Evidence
6 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-6).
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[1]research packet 902-packet.md (2 sources cited) [other_primary]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: PHANTOM
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-sc-525-sc525-pkt-902-packet-md
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[2]NavSource Online, Submarine Chaser Photo Archive, SC-525 ex-PC-525 (live hull page verified 2026-10-03) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Hull page, SC-497 Class Submarine Chaser timeline
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- The hull record identifies SC-525 as an SC-497-class submarine chaser: laid down 3 July 1941 by Mathis Yacht Building Co., Camden, NJ; launched 21 November 1941; commissioned USS PC-525 on 1 May 1942; reclassified SC-525 in April 1943; transferred to France on 8 October 1944 and reclassified CH-102; fate unknown.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 1941-1944
- Population
- Mathis construction workforce; U.S. Navy crew; French Navy personnel after 1944 transfer
- Limitations
- Ship-specific identity and milestone record, but NavSource is a volunteer compilation rather than a Navy registry. The page states that no DANFS history is available for SC-525. It does not document asbestos, materials, exposure, or causation.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-sc-525-sc525-01
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[3]NavSource Online, SC-525 hull-page specifications (live page verified 2026-10-03) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Hull page, Specifications block
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- The hull page gives a wooden 110-foot craft with 148 tons displacement, 110 ft 10 in length, 17 ft beam, 6 ft 6 in draft, 15.6-knot speed, complement 28, one 40mm mount, two .50-caliber machine guns, two Y-gun depth-charge projectors, two depth-charge tracks, and two 880-bhp General Motors 8-268A diesel engines through Snow and Knobstedt single-reduction gear to two shafts.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 1941-1944
- Population
- Ship's crew and maintenance personnel
- Limitations
- Specifications establish a diesel-powered small combatant and therefore the absence of a steam-boiler propulsion pathway; they do not establish asbestos content or any individual exposure.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-sc-525-sc525-02
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[4]National Archives, Special List #44, by Ship Numbers (live PDF verified 2026-10-03) [other_primary]
- Locator
- PDF p. 105, entries for SC-525
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- NARA's ship-number finding aid lists SC-525 twice, with deck-log coverage from 1 October 1942 through 31 December 1942 and from 1 August 1942 through 8 October 1944. The entries provide an archival lead for commissioned-service records through the transfer date, not a materials or asbestos finding.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 1942-1944
- Population
- U.S. Navy ship's company and deck-log recordkeepers
- Limitations
- Special List #44 is a finding aid; the underlying deck logs were not retrieved or reviewed. The dates do not independently establish every service event or actual crew complement.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-sc-525-sc525-03
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[5]U.S. Government Accountability Office, Navy Efforts To Protect Workers From Asbestos Exposure, HRD-80-2 (1979), live product page verified 2026-10-03 [gao]
- Locator
- GAO HRD-80-2 product page
- Finding type
- gov_survey
- Finding
- GAO's Navy asbestos-protection report supplies program-level historical context for extensive Navy shipboard asbestos use during the World War II construction and service era; that context places SC-525 inside the relevant era but does not name this hull.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 1940s-1979
- Population
- Navy shipyard and shipboard workers covered by the program review
- Limitations
- Program-level context only; it does not establish that asbestos was installed aboard SC-525, identify a product, quantify material, or establish exposure. Full report text was not retrieved in this session; the live product page was verified.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-sc-525-sc525-04
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[6]Batch-7900 research sweep: NavSource hull page; NARA Special List #44; GAO HRD-80-2; CourtListener helper attempt and fleet limiter status [other_primary]
- Locator
- Batch-7900 search ledger and CourtListener helper stderr
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record was located in the non-litigation sources reviewed: no survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, or product record naming SC-525 was found. CourtListener litigation status is unresolved because the authenticated helper returned the fleet-wide pacing stand-down before the required four-query sweep could be completed.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 2026-10-03
- Limitations
- This is an incomplete-search finding, not proof that asbestos was absent and not a litigation no-result. One exact-name opinion attempt was blocked by the shared limiter; the exact-name docket and hull-number opinion/docket queries were not run after the stand-down. No asbestos variants were run because no base query completed and variants were not authorized blind.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-sc-525-sc525-05