Evidence
9 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-9).
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[1]uboat.net Allied Warships of WWII database, USS LCI(L)-701 entry, compiled from Navy task-group action-report data [other_primary]
- Locator
- uboat.net ship detail page, ship id 21766
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- LCI(L)-701 (LCI 351-class): built by George Lawley & Sons, Neponset, Massachusetts; launched 24 June 1944; commissioned 30 June 1944. Reclassified LSIL-701 on 28 February 1949; renamed and reclassified USS Chewink (AMCU-19) on 7 March 1952; redesignated MHC-19 in the Navy's fleet-wide 7 February 1955 AMCU-to-MHC renumbering. Per the batch task brief, the hull did not recommission under either the AMCU-19 or MHC-19 designation. Disposed by sale 21 April 1960 (uboat.net Allied Warships database entry).
- Verification
- unverified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-23
- Study period
- 1944-1960
- Limitations
- uboat.net is a non-official aggregator, not itself on this dataset's approved evidence-source list; it is used here only because live NHHC DANFS (both the current /research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/ URL scheme and the legacy /danfs/ scheme) and the Naval Vessel Register (nvr.navy.mil) returned HTTP 503 on every attempt this session, and NARA's catalog search returns no server-rendered results to an automated fetch. This row does not establish asbestos content, quantity, condition, or exposure of any kind, and its underlying dates/builder should be re-verified against NHHC/NVR/NARA when those sources are reachable.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-chewink-amcu19-01
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[2]Report on Operation Oboe VI by Commander Task Group 78.1, as compiled in the uboat.net Allied Warships database [other_primary]
- Locator
- uboat.net ship detail page, ship id 21766, wartime service section
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- LCI(L)-701 is reported as part of Task Unit 78.1.13 (LCI Unit) under T/Capt. F.B.C. Martin, USN, commanded by Lt. H.O. Cheney, USNR, assigned to the 'White' Assault Unit for Operation Oboe VI, the Allied landing at Brunei, Borneo, on 10 June 1945.
- Verification
- unverified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-23
- Study period
- 1945-06
- Population
- LCI(L) crew and embarked assault troops, Operation Oboe VI
- Limitations
- The underlying CTG 78.1 action report was not independently retrieved this session (NARA RG 38 holds Task Group action reports of this kind per HAER AK-52's citation pattern, but was not itself queried for this specific report). Establishes wartime landing-craft deployment only; establishes nothing about asbestos, materials, or exposure.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-chewink-amcu19-02
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[3]Historic American Engineering Record, HAER No. OR-180, 'LCI(L)-713,' National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior (historian Justine Christianson, 2012) [haer]
- Locator
- HAER OR-180, pp. 1-3 (Principal Measurements, Dates of Construction, Historical Information)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- HAER OR-180 (LCI(L)-713, preserved at the Amphibious Forces Memorial Museum, Portland, OR) documents that this sister LCI(L) 351-class hull was built at the same yard given for LCI(L)-701 - George Lawley & Son, Neponset, Massachusetts - in 1944 (keel laid 27 July 1944, launched 5 August 1944, commissioned 18 September 1944), and that LCI(L)-713 landed troops of the Australian 9th Infantry Division at Brunei Bay, Borneo - the same operation in which LCI(L)-701 is separately reported to have participated (see ev-02).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-23
- Study period
- 1944-1946
- Limitations
- Documents a different hull (LCI(L)-713), not LCI(L)-701/Chewink; same builder/yard/year and same landing operation are class-level and same-operation corroboration only, not hull-specific proof. Contains no asbestos, insulation, or materials information of any kind.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-chewink-amcu19-03
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[4]Historic American Engineering Record, HAER No. AK-52, 'M/V Husky II (LCI(L)-653) (USS Avocet),' National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior (historian Michael R. Harrison, 2011), citing Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, vol. 5, 470-71 [haer]
- Locator
- HAER AK-52, p. 14 (Part I.A.5, 'Minehunter' section, footnote 41)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- HAER AK-52 (M/V Husky II, ex-LCI(L)-653, ex-USS Avocet AMCU-16/MHC-16) documents the same postwar conversion program that produced the AMCU-19 designation on the Chewink hull: in 1952-53 the Navy planned to convert twenty-five LCI(L) hulls to coastal underwater-locator minesweepers, converting ten sister vessels (including LCI(L)-653/Avocet) for minesweeping at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard between July and December 1953; 'only fifteen of the twenty-five minesweeper-converted LCIs were actually recommissioned. An additional eight planned conversions were cancelled.'
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-23
- Study period
- 1952-1960
- Limitations
- Explains, at the program/class level, how a hull carrying the AMCU-19/MHC-19 designation could have gone unrecommissioned - directly relevant context for the batch task brief's statement that Chewink did not recommission - but does not itself identify which specific hulls (including AMCU-19) were recommissioned, cancelled, or otherwise disposed. Not proof of this hull's specific disposition. Contains no asbestos information.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-chewink-amcu19-04
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[5]Historic American Engineering Record, HAER No. AK-52 ('M/V Husky II') and HAER No. OR-180 ('LCI(L)-713'), National Park Service [haer]
- Locator
- HAER AK-52 pp. 1, 6, 19-20 (Propulsion; Part I.A.4; Part II.B, 'Mechanical Features'); HAER OR-180 pp. 1-2
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- HAER AK-52 and HAER OR-180 both document the LCI(L) 351-class as welded-steel-hull construction powered by eight General Motors 6-71 diesel engines (four per shaft, two shafts) driving variable-pitch propellers - a diesel small-craft propulsion plant with no boilers, structurally distinct from the steam-powered Liberty ships elsewhere in this dataset.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-23
- Study period
- 1944
- Population
- Construction trades (Lawley/New Jersey Shipbuilding yards, 1944); LCI(L) engine-room crews
- Limitations
- Neither HAER record mentions asbestos, insulation, lagging, gaskets, packing, or any fireproofing material anywhere in its full text, despite each being a detailed multi-page engineering description of the class. This is class-level design/propulsion documentation only; it neither supports nor rules out asbestos content aboard any specific hull of the type.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-chewink-amcu19-05
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[6]Corn, Jacqueline Karnell, and Jennifer Starr, 'Historical perspective on asbestos: Policies and protective measures in World War II shipbuilding,' American Journal of Industrial Medicine 11(3):359-373 (1987) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Abstract and article, AJIM 11(3):359-373
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Peer-reviewed historical scholarship documents that asbestos was used extensively as a fireproofing and insulating material across U.S. shipbuilding generally during World War II, the era and wartime production program under which the LCI(L) 351-class (including LCI(L)-701) was built.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-09-23
- Study period
- 1940s era documented; article 1987
- Population
- WWII shipyard workers and ship crews (program-wide context)
- Limitations
- Program/era-level scholarly documentation of asbestos use in WWII shipbuilding generally; does not name this vessel, this hull's builder, or the LCI(L) type specifically, and does not establish that asbestos was or remains aboard this hull, nor quantity, location, condition, exposure, or causation. Carried as context_only rather than class_or_era because no LCI(L)-specific material document was located to support a stronger inference (contrast with this dataset's Liberty ship records, which rely on a USMC engine-plant manual naming the class directly).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-chewink-amcu19-06
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[7]P. Dougherty Co. v. United States, 70 F. Supp. 834 (E.D.N.Y. 1946); aff'd 168 F.2d 464 (2d Cir. 1948) [court_record]
- Locator
- CourtListener opinion clusters 8911118 (E.D.N.Y.) and 7000311 (2d Cir.)
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- CourtListener case-name search for 'Chewink' returns one relevant result: P. Dougherty Co. v. United States, 70 F. Supp. 834 (E.D.N.Y. 1946), aff'd 168 F.2d 464 (2d Cir. 1948) - an admiralty negligence/collision suit between the tug Dunmore/barges Wilmington and Annapolis and a government vessel named Chewink. The case contains no asbestos content and, on its facts (in commission through the case's 1946-1948 litigation window, East Coast-based), is almost certainly the other, older USS Chewink (AM-39/ASR-3, decommissioned Feb. 1947), not LCI(L)-701/AMCU-19, which never held the commissioned name 'Chewink.'
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-09-23
- Study period
- 1946-1948
- Limitations
- Classified as a name collision, non-qualifying: different vessel (near-certainly AM-39/ASR-3), different era, and a maritime collision/negligence subject with zero asbestos content. Included only for the search ledger and identity-disambiguation record; establishes nothing about this vessel or asbestos.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-chewink-amcu19-07
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[8]Batch-1647 search ledger (this record): NHHC DANFS (unreachable, HTTP 503) and NVR (unreachable); NPS HAER OR-180 and AK-52 full text; CourtListener name and hull-number searches across opinions, RECAP dockets, and RECAP documents; uboat.net [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-chewink-amcu19-01 through sl-uss-chewink-amcu19-14
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific or class-specific asbestos record was located for LCI(L)-701/USS Chewink (AMCU-19/MHC-19) or the LCI(L) 351-class generally: no asbestos survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, insulation/outfitting specification, or docketed asbestos case naming this hull or its class was found in the sources reachable this session (see search_ledger).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-23
- Study period
- 2026-09-23
- Limitations
- Absence of a located public record does not prove absence of asbestos aboard this hull or class; it reflects both a genuine documentation gap and a standing access failure (NHHC/NVR returned HTTP 503 throughout this session, see ev-01). Does not establish presence or absence of asbestos; does not establish or defeat any exposure claim or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-chewink-amcu19-08
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[9]NARA Records of the Bureau of Ships (RG 19) and Records of the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations (RG 38); NHHC Ships History Division decommissioned ships' histories - record-group mapping per HAER AK-52's own source citations [other_primary]
- Locator
- NARA RG 19 guide; HAER AK-52 footnotes 12, 29, 37-39, citing RG 19 box 467 folder 'LCI(L) 653', RG 38 box 271 and box 1035, and NHHC box 60
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Archival lead (not retrieved - requires in-person research or a reproduction order; no spend authorized): NARA RG 19 (Records of the Bureau of Ships) holds General Correspondence 1940-45 organized by hull, and Confidential Central Correspondence, which for the sister hull LCI(L)-653 included a folder specifically titled 'LCI(L) 653' (per HAER AK-52's citations); an equivalent 'LCI(L) 701' folder likely exists in the same series. RG 38 (Records of the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations) holds Flotilla and Task Group war diaries and action reports (e.g., Task Group 78.1.13 for Operation Oboe VI) that would independently corroborate the Brunei Bay landing reported in ev-02. NHHC's Ships History Division (Washington, DC) holds decommissioned-ships'-histories case files by hull, which for AMCU-16/Avocet included a full box-60 folder - an equivalent AMCU-19/Chewink folder likely exists in the same series.
- Verification
- unverified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-09-23
- Study period
- 1940-1960 records
- Limitations
- Record-group and likely-folder mapping only, inferred by analogy to the sister hull's documented files - no box-level retrieval performed for LCI(L)-701 itself; existence of asbestos-specific documents for this hull is unknown until surveyed in person. Nothing in this row is an asbestos finding.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-chewink-amcu19-09