Evidence
9 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-9).
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[1]research packet pw-packet.md (1 sources cited) [other_primary]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERIFIED — real identity: USS LCI(L)-559 (no name assigned)
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-lci-l-559-lcil559-pkt-pw-packet-md
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[2]NavSource Online: Amphibious Photo Archive, 'USS LCI(G)-559 ex USS LCI(L)-559 (1944)' (page 10/15/150559; history credited to USS LCI 'Landing Craft Infantry' Vol. II, Turner Publishing 1995) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Hull entry header, campaign table, and specification block
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Documented for this hull: laid down 24 January 1944 at New Jersey Shipbuilding, Barber, N.J.; launched 19 February 1944; commissioned USS LCI(L)-559 on 24 February 1944 with LTjg. J. M. Horner USNR in command (May 1945); reclassified Landing Craft Infantry (Guns) LCI(G)-559 on 15 June 1944; assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater under LCI Flotilla Six (CDR A. R. Montgomery USN), LCI Group Sixteen, LCI Division Thirty-One; participated in the Leyte landings (20 October 1944), Lingayen Gulf landings (7-18 January 1945), and the Okinawa Gunto operation (1 April - 24 June 1945); decommissioned (date unknown); transferred to the State Department for disposal 3 June 1946; turned over to the Netherlands East Indies government at Manicani, Philippine Islands; struck from the Naval Register 19 June 1946; final disposition unknown. Credited with three battle stars for WWII service.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-1946
- Population
- LCI(L) complement 4 officers + 24 enlisted; LCI(G) complement 5 officers + 65 enlisted
- Limitations
- NavSource is a volunteer-compiled archive (citing the Turner Publishing LCI volume), not a primary Navy document - milestones verified against it carry that provenance. Campaign-window dates differ slightly from the NAVPERS awards listing (see gaps). Establishes identity, milestones, unit assignment, and disposal chain; contains no asbestos information and establishes nothing about materials aboard.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-559-lcil559-01
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[3]Navy and Marine Corps Awards Manual, NAVPERS 15,790 (Rev. 1953), Department of the Navy, Part IV 'Campaign and Service Medals', Section 2.17 'Area Campaign Medals and Operation and Engagement Stars World War II' - ship eligibility list, LCI(G) 559 entry (HyperWar transcription) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Part IV Section 2, sub-section 16; 'LCI(G) 559:' entry; operation codes decoded in the same file's List of Authorized Operations and Engagements (P31-1 = Leyte landings, P32-2 = Lingayen Gulf landing, P34-1 = Okinawa Gunto assault and occupation)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- The Navy and Marine Corps Awards Manual lists LCI(G) 559 as eligible for engagement stars in three operations: P31-1 Leyte landings on 20 October 1944; P32-2 Lingayen Gulf landing 4 January - 18 January 1945; and P34-1 Assault and occupation of Okinawa Gunto 25 March - 24 June 1945. This is the official campaign-participation record underlying the three battle stars NavSource credits to the hull.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-10-20 to 1945-06-24
- Population
- LCI(G) wartime complement: 5 officers + 65 enlisted (NavSource)
- Limitations
- Official award-eligibility listing, not a narrative history - establishes the hull's documented participation dates per operation code but says nothing about casualties, damage, repairs, or materials. The manual's Lingayen and Okinawa windows differ slightly from NavSource's campaign-table dates (see gaps). No asbestos information.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-559-lcil559-02
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[4]Naval History and Heritage Command, 'United States Pacific Fleet Organization, 1 May 1945' (online reading room transcription of the official organization roster) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- LCI Flotilla Six > LCI Group 16 > LCI Division 31 (G) listing
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- The official NHHC transcription of the U.S. Pacific Fleet organization of 1 May 1945 lists LCI 559 under LCI Flotilla Six (Commander A. R. Montgomery USN), LCI Group 16 (Lt. Cdr. R. S. Rickabaugh USNR), LCI Division 31 (G), commanded by Lt. (jg) J. M. Horner (USNR) - confirming the hull's operating unit and commanding officer mid-1945. Division 31 (G) also comprised LCI 558 (group flagship), 560, 561, 751, and 752.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1945-05-01
- Population
- Division-31 LCI(G) crews (~70 officers and enlisted per hull)
- Limitations
- A single-date organizational snapshot - confirms unit and CO as of 1 May 1945 only; not a service narrative. No asbestos or material information.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-559-lcil559-03
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[5]NARA Special List 44, ship-number PDF (compiled Sarah Swanson, 2015), PDF page 18; NARA 'Logbooks of the US Navy at the National Archives' page for RG/entry and NAID [other_primary]
- Locator
- PDF page 18, LCI(L)(G)-559 row; series context at https://www.archives.gov/research/military/logbooks/navy
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- NARA Special List 44 ('List of Logbooks of U.S. Navy Ships, Stations, and Miscellaneous Units, 1801-1947', ship-number arrangement) lists deck-log coverage for 'LCI(L)(G)-559' running 2/24/1944 to 6/30/1945 - log coverage beginning the day of commissioning and running through the end of the pre-1948 reporting period for the series. Per NARA's logbooks page, this series is held in Records of the Bureau of Naval Personnel, RG 24, Entry 118 (National Archives Identifier 581208).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-02-24 to 1945-06-30
- Population
- Deck-log entries would name officers of the deck and crew events
- Limitations
- Log-coverage dates are record-holding dates, not commissioning/decommissioning dates (though here coverage opens on the documented commissioning day). Establishes that deck logs for this hull exist in NARA custody; contents unexamined - logs may contain repair/maintenance entries but no such content is asserted. Digitization status unverified (NARA catalog is JS-rendered); 1941+ logs are physically at NARA College Park.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-559-lcil559-04
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[6]ShipbuildingHistory.com (T. Colton, Maritime Business Strategies), 'New Jersey Shipbuilding, Barber NJ' yard list, last updated 2021-08-26 [other_primary]
- Locator
- Yard history paragraph and LCI(L) delivery table
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- The hull's builder was a dedicated wartime LCI line: New Jersey Shipbuilding at Barber, New Jersey (Arthur Kill), described as 'an assembly line for LCIs'; yard management was taken over by Todd Shipyards in 1942 at the Navy's request, and the yard was closed after the war. Sister LCI(L) hulls 550-578 are listed with February-March 1944 deliveries and mostly 'struck 1946' dispositions - consistent with this hull's timeline.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1942-1945
- Population
- New Jersey Shipbuilding construction workforce, 1943-1945
- Limitations
- A compiled secondary reference, not a government source - used to characterize the builder yard only. The page's own delivery table omits hulls 553, 558, and 559 (list gaps; NavSource and NARA independently establish this hull's NJ Shipbuilding construction). Contains no asbestos information.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-559-lcil559-05
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[7]GAO HRD-80-2, 'Information on Navy Efforts to Protect Workers from Exposure to Asbestos' (published 1979-10-18, released 1979-10-22) - product page highlights [gao]
- Locator
- GAO product page, Highlights section; full report PDF (26 pp.) at /assets/hrd-80-2.pdf returns HTTP 403 to automated fetches
- Finding type
- gov_survey
- Finding
- GAO documented the Navy's asbestos program: review of the Navy's efforts to protect workers from asbestos exposure at Long Beach and Norfolk Naval Shipyards, covering the use of asbestos in Navy ships, the cost of removing asbestos from Navy ships, and compensation programs; the Navy's 1975 policy removed only damaged insulation, modified in 1979 to selectively replace asbestos insulation in high-maintenance areas. Documents that asbestos insulation was standard aboard Navy ships of this hull's era.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1979 (report); Navy asbestos era reviewed
- Limitations
- Program-level documentation - names no individual hull and establishes nothing about this craft. Fieldwork yards were Long Beach and Norfolk Naval Shipyards, not New Jersey Shipbuilding. Full text unreachable to automation (403); description taken from GAO's own product page.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-559-lcil559-06
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[8]NavSource specification block for USS LCI(G)-559 (propulsion section) + GAO HRD-80-2 Navy asbestos-program context [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource 'Propulsion' and 'Fuel Capacity' spec lines
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Design-level asbestos-relevant profile: the NavSource specification block documents this hull as diesel-powered - two sets of four GM 'series 71' diesel engines on twin shafts (2,320 shp) with two diesel-driven 30 kW generators - i.e., no boilers and no steam distribution, so the dominant asbestos pathway of steam-era ships (boiler and steam-line lagging) does not apply. Era-consistent applications for a 1944 diesel landing craft of this size were limited to exhaust-system lagging, machinery gaskets and valve packing, thermal/acoustic insulation in machinery spaces and accommodation areas, and electrical insulation.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944
- Population
- Construction trades (New Jersey Shipbuilding, Barber NJ, 1944); LCI(L)/LCI(G) engine-room and deck crews
- Limitations
- INFERENCE, not a hull record: the propulsion plant is ship-documented (diesel, no steam), but no insulation bill of material, ship's plans, or survey for this craft was located. The application list is era/typology-level reasoning about where asbestos would have appeared on the type - it does not establish that asbestos products were installed, their quantity, or present-day presence aboard this hull.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-559-lcil559-07
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[9]Batch-5280 search ledger (this record): NavSource; NARA Special List 44 and logbooks pages; NHHC (DANFS index, Pacific Fleet organization, casualties list); NAVPERS 15,790 awards manual (HyperWar); Naval Vessel Register; CourtListener API v4 (opinion and docket indexes); usslci.org; Sons of Liberty Museum; secondary web sweeps [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-lci-l-559-lcil559-01 through -17
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, or court record naming LCI(L)-559 / LCI(G)-559 was found in the sources searched (see search_ledger). CourtListener authenticated searches returned zero opinion hits for 'LCI-559', 'LCI(L)-559', 'LCI(G)-559', 'LCI(L)' + asbestos, and 'USS LCI' + asbestos, and zero docket hits for the hull-number variants; the unquoted term 'LCI(L)-559' returns ~609 hits consisting of name-collision noise (e.g., LCI International, Inc. telecom litigation), none concerning the vessel.
- 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 - a 1944-built craft disposed of overseas in 1946 left few later records to surface. Does not establish that asbestos is or is not present; does not establish or defeat any exposure claim or legal eligibility. Deck logs exist (NARA SL44) but their contents are unexamined.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-559-lcil559-08