Evidence
5 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-5).
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[1]research packet 906-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-556-pc556-pkt-906-packet-md
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[2]U.S. Coast Guard Historian's Office, USS PC-469 oral-history page, paragraph on Coast Guard-manned patrol craft [other_primary]
- Locator
- Paragraph beginning 'They were called PC's'; sentence enumerating PC-469, PC-545, PC-556, and PC-590
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- The Coast Guard Historian's Office identifies PC-556 among four patrol craft manned and operated by the Coast Guard and states that all four were commissioned in 1942. This confirms Coast Guard manning and the commissioning year for PC-556.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 1942
- Population
- U.S. Coast Guard-manned U.S. Navy patrol craft
- Limitations
- The page is an oral-history account focused on PC-469. It confirms only PC-556's Coast Guard manning and commissioning year; it does not give PC-556's builder, exact commissioning date, service history, complement, specifications, transfer, or final disposition, and it says nothing about asbestos.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-pc-556-pc556-01
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[3]National Archives, Special List No. 44, by Ship Numbers, PC-556 entry [other_primary]
- Locator
- PDF p. 70, alphabetical ship-number list, PC-556 row
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- NARA's ship-number finding aid lists PC-556 deck-log coverage from 1 September 1942 through 19 October 1944. These are the inclusive dates given for the log records in this finding aid.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 1942-09-01 to 1944-10-19 (log coverage dates as listed)
- Population
- U.S. Navy vessel records
- Limitations
- A finding aid for extant deck logs, not a service chronology. The listed date span does not establish commissioning, decommissioning, transfer, continuous service, or the contents of the logs; the logs themselves were not reviewed. It contains no asbestos information.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-pc-556-pc556-02
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[4]U.S. General Accounting Office, Navy Efforts To Protect Workers From Asbestos Exposure, HRD-80-2 (18 October 1979) [gao]
- Locator
- PDF p. 1 (overview); p. 2 (Navy policy on use of asbestos)
- Finding type
- gov_survey
- Finding
- GAO reviewed Navy efforts to protect workers from asbestos exposure at Long Beach and Norfolk Naval Shipyards and considered Navy ship asbestos use and removal. The report's overview states that Navy officials described asbestos in ship components and thermal insulation as the Navy's major shipboard use; it also says the Navy issued a policy in October 1975 to eliminate asbestos where suitable alternatives had been designated.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 1979 report; policy chronology includes 1975
- Population
- Navy shipyards and Navy ships at program level
- Limitations
- Navy-wide program context only. The report does not name PC-556 or its builder, does not establish any material aboard this hull, and does not establish crew exposure, quantities, or remaining asbestos. No hull-specific exposure or material claim is inferred from it.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-pc-556-pc556-03
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[5]This record's source review and search ledger, 2026-10-03 [other_primary]
- Locator
- Search-ledger entries sl-uss-pc-556-pc556-01 through -09
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No ship-specific asbestos survey, material inventory, abatement record, hazmat disclosure, or qualifying asbestos litigation record for USS PC-556 was verified in the sources reviewed for this record. This is a public-source search result, not evidence that asbestos was absent aboard the vessel.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 2026-10-03 source review
- Limitations
- The CourtListener sweep is incomplete: the first authenticated helper request was stopped by the fleet pacing limiter, and the remaining exact-name/hull-number opinion and docket queries were not run. Firecrawl search and scrape were unavailable because the keyless MCP quota was exhausted. Absence of a located record is not proof of absence of asbestos or litigation.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-pc-556-pc556-04