Evidence
11 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-11).
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[1]research packet bx-packet.md (1 sources cited) [other_primary]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERIFIED. (Namesake
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-jicarilla-at104-pkt-bx-packet-md
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[2]DANFS, Jicarilla (ATF-104) - Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships Vol. III/IV; verbatim transcription via NavSource 'USS Jicarilla (ATF-104)' page (embedded DANFS block) and cyber-corredera.de 'ARC Bahia Solano' page [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- NavSource 09/39/39104 DANFS transcription + timeline + spec block; mirror transcription https://www.cyber-corredera.de/buques/ARC_Bahia_Solano.html; canonical NHHC DANFS URL (history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/j/) returned 404 on 2026-09-26
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS 'Jicarilla (ATF-104)' entry (verbatim transcription; live NHHC page 404s) gives identity, spec block, and full operational chronology: laid down 25 Aug 1943 as AT-104 by Charleston Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., Charleston, SC; launched 25 Feb 1944, sponsored by Mrs. R. L. Harley; reclassified ATF-104 on 15 May 1944; commissioned at Charleston Navy Yard 26 Jun 1944, Lt. Comdr. W. B. Coats. WWII service: shakedown Chesapeake Bay; New York to San Francisco via Panama Canal towing barges (departed 9 Aug 1944, arrived 22 Sep); towed ARD-27 to Pearl Harbor; Hawaiian salvage/towing incl. pulling SS Antigua off a reef 14-21 Oct; Pearl Harbor to Eniwetok/Ulithi (arrived 3 Dec); TF 38 refueling group - rode out Typhoon Cobra 17-18 Dec 1944, the storm that sank three destroyers; Leyte 7 Jan 1945; Lingayen Gulf convoy 9 Jan, salvage and firefighting on damaged/beached landing craft at Mangarin Bay to 22 Jan; towed floating drydock Ulithi to Okinawa (sailed 9 Apr); salvage on kamikaze-damaged ships at Kerama Retto from 16 Apr; Hagushi beaches towing/salvage from 13 Jun; Wakayama occupation towing from 25 Sep; ARL-32 salvage at Iwo Jima 4 Dec; Marshalls/Carolines towing; Pearl Harbor 24 Apr 1946; Operation Crossroads support, Marshall Islands, summer 1946; returned to US 14 Sep 1946; West Coast/Canal Zone towing; Bremerton to Far East 23 Jan 1947; Tsingtao, China towing/salvage supporting Marines ashore from 17 Jun 1947; Long Beach 18 Feb 1948; Yokosuka 25 Jan 1949; Long Beach 19 Aug 1949; decommissioned San Diego 14 Jun 1950, Pacific Reserve Fleet; transferred to Maritime Administration Aug 1962, NDRF Suisun Bay. Two battle stars for WWII service (Luzon/Lingayen Gulf; Okinawa Gunto).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Study period
- 1943-1962
- Population
- Crew 85 (5 officers, 80 enlisted, NavSource spec block); shipyard workers at Charleston SB&DD and Charleston Navy Yard
- Limitations
- Official ship history; establishes identity, construction, campaign/service chronology, and awards (2 battle stars). Contains no asbestos, insulation-material, or hazardous-material statement - this row supports no asbestos claim. DANFS text ends at the 1962 MARAD transfer (entry written while ship was in NDRF custody); post-1962 events come from MARAD/NavSource/press rows.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-jicarilla-at104-01
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[3]U.S. Maritime Administration, Vessel History Database, JICARILLA (ATF-104), vessel detail 2502 [marad_nrc]
- Locator
- MARAD vessel-history detail page, Milestones table (Entry/Acquisition 8/21/1962; Disposition/Withdrawal 3/15/1979, 'CUST 1963 NDRF 1962'); Documents tab JICARILLA.pdf
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- MARAD Vessel History Database record 'JICARILLA (ATF-104)' (Detail/2502): year built 1944; shipyard Charleston Shipbuilding and Dry Dock; type Naval Auxiliary / ATF Fleet Ocean Tug; length 205 ft, beam 38.5 ft, displacement 1,675 t summer / 1,240 t lightweight; fate 'Sold - U.S. Operation'; milestones - Entry and Acquisition 8/21/1962, Disposition and Withdrawal 3/15/1979 with annotation 'CUST 1963 NDRF 1962'. No historical narrative posted; an image-scan status-card document (JICARILLA.pdf) is attached.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Study period
- 1962-1979
- Population
- NDRF caretaker and sales-preparation crews (1962-1979)
- Limitations
- Official custody/disposal record; establishes the 1962 NDRF entry and 1979 disposal dates only - contains no asbestos, survey, or hazmat content. 'Sold - U.S. Operation' is the MARAD outcome category for this Security Assistance cash sale to Colombia (NavSource: sold 1 Mar 1979; MARAD disposition 15 Mar 1979 - dates differ by two weeks, logged in gaps). The scanned status card is an image-only document, not text-extracted in this pass.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-jicarilla-at104-02
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[4]Naval History and Heritage Command, DANFS, 'Narraguagas (AOG-32)' (live NHHC page) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS Narraguagas entry, wartime chronology paragraph covering 8 June 1945 TU 30.9.23 composition
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Live NHHC DANFS entry for Narraguagas (AOG-32) names this hull directly: in TU 30.9.23 (Lt. Cmdr. Eugene G. Sheasby aboard fleet tug Tolowa ATF-116 as OTC), the June 1945 Okinawa-bound convoy included 'Tolowa's sister ship Jicarilla (ATF-104), towing BRL-3071' - a canonical NHHC source confirming the hull's identity, its sister-ship relationship to Tolowa (Abnaki class), and the June 1945 Okinawa tow per DANFS.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Study period
- 1945-06
- Limitations
- Corroborating mention in another ship's official history; establishes presence in the June 1945 Okinawa convoy and sister-ship status to ATF-116. No asbestos or material statement. The ship's own NHHC DANFS page is unreachable (404) - see gaps.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-jicarilla-at104-03
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[5]Las Vegas Review-Journal (2020-05), 'Explorers film wreck of iconic USS Nevada in Pacific Ocean', quoting the official U.S. Navy photograph caption; NavSource ATF-104 photo caption 'Jicarilla towing Nevada, 1948' [reputable_press]
- Locator
- Review-Journal article photo caption block; NavSource 09/39/39104 image table
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Official U.S. Navy photograph caption record: 'The USS Nevada's departure from Pearl Harbor under tow by the USS Jicarilla on July 26, 1948. Bearing the scars of two atomic blasts, the Nevada is about to be bombed and shelled by ships and aircraft for four days before sinking.' Jicarilla towed the ex-Operation Crossroads target battleship Nevada (BB-36) to sea for the four-day exercise that sank her on 31 July 1948 off Pearl Harbor. NavSource carries the companion caption 'USS Jicarilla towing Nevada, 1948.'
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Study period
- 1948-07
- Population
- Jicarilla towing crew (1948)
- Limitations
- Establishes the documented tow of a radiologically contaminated ex-target hulk - a radiological, not asbestos, context; no asbestos statement attaches to this event. Crossroads support (1946) is separately documented in the DANFS row.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-jicarilla-at104-04
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[6]U.S. General Accounting Office, HRD-80-2, 'Navy Efforts To Protect Workers From Asbestos Exposure' (Oct 18, 1979; released Oct 22, 1979) [gao]
- Locator
- GAO product page highlights; report letter text passages as indexed (gao.gov PDF serves 403 to automated fetches - same standing block as Batch-01)
- Finding type
- gov_survey
- Finding
- GAO report HRD-80-2 (published 1979-10-18), 'Navy Efforts To Protect Workers From Asbestos Exposure': reviews the Navy's asbestos-protection program with fieldwork at Long Beach and Norfolk Naval Shipyards, and carries the Navy's own enumeration of shipboard asbestos applications of the era - thermal insulation for machinery and equipment, gaskets and packing in shipboard piping systems, brakes and clutches on ship equipment, electronic equipment, deck tiling, galley ranges - stating 'there are so many uses of asbestos that it is nearly impossible to build a Navy [ship]' without it. Also documents the 1973 asbestos-free insulation specification change, the October 1975 elimination policy, and asbestos-insulated deliveries continuing to May 1978.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Study period
- 1940s-1979 (policy window)
- Limitations
- Program-level review; does not name this hull. Establishes that WWII-era Navy construction used the enumerated asbestos applications - consistent era context for this 1943-44 hull - but cannot prove specific materials aboard this vessel. The documented 1975/1979 removal policies postdate this ship's 1950 decommissioning and 1962-63 custody transfer, so no Navy-era abatement is implied.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-jicarilla-at104-05
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[7]Delaware DNREC news release (2017-04-12) 'Famed ship Zuni/Tamaroa cleared by EPA, USCG to be sunk'; NJDEP news release 17/P42 (2017-05-10) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NJDEP 17/P42 and DNREC 2017-04-12 release text, environmental-preparation paragraphs
- Finding type
- environmental_record
- Finding
- Documented modern reef-preparation standard applied to a sister-type hull: sister fleet tug USS Zuni (AT-95/ATF-95, Cherokee class, the same 205-ft Navajo-family diesel-electric design), later USCGC Tamaroa, was sunk 10 May 2017 on the Del-Jersey-Land reef only after 'extensive environmental preparation' at a Norfolk shipyard - 'interior paneling and insulation were removed and the ship was thoroughly cleaned of fuel and hydraulic fluids,' with environmental tests approved by EPA and USCG (Delaware DNREC, 12 Apr 2017; NJDEP 17/P42, 10 May 2017).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Study period
- 2017
- Population
- Reef-prep contractor crews (Coleen Marine, Norfolk VA, 2017)
- Limitations
- Documents the hazmat scope of a modern US reef sinking for the sister hull type - not this hull. Neither release says 'asbestos'; removed 'insulation' and 'paneling' are not fiber-characterized. Establishes the contrast baseline only: Jicarilla's 2004 Colombian sinking documentation contains no equivalent environmental-remediation language (see ev-07).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-jicarilla-at104-06
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[8]El Tiempo (Bogota), 'Adios al Renault 4 de los mares' (2004-04-18), correspondent Edna Patricia Sanchez Otero [reputable_press]
- Locator
- El Tiempo article body - Belalcazar identification paragraph ('Su primer nombre fue USS Jicarilla'), stripping passage, sinking plan
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- El Tiempo (Colombia, 18 Apr 2004) reported the fleet tug ARC Sebastian de Belalcazar at Bahia Malaga awaiting tow 'rumbo a Bahia Solano' for sinking by controlled explosive charges 'para que de vida a un arrecife coralino' (to create a coral reef), and identifies the ship as the former USS Jicarilla: 'Su primer nombre fue USS Jicarilla,' bought by Colombia in 1979 with two similar ships. Reported stripping before sinking: the Armada removed the gun and propeller (installed at the Bahia Malaga base pier as a memorial) and mast, bell, and fittings (base chapel); the article describes no hazardous-material or environmental remediation. Colombian service record in the article: December 1979 tsunami relief at San Juan de la Costa (renamed San Sebastian in the ship's honor); the 14 November 1981 night gun battle sinking the gun-running vessel El Karina.
- Verification
- disputed
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Study period
- 1979-2004
- Population
- Colombian Navy crews (1979-2004); reef-preparation personnel (2004)
- Limitations
- Reputable national press with direct interviews of the ship's officers, but the identification conflicts with US-side mappings: NavSource and fleet lists assign Jicarilla to ARC Bahia Solano (RM-75) and ex-USS Carib (ATF-82) to Sebastian de Belalcazar (RM-73). Whether the 2004 Bahia Solano reef wreck is ex-Jicarilla or ex-Carib is unresolved (see gaps). Article documents ordnance/fitting removal only - no asbestos or hazmat statement either way.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-jicarilla-at104-07
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[9]Batch-2742 search ledger (this record): NHHC DANFS (live 404; transcription mirrors); MARAD vessel history; NHHC sister-entry mention; NVR coverage check; state reef-program releases; Colombian national press; CourtListener (see sl-07); NARA catalog; shipyards.json cross-check; general web sweep [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-jicarilla-at104-01 through sl-uss-jicarilla-at104-13
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, museum record, or court finding naming USS Jicarilla / AT-104 / ATF-104 / ARC Bahia Solano / ARC Sebastian de Belalcazar was found in the public sources searched (see search_ledger). The only asbestos-flagged web hits are law-firm 'Navy ship list' pages naming the ship in a class list - excluded per source rules.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Study period
- 2026-09-26
- Limitations
- Absence of a located public record does not prove absence of asbestos aboard - a 1943-44 Navy-built hull plausibly carried era-standard asbestos applications, and Colombian-era maintenance and reef preparation are undocumented. Equally, no source supports any affirmative exposure claim; status remains unknown/unverified.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-jicarilla-at104-08
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[10]CourtListener API v4 search (authenticated, fleet-paced helper cl-auth-search.py): opinion queries 'Jicarilla'/'ATF-104'/'AT-104'; docket queries 'Jicarilla'/'ATF-104'/'AT-104' - all executed 2026-09-26 [court_record]
- Locator
- CourtListener search result sets: 'Jicarilla' type=o count 1338, type=r count 1465; 'ATF-104' type=o count 0, type=r count 3; 'AT-104' type=o count 24366, type=r count 42983
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- CourtListener authenticated search (2026-09-26): opinions - 'Jicarilla' 1,338 hits, all Jicarilla Apache Nation/Tribe litigation (tribal trust, mineral, tax, and employment matters - e.g., Jicarilla Apache Nation v. United States, Fed. Cl. 02-25L; Jicarilla Apache Nation v. U.S. Dept. of the Interior, D.D.C.) - name collisions only; 'ATF-104' 0 hits; 'AT-104' 24,366 hits, pure token noise (citation fragments, exhibit numbers) with all reviewed results non-ship. Dockets - 'Jicarilla' 1,465 hits, all tribal (Medina v. Jicarilla Apache employment case, D.N.M.; Jicarilla Apache Nation v. Purdue Pharma, JPML opioid MDL; tribal bankruptcy matters); 'ATF-104' 3 hits, all collisions ('ATF' = Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms references - United States v. Clemons criminal case, D. Md.; exhibit references in FG Hemisphere v. Democratic Republic of Congo and Kashef v. BNP Paribas); 'AT-104' 42,983 hits, token noise. Classification: NAME COLLISION / no qualifying case - no opinion or docket naming USS Jicarilla, AT-104, or ATF-104 as a vessel was located.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Study period
- 2026-09-26
- Limitations
- Search covers CourtListener's indexed corpus only; state courts and non-digitized federal dockets are outside coverage. 'Jicarilla' collides heavily with the Jicarilla Apache Nation - a litigation-active tribal entity - so a qualifying asbestos case could exist at low rank below the reviewed results; the combined-context refinement query ('Jicarilla' AND asbestos/ship terms) could not be run before the fleet quota re-throttled. No qualifying hit surfaced in any reviewed result set.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-jicarilla-at104-09
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[11]MARAD JICARILLA.pdf (vesselhistory.marad.dot.gov documents/4af22d7b-0be9-4edd-a0da-9a7f1db1225a.pdf); NARA catalog check for ATF-104 deck logs [other_primary]
- Locator
- MARAD Documents tab; NARA catalog search for Jicarilla deck logs (no ship-log hit located; only unrelated BIA Jicarilla Apache records)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Archival leads indexed but unretrieved: (1) MARAD status-card document 'JICARILLA.pdf' on the vessel-history record - an image-only scan (JPEG2000) not text-extracted in this pass, likely carrying the NDRF custody and sales file detail; (2) NARA RG 24 deck logs for ATF-104 (1944-1950) - not located in the digitized catalog during this search; (3) Charleston Shipbuilding & Dry Dock yard records for hull construction (yard closed postwar); (4) Colombian Armada service records for RM-73/RM-75, the likeliest repository to resolve the pennant identity conflict.
- Verification
- unverified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-26
- Study period
- 1944-1979
- Limitations
- Leads only - none retrieved or text-extracted; content unverified. The status card is the likeliest repository for any NDRF preservation/abatement note; deck logs would document underway maintenance. No asbestos claim attaches.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-jicarilla-at104-10