Evidence
10 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-10).
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[1]research packet 956-packet.md [other_primary]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERIFIED
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-lamar-pce899-pkt-956-packet-md
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[2]DANFS, Lamar (PCE-899), Vol. IV p.36 - namesake, builder, dates, weather-patrol and Naval Reserve training service, transfer to Coast Guard (verbatim transcription via live losthistory.net hazegray mirror; live NHHC DANFS page not located - all candidate history.navy.mil URLs returned 404) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS entry 'Lamar' (Vol. IV p.36), spec block + full service narrative
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS record for this hull: named for counties in Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, and Texas. Ordered as PCR-899; laid down as PC-899 on 11 January 1943 by Willamette Iron & Steel Corp., Portland, Oreg.; reclassified PCE-899 28 March 1943; launched 11 August 1943; sponsored by Mrs. Opha McClimans; commissioned 17 March 1945, Lt. Charles E. Pigg, Jr., in command. Spec block: dp. 640; l. 184'6"; b. 33'1"; dr. 9'5"; s. 15.7 k.; cpl. 99; a. 1 3", 3 40mm., 4 20mm., 4 dcp., 2 dct.; cl. PCE-842. Service: shakedown west coast; departed San Pedro 5 May 1945; Guam 12 June, weather station patrols out of Apra Harbor under SerForPac; caretaker status 27 June 1946, active 12 September, Lt. M. H. Seaver; weather patrols Marianas-Carolines out of Guam until 26 August 1948; Pearl Harbor 9 September-22 December; Guam 1 January 1949, five months patrols; departed 1 August, San Diego 27 October, Philadelphia 25 November; decommissioned 16 December 1949, Atlantic Reserve Fleet. Towed to Milwaukee 1950; recommissioned 13 December 1950, Lt. L. C. Riley; 9th Naval District Naval Reserve training ship 13+ years; renamed Lamar (PCE-899) 15 February 1956; cruised upper Great Lakes; 17 August-17 October 1959 training cruise via St. Lawrence River and Nova Scotia to Newport, RI. Completed Great Lakes service 6 April 1964; Philadelphia 28 April; decommissioned 25 May; struck June 1964; transferred to Coast Guard 29 July 1964; commissioned USCGC Lamar (WTR-899), serving into 1969.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-04
- Study period
- 1943-1969
- Population
- Willamette Iron & Steel construction trades (1943-45); crew 1945-49 and 1950-64 (complement 99); Naval Reserve trainees, 9th Naval District, Great Lakes (1950-64)
- Limitations
- Ship-specific history only; no asbestos or material content. DANFS's own text says 'decommissioned 25 May' 1964 - NavSource and the USCG file header read 28 May; conflict carried in gaps. Live NHHC DANFS page not located on 2026-10-04 (all candidate history.navy.mil URLs 404); verbatim transcription cited via the live losthistory.net hazegray mirror.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lamar-pce899-01
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[3]U.S. Coast Guard Historian's Office, cutter file 'Lamar, 1964' (PCR/PC/PCE/WTR-899), sourced from the Cutter History File, USCG HQ + DANFS (archived PDF via Wayback capture 2012-09-27; uscg.mil webcutters directory no longer serves) [other_primary]
- Locator
- USCG Historian's Office cutter file 'Lamar, 1964', PDF pp.1-3 (data block + History section + Sources line)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Official USCG cutter file for this hull: converted for Coast Guard use at the Coast Guard Yard and commissioned there 11 September 1965 as USCGC Lamar (WTR-899), LCDR William T. Rockwell, Jr., USCG, in command. Assigned to Monterey, California, as a reserve training vessel for reservists of the 11th, 12th, 13th, and 14th Coast Guard Districts; authorized complement 39 officers and men; equipped to carry 57 trainees; available for limited search and rescue patrols. Diverted en route to assist the Cuban Patrol in the Straits of Florida, October 1965; detached 18 November; arrived Monterey 14 December 1965; training ship for the Western Districts Reserve Training program; LCDR Ernest Bizzozero, USCG, CO from 10 June 1967. Decommissioned 30 September 1969; sold 8 November 1971 to the Foison Industries Corporation, Taiwan, for $23,300. Machinery: two 1,000 hp General Motors 12-278A diesel engines, two shafts; 16 kts max, 13 kts cruising, 8,000-mile range.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-04
- Study period
- 1964-1971 (USCG era); 1943-1964 (repeated DANFS narrative)
- Population
- USCG crew (authorized 39) + reserve trainees (capacity 57), 1965-69; Coast Guard Yard conversion trades, 1964-65
- Limitations
- Ship-specific history only; no asbestos or material content. The file's data block carries an obvious typo - '13 December 1960 (USN)' for the recommissioning the narrative correctly dates 13 December 1950 - and its header lists '28 May 1964' decommissioning while the narrative and DANFS read 25 May; both conflicts carried in gaps. Namesake given as 'cities in Colorado and Missouri,' conflicting with DANFS's counties - see gaps. Archived PDF (Wayback); the live uscg.mil webcutters directory no longer serves this file.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lamar-pce899-02
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[4]NavSource Online: Patrol Craft Escort Photo Archive, USCGC Lamar (WTR 899) ex-USS Lamar (PCE-899) ex-USS PCE-899 - timeline, specifications, commanding-officer roster, service photography (live page verified 2026-10-04) [other_primary]
- Locator
- navsource.net/archives/12/02899.htm - header timeline, specifications block, photo captions, CO roster
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NavSource timeline for this hull: laid down 11 January 1943 by 'the Williamette Iron and Steel Corp.' (sic), Portland, Oregon; launched 11 August 1943; commissioned USS PCE-899, 17 March 1945; decommissioned 16 December 1949 at Philadelphia, laid up Atlantic Reserve Fleet; recommissioned 13 December 1950 at Milwaukee, WI, Naval Reserve training vessel; named Lamar 15 February 1956; decommissioned 28 May 1964 at Philadelphia; struck from the Naval Register June 1964; transferred to the Coast Guard 29 July 1964; commissioned USCGC Lamar (WTR-899) 11 September 1965; decommissioned 30 September 1969; sold for scrap 8 November 1971 to Foison Industries Corp. of Taiwan for $23,300. Specifications: displacement 640 t.; length 184'6"; beam 33'1"; draft 9'8"; speed 16 kts.; complement 99; armament one 3"/50 DP mount, three 40mm, four 20mm, 2 dct, 4 dcp, 1 hedgehog; propulsion two '2,000bhp' General Motors 12-278A diesels, Falk single reduction gear, two shafts. Photo captions document her moored with six sister PCEs at the Great Lakes Naval Base for two-week reserve training cruises (c. summer 1954) and a 20 September 1961 cosmic-ray plates test near Sheboygan, WI. CO roster: LT Charles E. Pigg Jr. (17 Mar 1945); LT Martin H. Seaver (12 Sep 1946); LT L. C. Riley (13 Dec 1950); CDR Warren Lewis Story (Sep 1955); LCDR Donald Ellsworth Minnich; LT Ernest Calhoun Hipp Jr.; USCG: LCDR William T. Rockwell Jr. (11 Sep 1965 - 10 Jun 1967); LCDR Ernest Bizzozero (from 10 Jun 1967).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-04
- Study period
- 1943-1971
- Population
- Willamette construction trades (1943-45); USN crew (1945-49, 1950-64); Naval Reserve trainees (1950-64); USCG crew and trainees (1965-69); Taiwan shipbreakers (1971-72)
- Limitations
- NavSource is a volunteer secondary compilation, not a primary registry - its milestone dates track DANFS/USCG but it reads '28 May 1964' for the decommissioning DANFS dates 25 May, misspells the builder 'Williamette,' and lists 'two 2,000bhp' engines against the USCG file's 1,000-hp rating per engine; conflicts carried in gaps. Contains no asbestos content. The 1971 breakup predates modern ACM-handling regulation; no hazmat or material record for the scrapping was located.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lamar-pce899-03
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[5]A. D. Baker III, 'Historic Fleets' (PCE class article), U.S. Naval Institute Naval History magazine, Vol. 8 No. 6, December 1994 (content confirmed via Wayback capture 2023-07-15; live page returns 403 to automated fetch) [reputable_press]
- Locator
- USNI Naval History Dec 1994 'Historic Fleets' column text (PCE program paragraphs)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Class-design and construction-program record: the PCE design was sparked by a British Royal Navy requirement (initially 150 vessels, reduced to 94, only the first 15 taken, PCE 827-841); the U.S. Navy took delivery of 53 of the 184'6" x 33'1" hulls 'under no less than six different type designations'; 'Pullman Standard Car Company, Chicago, built 34 (including the British ships); Albina Engine and Machinery Works and Willamette Iron and Steel of Portland, Oregon, built 20 and 14, respectively.' Propulsion described as 'two General Motors 900-horsepower propulsion diesels' - a third per-engine rating variant (cf. USCG file 1,000 hp; NavSource '2,000bhp'). Eleven PCEs and PCECs received aerology balloon inflation lockers in October 1944 to serve as weather-reporting and aircraft-rescue ships - the class feature matching this hull's documented SerForPac weather-station patrols, though the article does not enumerate the eleven hulls.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-10-04
- Study period
- 1942-1945 (construction program); 1994 (article)
- Population
- Construction trades at the three PCE yards (1942-45); class-wide crews
- Limitations
- Class-level article: documents the type's design origin, builder program, and propulsion, not materials or asbestos content, and does not name this hull. The 900-hp per-engine figure conflicts with the USCG file's 1,000-hp figure - carried in gaps. Whether PCE-899 was among the eleven aerology-converted hulls is unverified from this source. Live usni.org page returns 403 to automated fetch; content verified via the 2023-07-15 Wayback capture of the same URL.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lamar-pce899-04
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[6]Era inference built on: DANFS spec block + USCG cutter file machinery line (diesel plant, no steam); USNI class article (design/construction program); Atlas shipyards.json record for willamette-iron-steel (tier-3 documented yard, builder of this hull) and curtis-bay-coast-guard-yard (1964-65 conversion site); GAO HRD-80-2 Navy-wide asbestos documentation (see ev-06) [other_primary]
- Locator
- DANFS spec block; USCG cutter file machinery line; shipyards.json records 'willamette-iron-steel' and 'curtis-bay-coast-guard-yard'
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- A 640-ton patrol craft escort built 1943-45 at a Portland yard inside the Navy's documented asbestos-use era would have carried the era-standard applications for a diesel escort: machinery and diesel-exhaust insulation and lagging, gaskets and valve packing on piping and fittings, electrical insulation, deck coverings, and firefighting/damage-control material. As a diesel vessel she carried no steam plant - the boiler/turbine lagging pathway of steam vessels does not apply - but her small, compartmented hull and high-density fitting-out are consistent with the era's insulation practices.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-10-04
- Study period
- 1943-1971
- Population
- Willamette Iron & Steel construction trades (1943-45); USN crew (1945-49, 1950-64); Coast Guard Yard conversion trades (1964-65); USCG crew and trainees (1965-69); Taiwan shipbreakers (1971-72)
- Limitations
- Class/era inference only - no hull-specific insulation survey, material list, or work package located for PCE-899. Names era-standard applications, not confirmed installed materials. No quantity. Product names are normalized era terms; no manufacturer attribution for this hull.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lamar-pce899-05
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[7]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
- GAO documented that the Navy used asbestos insulation extensively aboard ships and did not begin substituting alternative insulation materials until the early 1970s - spanning this hull's entire existence from construction (1943-45) through Navy and Coast Guard service and her 1971 disposal.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-10-04
- Study period
- 1979
- Population
- Navy shipyard workers; asbestos program review
- Limitations
- Program-level documentation; supports era context only, not any fact specific to this hull. Full text not retrieved (gao.gov blocks automated fetch, HTTP 403, standing since 2026-09-14) - content via product-page description.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lamar-pce899-06
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[8]Lineaweaver v. Plant Insulation Co., 31 Cal. App. 4th 1409, 37 Cal. Rptr. 2d 902 (1995) - as carried in the Atlas shipyards.json record for willamette-iron-steel (builder of this hull) [court_record]
- Locator
- Lineaweaver opinion text (fill-in insulation finding); shipyards.json 'willamette-iron-steel' record ev-willamette-01
- Finding type
- litigation_product_id
- Finding
- Yard-level litigation documentation for this hull's builder: the Atlas yard dataset records the published California opinion noting 'Pabco was used only as fill-in at Willamette in the 1960s and 1970s' - asbestos-product use documented at the Willamette yard, but in a period postdating this hull's 1943-45 construction by two decades, and the yard dataset itself marks the yard identification 'disputed' (the opinion says only 'Willamette Shipyard,' no corporate name or state).
- Verification
- disputed
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-10-04
- Study period
- 1966-1968 (opinion window); 1995 (opinion)
- Population
- Willamette yard insulators/trades (1960s-70s window documented)
- Limitations
- Yard-level, not hull-level: the opinion does not name this vessel, concerns repair-era activity in the 1960s-70s rather than 1943-45 construction, and the identification of 'Willamette Shipyard' as Willamette Iron & Steel of Portland is itself flagged as inference in the yard dataset. Context only - establishes the documented asbestos-use profile of the builder yard, not materials aboard this hull. Justia URL is the yard dataset's own source URL; it returns 403 to automated fetch (Wayback capture 2021-01-25 verified), content as carried in the yard record.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lamar-pce899-07
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[9]Archival leads: NARA (deck logs for PCE-899/Lamar, 1945-64; RG 19 Bureau of Ships General Information Books - per-vessel material specifications; RG 26 Coast Guard records for WTR-899) and the USCG Historian's Office Cutter History File (the underlying file summarized in ev-02) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NARA RG 19 (BuShips records incl. General Information Books); NARA deck-log series; USCG Historian's Office, Washington DC (Cutter History File)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Undigitized record series known to hold hull-level material for this vessel type: NARA WWII/postwar deck logs (PCE-899/Lamar served 1945-64), RG 19 General Information Books (per-vessel construction/material specifications maintained by the Bureau of Ships), and the USCG Historian's Office Cutter History File for WTR-899 (the file summarized by the published cutter sheet at ev-02). These are leads for hull-level material and maintenance records, not located documents.
- Verification
- unverified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-04
- Study period
- 1943-1971 (records coverage)
- Limitations
- Lead only - no specific document was pulled. NARA's catalog API returned a deprecated HTML endpoint this session (v1 retired; v2 unreachable), so no NAID could be verified; RG 19 GIB coverage for this hull is expected by series scope but unverified. Deck logs and GIB entries for PCE-899 may not exist or may not be digitized.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lamar-pce899-08
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[10]Batch-8283 search ledger (this record): DANFS transcription (live mirror); USCG Historian's Office cutter file (archived PDF); NavSource patrol-craft archive (live); USNI Historic Fleets class article (Wayback); Atlas shipyards.json; GAO product page; CourtListener authenticated API (partially blocked); secondary web litigation sweep [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-lamar-pce899-01 through sl-uss-lamar-pce899-11
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, or verified litigation naming PCE-899 / USS Lamar / USCGC Lamar (WTR-899) was found in the public sources searched (see search_ledger). CourtListener status this session: 'USS Lamar' docket query returned zero results; the name-opinion, hull-number opinion, and hull-number docket queries could not be completed - the authenticated helper hit the fleet-wide pacing cap (shared ~58/hr budget drained by sibling batch sessions) across ~10 spaced retries over ~40 minutes; logged as blocked, not as negative results. Secondary web sweeps surfaced no qualifying case; the only 'asbestos aboard' material naming this hull is law-firm marketing content (mesothelioma.net's patrol-boat listicle names USS Lamar (PCE-899) and USS PCE-899 without primary sourcing - excluded by source policy).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-04
- Study period
- 2026-10-04
- Limitations
- Absence of a located public record does not prove absence of asbestos aboard - and three of the four prescribed CourtListener queries are a genuine open gap (blocked by pacing, not run to completion; the zero-result docket query covers only 'USS Lamar' as a docket phrase). Deck logs, BuShips material specs, and scrapping-contract records are undigitized leads (see ev-08). Does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lamar-pce899-09