Evidence
8 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-8).
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[1]research packet 811-packet.md (2 sources cited) [other_primary]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERIFIED
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-lci-l-511-lcil511-pkt-811-packet-md
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[2]NavSource Online: Amphibious Photo Archive, USS LCI(L)-511 (build dates, commissioning, campaign, lease/return/strike/sale timeline, class specifications) - sourced there to USS LCI 'Landing Craft Infantry' Vol. II, Turner Publishing, 1995 [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource hull page, timeline block and LCI-351 class specification block
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- LCI-351 class Landing Craft Infantry (Large): laid down October 1943 at New Jersey Shipbuilding Corp., Barber, N.J.; launched November 1943; commissioned USS LCI(L)-511, 4 December 1943; assigned Europe-Africa-Middle East Theater; participated in the Invasion of Normandy 6-25 June 1944 (one battle star); decommissioned December 1944; leased to the United Kingdom 5 December 1944; commissioned into the Royal Navy as HM LCI(L)-115 circa December 1944; returned to U.S. Navy custody 24 September 1946; struck from the Naval Register 1946; transferred to the Maritime Commission and sold 13 May 1947; final disposition fate unknown.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1943-1947
- Population
- U.S. Navy crew (4 officers + 24 enlisted class spec); embarked troops; Royal Navy crew 1944-46
- Limitations
- Establishes identity and service timeline only - no asbestos content; does not name flotilla or assault beach; 'fate unknown' leaves post-1947 disposition undocumented. NavSource is an expert-compiled archive, not a government repository; dates at month precision for build events.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-511-01
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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), RG 24 Entry 118 [other_primary]
- Locator
- SL-44 ship-number PDF, page 24, entry 'LCI(L)-511 12/4/1943 12/5/1944'
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Special List 44 lists Navy deck logs for LCI(L)-511 covering 12/4/1943-12/5/1944 (PDF page 24) - spanning the entire U.S. Navy commissioned period from commissioning 12/4/1943 through the lease-to-UK date 12/5/1944. Logs are paper-only, not digitized in the National Archives Catalog deck-log program (LCI(L)-511 absent from the digitized-logs list).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1943-1944 (coverage); records 1801-1947 series
- Limitations
- Log-coverage dates are not commissioning/decommissioning certificates, though here they bracket the U.S. service period exactly. Deck-log contents (movements, availabilities, maintenance entries) are unexamined - the logs are the primary lead for ship-specific operational detail but were not read.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-511-02
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[4]Historic American Engineering Record (NPS), HAER OR-180: LCI(L)-713, Amphibious Forces Memorial Museum, Portland, OR (2012) [haer]
- Locator
- HAER OR-180 data pages (Type of Craft, Propulsion, Description, Historical Information)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- HAER documents the LCI-351 class design on surviving sister hull LCI(L)-713: Bureau of Ships design; welded 1/4-inch steel plate; engine room containing four pairs of General Motors 6-71 diesel engines connected to two shafts and variable-pitch propellers; approximately 1,051 ships of the type constructed in ten different shipyards during WWII; troop capacity 182 enlisted and six officers.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944 (713 construction); 2012 (documentation)
- Population
- LCI(L) crews and embarked troops (class context)
- Limitations
- Class documentation on a sister hull, not a record for LCI(L)-511 - LCI(L)-713 was built at a different yard (George Lawley & Son, Neponset MA) and to the post-June-1944 modified configuration (cylindrical pilot house, centerline ramp), while -511 is an earlier-configuration hull. Contains no asbestos information. Confirms diesel-only propulsion for the class.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-511-03
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[5]Era inference built on: NavSource LCI-351 class specifications (eight GM 6-71 diesels, diesel ship's-service generators, no steam plant); HAER OR-180 class documentation; GAO HRD-80-2 (see ev-05) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource specifications block; HAER OR-180 data pages
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- A diesel-powered landing craft built in a wartime emergency yard in 1943 sits inside the Navy's documented asbestos-use era; era-standard applications aboard a vessel of this type and period were engine-exhaust and machinery lagging, gaskets, valve and machinery packing, and electrical and compartment insulation. As a diesel craft she carried no boilers or steam distribution - the boiler/turbine lagging pathway of steam vessels does not apply.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1943-1947 (documented periods); post-1947 disposition undocumented
- Population
- NJ Shipbuilding construction trades (1943); U.S. Navy crew (1943-44); Royal Navy crew (1944-46); any post-1947 commercial owner/operator and eventual scrappers
- Limitations
- Class/era inference only - no hull-specific insulation survey, material list, or work package located for LCI(L)-511. Names era-standard applications, not confirmed installed materials. No quantity. Product names are normalized era terms; no manufacturer attribution for this hull.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-511-04
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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 to direct fetch, 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 U.S. service era (1943-44), as well as the RN lease period.
- 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. Does not establish what was installed aboard or retained. Full text not retrieved (gao.gov blocks direct automated fetch, HTTP 403, confirmed 2026-09-30) - content via product-page description reached through firecrawl.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-511-05
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[7]shipbuildinghistory.com (Colton yard lists), 'New Jersey Shipbuilding, Barber NJ' - emergency-yard LCI production table [other_primary]
- Locator
- Yard table row 'LCI(L) 511 US Navy Landing Craft Dec-43 To Britain 1944, struck 1946'
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- The Colton yard list carries LCI(L)-511 as a U.S. Navy landing craft delivered December 1943, 'To Britain 1944, struck 1946' - corroborating the NavSource timeline; and documents the builder as a wartime LCI assembly-line yard on the Arthur Kill in Barber (now the Maurer section of Perth Amboy), managed by Todd Shipyards from 1942 at the Navy's request and closed after the war.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1942-1945 (yard operation); 2021 (page update)
- Limitations
- Expert-compiled secondary compilation, not an official repository - used as corroboration of the NavSource timeline and as the builder-yard record; yard-level disposition notes are summarized ('struck 1946' vs NavSource's 'struck from the Naval Register in 1946'). No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-511-06
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[8]Batch-5232 search ledger (this record): NavSource hull page; NARA Special List 44 PDF and digitized-logs list; NHHC DANFS; NPS HAER OR-180; shipbuildinghistory yard list; uboat.net; CourtListener opinion/docket queries; secondary web litigation sweep [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-lci-l-511-01 through sl-uss-lci-l-511-10
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, or litigation naming LCI(L)-511 / HM LCI(L)-115 was found in the public sources searched (see search_ledger). CourtListener completed queries returned zero results: opinion index for "LCI(L)-511", "LCI-511", "LCI 511"+asbestos, and "LCI(L)-115"; docket index for "LCI-511". CAVEAT: two planned variants could not be completed - fleet-wide pacing throttled the remaining queries (opinion variant "LCI(L) 511"; docket "LCI(L)-511" after a read timeout) - logged as blocked in the ledger, not as a negative result. Secondary web sweeps surfaced no qualifying case; the only 'asbestos aboard' material for LCI(L)s generally is law-firm/lead-gen listicle content asserting asbestos 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. CourtListener coverage is opinion/docket full-text only - state-court and unreported proceedings are outside it, and two query variants remain unrun (fleet pacing). Deck logs (SL44 lead) and any Maritime Commission sale file are undigitized. Does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-511-07