Evidence
9 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-9).
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[1]research packet lc-packet.md (2 sources cited) [nhhc_danfs]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERIFIED
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-harry-l-corl-de598-pkt-lc-packet-md
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[2]DANFS, USS Harry L. Corl (APD-108) (Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, Naval History Division; verbatim HyperWar/ibiblio transcription - live NHHC page returns 404 on current URL patterns) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS entry 'USS Harry L. Corl (APD-108)' - namesake biography, spec block, service narrative
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS record for this hull. Namesake: Harry Lee Corl, born 26 March 1914 in Lambertville, Mich.; enlisted 20 November 1934; discharged 1938, re-enlisted 1939; ensign 15 June 1942; Navy Cross for heroism at the Battle of Midway as a torpedo-plane pilot in the assault on the Japanese fleet; reported missing on a South Pacific mission 24 August 1942; presumed dead 25 August (year not stated). Spec block (printed '(ADP-108'): 1,390 t; 306 ft; 37 ft beam; 12 ft 7 in draft; 24 kt; complement 204; armament one 5-in and six 40mm; class Crosley. Build/service: launched as DE-598 by Bethlehem-Hingham Shipyard, Hingham, Mass., 1 March 1944, sponsored by Mrs. Marie Mohr (sister of the namesake); redesignated APD-108 and converted to a high-speed transport before commissioning; commissioned 5 June 1945, Lt. W. D. Jenckes in command; Caribbean shakedown; departed Norfolk 4 August 1945; San Diego 19 August; Seattle 26 August; Dutch Harbor 1 September; Petropavlovsk (Kamchatka) 6 September - unloaded cargo and helped establish a weather station; three further Attu-to-Petropavlovsk supply voyages; Seattle 21 November; Alaskan passenger voyage; Seattle 11 January 1946; San Francisco; departed 26 February for the East Coast; New York 20 March; Green Cove Springs, Fla., 12 April; decommissioned 21 June 1946; Atlantic Reserve Fleet until struck from the Navy List 15 January 1966; delivered to Korea May 1966 for ROK Navy service as Ah San.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1944-1966
- Population
- Bethlehem-Hingham Shipyard construction and conversion trades 1944-45; USN crew 1945-46 (design complement 204)
- Limitations
- DANFS documents construction milestones, specifications, and service history - not materials or asbestos content. The entry does not state a laid-down date, does not carry the 17 July 1944 reclassification date (stated only as 'redesignated ... before commissioning'), and ends at the 1966 Korean delivery - all ROK-era detail and the 1984 deletion/scrapping rest on secondary sources (gaps). The transcription twice prints 'ADP-108' - a typo variant; official designation is APD-108 per the NHHC appendix and NavSource. Live NHHC page returns 404 (standing defect); verbatim mirror transcription cited.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-harry-l-corl-de598-01
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[3]NHHC, 'Appendix 12: Ships Named for Naval Aviators' (history.navy.mil research publication, PDF retrieved and text-extracted in-session) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NHHC naval-aviation appendix PDF, Corl entry line
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Official NHHC listing corroborating this hull's identity and designation lineage: 'Corl, Harry L. (APD 108-ex-DE 598)** ENS Harry L. Corl, USN 5 Jun 1945' - confirms the DE-598-to-APD-108 lineage (against the DANFS 'ADP-108' typo), the namesake's rank and service, and the 5 June 1945 commissioning date.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1945
- Limitations
- One-line tabular listing only - confirms lineage and commissioning date, nothing more; no materials, specifications, or service content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-harry-l-corl-de598-02
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[4]NavSource Online Amphibious Photo Archive, USS Harry L. Corl (APD-108) page (volunteer archive; lead-level): class header (Rudderow DE / Crosley APD), building/operational data block, APD specifications block, photo catalog incl. NARA Bureau of Ships photo BS 86504 [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource APD-108 page - 'Rudderow Class Destroyer Escort - Crosley Class High-speed Transport' building data block and 'APD Specifications' block
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Photo-archive building/operational data corroborating and extending DANFS: laid down 19 January 1944 as DE-598 at Bethlehem-Hingham Shipyard Co., Hingham, Mass. (a date DANFS does not state); launched 1 March 1944; redesignated Crosley-class high-speed transport 17 July 1944; commissioned 5 June 1945, Lt. Walter D. Jenckes, USNR; decommissioned 21 June 1946; struck from the Naval Register 15 January 1966; 'Sold, 1 June 1966, to South Korea, for $28,105'; renamed ROKS Ah San (PG-82); pennant changes APD-82, APD-823, DE-823; 'deleted by the South Korean Navy 1984, broken up for scrap.' APD specifications block: 1,630 t light / 2,130 t full; 306 ft; 37 ft beam; 12 ft 7 in draft; 23.6 kt trial; 6,000 nm at 12 kt; complement 12 officers + 192 enlisted; troop accommodations 12 officers + 150 enlisted; four LCVPs; propulsion - two Babcock & Wilcox 'D' Express boilers (435 psi, 750 deg F), two GE turbines in turbo-electric drive, two shafts, 12,000 shp. Also catalogs NARA Bureau of Ships photo BS 86504 (ship off Boston, 11 June 1945) and lists commanding officers LT Jenckes (5 Jun 1945 - 5 Dec 1945) and LT Mohn (5 Dec 1945 - 21 Jun 1946).
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1944-1984
- Population
- USN crew 1945-46; embarked troops (capacity 162, secondary)
- Limitations
- Volunteer-maintained photo archive - lead-level documentation, not an official record; laid-down date, sale/transfer structure, ROK pennant chain, and 1984 disposal are the only located statements and are unverified against USN/ROK originals. 'Sold 1 June 1966 for $28,105' conflicts with GlobalSecurity's class roster ('loaned ... 1 June 1966; purchased 15 Nov 1974') - both secondary; conflict in gaps. Machinery block is the class-standard APD fit. Nothing on materials aboard.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-harry-l-corl-de598-03
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[5]TEV-design group data (Rudderow class = turbo-electric drive with 5-in guns, per NavSource machinery block and standard references; corroborated at design-group level by Atlas class profile buckley-class.class.json TE data drawing on BuShips 'Ships' Data, U.S. Naval Vessels 1945' Vol. I DE section) + Atlas shipyards.json record 'bethlehem-shipbuilding' (corporation-level) [other_primary]
- Locator
- class-f/buckley-class.class.json propulsion_summary (TE design-group data); NavSource APD-108 specifications block; shipyards.json record 'bethlehem-shipbuilding'
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Era/design inference for a steam-plant escort built at Bethlehem-Hingham 1944-45: the TEV machinery plant - Babcock & Wilcox 'D' Express boilers feeding GE turbine-generators with electric drive, 2 shafts, 12,000 shp - places this hull in the full-steam category shared with the Buckley-class TE design (same hull and machinery family per standard references), so the heavy steam-ship asbestos categories apply at the era level: boiler and fireroom insulation, steam-line and turbine lagging, valve and flange gaskets, packing, fireproofing, deck coverings. The under-construction APD conversion added troop berthing, boat davits, and cargo spaces - more fitted interior, same era material set. Builder context is limited: no standalone Bethlehem-Hingham yard record exists in the Atlas dataset; the corporation-level 'bethlehem-shipbuilding' record's asbestos documentation is specific to the Sparrows Point/Baltimore complex, so no yard-level asbestos inference is drawn for the Hingham yard.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1944-45 (construction/conversion)
- Population
- Bethlehem-Hingham construction and conversion trades 1944-45; USN engineering crew 1945-46
- Limitations
- Class/era inference only - not a ship-specific finding. No Rudderow- or Crosley-class profile exists in the class-* worktrees; TE/TEV design data drawn from the Buckley-class profile (same turbo-electric family) and NavSource as background. Does not establish asbestos presence, quantity, location, or any individual exposure aboard this hull. Hingham-yard asbestos practices are undocumented in the dataset.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-harry-l-corl-de598-04
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[6]GAO, Navy Efforts To Protect Workers From Asbestos Exposure, HRD-80-2 (Oct 18, 1979) [gao]
- Locator
- GAO HRD-80-2 product page
- Finding type
- gov_survey
- Finding
- GAO documented the Navy's extensive shipboard asbestos insulation use with substitution of alternative materials not beginning until the early 1970s - this hull's entire U.S. Navy existence (1944-45 construction and APD conversion, 1945-46 commissioned service, 1946-66 reserve layup, 1966 striking/transfer) falls inside the documented asbestos-use era and entirely predates the substitution era. Korean service 1966-84 extends past the substitution-era start; no material record exists for that period.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- report 1979; era coverage through early 1970s substitution
- Population
- Navy shipboard and shipyard populations 1940s-1970s (context)
- Limitations
- Program-level era context, not a hull finding - the report does not name this vessel. Establishes the asbestos-use era the hull was built and operated in under the U.S. flag; establishes nothing about materials actually installed aboard, quantities, or exposure. gao.gov blocks automated fetches (HTTP 403) - product-page description relied on, same standing limitation as prior batches.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-harry-l-corl-de598-05
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[7]CourtListener API v4 sweep (opinion index type=o; RECAP docket index type=r) for exact name 'Harry L. Corl' and hull numbers 'DE-598' / 'APD-108' via cl-auth-search.py (authenticated, fleet-paced); per-query detail in search_ledger [court_record]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-harry-l-corl-de598-10 through -15
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- CourtListener sweep: exact-name query '"Harry L. Corl"' (type=o) returned 0 opinions - the narrower 'USS Harry L. Corl' is subsumed by this result. Hull-number '"APD-108"' (type=o) returned 0. Hull-number '"DE-598"' (type=o) returned 6 hits, all string collisions on case-metadata review (United States v. Deering, 8th Cir. 1999; City of Elkhorn v. 211 Centralia Street Corp., Wis. App. 2004; Pagan v. Rivera Burgos, P.R. 1983; Charlotte Memorial Hospital v. Bowen, 4th Cir. 1988; United States v. Steffen, 8th Cir. 1981; Pueblo v. Fajardo Sugar Co., P.R. 1937 - criminal, property, and Medicare matters plus Spanish-language 'de 598' fragments; none references a vessel, naval service, or asbestos), corroborated by '"DE-598" asbestos' (type=o) = 0. RECAP docket index: '"Harry L. Corl"' (type=r) returned 0 dockets - no indexed docket text names this vessel. '"Corl" asbestos' (type=r) returned 258 hits, all surname/record-string collisions: 'Corl' appears as an asbestos-plaintiff surname (CORL v. 3M, E.D. Pa. 2:08-cv-74355; CORL, Ferdinand A. v. Anchor Packing, W.D. Wis. 3:91-cv-00256; CORL v. Aqua-Chem, M.D.N.C. 1:07-cv-00476) and as a text string inside MDL-875 and other indexed dockets - none names this vessel (any docket naming it would have surfaced in the exact-name search, which returned 0). No qualifying asbestos litigation naming this hull located.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 2026-09-28
- Limitations
- Sweep covers CourtListener-indexed opinions and RECAP dockets. The six DE-598 opinion hits were classified by case metadata (parties, court, nature of suit) rather than full-text review; none is plausibly naval or asbestos-related. The sweep does not cover state trial-court filings, asbestos trust claims, or ROK-era claims, and does not prove no claims exist. 'Corl' is an asbestos-plaintiff surname - future hits require collision classification, not automatic attribution.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-harry-l-corl-de598-06
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[8]Batch-4411 search ledger (this record): NHHC DANFS + HyperWar mirror, NHHC naval-aviation appendix, NVR, NavSource, Atlas shipyard dataset, Atlas class profiles, CourtListener API v4, NARA digitized collections [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-harry-l-corl-de598-01 through -15
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no ACM survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, material-condition report, or litigation naming this hull was found in the public sources searched. No preservation-era documentation can exist - the hull served the ROK Navy 1966-84, was deleted and scrapped, and was never a museum, memorial, or post-transfer U.S. asset. The commissioned U.S. career (June 1945 - June 1946) is among the shorter in the DE/APD production run, narrowing every U.S.-flag exposure window.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 2026-09-28
- Limitations
- Absence of a located public record does not prove absence of asbestos aboard - era/design inference (ev-04) and the documented Navy asbestos-use era (ev-05) remain consistent with period-standard materials. The hull no longer exists, so no present-day survey is possible. Construction/conversion-era yard records, inactivation files, and any ROK service-era material records are paper leads only (ev-08).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-harry-l-corl-de598-07
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[9]NARA RG 19 (BuShips contract specifications / General Information Books) for DE-598 and the APD-108 conversion at Bethlehem-Hingham Shipyard; NARA Bureau of Ships photo series incl. BS 86504; NARA RG 24 Entry 118 deck logs covering the June 1945 - June 1946 commissioned period; Green Cove Springs inactivation and INSURV records; 1966 MAP transfer and any later foreign-sale documentation; ROK service/disposal records (outside U.S. holdings) - all undigitized or not located online [other_primary]
- Locator
- NARA RG 19/RG 24 Entry 118 series; Bethlehem-Hingham construction/conversion records; reserve-fleet inactivation files; MAP transfer files (undigitized)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Archival leads for hull-level material documentation not yet retrieved: (1) NARA RG 19 holds BuShips per-vessel specifications and ships-data books covering DE-598's construction and its APD-108 conversion, both executed at Bethlehem-Hingham; (2) NARA Bureau of Ships still-picture holdings include identified photographs of this hull (BS 86504, off Boston 11 June 1945); (3) NARA RG 24 deck logs cover the commissioned period (Caribbean shakedown, North Pacific weather-station supply runs incl. Petropavlovsk, Green Cove Springs inactivation) and record yard availabilities; (4) Green Cove Springs inactivation/INSURV records and the 1966 striking/MAP-transfer files document material condition at disposal; (5) ROK Navy records for Ah San (1966-84) would hold any service-era material modifications - outside U.S. custody.
- Verification
- unverified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-28
- Study period
- 1944-1984 (records); 2026 (lead status)
- Limitations
- Leads only - none of these holdings were pulled or digitized; contents unknown. They establish nothing about materials aboard. NARA catalog returns an SPA shell to programmatic fetches (same standing limitation as prior batches); per-vessel digitization status of the RG 24 deck-log series is unverified.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-harry-l-corl-de598-08