Evidence
11 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-11).
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[1]research packet 1097-packet.md (1 sources cited) [other_primary]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERIFIED
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-narkeeta-yt133-pkt-1097-packet-md
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[2]DANFS, Narkeeta II (YT-133), NHHC (entry updated by Robert J. Cressman, 4 April 2022) - construction, spec block, 11th Naval District service, YTM-133 redesignation, striking, Maritime Commission transfer, and the full commercial-ownership chain through scrapping (live page verified) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS narkeeta-ii page, spec block + service narrative + photo caption (verified live 2026-10-05)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Documented for this hull: second U.S. Navy ship named for the Narkeeta tribe of the Choctaw nation; laid down 29 September 1938 at Vallejo, Calif., by the Mare Island Navy Yard; launched 4 May 1939; placed in service 16 June 1939. 'For a little over seven years, Narkeeta rendered the necessary services of her type, tugging, towing, and firefighting, in the waters of the Eleventh Naval District.' Redesignated medium harbor tug YTM-133 on 15 May 1944; declared surplus and stricken from the Naval Register 21 November 1946; transferred to the Maritime Commission 2 June 1947 for disposal. Acquired later in 1947 by Donaldson Towing & Lightering Co. of Philadelphia, renamed North Point; purchased by Curtis Bay Towing of Wilmington, Del., in 1949 (name retained); acquired by Express Marine of Camden, N.J., in the 1970s and renamed Alert; then Bay Towing Co. and Robbins Maritime (Norfolk, 1990s) and Commonwealth Marine Towing (2007); broken up for scrap at Chesapeake, Va., in 2010. Spec block: dp. 258; l. 100'0"; b. 25'1"; dr. 7'9". Photo caption: 'Port broadside view of the harbor tug Narkeeta near Mare Island on 7 June 1939. Note fire monitor atop the pilot house.' (U.S. Navy Bureau of Ships Photo 19-LCM-20730, NARA Still Pictures, College Park.)
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-05
- Study period
- 1938-2010 (entry coverage)
- Population
- Mare Island construction trades (1938-39); 11th Naval District crew (1939-46)
- Limitations
- Ship-specific history only; no asbestos or material content. No complement, speed, or propulsion figure beyond the spec block. The commercial-chain dates come from DANFS (Cressman 2022 update); commercial-registry transcription conflicts on several dates (see gaps).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-narkeeta-yt133-01
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[3]NavSource Online: Service Ship Photo Archive, Narkeeta (YTM-133) ex Narkeeta (YT-133) - designation timeline, specifications, awards, commercial service, photo documentation (live page verified) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource 14/08133.htm header block, timeline, specifications block, photo captions (verified live 2026-10-05)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NavSource record for this hull: 'District Harbor Tug: Built by Navy Yard, Mare Island, Vallejo CA'; laid down 29 September 1938; launched 4 May 1939; placed in service as Narkeeta (YT-133) 16 June 1939; redesignated District Harbor Tug, Medium, YTM-133, 15 May 1944; 'Placed out of service, date unknown'; struck from the Naval Register 21 November 1946; transferred to the Maritime Commission 2 June 1947 for disposal. Commercial service (ON 253465 as North Point): Donaldson Towing & Lightering 1947; Curtis Bay Towing, Wilmington DE, 1949; Express Marine, Camden NJ, renamed Alert, 1970s; Bay Towing Corp. and Robbins Maritime, Norfolk VA, 1990s; Commonwealth Marine Towing, Norfolk VA, 2007; 'Final Disposition, scrapped at Chesapeake, VA, 2010.' Specifications: displacement 131 tons (lt) / 193 tons (full load); length 100'; beam 25'; draft 7'9"; propulsion diesel; speed, complement, armament unknown. Awards ribbon block: American Defense Service Medal, American Campaign Medal, World War II Victory Medal. International radio call sign NENG. Photo caption: Wahneta (YT-134), Narkeeta (YT-133), and self-propelled garbage lighter YG-21 at the end of building ways #1 at Mare Island Navy Yard, 17 April 1939; all three launched 4 May 1939.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-05
- Study period
- 1938-2010
- Population
- Mare Island construction trades (1938-39); crew (1939-46); commercial crews (1947-2010); shipbreakers, Chesapeake VA (2010)
- Limitations
- NavSource is a volunteer secondary compilation, not a primary registry; milestone dates here match DANFS. Displacement conflicts with the DANFS spec block (131 lt / 193 full vs 258) - carried in gaps, unresolved. Contains no asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-narkeeta-yt133-02
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[4]tugboatinformation.com vessel record, YT-133 'Narkeeta' (compiled by Dave Boone of NavSource) - commercial-registry detail: USCG Doc. No. 253465, IMO 5257050, call sign WA8798, steel hull, single screw, 1,600 hp, documented length 93.6, hailing port Norfolk VA (live page verified) [other_primary]
- Locator
- tugboatinformation.com tug.cfm?id=2849 vessel record and registry block (verified live 2026-10-05)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Commercial-registry transcription for this hull: 'single screw tug, rated at 1,600 horsepower,' steel hull, USCG Doc. No. 253465 (matching NavSource's ON 253465), IMO 5257050, trade indicator Coastwise Unrestricted, call sign WA8798, hailing port Norfolk. Ownership chain as transcribed: Curtis Bay Towing Co. of Baltimore 1947 (conflicts with DANFS/NavSource: Donaldson 1947, Curtis Bay 1949); Moran Towing affiliate 1958; Express Marine Inc. of Camden NJ 1973, renamed Alert; Robbins Maritime Inc. 1997; Commonwealth Marine Towing 2008; out of documentation 2009, 'current, and or, final disposition is unknown' (conflicts with DANFS scrapping 2010).
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-05
- Study period
- 1938-2009
- Population
- Commercial crews (1947-2009 documentation window)
- Limitations
- Secondary commercial compilation - used for registry identifiers and propulsion detail only; its ownership-date variants conflict with DANFS (carried in gaps, DANFS dates carried). 'Ship Builder: BUREAU OF SHIPS, U.S. NAVY' is registry shorthand - actual builder per DANFS/NavSource is Mare Island Navy Yard. No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-narkeeta-yt133-03
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[5]NARA catalog: (a) NAID 134809119 'Relating to Ships -- Narkeeta', RG 19 'Indexes to Correspondence' 1911-1922 file unit, 28 digitized images; (b) digitized WWII war diaries containing full-text matches for 'YT-133' incl. Destroyer Base San Diego Jan 1943 (NAID 134063967) and COM 11 Local Defense Force diaries; (c) BuShips Photo 19-LCM-20730 per DANFS caption [other_primary]
- Locator
- catalog.archives.gov NAID 134809119 record page; NARA search 'Narkeeta' (~200 hits) and 'YT-133' (84 hits, war-diary series); DANFS photo caption for 19-LCM-20730
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Archival leads only. The NARA catalog 'Narkeeta' hit (NAID 134809119, RG 19 Indexes to Correspondence) covers 1911-1922 - the FIRST Narkeeta (Harbor Tug No. 3), not this hull; noted to prevent a name-collision citation. Genuine leads for this hull: Bureau of Ships Photo 19-LCM-20730 at NARA Still Pictures, College Park (the 7 June 1939 broadside reproduced in DANFS); WWII war-diary full-text matches for 'YT-133' in NARA's digitized collections (Destroyer Base San Diego war diary January 1943 among them - Narkeeta served in the 11th Naval District, headquartered San Diego); and RG 24 deck logs for district craft, not publicly digitized for this hull.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-05
- Study period
- 1939-1946 (hull era); leads as of 2026-10-05
- Population
- Crew during any 11th ND operations recorded in district war diaries (1941-45)
- Limitations
- Archival lead only: war-diary full-text matches establish that the string 'YT-133' appears in digitized diaries; whether the entries describe this hull's operations requires inspecting the documents. The RG 19 'Relating to Ships - Narkeeta' file is a name-collision record (first Narkeeta, 1892-1926 era) - do not cite it for this hull. No asbestos content in any lead.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-narkeeta-yt133-04
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[6]Era inference built on: DANFS spec block (diesel district harbor tug, Mare Island Navy Yard, 1938-39); NavSource specifications (propulsion: diesel); shipyard-exposure-map documented asbestos product list for mare-island-naval-shipyard (Unibestos, Marinite, Transite, Kaylo, Careytemp, Gold Bond, Super 66, pump/valve packing, gaskets, bonnet insulation, refractory materials); Navy/Vallejo 1998 EIS/EIR ACM documentation (ev-06); Collins v. Plant Insulation (ev-07); GAO HRD-80-2 (ev-08) [other_primary]
- Locator
- DANFS spec block; NavSource specifications; shipyards.json product list for mare-island-naval-shipyard
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- A diesel district harbor tug built 1938-39 at Mare Island Navy Yard sits inside that yard's documented asbestos-product era (products documented for Mare Island in the Atlas yard dataset: Unibestos, Marinite boards, Transite pipe, Kaylo, Careytemp, Gold Bond, Super 66, pump/valve packing, gaskets, bonnet insulation, refractory materials; ACM documented in yard buildings by the 1998 EIS/EIR). Era-standard applications aboard a small diesel harbor tug of this period: machinery and diesel-exhaust lagging, gaskets, valve packing, electrical insulation. As a diesel vessel she carried no steam plant - the boiler/turbine lagging pathway of steam vessels does not apply. Firefighting fit (fire monitor atop pilot house per DANFS caption) is noted but no asbestos product is tied to it by any located source.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-10-05
- Study period
- 1938-2010
- Population
- Mare Island construction trades (1938-39); crew (1939-46); commercial crews (1947-2010); 2010 shipbreakers
- Limitations
- Class/era and yard-level inference only - no hull-specific insulation survey, material list, build specification, or work package located for YT-133. Names era-standard applications, not confirmed installed materials. No quantity. Product names are the yard dataset's normalized era terms; no manufacturer attribution for this hull.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-narkeeta-yt133-05
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[7]Dept. of the Navy / City of Vallejo, Final EIS/EIR for Disposal and Reuse of Mare Island Naval Shipyard (April 1998), DTIC ADA344388 - archived Wayback capture (live DTIC URL returns HTTP 403 to automated fetch, confirmed 2026-10-05) [other_primary]
- Locator
- ADA344388 PDF (358 pp.) - DEIS/R quotation at consistency-determination appendix; site waste-inventory table
- Finding type
- environmental_record
- Finding
- Government documentation of asbestos at this hull's builder: the 1998 disposal/reuse EIS for Mare Island Naval Shipyard states that '[t]he age of most shipyard buildings also presents the potential for the presence of lead-based paints and asbestos containing material,' and site-waste inventories list asbestos among inventoried substances. Establishes asbestos-containing material in the shipyard environment that built this hull in 1938-39.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-10-05
- Study period
- 1998 (document); yard operational era referenced
- Population
- Mare Island workforce historically; remediation/reuse-era workers (1990s)
- Limitations
- Yard-level environmental record, not a hull record: documents ACM in shipyard buildings and site wastes, not materials aboard any vessel. The 1998 document characterizes the yard at closure - asbestos conditions in 1938-39 construction are era inference from the yard's documented product list, not established by this source. Citation URL is an archived copy; the live DTIC PDF returned HTTP 403 on 2026-10-05 (access gap, not missing source).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-narkeeta-yt133-06
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[8]Collins v. Plant Insulation Co., 185 Cal. App. 4th 260 (2010), First Appellate District Div. One, Appeal No. A124268; Alameda County Super. Ct. No. RG04143303 (Justia, verified live 2026-10-05) [court_record]
- Locator
- Opinion, Part II Factual and Procedural Background (Collins employment chronology); Part I Introduction (disposition)
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- Appellate-documented asbestos exposure at this hull's builder: Ulysses Collins worked as a structural and pipe welder at Mare Island Naval Shipyard 1976-1994 (after Hunters Point 1960-73 and Standard Oil Richmond 1973-76), 'worked extensively with asbestos and asbestos-containing products, including those manufactured by defendant Plant Insulation Company,' and died of mesothelioma 8 May 2005. Trial jury found for plaintiffs; the Court of Appeal reversed and remanded solely for retrial on Proposition 51 fault apportionment (whether the U.S. Navy could be included on the verdict form) - an apportionment issue, not a repudiation of the exposure evidence.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-10-05
- Study period
- 1976-1994 (exposure); 2010 (opinion)
- Population
- Mare Island trades (1976-94 window documented)
- Limitations
- Yard-level litigation, not a hull record: Collins's Mare Island service (1976-94) postdates this vessel's 1938-39 construction and 1939-46 Navy service by decades; the opinion documents asbestos products used AT the yard, not aboard any ship. Disposition described exactly: appellate reversal and remand on apportionment grounds only; the underlying jury findings on exposure were not overturned on exposure grounds. Justia hosts the certified-for-publication opinion text.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-narkeeta-yt133-07
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[9]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 construction (1938-39) and Navy service era (1939-46).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-10-05
- 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, confirmed 2026-10-05) - content via product-page description.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-narkeeta-yt133-08
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[10]Batch-9300 search ledger (this record): live DANFS + NavSource + tugboatinformation; NARA catalog searches ('Narkeeta', 'YT-133'); NVR; DTIC EIS via Wayback; GAO product page; CourtListener 4 base queries + 2 justified asbestos variants via fleet helper (authenticated); secondary web litigation sweep [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-narkeeta-yt133-01 through -17
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, or verified litigation naming USS Narkeeta (YT-133/YTM-133) or her commercial names was found in the public sources searched (see search_ledger). CourtListener base queries returned only name collisions: 'Narkeeta' opinions (27) are the Narkeeta Timber Co. of Mississippi and Mississippi personal-name matters; 'Narkeeta' dockets (3) are personal bankruptcies for an individual named Narkeeta; 'YT-133' opinions (125) and dockets (8,844) are tokenization noise with no vessel content; the asbestos-qualified variant '"YT-133" asbestos' returned 0 dockets. The two opinion-side asbestos variants ('"YT-133" asbestos', '"Narkeeta" asbestos'), justified by the base overflows, could not be executed - the fleet-wide CourtListener pacing budget was spent for the remainder of the session; logged as paced/not-run in the search ledger, not claimed as negative results. Secondary web sweeps surfaced only law-firm marketing listicles on Navy tugs generally - 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 - the hull spent 63 post-Navy years in commercial service (1947-2010) and was scrapped in the OSHA era, and no commercial-owner hazmat or survey record was located. Deck logs, Mare Island build/work records, Maritime Commission disposal file, and 2010 scrapping records are undigitized leads. Does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-narkeeta-yt133-09
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[11]DANFS, Narkeeta I (Harbor Tug No. 3), NHHC - the first Narkeeta, a City Point Iron Works tug (Boston), laid down April 1891, commissioned 14 April 1892, served through 1923; also NARA NAID 134809119 (RG 19 file, 1911-22) covering that earlier vessel (live page verified) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS narkeeta-i page (verified live 2026-10-05); NARA NAID 134809119 record page
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- DISAMBIGUATION: two U.S. Navy vessels named Narkeeta exist and are conflated in some indexes. This record's hull is the SECOND Narkeeta - district harbor tug YT-133 (later YTM-133), built at Mare Island 1938-39, stricken 1946, scrapped commercially 2010. The FIRST Narkeeta was Harbor Tug No. 3 (later YT-3/YTB-3), built by City Point Iron Works, Boston, laid down April 1891, commissioned 14 April 1892, served to 1923. The NARA file unit 'Relating to Ships - Narkeeta' (NAID 134809119, RG 19 Indexes to Correspondence, series dates 1911-1922) concerns the first vessel only - it must not be cited for YT-133.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- correction
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-05
- Study period
- 1891-1946 (both hulls)
- Limitations
- Corrects a name-collision risk, not a material claim. The first Narkeeta's YT-3/YTB-3 hull designations come from secondary classificatory lists; DANFS carries her as Harbor Tug No. 3.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-narkeeta-yt133-10