Evidence
7 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-7).
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[1]research packet h-packet.md (10 sources cited) [marad_nrc]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: **VERIFIED
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-hocking-apa121-pkt-h-packet-md
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[2]Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (DANFS), 'Hocking' entry (hazegray transcription mirror; live NHHC page 404 at time of access) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS 'Hocking' entry (APA-121), full text
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS documents the ship's full identity and service: launched under Maritime Commission contract by California Shipbuilding Co., Wilmington, CA, 6 August 1944, sponsored by Miss Frances Sims; acquired on a loan-charter basis and commissioned 22 October 1944 (Comdr. C. D. Shutz); Iwo Jima assault 19-27 February 1945; Okinawa landings 9-14 April and 27 May 1945; occupation troop lifts to Jinsen, Korea and Shanghai; Operation Magic-Carpet; decommissioned Norfolk 10 May 1946 and laid up with the National Defense Reserve Fleet in the James River; two battle stars. DANFS header data: 6,873 t light, 455', b. 62', dr. 24', 18 k., complement 536, 1x5" gun.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-25
- Study period
- 1944-1946
- Limitations
- Authoritative Navy history text; contains no asbestos, insulation-material, or survey statement. DANFS is the launch-date authority (6 August 1944) against the class profile's 25 July 1944 - conflict logged in gaps. Does not establish any asbestos fact.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-hocking-apa121-01
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[3]NavSource Online Amphibious Photo Archive, USS Hocking (APA-121) entry - reproduces DANFS text plus ship-data sheet and MARAD/NDRF status-card movements [other_primary]
- Locator
- APA-121 entry: build/milestone block, campaign table, NDRF movement block, specifications block
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Status-card-derived record for this hull: laid down 7 June 1944 as Maritime Commission type VC2-S-AP5 (MCV hull 34) at California Shipbuilding Corp., Wilmington; launched 6 August 1944; delivered to the Maritime Commission 21 October 1944; commissioned 22 October 1944 (CDR Charles D. Schutz USNR); TransRon Sixteen / TransDiv Forty-Six; decommissioned Norfolk 10 May 1946; struck from the Naval Register 21 May 1946; returned to the Maritime Commission 22 May 1946 for NDRF lay-up at James River, Lee Hall, VA; withdrawn to A. H. Bull & Co., Inc. 3 October 1955 under a repair-program general agency agreement and returned to the fleet 1 December 1955; sold for scrapping 7 May 1973 to Luria Brothers & Co., Inc. under disposal contract PD-X-975 for $285,989.00, withdrawn 10 May 1973. Ship-data sheet: 1 Joshua Hendy geared turbine, 2 Babcock & Wilcox header-type boilers 465psi/750F, double Joshua Hendy main reduction gears, 8,500 shp, single propeller; complement 56 officers + 480 enlisted; troops 86 officers + 1,475 enlisted.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-25
- Study period
- 1944-1973/74
- Population
- Ship's company 536 + embarked troops (WWII); A. H. Bull & Co. repair-program workforce (1955); Luria Brothers shipbreaking workforce (1973/74)
- Limitations
- Volunteer-compiled archive transcribing official sources (DANFS, NHHC photos, MARAD status cards) - the transcription is unverifiable line-by-line here and its 1973 sale year conflicts with NHHC's May 1974 (logged in gaps). The 1955 repair-program withdrawal is documented as an event but contains no asbestos or work-scope detail. No asbestos statement anywhere on the page.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-hocking-apa121-02
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[4]U.S. Naval Historical Center, Online Library of Selected Images - USS Hocking (APA-121) photo history page (HyperWar/ibiblio mirror of NHHC content, page made 2006-12-21) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- NHHC Online Library page, 'USS Hocking (APA-121), 1944-1974' narrative
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Naval Historical Center photo-history summary for this hull: 'USS Hocking a 6,873-ton (light displacement) Haskell-class attack transport of modified Victory ship design, was built at Wilmington, California. Commissioned in October 1944... inactive for nearly three decades before being sold for scrapping in May 1974.' Confirms identity, service arc (Iwo Jima 19 February 1945; Okinawa reinforcement and casualty evacuation April, May-June, July-August 1945; Korea occupation lifts; two Magic-Carpet voyages; decommission May 1946; James River reserve-fleet lay-up).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-25
- Study period
- 1944-1974
- Limitations
- NHHC summary corroborates the DANFS/NavSource record but gives 'May 1974' for the scrapping sale where NavSource status-card data gives 7 May 1973 - conflict logged in gaps, neither rejected. No asbestos or material content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-hocking-apa121-03
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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); machinery data per NavSource ship-data sheet and BuShips Ships' Data 1945 Vol. 3 class figures [other_primary]
- Locator
- AJIM 11(3):359-373; NavSource APA-121 specifications block
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- The ship was a VC2-S-AP5 Victory-type hull built in 1944 with a geared-steam plant (two B&W header-type boilers at 465 psi/750F, single geared turbine, 8,500 shp) - machinery of the exact type and era that peer-reviewed scholarship documents as extensively asbestos-insulated in WWII U.S. shipbuilding (boiler/turbine insulation, steam-line lagging, gaskets, packing, accommodation insulation, brake linings). The class was built at peak wartime asbestos consumption.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-25
- Study period
- 1944-1974; article 1987
- Population
- Construction trades (California Shipbuilding, Wilmington, 1944); ship's company 1944-46; NDRF caretakers 1946-73/74; 1955 repair-program workforce; 1973/74 shipbreakers
- Limitations
- Class/era inference only - no source names this hull's materials; the Corn & Starr article documents the WWII shipbuilding program generally, not this vessel. Does not establish that asbestos was or remains aboard this hull, nor quantity, location, condition, individual exposure, or causation.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-hocking-apa121-04
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[6]Batch-2190 search ledger (this record): DANFS/hazegray mirror, NHHC Online Library (ibiblio), NavSource, MARAD PMARS, NARA catalog, CourtListener opinion and docket searches [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-hocking-apa121-01 through sl-uss-hocking-apa121-10
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, abatement or repair-scope record, hazmat disclosure, or docketed asbestos case naming USS Hocking or APA-121 was found in the public sources searched (see search_ledger).
- 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 - 1944 construction era and steam plant are consistent with era-typical materials. Does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-hocking-apa121-05
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[7]MARAD NDRF vessel status card for MC hull 34 (source underlying the NavSource disposition entries); NARA RG 19 (Bureau of Ships) and RG 178 (Maritime Commission construction) series; MARAD disposal contract PD-X-975 records [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-hocking-apa121-05, sl-uss-hocking-apa121-06
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Unretrieved primary records exist that could hold hull-level material detail: the MARAD/NDRF status card for MC hull 34 (transcribed in the NavSource entry but not itself digitized in a fetchable public source - pmars.marad.dot.gov not retrievable from this session), NARA ship's-history and construction files, and the PD-X-975 scrapping-contract file.
- Verification
- unverified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-09-25
- Limitations
- Archival lead only - nothing retrieved; these records may contain no asbestos information at all.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-hocking-apa121-06