Evidence
11 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-11).
-
[1]NavSource Online: Amphibious Photo Archive, USS LC(FF)-367 ex USS LCI(L)-367 - construction timeline, reclassification, campaign record, awards, specifications, disposal. Page states its history derives from 'USS LCI "Landing Craft Infantry", Vol. II' (Turner Publishing, 1995). [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource 10/15/150367.htm header block, history block, specifications block
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Documented for this hull: laid down 26 July 1943 at George Lawley & Sons, Neponset MA; launched 17 August 1943; commissioned USS LCI(L)-367, 23 August 1943, LTjg. S. C. Smiley USNR in command (May 1945); reclassified Landing Craft (Flotilla Flagship) LC(FF)-367 on 31 December 1944. Asiatic-Pacific assignment: LC(FF) Flotilla Twenty-Three (LCDR R. H. Brazeal), LC(FF) Group Sixty-Seven, LC(FF) Division One Hundred Thirty-Three; then LCS(L)(3) Flotilla Four (CAPT N. Phillips USN), LCS(L)(3) Group Eleven (flagship, LCDR C. E. Montgomery USNR). Campaign: Okinawa Gunto operation - assault and occupation of Okinawa Gunto, 14 May to 30 June 1945. Postwar: Navy Occupation Service Medal periods 2-27 October 1945 and 3 November - 7 December 1945. Decommissioned 2 October 1946; struck from the Naval Register, date unknown; one battle star for WWII service plus the Presidential Unit Citation as a unit of LCI Flotilla Four, Group Eleven; sold 28 February 1951, fate unknown.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1943-1951
- Population
- Lawley yard construction trades (1943); commissioning and wartime crew incl. embarked flag staff (1943-46); postwar caretaker crew to decommissioning 1946
- Limitations
- NavSource is a volunteer secondary compilation, not a primary registry; its history block states it derives from Turner Publishing's USS LCI Vol. II, and dates generally track Navy records (commissioning date corroborated by NARA SL44 log-coverage start; delivery date corroborated by shipbuildinghistory table). Contains no asbestos or material content. 'In command (May 1945)' qualifies Smiley's tenure to that documented date - the full wartime CO sequence is not established.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-367-lcil367-01
-
[2]NARA Special List 44, 'List of Logbooks of U.S. Navy Ships, Stations, and Miscellaneous Units, 1801-1947' - ship-number section PDF, p. 15 [other_primary]
- Locator
- sl-44-ship-number.pdf page 15, row 'LCI(L)(FF)-367 8/23/1943 12/31/1945' (text-extracted and verified this session)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- NARA's deck-log inventory lists 'LCI(L)(FF)-367' with coverage 8/23/1943 to 12/31/1945 - a single unbroken run beginning on the commissioning date and extending to the end of calendar 1945, documenting that wartime logs for this hull exist in National Archives custody (Record Group 24). The 1946 log period through decommissioning (2 October 1946) is not in this SL44 entry.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1943-08-23 to 1945-12-31 (inventoried coverage)
- Population
- Wartime crew and embarked flag staff (1943-45)
- Limitations
- SL44 is an inventory of physical logbook holdings, not the logs themselves - it establishes that logs exist and their coverage dates, not their contents. It does not document where the ship was, what work was performed, or any material conditions. The absence of a 1946 entry is a coverage boundary of this inventory, not proof that 1946 logs do not exist. Deck logs for this hull do not appear on NARA's published list of digitized Navy logbooks.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-367-lcil367-02
-
[3]Ship's newsletter 'The Cat's Meow' No. 1, USS LCI(L) 367, 1944 (4-page scan hosted on NavSource; OCR-extracted this session) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource 10/15/pdf/150367b.pdf pp. 1-4 (masthead 'USS LCI(L) 367 / 1944' on p. 4)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- The ship's own 1944 newsletter documents this hull's internal life in the LCI(L) period: named for a black panther mascot painted on the ship; commanding officer Lt. Harris Brown relieved 'a few weeks' before publication to command a new LCI group, succeeded by former Engineering Officer W. C. Kingsley, with Ensign Walter Bong aboard as Engineer; Coxswain Richard J. Gasser newly reported from the Seamanship Department at Amphibious Training Base Solomons, MD; editor D. H. Heinlen (also ship's censor) and assistant editor F. X. Fenton; a crew-list feature running 'from Able to Younger' (named sailors including pharmacist's mate Edward Able, motor machinist's mates Umberto Bonosoro, Ralph Brown, William Glass, electrician's mate Warren Dark, radioman Francis Fenton, ship's cooks Gertha Cannon and Pete Paulus, gunner's mate Edward Porambo, quartermaster Harry Taylor, and others); and a recorded sea trip hosting '35 or 40 civilian leaders in industry' aboard.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944
- Population
- LCI(L)-367 officers and crew, 1944 (~28 named); visiting civilian industry leaders
- Limitations
- A crew-produced morale newsletter: authentic shipboard document but informal - officer names and assignments are as written at publication and are not the formal muster record; issue is undated by day (1944, before the 31 December 1944 LC(FF) reclassification). Contains no asbestos or material content; relevance is ship identity, wartime complement, and onboard population during the period asbestos-era materials would have been installed.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-367-lcil367-03
-
[4]NavSource Online: Amphibious Photo Archive, USS LC(FF)-367 memorabilia page - final muster roll image dated 2 October 1946; crew service certificates (James Hobbs: Okinawa Gunto, Occupation of Japan); transcribed New York Times dispatch of 9 July 1945 aboard an Okinawa picket-line flagship [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource 10/15/150367a.htm image captions (final muster roll; Hobbs certificates; NYT transcription)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Memorabilia associated with this hull: a photographed final muster roll dated 2 October 1946 (consistent with the stated decommissioning date); participation certificates issued to crew member James Hobbs for the Okinawa Gunto campaign and the Occupation of Japan 'as a member of LCS(L)(3) Flotilla Four, Group Eleven'; and an Associated Press/New York Times dispatch ('Ryukyu Glory Won by Little Warships,' datelined 'aboard a flagship in the East China Sea off Okinawa, June 26') carried on this page describing the picket-line anti-kamikaze battle LC(FF)-367 served as group flagship for - the dispatch itself does not name the host craft.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1945-1946
- Population
- Crew at decommissioning 1946; LCS(L)(3) Group Eleven embarked staff at Okinawa
- Limitations
- Corroborates decommissioning date and unit-level campaign context; the NYT dispatch is associated context only - it does not name LC(FF)-367, and picket-line casualty figures in it describe the LCS(L) force, not this ship. No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-367-lcil367-04
-
[5]Shipbuilding History (T. Colton), 'Landing Craft, Infantry (Large) - LCI(L)' construction table, hull 367 row [other_primary]
- Locator
- lcil.htm LCI(L) table, hull-367 row ('LCI(L) | FF | 367 | Lawley & Sons | Neponset MA | 23-Aug-43 | Sold 1951')
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- The LCI(L) construction table lists hull 367 built by Lawley & Sons, Neponset MA, marked with variant 'FF' (Flotilla Flagship), delivered 23 August 1943, disposition 'Sold 1951' - corroborating the builder, the delivery/commissioning date alignment, the flagship configuration (the conversion to LC(FF) on 31 December 1944), and the 1951 sale documented by NavSource. Table-level context: 923 LCI(L)s built by ten yards; Lawley was among the smallest-quantity yards but was the design yard for the type.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1943; 1951 (disposition)
- Population
- Lawley yard construction trades (1943)
- Limitations
- Secondary compiler reference, not a primary registry - its per-hull entries generally track Navy delivery/disposal records but are not individually sourced. 'FF' marks the hull's flotilla-flagship configuration in the table's variant column; the formal reclassification date (31 December 1944) comes from NavSource, not this table. No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-367-lcil367-05
-
[6]HyperWar, 'US Navy Landing Ships/Craft, 1940-1945' (transcribed from U.S.S. LCI National Association, 'USS LCI "Landing Craft Infantry"', Turner Publishing) - LC(FF) type section and hull list [other_primary]
- Locator
- ships-lc.html 'LC(FF) -- Landing Craft, Flotilla Flagships' section; hull list row 'LC(FF)-367-370'
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Type documentation for the LC(FF) conversion this hull underwent: LC(FF)s were 'converted from Landing Craft, Infantry (Large) -- LCI(L) to carry flag officers and crew'; type specifications - 387 tons displacement, 160' length, 23'3" beam, 15.5 knots, four 20mm guns, complement 3 officers + 21 enlisted, eight GM diesel engines (4 per shaft) with twin variable-pitch screws. The hull list groups LC(FF)-367-370 together as the type's first conversions (commissioned 1943-44).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1943-1945 (conversion era)
- Population
- Embarked flag staffs and reduced complements typical of LC(FF) conversions
- Limitations
- Type-level documentation for the LC(FF) configuration, class_or_era - describes the conversion type, not this hull's as-converted condition in detail. Source is a transcription of a veterans'-association commercial publication (Turner Publishing), not a BuShips specification sheet. No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-367-lcil367-06
-
[7]MIT Museum, Hart Nautical Collection - McInnis-Lawley Collection (George Lawley & Son shipyard archives) and George Lawley & Son organization record (ID 1754) [museum_official]
- Locator
- mitmuseum.mit.edu/collections/collection/mcinnis-lawley-collection (extent: ~1,700 sheets, ~150 designs); mitmuseum.mit.edu/collections/organization/1754 (yard description); object 1988.075R.001 'LCI(L)' listed under related objects
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- MIT Museum holds the builder's surviving archive: the McInnis-Lawley Collection contains 'about 1,700 sheets representing approximately 150 designs' collected after the yard closed, and the museum's organization record states the Neponset yard 'built both wood and steel vessels, including dozens of World War II landing craft, before closing in 1946.' A related collection object is cataloged simply 'LCI(L)' (object 1988.075R.001), consistent with Lawley's role as the LCI(L) design yard. The collection is open to researchers by appointment - a live archival lead for this hull's builder's plans and construction documentation.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1866-1946 (yard); 1943 (this hull's construction window)
- Population
- Lawley yard designers and construction trades
- Limitations
- Archival lead only - the catalog pages establish that Lawley design records survive at MIT, not that drawings or material specifications for hull 367 specifically are among them. The LCI(L) object page returned a server error this session (title verified via the organization page listing). No asbestos content; any insulation/material callouts would require direct inspection of the plan sheets.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-367-lcil367-07
-
[8]National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places continuation sheet for USS LCI-713 (NRHP 07000300) - LCI(L)-351 class construction description and Lawley yard summary [nps]
- Locator
- NRHP continuation sheet, 'Narrative Description - LCI-713 As Built' and builder-summary sections (PDF pp. 1-4 of the asset)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- An NPS-filed nomination for a sister hull documents this class's as-built construction: LCI(L)-351 class vessels are welded 1/4-inch steel plate built for rapid assembly-line production, 158'5.5" overall with 23'3" beam, troop accommodation for 182 men plus 6 officers in three troop compartments, a 24-berth crew compartment, and an engine room holding eight General Motors 6-71 diesel engines in two banks of four driving twin four-foot variable-pitch propellers. The same nomination states the George Lawley & Son yard at Neponset (operating since 1866) built 160 LCIs and 47 LCS hulls before closing in 1945 - the largest surviving physical description of the class and yard that produced this hull.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1942-1946 (class construction era)
- Population
- Lawley construction trades; LCI(L) crews (class context)
- Limitations
- Class documentation filed for a different hull (LCI-713) - it describes LCI(L)-351 class construction generally, not hull 367 specifically, and says nothing about insulation or hazardous materials. Builder counts and dimensions are nomination-level secondary statements within an official filing.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-367-lcil367-08
-
[9]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 (1943) and service era (1943-46).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1979 (report); era under review covers 1943 construction
- Population
- Navy shipyard workers; asbestos program review
- Limitations
- Program-level documentation; supports era context only, not any fact specific to this hull. GAO fieldwork was at Long Beach and Norfolk Naval Shipyards, not this builder or its operating bases. Full text not retrieved (gao.gov blocks automated fetch, HTTP 403 - confirmed in prior batch sessions) - content via product-page description.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-367-lcil367-09
-
[10]Era inference built on: NavSource and HyperWar specifications (eight GM 6-71 diesels, diesel ship's-service generators, steel welded hull); GAO HRD-80-2 Navy asbestos-use era (see ev-09); class construction description in the LCI-713 NRHP nomination (see ev-08) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Specifications per ev-01/ev-06; class construction per ev-08; Navy asbestos-use era per ev-09
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- A welded-steel diesel landing craft built in mid-1943 sits inside the Navy's documented asbestos-use era; era-standard applications aboard a small diesel amphibious ship of this type were engine-room thermal insulation, diesel exhaust/muffler lagging, gaskets, valve packing, electrical cable and switchboard insulation, bulkhead joiner panels, deck coverings, and paint systems. As a diesel craft she carried no boilers or steam piping - the boiler/steam-line lagging pathway dominant in steam vessels does not apply, but the small-hull confined-space exposure dynamic (single engine room, compact compartments, eight engines) applies to whatever era materials were installed.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1943-1946
- Population
- Lawley construction trades (1943); conversion yard trades (1944); engine-room 'black gang' crew (newsletter documents MoMM and fireman ratings aboard, 1944); embarked flag staff (1944-45)
- Limitations
- Class/era inference only - no hull-specific insulation survey, material list, or work package located for LCI(L)-367. Names era-standard applications, not confirmed installed materials. No quantity. Product names are normalized era terms; no manufacturer attribution for this hull. The LC(FF) conversion's added radio/flag spaces may have added insulation and cable runs, but no conversion work package was located.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-367-lcil367-10
-
[11]Batch-5092 search ledger (this record): NavSource main + memorabilia pages and ship newsletter scan; NARA Special List 44 ship-number PDF; NARA digitized-logbook list; shipbuildinghistory LCI(L) table; HyperWar LC(FF) type page; MIT Museum Lawley collection pages; NPS NRHP nomination for sister hull LCI-713; GAO product page; CourtListener (blocked); secondary web litigation sweep [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-lci-l-367-lcil367-01 through -11
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, or litigation naming LCI(L)-367 or LC(FF)-367 was found in the public sources searched. CourtListener opinion and docket indexes were queried (authenticated API v4, HTTP 200) for '"LCI(L)-367" OR "LC(FF)-367" OR "LCFF-367"' - zero results in both indexes; looser spelling variants were throttled by the fleet pacer before completion. Secondary web sweeps surfaced no qualifying case naming 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. The completed CourtListener searches cover the standard hull-designation spellings but not free-text variants ('LCI 367', 'Landing Craft Infantry 367') - partially open. NARA RG 24 deck logs (1943-45 coverage per SL44), the Lawley plan sheets at MIT, and any 1951 sale/disposal records are undigitized or unexamined leads. Does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-367-lcil367-11