Evidence
12 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-12).
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[1]research packet 1060-packet.md [other_primary]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERIFIED
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-yms-374-yms374-pkt-1060-packet-md
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[2]NavSource Online: Mine Warfare Vessel Photo Archive, Kite (MSC[O] 22) ex-AMS-22 ex-YMS-374 - construction, milestones, specs, commanding-officer list, photo captions (live page verified 2026-10-04) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource 11/05022.htm header block, specifications block, commanding-officer table, and photo captions
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Documented for this hull: YMS-1 Class Auxiliary Motor Minesweeper; laid down 31 January 1943 by Weaver Shipyards, Orange, TX; launched 17 February 1944; completed and commissioned USS YMS-374, 31 May 1944; 'Naval Vessel Register of 1 January 1949 lists plan for decommissioning and placing in reserve as February 1947'; reclassified Motor Minesweeper AMS-22, named Kite, decommissioned 18 February 1947 at San Diego, CA and laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet; recommissioned 9 May 1949; reclassified Coastal Minesweeper (Old) MSC(O)-22, 7 February 1955; decommissioned 6 January 1956 at Chinhae, South Korea; transferred to the Republic of Korea and renamed Kim Po (MSC 520); fate unknown; call sign NDDA (Nan-Dog-Dog-Able). Spec block: displacement 270 t.; length 136'; beam 24'6"; draft 8'; speed 15 kts.; complement 32; armament one 3"/50 dual purpose gun mount, two 20mm mounts, two depth charge projectors (1955: one 40mm, two 20mm, two DCP); propulsion two 880bhp General Motors 8-268A diesel engines, Snow and Knobstedt single reduction gear, two shafts. Photo captions place YMS-374 at Weaver Shipyards 7 June 1944; one mile off Race Point, MA, 13 August 1944 (NARA 80-G-244870); San Francisco Bay c.1945-46 (NH 84984); Kite's CO Lt.(j.g.) Nicholas Grkovic in the MineDiv31 commanders' conference off Wonsan, Korea, 26 October 1950 (NARA 80-G-422081); Kite nested with nine minecraft alongside Laertes (AR-20) at Sasebo 8 October 1952 (NARA 80-G-632291); Sasebo turnover photos Dec 1955-Jan 1956.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-04
- Study period
- 1943-1956
- Population
- Weaver yard construction trades (1943-44); commissioning crew (May 1944); WWII crew (1944-47); reserve period; Korean War crew (1949-56); ROK Navy crew (1956-forward)
- Limitations
- NavSource is a volunteer secondary compilation, not a primary registry - its milestone dates track NVR/DANFS-era data and agree with DANFS, uboat.net, and NavalCoverMuseum here. Page mixes US and ROK service photography; contains no asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-yms-374-yms374-01
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[3]DANFS entry 'Kite II' (YMS-374/AMS-22/MSC(O)-22), verbatim transcription mirrored at historycentral.com 'US Navy Ships' section; identical text quoted at koreanwar.org USS Kite page. Live NHHC DANFS URLs return 404 (verified 2026-10-04) - standing NHHC link-rot defect, mirrors cited [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- historycentral.com 'Kite II YMS-374' page, full entry body; compare koreanwar.org/html/units/navy/uss_kite.htm (same DANFS text)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS documents for this hull: YMS-374 launched 17 February 1944 by Weaver Shipyards, Orange, Tex.; commissioned 31 May 1944, Lt. (j.g.) Robert A. Harris in command; shakedown out of Little Creek, Va., minesweeping in Massachusetts Bay; cleared Boston 30 September 1944 for the Pacific; Pearl Harbor 18 November; sailed 22 January 1945 escorting LST Flotilla 21 to Saipan; arrived off Iwo Jima 17 February and cleared lanes for landings scheduled two days later; post-invasion ASW patrols, escort, smoke screens; Leyte 8 March; Saipan 28 March, then nearly 5 months of Marianas operations (ASW patrols, convoy escort, submarine training exercises, plane guard for downed B-29 crews); post-war swept approaches to Jinsen (Incheon), Korea from Kakyo To Island for occupation-troop landings; Korean waters until 7 September; Nagasaki-Sasebo minesweeping; departed Japan 29 December, West Coast January 1946; reclassified AMS-22 and named Kite 18 February 1947, decommissioned same day, Pacific Reserve Fleet; recommissioned 9 May 1949, Lt. (j.g.) Nicholas Grkovic in command; repairs at San Diego and Long Beach; Pearl Harbor 25 July, cleared Hawaii 26 September for Western Pacific operations out of Japan; sailed 13 July 1950 for Pusan; sailed 12 September to clear waters approaching Inchon; arrived Wonsan in October 1950 to open the mined harbor, then Yokosuka repairs; returned to the conflict zone 5 January 1951 and continued mine clearing along the Korean coast for the rest of the conflict; remained in the Far East after the Korean truce; reclassified MSC(O)-22 7 February 1955; transferred to the South Korean Navy 6 January 1956, renamed Kim Po (MSC(O)-520). DANFS: 'Kite received 2 battle stars for World War II service and 10 stars for Korean service.'
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-04
- Study period
- 1944-1956
- Population
- Commissioning and wartime crews (1944-47); Korean War crews (1950-53); post-truce Far East crews (1953-56)
- Limitations
- Transcription mirror of the official DANFS entry - the live NHHC DANFS page is unreachable (404), so the text is cited to a verbatim mirror, not the archive original; the mirror garbles a few tokens (YJIS-374, YKS-374, '27 June 1953' for the 27 July 1953 armistice) - flagged in gaps. Battle-star count is official DANFS text; campaign-level detail (which engagements earned the 2 WWII and 10 Korean stars) is not itemized in the entry. No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-yms-374-yms374-02
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[4]Naval Historical Center (now NHHC) Online Library of Selected Images, 'USS Kite (AMS-22, later MSC(O)-22), 1944-1956, originally named YMS-374' - HyperWar/ibiblio mirror of the official NHC ship page, dated 31 August 1999 [other_primary]
- Locator
- usnsh-k/ams22.htm - 'USN Ships' entry text and photo caption block
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NHC Online Library summary for this hull: built at Orange, Texas; commissioned May 1944; stationed along the U.S. East Coast until departing for the Pacific at the end of September 1944; took part in the Iwo Jima invasion February 1945; employed in the Marianas until war's end; supported the occupation of Korea and Japan later in 1945; redesignated AMS, renamed Kite (AMS-22) and decommissioned February 1947; recommissioned May 1949 and sent to the Western Pacific; active off Pusan in the first months of the Korean war and participated in the Inchon and Wonsan operations; minesweeping and patrol duties in Korean and Japanese waters to the end of the war and into the middle of the decade; redesignated MSC(O)-22 February 1955; transferred to the Republic of Korea in 1956; 'Renamed Kim Po during her more than twenty years of Korean Navy service, she was discarded in 1977.' Photo records: NH 84984 (YMS-374 in San Francisco Bay c. late 1945-early 1946); 80-G-632291 (Kite nested alongside Laertes AR-20 at Sasebo, 8 October 1952); 80-G-422081 (Mine Division 31 COs' conference off Wonsan, 26 October 1950, Kite's CO present); USN 1045937 (Kite underway c.1949-55).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-04
- Study period
- 1944-1977
- Population
- Crews (1944-56); ROK Navy crews (1956-c.1977)
- Limitations
- Official Naval Historical Center page as mirrored by HyperWar/ibiblio - the current history.navy.mil equivalent was not located (NHHC link-rot defect); the 31 August 1999 page date predates the NHHC rename. Its 'discarded in 1977' is the only located statement of Kim Po's disposal year and is corroborated by shipbuildinghistory's 'struck 1977' - but neither is a Korean-register primary source. No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-yms-374-yms374-03
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[5]National Archives Special List #44 - List of Logbooks of U.S. Navy Ships, Stations, and Miscellaneous Units, 1801-1947 (ship-number ordering), PDF page 120 [other_primary]
- Locator
- sl-44-ship-number.pdf p. 120, entries 'YMS-374 6/1/1944 - 6/30/1945' and 'YMS-374 10/1/1946 - 12/7/1946'; RG 24 Entry 118 / NAID 581208 series per archives.gov logbook pages
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- NARA's official inventory lists two deck-log entries for YMS-374: coverage 1 June 1944 - 30 June 1945 and 1 October 1946 - 7 December 1946 - spanning her commissioning-era WWII service (Massachusetts Bay, Pacific transit, Iwo Jima, Marianas, occupation sweeping) and a short late-1946 volume ending two months before her 18 February 1947 decommissioning/renaming. The logs are held at NARA (Record Group 24, Bureau of Naval Personnel deck-log series).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-04
- Study period
- 1944-06-01 to 1946-12-07
- Population
- Crew (1944-46); names and daily movements inside the undigitized logs
- Limitations
- Inventory entry only - the logbooks themselves are not digitized: 'Kite' does not appear on the National Archives 'Navy Deck Logs Available Online' listing (checked 2026-10-04), so contents are an unexamined primary source. A 15-month gap (1 July 1945 - 30 September 1946) separates the two logbooks - the post-war occupation sweeping, the 29 December 1945 departure from Japan, and the January 1946 West Coast arrival fall inside that undocumented window. No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-yms-374-yms374-04
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[6]uboat.net Allied Warships, USS YMS-374 (YMS-374) - milestones table and notable-events records [other_primary]
- Locator
- uboat.net ship page 9793, milestones table and 'Notable events' (21 Dec 1944, 19 Jul 1945)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- uboat.net documents for this hull: ordered 13 April 1942; built by Weaver Shipyards, Orange TX; laid down 31 January 1943; launched 17 February 1944; commissioned 31 May 1944; end of service 6 January 1956; named Kite and reclassified AMS-22 on 18 February 1947; reclassified MSC(O)-22 on 7 February 1955; transferred to South Korea, renamed Kim Po. Ship-specific events: 21 December 1944 - YMS-374 conducted exercises off Pearl Harbor with USS Charr, USS Doherty, USS Cabana, USS Sicard, USS YMS 193, USS YMS 235, USS Blower, USS Ronquil, and USS Threadfin; 19 July 1945 - YMS-374 escorted USS Balao into Saipan.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-04
- Study period
- 1942-1956 (milestones); 1944-12-21 and 1945-07-19 (events)
- Population
- Crew (Dec 1944 exercises; Jul 1945 escort)
- Limitations
- uboat.net is a curated secondary database (Gudmundur Helgason) compiled from operational records - the events are detailed and internally consistent but not themselves primary documents; the undigitized deck logs (ev-04) would be the primary record. No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-yms-374-yms374-05
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[7]shipbuildinghistory.com (Tim Colton compilation), Weaver Shipyards yard table - build row for YMS 374 [other_primary]
- Locator
- shipbuildinghistory.com Weaver yard table, row 'YMS 374'
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- The Weaver Shipyards table lists 'YMS 374 | US Navy | Minesweeper | 278 | 136 | 31-May-44 | Reclassified 1947 as Kite (AMS 22), to South Korea 1947 as Kim Po (MSCO 520), struck 1977' - corroborating the builder, the 31 May 1944 completion/commissioning date, the 1947 AMS-22 reclassification as Kite, the ROK transfer as Kim Po (MSCO 520), and a 1977 striking year.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-04
- Study period
- 1943-1956 (build and transfer); 1977 (reported striking)
- Population
- Weaver construction trades (1943-44)
- Limitations
- Secondary yard-compilation table; 'to South Korea 1947' is an obvious typographical slip for 1956 (the same row's 'reclassified 1947' supplies the transposed digits) - the documented transfer is 6 January 1956 (DANFS, NavSource). 'Struck 1977' corroborates the NHHC Online Library 'discarded in 1977' caption but is not itself a Korean-register record. Weaver built the sibling hulls YMS-371 (Hornbill AMS-19), YMS-372 (Hummer AMS-20), and YMS-373 (Jackdaw AMS-21) in the same sequence. No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-yms-374-yms374-06
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[8]NavalCoverMuseum (TCS/Morrison Foundation philatelic archive), 'KITE MSC(O) 22' page - designation history, awards list, postmark record [other_primary]
- Locator
- KITE_MSC(O)_22 wiki page - 'Ship Name and Designation History', 'Postmarks', and 'Other Information' sections
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NavalCoverMuseum documents the designation chain YMS-374 (commissioned 31 May 1944) -> USS Kite AMS-22 (reclassified/renamed and decommissioned 18 February 1947, recommissioned 9 May 1949) -> USS Kite MSC(O)-22 (reclassified 7 February 1955, decommissioned 6 January 1956) -> ROKS Kim Po MSC-520 (transferred, fate unknown). It lists awards: Presidential Unit Citation with 1 bronze star, Navy Unit Commendation, China Service Medal, American Campaign Medal, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal with 2 battle stars, WWII Victory Medal, Navy Occupation Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Korean Campaign Medal with 10 battle stars, UN Korea Service Ribbon, ROK War Service Ribbon. A postmark example (Locy Type 7, 17000 Branch, Sasebo, Japan, dated 1 June 1953) documents Korean War-era postal use - 'the ship had no postal facilities' (posted ashore at the Sasebo branch). It also disambiguates three USN 'Kite' hulls: AM-75, AM-403 (canceled), MSC(O)-22 (this hull).
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-04
- Study period
- 1944-1956
- Population
- Crews (1944-56)
- Limitations
- Philatelic/specialist secondary compilation - the award stack (PUC + NUC on top of the battle stars) is not verified here against an official award register; DANFS states only the 2 WWII + 10 Korean battle stars. Designation dates agree with DANFS/NavSource. No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-yms-374-yms374-07
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[9]GAO, Navy Efforts To Protect Workers From Asbestos Exposure, HRD-80-2 (Oct 18, 1979) - product-page highlights [gao]
- Locator
- GAO product page HRD-80-2, Highlights section
- Finding type
- gov_survey
- Finding
- GAO reviewed the Navy's efforts to protect workers from asbestos exposure at the Long Beach and Norfolk Naval Shipyards, including 'the use of asbestos in Navy ships'; the product-page highlights document that 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 - i.e., asbestos insulation was present and managed (not systematically removed) aboard Navy ships through the era covering this hull's construction (1943-44) and U.S. service (1944-56).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-10-04
- Study period
- 1979
- Population
- Navy shipyard workers; asbestos program review
- Limitations
- Program-level documentation from the product-page highlights; supports era context only, not any fact specific to this hull - the reviewed fieldwork yards were Long Beach and Norfolk, not Weaver Shipyards. Full report text not retrieved this session (prior sessions confirmed gao.gov/assets PDF returns HTTP 403 to automated fetch).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-yms-374-yms374-08
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[10]Era inference built on: NavSource spec block (2 x GM 8-268A diesels, 880 bhp) and NavSource YMS/BYMS class index (wooden-hulled 'yard minesweeper' type; 481 U.S. hulls built at 35 yacht yards; YMS-135 through -445, -480, -481 single-stack subclass); uboat.net YMS class data; GAO HRD-80-2 (see ev-08) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource 11/05022.htm spec block and 11/19idx.htm class description; uboat.net YMS class data
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- A wooden-hulled diesel-powered motor minesweeper built 1943-44 sits inside the Navy's documented asbestos-use era; era-standard applications aboard a small diesel combatant of this type and period were exhaust-system lagging, machinery and engine gaskets, valve packing, electrical insulation, and brake linings on winch and sweep gear. As a diesel vessel she carried no steam plant - the boiler/turbine lagging pathway of steam vessels does not apply - and her wooden hull lacked the pipe runs and hull insulation typical of steel steam ships, narrowing (not eliminating) the era-typical asbestos applications.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-10-04
- Study period
- 1943-1977
- Population
- Weaver construction trades (1943-44); U.S. crews (1944-56 incl. reserve period); ROK Navy crew and yard trades (1956-c.1977)
- Limitations
- Class/era inference only - no hull-specific insulation survey, material list, or work package located for YMS-374/Kite. Names era-standard applications, not confirmed installed materials. No quantity. Product names are normalized era terms; no manufacturer attribution for this hull.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-yms-374-yms374-09
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[11]CORRECTION: HyperWar/ibiblio page 'HyperWar: USS YMS-370' - page proven mislabeled (QA note 2026-09-29, Trill fact-QA signs 1056-1061; verified live this session) [other_primary]
- Locator
- ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USN/ships/YMS/YMS-370.html - body heading 'YMS-374' under page title 'USS YMS-370'
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- The HyperWar page titled 'USS YMS-370' carries a body headed 'YMS-374' - a title/body mismatch. Its spec block says 'Built at Weaver Shipyards, Orange, Tex. and commissioned 7 August 1944' - the builder agrees with this record (Weaver built YMS-374, while YMS-370 was built by Wheeler Shipbuilding per shipbuildinghistory), but the commissioning date conflicts with the verified 31 May 1944 (DANFS, NavSource, uboat.net, shipbuildinghistory all agree on 31 May). Its spec values also differ on complement (4 officers + 29 crew = 33 vs. 32), speed (13 kt vs. 15 kt), displacement (286 t full vs. 270 t), and power (500 h.p. vs. 2 x 880 bhp GM diesels).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- correction
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-04
- Study period
- n/a (correction marker)
- Limitations
- The page is a mislabeled/unreliable source for this hull and was excluded from all fact assertions in this record - carried only as a correction marker so downstream consumers do not re-import 'commissioned 7 August 1944' or the divergent spec block. What the page's YMS-370 title data should have been is out of scope here. No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-yms-374-yms374-10
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[12]Batch-9008 search ledger (this record): NavSource; uboat.net; DANFS via historycentral mirror; NHHC Online Library (ibiblio mirror); NARA Special List 44 PDF; NARA digitized-deck-log listing; NVR live probe; NavalCoverMuseum; shipbuildinghistory Weaver table; secondary web litigation sweep; CourtListener (status per search_ledger) [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-yms-374-yms374-01 through -15
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, or verified litigation naming USS YMS-374 / USS Kite (AMS-22/MSC(O)-22) was found in the public sources searched. Secondary web sweeps surfaced only law-firm marketing content (mesothelioma.com minesweeper list, mesotheliomahelp.org minesweeper listicle) asserting asbestos without primary sourcing - excluded by source policy; the mesothelioma.com 'USS Kite' row actually lists the AM-75 Kite, not this hull. No asbestos documentation was located for the builder yard either (Weaver Shipyards, Orange TX - no qualifying material found).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-04
- Study period
- 2026-10-04
- Limitations
- Absence of a located public record does not prove absence of asbestos aboard. CourtListener status this session is recorded in search_ledger; deck logs (NARA, undigitized), Weaver work packages, ROK-service records (1956-77), and the renamed-identity litigation tokens ('USS Kite' collides with AM-75 and the common surname Kite; 'AMS-22') are open leads. Does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-yms-374-yms374-11