Evidence
14 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-14).
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[1]research packet 1095-packet.md (3 sources cited) [other_primary]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERIFIED
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-justice-yp678-pkt-1095-packet-md
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[2]NavSource Online: Service Ship Photo Archive, YP-678 page - construction timeline, specifications, disposal, civilian-program note (live page verified; navsource.org domain is dead, navsource.net is correct) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource 14/31678.htm header block, specifications block, photo captions (images 143167802-05), DANFS note
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Documented for this hull: YP-676 Class Training Craft built by Peterson Builders, Sturgeon Bay, WI; contract awarded 25 May 1983; laid down 12 December 1983; launched 3 November 1984; delivered and placed in service at the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD, 13 May 1985; struck from the Naval Register 20 November 1998; sold 4 May 1999; 'Acquired for use as an alternative to juvenile detention ("USS Justice") at Norfolk, VA, date unknown'; offered for sale at $30,000 on Craigslist, August 2014; last noted derelict at Chesapeake, VA. Specifications: 176 tons (max.), 108' length, 24' beam, 8' draft, 12 kts, complement 2 officers + 4 enlisted, range 1,800 nm, two 12V-71N Detroit diesel engines, two propellers, 437 shp @ 2,100 rpm. Header displays National Defense Service Medal ribbon. Photo captions document the hull downbound on the St. Lawrence River off Vercheres, Quebec, 6 July 1987 (Great Lakes midshipman cruise with three sisters) and moored at Norfolk, VA, 25 May 2002 under the painted name 'Judgement'. Page states no DANFS history record exists for YP-678.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-05
- Study period
- 1983-2014
- Population
- Peterson Builders construction trades (1983-85); permanent crew and rotating midshipman trainees (1985-98); TEP/AMI cadets and staff (civilian program); USS Saipan volunteers (March 2001)
- Limitations
- NavSource is a volunteer secondary compilation, not a primary registry - milestone dates track NVR-style data and are corroborated here by the shipbuildinghistory.com yard table (ev-02), but no primary registry page exists for this hull (NVR carries no entry). Contains no asbestos content. The 'USS Justice'/'Judgement' naming and 1996 program-start claim conflict across sources - see ev-08.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-justice-yp678-01
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[3]Shipbuilding History (Tim Colton compilation), Peterson Builders yard table, Sturgeon Bay, WI (live page verified) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Peterson Builders table, '7 Training Craft (YP)' block, YP-678 row
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Corroborating yard-production record: Peterson Builders, Sturgeon Bay, built a run of seven-plus 108-ft, 176-ton YP training craft for the U.S. Navy beginning with YP-676 (delivered 14 Nov 1984); the table lists YP-678 delivered 13 May 1985 and 'sold 1999', matching the NavSource timeline. Sisters YP-676 through at least YP-682 built at the same yard 1984-85.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-05
- Study period
- 1983-1999
- Population
- Peterson Builders construction trades (1983-85)
- Limitations
- Secondary compiled yard table, not a primary record - used only to corroborate builder, delivery date, and disposal year already sourced to NavSource. No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-justice-yp678-02
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[4]Maritime Reporter, 'Peterson Builders Offers 56-page Review Of 50 Years Of Boatbuilding' (October 1983) [reputable_press]
- Locator
- Maritime Reporter October 1983 issue, Peterson Builders item
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Period trade-press confirmation of the construction program: writing in October 1983, five months after this hull's contract award, Maritime Reporter lists Peterson Builders' Navy backlog as including '108-foot wooden Yard Patrol craft' - confirming the wooden-hull construction of the YP-676 class run then in progress at Sturgeon Bay.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-10-05
- Study period
- 1983
- Population
- Peterson Builders construction trades
- Limitations
- Class/program-level trade-press item, not a hull record - does not name YP-678. Establishes wooden construction of the class under contract in 1983; no material or asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-justice-yp678-03
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[5]U.S. Naval Academy, Naval Architecture & Ocean Engineering course document EN400, 'YP-676 & YP-703: Yard Patrol Class' (specification sheet and profile drawing) [other_primary]
- Locator
- USNA EN400 PDF, YP-676/YP-703 comparison table and class roster note
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Official USNA course document giving YP-676 class characteristics: length 108 ft LOA / 102 ft LPP; beam 24 ft; draft 8 ft; speed 12 kt; range 1,800 nm; propulsion 12V-71N Detroit diesel (437 SHP @ 2,100 rpm), 2 propellers; crew 2 officers, 4 crew, 24 midshipmen. The document's roster of then-current YP-676 class craft (676, 681, 683, 684, 686-692, 694, 695, 698, 700, 701) does not include YP-678 - consistent with her November 1998 striking, years before the YP-703 class comparison was written.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-10-05
- Study period
- document date (post-2008, references YP-703 class)
- Population
- USNA permanent crews and midshipman trainees (class-wide)
- Limitations
- Class specification, not a hull record - YP-678 is not named in the document; class figures describe the type. The class roster reflects craft in service at document date and corroborates (does not establish) the 1998 disposal. No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-justice-yp678-04
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[6]NAVSEA news release, 'U.S. Navy Partners with U.S. Coast Guard for Service Life Extension Work' (YP-676 class SLEP, USCG Yard Baltimore) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NAVSEA article body (SLEP description; USNA mission paragraph)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Official NAVSEA description of the class and mission: 'USNA has used the 108-foot wooden-hulled YP craft to teach familiarization with water craft, basic damage control, and provide underway instruction of basic to advanced seamanship and navigation.' Planned SLEP work at the USCG Yard 'will impact nearly every portion of the craft from wooden hull repair work to overhaul and modernization of the propulsion and electric generating equipment.' Article states the craft 'were originally delivered to the USNA ... from 1986-1988.'
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-10-05
- Study period
- 2017-2020 (SLEP); 1985-1998 (this hull's service era)
- Population
- USNA midshipmen and YP permanent crews (class-wide); USCG Yard Baltimore trades (SLEP scope, other hulls)
- Limitations
- Class-level program release; does not name YP-678, and the 1986-1988 delivery window describes the later (post-1985) boats in the SLEP population - YP-678's documented delivery is 13 May 1985 and she was struck 1998, before this program. Establishes wooden hull and diesel propulsion of the type; no asbestos content - the SLEP scope list contains no ACM or abatement mention.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-justice-yp678-05
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[7]NHHC archives, USS Saipan (LHA-2) CY2001 Command History (OPNAVINST 5750.12G annual report) - ARCHIVED COPY; live history.navy.mil URL returned 404 on 2026-10-05 [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- Saipan CY2001 command history, 30 March chronology entry and March narrative paragraph (NHHC command-operation-reports collection, saipan-lha-2-ii/pdf/2001.pdf)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Primary Navy document for the civilian-program phase: chronology entry 30 March 2001 records 'Deck Department participates in community relations project renovating and painting the exterior of a former Navy Yard Patrol (YP) boat.' Narrative: 'During the last week of March, USS SAIPAN Deck Department personnel began work on a unique community relations project -- renovating and painting the exterior of a fornier [former] Navy Yard Patrol boat, the USS Judgement (YP 678). The 80-foot long vessel, berthed at the Nauticus National Maritime Center piers in downtown Norfolk, VA, was being used by the Virginia Department of Juvenile Justice for the Tidewater Environmental Program, a local area substance abuse treatment facility which houses non-violent male juvenile offenders ages 16-19. In just over a week, Deck Department volunteers spent over 500 man-hours sanding, painting and polishing the YP boat, and completed the project just days before the grand opening ceremony of the battleship USS Wisconsin (BB 64), which was also located on the Nauticus National Maritime Center piers.'
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-05
- Study period
- 2001
- Population
- USS Saipan Deck Department volunteers (~500 man-hours, March 2001); TEP/AMI juvenile cadets ages 16-19 and staff; Virginia Department of Juvenile Justice program
- Limitations
- Ship-specific history only - the command history contains no asbestos, hazmat, or material content. It documents a March 2001 maintenance-disturbance event (sanding/painting of the hull exterior by ~volunteer sailors) but establishes nothing about ACM aboard. The report's '80-foot' length conflicts with the documented 108-ft class length - see gaps. Uses the name 'Judgement', conflicting with 'Justice' in other sources - see ev-08. Archived Wayback copy cited because the live NHHC URL returns 404.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-justice-yp678-06
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[8]Points of Light Foundation, Daily Point of Light award entry 2148 for USS Saipan (LHA-2), Norfolk, VA (posted 29 April 2002) [reputable_press]
- Locator
- Points of Light award entry text, paragraphs 2-3
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Independent institutional corroboration of the civilian program under the 'Justice' name: 'the Virginia Department of Juvenile Justice requested assistance renovating one of its private provider correctional facilities - the USS Justice (YP-678), a former U.S. Navy Yard Patrol training boat. Used by the Tidewater Environmental Program (TEP) since 1996 as an "alternative sentencing" program for non-violent male juvenile offenders ages 16-19 requiring substance abuse treatment, Justice serves as a 17-bed treatment facility and classroom... Operated by Associated Marine Institutes, Justice is located in downtown Norfolk on the piers at the Nautilus [Nauticus] National Maritime Center.' Confirms the same March 2001 Saipan volunteer preservation event (500+ man-hours) before USS Wisconsin's grand opening.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-05
- Study period
- 1996/1999-2002 (program window per source)
- Population
- TEP/AMI cadets (17-bed facility) and staff; Saipan volunteers (March 2001)
- Limitations
- Nonprofit award write-up, not a primary record - corroborates the program, operator, and location documented in the Navy command history (ev-06). The 'since 1996' claim conflicts with the documented 1999 Navy sale (see gaps); the '80-foot' length and 'Nautilus' spelling are also imprecise. No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-justice-yp678-07
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[9]Name cross-check: NHHC Saipan CY2001 command history ('USS Judgement (YP 678)'); Points of Light entry ('USS Justice (YP-678)'); NavSource caption (hull painted 'Judgement', Norfolk, 25 May 2002); NavSource text ('USS Justice'); shipbuildinghistory table ('Unnamed') [other_primary]
- Locator
- ev-06, ev-07, ev-01 locators as cited; shipbuildinghistory table 'Unnamed' name column
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- CORRECTION: this craft was never named by the Navy - YP craft are unnamed in-service service craft identified by number only ('Unnamed' in the Peterson yard table). 'USS Justice' and 'USS Judgement' are later unofficial civilian-program names that appear in sources in both spellings: the Virginia Department of Juvenile Justice facility was styled 'Justice' in the Points of Light entry while the Navy's own Saipan command history and the name photographed on the hull in 2002 read 'Judgement'. 'USS' is doubly inapt - the craft was never commissioned. The only commissioned Navy name Justice was the unrelated rescue tug ATR-20/HMS Justice (W-140).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- correction
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-05
- Study period
- 1999-2002 (civilian program period)
- Limitations
- Corrects name attribution, not a material claim. Both civilian name forms are documented; whether the program formally used one and the other is an error cannot be resolved from the located sources. No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-justice-yp678-08
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[10]GAO, Navy Efforts To Protect Workers From Asbestos Exposure, HRD-80-2 (Oct 18, 1979) [gao]
- Locator
- GAO product page HRD-80-2 (full text blocked, HTTP 403)
- Finding type
- gov_survey
- Finding
- Era documentation bearing on this hull: GAO documented that the Navy used asbestos insulation extensively aboard ships but did not begin substituting alternative insulation materials until the early 1970s - i.e., the substitution era predates this hull's 1983 contract and 1984-85 construction, so the generic 'all Navy ships contained asbestos' era inference that applies to pre-1970s hulls does not transfer to this craft.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-10-05
- Study period
- 1979 (report); substitution era early 1970s
- Population
- Navy shipyard workers; asbestos program review
- Limitations
- Program-level documentation; supports era context only, not any fact specific to this hull - and here the context cuts toward reduced (not zero) expectation of original-build asbestos. Full text not retrieved (gao.gov blocks automated fetch, HTTP 403) - content via product-page description. Substitution timing is program-level and does not prove what materials were installed in this hull.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-justice-yp678-09
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[11]Era inference built on: USNA EN400 class specification (diesel plant, class dimensions); NAVSEA program description (108-ft wooden-hulled craft); Maritime Reporter 1983 (wooden YP construction at Peterson); GAO HRD-80-2 (Navy substitution era began early 1970s) [other_primary]
- Locator
- ev-04 (USNA spec), ev-05 (NAVSEA description), ev-03 (Maritime Reporter), ev-09 (GAO)
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Asbestos-relevant profile of a 1980s wooden-hulled diesel training craft: no steam plant, so no boiler or steam-line lagging pathway; wooden hull structure rather than insulated steel; diesel exhaust, gaskets, valve packing, electrical insulation, and friction materials (brake-type applications) are the only era-standard residual application classes, and post-early-1970s Navy substitution practice reduces the expectation that even those contained asbestos in original construction. No applications are documented aboard this hull.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-10-05
- Study period
- 1983-present
- Population
- Peterson Builders construction trades (1983-85); permanent crew and midshipman trainees (1985-98); civilian-program occupants and maintainers (1999+); later handlers/scrappers (disposition unknown)
- Limitations
- Era/class inference only - no hull-specific insulation survey, material list, or work package located for YP-678. Unlike pre-1970s records in this batch, the inference here cannot presume asbestos presence; it bounds only what applications could plausibly have existed. No quantity, no manufacturer attribution, no present-day condition.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-justice-yp678-10
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[12]Archival leads: DoD photograph DN-ST-87-07228 (CWO4 Walter E. Hamler), YP-678 passing in review on the Severn River during USNA commissioning week, 11 May 1987 (photo ID quoted in secondary photo post); NARA RG 330 Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files (DN-ST series); NARA RG 24 in-service craft records [other_primary]
- Locator
- DN-ST-87-07228 (NARA RG 330, unverified this session); catalog.archives.gov (JS-rendered, unfetchable)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- A DoD photograph of this specific hull exists: photo DN-ST-87-07228 shows YP-678 passing in review on the Severn River during commissioning week activities at the U.S. Naval Academy on 11 May 1987 (photo ID per secondary photo caption; the DN-ST series resides in NARA RG 330 still-picture holdings). Deck-log-level operational detail for the 1985-98 USNA service period, if extant, would sit in NARA textual holdings - neither was retrievable this session (catalog.archives.gov is JS-rendered; no direct verification).
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-05
- Study period
- 1987; service period 1985-1998
- Population
- Crew and midshipmen (May 1987)
- Limitations
- Archival lead only - the photo's existence and caption text are transmitted through a secondary source (photo-sharing post); the NARA catalog page could not be fetched for independent verification. Physical-presence documentation, not a work or material record. No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-justice-yp678-11
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[13]S.E.A. Solutions Corporation v. M/V YP 678, No. 2:10-cv-00068 (E.D. Va.; filed 2010-02-09, terminated 2010-04-13; assigned Judge Mark Steven Davis, referred Magistrate F. Bradford Stillman; PACER case id 250819; suit nature code 120 Marine contract actions) [court_record]
- Locator
- CourtListener docket 60757411 (E.D. Va. 2:10-cv-00068); suit nature '120 Marine contract actions'
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- One federal docket names this hull: S.E.A. Solutions Corporation v. M/V YP 678 (E.D. Va. 2010) - an in rem marine contract action (suit nature code 120) filed against the vessel during her civilian ownership period, consistent with a shipwright/repair or necessaries lien by a Norfolk marine services company against the then-laid-up hull. Filed 9 February 2010, terminated 13 April 2010 - a short-lived civil contract dispute, NOT an asbestos or personal-injury case.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-05
- Study period
- 2010
- Limitations
- Classified at face value per docket metadata: a marine contract action is other litigation, not exposure evidence - no party, allegation, or finding in this docket concerns asbestos, and the record does not establish or defeat any exposure claim. Docket metadata only; underlying filings not retrieved. Docket post-dates Navy ownership by a decade and concerns the civilian-period hull.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-justice-yp678-13
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[14]Batch-9286 search ledger (this record): NavSource; shipbuildinghistory.com; Maritime Reporter (1983); USNA EN400 PDF; NAVSEA SLEP release; NHHC Saipan CY2001 command history (Wayback); Points of Light; NVR; DANFS; NARA catalog; secondary web sweep; CourtListener (partial - hull-number queries complete, name queries paced) [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-justice-yp678-01 through -12
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, or asbestos litigation naming YP-678 (or USS Justice/Judgement) was found in the public sources searched (see search_ledger). CourtListener hull-number coverage IS complete this session: 'YP-678' returned zero opinions and one docket - S.E.A. Solutions Corp. v. M/V YP 678 (E.D. Va. 2010), a marine contract action, not an exposure case (ev-13). CAVEAT: the two exact-name 'USS Justice' queries could not be completed - the authenticated helper returned the fleet pacing stand-down (exit 2); logged as blocked, not as a negative result, and 'USS Justice' is a high-collision phrase in any event. No NIOSH/OSHA/EPA or state record naming this hull or the Peterson Builders yard was located; the only 'asbestos' content attaching to YP-676-class craft in secondary search is law-firm marketing material asserting asbestos without primary sourcing - excluded by source policy.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-05
- Study period
- 2026-10-05
- Limitations
- Absence of a located public record does not prove absence of asbestos aboard - residual gaskets/packing/electrical materials of the era could still be relevant, and the litigation repository search remains a genuine open gap (paced, not run to completion). Conversely, for this 1985 wooden diesel hull the era context does not presume presence either. Does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-justice-yp678-12