Evidence
8 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-8).
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[1]NavSource Online Amphibious Photo Archive, USS LSIL-476 ex-USS LCI(L)-476 page (history compiled from USS LCI 'Landing Craft Infantry', Vol. II, Turner Publishing, 1995) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource archive page 10/15/150476 (ship entry, flotilla assignments, and specifications block)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity, construction, and service record for this hull: laid down 29 August 1943 at New Jersey Shipbuilding Co., Barber, N.J.; launched 2 October 1943; commissioned USS LCI(L)-476 on 9 October 1943, Lt. G. D. Mayo USNR in command; assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater as a unit of LCI Flotilla Five (Cdr. H. V. Milton), LCI Group Fourteen - serving as the Group 14 flagship (Lt. H. M. Mattson USN), LCI Division Twenty-Seven. Decommissioned, date unknown; laid up in the Reserve Fleet; designation changed to Landing Ship Infantry (Large) LSIL-476, 28 February 1949; transferred to France in 1952 and renamed RFS Medecin Captaine Le Gall; transferred to Cambodia in 1955. Ribbons listed: American Campaign Medal, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal, World War II Victory Medal. The same page prints 'Struck from the Naval Register, 28 March 1946' - internally inconsistent with its own 1949 redesignation and 1952 transfer entries (see gaps). Specifications: LCI-351 class; 236 t light / 419 t loaded; 158'5.5"; all-diesel GM plant, 2,320 shp.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1943-1955
- Population
- Crew (4 officers, 24 enlisted) 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 action report. The struck date printed (28 Mar 1946) cannot be reconciled with the same page's 1949 redesignation and 1952 transfer and is flagged, not resolved. No battle-star or campaign list is given for this hull - theater assignment only. Contains no asbestos information whatsoever.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-476-lcil476-01
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[2]uboat.net Allied Warships of WWII, USS LCI(L)-476 (LCI(L)-476) warship record, LCI 351 class [other_primary]
- Locator
- uboat.net ship page 21518 (data table: builder, ordered, laid down, launched, commissioned, history)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Independent compiled confirmation of this hull's construction data: LCI 351-class Landing Craft Infantry, built by New Jersey Shipbuilding Corp. (Barber, New Jersey); ordered 22 March 1943; laid down 29 August 1943; launched 2 October 1943; commissioned 9 October 1943; history entry 'Transferred to France in 1952'. No commanding-officer or operations listings exist on the page.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1943-1952
- Limitations
- uboat.net is a reputable privately compiled database drawing on wartime records and published sources; it is secondary, not primary. The 'ordered 22 Mar 1943' date appears in this compiled record only - not in NavSource, the Colton table row, or any primary document retrieved; carried in gaps, not asserted. Contains no asbestos information.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-476-lcil476-02
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[3]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.24 [other_primary]
- Locator
- sl-44-ship-number.pdf, p.24, row 'LCI(L)-476 | 10/9/1943 | 6/30/1945' (verified by pdftotext -layout 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 24) lists Navy deck logs for LCI(L)-476 covering 9 October 1943 through 30 June 1945 - in-scope wartime service documentation held in Record Group 24, retrievable for this hull. The coverage begins on the commissioning date itself (9 October 1943) and ends while the vessel remained in service.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1943-1945 (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; post-June-1945 logs are outside this inventory listing. No asbestos or condition information is contained in the listing.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-476-lcil476-03
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[4]shipbuildinghistory (Tim Colton), LCI(L) production table and New Jersey Shipbuilding yard page (shipbuildinghistory.com; njscuba.net mirror returned HTTP 500 this session); corroborated by navalmarinearchive.com mirror of the same table [other_primary]
- Locator
- shipbuildinghistory.com/smallships/lcil.htm production-table row for hull 476; /shipyards/emergencysmall/newjersey.htm yard description; navalmarinearchive.com/sbh/shipyards/emergencysmall/newjersey.html (same table, mirror); ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USN/ref/USN-Act/NJ.html ('Barber, New Jersey' entry)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- The Colton LCI(L) production table gives this hull's complete disposition chain - further than NavSource goes: 'LCI(L) | 476 | New Jersey SB | Barber NJ | 9-Oct-43 | Later LSIL 476 1949, to France 1952 as Medecin-Capitaine Paul Le Gall, to Cambodia 1955 as P 112, to the Philippines 1975, scrapped 1978.' The companion yard page describes New Jersey Shipbuilding as 'an assembly line for LCIs on Arthur Kill, in Barber' - a community immediately east of Perth Amboy (later absorbed, now called Maurer) - with yard management taken over by Todd Shipyards in 1942 at the Navy's request and the yard closed after the war; the site was at the foot of today's Maurer Road. The Navy's own WWII shore-activity listing independently records a 'Navy Cost Inspector, New Jersey Shipbuilding Corp., Barber, N.J.' (HyperWar/U.S. Naval Activities WWII by State, New Jersey).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1943-1978
- Population
- New Jersey Shipbuilding yard workforce (~2,500 workers at peak per HAER AK-52), 1942-1945
- Limitations
- Colton's production table is a respected compiled secondary source but not an official registry; the Cambodia P 112, Philippines 1975, and scrapped-1978 legs rest on this single compiled source (the navalmarinearchive table mirrors the same Colton data - not independent). The Navy Cost Inspector listing documents Navy contract oversight of the yard, not any fact about this hull. Contains no asbestos information.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-476-lcil476-04
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[5]USS Landing Craft Infantry National Association (501(c)(19) veterans organization), 'LCI 476 Memories' - firsthand crew memoir by Jud Ashmore (published 2018) [other_primary]
- Locator
- usslci.org/lci-476-memories/ (Ashmore memoir text and reader comments; verified live via scrape, 2026-09-30)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- A named crew member's firsthand account of this hull: the crew was picked up from the receiving station at Pier 93, New York City, in July or August 1943 and taken to Barber, N.J., to board 'a new ship, the LCI(L) 476'; after a roughly five-minute commissioning ceremony the craft got underway the same day; for the next two weeks yard workers came aboard 'with welding torches and other machinery installing guns for duty in the Pacific.' The craft then went to Key West, transited the Panama Canal (arriving Christmas Eve 1943), continued to San Diego and Pearl Harbor (taking ammunition aboard at Ford Island), then to Kwajalein in the Marshalls, and finally to Tarawa two to three weeks after its capture - corroborating the Asiatic-Pacific service NavSource records. Page comments additionally name crewmen James M. Vandegrift and Ens. Frank A. Ford (aboard 29 Feb 1944).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1943-1945 (events); 2018 (publication)
- Population
- Named crew members (Jud Ashmore; James M. Vandegrift; Ens. Frank A. Ford) and crew generally, 1943-1945
- Limitations
- A veteran memoir published by a veterans' association - firsthand but self-reported, written ~75 years after the events; dates and sequences are anecdotal (e.g., 'July or August of 1943' crew assembly precedes the documented 9 Oct 1943 commissioning). It documents wartime presence at named Pacific locations but contains no asbestos, material, or exposure information of any kind.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-476-lcil476-05
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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) 351-class written history and documentation (sister craft built at the same yard) [haer]
- Locator
- HAER AK-52 written history, pp. 4-5 (builder/yard history), principal-dimensions and propulsion block (p. 1); NavSource specifications block for this hull's engine fit
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- HAER documents the LCI(L) 351-class design and this hull's builder: large infantry landing craft were designed by the Bureau of Ships (contract plans by George Lawley & Son Corp., Boston); New Jersey Shipbuilding Corporation at Barber was incorporated in 1942 as a wholly owned subsidiary of Barber Asphalt Corporation to convert the idled Perth Amboy asphalt plant into an LCI assembly-line yard, prefabricating sections at a factory 14 miles away; 'eventually managed by Todd Shipyards Corporation, New Jersey Shipbuilding employed about 2,500 workers and produced 375 LCI(L)s during the war.' As a diesel-powered landing craft this hull carried no boilers or steam plant - 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
- 1942-1945
- Population
- New Jersey Shipbuilding construction trades (~2,500 workers, 1942-45); wartime crew in confined engine-room and accommodation spaces
- Limitations
- Class/design inference only - HAER AK-52 documents a sister craft (LCI(L) 653) and the yard/design generally; it does not name LCI(L)-476 and asserts no asbestos content (its two insulation mentions are a 1980s fishing-tender spray-foam conversion, not WWII construction - checked the full text). 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 scrapped 1978 per Colton).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-476-lcil476-06
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[7]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 (1943) and entire U.S. service era (1943-1949).
- 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, confirmed 2026-09-30); content via product-page description.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-476-lcil476-07
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[8]Batch-5195 search ledger (this record): NavSource hull page; NARA Special List 44; NHHC/DANFS index and hazegray amphib index; shipbuildinghistory (Colton) production table + yard page; uboat.net; usslci.org crew memoir; LOC VHP check; HAER AK-52; HyperWar USN-Act NJ; GAO (blocked); NVR check; CourtListener API v4 (partial - see limitations); secondary web sweep [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-lci-l-476-lcil476-01 through sl-uss-lci-l-476-lcil476-14
- 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(L)-476 / LCI-476 / LSIL-476 was found in the sources searched (see search_ledger). CourtListener opinion searches for '"LCI(L)-476"', '"LCI-476"', and '"LSIL-476"' each returned zero results; remaining CourtListener queries ('LCI' + asbestos landing craft, RECAP docket index, New Jersey Shipbuilding yard query) were blocked by fleet-wide API pacing this session and remain open - logged as blocked, not as negative results. 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 1943 combat-built landing craft the hull sits inside the documented Navy asbestos era. The CourtListener coverage is partial (three of six planned queries completed, all count 0): the litigation search remains an open gap, not a verified negative. Does not establish that asbestos is or is not present, and does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility. Hull scrapped 1978 per compiled disposition chain, so no modern survey can exist.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-476-lcil476-08