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 (1 sources cited) [other_primary]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERDICT: VERIFIED — real identity: USS LCI(L)-505 | Hull: LCI(L)-505 | Designation: Landing Craft Infantry (Large) | US-built landing craft
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-lci-l-505-lcil505-pkt-po-packet-md
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[2]NavSource Online: Amphibious Photo Archive, USS LCI(L)-505 - construction milestones, specifications, theater/campaign assignment, UK lease, disposal (history credited to USS LCI 'Landing Craft Infantry' Vol. II, Turner Publishing, 1995) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource 10/15/150505.htm header block, campaign table, LCI-351 class specifications block, photo captions 1015050501-1015050503
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Documented for this hull: laid down September 1943 at New Jersey Shipbuilding Corp., Barber, NJ; launched October 1943; commissioned USS LCI(L)-505, 25 November 1943; international radio call sign NQWK. Assigned Europe-Africa-Middle East Theater; participated in the Invasion of Normandy 6-25 June 1944; earned one battle star for WWII service (awards displayed: American Campaign Medal, Europe-Africa-Middle East Campaign Medal with one star, World War II Victory Medal). Decommissioned, date unknown; leased to the United Kingdom 30 November 1944; returned to US Navy custody 24 September 1946; struck from the Naval Register 1946; transferred to the Maritime Commission and sold 28 October 1947; final disposition fate unknown. Spec block: displacement 236 t. light / 264 t. landing / 419 t. loaded; length 158' 5.5"; beam 23' 3"; complement 4 officers + 24 enlisted; troop capacity 6 officers + 182 enlisted; armament five single 20mm guns; armor 2-inch plastic splinter protection on gun turrets, conning tower and pilot house; propulsion two sets of four General Motors diesel engines (four per shaft), 2,320 shp, twin variable-pitch propellers. Photographs document the craft in the Waddeton Slip, River Dart, England, circa 1944, and a crew beach party during her second year in commission (1944).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1943-1947
- Population
- Construction trades, New Jersey Shipbuilding Corp., Barber NJ (1943); ship's company (4 officers + 24 enlisted) and embarked troops (1943-44)
- Limitations
- NavSource is a volunteer secondary compilation - the history section is credited to the Turner Publishing LCI book, not a primary registry; milestone dates generally track official records but carry transcription risk (month-only laid-down/launch entries conflict with uboat.net's specific dates - see gaps). Contains no asbestos or material-content information.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-505-lcil505-01
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[3]NARA Special List 44, List of Logbooks of U.S. Navy Ships, Stations, and Miscellaneous Units, 1801-1947 (ship-number ordering), PDF p. 24 (printed p. 342) [other_primary]
- Locator
- sl-44-ship-number.pdf p. 24, row 'LCI(L)-505 | 11/25/1943 | 11/30/1944' (PDF downloaded and text-verified); printed-edition equivalent page 342 (ACPL scan display 368) shows three logbooks
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- NARA holds deck logs for this hull indexed as LCI(L)-505, coverage 11/25/1943 - 11/30/1944 (three logbooks in the printed edition). The coverage window begins on the documented commissioning date (25 November 1943) and ends on the documented UK-lease date (30 November 1944), independently corroborating both milestones and bounding this hull's entire U.S. Navy operating period.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1943-1944 (log coverage)
- Population
- Ship's company (1943-44)
- Limitations
- Index entry only - documents that logs exist and their date coverage, not their contents. The logs themselves are not digitized (RG 24, NARA College Park); no deck-log text was consulted for this record. These are log-coverage dates, not commissioning/decommissioning dates in themselves.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-505-lcil505-02
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[4]HyperWar / ibiblio transcription of 'Ships of the U.S. Navy, 1940-1945' - Landing Ships and Craft, LCI(L) listing [other_primary]
- Locator
- ships-lc.html, LCI(L) table, row 'LCI(L)-505'
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- The Navy-compilation tabulation lists 'LCI(L)-505 | 1942-44 | Lend-Lease to UK' - independently corroborating this hull's wartime service window and her Lend-Lease transfer to the United Kingdom.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1943-1946
- Limitations
- Row-level corroboration only - the table gives commission-era span at year granularity (1942-44) and a one-line disposition; it does not give exact dates, beach assignments, or flotilla affiliation, and contains no asbestos or material-content information.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-505-lcil505-03
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[5]uboat.net Allied Warships database, USS LCI(L)-505 (LCI 351 class) and HMS LCI(L)-505 (ship/21563.html) - milestone tables [other_primary]
- Locator
- uboat.net ship IDs 21562 (USS) and 21563 (HMS), warship milestone tables
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Secondary-compilation corroboration for this hull under both flags: USS LCI(L)-505 - ordered 22 March 1943; laid down 18 October 1943; launched 19 November 1943; commissioned 25 November 1943; end service 30 November 1944; transferred to the Royal Navy 30 November 1944; returned to USN 24 September 1946. HMS LCI(L)-505 - commissioned in the Royal Navy 30 November 1944; returned to the USN 24 September 1946. Builder New Jersey Shipbuilding Corp. (Barber, NJ) corroborated.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1943-1946
- Limitations
- uboat.net is a secondary research compilation with no sourcing displayed per page; treated as corroboration where it agrees with NavSource/NARA (commissioning, UK transfer, return dates) and as a documented conflict on the laid-down and launched dates (see gaps). The 'ordered 22 Mar 1943' datum has no located primary anchor. Contains no asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-505-lcil505-04
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[6]ShipbuildingHistory.com (Tim Colton) - New Jersey Shipbuilding, Barber NJ yard page, LCI(L) production table and yard history [other_primary]
- Locator
- newjersey.htm yard-history header and production table row 'LCI(L) 505'
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- The yard production table lists 'LCI(L) | 505 | US Navy | Landing Craft | Nov-43 | To Britain 1944, struck 1946' - corroborating builder, delivery month, UK transfer, and striking year. Yard context documented: New Jersey Shipbuilding was an assembly line for LCIs on the Arthur Kill at Barber (later absorbed into Perth Amboy, now Maurer); Todd Shipyards took over management in 1942 at the Navy's request; the yard closed after the war.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1943-1946
- Population
- Construction trades, New Jersey Shipbuilding Corp., Barber NJ (1943)
- Limitations
- Independently compiled yard table (no primary citations displayed per row); consistent with NavSource and uboat.net on every overlapping datum for this hull. Yard-history prose is background context, not hull documentation. Contains no asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-505-lcil505-05
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[7]NavSource Online: Amphibious Photo Archive, USS LCI(L)-186 page - photo caption documenting HM LCI(L)-505, HM LCI(L)-186 and HM LCI(L)-501 at Punta Delgado, Azores, en route to being returned to the US, circa July 1946 (photo by Ron Hyde) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource 10/15/150186.htm, image caption block
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- A dated-caption photograph places this hull - under her Royal Navy designation HM LCI(L)-505 - at Punta Delgado in the Azores circa July 1946, together with HM LCI(L)-186 and HM LCI(L)-501, while returning to US custody (formal return 24 September 1946). Confirms both the 'HM LCI(L)-505' designation and the homeward transit route.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1946
- Population
- Royal Navy crew of HM LCI(L)-505 on the 1946 return transit
- Limitations
- Single photo caption contributed to NavSource by a private party; circa-dated (July 1946) and self-reported, though consistent with the documented 24 September 1946 return-to-custody date. Contains no asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-505-lcil505-06
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[8]Era inference built on: NavSource LCI-351 class spec block (diesel propulsion, 1943 steel-hulled construction at New Jersey Shipbuilding Corp.); GAO HRD-80-2 Navy asbestos-era documentation (see ev-07) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource specifications block (propulsion, armor); GAO HRD-80-2 product page (era context)
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- A steel-hulled diesel-powered landing craft built in 1943 at New Jersey Shipbuilding Corp., Barber, NJ sits inside the Navy's documented asbestos-use era; era-standard applications aboard a small combatant of this type and period were engine-exhaust and muffler lagging, machinery thermal insulation, gaskets, valve packing, and electrical insulation in the confined hull volume. As a diesel-powered craft she carried no steam plant - the boiler/turbine lagging pathway of steam vessels does not apply, and her '2-inch plastic splinter protection' armor is not an asbestos product.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1943-1947
- Population
- Construction trades, New Jersey Shipbuilding (1943); engine-room crew (1943-44 US; 1944-46 RN); unknown disposal handlers (1947)
- Limitations
- Class/era inference only - no hull-specific insulation survey, material list, or work package located for LCI(L)-505. Names era-standard applications, not confirmed installed materials. No quantity. The builder yard (New Jersey Shipbuilding, Barber NJ) has no located asbestos-specific documentation of its own - inference rests on era and Navy practice, not yard records.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-505-lcil505-07
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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 construction (1943) and service era (1943-1946).
- 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 blocks automated fetch, HTTP 403 - standing defect since Batch-01); content via product-page description.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-505-lcil505-08
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[10]Batch-5226 search ledger (this record): NavSource page (150505.htm) and index; NARA Special List 44 ship-number PDF (downloaded and text-verified p. 24) and printed-edition scan p. 342; HyperWar Ships of the U.S. Navy 1940-1945 landing-craft table; uboat.net USS and HMS milestone pages; shipbuildinghistory.com New Jersey Shipbuilding yard table; NHHC DANFS (no numbered-LCI entries exist); NVR; usslci.org; USNA MS 415 finding aid (unresolved); CourtListener API v4 (all designation variants, opinion and docket); secondary web litigation/asbestos sweep [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-lci-l-505-lcil505-01 through -10
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, or qualifying litigation naming USS LCI(L)-505 / HM LCI(L)-505 was found in the public sources searched (see search_ledger). CourtListener exact-phrase searches for all designation variants ('LCI(L)-505', 'LCI-505', 'LCI 505', 'LCIL-505') returned zero hits at both opinion (type=o) and docket (type=r) level. Secondary web sweep surfaced no asbestos claim of any kind for this hull - not even law-firm marketing listicles.
- 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 hull was built inside the Navy's asbestos era and was sold out of government service in 1947 with fate unknown, leaving no post-service material record and no surviving hull to survey. CourtListener coverage is complete for designation-string searches but cannot reach unindexed PACER filings or state-court complaints that never name the hull verbatim. Royal Navy service-period records (1944-46) sit in UK archives outside this search scope. Deck logs (NARA College Park, coverage verified) and any BuShips construction/work-package 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-505-lcil505-09