Evidence
6 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-6).
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[1]NavSource Online, Submarine Chaser Photo Archive, USCGC Air Cormorant (WAVR 415) ex-USS SC-536, ex-USS PC-536 (live URL verified 2026-10-03) [other_primary]
- Locator
- SC-536 timeline and ownership chain at page top; commanding-officer table lower page; live page checked 2026-10-03
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- SC-536 is documented as a wooden SC-497-class submarine chaser. The archival page gives keel laid 29 April 1941 by Peterson Boat Works, Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin; launched 5 March 1942; delivered 23 April 1942 and commissioned USS PC-536; reclassified SC-536 in April 1943; transferred to the Coast Guard 19 February 1946 and commissioned USCGC Air Cormorant (WAVR 415); struck from the Naval Register 12 March 1946; sold 9 February 1948; sold in 1951 to Murray Suthergreen of Seattle and renamed Moonlight Maid; later owners Petersburg Processors (1970), Craig M. Blau (1989), Varga Fisheries (2005), Moonlight Maid LLC (2006), and Nathan R. Tueller (2008); foundered and sank 20 September 2012 about 55 miles south of Seward in the vicinity of Seal Rocks, Chiswell Islands, Gulf of Alaska, at reported position 59 deg. 10.2' N, 149 deg. 30.0' W. Commanding officers listed: LT William F. Stokey, USNR (23 April 1942) and LTJG R. L. Heilman, USNR (1945).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 1941-2012
- Population
- Peterson construction workforce; U.S. Navy operating crew (complement 28); U.S. Coast Guard crew 1946-1948; commercial fishing crews 1951-2012
- Limitations
- Ship-specific historical record only; it does not document asbestos, material content, exposure, abatement, or litigation. The NavSource page is an archival compilation, not a current NVR record, and it provides no wartime operational narrative. The page itself notes that no DANFS history is available for SC-536.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-sc-536-sc536-01
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[2]NavSource SC-536 specification block (live URL verified 2026-10-03) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Specifications block mid-page
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- The page reports 95 tons displacement, 110 feet 10 inches length, 17 feet beam, 6 feet 6 inches draft (full load), 21 knots, complement 28, armament of one 40 mm gun mount, one or two twin-mount .50-caliber machine guns, two or three depth-charge projector K Guns, 14 depth charges with six single release chocks, and two sets of Mk 20 Mousetrap rails with four 7.2-inch projectiles, and propulsion of two 1,540-bhp General Motors (Electro-Motive Division) 16-184A diesel engines with two shafts.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 1942-1948
- Population
- Navy and Coast Guard operating crews, 1942-1948
- Limitations
- Ship-specific specifications only; no asbestos content, exposure measurement, work package, or present-condition finding. Specification figures are as reported by the archival page and are not independently surveyed.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-sc-536-sc536-02
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[3]Naval History and Heritage Command, DANFS index SC-501 through SC-600, SC-536 entry (archived copy, captured 2025-02-02; live NHHC page returned 404 during live verification 2026-10-03) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- SC-536 entry within the SC-501 through SC-600 index page
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- The NHHC index entry records SC-536 built at Peterson Boat Works, Sturgeon Bay, with keel laid 29 April 1941, launched 5 March 1942, commissioned 23 April 1942, and transferred to the Coast Guard 19 February 1946. These dates match the NavSource archival page without discrepancy.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 1941-1946
- Population
- Navy construction and operating populations
- Limitations
- Cited URL is an archived copy because the live NHHC page returned 404 to automated fetch on 2026-10-03; the live URL is https://www.history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/s/sc-501-sc-600v1.html. The index lists the hull under its later SC designation and does not mention the interim PC-536 commission designation, the Coast Guard cutter name, the post-Navy commercial history, or any asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-sc-536-sc536-03
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[4]National Transportation Safety Board, Foundering of the Fishing Vessel Moonlight Maid, investigation DCA12LM027, report MAB-14-05 (live URL verified 2026-10-03) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Investigation page: What Happened, What We Found, Investigation Details sections
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- The NTSB investigated the 20 September 2012 foundering of the wooden-hulled uninspected fishing vessel Moonlight Maid near the Chiswell Islands, about 55 miles south of Seward in the Gulf of Alaska. The vessel sprung a plank in heavy seas and flooded; the crew of four abandoned ship into a life raft and was hoisted to safety by a U.S. Coast Guard helicopter without injury; the loss was estimated at $400,000. Probable cause was detachment of portside hull planking in heavy weather resulting in uncontrolled flooding, with inadequate maintenance of the aging wooden vessel contributing.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 2012
- Population
- Four-person commercial fishing crew; Coast Guard rescue personnel
- Limitations
- The NTSB record names the vessel only as Moonlight Maid and does not state its ex-SC-536 naval identity; the linkage is through the NavSource-documented ownership chain. It is a casualty investigation, not a material or hazmat survey: it does not address asbestos, and it predates any wreck-site material assessment (none located).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-sc-536-sc536-04
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[5]U.S. General Accounting Office, Navy Efforts To Protect Workers From Asbestos Exposure, HRD-80-2 (18 October 1979; live product page and PDF returned 403 to automated fetch; product-page highlight and full report text verified via Wayback captures of 2025-04-02 and 2026-08-10) [gao]
- Locator
- GAO HRD-80-2 Highlights and Enclosure I application discussion in full report text
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- GAO's Navy program review states that each Navy ship had several types of asbestos-containing materials installed; that thermal insulation for machinery, equipment, and piping systems was the major application of asbestos; and that asbestos was also used in electrical resistors in Navy electronic equipment, in tile on Navy ship decks, in cabling such as in Navy galley ranges, in piping-system gaskets and packing, and in Navy ship equipment brakes and clutches. SC-536's 1941-42 construction and 1942-46 Navy service fall within the historical Navy shipbuilding period addressed by this context.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- Report published 1979; 1941-1946 service context
- Population
- Navy shipbuilding, repair, and operating populations at program level
- Limitations
- Class/era and Navy-program context only. GAO does not name SC-536 and does not establish that any listed product was installed aboard this hull, its quantity or condition, individual exposure, causation, or legal eligibility. The review's field work concerned the Long Beach and Norfolk Naval Shipyards decades after this vessel left Navy custody.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-sc-536-sc536-05
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[6]Batch-7911 source sweep and required authenticated CourtListener helper searches; see search_ledger [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-sc-536-sc536-01 through -04
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No ship-specific asbestos survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, material specification, or verified asbestos litigation record naming USS SC-536, PC-536, USCGC Air Cormorant, or Moonlight Maid was located in the sources reviewed. The four required CourtListener base searches were invoked through the authenticated helper in two separate attempts during the session; both times the fleet limiter reported that its paced request budget was momentarily spent before usable result payloads could be obtained. Litigation status is therefore blocked, not a negative result. No asbestos-qualified variants were run because base-query overflow was not established.
- 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 or absence of litigation. The CourtListener helper was the only litigation access path used; no anonymous, raw, or v3 API request was made.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-sc-536-sc536-06