Evidence
9 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-9).
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[1]NavSource Online: Amphibious Photo Archive, USS LCI(L)-1025 page - construction milestones, campaign listing, awards, spec block, disposal (history transcribed from USS LCI 'Landing Craft, Infantry' Vol. II, Turner Publishing, 1995) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource page 10/15/151025.htm - timeline, campaign table, spec block, disposal paragraph
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Documented for this hull: LCI(L)-351-class Landing Craft Infantry (Large) laid down 22 March 1944 at Albina Engine and Machinery Works, Portland OR; launched 6 May 1944; commissioned 12 June 1944; assigned Asiatic-Pacific Theater; participated in Mindanao Island landings (10-11 Mar 1945), Tarakan Island operation (27 Apr-5 May 1945), and Balikpapan operation (26 Jun-6 Jul 1945); earned two battle stars for WWII service; decommissioned 1946; struck from the Naval Register 1947; transferred to the State Department for disposal 20 March 1947, to Chile, renamed Eduardo Llanos (LCI-98). Spec block: 246 t. light / 419 t. loaded; 158'5.5" x 23'3"; 8 x GM 6-71-series diesels, twin variable-pitch propellers; 4 officers + 24 enlisted; troops 6 officers + 182 enlisted.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1944-1947 (USN service)
- Population
- Crew (4 officers + 24 enlisted complement); embarked troops (up to 6 officers + 182 enlisted); Albina construction trades (1944)
- Limitations
- Ship-specific history compiled from a published secondary history (Turner Vol. II) and official captions - reliable for milestones but not a primary construction or survey record; contains no asbestos or material content. 'Two battle stars' per NavSource awards block.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-1025-lcil1025-01
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[2]Naval History and Heritage Command / National Museum of the U.S. Navy photography collection, records 19-LCM-Box-450-LCI-1025-1 and 19-LCM-Box-450-LCI-1025-2 - official Bureau of Ships photographs of LCI(L)-1025 [museum_official]
- Locator
- NHHC NMUSN photography pages 19-LCM-Box-450-LCI-1025-1 and -2 (also -2 URL); captions verbatim
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- NHHC catalogs two official Bureau of Ships photographs of this hull: 'LCI(L)-1025, June 1944. Port 3/4 quarters view while on trials on the Columbia River while at Albina Engine and Machinery Works, Portland, Oregon, June 9, 1944.' Corroborates builder, builder location, and the pre-commissioning trials window (3 days before the 12 June 1944 commissioning).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1944-06-09
- Population
- Albina yard trades and pre-commissioning crew (June 1944)
- Limitations
- Photographic documentation of the as-built exterior only - establishes presence at the builder and trials on 9 June 1944; conveys no information about interior materials, insulation, or asbestos content. Sister record -2 (same caption) also held.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-1025-lcil1025-02
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[3]NARA Catalog: 'LCI(L)-1025 - Rep of opers in the invasion of Tarakan Island, Borneo on 5/1-3/45' (NAID 101765885, RG 38 WWII War Diaries, microfilm roll A1778, serial 103, dated 3 May 1945, digitized 5 images); plus COMTASKGROUP 78.2 Balikpapan assault-landing report (NAID 83523931, digitized 142 images) containing a photograph of LCI(L)-1025 at Green Beach, 1 July 1945 (report p. 128 per NavSource caption) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NARA Catalog NAID 101765885 (5 images); NAID 83523931 (142 images, photo at report p. 128)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- The ship's own action report for the Tarakan invasion (1-3 May 1945) survives at NARA as a digitized file unit, and the digitized COMTASKGROUP 78.2 report on the Balikpapan-Manggar assault landings (15 Jun-7 Jul 1945) contains a photograph of this hull unloading Australian troops and equipment on Green Beach, 1 July 1945. Ship-specific operational documentation of both battle-star operations.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1945
- Population
- Crew during Tarakan (Apr-May 1945) and Balikpapan (Jun-Jul 1945) operations
- Limitations
- Operational documentation only - action reports and photographs record combat participation, not material condition; no asbestos, insulation, or maintenance content. Image-level content not individually inspected this session; metadata and NavSource caption transcription relied upon for the p. 128 photo placement.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-1025-lcil1025-03
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[4]NARA Catalog: 'LCI(L) 1025 - Muster Rolls' (NAID 120339540, RG 24, digitized 115 images, from June 1944); and NARA Navy deck logs for LCI(L)-1025 covering 12 June 1944 - 31 December 1945 (RG 24 physical holdings per batch-source NARA deck-log inventory; no digitized file units located in Catalog search 2026-09-29) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NARA Catalog NAID 120339540 (muster rolls, digitized); deck logs RG 24 College Park (not digitized; coverage 1944-06-12 to 1945-12-31)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Ship-specific personnel and operational records exist at NARA: digitized muster rolls beginning June 1944 (115 images) and deck logs covering 12 June 1944 - 31 December 1945 (coverage per NARA deck-log holdings; not digitized). These are the primary undigitized leads for this hull's detailed service history.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1944-1945
- Population
- Crew and officers named on muster rolls and deck-log officer lists (1944-1945)
- Limitations
- Archival lead only - records exist but were not individually inspected; deck-log date coverage is a holdings-inventory statement, not a commissioning/decommissioning claim, and physical logs reside at NARA College Park (RG 24). Neither record type is expected to document asbestos content; muster-roll and deck-log content unexamined this session.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-1025-lcil1025-04
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[5]Armada de Chile (Chilean Navy) official history page, 'Barcaza Eduardo Llanos' - Tradicion e historia / unidades historicas [other_primary]
- Locator
- armada.cl 'Barcaza Eduardo Llanos' page - 'Nombres anteriores: USS LCIL 1025'; contract and arrival dates; 'En desarme en 1965'
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- The receiving navy's official record documents the ex-USS hull: prior name 'USS LCIL 1025'; purchased from the United States under contract No. 142 Chile 10 of 12 January 1947; arrived in Chile 14 June 1947; the only landing craft to reach Chile with radar installed; placed in dearmament ('En desarme') in 1965.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1947-1965
- Population
- Chilean Navy crew (1947-1965)
- Limitations
- Official foreign-navy history page confirming identity, transfer dates, and Chilean service end; provides no asbestos or material content. Conflicts with NavSource's 'modernized by the Chilean Navy in 2006 / fate unknown' note - see gaps. Chilean-cited figures (built year 1943, 385 t, 1,320 BHP) differ from US Navy records and are not carried.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-1025-lcil1025-05
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[6]Historic American Engineering Record (NPS) HAER No. OR-180, LCI(L)-713 (Justine Christianson, 2012) - class design documentation for the LCI(L)-351 class via a preserved sister hull [haer]
- Locator
- HAER OR-180 written data, pp. 1-3 (design, propulsion, construction description); Library of Congress tile.loc.gov PDF
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Class design documentation establishes that the LCI(L)-351 class (of which this hull is a member) was built of welded 1/4-inch steel plate with an all-diesel propulsion plant - eight General Motors 6-71 diesel engines on two shafts with variable-pitch propellers - designed by the Bureau of Ships. There is no boiler and no steam system: the asbestos-relevant equipment profile is bounded to era-standard diesel-era applications (exhaust-system lagging, machinery insulation, gaskets, valve packing, electrical insulation). The HAER record itself makes no statement about asbestos or insulation materials.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1943-1944 (class design/build era); HAER compiled 2012
- Population
- LCI(L)-351-class construction trades (10 yards, ~1943-44); class crews
- Limitations
- Class/design documentation for a sister hull (LCI(L)-713), not this hull; HAER OR-180 contains no asbestos statement - the absence of a steam plant is a documented design fact, while the specific diesel-era applications listed are era inference, not class-documented contents. Does not establish materials aboard this hull, individual exposure, quantity, or present-day presence.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-1025-lcil1025-06
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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 USN service era (1944-1946).
- 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 or class. Full text not retrieved (gao.gov blocks automated fetch, HTTP 403 - confirmed pattern from prior batches); content via product-page description.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-1025-lcil1025-07
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[8]Albina Engine & Machine; Fireman's Fund Insurance Co. v. Director, Office of Workers' Compensation Programs; Benefits Review Board; Karen McAllister; Lockheed Shipbuilding; Willamette Iron & Steel Co.; SAIF Corp., 627 F.3d 1293 (9th Cir. 2010), No. 09-70592, decided December 10, 2010 (Tashima, Paez, Clifton JJ.) - published opinion [court_record]
- Locator
- 9th Cir. No. 09-70592 opinion text (FindLaw mirror) - Background and Analysis sections
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- Ninth Circuit LHWCA death-benefits litigation naming this hull's builder: the parties stipulated that shipyard carpenter James R. McAllister's 2002 death from mesothelioma was caused by asbestos exposure during employment at Portland-area shipyards including Albina Engine & Machine (1956); ALJ findings of fact included that decedent had done essentially identical work for Albina as for WISCO (which admitted asbestos exposure) and that there was no preponderance of evidence showing absence of exposure at Albina. The Ninth Circuit granted Albina's petition and reassigned benefit liability to the last employer (Lockheed), resolving the case on last-employer/burden-of-proof doctrine - an adjudicated appellate-level ruling that asbestos exposure occurred at the Albina yard in the postwar era.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1956 (exposure period at issue); 2004-2010 (litigation)
- Population
- Albina Engine & Machine Works shipyard trades (postwar era documented: 1956 carpenter)
- Limitations
- Builder-yard litigation, not a hull record: documents asbestos exposure at the Albina Engine & Machine Works yard in 1956 employment, a decade after this hull's 1944 construction; says nothing about materials aboard this vessel. Disposition stated exactly: petition for review granted, liability reassigned to Lockheed on last-employer doctrine; the yard-level exposure findings below were unaffected. Citation via FindLaw opinion text mirror; CourtListener canonical page could not be fetched this session (fleet pacing budget spent) - see search_ledger.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-1025-lcil1025-08
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[9]Batch-4922 search ledger (this record): NHHC/NMUSN photography; NARA Catalog (muster rolls, Tarakan action report, Balikpapan report, deck-log holdings); NavSource; Armada de Chile official history; HAER OR-180 (NPS/LoC); GAO HRD-80-2; CourtListener opinion queries; secondary web litigation sweep [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-lci-l-1025-lcil1025-01 through -14
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, or verified litigation naming LCI(L)-1025 was found in the public sources searched (see search_ledger). DANFS has no entry for this hull (NHHC returns 404). CourtListener returned zero results for this hull: opinion searches '"LCI(L)-1025"', '"LCI-1025"', and '"LCI(L) 1025" OR "LCIL-1025" OR "Eduardo Llanos"' all count=0, and a docket search '"LCI(L)-1025" OR "LCI-1025"' returned count=0. Secondary web sweeps surfaced no qualifying case; the only 'asbestos aboard' material is law-firm marketing listicle content (mesothelioma.net, mesotheliomalawyercenter.org, mesolawsuitafterdeath.com) naming the Albina yard generally without primary sourcing - 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. Litigation search for this hull is complete at CourtListener (opinions and dockets, all name variants, zero results) but covers only that repository - state-court and unindexed filings are outside scope. NARA deck logs and muster-roll contents are unexamined leads; Chilean-era material records are undocumented. Does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-1025-lcil1025-09