Evidence
10 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-10).
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[1]DANFS collective tabulation 'SC-601 - SC-700', SC-695 entry (NHHC official) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- SC-695 entry within 'SC-601 - SC-700' tabulation
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS entry for this hull, verbatim: 'Built at Daytona Beach Boat Works Inc., Daytona Beach, Fla. Keel laid 3/21/42. Launched 7/4/42. Commissioned 10/20/42. Transferred to France 11/16/44.' The collective page is a bare tabulation - no service narrative, no individual DANFS history exists for this hull (NavSource confirms 'There is no DANFS history available for SC-695' beyond this tabulation).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 1942-1944 (entry coverage)
- Population
- Daytona Beach Boat Works construction trades (1942); crew (1942-44)
- Limitations
- Ship-specific identity/milestones only; no asbestos or material content. The entry does not record the commissioning designation (PC-695), the French pennant (CH-133), or post-transfer history - those come from other rows. Page verified live via Firecrawl 2026-10-03; the same URL returned HTTP 404 to a bare curl fetch (NHHC user-agent filtering / documented NHHC link-rot pattern).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-sc695-01
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[2]NavSource Online: Submarine Chaser Photo Archive, SC-695 (ex-PC-695) - designation timeline, specifications, call sign NWZS [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource 12/150695.htm header block, timeline, and specifications block
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NavSource timeline for this hull (header 'SC-695, ex-PC-695'): laid down 21 March 1942 by Daytona Beach Boat Works Inc., Daytona Beach, FL; launched 4 July 1942; commissioned USS PC-695, 20 October 1942; reclassified SC-695 in April 1943; 'Transferred to France and reclassified CH-133, 16 November 1944'; fate unknown. Specifications block: displacement 148 t.; length 110' 10"; beam 17'; draft 6' 6"; speed 15.6 kts.; complement 28; armament one 40mm mount, two .50 cal. machine guns, two depth charge projector 'Y Guns,' and two depth charge tracks; propulsion two 880bhp General Motors 8-268A diesel engines, Snow and Knobstedt single reduction gear, two shafts. Call sign Nan-William-Zebra-Sugar (NWZS). Single photograph credited to Anitia Tiffany Dunford.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 1942-1966
- Population
- Daytona Beach Boat Works construction trades (1942); crew (1942-44); Free French / French Navy crew (1944-66)
- Limitations
- NavSource is a volunteer secondary compilation, not a primary registry - milestone dates here agree with DANFS and uboat.net. 'Fate unknown' is superseded for the payoff year by the French postal-history file (ev-05); final disposal still undocumented. Contains no asbestos content. Spec block differs from class-level figures on displacement, speed, complement, and engine rating (see gaps).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-sc695-02
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[3]uboat.net Allied Warships of WWII, USS SC-695 (SC-695) warship entry (ship/8913) [other_primary]
- Locator
- uboat.net ship/8913 data table and history line
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- uboat.net warship entry: USS SC-695, submarine chaser of the SC-497 class; built by Daytona Beach Boat Works Inc. (Daytona Beach, Florida); ordered 16 February 1942; laid down 21 March 1942; launched 4 July 1942; commissioned 20 October 1942; end service 16 November 1944; history note 'Transferred to France on 16 November 1944 being renamed CH-133.' No commanding officers listed.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 1942-1944
- Limitations
- Specialist secondary database, not a primary registry - corroborates the DANFS/NavSource timeline and adds the order date (16 Feb 1942) found nowhere else consulted; the order date is single-source. Contains no asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-sc695-03
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[4]Naval Marine Archive (The Canadian Collection), 'Daytona Beach Boat Works, Daytona Beach FL' - yard history and build list [other_primary]
- Locator
- navalmarinearchive.com Daytona Beach yard page, build-table row 'SC 695' and yard-history paragraph
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Yard table row for this hull: 'SC 695 | US Navy | Sub Chaser | 136 | 110 | 20-Oct-42 | To Free French 1944 as CH 133' - corroborating the CH-133 identity and delivery date. Yard context: Daytona Beach Boat Works was built in 1938 by Sherburn M. Becker at an investment of nearly $500,000 and 'so lavishly equipped and outfitted that it was described at the time as pretentious'; postwar it operated as a marina/yacht-service contractor until closing in 1960, then reorganized as Daytona Marina & Boat Works, still a marina today; the yard stood on the Intracoastal Waterway just south of Daytona's South Bridge (619 South Beach Street). Sister hulls built at the same yard on adjacent contracts include SC-668, SC-669, SC-694 (sunk off Palermo 23-Aug-43), SC-696 (sunk off Palermo 23-Aug-43), SC-697 (to Free French as CH-92), and SC-1302 through SC-1308, SC-1484-SC-1487.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 1938-1960 (yard history); 1942 (this hull)
- Population
- Daytona Beach Boat Works construction trades (1942)
- Limitations
- Museum-archive research page (secondary compilation) - the table confirms the CH-133 assignment independently of NavSource/uboat.net. No asbestos content; no work-package or materials record for the build.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-sc695-04
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[5]Marines de Guerre et Poste Navale (postenavalemilitaire.com), vessel sheet 'CHASSEUR CH 133 (1944/1966)' - French-service career of ex-SC-695 [other_primary]
- Locator
- postenavalemilitaire.com CH-133 fiche, HISTORIQUE and CARACTERISTIQUES blocks
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- French naval postal-history file for CH 133: 'Chasseur SC-695 de l'U.S Navy, il fut transfere a la Royale en novembre 1944. Toujours base a Toulon, il fut tour a tour Patrouilleur puis Station de Demagnetisation (1965).' Hull symbols CH133, CH726, P726, A756; mis en service 16 novembre 1944; desarme 3 mai 1966; French characteristics: 110 tonnes, 33.70 m x 5.70 m, 2 m draft, 1,000 cv, 15.6/21 knots, crew 27/28, armament 1 x 40 mm and 3 x 20 mm.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 1944-1966
- Population
- French Navy crew, Toulon-based (1944-66); deperming-station staff (1965-66)
- Limitations
- Specialist collector/historian forum file - secondary sourcing; it supplies the 1966 payoff date and the postwar pennant sequence that NavSource lacks ('fate unknown'), but final disposal after payoff is not documented. French-service figures (displacement, power, crew) differ from the U.S.-era spec block - see gaps. Contains no asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-sc695-05
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[6]Designation cross-check: NavSource SC-695 page ('ex-PC-695' header; commissioned USS PC-695 20 Oct 1942, reclassified SC-695 April 1943); NavSource SC index (class pattern 'SC-497 ex-PC-497'); PC-461-class closed enumeration per batch re-scope (Trill fact-QA) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource 12/150695.htm header; NavSource 12/15idx.htm class index; batch re-scope note
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- CORRECTION/clarification: this hull was commissioned under the designation USS PC-695 and reclassified SC-695 in April 1943 (NavSource ship page; class-wide pattern - the SC index carries 'SC-497 ex-PC-497'). The PC-695 designation was administrative: the hull was always a 110-foot wooden SC-497-class submarine chaser, never a PC-461-class 173-foot steel patrol craft - the PC-461 enumeration closed at 341 completed + 60 cancelled hulls and does not contain PC-679 through PC-720 (batch re-scope QA, crew signs 924-929). A vessel record for 'PC-695' as a patrol craft therefore does not exist - the identity resolves to this hull.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- correction
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 1942-1943 (designation window)
- Limitations
- Corrects a designation collision, not a material claim. The commissioned-as-PC-695 detail itself rests on NavSource alone (DANFS lists the hull only as SC-695); the April 1943 reclassification month is NavSource's. No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-sc695-06
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[7]Patrol Craft Sailors Association, 'Information on WWII SCs' - class specifications, program totals, Lend-Lease distribution, loss/damage table; corroborated by splinterfleet.org (Theodore R. Treadwell) [other_primary]
- Locator
- ww2pcsa.org/subchaser.html spec table, program tables, loss/damage table; splinterfleet.org home page
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Class-level program documentation: 475 SC-497-class subchasers ordered, 37 cancelled, 438 delivered at roughly $500,000 each; 142 transferred under Lend-Lease (France 50, Russia 78, Brazil 8, Mexico 3, Norway 3); USN conversions totaled 84 (8 PGM gunboats, 18 AMC minesweepers, 70 SCC beach control craft). The PCSA loss/damage table for the class does not list SC-695 - consistent with her surviving to the 1944 French transfer. Class characteristics per PCSA: 110' 10" length, 17' 11.5" beam, 98 tons, two 1,200 bhp 'Straight 8s' or GM Pancake diesels, 19 knots, complement 3 officers + 25 enlisted; Treadwell's Splinter Fleet gives normal complement 3 officers + 24 enlisted.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 1941-1946
- Population
- SC-497-class crews and builders (class context)
- Limitations
- Class- and program-level data, not a hull record - SC-695 is not named on the page; her absence from the loss table corroborates survival but is negative evidence only. PCSA class figures (98 tons, 1,200 bhp, 19 knots) differ from this hull's NavSource spec block (148 t, 880 bhp GM 8-268A, 15.6 kts) - reflecting known within-class fit variation; see gaps. No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-sc695-07
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[8]Era inference built on: NavSource ship-specific spec block (two 880 bhp GM 8-268A diesels, twin shafts - diesel plant, no boilers); PCSA/Treadwell class characteristics (wooden hull); GAO HRD-80-2 program-level finding (Navy asbestos insulation use through early 1970s - see ev-08) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource 12/150695.htm specifications; ww2pcsa.org/subchaser.html; gao.gov/products/hrd-80-2 (see ev-09)
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- A wooden-hulled diesel submarine chaser built 1942 sits inside the Navy's documented asbestos-use era, but its plant profile narrows the likely applications: with no boilers or steam piping, the boiler/turbine lagging pathway of larger combatants does not apply. Era-standard applications aboard a small diesel combatant of this period were diesel-exhaust and machinery lagging, gaskets and packing in engine and fuel systems, electrical insulation, and manufactured deck/floor materials. Both service careers - U.S. 1942-44 and French 1944-66 - predate the Navy's early-1970s substitution of alternative insulation materials.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 1942-1966
- Population
- Daytona Beach Boat Works construction trades (1942); USN crew (1942-44); French Navy crew and Toulon yard/deperming personnel (1944-66)
- Limitations
- Class/era inference only - no hull-specific insulation survey, material list, or work package located for SC-695/CH-133. Names era-standard applications, not confirmed installed materials; no quantity; no manufacturer attribution. Diesel craft carried materially less asbestos tonnage than steam combatants.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-sc695-08
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[9]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 construction (1942), U.S. service (1942-44), and most of her French career (1944-66).
- 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-sc695-09
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[10]Batch-8069 search ledger (this record): DANFS SC-601-700 tabulation; NavSource ship page and class index; uboat.net warship entry; Naval Marine Archive Daytona Beach yard table; postenavalemilitaire.com CH-133 file; PCSA class page; splinterfleet.org; smmlonline (dead); NARA deck-log lead; CourtListener (name queries zero, hull queries blocked); secondary web litigation sweep [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-sc695-01 through sl-uss-sc695-10
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, or verified litigation naming USS SC-695 / PC-695 / CH-133 was found in the public sources searched (see search_ledger). CourtListener name-variant searches 'USS SC-695' returned zero results in both the opinion (type=o) and docket (type=r) indexes; the 'SC-695' hull-number opinion/docket queries could not be completed - the authenticated fleet-wide request budget was momentarily spent on every retry (helper exit 2, stand-down guidance; six spaced attempts across ~85 minutes) - logged as blocked, not a negative result. Secondary web sweeps surfaced no qualifying case; the only 'asbestos aboard' material is law-firm marketing content (generic 'SC Submarine Chaser (110-foot)' entries on mesothelioma firm listicles) asserting asbestos without primary sourcing - excluded by source policy.
- 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 - and the litigation search is only partial: two of four base queries returned clean zero results, the hull-number pair is a genuine open gap (throttled, not run). NARA deck logs (RG 24/38), Daytona Beach work packages, and French Navy disposal records are undigitized leads. Does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-sc695-10