Evidence
18 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-18).
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[1]research packet 941-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-799-pc799-pkt-941-packet-md
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[2]DANFS, PC-799 (Naval History Division transcription via HyperWar/ibiblio; live NHHC DANFS URLs return 404) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS entry text + spec block (2 paragraphs)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS entry for this hull: 'a 173-foot submarine chaser laid down at Portland, Oregon on 24 July 1943 by the Commercial Iron Works; launched 14 August; and was commissioned 3 August 1944. Decommissioned after World War II, she was transferred to the Republic of Korea in early 1950. Renamed Kum Kang San (PC-702), she remained in Korean Navy service until 1960.' Spec block: dp. 280; l. 173'8"; b. 23'; dr. 10'10"; s. 18 k.; cpl. 65; a. 1 3"/50; cl. PC-461.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 1943-1960
- Population
- Commercial Iron Works construction trades (1943-44); USN crew (1944-48)
- Limitations
- Ship-specific history only; no asbestos or material content. Two-paragraph entry with no WWII service narrative and no strike date; 'early 1950' transfer wording is loose against the photo-documented 16-17 June 1950 Mare Island transfer (see ev-04). Live NHHC DANFS pages 404 on all candidate URLs (same standing NHHC link-rot defect as prior batches); verbatim ibiblio transcription cited.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-pc-799-pc799-01
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[3]NavSource Online: Submarine Chaser Photo Archive, PC-799 (page 12/010799) - milestone timeline, specifications, disposal sequence [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource 12/010799.htm header block, class bullet list, specifications block
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NavSource timeline for this hull: laid down 24 July 1943 (builder named on this page as 'Consolidated Iron Works, Portland, Oregon' - a transcription slip corrected in ev-10); launched 14 August 1943; commissioned USS PC-799, 3 August 1944; decommissioned in 1948 and laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet; transferred to the War Shipping Administration in July 1948; transferred to South Korea in June 1950 and named Kum Kang San (PC-702); in Korean Naval service until 1960; fate unknown. Call sign Nan-Zebra-Baker-Jig. Specifications: 450 t.; 173'8" x 23' x 10'10"; 20.2 kts; complement 65; one 3"/50 DP mount, one 40mm, five 20mm, two rocket launchers, two depth-charge tracks; propulsion two 1,440-bhp Hooven-Owen-Rentschler R-99DA diesels (serial nos. 7355 and 7356), Westinghouse single-reduction gear, two shafts. Page states 'There is no DANFS history available for PC-799' - incorrect; a DANFS entry exists (ev-01).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 1943-1960
- Population
- Commercial Iron Works trades (1943-44); USN crew (1944-48); WSA/MC custody trades (1948-50)
- Limitations
- NavSource is a volunteer secondary compilation, not a primary registry. 'War Shipping Administration' is an anachronistic label - that agency dissolved in 1946; disposal custody in 1948 ran through the U.S. Maritime Commission (carried in gaps). Specs conflict with DANFS and HyperWar on displacement, speed, and shaft horsepower (see gaps). No USN strike date given. Contains no asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-pc-799-pc799-02
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[4]NHHC Online Library of Selected Images, 'USS PC-799, 1944-1948' (Naval Historical Center; ibiblio mirror - live NHHC equivalent 404s) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- NHC Online Library PC-799 page text + photo NH 85155 caption
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Naval Historical Center summary for this hull: 'a 173-foot submarine chaser built at Portland, Oregon, was commissioned in August 1944. Decommissioned after World War II, she was transferred to the Republic of Korea in early 1950. Renamed Kum Kang San (PC-702), she remained in Korean Navy service until 1960.' USN service span is given as 1944-1948 in the page title. Page holds the NHC's only in-USN view of the ship, photo NH 85155 ('Underway, circa 1944').
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 1944-1960
- Population
- USN crew 1944-48
- Limitations
- Summary-level record; no WWII service detail, no asbestos content, no strike or decommissioning day. The 'early 1950' transfer wording is loose against the same source's photo captions dating the Mare Island transfer to 16-17 June 1950 (ev-04).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-pc-799-pc799-03
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[5]NHHC Online Library of Selected Images, 'Kum Kang San (Submarine Chaser # PC-702, 1950-1960)' incl. photo captions NH 85482-85498 (Naval Historical Center; ibiblio mirror) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- NHC Online Library Kum Kang San page narrative + captions NH 85482, 85483, 85484, 85485, 85494, 85496, 85497, 85498
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Naval Historical Center Korean-service record for this hull: 'originally built in 1944 as the USS PC-799, was transferred by the United States to the Republic of Korea in 1950. She arrived in South Korea in July 1950, shortly after the outbreak of the Korean War, and was immediately involved in several actions with enemy vessels and shore positions along the Korean west coast. Throughout the conflict, Kum Kang San and her sister PCs were invaluable for inshore work in areas unsuitable for the larger ships.' She 'remained in South Korean Navy service until 1960.' Official U.S. Navy photo captions document the transfer event: nested with sisters Chiri San (PC-704) and Sam Kak San (PC-703) at the Mare Island Naval Shipyard on 16 June 1950 'following transfer to the South Korean Navy,' and photographed off Mare Island on 17 June 1950; NH 85498 shows Chiri San 'loading deck cargo for her impending trans-Pacific voyage to Korea.'
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 1950-1960
- Population
- ROKN crew (1950-60); Mare Island transfer/trades personnel (June 1950)
- Limitations
- Establishes transfer location/date (Mare Island, 16-17 June 1950) and July 1950 Korea arrival at photo-caption resolution; does not give the legal instrument of transfer (sale vs. grant), her departure date, or day-level arrival. USNI's 'three arrived a week before 25 June' conflicts with this photo record - carried in gaps. No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-pc-799-pc799-04
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[6]NHHC Online Library, Kum Kang San (PC-702) page - editorial note correcting the ex-hull identity (NH 85485) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- NHC Online Library Kum Kang San page, editorial note + NH 85485 caption (stern detail)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- CORRECTION confirmed by the Naval Historical Center: 'Most standard reference books state that Kum Kang San was the former USS PC-810 or USS PC-802. However, the number "799" can be clearly seen welded on her stern in the original print for our photo # NH 85485' - the Korean PC-702 is USS PC-799, not PC-810 (which became Chiri San PC-704) or PC-802 (which became Sam Kak San PC-703).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- correction
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 1950 (photograph); page dated 1999
- Limitations
- Corrects a widespread reference-book misattribution at photographic evidence level. Independent of the sister-hull identities asserted in NH 85488/85498 captions (PC-802 -> Sam Kak San, PC-810 -> Chiri San).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-pc-799-pc799-05
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[7]NHHC, 'Essay on Naval Battles of the Korean War' (Online Reading Room; reproduced from Tucker, ed., Encyclopedia of the Korean War, ABC-CLIO 2000) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NHHC essay paragraphs on July-September 1950 inshore interdiction (search 'PC 702')
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Korean War combat record for this hull (as ROKN PC-702): 'Five days later' after a 22 July minesweeper action, 'submarine chasers PC 702 and PC 703, newly-provided by the United States, steamed up the west coast and sank twelve enemy sampans loaded with ammunition west of Inchon' (i.e., 27 July 1950). And in the last week of August 1950 on the south coast: 'Motor minesweepers YMS 503, YMS 504, YMS 512, and YMS 514, and PC 702 sank numerous enemy craft, many of whose embarked troops drowned, and captured many others.'
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 1950-07/1950-08
- Population
- ROKN crew, PC-702 (1950)
- Limitations
- Dates the west-coast sampan action to 27 July 1950; the USNI Proceedings account places a similar 702/703 Inchon-channel raid (12 supply barges + battery suppression) 'a full month before' the Inchon landing - possibly overlapping or sequential events; the dating discrepancy is carried in gaps. Combat record only; no asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-pc-799-pc799-06
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[8]U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings, 'The ROK Navy' (November 1952, Vol. 78/11/597) [reputable_press]
- Locator
- USNI Proceedings Nov. 1952 article, paragraphs on the PC purchase and the PCs-702/703 Inchon raid
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Contemporaneous account of this hull's acquisition and Inchon raid: 'In April of 1950, Admiral Sohn ... succeeded in persuading the Korean Government to allot scanty funds for the purchase of four ex-American steel-hulled patrol vessels (PC's) laid up after World War II. With money in hand, Admiral Sohn rushed off to Washington to complete the negotiations, while the ferry crews followed to San Francisco.' And: 'a full month before the U.N. amphibious assault at Inchon, at a time in August, 1950 ... two Korean PC's, 702 and 703, under the command of Commander Lee He Chung, ROK Navy, sped up the channel to Inchon, silencing the batteries on Palmi-do as they passed. They entered the harbor, took the artillery of Wolmi-do and Inchon under fire and plotted the position of each battery, then ran the gantlet of the Commie barrage to escape to sea with the precious information. Before clearing the channel, however, they stopped long enough to sink twelve enemy supply barges entering port. Few stories of the war exceed the escapade of 702 and 703 for sheer audacity.'
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 1950
- Population
- ROKN crews of PC-702/703; Cdr. Lee He Chung, ROKN (August 1950)
- Limitations
- Publishes the purchase-program context (ROK-government funded acquisition) and the August 1950 reconnaissance raid. Its compressed delivery timeline ('the four PC's ... were on their way home' mid-May; 'three arrived in Chinhae just a week before' 25 June) conflicts with the NHHC photo-documented 16-17 June Mare Island transfer and July arrival - carried in gaps. No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-pc-799-pc799-07
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[9]The National WWII Museum Digital Collections, 'USS PC-799, San Francisco' (Gift in memory of Martin Winitzer; cataloged 1945) [museum_official]
- Locator
- ww2online.org image record, description field (photo-reverse caption)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Museum-held color-tinted photograph of this hull in San Francisco Bay, circa 1945-46, from the collection of Navy photographer Martin Winitzer (USS Pelias AS-14). Personal caption on the photo reverse: 'PC 799. We brought the Marines from Treasure Island, San Francisco to Alcatraz.' Documents San Francisco Bay operating area and Marine-ferry duty in 1945-46.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 1945-1946
- Population
- PC-799 crew and embarked Marines, San Francisco Bay (1945-46)
- Limitations
- A single photograph with a crew-side caption - establishes Bay-area presence and one duty type, not a full duty history. 'Circa 1945-46' is the museum's cataloging span; catalog date field reads 1945. No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-pc-799-pc799-08
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[10]uboat.net, Allied Warships: USS PC-799 (PC-799) - builder, command list, one notable event [other_primary]
- Locator
- uboat.net ship/8628.html command table + notable-events section
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Secondary warship database record: built by Commercial Iron Works (Portland); ordered 27 February 1942; laid down 24 July 1943; launched 14 August 1943; commissioned 3 August 1944; end service 1948 ('Decommissioned in 1948. Transferred to South Korea in June 1950 being renamed Kum Kang San'). Commanding officers listed: Kenneth Slaughter Nelms, USNR (3 Aug 1944 - mid 1945); Stanley Sponholz, USNR (mid 1945 - early 1946). Notable event: 31 May 1945 - submarines USS Burrfish, USS Picuda, and USS Bang departed San Francisco for Balboa, Panama Canal Zone, 'escorted out by USS PC-608 (?) and USS PC-799 (?)'.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 1944-1948
- Population
- PC-799 officers/crew; escorted submariners (31 May 1945)
- Limitations
- Volunteer-compiled secondary database (not an official record); the escort attribution itself carries '(?)' uncertainty markers, and the command list is marked work-in-progress - carried as partial. No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-pc-799-pc799-09
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[11]Builder-name cross-check: NavSource PC-799 page ('Consolidated Iron Works') vs. DANFS entry ('Commercial Iron Works'), NavSource sister pages PC-802/PC-810 ('Commercial Iron Works'), uboat.net ('Commercial Iron Works'), shipbuildinghistory.com Commercial Iron Works yard table (hull #72) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource 12/010799.htm class bullet vs. DANFS pc799.html, NavSource 12/010802.htm & 12/010810.htm, uboat.net ship/8628, shipbuildinghistory.com/shipyards/small/commercial.htm row 72
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- CORRECTION: the NavSource PC-799 page names her builder 'Consolidated Iron Works, Portland, Oregon.' Every other source - including NavSource's own sister-ship pages (PC-802, PC-810) - names Commercial Iron Works, Portland: the DANFS entry ('laid down at Portland, Oregon ... by the Commercial Iron Works'), the HyperWar 'Ships of the U.S. Navy, 1940-45' spec block ('Built at Commerical Iron Works' [sic]), uboat.net, and the shipbuildinghistory.com yard table for Commercial Iron Works of Portland (which assigns PC-799 yard hull number 72, delivered 3 August 1944). The correct builder is Commercial Iron Works; NavSource's 'Consolidated' is a single-page transcription slip.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- correction
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 1943-1944
- Limitations
- Corrects a builder-name error, not a material claim. Commercial Iron Works (Portland, OR; south of the Ross Island Bridge; closed 1946, site sold to Zidell Marine) is not an Atlas shipyards.json entry - carried in gaps.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-pc-799-pc799-10
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[12]NARA catalog, 'PC-799' full-text index hits across RG 38 WWII War Diaries: W Coast Sound Training Squadron war diary 9/1944 (NAID 134364295); Commander Western Sea Frontier war diaries 10/1944-2/1946 (incl. NAIDs 139801813, 139850542, 139914266, 633409896, 101772257, 83574572, 77615576, 77682870); Commander Blimp Squadron 32 war diaries 11/1944-6/1945 (incl. NAIDs 78699471, 139835660, 101732889); Com 12 war diary (NAID 77652087) [other_primary]
- Locator
- catalog.archives.gov search 'PC-799' (142 hits); cited NAIDs at file-unit level
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- NARA's full-text catalog indexes 'PC-799' inside digitized World War II war diaries whose parent commands frame her West Coast service: the West Coast Sound Training Squadron (September 1944 - post-commissioning ASW sound school), the Commander Western Sea Frontier (successive monthly diaries October 1944 - February 1946 - sea-frontier patrol/escort assignment), and Commander Blimp Squadron 32 (November 1944 - June 1945 - consistent with lighter-than-air plane-guard/escort duty). The index hits establish that her name appears inside those diaries; the surrounding entries were not read this session.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 1944-09/1946-02
- Population
- PC-799 crew (1944-46); associated squadron/sea-frontier personnel
- Limitations
- Archival lead at index level: catalog full-text matching proves the name occurs inside the diary texts but not what the entries say (task, position, or duration unverified). Diaries are digitized (roll images online) and can be read for the operational record. No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-pc-799-pc799-11
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[13]NARA, RG 24 'Muster Rolls of U.S. Navy Ships, Stations, and Other Naval Activities' - file unit 'PC-799, 8/3/44-7/1/46' (NAID 192458671, Roll 5873, 120 images, digitized) [other_primary]
- Locator
- catalog.archives.gov/id/192458671 (file unit metadata; 120 images, 'Image provided by Ancestry')
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Complete digitized muster rolls for this hull from commissioning (3 August 1944) through 1 July 1946 - name-by-name crew rosters for her entire wartime and early postwar USN population. Covers her active commissioned period up to mid-1946; the 1946-48 tail of USN service and any Korea-era records are not in this file unit.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 1944-08/1946-07
- Population
- All hands aboard PC-799, 1944-08-03 to 1946-07-01
- Limitations
- Archival lead: rosters not read this session; usable for crew population and (via officer/enlisted rosters) duty reconstruction. Personnel records do not address materials or asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-pc-799-pc799-12
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[14]Shipbuilding History (Tim Colton), Commercial Iron Works, Portland OR yard table - hull 72 PC-799 [other_primary]
- Locator
- shipbuildinghistory.com Commercial Iron Works table, row 72 (PC-799) + yard history paragraph
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Yard-production table for this hull's builder: PC-799 is Commercial Iron Works hull #72, a 463-ton, 173-ft U.S. Navy 'Sub Chaser' delivered/commissioned 3 August 1944, disposition 'To Korea 1950 as Kum Kang Sang (PC 702), stricken 1960.' Yard history: Commercial Iron Works started November 1916 on a 30-acre site just south of the Ross Island Bridge, closed 1946 after building 188 boats during WWII; site sold to Zidell Marine as a ship-dismantling facility. Sister hulls in the same table: PC-802 (hull 75, to Korea as Sam Kak San PC-703, stricken 1960); PC-810-series hulls appear under later entries.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 1943-1960
- Population
- Commercial Iron Works trades (1943-44); ROKN crew (1950-60)
- Limitations
- Reputable independent yard-record compilation (secondary, not an official registry). The 463-ton figure is the full-load displacement vs. DANFS's 280-ton light figure (spec conflicts in gaps). 'Stricken 1960' refers to the ROKN list. No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-pc-799-pc799-13
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[15]Era inference built on: DANFS spec block (PC-461 class, diesel plant); NavSource specifications (2 x H-O-R R-99DA diesels, 2 shafts); GAO HRD-80-2 Navy asbestos-use era (see ev-15) [other_primary]
- Locator
- DANFS spec block; NavSource specifications; GAO HRD-80-2 product page
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- A PC-461-class submarine chaser built 1943-44 inside the Navy's documented asbestos-use era would have carried period-standard asbestos applications for a diesel patrol craft: thermal insulation, machinery and diesel-exhaust lagging, gaskets, valve packing, and electrical insulation within a 173-foot steel hull crewed by ~65. As a diesel craft she carried no steam plant - the boiler/turbine lagging pathway of steam vessels does not apply - but the small-hull confined-space exposure dynamic applies to the machinery space and exhaust runs.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 1943-1960
- Population
- Commercial Iron Works trades (1943-44); USN crew (1944-48); ROKN crew (1950-60); any disposal trades
- Limitations
- Class/era inference only - no hull-specific insulation survey, material list, or work package located for PC-799. Names era-standard applications, not confirmed installed materials. No quantity. Product names are normalized era terms; no manufacturer attribution for this hull.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-pc-799-pc799-14
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[16]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 (1943-44), USN service era (1944-48), and Korean service (1950-60).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- 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 2026-10-03); content via product-page description.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-pc-799-pc799-15
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[17]Atlas shipyards.json record 'mare-island-naval-shipyard' (tier 2): asbestos products documented incl. Unibestos, Marinite boards, Transite pipes, Kaylo, Careytemp, Gold Bond, Super 66, pump/valve packing, gaskets, bonnet insulation, refractories - anchored by Dept. of the Navy / City of Vallejo Final EIS/EIR for Disposal and Reuse of Mare Island Naval Shipyard (April 1998, DTIC ADA344388) and Collins v. Plant Insulation Co., 185 Cal. App. 4th 260 (2010) [other_primary]
- Locator
- shipyards.json ev-mare-island-01/-02; NH 85494/85496/85497/85498 captions (ev-04)
- Finding type
- environmental_record
- Finding
- Yard-level asbestos documentation at a facility this hull is documented to have visited: official U.S. Navy photos place PC-799 at the Mare Island Naval Shipyard on 16-17 June 1950 for her transfer to South Korea (ev-04), and Mare Island carries documented ACM in yard records (1998 EIS/EIR waste descriptions incl. asbestos; litigation record documents a welder's mesothelioma from 1976-94 Mare Island work in Collins v. Plant Insulation). Presence at a documented-ACM yard; the hull itself is not documented to have undergone work there.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 1950-06
- Population
- Any MINSY trades contacting the hull during the June 1950 transfer (undocumented); ROKN crew
- Limitations
- Presence-only datum: photographs establish the ship at the MINSY wharf for the June 1950 transfer, not what work (if any) was performed - no availability or work-package record located. Yard ACM documentation says nothing about materials aboard this hull. Collins exposure window (1976-94) postdates her visit by decades. DTIC EIS link returned a maintenance page/403 on 2026-10-03 - yard-record anchor cited at dataset level.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-pc-799-pc799-16
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[18]Batch-8172 search ledger (this record): DANFS transcription; NHHC Online Library (PC-799, Kum Kang San, Pak Tu San pages); NHHC Korean War essay; USNI Proceedings 1952; NavSource; uboat.net; National WWII Museum; NARA catalog (muster rolls + war-diary index hits); shipbuildinghistory; NVR; GAO (blocked 403); CourtListener (see ledger rows sl-13..16); secondary web sweep [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-pc-799-pc799-01 through -22
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located for this hull: no asbestos survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, sampling record, or documented litigation naming USS PC-799 was found in the public sources searched. CourtListener four-query base sweep complete 2026-10-03: 'USS PC-799' opinions = 0, dockets = 0; 'PC-799' opinions = 1 (Ackerman v. Iowa - name collision, 'PC, 799 F.3d' reporter cite); 'PC-799' dockets = 29/38 docs, all reviewed page-1 hits name collisions or unrelated litigation; asbestos-qualified variant 'PC-799' asbestos = 1 (Vogt v. State Farm Life - insurance class action, name collision). Zero qualifying results. A secondary 'PC-799' + asbestos/lawsuit web sweep surfaced only name collisions (California Penal Code 799, street addresses) - notably, even the usual mesothelioma marketing listicles do not claim this hull.
- 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. Deck logs (RG 24/P118), NARA war-diary content, and any WSA/MC disposal or transfer-package records remain unmined archival leads. Does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-pc-799-pc799-17