Evidence
10 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-10).
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[1]research packet pt-packet.md [other_primary]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERIFIED — real identity: USS LCI(L)-536
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-lci-l-536-lcil536-pkt-pt-packet-md
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[2]NavSource Online: Amphibious Photo Archive, USS LSIL-536 ex USS LC(FF)-536 ex USS LCI(L)-536 (page 10/15/150536) - milestone timeline, campaign credits, spec block, Sasebo photo captions (page narrative credited to USS LCI 'Landing Craft Infantry', Vol. II, Turner Publishing Co., 1995) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource 10/15/150536.htm - header timeline, campaign table, specifications block, awards ribbon block, and Sasebo photo captions
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Documented for this hull: laid down 10 December 1943 at New Jersey Shipbuilding Corp., Barber, N.J.; launched 12 January 1944; commissioned USS LCI(L)-536, 17 January 1944, LTjg. J. A. Carrigan Jr., USNR, in command; reclassified flotilla flagship LC(FF)-536, 31 December 1944. Assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater as flotilla flagship - LC(FF) Flotilla Twenty-Three (CDR. Dennis L. Francis, USN), LC(FF) Group Sixty-Seven, LC(FF) Division One Hundred Thirty-Five. Campaign credits: Okinawa Gunto operation - assault and occupation of Okinawa Gunto, 26 April to 2 June 1945; Minesweeping Operations Pacific 'Klondike' (East China Sea-Ryukyus Area), 31 October to 7 November 1945; earned two battle stars for WWII service. Decommissioned, date unknown; laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet; designation changed to Landing Ship Infantry (Large) LSIL-536, 28 February 1949; struck from the Naval Register, date unknown; transferred to the Maritime Commission at Lake Charles, LA., date unknown, for disposal (PDX-225, 27 September 1946); final disposition, fate unknown. Awards ribbon block: American Campaign Medal; Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (2); World War II Victory Medal; Navy Occupation Service Medal with Asia clasp. Photo captions document LC(FF)-536 moored inboard of USS LCS(L)(3)-38 and USS LCS(L)(3)-109 (Nov 1945), moored astern of USS LCS-38 alongside USS LC(FF)-485 (Nov-Dec 1945), and drydocked (in one frame with USS LCS(L)-21) - all at Sasebo, Japan, November-December 1945. Spec block: displacement 246 t. light / 264 t. landing / 419 t. loaded; length 158'5.5"; beam 23'3"; speed 16 kts max, 14 kts continuous; complement 4 officers + 24 enlisted; troop capacity 6 officers + 182 enlisted; cargo 75 tons; armor '2-inch plastic splinter protection on gun turrets, conning tower and pilot house'; endurance 4,000 miles at 12 kts; armament five single 20mm guns; propulsion 'two sets of 4 GM Diesels, 4 per shaft, BHP 1,600; twin variable pitch propellers.' International radio call sign NWAQ.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1943-1949 (with disposal trail into Maritime Commission custody)
- Population
- New Jersey Shipbuilding construction trades (Dec 1943-Jan 1944); U.S. Navy crew and embarked flotilla staff (1944 to decommissioning); embarked assault troops at Okinawa
- 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 - the campaign credits and the occupation-medal ribbon are independently corroborated by the NHHC awards manual (ev-02, ev-03) and log coverage by NARA Special List 44 (ev-04). Contains no asbestos content. URL verified live 2026-09-30 (HTTP 200). Decommissioning and striking dates are given as 'date unknown'; 'fate unknown' for final disposition.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-536-01
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[3]Navy and Marine Corps Awards Manual, 1953 revision, Part IV 'List of Ships and Units Eligible for Engagement Stars', Section 2-16 (Area Campaign Medals - Asiatic-Pacific Area) - verbatim transcription via HyperWar/ibiblio mirror of the NHHC document (live history.navy.mil page returned 404) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- Awards-IV-16.html, Part IV Section 2-16 ship list: rows 'LCI(FF) 536' -> P34-1 and 'LC(FF) 536' -> P207-22; Asiatic-Pacific operation-code table (P34-1 Okinawa Gunto; P207-22 'Klondike' under P207 Minesweeping Operations Pacific)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- The Navy's own awards manual lists this hull twice in its Asiatic-Pacific engagement-star ship list: 'LCI(FF) 536: 26 Apr 45 - 2 Jun 45' under operation code P34-1 ('Assault and occupation of Okinawa Gunto,' 24 Mar - 30 Jun 45), and 'LC(FF) 536: 31 Oct 45 - 7 Nov 45' under code P207-22 ('Klondike,' East China Sea-Ryukyus Area, 27 Oct - 7 Nov 45, within the umbrella 'Minesweeping Operations Pacific,' P207, 23 Jun 45 - 2 Mar 46). The manual's operation table maps P207-22 to 'Klondike' - matching NavSource's campaign table - so both NavSource battle stars are corroborated by the NHHC document under variant LC(FF)/LCI(FF) spellings.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1945
- Population
- U.S. Navy crew and embarked flotilla staff during the credited windows (Apr-Jun 1945 Okinawa; Oct-Nov 1945 East China Sea minesweeping)
- Limitations
- Official 1953 awards-manual tabulation: establishes engagement-star eligibility (i.e., qualifying presence in the named operations) at the unit level, not individual exposure or material content. The manual uses both 'LCI(FF) 536' and 'LC(FF) 536' spellings for the same hull across its alphabetical list - carried as the same vessel on designation continuity (the LC(FF) designation was held 31 Dec 1944 onward, so both 1945 credits postdate the conversion). Contains no asbestos content. Cited via HyperWar transcription of the NHHC document; the live history.navy.mil URL 404s (standing NHHC link-rot defect).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-536-02
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[4]Navy and Marine Corps Awards Manual, 1953 revision, Part IV, Section 2-18 (Navy Occupation Service Medal and China Service Medal (Extended) - Units Eligible) - verbatim transcription via HyperWar/ibiblio mirror of the NHHC document [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- Awards-IV-17.html, Section 2-18 occupation-service ship table, row 'LC (FF) 536'
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- The awards manual's occupation-service eligibility list credits this hull: 'LC (FF) 536, 2 Oct - 19 Dec 45, A' - i.e., Navy Occupation Service Medal with Asia clasp for the window 2 October - 19 December 1945. Corroborates both NavSource's ribbon block (Navy Occupation Service Medal with Asia clasp) and the NavSource photo captions placing LC(FF)-536 at Sasebo, Japan in November-December 1945 (including a drydocking).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1945
- Population
- U.S. Navy crew and embarked staff during occupation duty at Sasebo (Oct-Dec 1945)
- Limitations
- Official eligibility tabulation only: establishes qualifying occupation-service presence in Asiatic waters 2 Oct - 19 Dec 1945, not individual exposure or material content. Contains no asbestos content. Cited via HyperWar transcription; live history.navy.mil equivalent 404s (standing NHHC link-rot defect).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-536-03
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[5]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 15, row 'LCI(L)(FF)-536 1/17/1944 6/30/1945'
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- NARA Special List 44 lists Navy deck logs under 'LCI(L)(FF)-536' covering 1/17/1944-6/30/1945 (MM/DD/YYYY) - beginning on the documented commissioning date (17 January 1944) and running through the Okinawa operation (which ended for this hull 2 June 1945). The listed coverage ends 30 June 1945 while commissioned service demonstrably continued into at least December 1945 (occupation eligibility 2 Oct - 19 Dec 1945 per ev-03) - later-1945 logs are not listed under this entry and may sit in a separate holding. 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
- 1944-01-17 to 1945-06-30 (coverage); list consulted 2026-09-30
- Population
- Ship's officers keeping the logs (1944-45)
- 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. The catalog's public web search is JS-rendered and could not be queried this session (see search_ledger).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-536-04
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[6]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)-536.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-536-05
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[7]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-07) [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 December 1943-January 1944 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
- 1943-1949+
- Population
- New Jersey Shipbuilding construction trades (Dec 1943-Jan 1944); U.S. Navy crew and embarked flag staff (1944-decommissioning); any conversion-yard trades for the 1944 LC(FF) refit; postwar reserve-fleet and disposal-custody personnel
- Limitations
- Class/era inference only - no hull-specific insulation survey, material list, or work package located for LCI(L)-536/LC(FF)-536/LSIL-536. 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 formulations varied. The LC(FF) flagship conversion (communications spaces for an embarked flotilla staff) is documented only as a designation change; any materials added in conversion are unrecorded.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-536-06
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[8]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 (Dec 1943-Jan 1944) and entire service life.
- 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-536-07
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[9]ShipbuildingHistory.com, New Jersey Shipbuilding Corp. (Barber, NJ) yard construction table - row: LCI(L) 536, US Navy, Landing Craft, Jan-44, 'Struck 1946' [other_primary]
- Locator
- shipbuildinghistory.com New Jersey yard table, LCI(L) section, row 536
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Independent secondary compilation of the builder's output corroborates the builder and delivery month: LCI(L) 536, built for the U.S. Navy at New Jersey Shipbuilding Corp., delivered January 1944, disposition noted 'Struck 1946.' The 'Struck 1946' note conflicts with the documented 28 February 1949 LSIL-536 reclassification - a register action implying the hull remained listed into 1949 - and is carried as an unresolved tension (see gaps): the 1946 figure likely reflects the disposal-authorization paperwork (PDX-225, 27 Sep 1946 per NavSource) rather than literal striking.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-1949
- Limitations
- Secondary compilation (site cites its own sources; not a primary registry). 'Struck 1946' is not verified against NVR/Navy List and conflicts with the 1949 reclassification - unresolved; see gaps. No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-536-08
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[10]Batch-5257 search ledger (this record): NavSource page (live); NARA Special List 44 PDF; NHHC awards-manual engagement-star and occupation lists (HyperWar mirror); LOC HAER AK-52; HyperWar Ships of the U.S. Navy list; shipbuildinghistory yard table; CourtListener (paced - see ledger); secondary web litigation sweep [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-lci-l-536-01 through sl-uss-lci-l-536-10
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, insulation material list, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, or verified litigation naming USS LCI(L)-536 / LC(FF)-536 / LSIL-536 was found in the public sources searched. Unlike the destroyed-at-Shumshu Hula hulls, this hull survived the war and entered postwar reserve/disposal custody - yet no postwar survey or disposal-hazmat record was located (consistent with 1946-49 disposal predating modern ACM regulation). CourtListener opinion search for the canonical form "LCI(L)-536" remained fleet-paced across this session - logged as blocked in search_ledger, not as a negative result. Secondary web sweeps surfaced no asbestos litigation naming this hull; a targeted search for '"LSIL-536" OR "LCI(L)-536" asbestos mesothelioma lawsuit' returned no results.
- 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 thin documentary trail of unnamed landing craft. The litigation repository search is a genuine open gap (fleet pacing, not run). Deck logs covering 17 Jan 1944 - 30 Jun 1945 exist at NARA (ev-04) but are undigitized and unsurveyed for this record; post-June-1945 logs are not listed under that entry. Does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-536-09