Evidence
8 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-8).
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[1]U.S. Navy Bureau of Ships, Ships' Data, U.S. Naval Vessels 1945, Vol. II (NAVSHIPS 250-011, 13 April 1945) - official vessel roster and characteristics (scan hosted at shipscribe.com) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Roster page 195 (printed), LC(FF) section, row 'LC(FF)485 (ex-LCI(L)485)'; PDF page ~212 of shipscribe.com SDB1945v2.pdf
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- The official BuShips roster lists LC(FF)485 (ex-LCI(L)485) under 'Landing Craft, Flotilla Flagships (LC(FF))': built by New Jersey S.B. Corp., Barber, N.J.; keel laid 13 September 1943; launched 16 October 1943; date of first commission 23 October 1943.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1943-1945
- Population
- Ship's company and embarked flotilla staff (wartime)
- Limitations
- Confirms construction milestones and the LC(FF) flotilla-flagship designation as of the April 1945 edition; contains no asbestos or insulation material data. Column layout is dense tabular OCR - dates read as 13 Sep 43 / 16 Oct 43 / 23 Oct 43 consistent with NavSource.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-485-lcil485-01
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[2]NavSource Naval History, Amphibious Photo Archive, USS LSIL-485 / ex-USS LC(FF)-485 / USS LCI(L)-485 page (vessel history credited to USS LCI 'Landing Craft Infantry,' Vol. II, Turner Publishing 1995) [museum_official]
- Locator
- navsource.net/archives/10/15/150485.htm - timeline, specifications block, awards block, Sasebo photo caption
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- LCI-351 class Landing Craft Infantry (Large): commissioned USS LCI(L)-485 23 October 1943 (LTjg. D. E. Dionne, USNR, in command as of May 1945); reclassified flotilla flagship LC(FF)-485 31 December 1944; assigned Asiatic-Pacific Theater, LC(FF) Flotilla Twenty-Three (CDR Dennis L. Francis, USN), Group Sixty-Seven, Division One Hundred Thirty-Five; participated in the Okinawa Gunto operation (assault and occupation, 6 May to 23 June 1945); earned one battle star; post-war occupation service (2 to 25 November 1945) and China service (27 November 1945 to 16 January 1946); photographed at Sasebo, Japan, November-December 1945 moored with LC(FF)-536 astern of LCS(L)(3)-38; decommissioned date unknown; redesignated LSIL-485 28 February 1949; struck date unknown; final disposition fate unknown. Specification block: displacement 246 t. light / 419 t. loaded, length 158 ft 5.5 in, beam 23 ft 3 in, speed 16 kt max, complement 4 officers + 24 enlisted, troop capacity 6 officers + 182 enlisted, cargo 75 tons, armament five single 20mm guns, armor limited to 2-inch plastic splinter protection on gun turrets/conning tower/pilot house.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1943-1949
- Population
- 4 officers + 24 enlisted ship's company; embarked flotilla staff; up to 6 officers + 182 enlisted troops (capacity figures)
- Limitations
- Veterans'-association archive page drawing on Turner Publishing's USS LCI Vol. II - reputable secondary source, not a government record; milestones cross-confirmed by BuShips NAVSHIPS 250-011 (ev-01). Does not establish decommissioning, striking, or disposition dates, and contains no asbestos information. The '(May 1945)' qualifier indicates Dionne held command as of that date; the commissioning commanding officer is not separately named.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-485-lcil485-02
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[3]U.S. National Archives, Special List 44: List of Logbooks of U.S. Navy Ships, Stations, and Miscellaneous Units, 1801-1947 (Bradley, Kurtz, et al., comp., 1978) - scanned page via Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center mirror [other_primary]
- Locator
- Printed page 341, 'Ships with Symbol and Number Designations', row LCI(L)(FF)-485; ACPL scan display image 367
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Special List 44 lists Navy deck logs under 'LCI(L)(FF)-485' spanning 23 October 1943 to 30 June 1945, in 4 logbooks - i.e., original deck-log coverage exists at NARA for this hull's entire commissioned wartime service including the LC(FF) flagship conversion period.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1943-10-23 to 1945-06-30 (log span)
- Limitations
- Index entry only - establishes that the logbooks exist and their date span, not their contents. Whether the logs are digitized in the NARA Catalog is unverified (catalog API returns a JS shell to automated queries). NARA's own Special List 44 online index covers named vessels only; numbered-vessel entries are in the scanned volume. Printed page 341; PDF page 15 of the 'Ships by Signal Number Designation: F-LCI(L)' section (scan image 367).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-485-lcil485-03
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[4]NavSource Naval History, USS LCS(L)(3)-18 page - hosted unit history of LCS(L)(3)-18 (ship's own narrative) [museum_official]
- Locator
- navsource.net/archives/10/05/050018h.htm, LCS(L)(3)-18 history narrative (June 1945 passage)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- LCS(L)(3)-18's published unit history records departing Okinawa 25 June 1945 for Leyte 'in company with LCS(L) Group Eight, with the Group Commander in LC(FF) 485,' arriving San Pedro Bay, Leyte 30 June 1945 - corroborating LC(FF)-485's embarked-flotilla-staff flagship role in the Pacific immediately after the Okinawa campaign window.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1945-06
- Population
- LC(FF)-485 ship's company and embarked LCS(L) Group Eight staff
- Limitations
- A sister unit's narrative hosted by NavSource; corroborates the flagship function but is not an official record of LC(FF)-485's own operations. Contains no asbestos information.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-485-lcil485-04
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[5]National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places continuation sheet (nomination) for USS LCI-713, Astoria, Oregon [nps]
- Locator
- NRHP continuation sheet, Section 7 (description) and Section 8 (engineering significance), npgallery.nps.gov asset
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- The NPS nomination for surviving sister ship LCI-713 documents the LCI(L) type: all-welded approximately 1/4-inch steel plate designed for rapid assembly-line production with no specialized parts, eight General Motors 6-71 truck diesel engines arranged in two banks of four driving two shafts with variable-pitch propellers (1600 BHP per shaft), diesel-fired cook stoves, and deliberately off-the-shelf naval/civilian equipment; 1,051 LCI hulls were built at ten shipyards between mid-1942 and fall 1944.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1942-1944 (construction era); nomination 2007
- Population
- Construction workers at ten LCI yards; LCI crews (class context)
- Limitations
- Class/type documentation for a sister hull (LCI-713, George Lawley & Sons, Neponset MA) - describes the LCI(L) design and construction practice, not this hull specifically. The nomination contains no asbestos or insulation-materials itemization; it cannot establish or exclude asbestos aboard LCI(L)-485. Per-hull construction latitude between the ten yards is itself documented in the nomination.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-485-lcil485-05
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[6]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.
- 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 returns HTTP 403 to automated fetch, confirmed 2026-09-30) - content via product-page description.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-485-lcil485-06
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[7]Shipbuilding History (T. Colton), New Jersey Shipbuilding, Barber NJ - yard construction list and yard history [other_primary]
- Locator
- shipbuildinghistory.com/shipyards/emergencysmall/newjersey.htm, yard table row 'LCI(L) 485'
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- The New Jersey Shipbuilding yard list records LCI(L) 485 delivered October 1943 with disposition 'sunk as target 1956'; the yard history notes the Barber yard was an LCI assembly line on the Arthur Kill whose management was taken over by Todd Shipyards in 1942 at the Navy's request, closed after the war.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1943; 1956 (reported disposition)
- Population
- New Jersey Shipbuilding/Todd construction workforce (1942-45 era)
- Limitations
- Specialist shipbuilding-reference secondary source, not a government record. The 'sunk as target 1956' disposition conflicts with NavSource's 'fate unknown' and is unverified against any primary source - a Japanese-language compilation separately reports target-sinking 28 July 1956; the conflict is carried in gaps, not resolved.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-485-lcil485-07
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[8]CourtListener API v4 (authenticated, 2026-09-30): exact-phrase opinion searches "LCI(L)-485", "LCI-485", "LC(FF)-485", "LSIL-485" each returned 0; unquoted LCI(L)-485 returned 588 loose hits all corporate-name collisions (e.g., LCI International Telecommunications, LCI workers-comp entities), none the vessel; RECAP docket search across all four designations returned 0. Plus batch search ledger sources swept. [court_record]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-lci-l-485-lcil485-01 through -12
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific record located: no asbestos survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, or docketed/opinion litigation naming LCI(L)-485, LC(FF)-485, or LSIL-485 was found in the public sources searched (see search_ledger). NARA Special List 44 confirms deck logs exist (4 logbooks, Oct 1943-Jun 1945) but their contents are unreviewed.
- 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 construction practice supports reasonable suspicion without ship-level proof. The unquoted CourtListener search returns many LCI corporate-name collisions that are not the vessel; exact-phrase searches are the meaningful negative. Deck-log contents, builder work packages, and any disposal/target-sinking 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-485-lcil485-08