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, "Industry" (AMc-86) entry [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- Wayback Machine capture, 2014-08-08, of history.navy.mil/danfs/i2/industry.htm (original NHHC URL structure); full entry text
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Official DANFS entry: Industry (AMc-86: dp. 195; l. 97'; b. 21'; dr. 9'1"; s. 10 k.; cpl. 16; a. 2 .50 cal. mg.; cl. Accentor) was laid down 11 May 1941 by F. L. Fulton Shipyard, Antioch, Calif.; launched 6 September 1941; sponsored by Miss June Marken; and placed in service 19 December 1941. Following shakedown training, the wooden-hulled minesweeper sailed for Hawaii, arriving Pearl Harbor 11 March 1942. For more than 2 years the ship swept the channels of Pearl Harbor and Honolulu Harbor. As the Pacific war neared its climax in late 1944, the need for mine locator vessels became acute, and Industry's sweeping equipment was replaced by sound gear and diving equipment for underwater locator work. She commissioned 15 December 1944 and began training with USS Medrick (AMc-203). Industry and two other converted minesweepers departed Pearl Harbor 1 May 1945 and, after stops at Eniwetok, Guam and Saipan, arrived off Okinawa 4 July, where she located and raised mines and sunken Japanese midget submarines. She fought off enemy air raids in July and August, endured a major typhoon in September, and in the violent storm in Buckner Bay on 9 October drove ashore on a reef; her crew kept her afloat until rescue came the next morning. The battered minesweeper was stripped and decommissioned 22 December 1945; the remaining hulk was sunk.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-23
- Study period
- 1941-1945
- Limitations
- Authoritative official Navy history for identity, construction, and WWII service; establishes no asbestos information whatsoever. The live history.navy.mil DANFS pages returned HTTP 404 fleet-wide across this entire session (root domain and multiple known-good DANFS URLs for other hulls also 404'd), so this citation relies on an archived capture rather than the current live page; canonical live NHHC URL still needs re-locating before production use, consistent with the standing link-rot issue noted in BATCH-01.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-industry-amc86-01
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[2]NavSource Naval History, "Industry (AMc 86)", Mine Warfare Vessel Photo Archive [other_primary]
- Locator
- Wayback Machine capture, 2024-05-28, of navsource.org/archives/11/03086.htm; specifications table and career summary
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NavSource Online (Mine Warfare Vessel Photo Archive) compiled record for Industry (AMc 86): Accentor-class coastal minesweeper, call sign Nan-Uncle-Peter-Easy; laid down 11 May 1941 by F. L. Fulton Shipyard, Antioch, CA; launched 6 September 1941; placed in service 19 December 1941; decommissioned in late 1944 to replace sweep gear with sound gear and diving equipment for underwater locator work; recommissioned 15 December 1944; driven ashore 9 October 1945 during Typhoon Louise at Buckner Bay, Okinawa; stripped and decommissioned 22 December 1945; struck from the Naval Register 8 January 1946; hulk destroyed August 1946. Specifications given: displacement 205 tons; length 97'1"; beam 22'; draft 9'1"; speed 10 kts; complement 17; armament one .50 cal. machine gun; propulsion one 400 bhp Atlas 6 HM-2124 diesel engine, one shaft. Lists LTJG H. J. Scullin, USNR, as commanding officer in 1945.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- correction
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-23
- Study period
- 1941-1946
- Limitations
- NavSource is a privately compiled naval-history reference, not an official Navy or federal record; it is the only located source for the strike date (8 January 1946), hulk-destruction date (August 1946), and the recommissioning framing (brief 1944 decommission to re-equip) that clarifies the DANFS phrase 'she commissioned 15 December 1944.' Its specifications (205 t displacement, 22' beam, complement 17, one .50 cal. mg., Atlas diesel propulsion) conflict with DANFS (195 t, 21' beam, cpl. 16, two .50 cal. mg.) and are NOT merged into the DANFS figures carried elsewhere in this record - both are preserved separately; see gaps. Contains no asbestos, materials, or condition information; supports no asbestos claim.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-industry-amc86-02
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[3]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 World War II generally - the era and wartime-expansion program under which Industry's parent class of small craft was built and converted - and that wartime demand drove unprecedented asbestos utilization across U.S.-built and -converted hulls of the period.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-23
- Study period
- 1940s era documented; article published 1987
- Population
- WWII shipyard workers and small-craft crews (era context)
- Limitations
- Program/era-level scholarly documentation of asbestos use in WWII shipbuilding generally; does not name this vessel, its builder (F. L. Fulton Shipyard), or the Accentor class specifically, and does not establish that asbestos was or remains aboard this hull, nor quantity, location, condition, exposure, or causation. This is a weaker showing than a class-specific technical document (no Accentor-class or Fulton Shipyard construction/outfitting manual was located), so it is classified context_only at the record level rather than class_or_era.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-industry-amc86-03
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[4]CourtListener API v4 search (opinion and RECAP/docket types), queries: "USS Industry"; "USS Industry" AMc-86; AMc-86 (via fleet-authenticated helper, cl-auth-search.py) [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-industry-amc86-05 through sl-uss-industry-amc86-07
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos litigation record located. CourtListener opinion search for the exact phrase "USS Industry" returned zero results; a combined opinion search for "USS Industry" AMc-86 returned zero results. A RECAP/docket search for "USS Industry" AMc-86 returned exactly one hit: National Rifle Association of America (Chapter 11), Bankr. N.D. Tex., docket 21-30085 - an unrelated NRA bankruptcy proceeding with no vessel, maritime, or asbestos subject matter; classified as a name/token collision within a large multi-document exhibit filing, not a qualifying case. A bare hull-number search ("AMc-86" alone, no ship name) returned 772 unrelated results (the hyphenated hull number tokenizes and false-matches unrelated docket numbers, citations, and page references) and was discarded as non-qualifying noise, not evaluated hit-by-hit. "Industry" alone is a high-collision common word, so no unqualified single-word search was performed.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-23
- Study period
- 2026-09-23
- Limitations
- Absence of a located public opinion or docket does not prove absence of litigation or of asbestos aboard - unindexed filings, sealed records, and state-court cases outside CourtListener's coverage would not surface here. 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-industry-amc86-04
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[5]NARA Guide to Federal Records: RG 19 (Bureau of Ships), RG 24 (deck logs), RG 38 (CNO war diaries) [other_primary]
- Locator
- https://www.archives.gov/research/guide-fed-records/groups/024.html ; https://www.archives.gov/research/guide-fed-records/groups/038.html
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Archival lead (not retrieved - requires research-room visit or reproduction order; no spend authorized): NARA RG 19 (Records of the Bureau of Ships, successor to the Bureau of Construction and Repair) may hold Fulton Shipyard conversion/outfitting specifications for the Accentor-class trawler-to-minesweeper conversions; RG 24 (Records of the Bureau of Naval Personnel / deck logs collection, transferred via NHHC) would hold Industry's deck logs 1941-1945 if they survive; RG 38 (Records of the Chief of Naval Operations) holds war diaries for the 1945 Okinawa mine-locator operations period.
- Verification
- unverified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-09-23
- Study period
- 1941-1945 records
- Limitations
- Record-group mapping only - no box-level retrieval performed; existence of asbestos-specific or conversion-materials documents for this hull or shipyard is unknown until surveyed in person. Nothing in this row is an asbestos finding.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-industry-amc86-05