Evidence
9 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-9).
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[1]research packet 385-packet.md (2 sources cited) [other_primary]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERIFIED — real identity: none assigned — never named. Proper reference: USS LCI(L)-1005.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-lci-l-1005-lcil1005-pkt-385-packet-md
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[2]NavSource Online: Amphibious Photo Archive, USS LCI(L)-1005 - construction, campaign table, awards, disposition chain, specifications (page history credited to 'USS LCI Landing Craft Infantry, Vol. II', Turner Publishing Co., 1995, ISBN 1-56311-262-0) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource 10/15/151005.htm - header block, 'Asiatic-Pacific Campaign' table, disposition section, specifications block
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NavSource record for this hull: LCI-351-class Landing Craft Infantry (Large), laid down 26 April 1944 at Consolidated Steel Corp., Shipbuilding Div., Orange, TX; launched 20 May 1944; commissioned USS LCI(L)-1005 on 8 June 1944. Assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater; campaign credit under 'Consolidation of the southern Philippines': Mindanao Island landings 10 March 1945 and 'Zulu Archipelago' landings 9-11 April 1945. Decommissioned 1 May 1946; struck from the Naval Register on an unrecorded date; earned one battle star; awards row: American Campaign Medal, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (1), World War II Victory Medal, Philippine Presidential Unit Citation, Philippine Liberation Medal (1). Transferred to the Maritime Commission 10 December 1947; registered 1948 by Humble Oil Co., Houston TX as tugboat Humble LCI-2 (renamed Humble CI-2 in 1949); registered 1954 by A.V.W. Boats of Pascagoula MS as fishing boat Mike Flechas (homeport Biloxi MS); registered 1956 by Longline Inc. of Pascagoula as fishing boat Big Tender; reflagged Panama 1957; final disposition unknown. Spec block: 236 t. light / 264 landing / 419 loaded; 158'5.5" x 23'3"; 16 kt max; complement 4 officers + 24 enlisted; troops 6 officers + 182 enlisted; cargo 75 t; five single 20mm guns; eight GM 6-71-series diesels (NavSource prints '6051 series 71') in two sets of 4 per shaft, GM reduction gears, twin variable-pitch propellers, 2,320 shp; two 30 kW 120V DC diesel ship's-service generators.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1944-1957 (record coverage)
- Population
- Consolidated Steel Orange construction trades (Apr-Jun 1944); commissioned crew (1944-46); embarked troops (up to ~188); merchant crews aboard Humble LCI-2/CI-2, Mike Flechas, Big Tender (1948-57+)
- Limitations
- NavSource is a volunteer secondary compilation, not a primary registry - milestone dates corroborated independently by uboat.net; its named source is the Turner Publishing LCI volume. 'Zulu Archipelago' is an apparent typographical rendering of Sulu Archipelago (the April 1945 VICTOR IV operations). Stricken date 'unknown' here conflicts with shipbuildinghistory's 'Struck 1946' - see gaps. Page contains no asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-1005-01
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[3]uboat.net Allied Warships, USS LCI(L)-1005 (ship 22070) - class, builder, and milestone corroboration [other_primary]
- Locator
- uboat.net ship page 22070 (class LCI 351, class page /class/690.html)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Independent secondary corroboration of this hull's identity and construction: 'Landing Craft Infantry of the LCI 351 class,' pennant LCI(L)-1005, built by Consolidated Steel Corp., Ltd. (Orange, Texas, U.S.A.); laid down 26 April 1944; launched 20 May 1944; commissioned 8 June 1944. No commanding officers, no wartime events, and no end-service date are listed for this hull.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1944
- Limitations
- Volunteer secondary compilation; corroborates construction milestones only. Its LCI-351-class page lists complement 28 men and 246 BRT displacement - minor spec variance vs NavSource's block; neither is a primary spec sheet. No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-1005-02
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[4]ShipbuildingHistory (Tim Colton), Consolidated Steel Orange TX yard table - builder's hull number, contract date, delivery, disposal note [other_primary]
- Locator
- consolidatedorange.htm yard table, LCI(L) block, row '1005' (hull no. 1299)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- The yard table for Consolidated Steel's Orange TX shipyard records this hull as builder's hull no. 1299, contract dated 10 December 1943, landing-craft type LCI(L), delivered June 1944, with the disposal note 'Struck 1946.' The same table shows Consolidated Orange held the LCI(L)-1000 through -1012+ contract block (contract date 10-Dec-43, June-44 deliveries).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1943-1946
- Population
- Consolidated Steel Orange construction trades (1943-44 contract block)
- Limitations
- Reputable secondary yard registry, not a primary Navy record. 'Struck 1946' conflicts with NavSource's 'struck - date unknown'; unresolved, carried in gaps. Yard table establishes build contract and delivery, not material content. No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-1005-03
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[5]NARA, Special List #44 (List of Logbooks of U.S. Navy Ships, Stations, and Miscellaneous Units, 1801-1947), ship-number index - deck-log coverage for LCI(L)-1005; cross-checked against the NARA 'Navy Deck Logs Available in the National Archives Catalog' list [other_primary]
- Locator
- SL-44 ship-number list, LCI(L) block - extracted row 'LC1(L)-1005 6/8/1944 6/30/1945' (pdftotext -layout, line 692 of extraction); navy-online digitized list checked for 'LCI(L)-1005'/'1005' - absent (only 'Kestrel (AMCU/MHC-26/LCI-874)' appears under LCI)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- NARA SL-44 indexes one deck-log run for this hull: 'LCI(L)-1005, 6/8/1944 - 6/30/1945' (PDF printed/OCR text renders the prefix as 'LC1(L)-1005'). The run covers commissioning day 8 June 1944 through 30 June 1945 - the wartime operational period including the Philippine campaigns. The companion NARA list of fully digitized deck logs in the National Archives Catalog does not include this hull; the logs are an undigitized textual holding at Archives II. Per batch convention, log coverage endpoints are not claimed as commissioning/decommissioning dates.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1944-06-08 to 1945-06-30
- Population
- Commissioned crew of record, Jun 1944 - Jun 1945 (log coverage period)
- Limitations
- Indexes that logs exist in NARA holdings; contents unexamined - no box-level retrieval performed. Not digitized, so no remote read is possible. Deck logs would document positions, operations, and muster-adjacent data, not insulation material content - this is a service-record lead, not an asbestos record. Log runs after 30 June 1945 (through decommissioning 1 May 1946) are not indexed for this hull; whether they exist is unverified.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-1005-04
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[6]NPS HAER OR-180, LCI(L)-713 (Amphibious Forces Memorial Museum, Portland OR; historian Justine Christianson, 2012) - LCI-351-class construction description and production context [haer]
- Locator
- HAER OR-180 written historical and descriptive data, pp. 1-3
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- HAER documentation for sister hull LCI(L)-713 describes the LCI-351 class this hull belongs to: 'the modified design of the LCI(L)... built after June 1, 1944,' with a cylindrical pilot house and a centerline ramp instead of the two side ramps of earlier LCI(L)s; welded 1/4-inch steel plate construction; two decks with troop compartments, crew space, engine room, and a deckhouse containing accommodations, mess, wardroom, and galley; 'four pairs of General Motors 6-71 diesel engines connected to two shafts and variable pitch propellers'; transport capacity 182 enlisted and six officers. Approximately 1,051 ships of the LCI type were built across ten different wartime shipyards to a Bureau of Ships standard design. LCI(L)-713 is described as the last surviving LCI-351-class vessel in original configuration (George Lawley & Son, Neponset MA, 1944).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1943-1944 (class construction era)
- Limitations
- Class-level source naming sister hull LCI(L)-713, not this vessel - establishes the design and construction baseline only. The document contains no insulation-material or asbestos content. Its '1,051 ships of its type' figure counts LCI-type construction broadly; secondary literature carries a 923 LCI(L) figure - definitional difference noted in gaps, not resolved here.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-1005-05
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[7]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 (1944) and entire naval service era (1944-46).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- 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 returns HTTP 403 to automated fetch (confirmed 2026-09-29, same standing defect as Batches 01 and 98); content via product-page description.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-1005-06
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[8]Era inference built on: NavSource/uboat.net spec blocks (eight GM 6-71 diesels, diesel ship's-service generators, welded steel hull); HAER OR-180 class construction description; GAO HRD-80-2 Navy-wide asbestos-era documentation; shipyards.json absence for the builder yard [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource + uboat.net spec blocks; HAER OR-180; GAO HRD-80-2 (rows above)
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- A welded-steel, diesel-powered landing craft built 1944 inside the Navy's documented asbestos-use era: era-standard applications aboard a vessel of this type and period were diesel exhaust lagging, machinery-space thermal insulation, gaskets, valve packing, and electrical insulation within the confined hull volume. As a diesel craft she carried no steam plant - the boiler/turbine lagging pathway of steam vessels does not apply. The hull continued in merchant service (tug, then fishing vessel) from 1948 through at least 1957 - any era materials retained aboard passed to commercial crews during that service.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1944-1957+
- Population
- Consolidated Steel Orange construction trades (1944); commissioned crew and embarked troops (1944-46); merchant crews (1948-57+); any conversion-yard trades (1947-48 onward, undocumented)
- Limitations
- Class/era inference only - no hull-specific insulation survey, material list, conversion spec, or work package located for LCI(L)-1005. Names era-standard applications, not confirmed installed materials. No quantity. Product names are normalized era terms; no manufacturer attribution for this hull. Merchant-service material state is undocumented - tug/fishing-boat conversions may have replaced or retained original materials; no record located.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-1005-07
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[9]Batch-4902 search ledger (this record): NavSource 10/15/151005; uboat.net ship 22070 + class 690; shipbuildinghistory Consolidated Orange table; NARA SL-44 + digitized-log list; NPS HAER OR-180; GAO HRD-80-2 product page; CourtListener API v4 (4 authenticated queries); NHHC Pacific Fleet org list 1-May-1945; secondary web litigation sweep; usslci.org; master-hull-list.json [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-lci-l-1005-01 through sl-uss-lci-l-1005-12
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, museum documentation, or docketed case naming LCI(L)-1005 was found in the public sources searched (see search_ledger). CourtListener was actually searched this session through the authenticated batch helper: exact-hull queries "LCI(L)-1005", "LCI-1005", and "LCI(L) 1005" returned 0 opinion results, and "LCI(L)-1005" returned 0 RECAP docket results; the unquoted full-text query returned 675 hits, all name collisions (principally LCI International, Inc. and unrelated docket numbers) - none naming this vessel. The only 'asbestos aboard' material located is law-firm marketing content asserting asbestos on landing craft generally - excluded by source policy.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 2026-09-29
- Limitations
- Absence of a located public record does not prove absence of asbestos aboard - and the undigitized NARA deck-log run (6/8/1944-6/30/1945) is an unexamined primary source. Merchant-conversion and scrapping documentation (1947 onward) was not located; MARAD vessel status cards for this hull were not verified in the digitized catalog. Does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-1005-08