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)-335 (page 150335) - construction milestones, flotilla assignments, campaign table, Navy Unit Commendation, specifications, disposal; history sourced to USS LCI 'Landing Craft Infantry' Vol. II (Turner Publishing, 1995) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource 10/15/150335.htm - header block, campaign table, NUC line, specifications block
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Documented for this hull: laid down 27 July 1942 at Brown Ship Building, Houston, TX; launched 9 October 1942; commissioned USS LCI(L)-335, 27 November 1942. Asiatic-Pacific Theater: LCI Flotilla Five (1943-44); LCI Flotilla Twenty Two (1944-45) under CDR. Paul McD Smith USN (1944) and CDR. Marion M. Byrd (1944-45). Campaigns: New Georgia-Rendova-Vangunu occupation (30 June and 4 July 1943); Treasury Island landings (1 November 1943); occupation and defense of Cape Torokina (3-4 December 1943); Cape Sansapor operation (30 July and 4 August 1944); Morotai landings (15 September 1944); Lingayen Gulf landing (4-18 January 1945) - four battle stars. Navy Unit Commendation for service in Salvage, Fire Fighting, and Rescue Unit, Service Force, 7th Fleet, Philippine Islands area, 6 January-15 February 1945. Post-war: reassigned to Commander Philippine Sea Frontier; decommissioned date unknown; struck from Naval Register date unknown; transferred to Maritime Commission 3 May 1946 for disposal; fate unknown. Specifications: 236 t. light / 264 t. landing / 419 t. loaded; 158' 5.5" x 23' 3"; complement 4 officers + 24 enlisted; troop capacity 6 officers + 182 enlisted; five single 20mm guns; two sets of 4 General Motors 6051 series-71 diesel engines, 4 per shaft, GM main reduction gears, twin variable-pitch propellers, 2,320 shp; two 30 kW diesel-drive ship's service generators.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1942-1946
- Population
- Brown Shipbuilding construction trades (1942); crew and embarked troops (1942-46)
- Limitations
- NavSource is a volunteer secondary compilation citing the Turner Publishing LCI history - milestone and campaign data generally track official records but no official registry page exists for this hull (no DANFS entry; NVR does not cover hulls disposed 1946). Page verified live at navsource.net 2026-09-30. Contains no asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-335-lcil335-01
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[2]Shipbuilding History, Brown Shipbuilding Houston TX yard table (hull 39: LCI(L)-335, keel 27-Jul-42, launched 9-Oct-42, delivered 27-Nov-42, 'To NDRF 1946') [other_primary]
- Locator
- Brown Shipbuilding yard table, hull #39 row
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- The builder's yard tabulation confirms this hull as Brown Shipbuilding yard hull number 39: keel laid 27 July 1942, launched 9 October 1942, delivered 27 November 1942, disposition 'To NDRF 1946'. Brown built 32 LCI(L)s among 359 wartime vessels at the Green's Bayou/Houston Ship Channel yard.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1942-1946
- Population
- Brown Shipbuilding construction trades (1942)
- Limitations
- Independent shipyard-production tabulation, corroborating NavSource milestones; 'delivered' date equals NavSource commissioning date - common for minor landing craft accepted and commissioned on completion. Not an asbestos or materials record.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-335-lcil335-02
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[3]NARA Special List 44, List of Logbooks of U.S. Navy Ships, Stations, and Miscellaneous Units, 1801-1947 (Bradley, Kurtz et al., comp., 1978), printed page 336 'Ships with Symbol and Number Designations' - LCI(L)-335 logbook inventory (ACPL Genealogy Center mirror, image 362) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Special List 44 printed p.336, LCI(L)-335 row: 'June 28, 1943-June 30, 1945', 4 logbooks (ACPL mirror, narasl44 image 362.jpg)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- NARA Special List 44 inventories four logbooks (deck logs) for LCI(L)-335 spanning June 28, 1943 - June 30, 1945 - the in-scope wartime operating period covering her Rendova, Treasury Islands, Cape Torokina, Cape Sansapor, Morotai, and Lingayen campaigns.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1943-06-28 to 1945-06-30
- Population
- Crew and embarked personnel recorded in the logs (1943-45)
- Limitations
- Log-coverage dates only - this index entry is not a commissioning/decommissioning record and does not cover post-June-1945 service (decommissioning and striking dates remain undocumented). The logs themselves are held at NARA; digitization status for this hull is unconfirmed (NARA catalog is JS-rendered, unverifiable this session). Printed page 336 of the signal-designation section; the batch assignment's 'PDF page 23' locator resolves to this section segment.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-335-lcil335-03
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[4]uboat.net Allied Warships, USS LCI(L)-335 (LCI(L)-335) - ship data table and Task Force 77 Operation Globetrotter order of battle (30 July 1944) [other_primary]
- Locator
- uboat.net ship page 21358 - data table and 'Operation Globetrotter' event, Task Unit 77.2.5 listing
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- uboat.net's transcription of the Task Force 77 order of battle for Operation Globetrotter (Cape Sansapor landings on Middelburg and Amsterdam Islands and east/west of Cape Sansapor, 30 July 1944) lists USS LCI(L)-335 in Task Unit 77.2.5 (LCI Unit) under the command of Lt.(jg) J.A. Latimer, USNR, alongside LCI(L)-430 (COMLCIFLOT 7 embarked), LCI(L)-62, LCI(L)-334, and LCI(L)-519 and the Flotilla 8 group. Ship data table independently confirms: built by Brown Shipbuilding Company, Houston; laid down 27 July 1942; launched 9 October 1942; commissioned 27 November 1942.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-07-30 to 1944-08-04
- Population
- Lt.(jg) J.A. Latimer USNR and crew; embarked 6th Division troops (July-August 1944)
- Limitations
- uboat.net is a reputable secondary compilation; the command listing is a transcription of the wartime operation order, not the primary document itself. Names the commanding officer at one point in time (30 July 1944) - not a full command chronology. No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-335-lcil335-04
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[5]NavSource, 'History of LCI Flotilla 22' - firsthand narrative by a Flotilla 22 staff communications member, listing hull 335 among the flotilla ships [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource 10/15/150618f.htm - Morotai convoy roster, Lingayen narrative, postwar flotilla dispersal paragraph
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- A firsthand Flotilla 22 narrative names LCI(L)-335 in the LCI Unit of Task Group 77.4 for the 15-16 September 1944 Morotai landings ('LCI's 433(Flag), 435, 360, 446, 519, 334, 445, 444, 359, 357, 443, 63, 328, 333, 436, 335, 447, 429, 364 and 62'), describes the unopposed reef-shelved approach and over-the-side unloading at White Beach, the Lingayen Gulf smoke-screen and suicide-boat duty of January 1945, and lists hull 335 among the ships reassigned to Commander Philippine Sea Frontier at war's end.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-08 to 1945-09
- Population
- Flotilla 22 LCI crews; embarked troops at Morotai and Lingayen (1944-45)
- Limitations
- Firsthand veteran narrative hosted by NavSource - valuable operational color but a recollection, not an official record; dates and unit numbers are consistent with the NavSource campaign table and uboat.net order of battle. No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-335-lcil335-05
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[6]NARA-captioned photography via NavSource: Rendova landings 30 June-4 July 1943 (NARA IDs 74250311, 18-N-52690, 18-N-52633) and Cape Sansapor landing of 6th Division troops, 30 July 1944 [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource 150335.htm photo table - Rendova and Cape Sansapor image captions with NARA photo numbers
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- US Navy and Marine Corps photographs in the National Archives identify LCI(L)-335 by hull number at the Rendova beachhead (troops streaming ashore 30 June-4 July 1943; NARA IDs 74250311, 18-N-52690, 18-N-52633) and, per NavSource captions, landing 6th Division troops with LCI(L)-430 and LCI(L)-544 at Cape Sansapor, New Guinea, 30 July 1944. A crew-family donation identifies LTjg. Christopher J. Smith, USNR, as the ship's executive officer (later CO of LCI(FF)-575). Physical-presence documentation of the hull in the combat zones.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1943-06-30 to 1944-07-30
- Population
- Crew and embarked troops photographed at Rendova (1943) and Cape Sansapor (1944)
- Limitations
- Archival lead: photographs establish presence and operation at named landings, not work performed aboard or materials present. NARA catalog pages are JS-rendered and could not be fetched directly; photo IDs are as captioned by NavSource submitters. No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-335-lcil335-06
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[7]Era inference built on: NavSource LCI(L)-335 specifications block (GM 6051-series-71 diesel plant, no steam); GAO HRD-80-2 Navy asbestos-era documentation (ev-08); general LCI(L)-1 class construction context (158-ft welded-steel diesel landing craft built to emergency WWII programs) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource specifications block; GAO HRD-80-2 product page
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- A diesel-powered infantry landing craft built in 1942 sits inside the Navy's documented asbestos-use era. Era-standard applications aboard a vessel of this type and period: diesel exhaust lagging, thermal insulation around machinery spaces, gaskets, valve packing, and electrical insulation in a small, minimally subdivided steel hull. As a diesel craft she carried no steam plant - the boiler/turbine lagging pathway of steam vessels does not apply; the plausible exposure vectors are the diesel exhaust system, machinery gaskets/packing, and accommodation-area insulation.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1942-1946
- Population
- Brown Shipbuilding construction trades (1942); crew (1942-46); any availability/repair yard trades
- Limitations
- Class/era inference only - no hull-specific insulation survey, material list, or work package located for LCI(L)-335. Names era-standard applications, not confirmed installed materials. No quantity. Product names are normalized era terms; no manufacturer attribution for this hull. LCIs were deliberately austere craft - the scope of insulation aboard may be materially less than on larger vessels.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-335-lcil335-07
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[8]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
- 2026-09-30
- 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 01/98) - content via product-page description.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-335-lcil335-08
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[9]Batch-5057 search ledger (this record): NavSource 150335 and Flotilla 22 history; uboat.net order of battle; shipbuildinghistory Brown yard table; NARA Special List 44 printed p.336; DANFS/NHHC (404); NVR (not covered); CourtListener (see ledger); secondary web litigation sweep [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-lci-l-335-lcil335-01 through -11
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, or docketed case naming USS LCI(L)-335 was found in the public sources searched. CourtListener returned zero hits for the exact hull designation "LCI(L)-335" on both the opinion (type=o) and RECAP docket (type=r) indexes on 2026-09-30; variant spellings ('LCI(L) 335', 'LCI-335', 'LCI 335') were attempted but the shared fleet API budget was momentarily spent (paced) before they ran - variant coverage unrun. Secondary web sweeps surfaced no qualifying case and no law-firm/marketing coverage of this hull.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 2026-09-30
- Limitations
- Absence of a located public record does not prove absence of asbestos aboard. Litigation coverage is exact-phrase only on the two main CourtListener indexes - looser spellings unrun (paced out), so this is near-negative rather than fully exhaustive on CL. Deck logs (4 logbooks, 1943-45), BuShips construction records, and any Maritime Commission disposal file are undigitized leads. Does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-335-lcil335-09