Evidence
14 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-14).
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[1]research packet 408-packet.md (6 sources cited) [nhhc_danfs]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERIFIED.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-lci-l-341-lcil341-pkt-408-packet-md
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[2]NavSource Online: Amphibious Photo Archive, USS LCI(R)-341 ex USS LCI(L)-341 (page 150341) - construction milestones, campaign table, personnel awards, conversion/redesignation, commanding-officer roster, specifications, disposal; history sourced to USS LCI 'Landing Craft Infantry' Vol. II (Turner Publishing, 1995) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource 10/15/150341.htm - header block, campaign table, personnel-awards block, CO roster, specifications block
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Documented for this hull: laid down 3 October 1942 at Brown Shipbuilding Co., Houston, TX; launched 7 November 1942; commissioned USS LCI(L)-341, 26 December 1942, LTjg. Walter R. Rolf in command. Asiatic-Pacific Theater campaigns: Eastern New Guinea operation (Lae occupation, 4-6 September 1943); Leyte operation (Leyte landings, 12 October-29 November 1944); Luzon operation (Lingayen Gulf landings, 4-18 January 1945); Manila Bay-Bicol operations (Zambales-Subic Bay 29-31 January 1945; Mariveles-Corregidor 14-28 February 1945); consolidation and capture of the southern Philippines (Visayan Island landing 26-28 March 1945; Mindanao Island landings March and 17-23 April 1945). Bombed and beached at Red Beach, Lae, 4 September 1943; CO LTjg. Walter R. Rolf killed 6 September 1943 (Navy Cross, posthumous). Converted to a rocket ship during 1944 repair/conversion period; officially redesignated LCI(R)-341 on 10 July 1945. Decommissioned 6 February 1946; struck from the Naval Register 25 February 1946; sold 2 December 1946, fate unknown; five battle stars. Specifications: 216 t. light / 234 t. landing / 389 t. loaded; 158' 5.5" x 23' 3"; LCI(L) complement 3 officers + 21 enlisted, LCI(R) 3 officers + 31 enlisted; troop capacity 6 officers + 182 enlisted; 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. CO roster: LTjg. Walter R. Rolf (26 Dec 1942-6 Sep 1943, KIA); LTjg. Norman Wallin (6 Sep 1943-12 Aug 1945); LTjg. Robert W. Van Keuren USNR (12 Aug 1945-6 Feb 1946).
- 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. Two internal misprints on this page are handled in the correction row (ev-12). Contains no asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-341-lcil341-01
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[3]Shipbuilding History, Brown Shipbuilding Houston TX yard table (hull 45: LCI(L) 341, keel 3-Oct-42, launched 7-Nov-42, delivered 26-Dec-42, 'Sold 1946') [other_primary]
- Locator
- Brown Shipbuilding yard table, hull #45 row (and hull #43 LCI(L)-339 disposition note)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- The builder's yard tabulation confirms this hull as Brown Shipbuilding yard hull number 45: keel laid 3 October 1942, launched 7 November 1942, delivered 26 December 1942, disposition 'Sold 1946'. The same table records sister hull LCI(L)-339 (yard hull 43) as 'Lost at Lae 4-Sep-43' - the air attack in which this hull was bombed and beached. 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-341-lcil341-02
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[4]NARA, Special List #44 - List of Logbooks of U.S. Navy Ships, Stations, and Miscellaneous Units, 1801-1947, ship-number list (RG 24 Bureau of Naval Personnel, Entry 118, NAID 581208) [other_primary]
- Locator
- sl-44-ship-number.pdf, page 23, two LCI(L)-341 rows (12/26/1942-7/1/1943; 2/1/1944-6/30/1945)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Special List #44 (ship-number ordering) inventories TWO deck-log series for LCI(L)-341: 12/26/1942-7/1/1943 and 2/1/1944-6/30/1945, physically held at the National Archives in Record Group 24, Entry 118. The coverage gap (July 1943-January 1944) brackets the period when the ship lay bombed and beached at Lae, then under salvage and repair at Milne Bay and Cairns. The second window covers her 1944-45 LCI(R) combat operations through the southern Philippines campaign.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1942-12-26 to 1945-06-30 (log windows)
- Population
- Crew and embarked personnel recorded in the logs (1942-45)
- Limitations
- Log-coverage dates only - they do not mark commissioning, decommissioning, or any other milestone, and the batch assignment's single 12/26/1942-7/1/1943 window is incomplete: the same page carries a second LCI(L)-341 series 2/1/1944-6/30/1945. No separate LCI(R)-341 listing exists in the ship-number list. Logs are not publicly digitized (checked against the NARA digitized deck-logs page); contents, including any repair- or yard-work entries, are unverified. No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-341-lcil341-03
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[5]NHHC DANFS, Rolf (DE-362) - biography of namesake LTjg. Robert Walter Rolf USNR, CO of an LCI(L) killed in a Japanese bombing raid 6 September 1943; Navy Cross citation text [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS Rolf (DE-362) page - namesake biography paragraph and DE-362 construction paragraph
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- The official DANFS biography of LTjg. Robert Walter Rolf documents that he was 'appointed commanding officer of an LCI(L) effective 12 June 1942,' was 'killed in a Japanese bombing raid 6 September' 1943, and was posthumously awarded the Navy Cross for 'his outstanding behavior as commanding officer of a disabled landing craft which he skillfully beached at enemy-occupied Lae on New Guinea,' quoting the citation: he 'personally led a party in extinguishing the numerous fires aboard, carrying on his dangerous task under repeated enemy bombing and strafing attacks until he was killed by Japanese fire. As a result ... his ship was saved for further active service.' Destroyer escort Rolf (DE-362) was named for him; laid down 20 March 1944 at Consolidated Steel Corp., Orange, TX; launched 23 May 1944, sponsored by his mother Mrs. Martha M. Rolf; commissioned 7 September 1944.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1943-09
- Population
- LTjg. Rolf and crew; embarked Australian 9th Division troops (September 1943)
- Limitations
- DANFS does not print the hull number ('an LCI(L)') - the identification with LCI(L)-341 comes from NavSource's CO roster and personnel-awards block, which name Rolf as her CO 26 Dec 1942-6 Sep 1943 (KIA). The manner of death ('bombing raid' while leading firefighting aboard the beached ship) differs in detail from crew recollections ('salvage operations' per Elsie Item; 'subsequent air raid' per Van Keuren) - date (6 Sep 1943) is consistent across all sources. No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-341-lcil341-04
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[6]NavSource, 'A Brief History of the USS LCI(R) 341' - firsthand chronology prepared by LTjg. Robert W. Van Keuren USNR, the ship's last commanding officer, 'during the decommissioning of the 341' [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource 10/15/150341h2.htm - dated chronology entries 26 Dec 1942 through 6 Feb 1946
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- A contemporaneous officer-prepared chronology documents the ship's operational history: commissioned at Houston 26 December 1942; shakedown then Panama Canal transit direct to Australia (January-September 1943); initial assault at Red Beach, Lae, 4 September 1943 - near miss holed the port side below the waterline, ship beached and could not retract, CO killed in a subsequent air raid; salvage party aboard 11 October 1943 for temporary repairs; further repairs at Milne Bay then Cairns, Queensland (November 1943); departed 27 August 1944 for Milne Bay conversion to a rocket ship, conversion completed with test runs 5 September 1944; Hollandia staging 26 September; TF 78.2.8 convoy for Leyte 13 October; rocket runs in Leyte Gulf 20 October, then fire-fighting duty; picked up survivors of USS Gambier Bay (CVE) 26 October 1944; TF 78.5.8 to Lingayen 4 January 1945, rocket run on Blue Beach 9 January; Grande Island, Subic Bay rocket runs 30 January; Mariveles Harbor 14 February (took aboard survivors of LCS-27); South Corregidor rocket run 16 February - shell hit on the starboard pilothouse wounded Peterson PHM1/c and Fosse QM3/c (Silver Stars; Rutledge RM3/c Bronze Star); Lubang Island 28 February; San Mateo, Zamboanga Peninsula, Mindanao 10 March; Cebu City 26 March; Mindanao landing near Parang, Polloc Harbor 17 April; to Manus for major overhaul 6 July 1945; V-J Day near Tacloban; departed Manus 4 November 1945 via Pearl Harbor to San Diego; decommissioning begun 7 January 1946; officers and crew detached 6 February 1946.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1942-12-26 to 1946-02-06
- Population
- Crew and embarked troops; rescued survivors of Gambier Bay, Hoel, and Johnston (Oct 1944)
- Limitations
- Firsthand narrative by the last CO, prepared at decommissioning in early 1946 - close to a primary source in character (written from the ship's own records/contemporaneous notes, not a post-war recollection) but published via NavSource, a secondary host. Dates are internally consistent and corroborate the NavSource campaign table and the deck-log transcription of the Samar rescue. No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-341-lcil341-05
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[7]NavSource, 'A History of LCI(L)-341 / LCI(R)-341' - firsthand memoir by crew member Leonard Ruffin, gunner's mate [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource 10/15/150341h1.htm - memoir text
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- A crew memoir documents the pre-commissioning crew pipeline (partial crew formed and trained at Solomons, MD amphibious base; joined the ship at Houston mid-December 1942), the officer complement at commissioning (Ens. Rolf, skipper; Ens. Wallen [Wallin], executive officer; Ens. Boule, engineering officer), Gulf shakedown, transit via Panama Canal, Pago Pago, Suva, and Noumea to Sydney (mid-March 1943), thence via Brisbane, Rockhampton, and Cairns to Milne Bay, minor landings on the New Guinea coast May-July 1943, and the Lae attack: hit amidships on the port side by what he was later told was a 500 lb bomb, the skipper and 12-15 Australian troops killed, XO Wallin taking command and beaching the ship so troops could disembark, crew abandoning to the jungle for two days while Seabees welded plates over the holes and pumped out sea water before towing the ship off the beach for tow to Cairns drydock. During the months at Cairns 'new equipment' was installed: rocket racks welded to both decks (480-rocket load capacity noted, though not all could be fired without warping the deck), marine fire-fighting equipment, smoke generators, and a depth-charge system - the conversion that made her an LCI(R). Rejoined at Hollandia July 1944; Leyte invasion October 1944; Samar rescue and smoke-screen/fire-fighting duties off Tacloban.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1942-12 to 1944-12
- Population
- Crew (including Solomons-trained contingent); Seabees who patched the hull at Red Beach; Cairns drydock workers (1943-44)
- Limitations
- Veteran recollection written ~2003-2004 ('59-61 years is a long time!'), self-flagged for date imprecision - carried for operational detail corroborated by the Van Keuren chronology and NavSource compilation, not for verbatim dates. His note that 'the LCI 341 had 3 officers' corroborates the NavSource spec block. No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-341-lcil341-06
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[8]NavSource, 'Search and Rescue' - transcription of LCI-341 and consort deck-log entries for the post-Battle off Samar rescue, sourced to Admiral Daniel E. Barbey's 'MacArthur's Amphibious Navy' [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource 10/15/150337sr.htm - LCI-341 timestamped log entries, 25-27 October 1944
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Published transcription of the rescue task group's deck logs (per Barbey's official amphibious-force history) records LCI-341's entries for 25-27 October 1944: 0621 'Fanned out in line formation abreast with 1000 yard intervals between ships. Commenced search for survivors'; 0058 'First survivors aboard from (GAMBIER BAY)'; 0415 'Reported number of survivors on board at this time are 36, many of which have shrapnel injuries and suffering from exposure'; 0830 'took aboard 36 men, survivors of USS Hoel'; 0904 'Picked up life raft with 11 men aboard. Survivors USS Johnston'; 0936 'Completed search. Total number reported aboard 90 men. Impossible to get complete list names due to very crowded conditions'; 0952 strafed by enemy planes, no damage; survivors later transferred to hospital ships off Leyte. The task group (PC-623, PC-1119, LCI-34, -71, -337, -340, -341) recovered more than 1,100 survivors total.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-10-25 to 1944-10-27
- Population
- LCI-341 crew; ~90 rescued survivors of Gambier Bay (CVE-73), Hoel (DD-533), and Johnston (DD-557) embarked 26-27 Oct 1944
- Limitations
- Deck-log text as printed in Barbey's 1969 official-history-adjacent memoir, hosted by NavSource - the underlying logbooks are among those inventoried in Special List 44 but are not publicly digitized, so the transcription could not be checked against the originals. The source itself notes the log of consort LCI-34 could not be found in the archives. No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-341-lcil341-07
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[9]USS LCI National Association, 'The Elsie Item' newsletter No. 106 (Sep 2019), 'LCI 341's slick sleeved chief' by Jeff Veesenmeyer - profile of Chief Motor Machinist's Mate Harry Ritzel [other_primary]
- Locator
- ElsieItem-106-Sep-2019.pdf, pp. 6-10, 'LCI 341's slick sleeved chief'
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- A veterans-association profile documents the ship from an engine-room perspective: Ritzel (diesel-school trained) was reassigned to LCI(L) 341 in April 1944, finding her 'in dry dock at Cairns, Queensland' where 'the hull needed extensive repairs' and 'the ship was also being outfitted for rocket racks'; ship's complement 'increased from 21 to 31 enlisted ... needed to man the additional armament' (one 40mm, four 20mm, two .50 cal, six 5-inch rocket launchers); Ritzel was responsible for keeping 'the eight GM diesel engines running' as engine-room chief under skipper LT(jg) Wallin. The article recounts the Lae damage (direct hit killed troops; XO beached her; 'LT(jg) Robert Rolf, skipper was killed several days later while conducting salvage operations'), the Samar rescue (25 October 1944, San Pedro Bay underway on emergency dispatch; 'We rescued 90 men from the Gambier Bay at midnight. Then we picked up destroyer survivors the next day'), the 10 July 1945 official redesignation to LCI(R) 341, and the crew at Manus Island when Japan surrendered.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1943-09 to 1945-08
- Population
- Engine-room crew (Chief Ritzel, Chief Motor Mac Andy Festa, eight-man engine room); Cairns drydock trades (1944)
- Limitations
- Veterans-association journalism built on an elderly veteran's interview - reliable for texture corroborated elsewhere (Cairns drydock, complement increase, engine-room organization, redesignation date) but not a primary record; its 'killed several days later while conducting salvage operations' framing of Rolf's death differs from DANFS ('bombing raid ... extinguishing the numerous fires aboard') and Van Keuren ('subsequent air raid') - date consistent at 6 Sep 1943. Ritzel's '90 men from the Gambier Bay' conflates the total (90 survivors from three ships per the deck-log transcription). No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-341-lcil341-08
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[10]uboat.net Allied Warships, USS LCI(L)-341 - ship data table and Task Group 78.2 order of battle transcription for the Cebu landings (Operation Victor II, 24-28 March 1945) [other_primary]
- Locator
- uboat.net ship page 21364 - data table; 'Landings off Cebu' event, Task Unit 78.2.6 listing
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- uboat.net's data table independently confirms: built by Brown Shipbuilding Company, Houston; laid down 3 October 1942; launched 7 November 1942; commissioned 26 December 1942; 'Reclassified as LCI(R), Landing Craft Rocket on 10 July 1945'; decommissioned 6 February 1946; sold 2 December 1946. Its transcription of the TG 78.2 order of battle for the Cebu landings lists USS LCI(R)-341 in Task Unit 78.2.6 (support unit) alongside LCI(R)-230, -225, -340, and -342, 'Lt. E.W. Slavik, USNR' shown commanding. The accompanying action-report narrative records close-support fire by LCS's and LCI(R)'s beginning 0820 on 26 March 1945 before the first wave landed.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1945-03-24 to 1945-03-28
- Population
- Crew under Lt. E.W. Slavik USNR (per op-order listing); embarked troops at Cebu (March 1945)
- Limitations
- uboat.net is a reputable secondary compilation transcribing wartime operation orders and action reports - not the primary documents. The op-order names Lt. E.W. Slavik USNR against LCI(R)-341 on 26 Mar 1945 while NavSource's roster shows LTjg. Norman Wallin as CO 6 Sep 1943-12 Aug 1945 - discrepancy unresolved (Slavik may have been an embarked unit/squadron officer rather than ship's CO; logged in gaps). No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-341-lcil341-09
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[11]Era inference built on: NavSource LCI(L)-341 specifications block (GM 6051-series-71 diesel plant, no steam); GAO HRD-80-2 Navy asbestos-era documentation (ev-11); general LCI-1 class construction context (158-ft welded-steel diesel landing craft built to emergency WWII programs); documented repair and conversion work at Cairns and Milne Bay 1944 [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource specifications block; Van Keuren/Ruffin/Elsie Item repair and conversion accounts; 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. Her documented 1943-44 repair and rocket-conversion period (Cairns drydock and Milne Bay) involved welding, decking, and machinery work of the kind that historically disturbed or installed insulation materials, but no material list for that work was located.
- 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); Cairns and Milne Bay repair/conversion yard trades (1943-44)
- Limitations
- Class/era inference only - no hull-specific insulation survey, material list, work package, or abatement record located for LCI(L)-341/LCI(R)-341. 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. The repair/conversion inference describes the kind of work documented, not any material identified.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-341-lcil341-10
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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), service era (1942-46), and repair/conversion period (1943-44).
- 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-341-lcil341-11
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[13]NavSource LCI(R)-341 page internal misprints vs. its own hosted firsthand chronology and the ship's documented repair timeline [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource 150341.htm summary lines vs. 150341h2.htm dated chronology and ElsieItem-106-Sep-2019.pdf
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Two NavSource summary-table misprints corrected against the firsthand chronology hosted on the same site: (1) 'converted to a Landing Craft Rockets in January 1944' - cannot describe completion, since the ship lay bombed at Lae from 4 September 1943, was salvaged October 1943, and remained under repair at Cairns until departing for Milne Bay 27 August 1944; the Van Keuren chronology fixes rocket conversion completed at Milne Bay with test runs 5 September 1944 (corroborated by the Elsie Item account of drydock outfitting and the uboat.net LCI(R) listing at Cebu, March 1945). If 'January 1944' refers to conversion work begun during the Cairns repair it is unverifiable as such and is not carried. (2) Campaign table 'Mindanao Island landings, 19 to 13 March 1945' - an impossible reversed date range; the Van Keuren chronology documents the San Mateo/Zamboanga rocket landing on 10 March 1945 and the Parang/Polloc Harbor landing 17-23 April 1945. Crewman Ruffin's note correcting the site ('new LCI(R) was commissioned July 1945, this should be July 1944') is itself inconsistent with both uboat.net and the Elsie Item, which fix official redesignation at 10 July 1945.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- correction
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-01 to 1945-07
- Limitations
- Corrections resolve the summary-table misprints only; the official redesignation date (10 July 1945) is consistent across NavSource, uboat.net, and the Elsie Item profile and is carried as the fact. Residual ambiguity: the physical conversion straddled Cairns drydock (racks fitted during repair, per Ruffin and Elsie Item) and Milne Bay (conversion completed/tested 5 Sep 1944, per Van Keuren) - the record states both rather than resolving to one yard.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-341-lcil341-12
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[14]Batch-5064 search ledger (this record): NavSource 150341 main page, Van Keuren and Ruffin firsthand histories, Samar rescue log transcription; shipbuildinghistory Brown yard table; NARA Special List 44 ship-number PDF; NARA digitized deck-log list; NHHC DANFS (Rolf DE-362; LCI(L)-341 404); uboat.net; USS LCI National Association Elsie Item 106; NVR; CourtListener API (authenticated); secondary web litigation sweep; shipyards.json yard check [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-lci-l-341-lcil341-01 through -16
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, material list, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, or verified litigation naming LCI(L)-341 / LCI(R)-341 / LCI-341 was found in the public sources searched. CourtListener returned zero hits on the completed opinion queries ("LCI(L)-341", "LCI-341"); the remaining spelling variants and all docket-type queries were blocked all session by the shared fleet pacing budget and are open (see gaps). No asbestos-specific secondary content naming this hull surfaced at all - the generic law-firm ship-listicle coverage that exists for named vessels does not extend to this numbered landing craft.
- 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 - the hull was sold out of service in 1946 with materials aboard unrecorded, and no scrapping or museum record exists to audit. Deck logs (two series, Dec 1942-Jul 1943 and Feb 1944-Jun 1945), Brown Shipbuilding construction records, and the Cairns/Milne Bay repair-and-conversion records are undigitized leads. Does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-341-lcil341-13