Evidence
11 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-11).
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[1]research packet w-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-oneida-apa221-pkt-w-packet-md
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[2]NHHC, Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, 'Oneida V (APA-221)' (published 2015-08-17) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- Live NHHC page returns 404 (2026-09-25); verbatim text via 2017 Wayback capture of the official page. Spec line: dp. 12,450; l. 455'; b. 62'; dr. 24'; s. 17.7 k.; cpl. 536, trp. 1,562; a. 1 5", 12 40mm; cl. Haskell; T. VC2-S-AP5
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS: Oneida (APA-221), approved 1944-05-26, laid down 1944-09-30 by Permanente Metals Corp., Richmond, Calif., as MCV Hull no. 569; launched 1944-10-31 (sponsor Mrs. Victor E. Cole); acquired by the Navy on a loan-charter basis; commissioned 1944-12-04, Capt. Arthur C. Geisenhoff in command. Shakedown, then Pearl Harbor (departed 1945-01-30, arrived 02-06); via Eniwetok to Ulithi (arrived 02-28). On 03-27 sailed for Guam carrying survivors of USS Franklin (CV-13), then carried Iwo Jima casualties back to Pearl Harbor and embarked a 10th Army contingent for Okinawa. Approached Okinawa 05-23 under kamikaze raids (56 raids witnessed in the first 24 hours); discharged passengers 06-03 under continuing raids; returned 06-24 with Army replacements and 8th Air Corps personnel; embarked 1,050 Japanese prisoners and, with USS Grafton (APA-109), carried them to Pearl Harbor (transferred 07-13). Loaded Army troops; en route via Ulithi when Japan's surrender was announced; arrived Okinawa 08-22. From 09-05 to 11-18 distributed occupation forces from Hollandia to Korea and China. Magic Carpet service 1945-11-18 to 1946-06-16; local operations off the West Coast to 1946-12-27, when placed out of commission in reserve at Long Beach. Struck from the Naval Register 1958-10-01; transferred to the Maritime Administration and berthed at Suisun Bay into 1970. Earned one battle star for WWII service.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-25
- Study period
- 1944-1970
- Population
- Ship's company 536; embarked troops to ~1,562; POW/passenger loads documented
- Limitations
- Official Navy history - authoritative for identity, dates, and operations. Contains no asbestos, insulation, or materials statement; supports no asbestos claim. Wayback capture of the official page is the source copy (live URL 404s).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-oneida-apa221-01
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[3]U.S. Maritime Administration, ShipHistory database - ONEIDA (APA-221), Ship History Detail 3692 [marad_nrc]
- Locator
- ShipHistory Detail 3692, milestone table and status-card image links
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- MARAD ShipHistory record for ONEIDA (APA-221): year built 1944; U.S. Official No. 242885; shipyard Permanente Metals Corporation; MARAD type VC2-S-AP5; length 455 ft; beam 62 ft; gross 7,750 tons; fate 'Sold -NTU' (non-transportation use). Milestones: Entry 1958-10-08, Acquisition 1958-10-08, Disposition 1975-07-09, Withdrawal 1975-07-09. Scanned vessel status card images attached to the record (not OCR-reviewed).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-25
- Study period
- 1958-1975
- Limitations
- Authoritative for MARAD custody milestones and disposal class. Contains no asbestos, materials, or condition-survey information; supports no asbestos claim. Status card images not OCR-reviewed this pass.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-oneida-apa221-02
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[4]NavSource Online: Amphibious Photo Archive, USS Oneida (APA-221) page (navsource.org/archives/10/03/03221.htm) [other_primary]
- Locator
- APA-221 page: campaign/award tables, commanding-officer list, specifications block
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NavSource Amphibious Photo Archive ship page (APA-221): call sign NPRB; assigned to TransRon Twenty-Three (COMO A.S. Witherspoon), TransDiv Sixty-Eight (CAPT. C.R. Crutcher); Asiatic-Pacific campaign 'Okinawa Gunto operation - assault and occupation of Okinawa Gunto, 3 to 28 June 1945'; postwar Navy Occupation Service (1945-09-02 to 09-24; 10-25 to 10-29; 1946-01-24 to 02-01; 04-18 to 05-03) and China Service Medal extended (1945-10-30 to 11-21). Laid up Pacific Reserve Fleet, Long Beach Group; returned to Maritime Administration 1958-10-08 for NDRF Suisun Bay; sold 1975-05-08 to General Metals of Tacoma, Inc. for non-transportation use (probably scrapping), PD-X-996 dated 1975-03-25, for $256,000; withdrawn from the reserve fleet 1975-07-09. Propulsion: one Westinghouse geared turbine, two Combustion Engineering header-type boilers (465 psi, 765 F), double Westinghouse main reduction gear, three 300 kW ship's service generators, single propeller, 8,500 design shp; trial speed 17.7 kt. Complement listed 56 officers + 593 enlisted; troop accommodations 87 officers + 1,475 enlisted. COs: CAPT Arthur C. Geisenhoff (1944-12-04 to 1946-01-17); CAPT Joseph A. Callaghan (1946-01-17 to 1946-12-27).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-25
- Study period
- 1944-1975
- Population
- Ship's company; embarked troops; POW transport (1,050 prisoners, June-July 1945)
- Limitations
- Privately maintained archive compiling official records (DANFS, MARAD disposal doc PD-X-996, NARA RG 80-G photo captions); the campaign, disposal, and machinery lines corroborate MARAD/DANFS where overlapping. Boiler make (Combustion Engineering) conflicts with the class-level BuShips row (Babcock & Wilcox) - logged in gaps. No asbestos content; supports no asbestos claim.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-oneida-apa221-03
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[5]Bureau of Ships, Ships' Data, U.S. Naval Vessels, Vol. 3 (Jan 1945), APA section (shipscribe.com scan, OCR) [other_primary]
- Locator
- SDB1945v3 APA machinery table, Haskell-class row set
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Bureau of Ships Ships' Data, U.S. Naval Vessels, Vol. 3 (Jan 1945) documents the Haskell-class (APA-117 series) plant: 455 ft oa, single Westinghouse geared turbine 8,500 shp, 2 boilers at 465 psi / 750 F steam conditions - the official machinery description of the VC2-S-AP5 type to which this hull was built.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-25
- Study period
- 1945
- Population
- n/a
- Limitations
- Official class-level machinery data; the volume's lead-ship row reads for the type. Per-hull boiler manufacturer for APA-221 is unresolved (class row: Babcock & Wilcox; NavSource: Combustion Engineering header-type - logged in gaps). No asbestos statement; machinery confirmation only.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-oneida-apa221-04
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[6]Consolidated era inference - BuShips Ships' Data 1945 v3 machinery data + class profile (Haskell class) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Class technical data; BuShips APA section
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Era/design inference: a VC2-S-AP5 Victory-derived hull with a single-screw geared-steam plant (2 superheated header-type boilers, 465 psi / ~750 F) built September-December 1944 at peak U.S. shipbuilding asbestos use. Typical applications for the type: boiler and fireroom insulation; steam-line and turbine lagging; valve and flange gaskets; machinery packing; accommodation/joiner insulation (troop-carrying fit-out); winch and windlass brake linings. The hull's ~2 years commissioned and 29 years in reserve layup shift likely disturbance windows to construction, reserve-fleet maintenance, and the 1975 disposal/scrapping phases.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-25
- Study period
- 1944-1975
- Population
- Construction trades at Permanente Metals Yard No. 2 (1944); ship's company and embarked troops (1944-46); Pacific Reserve Fleet and NDRF Suisun Bay workers (1946-1975); scrapping workers at General Metals, Tacoma (1975)
- Limitations
- Class/era inference only - no ship-level asbestos record exists for this hull. Establishes no quantities, no present-day presence, and no exposure for any individual. Do not read as 'installed aboard APA-221.'
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-oneida-apa221-05
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[7]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 fireproofing and insulating material in U.S. shipbuilding during WWII - the era and emergency construction program under which this Maritime Commission VC2-S-AP5 hull was built - and that wartime demand drove unprecedented asbestos utilization aboard merchant-type and naval hulls.
- 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; does not name this vessel or class. Does not establish asbestos aboard this hull, nor quantity, location, condition, exposure, or causation.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-oneida-apa221-06
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[8]CourtListener API v4 opinion + RECAP docket searches, exact-name and hull-number queries plus asbestos-qualified sweep (see search_ledger sl-05 through sl-09) [court_record]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-oneida-apa221-05 through sl-uss-oneida-apa221-09
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- CourtListener authenticated sweep (API v4, 2026-09-25): '"USS Oneida"' - 0 opinions, 0 dockets. '"APA-221"' - 3 opinion hits, all name collisions ('APA' = Administrative Procedure Act in each; Vector Resources v. Baker, Cal. Ct. App. 2015; Havens v. Mabus, D.D.C. 2015; State of Texas v. EPA, 5th Cir. 2026). 'Oneida asbestos' - 103 opinion / 584 docket hits; page-1 review shows all name collisions (Oneida Indian Nation land claims; Oneida County, NY cases incl. Utica Mutual insurance litigation; Oneida Asbestos Removal, Inc. / Oneida Asbestos Abatement, Inc. bankruptcy dockets; generic MDL/asbestos dockets with incidental 'Oneida' matches). No qualifying asbestos litigation naming this hull was located.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-25
- Study period
- 2026-09-25
- Limitations
- RECAP-indexed text only; complaints that name hulls in unscanned attachments, or under operator/agency names rather than the ship name, are under-covered. County-named ships ('Oneida' counties in ID/NY/WI) collide heavily with tribal, county, and corporate names - page-1 classification was applied to large collision sets rather than exhaustive review of all 687 results.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-oneida-apa221-07
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[9]Batch-2295 search ledger (this record): NHHC DANFS (live 404 + Wayback capture); MARAD ShipHistory 3692; NavSource APA-221; CourtListener name/hull/asbestos sweeps; NVR coverage note; VA BVA web sweep; HAER CA-326-L full-text check; NARA record-group mapping [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-oneida-apa221-01 through sl-uss-oneida-apa221-14
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, donation/museum condition report, or docketed case naming USS Oneida (APA-221) was found in the public sources searched (see search_ledger). DANFS, MARAD ShipHistory, and the NavSource compilation contain no asbestos or insulation-material statement; the Naval Vessel Register does not cover hulls disposed before 1987; no VA Board of Veterans' Appeals decision naming this hull was located via web search.
- 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 late-1944 geared-steam hull is era-consistent with installed asbestos-containing materials. 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-oneida-apa221-08
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[10]NARA Guide to Federal Records: RG 24 (Navy deck logs), RG 38 (WWII war diaries), RG 80-G (still photos, incl. 80-G-408151), RG 178 (U.S. Maritime Commission), RG 181 (naval districts/shipyards) [other_primary]
- Locator
- RG 24 deck-log series (APA-221 enumerated in commercial deck-log index); photo 80-G-408151 per HyperWar/NHHC photo page for USS Signal (IX-142); https://www.archives.gov/research/guide-fed-records/groups/178.html
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Archival leads (not retrieved - requires research-room or reproduction order; no spend authorized): NARA RG 24 'Logbooks of U.S. Navy Ships and Stations, 1941-1983' holds this hull's 1944-46 deck logs (APA-221 is enumerated in the deck-log index); WWII war diaries are in RG 38; still photo 80-G-408151 (Oneida alongside USS Signal (IX-142) at Ulithi, 1945) is cataloged in RG 80-G; RG 178 (U.S. Maritime Commission) construction/contract files may hold MCV hull 569 outfitting specifications; RG 181 / Bureau of Ships records may hold hull-level machinery booklets.
- Verification
- unverified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-09-25
- Study period
- 1944-1975 records
- Limitations
- Record-group mapping only - no box-level retrieval performed; whether asbestos-specific documents for MCV hull 569 / APA-221 exist is unknown until surveyed in person. Nothing in this row is an asbestos finding.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-oneida-apa221-09
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[11]HAER CA-326-L, 'Rosie the Riveter WWII Home Front National Historical Park - Kaiser Shipyards' (Library of Congress) + NPS Rosie the Riveter NHP 'Historic Richmond Shipyards' page [haer]
- Locator
- HAER CA-326-L data report (ca3393data.pdf, 60 pp, full-text searched); https://www.nps.gov/rori/learn/historyculture/historic-richmond-shipyards.htm
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- The builder site is federally documented: HAER CA-326 (Rosie the Riveter WWII Home Front National Historical Park - Kaiser Shipyards, Richmond) records the four Kaiser Richmond yards, operated for the U.S. Maritime Commission by Permanente Metals Corporation and affiliates; the NPS 'Historic Richmond Shipyards' page dates Yard No. 2's construction to April 1941. Full-text review of HAER CA-326-L (60-page data report) finds zero 'asbestos' mentions.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-09-25
- Study period
- 1940-1946
- Population
- Kaiser Richmond yard workforce (~79,000+ at peak across four yards, per HAER/Kaiser archival studies)
- Limitations
- Documents the builder yard and operating-company identity only. Contains no asbestos or insulation-material statement (CA-326-L full text: 0 'asbestos' hits) - the absence is a negative finding on the source, not on the hull.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-oneida-apa221-10