Evidence
10 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-10).
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[1]Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (NHHC), 'Guadalupe' entry - transcription via hazegray.org mirror (Wayback capture 2024-07-13); MARAD ShipHistory details 5937 and 7874 [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS entry, opening paragraphs; MARAD ShipHistory Detail 5937 and Esso Raleigh status card (254_01.png)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity and construction per DANFS: (AO-32: dp. 7,256; l. 552'; b. 75'3"; dr. 31'6"; s. 18 k.; cpl. 285; cl. Cimarron). Launched as SS Esso Raleigh 26 January 1940 by Newport News Shipbuilding & Drydock Co., Newport News, Va.; sponsored by Mrs. W. L. Inslee; taken over by the Maritime Commission as MC Hull 12; acquired by the Navy 1 June 1941; commissioned 19 June 1941, Comdr. Harry B. Thurber in command. MARAD records add yard hull 371, DWT 18,333, type T3-S2-A1, and official no. 2239656 (as Esso Raleigh).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-24
- Study period
- 1939-1941
- Population
- Construction trades (Newport News, 1939-40)
- Limitations
- DANFS is the 1968-edition entry (ends mid-Vietnam) reached via a third-party transcription mirror - the canonical NHHC page returned 404 on 2026-09-24 and its current URL was not located. DANFS 'acquired 1 June 1941' vs. MARAD card delivery '6-2-41 3:45PM Baltimore' - one-day variance logged in the correction row. No asbestos or materials content in any of these sources.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-guadalupe-ao32-01
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[2]Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (NHHC), 'Guadalupe' entry - transcription via hazegray.org mirror (Wayback capture 2024-07-13) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS entry, full operational narrative
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Operational history per DANFS: coastwise oil runs Texas-to-New Jersey to August 1941; docked Brooklyn Navy Yard and embarked six PT boats of Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 3 (Lt. Comdr. Bulkeley) for Manila via Pearl Harbor, returned to Norfolk 13 November 1941; armed at Baltimore after Pearl Harbor. WWII: Battle of Midway (June 1942); Attu; Guadalcanal (Aug-Dec 1942); U.S. overhaul first half of 1943; Aleutians; Gilberts with TF including Essex, Independence, Washington, Enterprise, Lexington, Yorktown; Truk raids; Marianas (May-Aug 1944); Palau and Philippine operations; Leyte Gulf; South China Sea raid with TF 38 (night 9-10 January 1945 - collision with tanker Nantahala holed her bow; jury-rigged repairs; one month's availability at Ulithi); Iwo Jima (24 Feb-7 Mar 1945); Okinawa (Mar-May 1945). Post-war: Pacific occupation duty; Bahrain fuel pickups via Suez 1948; Korea - repairs at Long Beach June 1950, 7th Fleet at Sasebo from 1 December 1950, Wonsan support; post-1953 routine of six-month 7th Fleet deployments alternating with Long Beach; fleet oiler supporting operations off Vietnam (entry ends 1968).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-24
- Study period
- 1941-1968
- Population
- Ship's company ~285 (DANFS stat block); repair crews at documented availabilities
- Limitations
- Operational narrative only - contains no asbestos, insulation, or materials statement. Yard names for the 1943, 1944, 1950, and 1953 availabilities are not given in DANFS (Mare Island is corroborated by Navy photo captions on the MARAD record for May 1942 and March 1943 only). Does not cover decommissioning (entry predates it).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-guadalupe-ao32-02
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[3]U.S. Maritime Administration, ShipHistory database - GUADALUPE (AO-32) Detail 5937 with Form MA-20 Record of Ship Sales card (5937_AF.jpg); ESSO RALEIGH Detail 7874 with vessel status card (254_01.png) [marad_nrc]
- Locator
- Detail page fields; Status Cards tab images 5937_AF.jpg and (on Detail 7874) 254_01.png - read directly from card scans
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- MARAD custody and disposal record: ShipHistory Detail 5937 (GUADALUPE AO-32) lists MARAD type T3-S2-A1, builder Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, 553 ft x 75 ft, displacement 24,830 t full / 7,470 t light, fate 'Sold - Scrap', name history ESSO RALEIGH -> GUADALUPE (AO-32), missions WWII/Korea/Vietnam. The digitized Form MA-20 Record of Ship Sales (card 5937_AF) states: contract MA-8100; advertised under PD-X-1000 dated 9-4-75, opened 10-7-75 under two conditions '(1) NTU (2) SCRAP HULL-US'; award under condition (2) SCRAP HULL; awarded to LEVIN METALS CORPORATION, date 10-16-75; purchase price 'Lump Sum for 7 $1,500,000.00'; location of vessel Vallejo, Calif. The companion Esso Raleigh vessel status card (254_01) records: MC hull 12, built by Newport News hull 371; Navy Dept. purchase delivered at Baltimore, Md. 6-2-41 3:45 PM; renamed GUADALUPE (AO-32); permanent transfer to Maritime Administration 10/16/75; Levin Metals Corporation (Scrap) purchase 10/16/75; physically delivered 11/7/75 8:00 AM.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-24
- Study period
- 1941-1975
- Population
- Shipbreaking workforce (Levin Metals, San Francisco Bay area, 1975-76)
- Limitations
- Authoritative custody/disposal record. The cards contain no asbestos, materials, or condition-survey information - 'SCRAP HULL-US' means domestic dismantling only. The buyer on the card is Levin Metals Corporation; NavSource's statement that the buyer was Newport News Shipbuilding is contradicted by this primary record (see correction row). Breaking-yard location is not stated on the card beyond the Vallejo delivery point.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-guadalupe-ao32-03
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[4]MARAD Form MA-20 Record of Ship Sales (card 5937_AF) and Esso Raleigh vessel status card (254_01), read against DANFS and secondary compilations [marad_nrc]
- Locator
- Status card scans; DANFS opening paragraph; NavSource page 0919032 (comparison source, not evidence)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Source discrepancies resolved: (a) Scrap buyer - NavSource states 'sold for scrapping 16 October 1975 to Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Co.'; the MARAD Form MA-20 sale card states the awardee was Levin Metals Corporation (contract MA-8100, PD-X-1000), corroborated by the Starke & Schell/Miramar registers ('Sold Oct. 1975 to Levin Metals Corp., San Jose, Calif.'). MARAD controls. (b) Navy acquisition - DANFS 'acquired by the Navy 1 June 1941' vs. MARAD card delivery 'Navy Dept., Baltimore, Md., 6-2-41 3:45 PM'; the card's delivery timestamp is carried, one-day variance logged. NavSource's 'Acquired by the Navy, 1 June 1940' is rejected as a typo - it precedes the documented merchant delivery and is inconsistent with NavSource's own June 1941 commissioning date. (c) Stricken date - '15 May 1975' (NavSource, uboat.net, class table) vs '14 May 1975' (Wikipedia); decommission '1974' vs '15 May 1975' - unresolved in authoritative sources, carried in gaps.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- correction
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-24
- Study period
- 1941-1975
- Limitations
- Resolves publication-level discrepancies in secondary compilations using the primary MARAD cards; does not affect identity or custody timeline materially. No asbestos content in any compared source.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-guadalupe-ao32-04
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[5]Historic American Engineering Record CA-338, Mispillion (AO-105) - T3-S2 type fleet oiler documentation, NPS/MARAD (historian Brian Clayton, 2006) [haer]
- Locator
- HAER CA-338, 'T3-S2-A3 Type Design' section (pp. 3-4) describing the 1938 MC-Standard Oil T3-S2-A1 contract and program history
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Type/program documentation: Guadalupe was one of twelve T3-S2-A1 'national defense' oilers contracted 3 January 1938 between the U.S. Maritime Commission and Standard Oil - the Commission paid for upgraded engines and features making the tankers suitable for naval use; Cimarron (AO-22), first of the T3 class, was launched 7 January 1939; eighteen additional T3-S2-A1s were built 1943-46. The design was a twin-screw geared-steam-turbine plant. A steam plant of this era carried the period's standard insulation suite - boiler and steam-line lagging, turbine insulation, gaskets, packing, and accommodation insulation - commonly manufactured with asbestos fiber.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-24
- Study period
- 1938-1946 design/construction era; report 2006
- Population
- Construction trades (Newport News, 1939-40); Navy engineering crew; overhaul yard workers
- Limitations
- Type/program documentation, not a hull record - the HAER names the T3 program and sister Mispillion, not Guadalupe, and its extractable text contains no asbestos or insulation-material statement (full-text search 2026-09-24). Asbestos content aboard this hull is era inference only; establishes no quantities, locations, condition, or exposure.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-guadalupe-ao32-05
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[6]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
- Am. J. Ind. Med. 11(3):359-373
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Peer-reviewed historical study documents that asbestos was used extensively as a fireproofing and insulating material in U.S. shipbuilding during WWII - the era and program under which this T3-S2-A1 hull was built (1939-40 at Newport News) and repeatedly overhauled in Navy and commercial yards through 1975.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-24
- Study period
- 1939-1945 (study period); 1987 (publication)
- Population
- WWII-era shipbuilding trades generally; naval engineering crews
- Limitations
- Program/era-level scholarly documentation of asbestos use in WWII shipbuilding generally; does not name this vessel and does not establish that asbestos was or remains aboard this hull, nor quantity, location, condition, exposure, or causation.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-guadalupe-ao32-06
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[7]MARAD ShipHistory Detail 5937 image captions (Navy photos, Mare Island 1942/1943/1953) read against DANFS operational narrative [marad_nrc]
- Locator
- Ship Imagery captions (guadalupe_5937_003-009, _029, _035-037); DANFS overhaul references
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Documented yard availabilities aboard this hull (maintenance-disturbance pathway): MARAD detail imagery (U.S. Navy photos) shows Guadalupe at Mare Island, California on 14 May 1942 and 3 March 1943 with 'alterations ... behind circles with numbers,' and an antenna photo at Mare Island Naval Shipyard 30 July 1953. DANFS records docking at Brooklyn Navy Yard 16 August 1941, gun installation at Baltimore after Pearl Harbor, a U.S. overhaul in the first half of 1943, a 'late winter overhaul' in early 1944, repairs at Long Beach in June 1950, and overhaul in California around August 1953. Each yard period is a documented availability in which machinery and insulation were opened - the asbestos exposure pathway for both ship's force and yard workers.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-24
- Study period
- 1941-1953
- Population
- Yard workers (Mare Island 1942-43, 1953); ship's engineering force during availabilities
- Limitations
- Establishes that documented yard availabilities occurred on this hull - it does NOT establish that asbestos-containing material was present or disturbed at any of them; no work package, material schedule, or survey for any availability was located. The 1950 Long Beach and 1953 California yards are not named in DANFS.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-guadalupe-ao32-07
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[8]Maritime Reporter & Engineering News, 'Heightened Scrutiny On Ship Scrapping' (July 2000) [reputable_press]
- Locator
- Article body, program-level statements on Navy/MARAD disposal hazmat
- Finding type
- environmental_record
- Finding
- Disposal-era context: at the time of this hull's 1975 sale under 'SCRAP HULL-US' conditions, trade-press documentation of the Navy/MARAD disposal program records that obsolete U.S. naval vessels of this vintage 'contain a number of hazardous substances, including asbestos and solid and liquid polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs),' and that domestic shipbreaking of such hulls was largely unregulated for asbestos until the late 1970s-80s.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-09-24
- Study period
- 1975-2000
- Population
- Shipbreaking workforce (Levin Metals Corp., 1975-76)
- Limitations
- Program-level industry statement about the disposal fleet generally - does not name this hull and does not establish that asbestos was aboard Guadalupe at scrapping. Documents the era pathway only: a 1940 steam tanker sold for domestic scrapping in 1975 entered a breaking operation for which asbestos handling was then essentially unregulated. Establishes no quantities and no individual exposure.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-guadalupe-ao32-08
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[9]National Archives catalog (via DPLA mirrors): 'Guadalupe (AO-32) - October 1958' (id 208828097); 'USS GUADALUPE - Rep of opers ... 12/16-25/44' (id 77485749) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NARA catalog ids 208828097 and 77485749; DPLA item pages ee236670c98c35c8832a796876f1cb32 and e8d14b5f1519ef0fd96ca518e25624db
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Archival leads (holdings confirmed, boxes not pulled - no spend authorized): (a) NARA RG 24, 'Logbooks of U.S. Navy Ships and Stations,' College Park - the catalog holds Guadalupe (AO-32) deck logs (e.g., 'Guadalupe (AO-32) - October 1958,' catalog id 208828097); the series covers her 1941-1975 commission. (b) NARA RG 38, Records of the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, WWII War Diaries and operational records - 'USS GUADALUPE - Rep of opers with logistic forces in support of THIRD Fleet Opers, 12/16-25/44' (catalog id 77485749, micro serial 140669). Deck logs and yard-work correspondence are the realistic path to any ship-specific materials record (overhaul work packages would sit with the relevant naval shipyard series, e.g., Mare Island).
- Verification
- unverified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-09-24
- Study period
- 1941-1975 records
- Limitations
- Holding-level mapping only - no box-level retrieval performed; whether any asbestos-specific document exists for this hull is unknown until surveyed. Nothing in this row is an asbestos finding.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-guadalupe-ao32-09
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[10]Batch-1879 search ledger (this record): DANFS; MARAD ShipHistory 5937/7874 + status cards; NVR policy page; CourtListener opinion/docket sweeps; HAER CA-338; NARA catalog [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-guadalupe-ao32-01 through -14
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: CourtListener sweeps by ship name, hull number, original merchant name, and named overhaul contractor produced no opinion or docket naming USS Guadalupe or AO-32 in an asbestos posture (all hits were name collisions - see search_ledger); DANFS, MARAD ShipHistory, and both status cards contain no asbestos, insulation-material, survey, or abatement statement; the NVR does not cover pre-1987 disposals; no museum/NRHP documentation exists (hull scrapped). The only exposure-related report naming the hull located anywhere is a non-citable plaintiff-firm page (Berkshire v. Syd Carpenter Marine Contractor, King County WA Superior Court - reported settled); it is logged in the search ledger as a lead and is NOT evidence.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-24
- Study period
- 2026-09-24
- Limitations
- Absence of a located public record does not prove absence of asbestos aboard - a 1940 steam tanker overhauled repeatedly and scrapped domestically in 1975-76 is era-consistent with asbestos-containing materials at every stage. Does not establish presence or absence; does not establish or defeat any exposure claim or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-guadalupe-ao32-10