Evidence
11 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-11).
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[1]research packet s-packet.md (1 sources cited) [nhhc_danfs]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERIFIED
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-lenawee-apa195-pkt-s-packet-md
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[2]Bureau of Ships, Ships' Data, U.S. Naval Vessels, Vol. 3 (NAVSHIPS 250-012, 1945), auxiliaries - transports, attack (APA) tables, per-hull rows for LENAWEE APA-195 (item 151) (shipscribe.com scan of the official BuShips publication) [other_primary]
- Locator
- SDB1945v3 APA tables, item 151: dimensions row (printed p. 252); personnel row '12,450 49 24 0 56 480 87 1,475 35 LENAWEE 151' (printed p. 253); machinery row '151 LENAWEE ... APA195 1 A-C turb. 8,500 2 C. E. hdr. 465 750' (printed p. 254); armament/cargo row (printed p. 256); construction row 'Kaiser S. B. Co., Vancouver, Wash. / 11 Oct 44 / 1944 / 11 Oct 44 / LENAWEE APA195 151' (printed p. 257); index 'Lenawee (ex-M.C.V. Hull 663) -- APA195' and 'M.C.V. Hull 663 (now Lenawee) .. APA 195'. Rows verified against page images, not the OCR text layer.
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Official BuShips Ships' Data 1945 Vol. 3 carries per-hull rows for LENAWEE APA-195 (ex-M.C.V. Hull 663, item 151) across the APA tables: 455'0" overall / 436'6" on waterline; extreme beam 62'0"; trial speed 17.7 knots; 14,837 tons trial displacement; 12,450 tons limiting displacement, 24'0" limiting draft; ship's company 56 officers + 480 enlisted with troop accommodations 87 officers + 1,475 enlisted; largest boom 35 t; machinery 1 propeller, 'A-C turb.' (Allis-Chalmers turbine), 8,500 shp, 2 boilers 'C. E. hdr.' (Combustion Engineering header-type), steam conditions 465 psi / 750 deg F; armament 1 x 5"/38 cal (D.P.) + 4 twin and 1 quad 40mm; cargo 150,000 cu ft non-refrigerated, deadweight 5,800/2,900 tons; builder Kaiser S. B. Co., Vancouver, Wash.; date acquired 11 Oct 44; year built 1944; date of first commission 11 Oct 44.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-25
- Study period
- 1945
- Population
- Engine-room and fireroom crew (machinery context)
- Limitations
- Authoritative wartime BuShips publication naming this hull - confirms identity, the Allis-Chalmers/Combustion Engineering machinery plant (the Kaiser Vancouver block fit; NOT the Westinghouse turbine / Babcock & Wilcox boiler plant the Haskell class-profile boilerplate asserts), manning, and key dates. Contains no materials, insulation, or asbestos information; supports no asbestos claim.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lenawee-apa195-01
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[3]NHHC, DANFS, 'Lenawee' (APA-195) entry - live page via Wayback capture 2025-12-09 (live URL returns 404 as of 2026-09-25); HyperWar/ibiblio transcription mirror consulted and found verbatim-identical except NHHC scan typo 'kainikaze' (mirror reads 'kamikaze') [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS > L > Lenawee; mirror https://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USN/ships/dafs/APA/apa195.html
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS entry: Lenawee (APA-195; Haskell class; dp. 6,720; l. 455'; b. 62'; dr. 24'; s. 17.7 k.; cpl. 536, trp. 1,562; a. 1 5", 12 40mm., 10 20mm.) - a county in southern Michigan - laid down 26 May 1944 by Kaiser Shipbuilding Co., Vancouver, Wash., under Maritime Commission contract; launched 11 September 1944; sponsored by Mrs. Olaf Haugen; commissioned 11 October 1944, Comdr. Carson R. Miller in command. Departed San Francisco 26 November 1944; amphibious training Hawaii; sailed for Saipan 27 January 1945; embarked 1,503 troops of the 5th Marines and the 67th Naval Construction Battalion; Iwo Jima D-Day 19 February 1945 (boats put first wave ashore; own troops debarked 3 days later; withdrawn 27 February); embarked 1,000+ Army 27th Division troops at Espiritu Santo; Okinawa 9-14 April 1945 (no damage from kamikaze attacks); Transport Squadron 16 (Como. J. B. McGovern) Philippine-to-Japan lifts; Tokyo Bay 2 September 1945 with 1,135 1st Cavalry troops embarked at surrender; returned San Francisco 31 October; two Magic Carpet voyages; decommissioned Stockton 3 August 1946. Recommissioned 30 September 1950, Capt. E. M. Brown; Far East part of each year except 1952 and 1956; Korean theater transport lifts 1951 and May-July 1953 (at Inchon at truce signing); December 1954-February 1955 Tachen Islands evacuation to Formosa; amphibious exercises 1957 (Philippine), 1959 (British, Borneo), 1962 (Korean marines, cold-weather), 1965 (Royal Thailand Navy); South China Sea operations from 1963; November 1964 departed San Diego; TF 76 stand-by December 1964-April 1965; Da Nang landing 10 April 1965, Hue 15 April, Chu Lai 7 May; first nonstop attack-transport voyage to Da Nang with BLT 1/1 (departed 9 August, arrived 28 August 1965); last deployment from 4 September 1966 (Okinawa via typhoon Ida; ROK troops Pusan to Da Nang; Okinawa-Vietnam lifts December); San Diego 8 January 1967; decommissioned 20 June 1967; transferred to the Maritime Administration 23 April 1968; struck from the Navy list 30 June 1968; berthed MARAD Reserve Fleet Suisun Bay. Two battle stars WWII, three Korean service.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-25
- Study period
- 1944-1968
- Population
- Crew of 536 plus embarked troops across 1944-1967 operations
- Limitations
- Establishes identity, construction, wartime and postwar service, reserve and disposal chronology. Contains no asbestos, insulation-material, or hazardous-material statement; supports no asbestos claim. The entry predates the 1975 sale ('presently berthed' = DANFS publication-era framing).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lenawee-apa195-02
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[4]U.S. Maritime Administration, ShipHistory database - LENAWEE (APA-195), Ship History Detail 2993, incl. three digitized status-card scans (MA-199 Vessel Status Card; MA-893 Reserve Fleet - Ship Particulars; MA-20 Record of Ship Sales) [marad_nrc]
- Locator
- ShipHistory Detail 2993, milestone table; card images /cards/4HH_01.png (MA-199), /cards/2993_5571AF.jpg (MA-893), /cards/2993_AF.jpg (MA-20)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- MARAD ShipHistory record for LENAWEE (APA-195): type VC2-S-AP5, built 1944 by Kaiser Company; 455 ft, beam 62 ft, gross 7,750 tons; fate 'Sold - Scrap'; milestones Entry 6/29/1967, Acquisition 6/29/1967, Disposition 7/28/1975, Withdrawal 7/28/1975. Three digitized status cards read directly: (1) Form MA-199 Vessel Status Card - vessel no. 1238320, type Combination, design VC2-S-AP5, shipyard Kaiser Co., Inc. Vancouver Wash., date built 10-10-44, MC hull 663, builders hull no. 409, gross 7,750 / DWT 5,557, delivered from shipyard to 'U.S.M.C. (Loaned to U.S. Navy)'; operating history: Dept. of Navy to Maritime Admin., Suisun Bay, 11:50 am PDST 6-29-67 'MA Fleet Custody'; Dept. of Navy to Maritime Admin. 12:00 noon PDST 4/23/68 'TITLE (Permanent Transfer)'; Maritime Admin. to Nicolai Joffe Corp. 7/17/75 'Purchase - Scrap'; 'Physically Delivered 7/28/75'. (2) Form MA-893 Reserve Fleet particulars - fleet Suisun Bay, hull no. handwritten MCV-663, service prior to lay-up 'Naval Inactive / Ship Maintenance Facility, Vallejo', damages 'Pri-1', entered 6-29-67 1150 PDST Berth 16 Row K S, withdrawn 7-28-75 1337 PDT, reason 'Sold for Scrap under PD-X-997, 7-17-75 to Nicolai Joffe Corp. for $129,089.78'. (3) Form MA-20 Record of Ship Sales - PD-X-997, name styled 'LENAWEE (LPA-195)', awarded to Nicolai Joffe Corp., date 7-17-75, purchase price $129,089.78, contract no. MA-8015, remarks 'Advertised under PD-X-997 dated 6-9-75 opened 7-11-75 under two condition: (1) NTU (2) SCRAP HULL-US. Award under condition (2) SCRAP HULL-US'.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-25
- Study period
- 1944-1975
- Population
- Reserve-fleet caretakers (1967-1975 custody); disposal/scrapping workforce (1975)
- Limitations
- Authoritative for government custody milestones, title transfer, and disposal terms - resolves the sale date (7-17-75), price ($129,089.78), solicitation (PD-X-997, SCRAP HULL-US condition), and withdrawal (7-28-75 1337 PDT) against conflicting secondary figures. The breaking yard is not named in the MARAD record (secondary compilations say NASSCO Terminal Island; unverified). The MA-20 card styles her 'LPA-195' though she was stricken 1968-06-30, before the Navy-wide APA-to-LPA redesignation of 1969-01-01 - clerical styling, not a formal redesignation. Contains no asbestos, materials, or condition-survey information; supports no asbestos claim.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lenawee-apa195-03
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[5]Agena v. Cleaver-Brooks, Inc., No. 1:19-cv-00089-DKW-WRP (D. Haw.), Complaint Doc. 11-4, para. 5, p. 8 of 48 (RECAP gov.uscourts.hid.143298.11.4); RECAP docket 16612501 [court_record]
- Locator
- RECAP complaint Doc. 11-4, para. 5, PageID.203: 'machinist mate aboard the following repair ships: USS Lenawee (APA-195) and USS Satyr (ARL-23)'; caption 'Toxic Tort/Asbestos Personal Injury' on p. 1
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- A docketed asbestos personal-injury complaint names this hull: Agena v. Cleaver-Brooks, Inc., D. Haw. No. 1:19-cv-00089-DKW-WRP (removed from Circuit Court of the First Circuit, State of Hawaii, Civil No. 19-1-0074-01 JHA 'Toxic Tort/Asbestos Personal Injury'; federal docket filed 2019-02-20, terminated 2021-08-31; Galiher DeRobertis & Waxman LLP and co-counsel for ~40 consolidated plaintiffs). Complaint para. 5 (Doc. 11-4, p. 8 of 48) alleges that decedent BOB C. BROWN 'served in the United States Navy during the approximate years 1948 to 1951 as a machinist mate aboard the following repair ships: USS Lenawee (APA-195) and USS Satyr (ARL-23)' - pleaded by surviving members of the Brown family (Jane Lorraine Brown, Giles Brown, Brady Brown, Janet Ilene Futch as legal representative of Brown's estate, Peggy Perkins). The complaint's theory against lead defendant Cleaver-Brooks is successor liability for Aqua-Chem asbestos-containing boilers, water-distillation equipment, and Davis Engineering heat exchangers alleged to be aboard '90% of all naval and commercial vessels.'
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-25
- Study period
- complaint filed 2019; alleged service 1948-1951
- Population
- Machinist mate (alleged service, 1948-1951 window per pleading)
- Limitations
- Pleading-stage allegation only - a complaint's service-history recital is an allegation, not a finding, and no merits disposition adjudicating the Brown allegation is located (docket terminated 2021-08-31; no published opinion names the hull). Internal tensions: the pleading styles Lenawee a 'repair ship' (she was an attack transport; USS Satyr ARL-23 was the repair ship), and the alleged 1948-1951 window overlaps the hull's out-of-commission Pacific Reserve Fleet lay-up (1946-08-03 to 1950-09-30) for all but roughly its final year. Establishes only that the hull was named in an asbestos pleading - not that any individual was exposed aboard her, and not the products theory's application to this hull.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lenawee-apa195-04
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[6]MARAD status cards (Detail 2993) + DANFS (Wayback NHHC text) + BuShips SDB1945v3 item-151 row vs NavSource 10/03/03195.htm and Wikipedia secondary compilations [other_primary]
- Locator
- MA-199/MA-893/MA-20 card fields; DANFS Lenawee closing paragraph; SDB1945v3 printed p. 254 row 151; NavSource APA-195 chronology; en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Lenawee_(APA-195)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Source discrepancies resolved against primary records: (a) NavSource records 'Struck from the Naval Register, 23 April 1968' - that date is the MARAD title (permanent) transfer on the MA-199 status card; DANFS records the actual striking as 30 June 1968, and title transfer 23 April 1968 - NavSource conflates the two events. (b) Wikipedia prints sale date '17 August 1975'; the MARAD Record of Ship Sales and fleet card print the award 7-17-75 and physical delivery 7-28-75 - a mid-July sale is also consistent with PD-X-997 bids opening 7-11-75. (c) NavSource prints the price '$129,039.78'; both MARAD cards print $129,089.78 - NavSource carries a digit transposition. (d) Wikipedia prints the Iwo Jima embarked unit as the '62nd Naval Construction Battalion'; DANFS prints the 67th NCB. (e) The Haskell class-profile member row's generic machinery note ('Westinghouse geared turbine, 2x B&W boilers') does not apply to this hull - the BuShips per-hull row shows the Kaiser Vancouver fit: Allis-Chalmers turbine with two Combustion Engineering header-type boilers. (f) The MARAD MA-20 sale card styles the ship 'LENAWEE (LPA-195)' although she was struck 1968-06-30, before the Navy-wide APA-to-LPA redesignation (1969-01-01) - clerical styling on a 1975 form, not a formal redesignation.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- correction
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-25
- Study period
- 1944-1975
- Limitations
- Resolves secondary-source variances against primary records; the stricken date itself (1968-06-30) rests on DANFS - no live NVR page exists to arbitrate independently (vessel disposed of 1975). No asbestos content in any cited source.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lenawee-apa195-05
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[7]Consolidated era inference - BuShips Ships' Data 1945 v3 (APA machinery spec, item-151 row) + Fleischer et al. 1946 (USMC-commissioned pipe-covering survey) + Corn & Starr AJIM 1987 (WWII shipbuilding asbestos documentation) [other_primary]
- Locator
- SDB1945v3 APA machinery table (item 151 row, printed p. 254); Fleischer J Ind Hyg Toxicol 28(1):9-16; AJIM 11(3):359-373
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- No ship-specific material record exists; era/design inference only. Lenawee is a VC2-S-AP5 Victory-derived attack transport with a superheated geared-steam plant (2 Combustion Engineering header-type boilers, 465 psi/750 deg F, feeding one Allis-Chalmers turbine - SDB per-hull row) built May-October 1944 at Kaiser Vancouver - the peak period of asbestos consumption in U.S. shipbuilding. Typical applications for this machinery arrangement in the era: boiler and steam-drum insulation, steam-line and turbine lagging, valve/flange gaskets, machinery packing, accommodation insulation, winch/windlass brake linings.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-25
- Study period
- 1944 (construction); 1944-1967 (active service)
- Population
- Construction trades (Kaiser Vancouver, 1944); ship's company and embarked troops under way (1944-1967)
- Limitations
- Class/design and era inference, not a hull record - no source searched names this vessel's materials. Does not establish that asbestos was or remains aboard this hull, nor quantity, location, condition, individual exposure, or causation.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lenawee-apa195-06
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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,' J Ind Hyg Toxicol 28(1):9-16 (Jan 1946), PMID 21016030 [other_primary]
- Locator
- J Ind Hyg Toxicol 28(1):9-16; PubMed PMID 21016030
- Finding type
- gov_survey
- Finding
- The U.S. Maritime Commission-commissioned industrial-hygiene survey of WWII pipe-covering operations at two Navy yards and two Navy contract yards documented that 'an important ingredient of pipe covering material used on U.S. Navy vessels is amosite' - i.e., asbestos insulation was standard material in wartime naval-vessel construction of exactly this hull's era and type.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-25
- Study period
- 1944-1945 survey; published 1946
- Population
- WWII pipe coverers and naval-vessel construction trades (era context)
- Limitations
- Era-level documentation of asbestos use in naval construction generally; does not name this vessel, class, or builder yard and establishes nothing about this hull's materials, condition, or any individual exposure.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lenawee-apa195-07
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[9]CourtListener API v4 authenticated opinion/docket sweeps, 2026-09-25 (via fleet-paced cl-auth-search.py) [court_record]
- Locator
- CourtListener sweeps sl-uss-lenawee-apa195-07 through sl-uss-lenawee-apa195-12b
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- Authenticated CourtListener sweeps (opinion and RECAP docket indexes): 'USS Lenawee' opinions count=0; 'USS Lenawee' dockets count=1 - Agena v. Cleaver-Brooks, Inc. (D. Haw. 1:19-cv-00089), a qualifying hull-naming asbestos complaint carried at ev-04; 'APA-195' opinions count=1 - Sofregen Medical v. Allergan Sales (Del. Super. N20C-03-319, 2024), a pharmaceutical contract dispute where the token matches an exhibit/contract reference, a name collision; 'APA-195' dockets count=15 (16 documents) - the Agena docket plus 14 collisions (Administrative Procedure Act filings incl. Louisiana v. CDC and Missouri v. FDA; Native Village of Hooper Bay v. Burgum; Alliance for the Wild Rockies; Native Ecosystems Council; Eternal Word Television Network v. Sebelius; contract, civil-rights, and bankruptcy matters) with no vessel reference; 'Lenawee' asbestos opinions count=4 - all Michigan decisions (Trentadue v. Buckler; Estate of Eby v. Buckler; Chase v. Sabin; Gagliardi v. Flack) where 'Lenawee' resolves to Lenawee County references, not the vessel; 'Lenawee' asbestos dockets count=34 (131 documents) - the Agena docket plus 33 screened collisions on the first results page (Lenawee County removals and Michigan government suits; asbestos bankruptcy mega-dockets such as Motors Liquidation, Purdue Pharma, Endo, DPH Holdings carrying Lenawee County creditor addresses; unrelated personal-injury and contract matters) - the 9 rows beyond page one were not individually opened; 'Lenawee' unqualified opinions count=908 - first-page screen all Lenawee County government litigation (the ship's namesake county), no hull naming identified in sampled results.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-09-25
- Study period
- sweeps run 2026-09-25
- Limitations
- One qualifying hull-naming hit located (Agena complaint - pleading-stage allegation, carried at ev-04); every other hit is a name collision ('Lenawee' as county namesake; 'APA' as Administrative Procedure Act, suit-nature token, or association initialism). RECAP text-index matches were screened by case name and caption - filings that mention the hull without naming it in the caption would not surface. A name match is not a finding.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lenawee-apa195-08
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[10]Batch-2265 search ledger (this record): NHHC DANFS live URL (404) + Wayback capture 2025-12-09; ibiblio HyperWar transcription; MARAD ShipHistory Detail 2993 + three status-card scans read directly; BuShips SDB 1945 v3 per-hull rows (item 151, page images verified); CourtListener authenticated opinion/docket sweeps; NVR; NARA catalog (deck-log file unit identified via DPLA); VA BVA index (unreachable); NavSource [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-lenawee-apa195-01 through sl-uss-lenawee-apa195-15
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos-materials record located: no asbestos survey, abatement contract, repair-scope record, hazmat disclosure, or adjudicated finding naming USS Lenawee / APA-195 / M.C.V. Hull 663 was found in the public sources searched (see search_ledger). The single hull-naming asbestos complaint (Agena, ev-04) is a pleading allegation only - no merits disposition naming the hull exists.
- 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 1944 geared-steam attack transport is era-consistent with asbestos-containing materials, and the documented 1946-1950 reserve lay-up, 1950 recommissioning (yard work scope unrecorded), 1967-1975 NDRF custody, and 1975 sale and breaking are documented or implied disturbance phases of unrecorded scope. Does not establish presence or absence; does not establish or defeat any exposure claim or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lenawee-apa195-09
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[11]NARA catalog item 284400521 (Lenawee APA-195 deck log, August 1957) via DPLA harvest record + NARA Guide to Federal Records: RG 24 (deck logs), RG 19 (Bureau of Ships), RG 38 (CNO war diaries), RG 178 (U.S. Maritime Commission), RG 357 (Maritime Administration) [other_primary]
- Locator
- catalog.archives.gov/id/284400521 (via dp.la harvest 'Lenawee (APA-195) - August 1957'); https://www.archives.gov/research/guide-fed-records/groups/024.html ; /groups/019.html ; /groups/038.html ; /groups/178.html ; /groups/357.html
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Archival leads, partially digitized: the NARA catalog indexes at least one digitized Lenawee (APA-195) deck-log file unit - 'Lenawee (APA-195) - August 1957' (catalog.archives.gov/id/284400521, NARA College Park, 'Logbooks of U.S. Navy Ships and Stations' series, Records of the Bureau of Naval Personnel RG 24) - and Vietnam-era deck logs were scanned under the NARA/VA Blue Water Navy digitization program, so 1963-1967 logs are likely cataloged or in process. Unretrieved: the full deck-log run Oct 1944 - Jun 1967 (RG 24); WWII war diaries and TransRon 16 / TransDiv 48 operational records (RG 38); BuShips records incl. VC2-S-AP5 contract plans and Booklets of General Plans (RG 19); USMC construction-contract records for M.C.V. Hull 663 covering the Kaiser Vancouver build (RG 178); and MARAD/NDRF custody and disposal files covering the 1967-1975 Suisun Bay lay-up and the PD-X-997 / MA-8015 sale file (would name the breaking yard and any subcontract terms - secondary compilations say NASSCO Terminal Island).
- Verification
- unverified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-09-25
- Study period
- 1944-1975 records
- Limitations
- Record-group and catalog-level mapping - the deck-log file unit was identified at catalog level (DPLA metadata) but not opened at document level; 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-lenawee-apa195-10