Evidence
8 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-8).
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[1]NavSource Online: Amphibious Photo Archive, USS LCI(R)-226 ex USS LCI(L)-226 - milestone timeline, campaign table, specifications, commanding-officer roster, photo captions (history source: 'USS LCI "Landing Craft Infantry",' Vol. II, Turner Publishing, 1995). Verified live 2026-09-29. [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource 10/15/150226.htm header block, campaign table, specifications block, CO roster
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Documented for this hull: laid down 1 Nov 1942 at George Lawley & Sons Corp., Neponset, MA; launched 6 Dec 1942; commissioned USS LCI(L)-226, 14 Dec 1942, LTjg. Henry T. McKnight in command; assigned Asiatic-Pacific Theater, LCI Flotilla Seven, Group Nineteen, Division Thirty-Eight. Campaigns: Lae 4-6 Sep 1943; Finschhafen 22 Sep 1943; Cape Gloucester 26-27 Dec 1943; Hollandia 21-25 Apr 1944; Biak 27-28 May / 29 May-1 Jun 1944; Morotai 15 Sep 1944; Lingayen Gulf 9 Jan 1945; Lubang 1 Mar 1945; Zambales-Subic Bay 29-31 Jan 1945; Mariveles 15 Feb 1945; Corregidor 16 Feb 1945; Zamboanga 10 Mar 1945; Saoroc Point (Basilan) 16 Mar 1945; Cotabato/Polloc Harbor 17-19 Apr 1945; Balikpapan 1 Jul 1945 - eight battle stars. Redesignated LCI(R)-226, 10 Jul 1945; decommissioned 5 Feb 1946 at San Diego; struck 25 Feb 1946; registered 1948 as passenger barge Tradewinds; out of documentation 1955; fate unknown. Specs: 216 t light / 389 t loaded; 158'5.5"; 8 x GM series-71 diesels (4 per shaft), twin variable-pitch propellers, 2,320 shp; complement 3 officers + 21 enlisted (LCI(L)) / 31 enlisted (LCI(R)); troops 6 officers + 182 enlisted. CO roster: McKnight 14 Dec 42-27 Dec 43; Miles 27 Dec 43-4 Aug 44; Harned 4 Aug 44-7 Mar 45; Coulson 7 Mar-5 Apr 45; Joyce 5 Apr-Jul 45; Woodard Jul 45-5 Feb 46. Photo captions cite NARA Army film NAID 17572 / local 111-ADC-3769 (Apr 1944 Hollandia footage, frames showing LCI(L)-225/226 landing 41st Infantry Division units). Secondary compilations corroborate the milestones: uboat.net ship/21141 (adds Cape Gloucester Task Unit 76.1.31 roster naming this hull) and shipbuildinghistory.com's LCI(L) table ('Sold 1947' - vs NavSource 'registered 1948'; consistent sequence, exact transfer date unverified).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1942-1955
- Population
- Lawley construction trades (1942); crew (1942-46); embarked troops (to 6 officers + 182 enlisted per landing)
- Limitations
- NavSource is a volunteer secondary compilation sourced to Turner Publishing's USS LCI Vol. II - milestone dates generally track official records but are not themselves a primary registry; secondary sources conflict on the LCI(R) redesignation date and installed power (see gaps). Contains no asbestos content. The 1947-55 civilian history and unknown fate predate modern ACM-handling documentation norms.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-226-lcil226-01
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[2]NARA Special List 44, 'List of Logbooks of U.S. Navy Ships, Stations, and Miscellaneous Units, 1801-1947' - LCI(L)-226 entry, printed p. 334 (Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center digitized scan; image display 360, viewable via section viewer) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Special List 44, Ships by Signal Number Designation, LCI(L) section, printed p. 334, row 'LCI(L)-226'; ACPL scan image narasl44/360.jpg
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- NARA's deck-log inventory lists 2 logbooks for LCI(L)-226 covering three spans: 14-16 Dec 1942; 1 Feb 1943-23 Jan 1944; and 1 May 1944-30 Jun 1945. Coverage therefore includes the Lae, Finschhafen, and Cape Gloucester operations but leaves gaps at 17 Dec 1942-31 Jan 1943 (Solomons Island training period), 24 Jan-30 Apr 1944 (Hollandia operation), and 1 Jul 1945-decommissioning (including the Balikpapan landing of 1 Jul 1945 and the LCI(R) conversion period).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1942-1945
- Population
- Crew during logged spans
- Limitations
- Inventories surviving logbooks at NARA (RG 24, Archives II) - coverage spans, not contents; the logs themselves are not digitized in the National Archives Catalog (numbered-craft logs absent from NARA's online deck-log list). Logbooks record ship movements and personnel, not material or insulation content. Entry verified by direct read of the ACPL scan of printed page 334; 'PDF page 22' locators in tasking material refer to a section-extract pagination, not the printed page.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-226-lcil226-02
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[3]John Hersey, 'U.S.S. LCI 226: After her Pacific crossing and four actions this ugly craft becomes a real fighting ship,' LIFE, 27 March 1944, pp. 53-60; photographs by O. Landon Miles (full transcription hosted by NavSource) [reputable_press]
- Locator
- NavSource-hosted transcription 10/15/150226m.htm; print: LIFE 27 Mar 1944 pp. 53-60
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Contemporary national-press feature documenting this hull's service from commissioning through Cape Gloucester: Lawley Boston commissioning 14 Dec 1942 (Crew No. 3068); departure Norfolk area early Feb 1943; Panama Canal transit; Sydney arrival Easter morning after 79 days; about a month repairing in an Australian port; New Guinea operations; Cape Gloucester landing 26 Dec 1943 with 210 embarked Marines. Describes her as '158 feet... weighs 400 tons... quarters aboard for 25 crew and 210 troops... hums along with adult Diesel noises' and 'a hastily welded steel box' - welded-steel construction.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1942-1944
- Population
- Crew No. 3068 and successors; embarked Marines (Dec 1943 landing)
- Limitations
- Feature journalism, not a technical record - figures are narrative ('400 tons', '210 troops') and differ from the NavSource spec block (389 t loaded; 182 enlisted troops); carried as contemporary color, not specifications. No asbestos or material content. Transcription fidelity rests on NavSource; the underlying issue is Life vol. 16 no. 13 (27 Mar 1944), pp. 53-60 per the Hunt journal.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-226-lcil226-03
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[4]Witness to War Foundation, 'Al Hunt's WWII Navy Diary' (PDF transcription) - incorporates the ship's Night Order Book for 9 Feb-14 Apr 1943 plus one 28 Jun 1943 entry, and Hunt's daily journal as signalman aboard LCI 226, 20 Jul 1944-13 Apr 1945 [museum_official]
- Locator
- witnesstowar.org download 145 ('Al Hunt's WWII Navy Diary.pdf', verified live, text layer read); NavSource 10/15/pdf/150226h.pdf (timeline + crew list)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- A surviving shipboard artifact: the Night Order Book of LCI 226 covering the Feb-Apr 1943 Virginia-to-Australia transit (course, speed, formation, night orders, signed 'HT McK' - skipper Henry Turney McKnight), physically repurposed as volume 1 of signalman Arden L. Hunt's journal (Bostrem Bay/Alexishafen, Finschhafen shuttle runs, dry-dock work Aug 1944, Hollandia staging Aug-Sep 1944, Morotai, Lingayen, Subic, Corregidor-era service through 13 Apr 1945). Companion crew-compiled timeline and muster-roll-derived crew list hosted on NavSource (150226h.pdf) names individual crew with dates and ratings.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1943-1946
- Population
- Named enlisted crew and officers, 1942-46 (muster-roll-derived list)
- Limitations
- Veterans'/foundation transcriptions of primary artifacts - transcription accuracy unverified against the originals; the timeline compilation (sources: Salisbury and Hunt records plus muster rolls/Reports of Changes) is a secondary assembly. No asbestos or material content. Personnel names document population, not exposure or disease.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-226-lcil226-04
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[5]USS Landing Craft Infantry National Association (501(c)(19) veterans organization), LCI 226 category - 'Emergency Surgery on LCI 226' (reprinted period newspaper account citing the ship's citation) and 'The Journal of Arden Lee Hunt, LCI 226' [other_primary]
- Locator
- usslci.org/category/lcil/lci-226/; article 'Emergency Surgery on LCI 226'
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Ship-specific event documentation: on 11 April 1945, off Mindoro, Army Medical Corps Capt. Hime S. Poliner performed an appendectomy on Pfc. Darrel Oldridge aboard this LCI(L) - described in the ship's citation (quoted in the period press account) as 'to the best knowledge of this command... the first operation of its kind performed aboard an LCI(L)'; anesthesia administered by the commanding officer. NOTE: the citation's signature block names 'Lieut. George Linton Jr., USNR' as commanding - conflicting with the NavSource CO roster (ENS Joyce as of 5 Apr 1945); unresolved, carried in gaps.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1945
- Population
- Crew + embarked Army medical personnel/patients (Apr 1945)
- Limitations
- Reprinted press account hosted by a veterans' association - secondary transcription, not the underlying citation document. Medical event aboard; contains no asbestos or material content. The commanding-officer naming conflict is disclosed, not resolved.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-226-lcil226-05
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[6]Era inference built on: NavSource specifications (diesel plant, no steam); GAO HRD-80-2 Navy asbestos-era documentation (ev-07); institutional yard histories - MIT Museum (George Lawley & Son, Neponset, WWII landing-craft production, yard closed 1946), Mystic Seaport Lawley Family Collection finding aid (yard business records incl. vessel records, wage/time sheets) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource specifications block; MIT Museum organization record 1754; Mystic Seaport coll. 279 finding aid; GAO HRD-80-2
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- A diesel-powered amphibious landing craft built Nov-Dec 1942 sits inside the Navy's documented asbestos-use era. Era-standard applications aboard a craft of this type and period: diesel engine exhaust lagging, machinery thermal insulation, gaskets and valve packing, electrical insulation, and winch brake linings - including during the mid-1945 LCI(R) rocket-launcher conversion and the 1947-48 civilian barge refit. The Lawley Neponset yard - the LCI(L) type's primary design yard - operated through 1945-46 within the wartime shipbuilding asbestos era. No steam plant aboard, so the boiler/turbine lagging pathway of steam vessels does not apply; pathways are lower-mass insulation and friction products in a small, confined hull.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1942-1955
- Population
- Lawley construction trades (1942); crew (1942-46); conversion/shipyard trades (LCI(R) refit 1945, civilian refit 1947-48)
- Limitations
- Class/era inference only - no hull-specific insulation survey, material list, conversion work package, or Lawley yard asbestos record located. Names era-standard applications, not confirmed installed materials; no quantity; no manufacturer attribution. The 'primary design yard' characterization of Lawley rests on secondary yard histories (Wikipedia 'George Lawley & Son'), corroborated at institutional level by MIT Museum's summary of the yard's WWII landing-craft production. The Mystic Seaport Lawley business archive (coll. 279) is an unchecked archival lead for yard-level material documentation.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-226-lcil226-06
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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 entire construction (1942) and service era (1942-46).
- 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 blocks automated fetch, HTTP 403, confirmed 2026-09-29) - content via product-page description.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-226-lcil226-07
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[8]Batch-5016 search ledger (this record): NavSource main page + Hersey transcription + timeline PDF; NARA SL44 via ACPL scan; NHHC/DANFS; NVR; archives.gov deck-log list; CourtListener (authenticated API v4, opinion and RECAP docket indexes); secondary web sweep; uboat.net; shipbuildinghistory.com; usslci.org; witnesstowar.org; MIT Museum/Mystic yard histories [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-lci-l-226-lcil226-01 through -14
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, abatement contract, material list, or hazmat disclosure naming LCI(L)-226 / LCI(R)-226 was found in the public sources searched (see search_ledger). CourtListener (authenticated API v4, 2026-09-29) returned zero results for opinion queries '"LCI(L)-226"' and '"LCI-226"' and for a RECAP docket query across all three designations - no qualifying asbestos litigation names this hull. The only 'asbestos' content touching this hull's builder is law-firm marketing material (MesoWatch George Lawley & Sons page) asserting exposure without primary sourcing and misstating the yard's operating dates (yard closed 1945-46) - 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 - construction-era insulation practices make presence plausible at era level only. Open leads: RG 24 deck logs per SL44 (not digitized), Lawley yard business records at Mystic Seaport (coll. 279), NARA catalog image metadata unfetchable this session. Does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-226-lcil226-08