Evidence
9 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-9).
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[1]NavSource Online: Amphibious Photo Archive, USS LCI(L)-525 (page 10/15/150525) - milestone timeline, campaign credits, spec block, Shumshu loss caption (page narrative credited to USS LCI 'Landing Craft Infantry', Vol. II, Turner Publishing Co., 1995) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource 10/15/150525.htm - header timeline, campaign table, specifications block, and DS-5 photo caption
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Documented for this hull: laid down 24 November 1943 at New Jersey Shipbuilding Corp., Barber, N.J.; launched 22 December 1943; commissioned USS LCI(L)-525, 29 December 1943. Assigned Europe-Africa-Middle East Theater; campaign credits: Invasion of Normandy 6-25 June 1944 and Invasion of southern France 15 August-16 September 1944; earned two battle stars for WWII service. Decommissioned and transferred under Project Hula to the Soviet Union at Cold Bay, Alaska, 29 July 1945, designated Desantiye Suda DS-5; as DS-5 participated in the Soviet invasion of the Kuril Islands 18 August 1945 and was destroyed - page caption: 'burned out and abandoned off Shumshu Island... Japanese coastal artillery destroyed five LCI(L)s including DS-5.' 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; armor '2-inch plastic splinter protection on gun turrets, conning tower and pilot house'; propulsion 'two sets of 4 GM Diesels, 4 per shaft, BHP 1,600; twin variable pitch propellers.'
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1943-1945
- Population
- New Jersey Shipbuilding construction trades (Nov-Dec 1943); U.S. Navy crew (1943-12-29 to 1945-07-29); embarked assault troops; Soviet crew of DS-5 (Jul-Aug 1945)
- Limitations
- NavSource is a volunteer secondary compilation; its narrative for this hull is credited to Turner Publishing's USS LCI Vol. II, not a primary registry - milestone dates are corroborated by NHHC's Project Hula monograph (ev-02) and NARA Special List 44 log coverage (ev-03). Contains no asbestos content. URL verified live 2026-09-30 (HTTP 200).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-525-01
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[2]Russell, Richard A., Project Hula: Secret Soviet-American Cooperation in the War Against Japan (No. 4, The U.S. Navy in the Modern World Series; Naval Historical Center, Washington DC, 1997) - full text via HyperWar mirror of the NHC PDF [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- Appendix 'U.S. Navy Combatant Ships Transferred to the USSR Under Project HULA', book p. 39 (PDF p. 44), row LCI(L) 525 / DS-5; narrative pp. 33-34 (Kuril attack) and epilogue (returns)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NHHC-published monograph names this hull in its appendix table 'U.S. Navy Combatant Ships Transferred to the USSR Under Project HULA, May-September 1945': 'LCI(L) 525 -> DS-5', transfer date '29 Jul.', disposition '1945-combat loss'. Narrative documents that LCI(L)s trained by Navy Detachment 3294 'led the main attack in the Kuril Islands' ten days after arrival; that 16 American-built LCI(L)s unloaded the second wave at Shumshu 'minus most of its radios and all of its artillery and mortars,' and that 'Japanese shore batteries destroyed five of the vulnerable LCI(L)s'; and that of the 149 vessels received at Cold Bay, the Soviet navy returned 27 frigates and 15 LCI(L)s - i.e., this hull, a combat loss, was never returned to U.S. custody.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1945 (Project Hula transfer window and Shumshu operation)
- Population
- U.S. Navy transfer crews and Soviet trainees at Cold Bay (Jul 1945); Soviet naval infantry and DS-5 crew (Aug 1945)
- Limitations
- NHHC official-history monograph (secondary synthesis of primary records, published by the Naval Historical Center); appendix table entry carries the transfer date and '1945-combat loss' disposition without detail of where/how - ship-specific destruction detail comes from the narrative (five LCI(L)s at Shumshu) and NavSource captions. Contains no asbestos content. Cited via HyperWar mirror; no live history.navy.mil URL located for the monograph PDF.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-525-02
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[3]National Archives and Records Administration, Special List 44: List of Logbooks of U.S. Navy Ships, Stations, and Miscellaneous Units (ship-number listing) [other_primary]
- Locator
- sl-44-ship-number.pdf, PDF page 25, row 'LCI(L)-525 12/29/1943 7/28/1945'
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- NARA Special List 44 lists Navy deck logs under LCI(L)-525 covering 12/29/1943-7/28/1945 (MM/DD/YYYY) - beginning on the documented commissioning date and ending the day before the documented 29 July 1945 Project Hula transfer; i.e., the logbooks cover this hull's entire U.S. commissioned career. The logs are physical NARA holdings; a repository row establishing their existence and coverage.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1943-12-29 to 1945-07-28 (coverage); list consulted 2026-09-30
- Population
- Ship's officers keeping the logs (1943-45)
- Limitations
- Log-coverage dates are custody dates of the records, not content: the logs' internal contents (operations, maintenance, materials) are not described by this source. Digitization not located in the NARA catalog's digitized-log lists - presumed undigitized; access via Archives reference staff. No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-525-03
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[4]Historic American Engineering Record (Library of Congress), HAER No. AK-52, M/V Husky II (USS LCI(L) 653 / USS Avocet) - documentation of a same-class hull [haer]
- Locator
- HAER AK-52 data pages (ak0557data.pdf): 'LCIs in World War II' historical-context section and principal-dimensions block
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Official HAER documentation of LCI(L) 653, a sister LCI(L)-351-class hull, establishes the class type's construction record: designed at British instigation as an ocean-going troop carrier landing ~200 assault troops via bow gangways; over 900 built in U.S. yards; diesel engines driving twin screws (~1,800 designed shaft hp); length 158'5.5" oa, beam 23'3"; displacement ~387 long tons loaded. Confirms the class's wartime construction program context and diesel propulsion (no steam plant).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1943-45 (class construction era); report 2012
- Population
- Class-level context only
- Limitations
- Sister-hull documentation, not this hull: LCI(L) 653 is a different vessel (built June-July 1944; later AMCU-16/MHC-16; scrapped 2010). The report's insulation references concern post-Navy refrigerated-hold conversion (1960s-80s), not wartime materials - it contains no asbestos findings and establishes nothing about materials aboard LCI(L)-525.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-525-04
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[5]Era inference built on: NavSource spec block for this hull (GM diesel propulsion, plastic splinter protection); HAER AK-52 class documentation (diesel plant, wartime construction program); GAO HRD-80-2 Navy asbestos-use window (see ev-06) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource spec block (armor and propulsion lines); HAER AK-52 class context; GAO HRD-80-2 era window
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- A combat landing craft built November-December 1943 at an emergency wartime yard sits inside the Navy's documented asbestos-use era; era-standard applications aboard a diesel-powered amphibious craft of this type and period were diesel-engine and exhaust lagging, gaskets and flange packing, valve packing, electrical insulation, deck and bulkhead mastic coatings, and paint. The hull carried no boilers or steam turbines, so the boiler/turbine lagging pathway of steam vessels does not apply. The spec block documents '2-inch plastic splinter protection' (bituminous-mastic armor) aboard the type - a documented material whose asbestos content is unverified.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1943-1945
- Population
- New Jersey Shipbuilding construction trades (Nov-Dec 1943); U.S. Navy crew (1943-45); Soviet crew (Jul-Aug 1945)
- Limitations
- Class/era inference only - no hull-specific insulation survey, material list, or work package exists for LCI(L)-525 (hull destroyed in Soviet service 18 August 1945, never returned to U.S. custody; no postwar survey opportunity). Names era-standard applications, not confirmed installed materials. No quantity. Whether the documented plastic splinter protection contained asbestos is not established by any located source - U.S. plastic-protection mixes of the era were asphaltic mastics with aggregate and varied by formulation.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-525-05
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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 construction era (Nov-Dec 1943).
- 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, confirmed 2026-09-30) - content via product-page description.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-525-06
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[7]Collision documentation: Marine Belge history page 'LCI525' (Royal Navy 202nd Landing Craft Flotilla) and d-dayinfo.org D-Day participant profile for Lt. Cdr. Georges Timmermans [other_primary]
- Locator
- marinebelge.be/lci525.html; d-dayinfo.org 'Allies on D-Day' profile (Georges Timmermans, 202nd Flotilla, Juno Beach)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- DISAMBIGUATION: a second, distinct craft bore the number LCI(L)-525 at Normandy - the Royal Navy's lend-lease HM LCI(L)-525 of the 202nd Flotilla, commanded by Belgian Lt. Cdr. Georges Timmermans, which landed Royal Marines of 48 Commando at Juno Beach on 6 June 1944 (and on 14 June carried Gen. de Gaulle from HMS Combattante to Courseulles). The RN craft is a different hull from USS LCI(L)-525, which was in U.S. commission 29 Dec 1943 - 29 Jul 1945 and earned its Normandy credit in the same campaign window. Histories of 'LCI 525 at Juno under a Belgian officer' describe the RN craft, not this hull.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- correction
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944
- Population
- RN/Belgian crew of the RN craft (not this hull)
- Limitations
- Corrects a conflation risk, not a material claim. RN-craft details rest on Belgian veteran-association and D-Day history secondary sources; the U.S. hull's record is unaffected. Whether USS LCI(L)-525's own Normandy assignment was to a U.S. flotilla at Omaha or Utah is not documented in the located sources - campaign credit is documented, beach assignment is not.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-525-07
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[8]ShipbuildingHistory.com, New Jersey Shipbuilding Corp. (Barber, NJ) yard construction table - row: LCI(L) 525, US Navy, Landing Craft, Dec-43, 'To the USSR 1945, struck 1955' [other_primary]
- Locator
- shipbuildinghistory.com New Jersey yard table, LCI(L) section, row 525
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Independent secondary compilation of the builder's output corroborates the builder and delivery month: LCI(L) 525, built for the U.S. Navy at New Jersey Shipbuilding Corp., delivered December 1943, 'To the USSR 1945, struck 1955.' The 'struck 1955' note suggests this hull remained nominally on U.S. records until the postwar lend-lease settlement era despite its 1945 combat loss - consistent with Russell's documentation that many Hula hulls were carried pending return negotiations.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1943-1955
- Limitations
- Secondary compilation (site cites its own sources; not a primary registry). 'Struck 1955' is not verified against NVR/Navy List - carried as an unverified lead in gaps. No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-525-08
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[9]Batch-5246 search ledger (this record): NavSource page (live); NARA Special List 44 PDF; NHHC Project Hula monograph (HyperWar mirror); LOC HAER AK-52; HyperWar Ships of the U.S. Navy list; shipbuildinghistory yard table; CourtListener (paced); secondary web litigation sweep [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-lci-l-525-01 through sl-uss-lci-l-525-10
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, insulation material list, abatement contract, or hazmat disclosure exists for this hull - unsurprising given destruction in Soviet service on 18 August 1945 and no return to U.S. custody (no postwar survey opportunity). CourtListener opinion search for the canonical form "LCI(L)-525" completed 2026-09-30 with count 0 - no opinion text names this hull; variant spellings ("LCI-525", "LCI(L) 525") and the RECAP docket index could not be queried - the fleet-paced helper refused across repeated attempts and is logged as blocked in search_ledger, not as a negative result. Secondary web sweeps surfaced no asbestos litigation naming this hull.
- 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 reflects the hull's 1945 destruction and the thin documentary trail of unnamed landing craft generally. The completed opinion search is a verified no-hit for the canonical hull form, but variant-form and docket-level searches remain a genuine open gap (paced, not completed). Deck logs covering the entire U.S. career exist at NARA (ev-03) but are undigitized and unsurveyed for this record. Does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-525-09