Evidence
14 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-14).
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[1]research packet 828-packet.md [other_primary]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERIFIED
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-lci-l-1071-lcil1071-pkt-828-packet-md
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[2]NavSource Online: Amphibious Photo Archive, USS LCI(L)-1071 page (verified live 2026-09-29; canonical domain navsource.net, not the dead navsource.org); page's own history credit: 'The history for USS LCI(L)-1071 is from USS LCI "Landing Craft Infantry", Vol. II. Paducah, Kentucky: Turner Publishing Company, (c) 1995' [other_primary]
- Locator
- LCI(L)-1071 page, history block, Asiatic-Pacific campaigns table, awards block, specifications block
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- LCI-351-class Landing Craft Infantry (Large): laid down 25 May 1944 at DeFoe Shipbuilding Co., Bay City, MI; launched 10 June 1944; commissioned USS LCI(L)-1071, 16 June 1944. Asiatic-Pacific Theater; campaigns listed: Leyte operations - Leyte landings, 28 and 29 November 1944; Consolidation and capture of the Southern Philippines - Mindanao Island landings, 10 March 1945. Postwar Occupation service in the Far East 8 September to 16 December 1945. Decommissioned, date unknown; laid up in Reserve, November 1953, at Green Cove Springs, FL; struck from the Naval Register, date unknown; final disposition 'fate unknown'. 'USS LCI(L)-1071 earned two battle stars for World War II service.' Awards block: American Campaign Medal; Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (2); World War II Victory Medal; Navy Occupation Service Medal (Asia clasp); National Defense Service Medal; Philippine Presidential Unit Citation; Philippine Liberation Medal (2). Call sign November-Zulu-Quebec-Romeo (NZQR). Specification block: 236 t light / 264 t landing / 419 t loaded; 158 ft 5.5 in x 23 ft 3 in; five single 20 mm mounts (some LCIs added two .50 cal machine guns); complement 4 officers, 24 enlisted; troop capacity 6 officers, 182 enlisted; cargo 75 tons; two sets of four General Motors 6051-series-71 diesels (4 per shaft), GM main reduction gears, twin variable-pitch propellers, 2,320 shp; two diesel-drive 30 kW 120 V DC ship's-service generators; endurance 4,000 miles at 12 kts loaded; 2-inch plastic splinter protection on gun turrets, conning tower and pilot house. Page notes 'There are no images of USS LCI(L)-1071 available at NavSource.'
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1944-1945 (commissioned service); 1945-1953 (postwar status); 1953+ (reserve/disposition)
- Population
- Ship's crew (~4 officers/24 enlisted) plus embarked troops (up to ~6 officers/182 enlisted)
- Limitations
- Compiled archival photo index; its history block is drawn from Turner Publishing's USS LCI Vol. II (1995), a secondary compilation - flagged as such, not a primary record. Decommissioning, striking, and final disposition recorded as unknown. No flotilla/group/division assignment is given for this hull (sister-hull pages do carry them). Contains no asbestos information whatsoever.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-1071-lcil1071-01
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[3]Shipbuilding History (T. Colton compilation), Defoe Shipbuilding yard list, Bay City MI (verified live 2026-09-29) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Defoe build table, yard hull 324 row (block rows 305-351 = LCI(L) 1052-1098)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Defoe yard table row: yard hull no. 324, LCI(L) 1071, U.S. Navy, landing craft, 236d tons / 158 ft, delivered 1-Jun-44, disposition 'Struck 1957' - the only struck-year figure located for this hull. Table block context: Defoe yard hulls 305-351 = LCI(L) 1052 through 1098, delivered March-October 1944. Yard history header: Defoe Boat & Motor Works founded 1905, renamed Defoe Shipbuilding Company at the start of WWII, closed 1976.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1944; 1957
- Limitations
- Secondary reference work, not a Navy register extract; 'delivered 1-Jun-44' is the table's month-block delivery convention and is inconsistent on its face - the printed delivery month precedes the documented 10 June 1944 launch, a recurring variance in this table's LCI rows (see gaps). 'Struck 1957' is single-source and unverified against the Naval Register; it is consistent with NavSource's November 1953 reserve-fleet lay-up but not independently confirmed. No asbestos or material content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-1071-lcil1071-02
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[4]NARA Special List 44 (RG 24 'Logbooks of U.S. Navy Ships and Stations' ship-number index): 'LCI(L)-1071' entry, coverage 6/16/1944 - 12/31/1945; corroborated by the batch tasking's NARA record note (deck logs LCI(L)-1071, 16 June 1944 - 31 December 1945) [other_primary]
- Locator
- SL-44 ship-number index PDF (sl-44-ship-number.pdf), 'LCI(L)-1071' row (6/16/1944 - 12/31/1945); https://www.archives.gov/research/military/logbooks/navy-online (no LCI-1071 entry)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- NARA holds deck logs for this hull indexed under 'LCI(L)-1071' covering 6/16/1944 - 12/31/1945 - a span opening on her documented commissioning date, running through the Leyte, Mindanao, and Tarakan operation windows, and closing after her Far East occupation service ended (16 December 1945). 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 (verified 2026-09-29 - the only 'LCI' match on that list is Kestrel AMCU/MHC-26/LCI-874); WWII-era LCI logs are undigitized, and access is via textual reference at Archives II, College Park, MD.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1944-1945
- Population
- Ship's crew and embarked troops, 1944-06-16 to 1945-12-31
- Limitations
- Holdings-level finding only: establishes that the logs exist and their coverage window, not their content - no page was reviewed this session. Log coverage endpoints are not claimed as commissioning/decommissioning dates (though the 6/16/1944 start coincides with the documented commissioning date). Absence from the online digitized list bears on digitization status only, not the physical holding; the specific catalog file-unit NAID was not resolved (catalog is JS-rendered).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-1071-lcil1071-03
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[5]uboat.net Allied Warships of WWII entry, USS LCI(L)-1071 (LCI 351 class) (verified live 2026-09-29) [other_primary]
- Locator
- LCI(L)-1071 ship page, 'Notable events' 1 May 1945 entry - TG 78.1.16 and CTG 78.1.96 passages
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Confirms identical build data (Defoe Shipbuilding Co., Bay City; laid down 25 May 1944; launched 10 June 1944; commissioned 16 June 1944). Lists one notable event - 1 May 1945, Operation Oboe I, Allied landings at Tarakan - with an embedded order-of-battle/action-report text naming this hull twice: as a unit of the 'Pulau Sadau' attack echelon, Task Group 78.1.16, which departed Morotai Straits 26 April 1945 (with USS Philip, USS PC-1120, USS LST-667 towing USS LCT-1331, USS LSM-151/-359/-362, USS LCI(L)-172/-185/-961/-1000, USS LCS-8/-48); and as a unit of CTG 78.1.96 departing Tarakan for Morotai at 0800I/8 May 1945 (with LST-466/-467/-562/-637/-742/-1035, LCI(L)-635/-961/-985/-1000, and ATR-61 towing YMS-51, escorted by USS Robinson, USS Rudderow, USS PCE(R)-849, USS PC-1120, USS SC-698). Task Group 78.x is the Seventh Fleet amphibious organization - placing this hull under Seventh Fleet (SWPA) operational control for the Borneo landings.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1945-04-26 to 1945-05-08 (named passages)
- Population
- Ship's crew, April-May 1945
- Limitations
- Secondary compilation hosting transcribed action-report text, not itself an official record; the page assigns a single event date (1 May 1945) though the embedded document continues through the Brunei (10 Jun 1945) and Balikpapan (1 Jul 1945) operations - this hull is NOT named in those later passages (the 1071s appearing there are LCI(S)-1071 and LCS(L)-1071, different craft - see correction row), so participation in Oboe VI/II is not established. The Tarakan operation does not appear in NavSource's campaign table for this hull and her two battle stars attach to Leyte and the Southern Philippines - the OB membership is carried as documented, the awards discrepancy is flagged in gaps. No commanding officer is listed for this hull.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-1071-lcil1071-04
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[6]Naval History and Heritage Command, United States Pacific Fleet Organization, 1 May 1945 (Navy Department Library, Online Reading Room) - live NHHC URL 404s as of 2026-09-29 (standing NHHC link-rot defect); Wayback Machine capture 2024-01-18 cited as archived copy [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- Online Reading Room transcription (Wayback capture 20240118075403), 'LANDING CRAFT FLOTILLAS, PACIFIC FLEET' LCI flotilla/group/division listings - hull absent
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- The official 1 May 1945 Pacific Fleet organization document's Landing Craft Flotillas listings do not include this hull: the LCI hull-number listings run through Defoe-block sisters LCI 1066, 1067, 1068, 1069, 1070 and resume at LCI 1077-1098, omitting the 1071-1076 block entirely. Every hull documented alongside LCI(L)-1071 in the Tarakan Task Group 78.1 order of battle (LCI(L)-172, -185, -635, -961, -985, -1000, -1072, -1076) is likewise absent from the document's LCI listings - while that hull's own documented operations (Leyte, Mindanao, Tarakan) were all Seventh Fleet/Southwest Pacific Area actions. The absence is consistent with Seventh Fleet assignment rather than an unexplained omission, and supplies the flotilla-level organizational context NavSource's history block lacks.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1945-05-01
- Limitations
- Negative evidence inside an official listing: the document covers Landing Craft Flotillas, Pacific Fleet; Seventh Fleet's own flotillas are not enumerated in it, so absence is structural for SWPA-assigned hulls and is NOT positive proof of a Seventh Fleet flotilla assignment for this hull - that inference rests on the documented TG 78.x tasking in ev-04. The listing is a single date snapshot (1 May 1945) and contains no asbestos or material content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-1071-lcil1071-05
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[7]Division of Naval Intelligence, Navy Department, ONI-226, Allied Landing Craft and Ships (1944), HyperWar/ibiblio scan with text layer (verified live 2026-09-29) [other_primary]
- Locator
- ONI-226 U.S. and British landing craft table, 'LCI(L)-(351-)' row
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- U.S. Navy recognition manual's LCI(L) design tables: the 'LCI(L)-(351-), Landing Craft, Infantry (Large)' entry - the design group to which hull 1071 (Defoe yard no. 324, commissioned June 1944) belongs - lists 158 ft 5.5 in x 23 ft 3 in; capacity 9 officers, 196 enlisted men, 32 tons cargo; 250 t landing / 387 t loaded; endurance 8,000 miles at 12 knots; five 20 mm guns; 2-in plastic splinter protection on guns, conning and pilot-house sides; crew 28.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1944
- Population
- LCI(L) crews and embarked troops (class context)
- Limitations
- Wartime identification manual at class level - does not name hull 1071 and contains no materials or insulation content. ONI table figures (9 officers/196 enlisted troops, 250 t landing/387 t loaded, 32 t cargo, 8,000-mile endurance, crew 28) differ from NavSource's per-hull spec block (6 officers/182 enlisted, 236 t light/419 t loaded, 75 t cargo, 4,000-mile endurance, 4 officers/24 enlisted) - both quoted as their sources state them; variances flagged in gaps.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-1071-lcil1071-06
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[8]Era inference built on: NavSource LCI-351 specification block (8 GM diesels, 4 per shaft; no steam plant); ONI-226 design table; ShipbuildingHistory Defoe wartime build table; the 1944 Defoe yard industrial-health report recited in GAF v. United States (ev-09); GAO HRD-80-2 Navy asbestos-era documentation (ev-08) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Consolidated - NavSource specifications block; ONI-226 design table; Defoe build table; GAF para. 39-40 (ev-09); GAO HRD-80-2 (ev-08)
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- A diesel-powered amphibious landing craft built May-June 1944 at Defoe Shipbuilding sits inside both the Navy's documented asbestos-use era and that specific yard's documented wartime asbestos environment (a January 1944 Navy re-inspection described amosite asbestos dust conditions at the Defoe facility - ev-09). Era-standard applications aboard a diesel-driven craft of this type and period: engine-exhaust lagging and silencer insulation, machinery-space thermal/acoustic insulation, gaskets and valve/flange packing, electrical cable and switchboard insulation, refrigeration/galley insulation, deck coverings, and winch/windlass brake linings - within a small, confined 158-ft hull volume carrying a 28-man crew and up to ~188 embarked troops. Diesel propulsion means no boiler or steam-turbine lagging pathway. Reserve-fleet lay-up (Green Cove Springs, 1953) and mothballing-era preservation work are additional periods when era materials could be disturbed.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1944-1953
- Population
- Defoe construction trades (May-June 1944); ship's engine crew (1944-45); reserve-fleet/mothballing trades (1953)
- Limitations
- Class/era inference only - no hull material schedule, specification, or survey located for this hull. Names era-standard applications, not confirmed installed materials; establishes no quantities, no product brands, and no exposure for any individual. The Defoe-yard document speaks to shop/yard conditions, not to materials aboard any specific hull; nothing here is ship-proven.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-1071-lcil1071-07
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[9]GAO, Navy Efforts To Protect Workers From Asbestos Exposure, HRD-80-2 (Oct 18, 1979) [gao]
- Locator
- GAO product page HRD-80-2 Highlights section (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 U.S. service era (1944 through her 1953 reserve-fleet lay-up and any pre-striking work).
- 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 fetches (HTTP 403 re-confirmed 2026-09-29, standing defect since Batch 01); product-page description used. The specific 1975/1979 shipyard policies reviewed in the report post-date this hull's service by decades.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-1071-lcil1071-08
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[10]GAF Corporation v. United States, 932 F.2d 947 (Fed. Cir. 1991) (No. 90-5079), CourtListener opinion 560599 - affirmance of Claims Court summary judgment (19 Cl. Ct. 490 (1990)) [court_record]
- Locator
- Opinion 932 F.2d 947, dissent paragraphs 39-41 (Defoe recitation); paragraphs 1-7 (posture/holding); CourtListener cluster 560599
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- An affirmed appellate opinion recites a 1944 government report on this hull's builder yard: 'A 1944 report described conditions at the Defoe Shipbuilding facility at Bay City, Michigan: Amosite contains a considerable percentage of asbestos and studies have shown that dust from it, if breathed in sufficient quantity for a prolonged period, are capable of causing the disabling occupational disease, asbestosis' (dissent, paragraphs 39-40), noting such papers 'were classified under the Espionage Act'. Case posture: Ruberoid/GAF - a Navy asbestos-insulation contractor from 1944 (Calsilite) - sued the United States for indemnification of its asbestos liabilities, alleging the Navy withheld wartime knowledge of asbestos hazards; the Claims Court granted summary judgment for the government and the Federal Circuit AFFIRMED, holding the Navy had no contractual duty to warn an asbestos producer of hazards in its own product. The recited wartime-knowledge evidence includes the Defoe yard report. This hull was built at that yard May-June 1944 - within months of the report's January 1944 survey dates.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1944 (report); 1990-91 (litigation)
- Population
- Defoe Shipbuilding workers (1944 report period); shipyard insulation installers generally
- Limitations
- Yard-level, not hull-level: documents asbestos-relevant conditions at the builder yard in the same year this hull was built, but does not name this hull or any vessel. Litigation-stage caution: the Federal Circuit affirmed summary judgment FOR the United States; the quoted material is a dissent's recitation of evidence proffered at summary judgment - never adjudicated as a trial finding - and the underlying report is not in the public record independently of the opinion's description (see ev-10 for its identified title). Establishes nothing about exposure of any individual.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-1071-lcil1071-09
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[11]Owens-Illinois, Inc.'s Supplemental Answers to Second Interrogatories, Heathman v. Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp. et al., No. 87-C-1934 (Dist. Ct. Brazoria County, Tex., 23d Jud. Dist., filed 1990) - exhibit list, preserved in the ToxicDocs industry-documents archive (verified live 2026-09-29) [court_record]
- Locator
- ToxicDocs document 4ayjMMY2q6pqomB4eDk5Nq9op, interrogatory answer to Q.9-10 exhibit list, items 9 and 11
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- A filed discovery document identifies the underlying survey of this hull's builder yard by title and date: 'Re-Inspection Report, Safety and Industrial Health, Defoe Shipbuilding Co., Bay City, Michigan, at 3 (January 20-21, 1944)' - a Supervisor of Shipbuilding (Navy) industrial-health re-inspection conducted five months before this hull's keel was laid at the same yard. The interrogatory lists it among the wartime shipyard industrial-health surveys marshaled by Owens-Illinois to argue government knowledge of asbestos hazards; the same list catalogs companion surveys of other LCI-builder yards (Albina Engine and Machine Works, Portland OR, March 1945; Commercial Iron Works, Portland OR, March 1945; Oregon Shipbuilding; Willamette Iron & Steel; South Portland).
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1944-01 (report); 1990 (filing)
- Population
- Defoe Shipbuilding workers (January 1944 survey period)
- Limitations
- Citation-of-a-document, not the document: the interrogatory identifies the Defoe report's title, date, and cited page (at 3) but does not reproduce its text - the report's actual findings are unverified here (the GAF opinion's amosite recitation is consistent with, and likely drawn from, this or a companion report - but the two are not proven to be the same document). Discovery-stage material inside an unrelated Texas asbestos case; the surveys were marshaled by a defendant to argue government knowledge, not adjudicated findings.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-1071-lcil1071-10
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[12]National Museum of the Great Lakes, 'Fighting Ships from Bay City' (Bert C. Brennan, Inland Seas, July 1945) + Defoe yard history site, F. A. Swanson (Defoe VP) address to SNAME, Bay City, 21 May 1964 - both verified live 2026-09-29 [museum_official]
- Locator
- NMGL Brennan article text; defoenet.com/shipbuild/swanson-history
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Builder context for this hull's yard: Defoe Shipbuilding Co., Bay City, MI, built 'forty-seven landing craft infantry (large) (LCI-L)' (Brennan) / '47 LCI(L) landing craft, diesel equipped' (Swanson), using its signature upside-down-and-rollover welded-hull method; completed LCIs were taken by Navy crews via the Great Lakes to Chicago, then down the Illinois and Mississippi rivers to New Orleans for final refit and commissioning.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1941-1945
- Population
- Defoe Shipbuilding construction workforce, Bay City, 1944
- Limitations
- Yard-level context, not hull-specific - neither source names LCI(L)-1071. Establishes builder and production environment only; contains no asbestos or materials information. Swanson is a company-insider account (1964); Brennan is a wartime magazine piece republished by the museum.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-1071-lcil1071-11
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[13]NavSource Online, USS Ouachita County (LST-1071) page (verified live 2026-09-29) + collision hulls inside the Tarakan/Brunei/Balikpapan operation document embedded at uboat.net (ev-04) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource 10/16/161071 page (LST-1071 identity block); uboat.net 22136 embedded document (LCI(S)-1071, LCS(L)-1071 passages); NavalCoverMuseum USS Badger FF-1071 page
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Name-collision guard for '1071' hulls: (1) USS LST-1071 - a tank landing ship (later USS Ouachita County), a different vessel that also decommissioned (10 June 1946), was later recommissioned (3 January 1951), laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet at Green Cove Springs, FL, and struck 1 November 1959 - its record must not be conflated with this hull's; the Green Cove Springs reserve connection is shared by both. (2) LCI(S)-1071 and LCS(L)-1071 - smaller support craft sharing the 1071 number that appear in the SAME embedded Borneo operation document on this hull's uboat.net page (LCI(S)-1071 in the Oboe II/Balikpapan passages; LCS(L)-1071 in Oboe I/VI passages) - their entries are not this hull's. (3) USS Badger (DE-1071/FF-1071) - a 1970-1991 frigate dominating '1071' litigation/marketing search noise. Records for '1071' must be matched on designation, not number alone.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- correction
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1944-1995
- Limitations
- Disambiguation only - establishes that distinct 1071-numbered craft exist and appear in overlapping record sets; supplies no facts about this hull itself.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-1071-lcil1071-12
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[14]Batch-4950 search ledger (this record): NavSource 151071; ShipbuildingHistory Defoe table; NARA SL-44 + online digitized deck-logs list; NHHC DANFS URL/site search + Pacific Fleet Organization 1 May 1945 (Wayback); uboat.net; ONI-226; GAO HRD-80-2; GAF v. United States + ToxicDocs; NMGL/defoenet; CourtListener API v4; NVR; NavalCoverMuseum; LoC VHP; usslci.org; Wikipedia; general web litigation sweeps [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-lci-l-1071-lcil1071-01 through -15
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, abatement contract, hull material schedule, hazmat disclosure, or litigation naming LCI(L)-1071 was found in the public sources searched (see search_ledger). CourtListener opinion-index sweeps across hull-designation variants ('LCI(L)-1071' OR 'LCI-1071' OR 'LCI(L) 1071' OR 'LCI 1071') returned count 0 - a genuine no-result for the opinion index; the RECAP/docket-index query could not be completed this session (fleet pacing budget spent; logged as blocked, not as a negative result). What exists is yard-level: a 1944 government industrial-health report describing amosite asbestos dust conditions at Defoe Shipbuilding recited in GAF v. United States (ev-09), and that report's title identified in filed discovery material (ev-10) - neither names this hull. Secondary web sweeps surfaced no qualifying case; 'asbestos aboard' material found was law-firm marketing content 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 inside the documented Navy asbestos era at a yard whose own January 1944 industrial-health re-inspection described asbestos dust conditions, and she passed through a 1953 reserve-fleet lay-up of the kind that disturbed installed materials. Deck logs (SL-44 holding, undigitized), the underlying Defoe re-inspection report, and any mothballing/disposal work files are unreviewed leads. Does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-1071-lcil1071-13