Evidence
13 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-13).
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[1]research packet 404-packet.md (3 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-25-lcil25-pkt-404-packet-md
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[2]NavSource Online: Amphibious Photo Archive, USS LCI(L)-25 (page 10/15/150025) - designation, construction milestones, theater assignment, campaign list, awards, disposal, specifications; history sourced to 'USS LCI "Landing Craft Infantry"' Vol. II, Turner Publishing, 1995 [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource 10/15/150025.htm - header, campaign table, awards bar, disposal lines, specifications block, and photo caption (Humboldt Bay, 28 April 1944)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Documented for this hull: laid down 26 September 1942 at New York Ship Building Co., Camden, N.J.; launched 17 October 1942; commissioned USS LCI(L)-25 8 December 1942. Assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater, LCI Flotilla Seven, LCI Group Nineteen, and participated in: Eastern New Guinea operations (Lae occupation 4-6 September 1943; Finschhafen occupation 22 September 1943; Saidor occupation 2-3 January 1944); Bismarck Archipelago operation (Cape Gloucester, New Britain, 26-27 December 1943); Hollandia operation (Aitape-Humboldt Bay-Tanahmerah Bay, 21-25 April 1944); Western New Guinea operations (Toem-Wakde-Sarmi 17 May 1944; Biak Island 27-28 May 1944; Morotai landings 15 September 1944). Decommissioned, date unknown; struck from the Naval Register 5 June 1946; transferred to the Maritime Commission for disposal 9 October 1947; final disposition unknown. USS LCI(L)-25 earned four battle stars for WWII service. Specifications: displacement 236 t light / 419 t loaded; length 158' 5.5"; beam 23' 3"; five single 20mm guns (some LCIs added two .50 cal machine guns); complement 4 officers + 24 enlisted; troop capacity 6 officers + 182 enlisted; cargo 75 tons; propulsion two sets of 4 GM 6051-series-71 diesel engines (4 per shaft), GM main reduction gears, twin variable-pitch propellers, 2,320 shp; two diesel-drive 30 kW 120V DC ship's-service generators. Page photograph shows LCI(L)-25 landing 41st Division assault troops at Humboldt Bay, New Guinea, 28 April 1944.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1942-1947
- Population
- Crew (4 officers + 24 enlisted, Navy-manned); embarked troops (up to 6 officers + 182 enlisted per landing); New York Shipbuilding construction trades (1942)
- Limitations
- Ship-specific history only; contains no asbestos or material content. NavSource is a volunteer secondary compilation rather than a primary registry - the page itself sources its history to the Turner Publishing veterans' volume; milestone dates are consistent with uboat.net but the decommission date and final fate are explicitly unknown to the source. Contains no asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-25-lcil25-01
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[3]NARA, 'Special List #44, by Ship Numbers' - List of Logbooks of U.S. Navy Ships, Stations, and Miscellaneous Units, 1801-1947 (RG 24, Records of the Bureau of Naval Personnel, Entry 118, NAID 581208) [other_primary]
- Locator
- sl-44-ship-number.pdf, PDF page 30, line entry 'LCI-25 5/1/1943 6/30/1945'
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- NARA inventories Navy deck logs for this hull, listed under 'LCI-25', covering 1 May 1943 through 30 June 1945 - log coverage spanning her documented campaign window in the Southwest Pacific (Lae through the post-Morotai period). These are deck-log coverage dates in the inventory, not asserted commissioning or decommissioning dates. The logs are held in RG 24 Entry 118 at the National Archives and are not digitized.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1943-1945 (log coverage)
- Population
- Crew and embarked troops, May 1943 - June 1945 (coverage window)
- Limitations
- Archival inventory only: establishes that logbooks for this hull exist at NARA for the stated window, not their content - nothing about operations, conditions, or materials is documented by the inventory line itself. Coverage begins 5/1/1943 (five months after commissioning) and ends 6/30/1945 (before decommissioning); the December 1942-April 1943 shakedown/transit period and post-June-1945 disposition are outside the inventoried coverage for this hull. Not digitized - open archival lead.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-25-lcil25-02
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[4]USS Landing Craft Infantry National Association (501(c)(19) veterans' organization), 'The Journal of Arden Lee Hunt, LCI 226' - daily wartime journal of an LCI-226 signalman, submitted by his son Arden R. Hunt [other_primary]
- Locator
- Journal entries dated July 1944 (signal watches aboard LCI-25; group organization note) and September 1944 (post-Morotai towing episode: '25 our group 19 flag ship')
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- A firsthand daily journal kept aboard sister ship LCI-226 places the LCI Group 19 commander aboard this hull: 'We are in LCI group 19. Our group commander is aboard LCI 25. LCI 28 is our flag ship. We are also in Flot 7' (July 1944); and during the return from Morotai in September 1944, when LCI-226's port screw gearbox burned out, 'LCI 27 is now towing us with a double cable, while 25 our group 19 flag ship is plotting out our course.' The author also stood signal watches aboard LCI-25 during July 1944 alongside named signalmen. Confirms the group-19 commander embarked in LCI-25 during the Hollandia-Biak-Morotai operating period.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1944
- Population
- LCI-25 crew and embarked Group 19 command staff (1944); LCI-226 crew interacting with this hull
- Limitations
- Primary-adjacent source: a participant's contemporaneous daily journal hosted by the official LCI veterans' association - strong for unit organization but it is a privately held document transcribed by family, not an official Navy record. 'Flag ship' usage in the journal is informal (applied to both LCI-25 and LCI-28 in the same period). No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-25-lcil25-03
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[5]uboat.net Allied Warships, 'USS LCI(L)-25 (LCI(L)-25)' - warship record and linked operation timelines (Operation Dexterity; Hollandia; Toem-Wakde; Morotai) [other_primary]
- Locator
- uboat.net ship/20851.html specification table and 'notable events' section; linked operation-event detail for Operation Dexterity and the May/September 1944 New Guinea echelons
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Corroborating warship record for this hull: LCI 1 class Landing Craft Infantry; built by New York Shipbuilding Corp. (Camden, N.J.); ordered 3 June 1942; laid down 26 September 1942; launched 17 October 1942; commissioned 8 December 1942. Linked operation timelines independently place LCI(L)-25 in Echelon S-1, Section 1, departing Hollandia 16 May 1944 for the Toem-Wakde operation alongside LCI(L)s 28, 26, 29, 30, 71, 72, 74, 224, 338, 340 and 342, and among the LCI(L)s that completed unloading at Morotai and departed for Hollandia on 15 September 1944. A 'notable event' entry ties her to the 26 December 1943 Cape Gloucester landings (Operation Dexterity).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1942-1945
- Population
- Crew and embarked troops (1943-44 operations)
- Limitations
- Secondary reference compilation (Guethlein/uboat.net allied-warship database), not a primary registry - used as corroboration for the NavSource record, which it matches on all carried dates. The 3 June 1942 order date rests on this source alone and is flagged in gaps. Its operation timelines cite no underlying action-report document numbers. No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-25-lcil25-04
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[6]USS Landing Craft Infantry National Association, '30 Days' (Robert E. Wright, Jr., Elsie Item no. 102, Sep 2018) - LCI(R)-337 narrative account listing the Flotilla 7 hulls that departed Hollandia for Leyte Gulf under Operation Plan 101-44 [other_primary]
- Locator
- usslci.org/30-days/ - Op Plan 101-44 departure list paragraph ('The ships of Flotilla 7 by Operational Plan 101-44 departed Hollandia...')
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- NEGATIVE SERVICE DATUM for this hull: the veteran-association account enumerates the Flotilla Seven hulls that departed Hollandia for Leyte under Op Plan 101-44 in October 1944 - LCIs 28, 447, 448, 361, 363, 364, 429, 71, 72, 73, 74, 31, 34, 230, 331, 337, 338, 340, 341, 342, 343, 344, 430, 29, 227, 228 and 432. LCI(L)-25 is not on that list; consistent with NavSource crediting her four battle stars ending at Morotai (15 September 1944), her post-September-1944 service is undocumented in located public sources.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1944-10 onward (undocumented window)
- Population
- Crew (post-September-1944 period)
- Limitations
- Absence-from-list evidence, not direct documentation: a veterans'-association narrative enumerating another hull's flotilla movement. It supports that LCI-25 was not recorded among the Leyte detachment in that account - it does not establish where she was or what she did October 1944 onward. Deck logs (5/1943-6/1945, at NARA, undigitized) are the open lead for her actual movements. No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-25-lcil25-05
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[7]HyperWar: 'Ships of the U.S. Navy, 1940-1945' - Landing Ships and Craft, LCI(L) section (compiled from the wartime U.S. Navy vessel list; LCI(L)-1 class specification block and full hull inventory) [other_primary]
- Locator
- ships-lc.html, 'LCI(L) -- Landing Craft, Infantry (Large)' -> 'LCI(L)-1 Class' spec block; hull table row 'LCI(L)-25 ... 1942-44'
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Class-level wartime record: the LCI(L)-1 class specification block gives displacement 387 t full load; length 160'; beam 23' 3"; speed 15.5 kts; armament 4 x 20mm; complement 3 officers + 21 enlisted; capacity 6 officers and 182 troops or 75 tons cargo; 2 sets of GM diesel engines, twin variable-pitch screws, 1600 BHP. The hull inventory carries LCI(L)-25 in the LCI(L)-1 class with commissioning-era window 1942-44 and no loss, Lend-Lease, or conversion notation - consistent with her surviving the war and never leaving U.S. Navy control before disposal.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1942-1945
- Population
- LCI(L)-1 class crews and embarked troops (design figures)
- Limitations
- Wartime class-level compilation, not a hull record - the spec block describes the design, not this specific craft (per-hull figures differ from NavSource on complement, displacement, and horsepower - see gaps). Confirms only class membership and that no conversion/loss/transfer was recorded for this hull in that inventory. No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-25-lcil25-06
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[8]U.S. Coast Guard Historian's Office, 'US Coast Guard-Manned LCI(L)s' - enumeration of the 28 Coast Guard-manned LCI(L)s and their flotilla structure (Flotilla 4, redesignated 10 for Overlord, then 35 for the Pacific) [other_primary]
- Locator
- USCG Historian's Office page, 'US Coast Guard-Manned LCI(L)s' - flotilla history narrative (Flotilla 4 -> 10 -> 35; 28 hulls)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- The USCG Historian's Office documents that the Coast Guard manned 28 LCI(L)s, organized in Flotilla 4 (later redesignated Flotilla 10 for Normandy, then Flotilla 35 for Pacific service), while 'all LCI(L)s remained commissioned US Navy vessels.' LCI(L)-25 served in Navy-manned LCI Flotilla Seven, Group Nineteen - outside the documented Coast Guard-manned structure; her crew was Navy, not Coast Guard.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1942-1946
- Population
- Crew determination for this hull (Navy-manned)
- Limitations
- Establishes manning by exclusion: the official enumeration of Coast Guard-manned LCI(L)s and their flotillas does not include Flotilla 7 or this hull. Navy manning is also the default for LCI(L)s; no separate muster roll was examined. No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-25-lcil25-07
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[9]Era inference built on: NavSource specifications (2 sets of 4 GM diesel engines, twin variable-pitch screws, 2 diesel-drive 30 kW generators - no steam plant); HyperWar LCI(L)-1 class spec block (diesel machinery); shipyard-exposure-map Atlas shipyards.json documented asbestos product list for new-york-shipbuilding (see ev-09); Corn & Starr 1987 WWII shipbuilding documentation (see ev-10); GAO HRD-80-2 Navy asbestos program (see ev-11) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource specifications block; HyperWar LCI(L)-1 class spec block; shipyards.json product list for new-york-shipbuilding
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- A diesel-powered LCI-1-class landing craft built in late 1942 at New York Shipbuilding sits inside both the Navy's documented asbestos-use era and that yard's documented asbestos-product environment; era-standard applications aboard a small diesel combatant of this type were engine and exhaust insulation, electrical insulation and wire covering, gaskets and packing on machinery and fuel/lube systems, and compartment insulation. As a diesel craft she carried no boilers or turbines - the boiler/steam-line lagging pathway of steam vessels does not apply, and the small crew-berthing/troop compartment geometry limits the thermal-insulation scope relative to larger combatants.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1942-1947
- Population
- New York Shipbuilding construction trades (1942); Navy crew (1942-46); any yard/base trades during availabilities; Maritime Commission disposal handlers (1947)
- Limitations
- Class/era inference only - no hull-specific insulation survey, material list, or work package located for LCI(L)-25. Names era-standard applications for the type, not confirmed installed materials on this hull. No quantity. Product names are normalized era terms; no manufacturer attribution for this hull.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-25-lcil25-08
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[10]shipyard-exposure-map Atlas shipyards.json, yard record 'new-york-shipbuilding' (New York Shipbuilding Corporation, Camden, NJ, 1899-1967) - documented asbestos product list [other_primary]
- Locator
- shipyard-exposure-map/client/src/data/shipyards.json, yard_id 'new-york-shipbuilding' - asbestos_products_documented and evidence arrays
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- The Atlas shipyard record for this hull's builder documents asbestos products in use at New York Shipbuilding: Pabco Six-Ply Super Caltemp Block (15% chrysotile); Ehret 85% magnesia insulation; Bakelite panels (30-40% asbestos); arc chutes in circuit breakers (36% chrysotile); Johns-Manville Transite asbestos cement panels (10-30% asbestos); asbestos gaskets; packing materials; asbestos-coated welding rods (5-15%); ebonized asbestos lumber; wire insulation (75-85% chrysotile); felt insulation (5-50% asbestos). The yard ran 1899-1967 with WWII peak employment of 30,000 - the yard built this hull in late 1942.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1942 (build era)
- Population
- New York Shipbuilding trades, WWII peak ~30,000 (yard-level)
- Limitations
- Yard-level dataset record, not a hull record: documents products at the yard generally - LCI(L)-25 is not named and no link between the listed products and this specific craft is established. Dataset provenance note: the yard record's epidemiology figure ('16x mesothelioma risk, electricians') cites PMC6280925, which is a UK building-trades study (TIPS), not a New York Shipbuilding study - that figure is not carried into this record and is flagged for the shipyard dataset's own QA. Does not establish materials aboard this hull, individual exposure, quantity, or present-day presence.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-25-lcil25-09
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[11]Corn, Jacqueline Karnell, and Jennifer Starr, 'Historical perspective on asbestos: Policies and protective measures in World War II shipbuilding,' American Journal of Industrial Medicine 11(3):359-373 (1987) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Abstract and article, AJIM 11(3):359-373 (1987)
- Finding type
- gov_survey
- Finding
- Peer-reviewed historical study documents that asbestos was used extensively as a fireproofing and insulating material in U.S. shipbuilding during WWII - the era and program under which this LCI-1-class landing craft was mass-produced - and that wartime demand drove unprecedented asbestos utilization across the construction of naval and merchant-type hulls.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1940s era documented; article 1987
- Population
- WWII shipyard workers and ship crews (class context)
- Limitations
- Program/era-level scholarly documentation of asbestos use in WWII shipbuilding generally; does not name this vessel or the LCI(L) type and does not establish that asbestos was or remains aboard this hull, nor quantity, location, condition, exposure, or causation.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-25-lcil25-10
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[12]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 (1942-47).
- 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) - content via product-page description.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-25-lcil25-11
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[13]Batch-5031 search ledger (this record): NavSource Amphibious Photo Archive; uboat.net allied-warship record; HyperWar wartime ship list; USCG Historian CG-manned LCI(L) enumeration; USS LCI National Association crew journal; NARA Special List 44 ship-number PDF; NHHC DANFS (404); NVR (out of coverage); MARAD vessel-history database (not retrievable); CourtListener API v4 opinion index (2 queries, zero hits) and docket index (blocked); Atlas shipyards.json yard record [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-lci-l-25-lcil25-01 through -13
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, abatement record, hazmat disclosure, or verified litigation naming USS LCI(L)-25 / LCI-25 was found in the public sources searched. CourtListener opinion index returned zero hits for both 'LCI(L)-25' and 'LCI-25' (2026-09-29). CAVEAT: the CourtListener docket index could not be queried this session - the fleet-wide authenticated pacing budget was momentarily spent on each attempt; logged as blocked in search_ledger, not as a negative result. No law-firm or marketing content was used anywhere in this record.
- 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 - her builder yard's asbestos use is documented at yard level and her construction era is the Navy's documented asbestos era. Deck logs at NARA (May 1943 - June 1945) are an undigitized open lead; the docket-index gap is genuine (paced, not run). Does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-25-lcil25-12