Evidence
7 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-7).
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[1]research packet zcp-packet.md (5 sources cited) [other_primary]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERIFIED
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-lci-l-1030-lcil1030-pkt-zcp-packet-md
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[2]NavSource Online: Amphibious Photo Archive, USS LCI(R)-1030 ex-USS LCI(L)-1030 (10/15/151030) - designation timeline, campaign/award tables, specification block, operational photo captions (history from Turner Publishing 'USS LCI Landing Craft Infantry' Vol. II, 1995) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource 10/15/151030.htm header block, campaign/award tables, specification block, and photo-caption text (Maui rehearsal, Iwo Jima, TG 52.20 target chart)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NavSource timeline for this hull: LCI-351 class; laid down 1 May 1944 at Albina Engine and Machinery Works, Portland OR; launched 8 June 1944; commissioned USS LCI(L)-1030 18 July 1944; reclassified Landing Craft Infantry (Rocket) LCI(R)-1030 15 March 1945. Asiatic-Pacific campaigns: Iwo Jima operation (assault and occupation of Iwo Jima, 19-26 February 1945); Okinawa Gunto operation (assault and occupation, 26 March-11 April 1945); Minesweeping operations-Pacific (Arcadia, Kyushu-Korea area, 1-5 September 1945; Tsushima, Kyushu-Korea area, 31 October-4 November 1945). Post-war occupation duty in the Far East 2 September-24 November 1945. Decommissioned date unknown; struck from the Naval Register in 1946; three battle stars for WWII service; transferred to the Maritime Commission 26 May 1947; final disposition fate unknown. Awards displayed: American Campaign Medal; Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (3); WWII Victory Medal; Navy Occupation Service Medal with Asia clasp. Photo captions place LCI(R)-1030 at Maui among Pacific Fleet amphibious units rehearsing the Iwo Jima landings (with LCI(R)-651, -707, -708, -772, LCS(L)(3)-55/-56), at Iwo Jima itself, and inside LCI Flotilla Sixteen's Task Group 52.20 target chart for L-Day rocket bombardment at Okinawa - subgroup 52.20.2 with LCI(R)-651, -708, -1028, -1029, -1078. Specification block: 216 t light / 234 t landing / 389 t loaded; 158'5.5" x 23'3"; 16 kts max (14 continuous); 8 x GM 6051-series-71 diesels (4 per shaft), GM main reduction gears, twin variable-pitch propellers, 2,320 shp; 2 x 30kW diesel-drive generators; LCI(R) armament one 40mm bow mount, four 20mm, two .50 cal, six 5" rocket launchers; complement 3+21 (LCI(L)) / 3+31 (LCI(R)); troop capacity 6 officers + 182 enlisted; call sign NZIR.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1944-1947
- Population
- Albina construction trades (1944); crew (1944-46; 3 officers + 21 enlisted as LCI(L), 3 officers + 31 enlisted as LCI(R)); embarked troops up to 188 in LCI(L) configuration
- Limitations
- NavSource is a volunteer secondary compilation, not a primary registry - its history cites Turner Publishing's 1995 'USS LCI' Vol. II. Contains no asbestos content. The 15 March 1945 reclassification date is uniform across Flotilla-16 hulls (an administrative effective date); the photographic record places the hull in rocket configuration at the Iwo Jima operation a month earlier - formal designation lagged physical conversion. Campaign-credit dates are fleet campaign windows, not per-hull daily positions; deck logs (see ev-03) are the day-level record. Disposal beyond the 1947 MARCOM transfer is undocumented.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-1030-lcil1030-01
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[3]ShipbuildingHistory (Tim Colton compilation), Albina Engine & Machine Works, Portland OR - yard build table row 180 [other_primary]
- Locator
- Albina build table, row 180 (block rows 163-183 = LCI(L) 1013-1033)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- The Albina yard table records yard hull 180 as LCI(L) 1030, U.S. Navy, landing craft, 246 t / 159 ft, delivered 18-Jul-44, disposition 'To USMC 1946'. The table shows Albina hulls 163-183 delivered as LCI(L)-1013 through -1033 between March and August 1944 - the last LCI(L) block before the yard switched to LCS(L) production (hulls 184-201 were cancelled as LCIs and reassigned to LCS(L) 461-478, of which 461-480 range was reordered as LCS(L) 61-78).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1944-1947
- Population
- Albina construction trades (1944)
- Limitations
- Secondary compilation (Colton's ShipbuildingHistory), consistent with NavSource on build/commissioning dates. 'To USMC 1946' means U.S. Maritime Commission; NavSource dates the formal transfer 26 May 1947 - a year-level variance carried in gaps. No asbestos, hazmat, or material content. Fetched via Wayback capture of the live table.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-1030-lcil1030-02
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[4]NARA Special List 44 (RG 24 deck-log ship-number index): LCI(L)(R)-1030 entry; corroborated by batch tasking's NARA record note (deck logs LCI(L)(R)-1030, 18 July 1944 - 30 June 1945) [other_primary]
- Locator
- SL-44 ship-number index PDF, 'LCI(L)(R)-1030' row (7/18/1944 - 6/30/1945); https://www.archives.gov/research/military/logbooks/navy-online (no LCI-1030 entry)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- NARA holds deck logs for this hull indexed as 'LCI(L)(R)-1030' covering 18 July 1944 - 30 June 1945 in RG 24 logbook holdings at College Park - the commissioning date through the first post-surrender months, spanning the Iwo Jima and Okinawa campaigns and the conversion period. These are the primary day-by-day operational records for the hull. The hull does not appear on NARA's 'Navy Deck Logs Available in the National Archives Catalog' online list - the WWII-era LCI logs are undigitized; textual reference at College Park is the access path.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1944-1945
- Population
- Crew (1944-45)
- Limitations
- Holdings-level finding only: establishes that logs exist and their coverage window, not their content - no page was reviewed this session. Log coverage endpoints are not commissioning/decommissioning claims (though the 18 July 1944 start coincides with the documented commissioning date). Absence from the online list means no digitized scans were located; does not bear on the physical holding.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-1030-lcil1030-03
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[5]Era inference built on: NavSource LCI(L)-351 specification block (8 x GM diesel engines, 4 per shaft; no steam plant); ShipbuildingHistory Albina wartime build table (mass-produced 1944 landing craft); GAO HRD-80-2 Navy asbestos program documentation (see ev-05) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource specification block; ShipbuildingHistory Albina table; GAO HRD-80-2 product page
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- A 1944-built diesel-powered landing craft sits inside the Navy's documented asbestos era and the wartime emergency-shipbuilding program. Era-standard applications aboard a small diesel combatant of this type: diesel-exhaust lagging and silencer insulation, machinery-space thermal insulation, gaskets and valve/flange packing, electrical cable and switchboard insulation, refrigeration/galley insulation, and winch/windlass brake linings. The 1944-45 conversion to rocket configuration - stripping amphibious fittings and installing six 5-inch rocket launchers and a 40mm bow mount - would have disturbed original insulation and installed current-spec materials wherever the conversion was performed, an exposure pathway for conversion-yard trades independent of crew exposure. Diesel propulsion means no boiler or turbine lagging pathway.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1944-1947
- Population
- Albina construction trades (1944); LCI(R) conversion workforce (1944-45, location undocumented); crew (1944-46); MARCOM/disposal workforce post-1947
- Limitations
- Class/era inference only - no hull-specific insulation survey, conversion work package, or material list located for this hull; the LCI(L)-to-LCI(R) conversion location is itself undocumented in the sources pulled (a west-coast naval-yard conversion is era-typical for Flotilla 16 but unverified for this hull). Names era-standard applications, not confirmed installed materials. No quantity, no manufacturer attribution. Asbestos presence aboard is unproven; nothing here establishes individual exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-1030-lcil1030-04
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[6]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 entire construction and service era (1944-1947) plus the rocket conversion window.
- 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 blocks automated fetch, HTTP 403 - standing defect since Batch 01; product-page description used).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-1030-lcil1030-05
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[7]Batch-4927 search ledger (this record): NavSource 10/15/151030; ShipbuildingHistory Albina table (Wayback); NARA SL-44 + online deck-log list; NHHC DANFS URL check; NavalCoverMuseum; CourtListener API v4 (opinion + RECAP/docket, two query sets); secondary web litigation sweep [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-lci-l-1030-lcil1030-01 through -13
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, abatement contract, conversion work package, hazmat disclosure, or litigation naming LCI(L)-1030 / LCI(R)-1030 was found in the public sources searched (see search_ledger). CourtListener was queried successfully this session - zero hits in the opinion index and the RECAP/docket index across two query sets ("LCI(L)-1030" OR "LCI(R)-1030" OR "LCI-1030"; "LCI 1030" OR "LCI(R) 1030" OR "LCI(L) 1030" OR "LCIR-1030") - a genuine negative result, not a blocked search. Secondary web sweeps surfaced no qualifying case; the only 'asbestos aboard' material is law-firm marketing content (generic landing-craft and Albina-yard listicles asserting asbestos 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 - the hull was built and converted inside the documented Navy asbestos era. Deck logs (SL-44 holding, undigitized) and any conversion work package are undigitized/unreviewed leads. Does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-1030-lcil1030-06