Evidence
12 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-12).
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[1]Naval History and Heritage Command, Online Library of Selected Images: 'USS Santa Teresa (ID # 3804), 1918-1919. Served as USS Kent (AP-28), 1941-1942' and 'Ernest Hinds (U.S. Army Transport and Hospital Ship, 1941, 1942-1946)' - official ship narratives and photo captions NH 65089-A, NH 85262, NH 98695 (ibiblio.org HyperWar mirror) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- id3804.htm narrative + photo NH 65089-A caption; companion Army page https://ibiblio.org/hyperwar/OnlineLibrary/photos/sh-us-cs/army-sh/usash-ag/e-hinds.htm
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NHHC official ship history (Online Library of Selected Images): USS Santa Teresa (ID-3804), an 8,890-ton transport built in 1918 at Philadelphia as the civilian passenger liner of the same name, was commissioned in mid-November 1918 - a week after the Armistice - and made seven round-trip voyages between the United States and France (Dec 1918-Sep 1919) primarily returning veterans; decommissioned October 1919 and returned to the U.S. Shipping Board (photo caption fixes the date as 7 October 1919); operated commercially as SS Santa Teresa and, after 1936, as SS Kent. The Army purchased Kent in April 1941 and renamed her Ernest Hinds; converted to a troopship at Boston and exercised off Cape Cod before transfer to the Navy in July 1941; served as USS Kent (AP-28) for eight months carrying passengers and cargo along the U.S. East Coast and in the Gulf of Mexico; returned to the Army March 1942 and again became USAT Ernest Hinds; operated as a transport May 1942-Sep 1943 (Alaska trip mid-1942, then U.S.-Hawaii-South Pacific); converted to a hospital ship at San Francisco Sep 1943-Jun 1944; steamed via the Panama Canal to East Coast-Mediterranean service until Sep 1945; reconverted to a transport carrying Jamaican laborers for the WSA; to the U.S. Public Health Service April 1946 as a floating isolation ward at Jacksonville, Fla.; to the Maritime Administration April 1947, laid up Brunswick, Ga.; James River Reserve Fleet April 1948; sold for scrapping May 1957.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-25
- Study period
- 1918-1957
- Limitations
- Official NHHC narrative on the Navy's own Online Library pages (mirrored at ibiblio.org; live history.navy.mil equivalents 404 - documented NHHC link rot). The e-hinds.htm text reads 'returned to the Army in March 1941' - a typographical slip for March 1942 (the same sentence says she served as USS Kent 'for eight months' from July 1941). Contains no asbestos or materials information; supports no asbestos claim.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-kent-ap28-01
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[2]Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (DANFS), 'Kent' entry - transcription at historycentral.com/navy/ap/kent.html [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS Kent entry text reproduced in full at historycentral.com; live history.navy.mil DANFS page returns 404 (checked 2026-09-25; no Wayback capture exists for the k/kent.html paths)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS 'Kent' entry (full transcription): built by William Cramp & Sons Ship & Engine Building Co., Philadelphia, for Grace Lines of New York; operated as a passenger ship between California and the west coast of South America until sold in 1936 to Merchants & Miners Transportation Co., Baltimore, and renamed Kent for Atlantic-coast passenger runs; purchased by the Army April 1941, renamed Ernest Hinds, and converted to a troop transport; transferred to the Navy 21 July 1941 under her previous name of Kent and commissioned at New York 22 July under Comdr. E. J. Kidder; sailed 16 August 1941 for Panama arriving 23 August with military passengers and cargo; cleared Coco Solo C.Z. 29 August and reached New York 5 September; at New York during the Pearl Harbor attack; resumed Atlantic-coast transport duty 22 December, visiting Charleston, Bermuda, and New Orleans before returning to New York 11 February 1942; decommissioned at New York 24 March, turned over to the Army, and struck from the Navy List 8 May 1943; as Ernest Hinds she arrived San Francisco May 1942 and carried troops and supplies to Alaska, Hawaii, the Solomons, New Hebrides, New Caledonia, and Australia; returned to San Francisco September 1943 and was converted to a hospital ship; departed June 1944 for Charleston and East Coast-Europe service; returned to New York September 1945, reconverted to a transport, and transferred to the WSA for Jamaican-laborer runs; to the U.S. Public Health Service April 1946 as a floating isolation ward at Jacksonville; returned to the Maritime Commission, entered the James River Reserve Fleet, and was scrapped in 1957.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-25
- Study period
- 1918-1957
- Limitations
- Verbatim DANFS content carried via an unofficial transcription mirror because the canonical NHHC page is unreachable - standard fallback per batch-01 practice. The entry's wording 'launched as Santa Teresa in November 1918' conflicts with the compiled register (launched 4 Jul 1918) and NHHC's own commissioning photo caption (fitting out 18 Nov 1918) - resolved as completion-vs-launch compression in the correction row. Contains no asbestos or materials information.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-kent-ap28-02
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[3]Shipscribe (Stephen S. Roberts), 'USS Kent (AP-28) Class' - transcription of Ships' Data, U.S. Naval Vessels construction/disposition tables, class notes, and ship notes [other_primary]
- Locator
- AP-28 class page: design/construction/disposition tables, class notes, ship notes for AP-28 KENT; companion photo page (AP-28 photo dated 22 December 1941)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Compiled official Navy register data (Ships' Data, U.S. Naval Vessels transcription): Pass. & Cargo 1918 design; 5,765 t. light / 7,850 t. full; 373.5' oa x 51.5' x 24.4'; machinery vertical quadruple-expansion, 3,300 HP, 1 screw, 14 kts; original armament 4-3"/23 (AP-28, 1941); keel 1917 at William Cramp & Sons; launched 4 Jul 18; acquired from the Army 21 Jul 41; commissioned 22 Jul 41; decommissioned 24 Mar 42; struck 8 May 43; disposal 24 Mar 42 'Army'; Maritime Administration sale 30 Apr 57. Class notes: one of five 110-passenger ships Grace Line ordered in 1916 for New York-west coast of South America service (Santa Ana, Santa Luisa, Santa Teresa at Cramp; Santa Elisa and Santa Leonora at New York Shipbuilding); USSB requisitioned all five on the ways August 1917; after 1928 the four retained ships moved to the Panama Mail New York-San Francisco run; Grace sold Santa Cecilia and Santa Teresa to Merchants & Miners early 1936 (renamed Irwin and Kent); the Army purchased Irwin March and Kent April 1941 and converted them to troopships April-June; AP-28 was one of five commissioned ships (AP-20, 28, 31-33) later returned to the Army for hospital-ship conversion. Ship notes: 'Ex USAT KENT 1941, ex SANTA TERESA 1936 (ID-3804, completed Nov 18). To Army 13 Apr 41. Completed Navy conversion 21 Dec 41. USAT ERNEST HINDS 1942, USAHS ERNEST HINDS 1943. From Army to MC reserve fleet 14 Apr 47. To buyer 20 May 57, scrapped by 15 Aug 58.'
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-25
- Study period
- 1916-1958
- Limitations
- Scholarly compilation faithfully transcribing official Navy register tables and BuShips records; secondary in form, primary-derived in content. Its 'USAT KENT 1941' ship note frames the Army's April 1941 acquisition under the name Kent, with Ernest Hinds coming after the March 1942 return - conflicting with NHHC/DANFS/NavSource framing (rename at purchase); logged in the correction row rather than smoothed. Contains no asbestos or materials information.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-kent-ap28-03
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[4]U.S. Maritime Administration, ShipHistory database - KENT (AP-28) Detail 8891 (incl. status-card scan and NARA-declassified attachments Kent_8891_001/002.pdf) and USAT ERNEST HINDS Detail 1528 [marad_nrc]
- Locator
- ShipHistory Detail 8891 (card image + Documents tab) and Detail 1528; status-card annotation lines partially legible
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- MARAD ShipHistory database records for this hull: (a) KENT (AP-28), Detail 8891 - year built 1918, shipyard William Cramp and Sons Shipbuilding Company, type AP Transport, length 373.75 ft, beam 51.50 ft, fate 'Sold - Scrap'; attached status card reads 'KENT - American - SS - 4,858 (U.S.A.T.)' with handwritten 1941/1942 movement annotations including '...to be taken over by U.S. Army for transport on April 14' (1941) and 1942 entries '2/12 Sld ... (arrived N.O. 1/12 ...)'; (b) USAT ERNEST HINDS, Detail 1528 - same hull (linked name history to KENT AP-28), type USAT Army Transport, 5,341 t. displacement lightweight, fate 'Sold - Foreign Flag Op.'; (c) two NARA-declassified documents attached to the Kent record - State Department-to-OPNAV/USCG message traffic (USCG Form 9619-A, declassified NARA Project NW 63684) reporting that the American steamship KENT (Merchants & Miners Line) stranded in Nassau harbor on the morning of 27 January 1940 while attempting a landing in high wind, and was floated 'apparently unharmed' on 28 January 1940.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-25
- Study period
- 1940-1957
- Limitations
- Authoritative for government custody milestones; milestones tables are empty and the fate fields conflict between the two records ('Sold - Scrap' on the Kent card vs 'Sold - Foreign Flag Op.' on the Ernest Hinds record) - the compiled register's sale/scrapping sequence is adopted (see correction row). Status-card handwriting partially legible. Contains no asbestos or materials information; the 1940 grounding telegrams document a casualty, not a materials condition.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-kent-ap28-04
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[5]NavSource Online: Service Ship Photo Archive, 'USAHS Ernest Hinds ex USAT Ernest Hinds (1942) USS Kent (AP-28) (1941-1942) USAT Santa Teresa (1941) USS Santa Teresa (ID #3804) (1918-1919)' (navsource.org/archives/09/22/22028.htm, Wayback capture 20240524151543) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Wayback Machine capture 2024-05-24 (navsource.org unreachable directly 2026-09-25, connection failure); timeline list and Specifications block
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Compiled service-history record (NavSource, primary-source-captioned photo index, via Wayback capture 2024-05-24): laid down (date unknown) as SS Santa Teresa for Grace Lines at William Cramp & Sons; requisitioned by the U.S. Shipping Board August 1917; launched 4 July 1918; commissioned USS Santa Teresa (ID-3804) 18 November 1918, CDR Benjamin G. Barthalow; decommissioned '10 July 1919' at Philadelphia (disputed - see correction row); struck 7 October 1919; commercial service 1921 (Grace Lines), Panama Mail SS Co. 1931, Merchants & Miners 1936 renamed SS Kent; acquired by U.S. Army Transportation Service 14 April 1941 at Boston and placed in commission as USAT Ernest Hinds; transferred to the Navy 21 July 1941; commissioned USS Kent (AP-28) 22 July 1941 (LCDR Percy S. Hogarth listed - disputed against DANFS's Kidder, see correction row); decommissioned 24 March 1942 at New York; returned to Army and renamed USAT Ernest Hinds; struck from the Naval Register 8 May 1943; converted to a hospital ship at San Francisco; commissioned USAHS Ernest Hinds; reconverted to a transport September 1945; to WSA for USPHS transfer April 1946; Maritime Commission NDRF Brunswick, Ga. 14 April 1947; James River Reserve Fleet, Lee Hall, Va. 14 April 1948; sold for scrapping 20 May 1957 to Bethlehem Steel Corp. and scrapped at Patapsco. Spec table: 5,341 t. lt./8,890 t. fl.; 373'9"; 51'9"; 24'5"; 12 kts; complement 254; troop capacity 751; patient capacity 286; WWI armament 1-5"/51, 1-4"/50, 2-1pdr, 2 MG; WWII armament 4-3"/50, 8-.50cal.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-25
- Study period
- 1917-1958
- Limitations
- Volunteer-compiled secondary record with primary-source photo captions; several data points conflict with the compiled register and DANFS (WWI decommission date, first Navy CO, 3-inch gun caliber, speed, naming chronology) - logged in the correction row; figures used only where corroborated. Contains no asbestos or materials information.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-kent-ap28-05
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[6]Cross-source reconciliation: Shipscribe AP-28 register compilation; NHHC Online Library pages (id3804.htm, e-hinds.htm); DANFS 'Kent' transcription; NavSource 09/22/22028; usmm.org 'Hospital Ships of Army Transport Service' table (secondary); MARAD ShipHistory 8891/1528 [other_primary]
- Locator
- shipscribe class notes/ship notes; e-hinds.htm narrative; id3804.htm NH 65089-A caption; usmm.org/hospital.html table
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Source discrepancies resolved or logged: (a) ARMY NAMING - three variants exist for the 1941 Army identity: shipscribe ship notes read 'Ex USAT KENT 1941... USAT ERNEST HINDS 1942' and class notes say 'KENT got her Army name, ERNEST HINDS, after the Navy returned her in March 1942'; NHHC, DANFS, and the NavSource timeline frame the April 1941 Army purchase as an immediate rename to Ernest Hinds; and NavSource's own ship-name header lists 'USAT Santa Teresa (1941)' - inconsistent with its own timeline. All framings recorded, unresolved. (b) LAUNCH DATE - compiled register and secondary sources give 4 July 1918 with completion in November; DANFS text says 'launched as Santa Teresa in November 1918'; NHHC photo caption shows her 'fitting out' 18 November 1918, the day of commissioning - the November date is completion/commissioning, not launch; 4 July adopted. (c) ARMY ACQUISITION DATE - 13 Apr 41 (shipscribe ship note) vs 14 Apr 41 (NavSource and MARAD card annotation 'to be taken over... April 14'); likely purchase-vs-possession split; both carried. (d) FIRST NAVY CO - DANFS: Comdr. E. J. Kidder; NavSource: LCDR Percy S. Hogarth; unresolved. (e) WWI DECOMMISSION - NavSource '10 July 1919' vs NHHC 'October 1919' and strike/return 7 October 1919; October adopted, NavSource date treated as error. (f) ARMAMENT - 4-3"/23 in 1941 per compiled register vs NavSource 'four single 3"/50'; 14 vs 12 knots; logged. (g) DISPOSAL - MARAD 'Sold - Scrap' (8891) vs 'Sold - Foreign Flag Op.' (1528) and generic 'scrapped 1957' framings vs register chain (MA sale 30 Apr 57, to buyer 20 May 57, scrapped by 15 Aug 58); register chain adopted. (h) PATIENT CAPACITY - 286 (NavSource) vs 288 (usmm.org hospital-ship table, which also gives a first hospital voyage of 14 Jul 44 to Italy); trivial, both noted.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- correction
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-25
- Study period
- 1917-1958
- Limitations
- Reconciles publication-level discrepancies across official and compiled sources; does not affect the hull's identity or service chronology materially. No asbestos content in any reconciled source.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-kent-ap28-06
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[7]Vessel design/conversion record (Shipscribe AP-28 data; DANFS; NHHC) read against period industrial-hygiene documentation: Fleischer et al., 'A health survey of pipe covering operations in constructing naval vessels,' J. Ind. Hyg. Toxicol. 28(1):9-16 (1946), PMID 21016030; Corn & Starr, Am. J. Ind. Med. 11(3):359-373 (1987); Rushworth, Naval Engineers J. 117(2):35-48 (2005) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Design inference anchored on ship-specific machinery type and conversion dates; practice-era anchoring per the cited literature - no source names this hull
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Era/design inference only: the ship was a 1918 steam-powered passenger liner (single-ended boilers; one 3,300-ihp vertical quadruple-expansion reciprocating engine; single screw) rebuilt three times inside the wartime naval-construction system - Army troopship conversion at Boston April-June 1941, Navy transport conversion completed 21 December 1941, and Army hospital-ship conversion at San Francisco September 1943-June 1944. Steam vessels of this era carried magnesia and asbestos-containing insulation on boilers, steam drums, steam lines, and reciprocating machinery, with asbestos in gaskets, packing, and compartment insulation; the 1941-44 conversion windows fall within the shipbuilding system documented as applying asbestos pipe covering to naval vessels.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-25
- Study period
- 1917-1946
- Population
- Construction/conversion trades (Cramp 1917-18; Boston conversion 1941; San Francisco hospital conversion 1943-44); engine-room crew and patients/crew during 1943-45 hospital service (inference only)
- Limitations
- Design- and era-level inference, NOT a hull record - no survey, specification, or testimony documents asbestos aboard this vessel under any name. A 1918 hull predates the WWII-construction cohort most asbestos-shipbuilding literature describes; her 1941 and 1943-44 conversions are the strongest exposure windows but the specific materials used are undocumented. Does not establish quantity, location, presence, exposure, or causation.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-kent-ap28-07
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[8]Fleischer, W.E., Viles, F.J. Jr., Gade, R.L., and Drinker, P., 'A health survey of pipe covering operations in constructing naval vessels,' Journal of Industrial Hygiene and Toxicology 28(1):9-16 (January 1946), PMID 21016030 [other_primary]
- Locator
- PMID 21016030; J. Ind. Hyg. Toxicol. 28(1):9-16
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- U.S. Public Health Service industrial-hygiene study (1944 fieldwork, published January 1946) surveyed pipe-covering operations in the construction of naval vessels and found asbestos pipe covering being fabricated and installed aboard naval vessels by yard insulation workers - the same trade practice in force during this ship's 1941 Navy conversion and 1943-44 hospital-ship conversion.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-25
- Study period
- 1943-1946
- Population
- Shipyard pipe coverers/insulators on naval-vessel work (era context)
- Limitations
- Era- and practice-level documentation: the survey does not name this vessel, does not cover 1918 construction, and does not establish which yards installed which materials on which hulls. It documents that asbestos pipe covering was standard aboard naval vessels under construction/conversion in the mid-1940s - contemporaneous with, not proof about, this hull.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-kent-ap28-08
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[9]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 WWII, the period covering this hull's Army troopship conversion (1941), Navy transport conversion and operations (1941-42), and Army hospital-ship conversion (1943-44).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-25
- Study period
- 1940s era documented; article 1987
- Population
- WWII shipyard workers and ship crews (class context)
- Limitations
- Program/era-level scholarship on WWII shipbuilding generally; does not name this vessel and does not establish that asbestos was or remains aboard this hull, nor quantity, location, condition, exposure, or causation. Applies more directly to the 1941-44 conversion periods than to the 1918 original construction.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-kent-ap28-09
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[10]Rushworth, Denis H., 'The Navy and Asbestos Thermal Insulation,' Naval Engineers Journal 117(2):35-48 (2005), doi:10.1111/j.1559-3584.2005.tb00336.x [other_primary]
- Locator
- EPA HERO reference 3584926; NEJ 117(2):35-48
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Peer-reviewed engineering-society study documents that asbestos was used in U.S. Navy shipboard pipe and machinery thermal insulation and many other shipboard products, that the Navy mandated asbestos content in insulation, gaskets, and packing, and that the most likely source of Navy shipboard exposure was dry, friable thermal insulation - the documented practice environment for this hull's 1941-42 Navy commission and her wartime conversions.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-25
- Study period
- WWII era and after; article 2005
- Population
- Navy ship crews and shipyard insulation workers (class context)
- Limitations
- Era- and program-level documentation centered on WWII and post-WWII Navy ships; does not name this vessel, does not cover her 1918 merchant construction, and does not establish asbestos presence, location, condition, exposure, or causation aboard this hull.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-kent-ap28-10
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[11]NARA Guide to Federal Records: RG 24 (Bureau of Naval Personnel), RG 336 (Office of the Chief of Transportation), RG 90 (Public Health Service); Independence Seaport Museum J. Welles Henderson Archives collection descriptions [other_primary]
- Locator
- archives.gov RG guides 024/336/090 (all verified reachable 2026-09-25); ISM archive collection list (phillyseaport.org library description)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Archival leads (not retrieved - no spend authorized; record-group/collection mapping only): (a) NARA RG 24 (Bureau of Naval Personnel) deck logs for USS Kent (AP-28), July 1941-March 1942, and USS Santa Teresa (ID-3804), 1918-1919; (b) NARA RG 336 (Office of the Chief of Transportation) records for USAT/USAHS Ernest Hinds including 1941 Boston troopship-conversion and 1943-44 San Francisco hospital-ship-conversion contract files - the conversion-yard identities are not named in official texts; (c) NARA RG 90 (Public Health Service) records for the April 1946-April 1947 Jacksonville isolation-ward period; (d) Independence Seaport Museum, J. Welles Henderson Archives - William Cramp & Sons Ship and Engine Building Company Collection (plans, contract books, photographs, 1830-1927, 1941-1946) which may hold hull construction/outfitting specifications for Santa Teresa.
- Verification
- unverified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-09-25
- Study period
- 1917-1958 records
- Limitations
- Record-group and collection mapping only - no box-level retrieval performed; existence of asbestos-specific documents for this hull is unknown until surveyed in person. Nothing in this row is an asbestos finding.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-kent-ap28-11
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[12]Batch-2113 search ledger (this record): NHHC/DANFS + mirrors; MARAD ShipHistory 8891/1528; shipscribe AP-28; NavSource; NVR; CourtListener name/alias/asbestos searches; NARA record-group guides [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-kent-ap28-01 through sl-uss-kent-ap28-16
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, construction/outfitting specification, or docketed asbestos case names this hull under any of its identities (Santa Teresa/ID-3804; Kent/AP-28; Ernest Hinds) in the public sources searched - CourtListener opinion searches for 'USS Kent' and 'Ernest Hinds' (with and without 'asbestos') returned zero hits, 'AP-28' returned 38 citation-fragment collisions (none maritime or asbestos), 'Ernest Hinds' bare returned 9 person-name Tax Court collisions, and 'Santa Teresa' + asbestos returned 3 California land-use collisions; NVR, NPS, and museum channels return nothing (hull scrapped 1957-58); 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 - a 1918 steam liner with wartime conversions is era-consistent with asbestos-containing materials, and scrapping-era disposal files were not surveyed. Does not establish presence or absence; does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-kent-ap28-12