Evidence
11 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-11).
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[1]NavSource Online: Amphibious Photo Archive, USS LCI(L)-488 - milestone timeline, specifications, photo captions (history text credited to USS LCI 'Landing Craft Infantry', Vol. II, Turner Publishing, 1995) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource 10/15/150488.htm header block, campaign table, specifications block, and photo captions
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Documented for this hull: laid down September 1943 at New Jersey Shipbuilding Corp., Barber, N.J.; launched October 1943; commissioned USS LCI(L)-488, 30 October 1943 (international radio call sign NQTC). Assigned to the Europe-Africa-Middle East Theater; campaign credit Invasion of Normandy, 6-25 June 1944; earned one battle star for World War II service. Decommissioned and leased to the United Kingdom 20 November 1944; returned to US Navy custody 13 April 1946; struck from the Naval Register 5 June 1946; transferred to the State Department and sold 13 February 1948; final disposition unknown. Photo captions document: builders trials October 1943 off New Jersey; beached probably at Slapton Sands, England, spring 1944 with LCI(L)-87 (USCG Historian's Office collection); landing infantry at Normandy June 1944; ensign flown on D-Day at Omaha Beach, NHHC accession 1978-74-A. Spec block: displacement 246 t light / 264 t landing / 419 t loaded; length 158'5.5"; beam 23'3"; speed 16 kts max; complement 4 officers + 24 enlisted; troop capacity 6 officers + 182 enlisted; five single 20mm gun mounts; propulsion two sets of four GM diesels, four per shaft, twin variable-pitch propellers, 2,320 shp.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1943-1948
- Population
- Construction trades, New Jersey Shipbuilding, Barber NJ (1943); US Navy crew (Oct 1943-Nov 1944); Royal Navy crew (Nov 1944-Apr 1946)
- Limitations
- NavSource is a volunteer secondary compilation, not a primary registry - its milestone dates track official records (turner/LCI association history) and the commissioning/lease/return/strike/sale dates are consistent with uboat.net's secondary entries for the USS and HMS entries. Month-level precision only for laid down/launched. Contains no asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-488-lcil488-01
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[2]NARA Special List 44, 'List of Logbooks of U.S. Navy Ships, Stations, and Miscellaneous Units, 1801-1947' (Washington, DC, 1978), printed page 341 - LCI(L)-488 entry (verified via Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center page-image scan) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Special List 44, 'Ships with Symbol and Number Designations' section, printed p. 341, LCI(L)-488 row (ACPL scan realpage 1705 / display 367)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Special List 44 lists LCI(L)-488 with a logbook date span of 'Oct. 30, 1943-July 31, 1944' and 2 logbooks - Navy deck logs covering commissioning day through 31 July 1944 are held at the National Archives. The listed span begins on the documented commissioning date (30 Oct 1943) and ends three and a half months before the UK lease (20 Nov 1944); logbooks covering August-November 1944 are absent from the SL44 listing.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1943-1944 (logbook span); 1978 (SL44 publication)
- Population
- US Navy crew, Oct 1943-Jul 1944 (period covered by the listed logs)
- Limitations
- Log-coverage dates are the extents of logbooks held, not service dates - the listing does not state whether Aug-Nov 1944 logs exist elsewhere, were lost, or were never delivered to NARA. Logbooks are a primary-source lead only: their contents (positions, casualties, availabilities) were not individually examined; they are not digitized online. Citation is the 1978 NARA publication; access route is the ACPL Genealogy Center page-image scan (image 367, printed book page 341). No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-488-lcil488-02
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[3]U.S. Coast Guard Historian's Office photo gallery, VIRIN 190424-G-G0000-7016, 'LCI(L)s 87 and 488 (Navy-manned) beached. Possibly Slapton Sands, England, spring, 1944?' (verified via Wayback capture 2025-01-24; live page returns 403 to automated fetch) [other_primary]
- Locator
- USCG Historian photo gallery item 2002120482, VIRIN 190424-G-G0000-7016 caption block
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- An official US Coast Guard Historian's Office photograph shows LCI(L)-488 beached alongside LCI(L)-87, probably at Slapton Sands, England, in spring 1944 - physical-presence documentation of the hull during the pre-invasion exercise period. The caption explicitly identifies both craft as Navy-manned.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944
- Population
- US Navy crew during England training period (spring 1944)
- Limitations
- Official photographic record establishing presence and Navy manning; the caption hedges location/date ('Possibly Slapton Sands... spring, 1944?'). A beached-craft photo is not a work or exposure record. No asbestos content. Live page returned HTTP 403 to automated fetch 2026-09-30; content verified via Wayback capture 20250124162215.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-488-lcil488-03
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[4]USS Landing Craft Infantry National Association (usslci.org): 'LCI(L) 489 - The Engineering Officer's Point of View' (Lt.(jg) Chuck Phillips, USNR) and 'The Story of the LCI(L) 93 and LCI(L) 487 at Normandy' (archived copies; live site unreachable from this network 2026-09-30) [museum_official]
- Locator
- usslci.org article texts (Wayback captures 20250207114749 and live search-excerpt verification); companion article 'The Story of the LCI(L) 93 and LCI(L) 487 at Normandy'
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Veterans-association first-person and unit accounts name this hull at each stage of the Group 28 movement: LCI(L)-488 moored alongside LCI(L)-489 at Lambert's Point, Norfolk, 22 December 1943; column formation departure for England 24 December 1943 in the order LCI(L)-490, -487, -488, -489 (first of two columns of Navy 'round conn' LCIs 487-498); moored alongside LCI(L)-488 at Falmouth and at Dartmouth (28 January 1944); group assignment to Eleventh Amphibious Force, Flotilla Ten, Group 28, Division 55 (CNO confidential serial 0476123 of 13 October 1943, quoted for the group); transport-group exercise lists naming LCI(L)-488 March-May 1944 including the 11 March 1944 Secret Fox landing at Slapton Sands under Task Force 125; and the 6 June 1944 assault sailing under Task Organization 124.5.3, Assault Force 'O', Western Naval Task Force (Rear Admiral Hall), assigned to Easy Red, Omaha Beach.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1943-1944
- Population
- US Navy crew of LCI(L)-488 and embarked troops (Dec 1943-Jun 1944)
- Limitations
- Veterans-association publications: a first-person account by a sister ship's engineering officer plus an association narrative - secondary sources in which LCI(L)-488 appears inside group, mooring, and formation lists; the Assault Force 'O'/Easy Red assignment detail is stated for LCI(L)-489 and the shared Group 28/O-3 organization (see also Royal Navy Research Archive O-3 listing naming LCI(L)-488). Not official records; no asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-488-lcil488-04
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[5]Royal Navy Research Archive, HMS LCQ-491 ship record (sister LCI(L) built at the same yard, same Group 28 / Assault Group O-3); corroborated by uboat.net Allied Warships entries for USS LCI(L)-488 (ship/21531) and HMS LCI(L)-488 (ship/21532) [other_primary]
- Locator
- RNRA BPF-EIF/Ships/LCQ_491.htm narrative paragraphs; uboat.net/allies/warships/ship/21531.html and /ship/21532.html data blocks
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- The Royal Navy Research Archive's sister-ship record lists 'US LCI(L)s #93, 487, 488, 489, 490, 491, 494, 495, 496, 497, 498' as the eleven US LCIs of Assault Group O-3 assembled at Weymouth Harbour in early June 1944 for Omaha Beach 'EASY Red' landings, and documents the group's transatlantic routing: sailing from Norfolk 24 December 1943, initially with convoy UGS-28, detaching to Horta, Fayal, Azores on 3 January 1944, arriving Falmouth 14 January. uboat.net records HMS LCI(L)-488 commissioned into the Royal Navy 20 November 1944 - matching NavSource's decommission/lease date - and carries build dates ordered 22 March 1943, laid down 19 September 1943, launched 21 October 1943.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1943-1946
- Population
- US Navy crew and embarked troops (transatlantic and assault phases); Royal Navy crew (lease period)
- Limitations
- Specialist secondary sources: the RNRA page is sister-ship HMS LCQ-491's record - LCI(L)-488 appears inside its group lists; uboat.net entries for this hull supply precise build dates NavSource gives only at month precision, and are carried as secondary detail (see gaps). Royal Navy employment of this hull between the November 1944 lease and the April 1946 return is not documented in any source searched. No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-488-lcil488-05
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[6]ShipbuildingHistory / Naval Marine Archive, 'New Jersey Shipbuilding, Barber NJ' yard record - LCI assembly-line yard on Arthur Kill; hull list entry for LCI(L) 488 [other_primary]
- Locator
- navalmarinearchive.com/sbh/shipyards/emergencysmall/newjersey.html - yard description paragraph and hull-list row LCI(L) 488
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Yard documentation for the builder: New Jersey Shipbuilding was an assembly line for LCIs on Arthur Kill in Barber (a community absorbed into Perth Amboy, now the Maurer section); management of the yard was taken over by Todd Shipyards Corp. in 1942 at the Navy's request and the yard closed after the war. Its hull list enters LCI(L) 488 as delivered Oct-43 with disposition 'To China 1946' - which CONFLICTS with NavSource's post-lease timeline (returned to US custody 13 Apr 1946; transferred to State Department and sold 13 Feb 1948; fate unknown). The yard-list note likely compresses a post-1946 China-area foreign-liquidation disposal, but that is unresolved.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- correction
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1943-1948
- Population
- New Jersey Shipbuilding construction trades (1943); any postwar China-side operators if the variant disposition holds
- Limitations
- Secondary shipbuilding-history compilation (shipbuildinghistory.com dataset mirrored at navalmarinearchive.com). The 'To China 1946' disposition is unresolved against NavSource's 'sold 13 February 1948 via State Department; fate unknown' - the conflict is carried in gaps rather than asserted. Yard-history narrative (Todd management 1942, postwar closure) is consistent across the two mirrors. No asbestos content; no yard exposure survey exists for this site.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-488-lcil488-06
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[7]Historic American Engineering Record HAER No. OR-180, LCI(L)-713, Amphibious Forces Memorial Museum, Portland OR (NPS, historian Justine Christianson, 2012) - LCI-351-class construction documentation [haer]
- Locator
- HAER OR-180 written data pages 1-3 (Principal Measurements, Description, Historical Information)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Federal documentation of LCI-351-class construction from the sole surviving original-configuration sister: designed by the Bureau of Ships; welded 1/4-inch steel plate for rapid wartime construction; two decks with troop compartments and crew space below, engine room containing four pairs of General Motors 6-71 diesel engines connected to two shafts with variable-pitch propellers; deckhouse with officers' accommodations, mess, wardroom, and galley; enclosed foredeck housing the ramps; well deck with the ramp winch; five single 20mm Oerlikon mounts; troop capacity 182 enlisted + six officers; approximately 1,051 ships of the type constructed in ten shipyards. Confirms the class is diesel-driven with no steam plant.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1943-1945 (class construction era); 2012 (HAER documentation)
- Population
- Class-wide construction and crew populations (1943-1946)
- Limitations
- Class-level documentation for sister LCI(L)-713 (built later, post-June-1944 modified design with cylindrical pilothouse and centerline ramp; LCI(L)-488 is the earlier round-conn/two-side-ramp configuration). The HAER record describes structure and machinery; it contains no asbestos or insulation-material content and is not a materials survey of this hull.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-488-lcil488-07
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[8]GAO, Navy Efforts To Protect Workers From Asbestos Exposure, HRD-80-2 (Oct 18, 1979) - product page verified via Wayback capture 2025-04-02 (live page returns HTTP 403 to automated fetch) [gao]
- Locator
- GAO product page HRD-80-2 highlights text (Wayback capture); live URL https://www.gao.gov/products/hrd-80-2 returns 403
- Finding type
- gov_survey
- Finding
- GAO reviewed the Navy's efforts to protect workers from asbestos exposure at the Long Beach and Norfolk Naval Shipyards, including the use of asbestos in Navy ships, the cost of removing asbestos, and compensation programs - documenting that the Navy used asbestos insulation aboard ships and managed damaged insulation by replacement with nonasbestos materials, spanning this hull's entire 1943 construction and 1943-44 US 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. Fieldwork yards were Long Beach and Norfolk Naval Shipyards - not this hull's builder. Live page blocked automated fetch (HTTP 403, confirmed 2026-09-30); product-page description verified via Wayback capture 20250402135701; full report text not retrieved.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-488-lcil488-08
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[9]Era inference built on: NavSource spec block (eight GM diesels in two quad sets, no steam plant); HAER OR-180 class construction (welded 1/4-inch steel, machinery and space layout); GAO HRD-80-2 Navy asbestos era; absence of any hull-specific materials record (see ev-09) [other_primary]
- Locator
- ev-01 spec block; ev-07 HAER class construction; ev-08 GAO era documentation
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- A welded-steel diesel landing craft built in 1943 inside the documented Navy asbestos era: plausible era-standard asbestos applications aboard a vessel of this type were diesel engine and exhaust lagging, gaskets, valve and flange packing, electrical insulation, deck coverings or cement in accommodation spaces, and winch brake linings. Because she carried no steam plant, the boiler/turbine lagging pathway that dominates steam-vessel exposure does not apply; the vessel's small enclosed engine room and troop compartments bounded the crew's contact with any lagging present.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1943-1948
- Population
- New Jersey Shipbuilding construction trades (1943); US Navy crew (1943-44); Royal Navy crew (1944-46); disposal/sale parties (1946-48)
- Limitations
- Class/era inference only - no hull-specific insulation schedule, material list, or work package located for LCI(L)-488, and the type's minimal auxiliary systems likely meant a smaller asbestos footprint than steam combatants. Names plausible era applications, not confirmed installed materials. No quantity, no manufacturer attribution, no present-day survival (hull disposed 1948, fate unknown).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-488-lcil488-09
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[10]Military Trader (Active Interest Media militaria press), 'Landing Craft flag survived WWII D-Day invasion of France' (John Adams-Graf) - NHHC Headquarters Artifact Collection ensign description and D-Day landing detail for this hull [reputable_press]
- Locator
- Military Trader article body (ensign description; Assault Force 'O' / Easy Red / 18th Infantry Regiment paragraphs)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Describes the battle-damaged 43x68-inch ensign flown from LCI(L)-488 on D-Day as residing in the Headquarters Artifact Collection, Naval History and Heritage Command - matching NavSource's NHHC accession 1978-74-A caption - and records that LCI(L)-488 was part of Assault Force 'O' of the Western Naval Task Force and landed elements of the US Army 1st Battalion, 18th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division on the Easy Red sector of Omaha Beach on 6 June 1944.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944
- Population
- Embarked US Army troops (1st Bn, 18th Inf Regt, 1st Inf Div per this source) and US Navy crew, 6 Jun 1944
- Limitations
- Hobby-trade press, a secondary source: the artifact's NHHC custody is corroborated by the NavSource NHHC-accession caption, but the specific battalion/regiment landing detail rests on this article alone - flagged in gaps pending a primary operations report (RG 38 war diary or report of operations). No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-488-lcil488-11
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[11]Batch-5208 search ledger (this record): NavSource ship page; NARA Special List 44 via ACPL scan; USCG Historian photo gallery; USS LCI National Association articles; Royal Navy Research Archive; uboat.net; shipbuildinghistory yard record; HAER OR-180; GAO HRD-80-2 (blocked, Wayback); CourtListener API v4 (opinion + docket); NHHC DANFS; NVR; NARA catalog; secondary web litigation sweep [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-lci-l-488-lcil488-01 through -14
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, or litigation naming LCI(L)-488 was found in the public sources searched. CourtListener exact-phrase searches on 2026-09-30 returned zero hits on the opinion index for 'LCI(L)-488' and 'USS LCI(L)-488' and zero hits on the RECAP docket index for 'LCI(L)-488'; variant spellings ('LCI-488', 'LCI(L) 488') were not run - the fleet-wide CourtListener pacing budget was saturated and is logged as blocked for those variants only, not as a negative result. No DANFS entry exists for this numbered landing craft (all candidate NHHC URLs 404). NVR has no record (disposed 1948, pre-dating the database's coverage).
- 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 - it marks the search extent. The deck logs themselves (2 logbooks, Oct 1943-Jul 1944, NARA) are undigitized and unexamined; Royal Navy-period records sit in UK archives not searched; variant-spelling CourtListener queries remain a genuine open gap (pacing-blocked, not run). Does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-488-lcil488-10