Evidence
12 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-12).
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[1]research packet 882-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-1265-pc1265-pkt-882-packet-md
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[2]NavSource Online: Submarine Chaser Photo Archive, PC-1265 (page maintained by Tom Bateman) - designation timeline, specifications, commanding officers, photograph captions [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource PC-1265 page: class data block, specifications block, commanding-officer table, photograph captions (12/011265.htm)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NavSource timeline for this hull: laid down 30 October 1943 by Consolidated Shipbuilding Corp., Morris Heights, New York; launched 19 December 1943; commissioned USS PC-1265, 12 May 1944; assigned to the Eastern and Caribbean Sea Frontiers and the Canadian Coastal Zones during WWII; decommissioned 20 March 1946; struck from the Naval Register 1 May 1946; transferred to the War Shipping Administration 3 December 1946 and sold; named Yucatan; purchased in 1948 by an 'under cover, underground Jewish organization' for delivery to the Israeli Navy; commissioned INS Nogah (K 26) October 1948; decommissioned 1952; sunk as a target off the coast of Israel. Specifications: 450 t, 173'8" x 23' x 10'10", 20.2 kts, complement 65, armament one 3"/50 DP, one 40mm, five 20mm, two rocket launchers, two depth charge tracks; two 1,440bhp Hooven-Owen-Rentschler R-99DA diesels (serial 7327/7328), Westinghouse single reduction gear, two shafts. Four USNR lieutenants commanded her 1944-46 (Sprunt, Cunningham, Morgan, Colby). Photo captions place the hull at Guantanamo Bay c.1944, Frontier Base Tompkinsville (Staten Island) winter 1944/45, and Marblehead MA Navy Day October 1945. Call sign Nan-Fox-Mike-Able.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 1943-1952
- Population
- Consolidated Shipbuilding construction trades 1943-44; USN crew 1944-46 (design complement 65); merchant/Aliyah Bet delivery crew 1948 (17 per Hanovice); Israeli Navy crew 1948-52 (~70 per Hanovice)
- Limitations
- NavSource is an enthusiast-compiled volunteer archive drawing on official records - a reputable secondary source, not an official Navy publication. Documents chronology, specifications, and photograph captions only; says nothing about construction materials or asbestos content. Its printed handover date '31 September 1948' is an impossible date - see ev-uss-pc-1265-pc1265-08.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-pc-1265-pc1265-01
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[3]DANFS - no entry exists for PC-1265 [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- NavSource PC-1265 page footer note; NHHC URL probes under browser UA (404 on both hull-page candidates; DANFS index 200)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- No DANFS history exists for this hull. NavSource states verbatim 'There is no DANFS history available for PC-1265,' and candidate NHHC DANFS URLs (history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/p/pc-1265.html and /pc1265.html) both return 404 (verified 2026-10-03 with browser UA - history.navy.mil UA-filters requests, returning 404 to default curl agents even on live pages; the DANFS index at /research/histories/ship-histories/danfs.html resolves 200 under a browser UA). Numbered patrol craft largely lack DANFS coverage; PC-1265's USN milestones are documented by NavSource's compiled timeline instead.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Limitations
- Absence of a DANFS entry is a documentation gap, not evidence about the ship's materials: it means the most-detailed official USN narrative source does not cover this hull. Milestones rest on secondary compilation (NavSource) and participant accounts.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-pc-1265-pc1265-02
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[4]David Hanovice, 'The Yucatan later renamed the Noga' (AVI/American Veterans of Israel Newsletter, Spring 2001; republished World Machal) - first-person account by the delivery-crew oiler who became Noga K-26's chief engineer; and Jack Fox, 'History of the "Yucatan" ("Noga K-26")' (AVI Newsletter, November 1993; republished World Machal) [other_primary]
- Locator
- machal.org.il Navy section: two Yucatan/Noga pages (Hanovice Spring 2001 account; Fox Nov 1993 account with researched timeline)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Participant accounts of this hull's clandestine delivery: ex-PC-1265 purchased by an undercover Jewish organization; merchant-registered under Panamanian flag as MV Yucatan; repairs at Todd's Shipyard, New Orleans, July 1948 (Hanovice reported aboard 1 July); 17 officers/crew under Captain Ben Berg; departed 4 July 1948; Veracruz 6 July; Havana shipyard engine repairs; Lisbon (lube oil unobtainable under British surveillance); severe Gulf of Lion storm; Marseille drydock repair and both main engines overhauled (~18 August - ~22 September); Israeli flag raised and renamed Noga in international waters; arrived Haifa 29 September 1948; handed over to the Israel Navy 30 September 1948 as K-26; outfitted in under ten days (communications equipment, anti-aircraft guns, bow cannon, depth-charge racks); crew ~70 including many Machal volunteers; participated in 1948/49 naval engagements and attached to Shayetet 13; on 22 October 1948 Hanovice operated the deck crane lowering Yochai Ben-Nun's boat for the action that sank the Egyptian flagship Emir Farouk; after about a year the ship came to a standstill for lack of competent engineering officers; became a hotel-service and electric-power mother ship for the small-boat fleet inside Haifa harbor; later sunk as torpedo target practice off the Israeli coast.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 1948-1949 (accounts); published 1993/2001
- Population
- 17 delivery crew (mixed U.S. merchant seamen, returning Israeli students, American and Canadian volunteers); ~70 Israeli Navy complement including Machal overseas volunteers
- Limitations
- First-person recollections published decades later via a veterans' organization newsletter (AVI) and republished by World Machal - participant testimony, not official logs; dates are given 'on or about' and the companion timeline contains two typos ('31 September', 'Noga K-16', 'K-266' - see ev-08). machal.org.il returns HTTP 406 to plain curl; full text extracted via Firecrawl 2026-10-03. Documents delivery/service history and machinery condition, not asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-pc-1265-pc1265-03
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[5]Palyam (Haganah naval company veterans' association), 'Ha'averat "Yucatan"/INS Noga K-26 me'artzot ha'brit artza' [Transfer of the 'Yucatan'/INS Noga K-26 from the USA to Israel], ed. Tzvi Ben-Tzur (Hebrew; incorporates the Hanovice and Fox AVI accounts) [other_primary]
- Locator
- palyam.org Oniyot Rekhesh (Procurement Ships) section, NOGA-TO-ISRAEL.pdf, p.1 introduction
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Palyam compilation for this hull: INS Noga K-26 was a corvette serving the Israeli Navy October 1948 to 1952 and took part in several War of Independence operations including the sinking of the Emir Farouk; she served the U.S. Navy at the end of WWII as submarine chaser PC-1265 (PC-461 class); the procurement mission in the USA purchased her in June 1948 and moved her to Mexico before tightened embargo laws would have prevented her leaving the USA, where she was renamed Yucatan and re-flagged Panamanian; she sailed from Veracruz mid-July and reached Haifa at the end of September after repair/supply stops at Havana and Marseille; she was named Noga after the daughter of David 'Dvideka' Nimri, the mission's ship-purchase lead; her sister PC-1188, purchased with her, could not evade the embargo and was held in the USA until 1952, entering Israeli service in 1953 as INS Noga K-22.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 1948-1953
- Population
- Procurement mission and delivery crew; Israeli Navy crew 1948-52
- Limitations
- Organizational veterans' history (Palyam is the official association of the Haganah's naval company) - reputable institutional memory, not an official IDF/Navy archive; Hebrew text, key facts translated and cross-checked against the English-language AVI accounts it reproduces. Documents transfer and service history, not materials or asbestos.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-pc-1265-pc1265-04
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[6]Aliyah Bet & Machal Virtual Museum (israelvets.com), 'A History of Volunteers in the Israeli Navy' - reproduced by the Jewish Virtual Library (jsource) [museum_official]
- Locator
- jewishvirtuallibrary.org jsource 'machalnavy' page, paragraphs on October 1948 engagements; israelvets.com original preserved at web.archive.org/web/20081120060551
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Museum-history treatment of this hull's Israeli service: 'These four ships were joined in October 1948 by Noga K-26, the former Yucatan, originally U.S. Navy PC.1265.' On 19 October 1948 Haganah K-20, Wedgwood K-18, Maoz K-24 and Noga K-26 engaged an Egyptian corvette and three Egyptian Spitfires, downing one Spitfire and damaging the corvette, which escaped to Port Said; on 22 October 1948 the same four warships encountered the Egyptian Navy flagship King Farouq, which was sunk, while an Egyptian minesweeper was damaged. The same source identifies David Hanovice as chief engineer aboard Noga K-26 who participated in the Yucatan delivery from New Orleans to Haifa in 1948.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 1948
- Population
- Israeli Navy crews incl. Machal volunteers, October 1948
- Limitations
- Virtual-museum institutional history (secondary) reproduced by the Jewish Virtual Library - consistent with the participant accounts but not an official IDF record; the Emir Farouk sinking was executed by explosive boats with fleet support, so 'the four warships encountered... [it] was sunk' is a simplification of a combined operation. Documents combat history, not asbestos.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-pc-1265-pc1265-05
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[7]Era inference built on: NavSource specifications block (PC-461-class diesel patrol craft, built 1943-44); class context (341 PC-461-class submarine chasers completed 1941-44) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource PC-1265 specifications block; PC-461-class construction context
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Era inference for this hull: a steel-hulled patrol craft built in 1943-44 sits inside the Navy's documented asbestos-use era. Era-standard small-combatant asbestos applications for a vessel of this type and period were thermal insulation around machinery and exhaust systems, machinery and exhaust lagging, gaskets, valve packing, electrical insulation, and deck coverings. Propulsion was diesel (two 1,440bhp Hooven-Owen-Rentschler R-99DA engines, Westinghouse single reduction gear, two shafts) - no steam plant, so no boiler/turbine lagging pathway applies.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 1943-1952
- Population
- Consolidated Shipbuilding construction trades 1943-44; USN crew 1944-46; Israeli refit/repair workers 1948; Israeli Navy crew 1948-52
- Limitations
- Class/era inference only - NOT a ship-specific finding. No material schedule, specification sheet, or survey naming this hull was located; builder Consolidated Shipbuilding Corp. is absent from the Atlas shipyards dataset (carried in gaps); NARA RG19 'General Information Books' per-vessel material specifications were not retrieved and remain the archival lead for hull-level specs.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-pc-1265-pc1265-06
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[8]GAO, 'Navy Efforts To Protect Workers From Asbestos Exposure' (HRD-80-2, Oct 18, 1979) [gao]
- Locator
- GAO product page HRD-80-2
- 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 - a window covering this hull's construction (1943-44), entire USN career (1944-46), reserve/mothball period (1946-48), and Israeli service (1948-52).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- program review published 1979
- Population
- Navy ship construction/overhaul workforce, era context
- Limitations
- Program-level finding only - the report does not name this hull or class; it establishes era context, not that asbestos was present aboard PC-1265. gao.gov returns HTTP 403 to automated fetches (standing defect; product-page description used, full text not extracted this session).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-pc-1265-pc1265-07
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[9]Date-impossibility correction across NavSource and the AVI/Palyam timeline vs. Hanovice first-person account (all three previously cited) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource PC-1265 class block; machal.org.il 'History of the Yucatan (Noga K-26)' researched timeline vs. 'The Yucatan later renamed the Noga' (Hanovice)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- CORRECTION: NavSource and the AVI Newsletter/Palyam timeline both print 'Turned over officially on 31 September 1948' - an impossible date (September has 30 days). The first-person delivery account (Hanovice) records arrival at Haifa on 29 September 1948 and the formal handover to the Israel Navy the following day, 30 September 1948. The same timeline prints 'Noga K-16' and 'K-266' - typos for K-26. Carried: handover 30 September 1948, arrival 29 September 1948.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- correction
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 1948-09
- Limitations
- The correction is sourced to a participant account (Hanovice) - the day-level sequence (arrive 29 Sep, hand over 30 Sep) is internally consistent and matches the impossible-date pattern of a 31/30 transcription slip, but no official handover document was located.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-pc-1265-pc1265-08
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[10]NARA RG 24, Logbooks of U.S. Navy Ships and Stations - PC-1265 deck logs, 1944-1946 (holdings exist by record-group definition; digitization status unconfirmed) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NARA catalog entry point (catalog.archives.gov); RG 24 deck-log series
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Archival lead: deck logs for USS PC-1265 (commissioned 12 May 1944 - decommissioned 20 March 1946) are held in NARA RG 24 (Logbooks of U.S. Navy Ships and Stations). These are the primary source for the hull's WWII employment detail (convoy escort, patrol stations, port calls in the Eastern/Caribbean Sea Frontiers and Canadian Coastal Zones) that the secondary timeline compresses into one line. catalog.archives.gov is JavaScript-rendered; per-hull digitization status was not confirmed this session.
- Verification
- unverified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 1944-1946
- Limitations
- Lead only - no deck-log page was retrieved, so nothing in the logs is asserted. Digitized WWII PC deck logs exist for some hulls; status for PC-1265 unverified.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-pc-1265-pc1265-09
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[11]uboat.net Allied Warships, USS PC-1265 (PC-1265) entry 8792 and PC-461 class member list (class/463.html) - contract order date and milestone cross-check [other_primary]
- Locator
- uboat.net warship entry 8792, data table
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Secondary compilation cross-check: uboat.net gives ordered 18 May 1942; laid down 30 October 1943; launched 19 December 1943; commissioned 12 May 1944; built by Consolidated Shipbuilding Corp. (Morris Heights, New York); PC-461 class. All milestone dates agree with the NavSource timeline; the 18 May 1942 order/contract date is the only datum unique to this source. The class member list shows PC-1265 as the last hull in the contiguous PC-1167-to-PC-1265 sequence, followed by a later block of higher-numbered hulls (PC-1546 through PC-1569) - i.e., PC-1265 ends its own construction block but is not the highest-numbered class member.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 1942-1944
- Limitations
- uboat.net is an enthusiast-run research database, not an official source - the order date is carried as secondary-sourced context only; every datum it shares with NavSource was left attributed to NavSource. Documents construction milestones, not materials.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-pc-1265-pc1265-10
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[12]Batch-7760 search ledger (this record): NavSource; NHHC/DANFS URL probes (404); World Machal/AVI participant accounts; Palyam compilation; JVL/israelvets museum history; uboat.net; NARA catalog probe; NVR probe; PCSA site; CourtListener base queries BLOCKED (see ledger sl-03 - 429 then fleet-pacer saturation) [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger sl-uss-pc-1265-pc1265-01 through -NN (this file)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, museum/operator ACM statement, or verified litigation naming USS PC-1265 was found in the public sources searched. CourtListener partial negative: 3 of 4 base queries completed with ZERO results - no published opinion or caption-docket names this hull ("USS PC-1265" opinion+docket, "PC-1265" opinion); the "PC-1265" docket full-text query (the layer where pleading-stage vessel lists appear) could not be run due to fleet-pacer saturation (see sl-03). The only 'asbestos' content associated with the hull on the open web is law-firm/marketing listicle material asserting asbestos aboard without primary sourcing - excluded by source policy.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Limitations
- A negative search result is bounded by the repositories searched and their accessibility; it does not prove no documentation exists anywhere (undigitized NARA records, Israeli naval archives, WSA/MARAD disposal files, and the unrun PC-1265 docket full-text layer remain open).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-pc-1265-pc1265-11