Evidence
5 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-5).
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[1]Naval History and Heritage Command, Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, 'Guide I (AMc-83)' [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS entry 'Guide I (AMc-83)', full text (page published 2015-07-13, live and directly fetched 2026-09-23)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS: '(AMc-83: dp. 195; l. 97'1"; b. 22'; dr. 9'; s. 10 k.; cpl. 17; a. 2 mg.; cl. Accentor.) ... Guide (AMc-83) was launched 20 September 1941 by the Camden Shipbuilding & Marine Railway Co., Camden, Maine; sponsored by Mrs. Cary Bok, Jr.; and commissioned 17 March 1942, Lt.(j.g.) Alvin Hero in command. Guide trained from the Mine Warfare School at Yorktown, Va., until 17 April 1942 when she sailed to alternately sweep the main shipping channels leading out of Key West, New Orleans, and Mobile, Ala. She periodically made brief visits to Pensacola for special sweeping duties. Her homeport changed from Mobile to Naval Station, Burrwood, La., in July 1944. She continued sweeping the approaches to New Orleans and Mobile until July 1945. She then served the Mine Countermeasures Station at Panama City, Fla., for the remainder of her career. Guide was placed out of service 12 June 1946 and her name was struck from the Navy List 3 July. She was sold to a private purchaser 11 April 1947.'
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-23
- Study period
- 1941-1947
- Limitations
- Authoritative identity, specification, and service-history record for this hull. Contains no asbestos, materials, or condition information whatsoever; supports no asbestos claim. Page required a standard browser User-Agent to fetch in this session (a default automated client received HTTP 404) - this is a server-side bot filter, not true link rot; the canonical URL is live.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-guide-amc83-01
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[2]Bureau of Ships, Ships' Data, U.S. Naval Vessels, 1945, Volume II (NAVSHIPS 250-011), Mine Vessels section [other_primary]
- Locator
- PDF pp. corresponding to the 'MINE VESSELS - MINE SWEEPERS (COASTAL) (AMc)' characteristics, machinery, and construction-date tables; GUIDE is table row 46
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Bureau of Ships 'Ships' Data, U.S. Naval Vessels' (NAVSHIPS 250-011), 1945 Vol. II, Mine Vessels - Mine Sweepers (Coastal) (AMc) tables, row 46, GUIDE, AMc83: laid down 9 May 1941, launched 20 Sept 1941, commissioned/delivered 17 Mar 1942, built by 'Camden S.B. & Marine Ry Co., Camden, Maine' (via 'do.' cross-reference to the Governor row immediately above). Characteristics table: displacement 195 (tons); length 97'1"; beam 22'0". Machinery table: 1 propeller, engine 'Superior Diesel K.N.B.' (via 'do.' cross-reference to the Courier row), 400 shaft horsepower, 2 ship's service diesel generators at 25 kW each, approximately 98 barrels diesel oil capacity. Table footnote 6: 'All AMC'S are wood hulls.'
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-23
- Study period
- 1941-1945
- Population
- Shipyard construction trades, Camden, Maine, 1941; wartime Navy engine-room crew (diesel plant)
- Limitations
- Primary Bureau of Ships wartime record; independently corroborates DANFS on builder, dates, and displacement/length/beam, and adds the laid-down date and propulsion detail DANFS omits. Column text partially OCR-degraded in the downloaded scan; figures used here were cross-checked against the surrounding table structure and adjacent, legible rows. Contains no asbestos, insulation, or materials information; supports no asbestos claim.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-guide-amc83-02
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[3]Dumas v. ABB Group, Inc., 46 F. Supp. 3d 477 (D. Del. 2014) [court_record]
- Locator
- CourtListener opinion 7308737 (cluster 7308737, opinion 7226640), Background section
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- CourtListener exact-name search for 'USS Guide' (opinion index) returned Dumas v. ABB Group, Inc., 46 F. Supp. 3d 477 (D. Del. 2014, Magistrate Judge Fallon), a choice-of-law ruling in an asbestos personal-injury action. The opinion states plaintiff Arthur Dumas 'served in the U.S. Navy for approximately 20 years, from June 1954 to August 1974' and that '[t]he ships included the USS Guide, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Forrestal, Enterprise, Ogden, Tidewater, and Vulcan.' Because this AMc-83 hull was sold to a private purchaser on 1947-04-11 - seven years before Dumas's Navy service even began - the 'USS Guide' in this opinion cannot be this vessel. It is the distinct, later-commissioned USS Guide (AM-447, Tier 2), consistent with this batch's own pre-flagged disambiguation note.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- correction
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-23
- Study period
- 1954-1974 (alleged service); 2014 (opinion)
- Limitations
- This row exists to prevent misattribution, not to document exposure: it affirmatively excludes this litigation from AMc-83's record. It establishes nothing about asbestos aboard AMc-83, and nothing about AM-447 either beyond the bare vessel-list allegation (a pleading-stage list in a choice-of-law motion, not an exposure finding for any listed ship). Do not treat this as ship-specific asbestos evidence for AMc-83.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-guide-amc83-03
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[4]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
- Abstract and article, AJIM 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 program and era under which this Accentor-class coastal minesweeper was built (laid down 1941, commissioned 1942), and that wartime demand drove unprecedented asbestos utilization aboard Navy and merchant-type hulls generally, including engine-room insulation, gaskets, and packing.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-23
- Study period
- 1940s era documented; article 1987
- Population
- WWII shipyard workers and small-craft crews (class context)
- Limitations
- Program/era-level scholarly documentation of asbestos use in WWII shipbuilding generally, drawn primarily from steel-hull and larger-yard contexts; does not name this vessel, this class, or this builder, and does not establish that asbestos was or remains aboard this specific hull. This vessel is a small wood-hulled diesel auxiliary with no boiler/steam plant, so the steam-insulation pathway this article emphasizes applies only weakly, if at all; the more plausible pathway (diesel engine/exhaust lagging, gaskets, packing) is not independently documented for this hull or class. Does not establish quantity, location, condition, exposure, or causation.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-guide-amc83-04
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[5]Batch-1622 search ledger (this record): CourtListener API v4 (exact-name and hull-number opinion searches); Naval Vessel Register (nvr.navy.mil); MARAD ShipHistory (vesselhistory.marad.dot.gov); project shipyards.json [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-guide-amc83-01 through sl-uss-guide-amc83-09
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, or docketed case naming AMc-83 specifically was found in the public sources searched. CourtListener exact-name ('USS Guide') and hull-number ('AMc-83') opinion searches returned three total hits, none qualifying: Dumas v. ABB Group, Inc. (name collision with the distinct hull AM-447, see ev-03); United States v. Ameline, 376 F.3d 967 (9th Cir. 2004) (unrelated criminal sentencing appeal - 'guide' appears only as an ordinary word); and Oels v. Anchorage Police Dep't Employees Ass'n, 279 P.3d 589 (Alaska 2012) (unrelated - 'AMC' matches the Anchorage Municipal Code, not the hull symbol). The Naval Vessel Register has no online record for this hull (expected: struck/sold 1946-47, predating NVR's digital coverage for a minor small craft of this type). MARAD's ShipHistory database is out of scope for this vessel: it covers merchant and MARAD/WSA-custody support vessels, and AMc-83 was a commissioned Navy vessel sold directly to a private purchaser, never in WSA or MARAD custody.
- 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 - it establishes only that no qualifying documentation was found in the sources searched this session. A CourtListener RECAP docket-type search and additional query variants were not completed due to fleet-wide pacing limits (see gaps); this negative finding could be revised if those searches later surface a qualifying hit. Does not establish presence or absence of asbestos; does not establish or defeat any exposure claim or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-guide-amc83-05