Evidence
12 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-12).
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[1]research packet ow-packet.md (4 sources cited) [nhhc_danfs]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERIFIED (identity only; builder/dates unsourced)
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-lci-l-37-lcil37-pkt-ow-packet-md
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[2]NavSource Online: Amphibious Photo Archive, USS LCI(L)-37 (page 10/15/150037) - build timeline, specifications, campaign credits, disposal chain, photo captions [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource 150037.htm header block, Europe-Africa-Middle East campaigns table, specifications block, photo captions
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NavSource timeline for this hull: laid down 17 October 1942 at New York Shipbuilding Corp., Camden, NJ; launched 30 November 1942; commissioned USS LCI(L)-37 on 11 February 1943. Assigned to the Europe-Africa-Middle East Theater; credited campaigns: Sicilian occupation (15 July 1943), Salerno landings (9-21 September 1943), West coast of Italy operations / Anzio-Nettuno advanced landings (21-22 and 24-26 January, 29 January-3 February, 7-8 and 12-21 February, 27 February-1 March 1944), and the invasion of southern France (15 August-12 September 1944). Earned four battle stars. Decommissioned date unknown; struck from the Naval Register date unknown; transferred to the Maritime Commission at Jones Point, N.Y., 5 June 1947 for disposal (PDX-225, 27 September 1946); final disposition unknown. Spec block: 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; propulsion two sets of 4 GM 6051-series-71 diesels (4 per shaft), single GM main reduction gear, twin variable-pitch propellers, 2,320 shp; two 30 kW diesel-drive ship's service generators. Photographic record includes the NHHC/NARA still (Catalog #80-G-87509) captioned 'Landing supplies on one of the "Cent" force beaches, Scoglitti, Sicily, 10 July 1943' with landing craft present including LCT(5)-413, LCT(5)-152, USS LCI-37, and USS LCI-237, plus an LCM from USS Florence Nightingale (AP-70); and crew photographs naming MoMM3/c Raymond 'Fuggy' Faggiano and SM3/c Charles 'Ed' Burnett among crew members. History source credited to USS LCI 'Landing Craft Infantry' Vol. II (Turner Publishing, 1995).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1942-1947
- Population
- NYSB construction trades (Oct 1942-Feb 1943); crew and embarked troops (1943-45); MARAD disposition handlers (1946-47)
- Limitations
- NavSource is a volunteer secondary compilation, not a primary registry - milestone dates generally track official records. The Sicily campaign-credit date (15 July 1943) post-dates the documented 10 July 1943 photograph of the hull at Scoglitti on invasion day - the campaign window is likely 9-15 July (secondary ribbon-table sources carry that range); carried as stated plus a gap note. Decommissioning and striking dates are not documented by this or any located source. Contains no asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-37-lcil37-01
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[3]National Archives, Special List #44 - List of Logbooks of U.S. Navy Ships, Stations, and Miscellaneous Units, 1801-1947 (by Ship Number), PDF p.31 [other_primary]
- Locator
- sl-44-ship-number.pdf, PDF page 31, row 'LCI-37 12/1/1943 6/30/1945' (verified by pdftotext extraction of the live NARA PDF, 2026-09-30); RG 24 Entry 118, NAID 581208
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- NARA's Special List #44 by-ship-number inventory lists Navy deck logs for 'LCI-37' covering 12/1/1943 through 6/30/1945 - in-scope wartime service documentation held in Records of the Bureau of Naval Personnel (Record Group 24, Entry 118, National Archives Identifier 581208) at the National Archives at College Park, MD. The coverage begins ten months after the 11 February 1943 commissioning and spans her later Mediterranean service and the southern France invasion period.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1943-1945 (log coverage); inventory as compiled
- Population
- Crew of LCI(L)-37 (Dec 1943-Jun 1945)
- Limitations
- Log-coverage dates are an inventory of physical logbook holdings, not commissioning or decommissioning dates - commissioned service before December 1943 (including the Sicily and Salerno landings) is documented by other sources. The logs are physical records; this hull's logs do not appear in NARA's digitized deck-log index. Log contents (weather, position, personnel, drills) have not been examined; deck logs rarely contain materiel information.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-37-lcil37-02
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[4]NHHC 'Ships of the U.S. Navy, 1940-1945' landing-craft section (HyperWar/ibiblio transcription) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- ships-lc.html, LCI(L) subsection, row for LCI(L)-37
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- The Navy's 1940-45 ship list (NHHC text transcribed by HyperWar) carries 'LCI(L)-37' with service dates '1942-44' and no annotation - unlike adjacent entries (e.g., LCI(L)-33 and LCI(L)-35 'Lend-Lease to UK', LCI(G) conversion entries elsewhere). Confirms this hull remained an unconverted LCI(L) in U.S. service for the war's duration and was not transferred early.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1942-1944
- Population
- Crew (wartime)
- Limitations
- Compilation covers only through 1944-45 disposition annotations; gives no post-war detail, no exact milestone dates, and no asbestos/material content. Secondary transcription of an official NHHC list page; the '1942-44' column is an approximate service span, not exact commissioning window.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-37-lcil37-03
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[5]uboat.net Allied Warships of WWII, USS LCI(L)-37 (ship 20865) - data table [other_primary]
- Locator
- ship/20865.html data table
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- uboat.net lists for this hull: ordered 3 June 1942; built by New York Shipbuilding Corp., Camden NJ; laid down 17 October 1942; launched 30 November 1942; commissioned '11 Feb 1942'. The commissioning year as printed is impossible - it precedes the launch - and is a typo for 11 February 1943, matching NavSource and shipbuildinghistory.com (carried in gaps). No commanding-officer or task-unit event listings exist for this hull on the site.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1942-1943 (build record)
- Population
- Crew (1943-45 service)
- Limitations
- Privately compiled wartime-history database, not an official registry; corroborates the build record but its printed commissioning year (1942) is an internal inconsistency flagged in gaps. Contains no asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-37-lcil37-04
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[6]shipbuildinghistory.com (Tim Colton), 'Landing Craft, Infantry (Large) - LCI(L)' construction table [other_primary]
- Locator
- lcil.htm table, row '37 | New York SB | Camden NJ | 11-Feb-43 | To NDRF 1947'
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- The LCI(L) construction table lists hull 37 as 'LCI(L) | 37 | New York SB | Camden NJ | 11-Feb-43 | To NDRF 1947' - confirming builder, delivery/commissioning date (11 February 1943), and National Defense Reserve Fleet custody in 1947, consistent with the NavSource Maritime Commission transfer (5 June 1947, Jones Point NY). No conversion variant letter is attached to this hull in the table.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1942-1947
- Population
- NYSB construction trades (1942-43)
- Limitations
- Independently compiled construction table, not an official registry; its 'Delivery' column functions as the commissioning date for these craft. Contains no asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-37-lcil37-05
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[7]Selikoff IJ, Nicholson WJ, Lilis R. 'Radiological evidence of asbestos disease among ship repair workers.' Am J Ind Med. 1980;1(1):9-22. PMID 7342758 [other_primary]
- Locator
- PMID 7342758 abstract (eutils esummary verified); shipyards.json yard_id new-york-shipbuilding product list
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Era-level documentation that asbestos was standard shipbuilding material in the period this hull was built: 'significant amounts [of asbestos] were used in vessels constructed before 1975,' and in a cohort of 286 ship-repair workers 86% had radiological evidence of asbestosis. For a 1942-43 diesel landing craft built at New York Shipbuilding, Camden, era-consistent asbestos applications were engine and exhaust lagging, thermal/acoustic insulation, gaskets, valve packing, and electrical/wire insulation - matching the yard's documented product profile (Atlas yard record new-york-shipbuilding: Pabco Caltemp block, Ehret 85% magnesia, Transite panels, asbestos gaskets, packing, wire insulation, felt insulation, welding-rod coatings). Diesel plant - no boilers or steam turbines aboard, so no steam-plant lagging pathway.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1942-43 construction era; study published 1980
- Population
- NYSB construction trades (Oct 1942-Feb 1943); crew (in-service period, inference only)
- Limitations
- Class/era inference, not a hull finding: no construction itemization, survey, or material sample for this specific hull exists in the public record. The LCI(L) was a small welded-steel craft with a diesel plant - its asbestos load was far lighter than a steam-powered ship's. The Selikoff cohort is ship-repair workers generally (not tied to this yard or hull in the abstract). Does not establish quantity, location, or individual exposure aboard this vessel. PMID verified via NCBI efetch 2026-09-30.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-37-lcil37-06
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[8]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 entire construction at the same Camden yard (laid down 17 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)-37, 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.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-37-lcil37-07
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[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's program-level review documents that the U.S. Navy used asbestos insulation extensively in ship construction through the period covering this hull's 1942-43 build and documents the Navy's developing asbestos-control programs. Provides Navy-wide context for the era in which LCI(L)-37 was built and operated.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- report issued 1979-80; coverage spans WWII-era construction
- Population
- Navy shipyard workforce and crews, era-level
- Limitations
- Program-level document - does not name this hull, this class, or New York Shipbuilding in a way that establishes a hull-level finding. gao.gov returned HTTP 403 to automated fetch on 2026-09-30 (same standing block noted in BATCH-01/98); product-page metadata only, full text not retrieved.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-37-lcil37-08
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[10]HAER No. OR-180, LCI(L)-713 (Historic American Engineering Record, NPS/LOC) - class-level design and construction description of the LCI(L) type [haer]
- Locator
- or0606data.pdf, HAER OR-180 description and historical-information sections
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- HAER documentation of the LCI(L) type (via surviving sister LCI(L)-713) describes the class as a Bureau of Ships design built of welded 1/4-inch steel plate, powered by eight General Motors 6-71 diesel engines on two shafts with variable-pitch propellers, carrying 6 officers + 182 enlisted troops, built at ten U.S. shipyards - matching this hull's documented type, plant, and builder program (LCI(L)-37 was one of 48 LCI(L)s New York Shipbuilding built under its FY1940 contract).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1942-1945 construction program; HAER compiled 2012
- Population
- Class-wide construction trades and crews
- Limitations
- Class documentation written around LCI(L)-713, a later LCI-351-class hull with the modified June-1944 configuration (centerline ramp, cylindrical pilothouse); LCI(L)-37 is the earlier original configuration (bow side ramps, square conning station). HAER's '~1,051 ships of its type' conflicts with the commonly cited 923-hull build count (shipbuildinghistory, Wikipedia class page) - production totals differ by source. Contains no asbestos or insulation-material information whatsoever - it constrains the class design, nothing more.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-37-lcil37-09
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[11]yorkship.org (New York Shipbuilding yard-history site), 'Landing Craft, Infantry (Large) LCI(L)' page [other_primary]
- Locator
- yorkship.org/HTML/landing.htm, LCI(L) section
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- The New York Shipbuilding yard-history site documents that under a contract let during FY1940, New York Shipbuilding designed and built 48 LCI(L)s in the covered shipway 'O', delivered to the Navy between October 1942 and February 1943 and commissioned as numbers 1 through 48 - placing this hull (No. 37, delivered/commissioned 11 Feb 1943) inside that build group at Camden.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1940-1943
- Population
- NYSB trades (1942-43)
- Limitations
- Community/heritage-site compilation, not an official record; used only to corroborate builder and build-group context. Its claim that NYSB 'designed' the class is yard-framing - HAER attributes the design to the Bureau of Ships. Contains no asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-37-lcil37-10
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[12]Batch-5095 search ledger (this record): NHHC DANFS site search; CourtListener API v4 (opinion and RECAP docket indexes); NARA Special List 44; NavSource; uboat.net; shipbuildinghistory; NVR; secondary web sweeps [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-lci-l-37-lcil37-01 through sl-uss-lci-l-37-lcil37-15
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, medical record, or docketed/opinion-level case naming LCI(L)-37 was found in the public sources searched (see search_ledger). CourtListener searches across 'LCI(L)-37'/'LCI-37'/'LCI(L) 37'/'LSI-37' returned zero opinion hits and eight docket hits, all name collisions - party-name matches on 'LSI' entities (LSI-Lowery Systems, LSI Appraisal, LSI Title) and incidental text matches; one hit is a mass-defendant asbestos removal (Miranda v. Northrop Grumman Corp., S.D.N.Y. 1:08-cv-05491) whose matched documents contain no vessel reference - incidental match, not a vessel allegation. No qualifying litigation 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 - era materials are expected in a 1942-43 hull, but no ship-specific source documents them. The NARA Catalog search could not be completed (JS-rendered application; API endpoints return the SPA shell) - logged as blocked, not a negative result. Does not establish that asbestos is or is not present; does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-37-lcil37-11