Evidence
10 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-10).
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[1]research packet po-packet.md (2 sources cited) [other_primary]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERDICT: VERIFIED — real identity: USS LCI(L)-501 | Hull: LCI(L)-501 | Designation: Landing Craft Infantry (Large) | US-built landing craft
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-lci-l-501-lcil501-pkt-po-packet-md
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[2]NARA, Special List 44 - List of Logbooks of U.S. Navy Ships, Stations, and Miscellaneous Units, 1801-1947 (ship-number listing) [other_primary]
- Locator
- sl-44-ship-number.pdf, PDF page 24, LCI(L) block, line 'LCI(L)-501 | 11/18/1943 | 11/30/1944'
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- The official NARA logbook inventory (Special List 44, ship-number PDF, p. 24) lists a Navy deck-log holding under LCI(L)-501 covering 11/18/1943-11/30/1944 (MM/DD/YYYY). The begin date coincides with her documented commissioning (18 November 1943) and the end date coincides with her documented 30 November 1944 decommissioning and lease to the United Kingdom - the inventoried holding exactly spans the hull's USN career. Logs are Records of the Bureau of Naval Personnel, RG 24.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1943-11-18 to 1944-11-30
- Population
- USN crew aboard LCI(L)-501, Nov 1943 - Nov 1944 (design complement 4 officers, 24 enlisted)
- Limitations
- This is an inventory of physical logbooks, not the log contents - it establishes that a deck log exists and its coverage dates, not what the log records. Log-coverage dates are not commissioning/decommissioning dates; the exact coincidence with both service endpoints is documented here but remains coverage metadata. The LCI(L)-501 logs do not appear in NARA's published list of digitized Navy deck logs (archives.gov/research/military/logbooks/navy-online), so direct log-text verification is an open archival lead.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-501-lcil501-01
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[3]NavSource Online: Amphibious Photo Archive, USS LCI(L)-501 (NavSource file 10/15/150501; history credited to USS LCI 'Landing Craft Infantry' Vol. II, Turner Publishing 1995) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource file page: history block, specification block, and photo caption list
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NavSource timeline for this hull: LCI-351 class Landing Craft Infantry (Large); laid down, date unknown, and launched, date unknown, at New Jersey Shipbuilding Corp., Barber, N.J.; commissioned USS LCI(L)-501 on 18 November 1943; assigned Europe-Africa-Middle East Theater, participated in the Invasion of Normandy 6-25 June 1944; decommissioned and leased to the United Kingdom 30 November 1944; returned to US naval custody 15 August 1946; struck from the Naval Register 1946; earned one battle star for WWII service; transferred to the Maritime Commission and sold 31 January 1947, fate unknown. Spec block: 236 t light / 264 t landing / 419 t loaded; 158 ft 5.5 in; beam 23 ft 3 in; 16 kt max, 14 kt continuous; complement 4 officers, 24 enlisted; troop capacity 6 officers, 182 enlisted; armament five single 20mm; propulsion two sets of four General Motors 6051-series-71 diesel engines (4 per shaft) with GM main reduction gears, two 30 kW diesel-driven generators, twin variable-pitch propellers, 2,320 shp. Photograph captions (Ron Hyde) show her as HMS LCI(L)-501 in Cherbourg harbour escorting British LCTs to Bordeaux, probably in Poole harbour, and at Punta Delgado, Azores, with HMS LCI(L)-186, -505 and -509, circa July 1946 en route to the US for return.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1943-1947
- Population
- USN crew (1943-44); RN crew (1944-46)
- Limitations
- NavSource is a compiled archive, not a primary text; its history block is drawn from the Turner Publishing LCI compilation. Laid-down and launch dates are 'date unknown' there (uboat.net carries 13 Oct / 11 Nov 1943 - secondary, in gaps). 'Struck' is year-only (1946). Establishes identity, service timeline, and spec block; contains no asbestos information.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-501-lcil501-02
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[4]NavSource-hosted firsthand memoir: Ron Hyde, Engine Room and Watchkeeper, Leading Stoker Mechanic, HMS LCI(L)-501 ('Personal Narrative of LCI(L)-501's British Service') [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource file 10/15/150501n (memoir text)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- A firsthand memoir by a Royal Navy engine-room rating of this hull records: a refit at Alloa, Scotland before British use, during which a twin pom-pom was fitted forward of the wheelhouse; commissioning and passage to Poole harbour where sun-screen fittings were fitted for a planned journey to Burma (cancelled when the Far East war ended); escorting a number of landing craft tank to Bordeaux for local use as barges; relocation to Plymouth; and the transatlantic return of an LCI flotilla - dry dock at Gibraltar for about a week while a spare propeller was fitted after a propeller refused to change pitch, then via the Azores and Hamilton, Bermuda, to New York, offloading ammunition at an island believed to be Staten Island, unloading stores at Brooklyn Navy Yard (39th Street), flying the paying-off pennant, and the crew returning to the UK as passengers on the Queen Mary.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-1946
- Population
- RN crew of HMS LCI(L)-501, 1944-46; Alloa and Gibraltar dockyard workers; engine-room ratings
- Limitations
- Single-witness memoir written decades after the events and hosted on a compiled archive; internally undated (photo captions carry 'circa July 1946' for the Azores call). Its sequence (refit at Alloa, then commissioning) sits in mild tension with uboat.net's RN commission date of 30 Nov 1944 - the same day as the USN lease - carried in gaps. Documents real work events (dockyard refit, drydock machinery repair, engine-room operation) but mentions no insulation or asbestos - asbestos relevance is inference only.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-501-lcil501-03
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[5]Combined Operations (combinedops.com), 'US Landing Craft Infantry (Large) 502; D Day' - account based on the writings of crew member John P. Cummer and the craft's deck log, reproducing the group's Admiralty 'Green List' disposition [other_primary]
- Locator
- combinedops.com USS LCI 502 page, 'The Crossing' section (Group 31 column disposition)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Names this hull in the D-Day order of battle: the nine LCIs of Group 31 formed up for the assault on Gold Beach in three columns under Group Commander Patrick's order - the first column led by LCI(L)-501 with LCI(L)s 507 and 509 in her trail; the center column led by flagship LCI(L)-512 (Commander Patrick embarked) with LCI(L)s 500 and 499 astern; the right column led by LCI(L)-506 with LCI(L)s 502 and 508 following. The group carried troops of the Durham Light Infantry, 151st Brigade, 50th Northumbrian Division, landing at Gold Beach (Jig Green sector, Asnelles-sur-Mer/Arromanches, ~1040 per the 502 deck log quoted).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-06
- Population
- Group 31 LCI(L) crews and embarked 151st Brigade troops, June 1944
- Limitations
- Volunteer-run memorial site presenting a sister ship's deck-log-based memoir; the Group 31 column disposition is reproduced from the Admiralty 'Green List' but the page is a secondary compilation, not an official published record. Names LCI(L)-501 but contains no detail about her own crew or material condition. Establishes no asbestos facts.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-501-lcil501-04
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[6]D-Day Museum (Portsmouth), 'Memories of D-Day: Gold Beach' - Warren Tute Collection (archived copy; live page returns 404) [museum_official]
- Locator
- Wayback capture 2008-04-02, memory_gold.htm, Eric Broadhead paragraph
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Eyewitness account naming this hull: Eric Broadhead, 9th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry, records that he landed on Gold Beach from 'the US Landing Craft Infantry (LCI) 501', describing disembarkation via the craft's side ramps into the vessel ahead and then into waist-deep water. Corroborates LCI(L)-501's Gold Beach assignment carrying DLI troops.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-06-06
- Population
- Embarked 9th Bn Durham Light Infantry troops aboard LCI(L)-501, June 1944
- Limitations
- Museum-collected eyewitness memoir recorded decades after the event; cited from a Wayback Machine capture (2 Apr 2008) because the live ddaymuseum.co.uk page returns 404. Troop-carrying detail only - establishes no asbestos facts.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-501-lcil501-05
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[7]HyperWar (ibiblio), 'Ships of the U.S. Navy, 1940-1945 - Landing Ships and Craft': LCI(L)-351 class specification block and hull-range disposition table (LCI(L)-498-502 listed 'Lend-Lease to UK') [other_primary]
- Locator
- ships-lc.html, 'LCI(L)-351 Class' specification block and hull table row 'LCI(L)-498-502'
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Class-level specification reference for the LCI(L)-351 class to which this hull belongs: 385 tons full load; length 160 ft 4 in; beam 23 ft 3 in; draft 5 ft 8 in; 15.5 knots; five 20mm guns; complement 4 officers, 25 enlisted; capacity 9 officers, 200 enlisted or 75 tons cargo; two sets of GM diesel engines, twin variable-pitch screws. The disposition table lists LCI(L)-498-502 as 'Lend-Lease to UK' - consistent with this hull's documented 30 November 1944 Royal Navy lease.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1942-1946
- Population
- LCI(L)-351 class crews (era context)
- Limitations
- Class-level data, not a hull record; its complement (4 officers, 25 enlisted) and dimensions differ slightly from the NavSource spec block (4 officers, 24 enlisted; 158 ft 5.5 in; 419 t loaded) - carried in gaps. HyperWar is a transcription of wartime-era compiled data. No materials or asbestos facts.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-501-lcil501-06
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[8]Era inference built on: NavSource LCI-351 class spec block (all-diesel GM 6-71-series propulsion, no steam plant); Hyde memoir's documented Alloa dockyard refit and Gibraltar drydock repair; GAO HRD-80-2 Navy asbestos-era documentation (see ev-08) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource spec block (propulsion); Hyde memoir paragraphs; GAO HRD-80-2 product page
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- An all-diesel landing craft built in 1943 sits inside the Navy's documented asbestos-use era. She carried no steam plant - the boiler/steam-line lagging pathway of steam vessels does not apply. Era-standard asbestos applications aboard a small diesel combatant of this type and period were engine-exhaust and muffler insulation, engine-room thermal and acoustic insulation, gaskets and valve packing in fuel and cooling systems, electrical insulation, winch and windlass brake linings, deck coverings, and insulation board in accommodation and magazine spaces. Her documented Alloa refit (twin pom-pom installation and fitting-out) and her Gibraltar drydock machinery repair are ship-specific work episodes of the era and type that commonly disturbed or installed asbestos-containing board and insulation products.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1943-1947
- Population
- New Jersey Shipbuilding construction trades (1943); USN crew (1943-44); Alloa dockyard workers (1944-45); RN crew incl. engine-room ratings (1944-46); Gibraltar dockyard workers (1946)
- Limitations
- Class/era inference only - no hull-specific insulation survey, material list, or work package located for this craft. Names era-standard applications, not confirmed installed materials aboard LCI(L)-501; neither refit source mentions insulation or asbestos. No quantity, no manufacturer attribution, no present-day presence (hull sold 1947, fate unknown). Does not establish individual exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-501-lcil501-07
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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 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 1943 construction and 1943-47 service era.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1943-1947 (applicable era)
- Limitations
- Program-level documentation; supports era context only, not any fact specific to this hull. 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-501-lcil501-08
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[10]Batch-5222 search ledger (this record): NARA Special List 44 ship-number PDF and digitized-logs listing; NHHC DANFS (no entry exists); NavSource 10/15/150501 and 150501n memoir; combinedops.com Group 31 account; D-Day Museum memoir (archived); USCG Historian LCI(L) page; HyperWar ships-lc; Naval Marine Archive NJ Shipbuilding roster; uboat.net; RNRA and usslci.org site checks; MARAD Vessel History Database; CourtListener API v4; secondary web sweep [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-lci-l-501-lcil501-01 through -18
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, deck-log asbestos entry, or qualifying litigation naming USS LCI(L)-501 was found in the public sources searched (see search_ledger). Authenticated CourtListener searches returned only name collisions: opinion searches for 'LCI(L)-501' and 'LCI-501' (counts 564 and 148, loose token match) surfaced LCI International/LCI Communications telecom litigation and an unrelated Louisiana workers-compensation insurer, and the docket search for 'LCI(L)-501' (type=r, count 8,637 loose matches) top-scored LCI International/LCI Holdings corporate and telecom dockets - no landing-craft, vessel, or asbestos hit in either index. Secondary web sweeps surfaced no qualifying case; the only 'asbestos aboard' material is law-firm marketing listicles asserting asbestos across LCI hulls without primary sourcing - excluded by source policy.
- 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 RG 24 deck logs covering the entire USN career (Nov 1943-Nov 1944) are the strongest untapped primary lead and are not digitized. 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-501-lcil501-09