USS YMS-268

Evidence

9 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-9).

1. [1]research packet 1044-packet.md (1 sources cited) [other_primary]

   Finding type

   vessel_history

   Finding

   Identity packet verdict: VERIFIED

   Verification

   verified

   Role

   supporting

   Documentation level

   ship_specific

   Evidence ID

   uss-yms-268-yms268-pkt-1044-packet-md

2. [2]DANFS, Lapwing II (YMS-268), Naval History and Heritage Command (live page verified 2026-10-04) [nhhc_danfs]

   Locator

   DANFS 'Lapwing II (YMS-268)' entry, specifications block + service narrative

   Finding type

   vessel_history

   Finding

   DANFS record for this hull: YMS-268 laid down 1 December 1942 by Kruse & Banks Shipbuilding Co., North Bend, Oreg.; launched 15 April 1943; sponsored by Mrs. J. H. Granger; commissioned 31 July 1943. After shakedown along the west coast, trained minesweeper crews out of San Pedro, Calif., for most of the war. Arrived Pearl Harbor 26 May 1945 for deployment to the western Pacific; assigned to the 7th Fleet, operated out of Guam, the Philippines, and Okinawa from July to August; following the surrender of Japan, removed mines from Tokyo Bay and around the island of Honshu. Departed Kobe 9 March 1946, reached San Francisco 24 April; steamed to the Great Lakes via the St. Lawrence River; arriving Chicago 25 July, assigned to the 9th Naval District Reserve Training program; decommissioned and placed in service 1 November 1946. Reclassified AMS-48 and named Lapwing 1 September 1947; continued Reserve Training operations. Recommissioned 12 February 1951 at Orange, Tex., Lt. Charles M. Kirkham in command; arriving Charleston, S.C., 19 March, engaged in east-coast operations developing new mine-warfare techniques until 1957; reclassified MSC(O)-48 on 7 February 1955. Decommissioned 15 November 1957 at New York and entered the Atlantic Reserve Fleet; struck from the Navy list 1 November 1959. One battle star for World War II service. Specifications: dp. 236; l. 136'; b. 24'6"; dr. 10'; s. 15 k.; cpl. 32; armament 1 3-inch, 2 20-mm., 2 dcp., 2 dct.; class YMS-135.

   Verification

   verified

   Role

   supporting

   Documentation level

   ship_specific

   Accessed

   2026-10-04

   Study period

   1942-1959

   Population

   Kruse & Banks construction trades 1942-43; wartime and postwar crew (complement 32); Naval Reserve trainees 1946-51

   Limitations

   DANFS documents service history and specifications, not materials or asbestos content. Decommission dates conflict with NavSource (carried in gaps). The live NHHC page loaded at research time - no mirror or archive workaround was needed.

   Atlas source

   true

   Evidence ID

   ev-uss-yms-268-yms268-01

3. [3]NavSource Online: Mine Warfare Vessel Photo Archive, Lapwing (MSC[O] 48) ex-AMS-48 ex-YMS-268 (live navsource.net page verified 2026-10-04) [other_primary]

   Locator

   NavSource 11/19268 page, ship history bullet list + specifications block

   Finding type

   vessel_history

   Finding

   NavSource record for this hull: laid down as YMS-268 1 December 1942 by Kruse and Banks Shipbuilding Co., North Bend, OR; launched 15 April 1943; completed 28 June 1943; commissioned USS YMS-268 31 July 1943; decommissioned 2 August 1946; placed in service as a Reserve Training Ship 1 November 1946 at Chicago, IL; Naval Vessel Register of 1 January 1949 lists the plan for placing in service as a Naval Reserve training ship in the 9th Naval District (Great Lakes) as September 1947; named Lapwing and reclassified Motor Minesweeper AMS-48 1 September 1947; recommissioned 12 February 1951 at Orange, TX; reclassified Coastal Minesweeper (Old) MSC(O)-48 7 February 1955; decommissioned 17 November 1957 at New York; struck from the Naval Register 1 November 1959; sold in 1963 to Humphreys Railways, Inc. of Weems, VA for use as a fishing boat and renamed Weems; sold to the Standard Products Co., Inc. of Kilmarnock, VA; sold to Yale H. Iverson of Beaufort, NC and renamed Endeavor; sold in the early 1990s to a religious order from Ohio for planned use as an outward bound training ship (not known if this materialized); out of documentation in 1991 and reported foundered. Specifications: 270 t.; 136'; 24'6"; 8' draft; 15 kts.; complement 32; propulsion two 880bhp General Motors 8-268A diesel engines, Snow and Knobstedt single reduction gear, two shafts; original armament (one 3"/50, two 20mm, two depth charge projectors) later replaced by one 40mm mount and two .50 cal. machine guns.

   Verification

   verified

   Role

   supporting

   Documentation level

   ship_specific

   Accessed

   2026-10-04

   Study period

   1942-1991

   Population

   Wartime and postwar crew; Naval Reserve trainees; commercial fishing crews 1963-1991

   Limitations

   NavSource is a curated secondary compilation; it corroborates DANFS and supplies the completion date, propulsion detail, and post-Navy fate. It conflicts with DANFS on both decommission dates (1946-08-02 vs 1946-11-01; 1957-11-17 vs 1957-11-15) - carried in gaps. The post-1959 commercial chain (Weems / Endeavor) rests on NavSource alone. Documents service history, not materials or asbestos content.

   Atlas source

   true

   Evidence ID

   ev-uss-yms-268-yms268-02

4. [4]NARA Special List 44, List of Logbooks of U.S. Navy Ships, Stations, and Miscellaneous Units, 1801-1947 - ship-number list (live PDF verified 2026-10-04) [other_primary]

   Locator

   Special List 44 ship-number PDF, page 117, YMS-268 line (7/31/1943 - 12/31/1945)

   Finding type

   historical_record

   Finding

   NARA Special List 44 (ship-number list, PDF page 117) records U.S. Navy deck logs for YMS-268 covering 7/31/1943-12/31/1945 - spanning this hull's commissioned World War II period from commissioning (31 July 1943) through the end of 1945: San Pedro minesweeper-crew training, the Pearl Harbor / 7th Fleet deployment (Guam, Philippines, Okinawa), and post-surrender mine clearance in Japanese waters.

   Verification

   verified

   Role

   archival_lead

   Documentation level

   ship_specific

   Accessed

   2026-10-04

   Study period

   1943-1945

   Population

   Crew of YMS-268, 1943-1945

   Limitations

   The list entry confirms log coverage and NARA custody (Record Group 24), not log content; the YMS-268 logs are not digitized in the National Archives Catalog as of the access date and were not reviewed. Coverage dates are logbook dates, not claimed commissioning/decommissioning dates. Post-1945 log holdings for this hull are not itemized in this entry and are unverified.

   Atlas source

   true

   Evidence ID

   ev-uss-yms-268-yms268-03

5. [5]Anjeski v. Keene Building & Development Co., 727 F. Supp. 331 (E.D. Mich. 1989) [court_record]

   Locator

   CourtListener opinion 1461072; Justia mirror law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/727/331/1461072/ (search-index snippet)

   Finding type

   litigation_documented

   Finding

   Published asbestos personal-injury opinion surfaced by the exact-name CourtListener search for "Lapwing": the estate of Robert Anjeski alleged his death was caused by exposure to asbestos products while he was a boiler room operator aboard "the U.S.S. Lapwing" during World War II. This does not attach to the present hull: during World War II this hull was YMS-268 (it was not named Lapwing until 1 September 1947) and was diesel-powered with no boiler room; the World War II-era USS Lapwing was AM-1, a steam-powered Lapwing-class minesweeper. Classified as a name collision with the earlier hull (AM-1), not as documentation for YMS-268 / AMS-48 / MSC(O)-48.

   Verification

   partial

   Role

   correction

   Documentation level

   context_only

   Accessed

   2026-10-04

   Study period

   1940s (alleged exposure); 1989 (opinion)

   Population

   Robert Anjeski (alleged WWII boiler room operator, USS Lapwing AM-1); asbestos products defendants

   Limitations

   Classified down per litigation-stage discipline: the exposure allegation is an unadjudicated recital in any event, and on the WWII/boiler-room facts it concerns USS Lapwing (AM-1), not this hull. The CourtListener search result verifies the opinion, court, date, and the "Lapwing" match; the allegation's wording is corroborated via the Justia mirror's indexed snippet - direct full-text fetch was blocked (Justia HTTP 403) and direct CourtListener page fetches are disallowed by batch rule (all CourtListener access via the authenticated helper).

   Atlas source

   true

   Evidence ID

   ev-uss-yms-268-yms268-04

6. [6]CourtListener API v4 exact-name opinion search, "Lapwing" (authenticated, via fleet helper cl-auth-search.py) [court_record]

   Locator

   CourtListener API v4 search type=o q="Lapwing" limit=20 (2026-10-04)

   Finding type

   litigation_documented

   Finding

   CourtListener exact-name opinion search for "Lapwing" returned 34 opinions (overflowing the 20-result page - a high-collision name). Every reviewed hit is a name collision, not qualifying litigation for this hull: the civilian tug "Lapwing" tow cases (The Lapwing, E.D. La. 1944, opinion 8893968; Wilbanks & Pierce, Inc. v. Hendry, 5th Cir. 1945, opinion 6992466), a taxicab company (Lapwing Cab Corp., Milosevic v. Mouladi, N.Y. App. Div. 2010), and the AM-1 asbestos collision treated at ev-uss-yms-268-yms268-04. No qualifying asbestos litigation naming USS YMS-268 / Lapwing (AMS-48) was identified in the reviewed set.

   Verification

   verified

   Role

   negative_finding

   Documentation level

   context_only

   Accessed

   2026-10-04

   Study period

   1944-2010 (opinions reviewed)

   Limitations

   The 34-hit base query overflowed the 20-result page; the unreviewed remainder is unclassified (carried in gaps). Docket-type and hull-number base queries were pending at the time this row was written - see the search_ledger for final status; the litigation record is a partial negative, not a full one.

   Atlas source

   true

   Evidence ID

   ev-uss-yms-268-yms268-05

7. [7]NavSource specifications block (YMS-1 class; two 880bhp GM 8-268A diesels, two shafts) + DANFS specifications block (YMS-135 class) [other_primary]

   Locator

   NavSource 11/19268 specifications block; DANFS specifications block

   Finding type

   asbestos_application

   Finding

   Era/class inference only: a YMS-1-class (YMS-135 subclass) wooden-hulled auxiliary motor minesweeper built 1942-43 with a diesel plant (two General Motors 8-268A diesels, single-reduction gear, two shafts) has no boiler or steam-turbine lagging pathway; period-standard asbestos applications on such small diesel craft were limited to items such as exhaust lagging, gaskets, valve packing, and electrical insulation. No ship-specific source documents any of these aboard this hull.

   Verification

   inferred

   Role

   supporting

   Documentation level

   class_or_era

   Accessed

   2026-10-04

   Study period

   1942-1959

   Population

   Kruse & Banks construction trades 1942-43; crew 1943-1957

   Limitations

   Class/era inference, not a ship-specific finding; no asbestos product is documented aboard YMS-268 by any located source. The wooden hull and diesel plant materially narrow the plausible application set relative to steam combatants, but that narrowing is itself inference.

   Atlas source

   true

   Evidence ID

   ev-uss-yms-268-yms268-06

8. [8]GAO HRD-80-2, review of the Navy's efforts to protect workers from asbestos exposure (product page; live page verified 2026-10-04) [gao]

   Locator

   GAO HRD-80-2 product page, Highlights section

   Finding type

   gov_survey

   Finding

   GAO program-level review of asbestos in Navy ships: GAO examined the use of asbestos in Navy ships, the cost of removing asbestos from Navy ships, and compensation programs; the Navy's 1975 policy was to remove and replace with nonasbestos materials only insulation that was damaged or had to be removed to accomplish necessary repairs, modified in 1979 to selectively replace asbestos insulation in high-maintenance areas. Program context for Navy-wide asbestos use aboard ships of this hull's era.

   Verification

   verified

   Role

   context

   Documentation level

   context_only

   Accessed

   2026-10-04

   Study period

   1975-1980 (policy window)

   Population

   Navy shipyard workers (program level)

   Limitations

   Program-level context only: does not name this hull or the YMS-1 class; GAO fieldwork yards were Long Beach and Norfolk Naval Shipyards. Product page verified live; full-report text was not extracted this session.

   Atlas source

   true

   Evidence ID

   ev-uss-yms-268-yms268-07

9. [9]Batch 8897 research record (this file's search_ledger) [other_primary]

   Locator

   search_ledger, this record

   Finding type

   historical_record

   Finding

   Negative finding: no ship-specific asbestos documentation of any kind was located for this hull - no survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, museum or scrapping hazmat record, or qualifying court record naming YMS-268 / Lapwing (AMS-48 / MSC(O)-48). Ship-specific asbestos status is unknown; what exists is class/era inference (ev-uss-yms-268-yms268-06) and Navy-wide program context (ev-uss-yms-268-yms268-07).

   Verification

   verified

   Role

   negative_finding

   Documentation level

   ship_specific

   Accessed

   2026-10-04

   Study period

   1942-present

   Limitations

   A negative finding reflects the sources searched (see search_ledger), not the absence of asbestos aboard; no hull-specific statement is possible. CourtListener docket-type and hull-number base queries were pending when this row was written - final status in the search_ledger.

   Atlas source

   true

   Evidence ID

   ev-uss-yms-268-yms268-08