Evidence
9 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-9).
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[1]research packet 411-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-36-lcil36-pkt-411-packet-md
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[2]NavSource Online Amphibious Photo Archive, USS LCI(G)-36 ex USS LCI(L)-36 page (history compiled from USS LCI 'Landing Craft Infantry', Vol. II, Turner Publishing, 1995) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource archive page 10/15/150036 (ship entry, campaign table, and specifications block)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity, construction, and wartime record for this hull: laid down 15 October 1942 at New York Shipbuilding Corp., Camden, N.J.; launched 5 November 1942; commissioned USS LCI(L)-36 on 11 February 1943; assigned to the Europe-Africa-Middle East Theater; credited campaigns - Sicilian occupation (9-15 Jul 1943), Salerno landings (9-21 Sep 1943), West Coast of Italy operations including Anzio-Nettuno advanced landings (22 Jan, 27-29 Jan, 3 Feb, 8 Feb 1944) and Elba and Pianosa landings (17 Jun 1944), and invasion of southern France (15 Aug-12 Sep 1944); redesignated Landing Craft (Guns) LCI(G)-36 on 16 July 1945; decommissioned date unknown; struck from the Naval Register 21 January 1946; sold 13 December 1946, fate unknown; four battle stars for WWII service. Ribbons listed include the Navy Occupation Service Medal (Europe clasp). Hull-page photographs include a U.S. Navy image of LCI(L)-36 landing troops with USS LCI(L)-191 on 15 August 1944 during the southern France landings, and a view from PT-309 in the same operation.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1942-1946
- Population
- Crew (3 officers, 21 enlisted as LCI(L); 5 officers, 65 enlisted as LCI(G)) and embarked troops (up to 6 officers, 182 enlisted), 1943-1945
- Limitations
- NavSource is a compiled secondary reference (transcribing Turner Publishing's USS LCI volume and Navy records), not a contemporaneous log or Navy action report. Campaign credits and dates are official-list summaries; the decommissioning date is not given. Contains no asbestos information whatsoever.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-36-lcil36-01
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[3]uboat.net Allied Warships of WWII, USS LCI(L)-36 (LCI(L)-36) warship record (compiled from wartime records) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Ship data block, https://www.uboat.net/allies/warships/ship/20864.html (verified live 2026-09-30)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Independent compiled warship record corroborating identity and dates: LCI 1-class Landing Craft Infantry, US Navy, pennant LCI(L)-36; built by New York Shipbuilding Corp. (Camden, New Jersey); ordered 3 June 1942; laid down 15 October 1942; launched 5 November 1942; commissioned 11 February 1943; reclassified LCI(G) on 16 July 1945; sold 13 December 1946.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1942-1946
- Population
- Wartime crew, 1943-1945
- Limitations
- uboat.net is a reputable privately compiled database drawing on wartime action reports and task-force organization documents; it is secondary, not a primary source. The 3 June 1942 order date comes from this source only and is carried as a gap, not a record fact. No commands or notable events are listed for this hull. Contains no asbestos information.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-36-lcil36-02
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[4]National Archives and Records Administration, Special List 44: List of Logbooks of U.S. Navy Ships, Stations, and Miscellaneous Units, 1801-1947 (by ship number), p.31 [other_primary]
- Locator
- sl-44-ship-number.pdf, p.31, row 'LCI-36 | 12/1/1943 | 12/31/1944' (verified by pdftotext extraction of the live NARA PDF, 2026-09-30)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- NARA's Special List 44 inventory (by ship number, PDF page 31) lists Navy deck logs for LCI-36 covering 1 December 1943 through 31 December 1944 - in-scope wartime service documentation held in Record Group 24, retrievable for this hull. These are log-coverage dates, not commissioning or decommissioning dates: the listed span covers the Anzio-Nettuno, Elba/Pianosa, and southern France operations but neither the February 1943 commissioning nor the Sicily and Salerno campaigns (Jul-Sep 1943).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1943-1944 (log coverage)
- Limitations
- The entry is an inventory record only - it establishes that NARA holds logbooks for this hull for the stated span, not their contents. The deck logs themselves were not opened for this record; logs before December 1943 and after December 1944 are outside this inventory listing. No asbestos or condition information is contained in the listing.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-36-lcil36-03
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[5]A Place Called Yorkship (New York Shipbuilding historical site), 'Landing Craft of New York Shipbuilding Co.' - LCI(L) section [museum_official]
- Locator
- yorkship.org landing-craft page, 'Landing Craft, Infantry (Large) LCI(L)' section (verified live 2026-09-30)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- The builder's history records that New York Shipbuilding designed the LCI(L) under a contract let during FY1940 and built 48 examples - commissioned as numbers 1 through 48, a range covering this hull - in its covered shipway 'O' (800 ft, several craft building simultaneously), delivered to the Navy between October 1942 and February 1943; a follow-on contract for numbers 49-60 was cancelled, and NYSB plans were used by smaller yards (Consolidated Steel, Lawley & Sons, New Jersey Shipbuilding among them) for the ~900 remaining LCI(L)s.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1942-1943
- Population
- New York Shipbuilding yard workforce, shipway 'O', 1942-1943
- Limitations
- Builder-level production history covering this hull's number range; the page does not name LCI(L)-36 individually. yorkship.org is a dedicated yard-history site (secondary), not a government archive. Contains no asbestos information.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-36-lcil36-04
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[6]Library of Congress, Historic American Engineering Record HAER AK-52, M/V Husky II (USS LCI(L) 653) - LCI(L)-class written history and documentation [haer]
- Locator
- HAER AK-52 written history, 'LCIs in World War II' section (pp. 8-10) and principal-dimensions/propulsion block (p. 1); NavSource specifications block for this hull's engine fit
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- LCI(L)s were diesel-powered landing craft of a utilitarian wartime Bureau of Ships design (designed May 1942; over 900 built by ten yards; 158.5 ft, twin-screw). This hull's propulsion was two banks of four General Motors/Detroit Diesel engines, four engines per shaft (1,600 bhp per the NavSource specification block) - an all-diesel plant with no boilers or steam system, so the asbestos-relevant applications aboard are the era-standard diesel-craft items: engine exhaust and muffler lagging, thermal/acoustic insulation in the engine room and accommodations, gaskets, valve packing, and electrical insulation.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1942-1946
- Population
- Construction trades (Camden NJ, 1942-43); wartime crew in confined engine-room and accommodation spaces
- Limitations
- Class/design inference only - HAER AK-52 documents a sister craft (LCI(L) 653, later class) and the LCI(L) design generally; it does not name this hull and does not itself assert asbestos content. No ship-specific material list exists for this hull; asbestos presence aboard is era- and design-level inference, not ship-proven. Does not establish quantity, products installed, or present-day presence (hull fate unknown since 1946).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-36-lcil36-05
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[7]Ross v. Johns-Manville Corp., 766 F.2d 823 (3d Cir. 1985), No. 84-1528 (Public.Resource.Org mirror of the published reporter text) [court_record]
- Locator
- 766 F.2d 823 at 825-826 (paragraph I, 'essential facts are not in dispute')
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- A published Third Circuit opinion records as undisputed background that shipfitter Urban F. Ross 'worked as a shipfitter for the New York Shipbuilding Company in Camden, New Jersey, from 1942 to 1944 and from 1946 to 1947 ... [and] in each of these positions, Ross was exposed to asbestos products.' The 1942-44 window covers this hull's construction at the same Camden yard (laid down 15 Oct 1942 - commissioned 11 Feb 1943). The appeal itself resolved a statute-of-limitations/accrual issue, not product identification.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1942-1947 (exposure window); 1985 (opinion)
- Population
- New York Shipbuilding yard workforce (shipfitter trade), 1942-1947 window
- Limitations
- Yard-level, not hull-level: the opinion documents asbestos exposure of a New York Shipbuilding shipfitter in the yard during this hull's build window; it does not name LCI(L)-36, does not tie materials to any vessel, and its merits ruling concerns limitations accrual (summary-judgment posture). Mirrored reporter text verified live 2026-09-30; blocklisted aggregators not cited.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-36-lcil36-06
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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 construction (1942) and entire service era (1943-46).
- 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 or even this craft type (HRD-80-2 concerns larger Navy vessels and shipyards). Full text not retrieved - gao.gov blocks automated fetch (HTTP 403, standing defect since Batch 01); content via product-page description.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-36-lcil36-07
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[9]Batch-5084 search ledger (this record): NavSource hull page; NARA Special List 44; NHHC/DANFS index; CourtListener API v4 opinion and RECAP docket searches; uboat.net warship record; yorkship.org builder history; shipbuildinghistory (Colton) LCI(L) production table; NARA digitized-catalog check; banned-source web sweep [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-lci-l-36-lcil36-01 through sl-uss-lci-l-36-lcil36-11
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, museum record, or docketed asbestos case naming LCI-36 / LCI(L)-36 / LCI(G)-36 was found in the sources searched (see search_ledger). CourtListener opinion searches for '"LCI(L)-36"' and '"LCI-36"' each returned zero results; the docket search returned three unrelated name collisions (two C.D. Ill. prisoner civil-rights cases and one D. Colo. APA/environmental-review case). No individual DANFS entry exists for 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 - as a 1942 combat-built landing craft the hull sits inside the documented Navy asbestos era. Does not establish that asbestos is or is not present, and does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility. The vessel was sold in 1946 with fate unknown, so no modern survey can exist unless the hull is identified.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-36-lcil36-08