Evidence
12 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-12).
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[1]DANFS, 'Prowess (IX-305)' - official Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships text verified via Wayback capture (2021-01-27) of the hazegray.org DANFS mirror (live NHHC page for this hull returns 404 - standing link rot; no live URL located under either /danfs/p/ or /danfs/i/ patterns) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS 'Prowess (IX-305)' entry, spec block + full service narrative (Wayback capture of hazegray.org/danfs/mine/am280.htm, 22 captures 2001-2025)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Official DANFS record for this hull: name gloss 'Valor, and skill.'; spec block '(AM-280: dp. 945 (f.); l. 184'6"; b. 33'; dr. 9'9"; s. 15 k.; cpl. 104; a. 1 3", 2 40mm., 2 dct.; cl. Admirable)'. Laid down 15 September 1943 by Gulf Shipbuilding Corp., Chickasaw, Ala.; launched 17 February 1944, sponsored by Mrs. Thomas W. Rubottom; commissioned 27 September 1944, 'Lt. Comdr. J. W. Meire' in command. Shakedown out of Little Creek, Va.; escorted Pontiac (AF-20) Boston to Bermuda departing 14 December 1944; trained minesweeper personnel at Little Creek 1 January - 31 August 1945; departed Little Creek 3 October, participated in festivities honoring Admiral Nimitz at Washington, D.C.; visited Wilmington, Del.; returned to Norfolk. Entered the Atlantic Reserve Fleet December 1945; reclassified MSF-280 on 7 February 1955; 'Assigned a homeport of Buffalo, N.Y., from 1 September 1965 and reclassified IX-305 on 1 March 1966, she has served as a naval reserve training ship from February 1962 into 1970.'
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-22
- Study period
- 1943-1970
- Population
- Gulf Shipbuilding construction trades (1943-44); wartime complement ~104; minesweeper trainees at Little Creek (Jan-Aug 1945)
- Limitations
- DANFS documents identity, builder, dates, and service narrative - not materials or asbestos content. The entry predates the 1970 transfer and all foreign service (ends 'into 1970'). No battle stars recorded - her war was training and escort duty. The hazegray transcription prints the first CO as 'J. W. Meire'; NavSource's CO roster reads 'LCDR Joseph Walter Meiere, USNR' - OCR/transcription variance flagged in gaps. DANFS's 'served ... from February 1962' is the NRT-activation framing; NavSource prints 'Recommissioned 1 September 1965' and uboat.net prints 'Decommissioned in February 1962' - the status-sequence conflict is flagged in ev-09/gaps rather than silently reconciled.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-prowess-am280-01
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[2]NavSource Online: Mine Warfare Vessel Photo Archive - Prowess (IX 305) ex-MSF 280 ex-AM-280, file 11/02280 [other_primary]
- Locator
- navsource.org/archives/11/02280.htm (live .org unreachable to automated fetch this session; verified via navsource.net mirror + indexed text) - chronology block, specifications block, propulsion line, CO list, photo credits
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NavSource per-hull record: 'Admirable Class Minesweeper'; call sign November-Quebec-Charlie-Bravo; 'Laid down 15 September 1943 as Hull No. 945 by the Gulf Shipbuilding Corp., Chickasaw, AL'; launched 17 February 1944; commissioned USS Prowess (AM 280) 27 September 1944; 'Decommissioned in December 1945 and laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet'; reclassified MSF-280 7 February 1955; 'Recommissioned 1 September 1965'; reclassified IX-305 1 March 1966; 'Transferred to South Vietnam 4 June 1970 and renamed Ha Hoi (HQ 13)'; 'Struck from the Navy Register 3 June 1970'; 'Captured by North Vietnam Forces in 1975'; 'Reduced to a hulk in 1998 but remained afloat as a training and accommodations craft'; 'Scrapped.' Spec block: 945 t (fl); 184'6"; 33' beam; 9'9" draft; 14.8 kts; complement 104; armament one 3"/50 dual-purpose mount, one twin 40mm mount, six 20mm mounts, one depth-charge projector (hedgehog), four K-guns, two depth-charge tracks; propulsion 'Two 1,710shp Cooper Bessemer GSB-8 diesel engines, National Supply Co. single reduction gear, two shafts.' CO roster: LCDR Joseph Walter Meiere USNR (27 Sep 1944 - 16 Jul 1945), LT Russell Edgar Hinds USNR (16 Jul - 8 Oct 1945), LT Walter Howard Bickford USNR (8 Oct 1945 - 14 May 1946). Photo credits include NHHC photos NH 89420/NH 89421 and catalog.archives.gov imagery; yard note documents the Chickasaw site (U.S. Steel's Chickasaw Shipbuilding 1917, closed post-WWI, reopened 1940 by Waterman Steamship Corp. as Gulf Shipbuilding).
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-22
- Study period
- 1943-1998
- Population
- Gulf Shipbuilding trades (1943-44); U.S. crew Sep 1944 - Dec 1945; reserve-fleet caretakers 1945-1962; Naval Reserve trainees Buffalo/Great Lakes 1962-1970; RVN crews 1970-75; VPN crews 1975-1998
- Limitations
- Specialist secondary compilation - detailed but non-official; internally consistent with DANFS on dates and supplies machinery/CO detail DANFS omits. Its 'Recommissioned 1 September 1965' conflicts in framing with shipscribe's February 1962 NRT reactivation and DANFS's 'served ... from February 1962' - carried in gaps. The Vietnamese chain (capture 1975, 1998 hulk, scrapping) rests on NavSource plus shipscribe/Wikipedia corroboration. Contains no asbestos information; supports no asbestos claim.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-prowess-am280-02
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[3]Shipscribe (Stephen S. Roberts compilation of official U.S. Navy register/Ships' Data entries), 'USS Prowess (IX 305, ex AM) Class' page - construction, disposition, and class-note data [other_primary]
- Locator
- shipscribe.com/usnaux2/IX/IX305.html - construction table, disposition table, class notes, ship notes
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Official-register compilation for this hull's auxiliary phase: construction row 'IX 305 | PROWESS | reclas 1 Mar 1966 | Gulf, Chickasaw | keel 15 Sep 1943 | launch 17 Feb 1944 | comm Feb 1962'; disposition row 'Decomm 3 Jun 1970 | Strike 3 Jun 1970 | Disposal 3 Jun 1970 | Trf'. Class note: 'AM 280 (PROWESS), a 180-foot steel minesweeper, was placed in the post-World War II reserve fleet in December 1945, reclassified MSF 280 in 1955, reactivated as a Naval Reserve training ship in February 1962, assigned a homeport of Buffalo, New York, on 1 September 1965, and reclassified IX 305 as a training ship on 18 February 1966 effective 1 March 1966. She trained the Naval Reserve in the Great Lakes until being transferred to South Vietnam on 4 June 1970 and renamed HA HOI (HQ 13). She was captured by North Vietnam Forces in 1975 and was hulked and converted to a training vessel in 1998. She was later broken up.' Ship note: '(ex-MSF 280, ex-AM 280 7 Feb 1955, completed 27 Sep 1944).' IX-305 register characteristics: est. 720 light / 975 full tons; 185' oa; armament none (trainer conversion); accommodations ~98; 15 kts; 1,440 HP geared diesel, 2 screws.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-22
- Study period
- 1943-1998
- Population
- Naval Reserve trainees and custodial crew, Buffalo/Great Lakes 1962-1970
- Limitations
- Private compilation keyed to official register sources (Ships' Data U.S. Naval Vessels / Naval Vessel Register entries) - the strongest located record of the IX-305 phase and the strike/transfer sequence, but the underlying register pages are not separately reproduced. 'Comm Feb 1962' records the NRT activation, not a full re-commissioning - the status sequence (reactivated Feb 1962 vs 'recommissioned 1 Sep 1965' per NavSource vs 'decommissioned Feb 1962' per uboat.net) is flagged in gaps. The register's 3 Jun 1970 strike preceding the 4 Jun 1970 transfer is carried as recorded. Contains no asbestos information; supports no asbestos claim.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-prowess-am280-03
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[4]uboat.net Allied Warships of WWII - USS Prowess (AM 280), ship 5345 [other_primary]
- Locator
- uboat.net/allies/warships/ship/5345.html - data table
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- uboat.net per-hull record: Admirable-class minesweeper AM 280; 'Built by Gulf Shipbuilding Corp. (Chickasaw, Alabama, U.S.A.)'; laid down 15 Sep 1943; launched 17 Feb 1944; commissioned 27 Sep 1944; 'Decommissioned in December 1945 and placed in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet'; 'Recommissioned at an unknown date'; 'Decommissioned in February 1962'; reclassified IX-305 1 Mar 1966; 'Transferred to South Vietnam 4 June 1970 and renamed Ha Hoi (HQ 13)'; 'Struck from the Naval Register in 1970.'
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-22
- Study period
- 1943-1970
- Limitations
- Specialist secondary compilation - corroborates builder, dates, and the Vietnam transfer. Its 'Decommissioned in February 1962' conflicts with DANFS ('served as a naval reserve training ship from February 1962') and shipscribe ('reactivated ... February 1962') - the Feb 1962 event is the NRT activation, so uboat's label is flagged as a compilation defect in gaps rather than adopted. Contains no asbestos information; supports no asbestos claim.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-prowess-am280-04
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[5]GAO HRD-80-2, 'Asbestos: Information on the Navy's Program to Remove Asbestos-Containing Materials From Its Ships' (program-level documentation that Navy ships built before the early 1970s contain asbestos; gao.gov product-page description - full text returns HTTP 403 to automated fetch, same standing limitation as batches 01/1247/1252) + documented build era and machinery type (DANFS spec block; NavSource propulsion line; shipscribe IX-305 machinery line) [gao]
- Locator
- GAO product page HRD-80-2 (description text); NavSource 11/02280 propulsion line; DANFS construction/service dates; shipscribe IX-305 class notes
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Class/era inference: AM-280 was built and outfitted Sep 1943 - Sep 1944 at Gulf Shipbuilding, Chickasaw, under wartime Navy contracts, squarely inside the period when asbestos-containing materials were standard in naval vessel construction - machinery gaskets and packing, exhaust and hot-surface insulation, electrical insulation, and interior fireproofing, joiner, and deck materials - and every insulation installation on this hull predates the Navy's early-1970s substitution of alternative insulation materials (GAO HRD-80-2 program-level finding). Her Cooper Bessemer GSB-8 geared-diesel plant carries no boilers or steam-distribution lagging, so the era-consistent application set is materially narrower than a steam vessel's: engine exhaust and muffler lagging, valve and flange gaskets on fuel/cooling systems, machinery packing, cable insulation, compartment and joiner insulation, deck coverings. Exposure-relevant populations if any material was present: Gulf Shipbuilding construction trades (1943-44); the wartime complement ~104 and the minesweeper trainees she trained at Little Creek (Jan-Aug 1945); Atlantic Reserve Fleet layup/caretaker personnel (1945-1962); the undocumented 1962 reactivation workforce; Naval Reserve trainees and custodial crew at Buffalo/on the Great Lakes (1962-1970); RVN Navy crews (1970-75); Vietnamese People's Navy crews (1975-1998); and the hulk-conversion (1998) and scrapping workforce.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-22
- Study period
- 1943-1998
- Population
- Gulf Shipbuilding trades (1943-44); U.S. crew and trainees 1944-45; reserve-fleet personnel 1945-1962; reactivation workforce 1962; NRT personnel 1962-1970; RVN/VPN crews 1970-1998; scrapping workforce
- Limitations
- Inference from documented design, machinery type, and construction era - NOT a hull materials record. No survey, specification, or material schedule naming AM-280 was located; establishes no asbestos content, quantity, location, condition, individual exposure, or causation. The diesel (non-steam) plant makes even era-level inference weaker than for steam vessels of the same era. The 1962 reactivation scope and the entire post-1970 Vietnamese material history are undocumented in located sources.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-prowess-am280-05
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[6]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); and Fleischer, W.E., and Viles, F.J. Jr., 'A health survey of pipe covering operations in constructing naval vessels,' J Ind Hyg Toxicol 28(1):9-16 (Jan 1946), PMID 21016030 [other_primary]
- Locator
- AJIM 11(3):359-373; J Ind Hyg Toxicol 28(1):9-16 (PubMed PMID 21016030 verified via NCBI eutils this session)
- Finding type
- gov_survey
- Finding
- Peer-reviewed historical study documents that asbestos was used extensively as a fireproofing and insulating material in U.S. shipbuilding during WWII - the era and wartime construction program under which this hull was built at Gulf Shipbuilding's Chickasaw yard. The 1944-45 industrial-hygiene survey of pipe-covering operations at Navy and contract yards (conducted for the Maritime Commission) documented that 'an important ingredient of pipe covering material used on U.S. Navy vessels is amosite.'
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-22
- Study period
- 1941-1946 (survey era)
- Population
- WWII shipbuilding workforce (era context)
- Limitations
- Program/era-level documentation of asbestos use in WWII shipbuilding and naval-vessel construction generally; neither source names this vessel, class, or builder yard. Pipe-covering findings are less applicable to a diesel (non-steam) minesweeper than to steam vessels. Does not establish asbestos presence aboard AM-280.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-prowess-am280-06
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[7]Naval Historical Center / NHHC Online Library, 'Spring Styles Book #3 (1939-1944), Lot S-511 - Escort Vessel and Mine Vessel Preliminary Design Drawings' (S-511-34, 'Proposed Mine Sweeper - Design Study,' dated 2 May 1941) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- ibiblio.org/hyperwar/OnlineLibrary/photos/albums/s511-mp.htm - album commentary and drawing list (same row convention as sibling uss-prime-am279)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- NHHC Online Library's 'Spring Styles' Book #3 (1939-1944) album (Bureau of Ships preliminary design drawings, Lot S-511) documents the Admirable-class design lineage: a May 2, 1941 design study for a 750-ton, 180-foot minesweeper 'probably prepared during consideration of what became the Admirable (AM-136) class.' The class design was a mass-production simplification of the preceding Auk type, and AM-280 was one of the Gulf Shipbuilding-built units.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-22
- Study period
- 1941-1944 (design/production era)
- Limitations
- Documents the class's Navy design origin only; the album contains no materials or insulation schedules and names no individual hull. Provides design context, not ship-specific material evidence.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-prowess-am280-07
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[8]NPS National Register/National Historic Landmark nomination, USS Hazard (AM-240), NRHP ref. 79003712 - class-exemplar cross-check [nps]
- Locator
- NPS NRHP/NHL nomination form 79003712 (War in the Pacific Ship Study nomination), items 4-7; NRIS asset page
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- The sole surviving Admirable-class hull is a documented unaltered museum ship and a class sister of this hull: the NHL nomination for USS Hazard (AM-240) - Winslow Marine Railway-built, commissioned 31 October 1944 - records her as 'completely equipped and intact as it was during its years of active service,' moved from the Orange, Texas U.S. Naval Inactive Ship Facility to Omaha in 1971 (NRHP 1979, NHL 1986). For materials purposes the class's only preserved exemplar survives essentially as-built, but no public asbestos survey or hazmat disclosure for Hazard was located either. Unlike Hazard, this hull has no U.S. preservation pathway - it was transferred abroad in 1970 and scrapped in Vietnam.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-22
- Study period
- 1944; nomination circa 1979
- Population
- Museum staff/visitors at the surviving sister (class context)
- Limitations
- Class-level context only - the nomination documents the sister hull's significance and condition circa 1979, not materials or asbestos content, and says nothing about AM-280. 'Unaltered/intact' is the nomination's characterization; no ACM survey of Hazard is public. Hazard is a Winslow-built sister, not a Gulf-built one - same class, different yard.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-prowess-am280-08
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[9]NARA Catalog confirmed ship-specific holdings (catalog.archives.gov records API, queried 2026-09-22): file unit naId 192225914 'Prowess (AM-280), 9/27/44-5/14/46' (WWII Navy muster-roll series, microfilm Roll 6359, NARA College Park, unrestricted, digitized via Ancestry partnership - collection 1143); 'USS PROWESS - War History' naId 77681283 (RG 38 war-history series); 'USS PROWESS - War Diary' file units incl. naId 139861067 (12/1-31/44), naId 139885910 (1/1-31/45), naId 139957657 (3/1-31/45) [other_primary]
- Locator
- catalog.archives.gov records-search results - 'AM-280' (525 hits incl. the Prowess file units above); 'USS Prowess' (186 hits incl. war diaries and war history)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Confirmed NARA holdings for this hull (verified in the catalog index this session, not merely expected): WWII muster rolls covering the full commission period Sep 1944 - May 1946; unit war diaries Dec 1944 - Mar 1945+; and a ship war-history entry. Open leads not retrieved: NARA RG 24 deck logs (1944-46); RG 19 BuShips records / General Information Books and the Gulf Shipbuilding contract file for yard hull No. 945 - the plausible home of hull-level material schedules; Buffalo NRTC/9th Naval District records for the 1962 reactivation and 1962-1970 Great Lakes training phase; MAP/transfer documentation for the 4 Jun 1970 South Vietnam handover; Vietnamese-side records for HQ-13 service (1970-75), VPN service (1975-1998), the 1998 hulk conversion, and the undated scrapping.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-22
- Study period
- 1944-1946 records; 1962-1970 and 1970-1998 unretrieved leads
- Population
- Wartime crew named in muster rolls (1944-46)
- Limitations
- Record-group mapping plus confirmed catalog hits - no document-level retrieval performed; the catalog API does not surface page content, and existence of asbestos-specific documents for AM-280 is unknown until the records are surveyed. Muster rolls, war diaries, and war histories are personnel/operations records, not materials documentation. Nothing in this row is an asbestos finding.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-prowess-am280-09
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[10]Source-discrepancy resolution - official DANFS (Wayback capture of hazegray mirror) vs NavSource 11/02280 vs shipscribe IX-305 register page vs uboat.net 5345 vs HyperWar AM-280 stub vs Wikipedia (itself incorporating DANFS text) [other_primary]
- Locator
- web.archive.org capture of hazegray.org/danfs/mine/am280.htm vs navsource.org/archives/11/02280.htm; shipscribe.com/usnaux2/IX/IX305.html; uboat.net/allies/warships/ship/5345.html; ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USN/ships/AM/AM-280_Prowess.html; en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Prowess
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Source discrepancies logged, not silently merged: (a) Feb 1962 status event - DANFS 'served as a naval reserve training ship from February 1962,' shipscribe 'reactivated as a Naval Reserve training ship in February 1962' (construction table 'comm Feb 1962'), NavSource 'Recommissioned 1 September 1965,' and uboat.net 'Decommissioned in February 1962' describe the same NRT transition differently; the DANFS/shipscribe reading (reactivation for reserve training Feb 1962; Buffalo homeport assigned 1 Sep 1965) is carried, uboat's 'decommissioned' flagged. (b) Strike vs transfer sequence - shipscribe register table and NavSource print strike 3 Jun 1970, transfer to South Vietnam 4 Jun 1970; DANFS-era text prints only 'struck ... in 1970.' (c) Propulsion - NavSource prints 'two 1,710shp Cooper Bessemer GSB-8 diesels, National Supply Co. single reduction gear'; shipscribe's IX-305 entry reads 'Geared diesel, 2 screws,' 1,440 HP; Wikipedia's infobox prints 'ALCO 539 diesel engines ... Farrel-Birmingham single reduction gear'; HyperWar's class stub reads 'Diesel-electric engines, twin screws, 1,800 h.p.' - the geared-diesel (non-electric) plant is confirmed by the documented reduction gear, but engine make and horsepower conflict across sources (flagged in gaps). (d) Displacement - 945 t full (DANFS spec block, NavSource) vs 625 t (HyperWar stub) vs 650 t (Wikipedia infobox) vs est. 720 lt/975 full (shipscribe IX-305 trainer figures). (e) First CO - hazegray DANFS transcription 'Lt. Comdr. J. W. Meire' vs NavSource roster 'LCDR Joseph Walter Meiere, USNR' (27 Sep 1944 - 16 Jul 1945) - transcription variance, flagged.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- correction
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-22
- Study period
- 1943-1998
- Limitations
- Resolves publication-level discrepancies among the official DANFS text, the register compilation, and secondary compilations, adopting the better-supported values and flagging the rest. Post-1970 Vietnamese history rests on NavSource/shipscribe corroborated in outline by Wikipedia - no Vietnamese primary record was located. No asbestos content in any of these sources.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-prowess-am280-10
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[11]Batch-1254 search ledger (this record): official DANFS via Wayback capture of hazegray mirror; NavSource 11/02280; shipscribe IX-305 register page; uboat.net 5345; HyperWar AM-280 stub; NVR SHIPSDETAIL checks (IX_305 and AM_280); NARA catalog records API; CourtListener API v4 (type=r run, type=o blocked); indexed-web litigation substitute; NPS designation registers; marketing-site exclusion check [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-prowess-am280-01 through sl-uss-prowess-am280-13
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located for USS Prowess / AM-280 / MSF-280 / IX-305 / Ha Hoi (HQ-13): no asbestos survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, preservation record, court finding, or docketed asbestos case naming this hull was found in the public sources searched (see search_ledger). CourtListener coverage this session: the authenticated API v4 RECAP/docket query type=r 'USS Prowess' ran and returned 0 dockets; the opinion-index queries (type=o 'USS Prowess', 'AM-280', 'IX-305') could not run - the shared 2,800/day authenticated quota was exhausted by prior batch work on this machine (HTTP 429; 'Expected available' grew to ~38,700s during the session, i.e., past the daily reset) and was not retried into a ban per batch rules - same wall hit by sibling batches today (incl. 1236, 1252). Indexed-web substitute queries surfaced only English-word 'prowess' collisions in unrelated RECAP PDFs and marketing-roster name mentions (mesothelioma.com's minesweeper page tabulates 'USS Prowess | AM-280 | Admirable | 9/27/1944 | To Vietnam, 1970'; mesotheliomahelp.org lists 'USS Prowess' generically) - excluded per source rules, no hull-specific evidence. The hull's foreign disposal (South Vietnam 1970, capture 1975, VPN service to 1998, scrapping in Vietnam) places it outside NDRF/MARAD custody records and U.S. disposal-era survey regimes.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-22
- Study period
- 2026-09-22
- Limitations
- Absence of a located public record does not prove absence of asbestos aboard - a 1943-44-built vessel is era-consistent with asbestos-containing materials even accounting for its lighter diesel insulation load. IMPORTANT: the CourtListener opinion sweep did not run (quota exhausted, shared limit) - 'no qualifying case located' reflects the completed RECAP/docket query (0 results), the non-litigation repositories, and degraded indexed queries only; a differently-phrased hull reference may exist in the opinion index. Does not establish presence or absence; does not establish or defeat any exposure claim or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-prowess-am280-11
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[12]Air & Liquid Systems Corp. v. DeVries, 586 U.S. 446 (2019), CourtListener opinion 4601080 - bare-metal-defense doctrinal context [court_record]
- Locator
- CourtListener opinion 4601080
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- No case located names this hull (see negative_finding row and search_ledger - the CourtListener RECAP/docket query returned 0 and the opinion sweep was blocked). Doctrinal context only for the vessel's type: claims arising from WWII-era Navy-vessel asbestos exposure ran under maritime law against equipment manufacturers, and the Supreme Court's DeVries decision settled the 'bare-metal defense' framework - manufacturers that supplied bare equipment had a duty to warn where their products required asbestos-containing parts. It illustrates the litigation posture claims arising from service aboard a WWII diesel minesweeper would have faced; no such claim naming Prowess was located.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-22
- Study period
- 2019 decision
- Limitations
- Doctrinal context only - the cited case does not name or involve this hull, and DeVries addressed manufacturers' duty to warn for asbestos-containing components on Navy vessels generally. Classification note: a complaint's vessel list would be a pleading allegation, not a finding; no pleading naming this hull was located in the searches performed.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-prowess-am280-12