secondary compilations); (e) MARAD Exchange Program disposition 18 Feb 1969 vs NavSource title transfer 27 Jan 1969; (f) DANFS 'sailed 20 June' for Atlantic Magic Carpet is internally inconsistent with its own 27 June San Francisco arrival.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- correction
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-25
- Study period
- 1944-1980
- Limitations
- Resolves and itemizes publication-level discrepancies among official and expert-secondary framings; does not change identity or the custody timeline. No asbestos content. Day-level residuals remain in gaps.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-general-leroy-eltinge-ap154-08
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[9]NARA deck-log finding aids (archives.gov/research/military); MARAD ShipHistory Detail 1828 status-card links; Shipscribe class notes (unlocated Army conversion records) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Detail 1828 'Status Cards' section (1828_3385AF.jpg, 1828_3385BF.jpg + 2 PNG); Shipscribe AP-130 class notes paragraph on Army safety-at-sea conversions
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Archival leads (not retrieved - require research-room or reproduction order; no spend authorized): (1) Navy deck logs for AP-154, 1945-46 - NARA RG 24 deck-logs collection (digitization ongoing; not located in digitized form); (2) four MARAD status-card images on ShipHistory Detail 1828 - linked but not machine-readable in this pass, likely carrying handwritten custody and possibly conversion notes; (3) Arthur Tickle Engineering Works (Brooklyn) 1946 conversion records and the ship's 1947-48 Army safety-at-sea conversion records - Shipscribe notes records for most such conversions 'have not been located'; (4) the 1969 Waterman partial-container conversion yard - unidentified in any located source; (5) MARAD/NARA files for the 1980 Trade-in/Build disposition and Taiwan scrapping sale documents.
- Verification
- unverified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-09-25
- Study period
- 1944-1980
- Limitations
- Repository/finding-aid mapping only - no box-level retrieval performed; existence of asbestos-specific documents for this hull is unknown until these files are pulled. Status-card images exist but could not be read programmatically this session.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-general-leroy-eltinge-ap154-09