Evidence
4 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-4).
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[1]research packet 881-packet.md [other_primary]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERIFIED
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-pc-1222-pc1222-pkt-881-packet-md
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[2]NavSource Online: Submarine Chaser Photo Archive, PC-1222 (navsource.net) [other_primary]
- Locator
- navsource.net/archives/12/011222.htm, specifications block and R.W. Daly/PC-1181 photo-caption narrative
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Builder/construction and disposal record for this hull: laid down 26 October 1942 by Penn-Jersey Shipbuilding Corp., Camden, NJ; launched 25 September 1943; commissioned USS PC-1222, 7 July 1944; struck from the Naval Register 28 March 1946; transferred to the War Shipping Administration April 1947; sold 22 June 1947 to Lucienne Benitez Rexach of San Pedro de Marcoris, Dominican Republic, and converted (by end of 1948, at a reported cost over $1,000,000) into the private motor yacht Gosse; sold 1959 to John Kallimbios of Maracaibo, Venezuela, renamed Mar Jan; resold 1967 to George Simmonuti, also of Maracaibo; fate unknown thereafter. Specifications: displacement 450 tons; length 173'8"; beam 23'; draft 10'10"; speed 20.2 kts; complement 65; armament one 3"/50 dual-purpose gun mount, one 40mm mount, five 20mm guns, two rocket launchers, two depth-charge tracks; propulsion two 1,440bhp Hooven-Owen-Rentschler R-99DA diesel engines (serial nos. 7069, 7070), Westinghouse single-reduction gear, two shafts.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 1942-1967
- Population
- Penn-Jersey Shipbuilding Corp. construction trades, Camden NJ, 1942-43; wartime USN crew (complement 65); civilian conversion yard workers, Dominican Republic, 1947-48
- Limitations
- This is a photo-archive/registry compilation, not a Navy-issued history, and it documents construction, specifications, and disposal only - it contains no asbestos, materials, or hazmat information of any kind. No DANFS entry exists for this hull to cross-check against (see ev-03/negative finding). The post-Navy yacht-conversion narrative (civilian ownership, cost, amenities) establishes the vessel's post-1947 commercial history but says nothing about whether shipboard insulation/lagging was removed, retained, or encountered during the 1947-48 conversion.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-pc-1222-pc1222-01
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[3]U.S. General Accounting Office, Navy Efforts To Protect Workers From Asbestos Exposure, HRD-80-2 (18 Oct. 1979) - full report text unreachable at gao.gov (HTTP 403, confirmed this session); summary/abstract cited via Justia GAO-reports mirror [gao]
- Locator
- gao.justia.com summary/abstract page, HRD-80-2
- Finding type
- gov_survey
- Finding
- GAO review of Navy efforts to protect workers from asbestos exposure, with fieldwork at Long Beach and Norfolk Naval Shipyards (1979): 'Although recently constructed Navy ships have little or no asbestos thermal insulation, other Navy ships contain large quantities of asbestos.' Documents Navy-wide asbestos insulation policy (1975 damage/repair-triggered removal policy, modified 1979) and fleet-wide asbestos-related disability compensation programs.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 1979
- Population
- Navy shipyard workers, Long Beach and Norfolk Naval Shipyards, fleet-wide (1979 context)
- Limitations
- Fleet-level, 1979 program review at two shipyards (Long Beach, Norfolk) neither of which built or serviced this hull; PC-1222 had already left Navy service by 1947, 32 years before this report. Provides only general confirmation that the WWII-era Navy fleet broadly contained asbestos insulation - it names no class, no builder, and no hull, and does not establish anything about PC-1222 or the PC-461 class specifically.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-pc-1222-pc1222-02
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[4]Batch-7718 search ledger (this record): NavSource.net; hazegray.org DANFS patrol-craft index (via Wayback); NHHC DANFS direct URL probes; Naval Vessel Register (nvr.navy.mil); NARA online catalog; GAO HRD-80-2; CourtListener (blocked); Atlas shipyards.json cross-check; secondary web sweep [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-pc-1222-pc1222-01 through sl-uss-pc-1222-pc1222-08
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, abatement record, hazmat disclosure, or verified litigation naming USS PC-1222 was found in the sources searched (see search_ledger). No DANFS entry exists for this hull at all (confirmed absent from the archived hazegray.org Patrol Craft DANFS index, which lists 84 PC entries and does not include PC-1222 - consistent with DANFS's practice of covering PCs only once given a name, which this hull never received in Navy service). CAVEAT: CourtListener could not be queried this session - the authenticated helper script reported the daily API quota exhausted (2,800/day fleet-wide; ~2.2 hours to reset at time of search); this is logged as blocked in search_ledger, not as a negative litigation result.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 2026-10-03
- Limitations
- Absence of a located public record does not prove absence of asbestos aboard a 1943-built steel-hulled naval combatant - but the litigation search specifically is a genuine open gap (quota-throttled, not run) and must not be read as 'no litigation exists.' Does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility. The vessel's fate is unknown since 1967, so no present-day material condition can be assessed.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-pc-1222-pc1222-03