Evidence
11 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-11).
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[1]research packet px-packet.md (6 sources cited) [other_primary]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERIFIED — real identity: USS LCI(L)-562; hull LCI(L)-562; designation LCI(L); type/class: Landing Craft Infantry (Large), LCI(L)-351 class
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-lci-l-562-lcil562-pkt-px-packet-md
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[2]NavSource Online: Amphibious Photo Archive, USS LCI(L)-562 - construction milestones, specifications, campaign credit, Coast Guard crew turnover, Pacific assignment, decommissioning/disposal (history credited to 'The Coast Guard At War, Transports and Escorts, Volume II') [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource 10/15/150562.htm header block, LCI-351 class specifications block, campaign table, commanding-officer table, photo captions
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Documented for this hull: laid down 24 January 1944 at New Jersey Shipbuilding Corp., Barber, NJ; launched 24 February 1944; commissioned USS LCI(L)-562, 28 February 1944, LTjg. Sidney N. Ruffin USNR in command. Manned by the Navy for the Europe-Africa-Middle East Theater and by the Coast Guard for the Asiatic-Pacific Theater. Campaign credit: Invasion of southern France, 15 August - 21 September 1944. Returned to US early December 1944 for repairs and overhaul prior to re-assignment to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater; crew replaced by an all Coast Guard crew 10 January 1945, LTjg. Henry E. Brubaker USCGR in command. Departed Norfolk 18 January 1945 for San Diego via Key West and Canal Zone; attached to Commander, Training Command, Amphibious Forces, Pacific Fleet with final availability at Naval Repair Base San Diego. Departed San Diego 20 April 1945, arrived Guam 26 May 1945 for assignment to LCI Flotilla Thirty-Five (CDR H. J. Wuensch USCG), Group One Hundred Four (LCDR W. B. Harbeson USCG), Division (shown 'LCT Division Two Hundred Eight'). Air-Sea Rescue duty at Guam until 27 July 1945; then ferry service Eniwetok and surrounding atolls including Kusaie, Majuro, Parry Island, Guam, Saipan, Iwo Jima. Departed Guam 26 November 1945, arrived Long Beach 5 February 1946. Decommissioned 26 March 1946 at Long Beach; struck from the Naval Register 17 April 1946; sold 12 December 1946; fate unknown. One battle star for WWII service. Awards shown: American Campaign Medal; Europe-Africa-Middle East Campaign Medal (1 star); Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal; World War II Victory Medal. 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; cargo 75 tons; armament five single 20mm guns; armor 2-inch plastic splinter protection on gun turrets, conning tower, pilot house; propulsion two sets of four General Motors 6051-series-71 diesels (four per shaft), single GM main reduction gears, two diesel-drive 30 kW 120V DC ship's service generators, twin variable-pitch propellers, 2,320 shp. CO table: LTjg. Sidney N. Ruffin USNR (28 Feb 1944 - 9 Sep 1944); ENS. R. E. Northrup USNR (9 Sep 1944 - 16 Jan 1945); LTjg. Henry E. Brubaker USCGR (16 Jan 1945 - 26 Mar 1946). Photo captions: underway in the St. Tropez area August 1944; moored at Ratonneau Island off southern France 30 August 1944 with USS LCI(L)-234 and USS LCI(L)-674.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-1946
- Population
- Construction trades, New Jersey Shipbuilding Corp., Barber NJ (1944); ship's company - Navy crew (Feb 1944 - Jan 1945) and USCG crew (Jan 1945 - Mar 1946); embarked troops (up to 188) on landing/ferry runs
- Limitations
- NavSource is a volunteer secondary compilation - the history section is credited to the 1949 USCG official history (The Coast Guard at War, Transports and Escorts, Vol. II), which this record verifies independently (ev-03); milestone dates track official records but carry transcription risk. The spec block is the class-generic LCI-351 block and conflicts in places with the USCG Historian's Office figures for this hull (displacement, complement, troops, armament - see gaps). 'LCT' flotilla-unit labels conflict with the NHHC fleet-organization document (see gaps). Contains no asbestos or material-content information.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-562-lcil562-01
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[3]U.S. Coast Guard Historian's Office, official vessel page 'USS LCI(L)-562' (published 2019-05-03) - builder, commissioning/decommissioning, disposition, spec block, USCG commanding officer, service history sourced to the LCI(L) file and The Coast Guard at War Vol. II [other_primary]
- Locator
- USCG Historian's Office article 1834851 - header block, spec block, 'Coast Guard Commanding Officers', 'History: Flotilla 35, Group 104, Division 207' section, Sources note
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Official USCG Historian's Office record for this hull: builder New Jersey Shipbuilding Company, Barber, New Jersey; commissioned 28 February 1944; decommissioned 26 March 1946; disposition 'Sold on 12 December 1946. Her ultimate fate remains unknown.' Spec block (vessel-file figures differing from the NavSource class block): length 158' 6"; beam 23' 3"; displacement 216 tons light / 234 tons beaching / 389 tons full load; propulsion 8 GM diesels, twin shafts (4 per shaft), 1,600 hp, twin variable-pitch propellers; top speed 15.5 knots; complement 3 officers, 21 enlisted; troops 188; cargo 75 tons; initial armament four single 20mm plus two .50 cal; 2-inch plastic splinter armor on gun shields, conning tower, pilot house. Coast Guard commanding officer: LTJG Henry E. Brubaker, USCGR. Unit line: Flotilla 35, Group 104, Division 207. Narrative summarizes the Navy-crew Mediterranean service (Pozzuoli, southern France) and the full Coast Guard-crew Pacific service; one battle star for WWII.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-1946
- Population
- USCG ship's company January 1945 - March 1946
- Limitations
- Official .mil secondary record drawing on the Historian's Office LCI(L) file - authoritative for the Coast Guard period but itself a compiled summary; figures differ from NavSource's class spec block (displacement 216t vs 236t light; complement 3+21 vs 4+24; troops 188 vs 182; initial armament 4x20mm vs 5x20mm) - see gaps. Direct fetch returns HTTP 403 to automated requests; full content verified live via Firecrawl extraction 2026-09-30. Contains no asbestos or material-content information.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-562-lcil562-02
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[4]United States Coast Guard, The Coast Guard at War: Transports and Escorts, Vol. II (Historical Section, Public Information Division, USCG Headquarters, 1 May 1949), LCI(L)-562 entry at pp. 129-130 - HyperWar/ibiblio transcription [other_primary]
- Locator
- HyperWar transcription, section 'LCI(L)-562 / FLOTILLA 35 - GROUP 104 - DIVISION 207', pp. 129-130 of the printed volume
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- The 1949 official USCG history carries a dedicated LCI(L)-562 entry (headline: 'FLOTILLA 35 - GROUP 104 - DIVISION 207'). Navy-crew period: built at New Jersey Shipbuilding Company, Barber NJ; first commissioned 28 February 1944 under Lt.(jg) Sidney N. Ruffin USNR; Ruffin relieved by Ensign R. E. Northrup USNR on 9 September 1944; at Pozzuoli, Italy 6 June - 31 July 1944 as convoy commodore of a convoy of 14 British LCTs supervising all unloading; carried assault troops to beaches near Marseilles 15-31 August 1944 and moved prisoners and injured to Marseilles; landed French troops at the Bay of Tropez from Oran 6 September 1944; proceeded to England 11 December 1944 thence Portsmouth VA and Lambert's Point, Norfolk VA. Coast Guard-crew period: 'commissioned as a Coast Guard vessel' 10 January 1945; all naval officers and enlisted personnel replaced by Coast Guard on 16 January 1945 (Lt.(jg) Henry E. Brubaker USCGR); underway for San Diego two days later via Key West and Canal Zone; trained with Commander LCI(L) Flotilla 35 until 20 April 1945; arrived Guam 26 May 1945 via Pearl Harbor and Eniwetok; air-sea rescue duty under Commander Task Unit 94.7.1 until 27 July 1945; Eniwetok ferry duties for the Port Director; Kusaie run 17-23 September; Majuro run with LCI(L)-319 loading 123 passengers disembarked at Parry Island, Eniwetok Atoll 6 October; proceeded to Guam 25 October; Saipan with two other LCI(L)s 1 November, returning to Guam on the 4th; loaded 65 U.S. Army personnel 5 November for Iwo Jima, beached there 9 November, embarked 89 passengers for Saipan arriving 12th; proceeded to Guam 14 November; departed Guam 26 November 1945 for home; arrived San Diego via Pearl Harbor 24 December 1945; Long Beach 5 February 1946; decommissioned there 26 March 1946.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-1946
- Population
- Navy crew (Feb 1944 - Jan 1945); USCG crew (Jan 1945 - Mar 1946); embarked troops and passengers on named runs (123 to Parry Island; 65 to Iwo Jima; 89 to Saipan)
- Limitations
- Near-primary official postwar history (USCG Historical Section, 1949) - the underlying source for both the NavSource and USCG Historian's Office narratives; transcription hosted at ibiblio/HyperWar (mirror of the printed volume, p. 129-130). The USCG Historian's Office web article renders the early-November Guam return as 'the 14th' where the 1949 volume reads 'the 4th' - transcription-level variant (see gaps). Contains no asbestos or material-content information.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-562-lcil562-03
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[5]NARA Special List 44, List of Logbooks of U.S. Navy Ships, Stations, and Miscellaneous Units, 1801-1947 (ship-number ordering), PDF p. 25 [other_primary]
- Locator
- sl-44-ship-number.pdf p. 25, row 'LCI(L)-562 | 2/28/1944 | 6/30/1945' (PDF downloaded and text-verified 2026-09-30)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- NARA holds deck logs for this hull indexed as LCI(L)-562, coverage 2/28/1944 - 6/30/1945. The coverage window opens on the documented commissioning date (28 February 1944), independently corroborating that milestone, and closes 30 June 1945 - about nine months before her documented 26 March 1946 decommissioning, so her Coast Guard-crew Pacific logs are not in this index's coverage.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-1945 (log coverage)
- Population
- Ship's company - Navy crew through Jan 1945, USCG crew Feb 1945 onward (log coverage through 30 June 1945)
- 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. Where the post-June-1945 logs sit (a later accession, or RG 26 given Coast Guard manning) is unresolved - see gaps.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-562-lcil562-04
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[6]NHHC online reading room, 'United States Pacific Fleet Organization, 1 May 1945' - fleet organization chart listing 'LCI 562' under LCI(L) Flotilla Thirty-Five [other_primary]
- Locator
- NHHC page, section 'LCI(L) FLOTILLA THIRTY-FIVE' > 'LCI(L) GROUP 103' > 'LCI(L) DIVISION 206', row 'LCI 562' (live via Firecrawl 2026-09-30; direct fetch returned 404 to the default fetcher)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- The Navy's own 1 May 1945 Pacific Fleet organization document lists 'LCI 562' under LCI(L) Flotilla Thirty-Five, Group 103, Division 206 (commander cell blank - consistent with the ship being mid-transit San Diego to Guam at the document date; she departed 20 April and arrived 26 May 1945). Most other hulls in the flotilla's divisions show USCG officers, matching this hull's documented Coast Guard manning period.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1945
- Population
- USCG ship's company (post-January 1945 crew)
- Limitations
- A fleet-organization snapshot as of 1 May 1945 - Group 103 / Division 206 conflicts with the Flotilla 35 / Group 104 / Division 207 assignment the 1949 USCG history records (and NavSource's Group 104 / Division 208); the discrepancy is unresolved and may reflect a wartime reassignment or transcription error in one source - see gaps. Contains no asbestos or material-content information.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-562-lcil562-05
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[7]uboat.net Allied Warships database, USS LCI(L)-562 (LCI 351 class), ship ID 21627 - milestone table plus convoy UGS-41 event record [other_primary]
- Locator
- uboat.net ship ID 21627 milestone table; 'Notable events' entry '3 May 1944 - Convoy UGS 41'
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Secondary-compilation corroboration for this hull: laid down 24 January 1944; launched 24 February 1944; commissioned 28 February 1944; builder New Jersey Shipbuilding Corp. (Barber, NJ) corroborated; decommissioned 26 March 1946; sold 12 December 1946 - all matching NavSource/USCG. Notable event: convoy UGS-41 departed Hampton Roads 3 May 1944 with LCI(L)-562 among the accompanying landing craft (commanding officer shown as Lt.(jg) S.M. Ruffin, USNR - middle-initial conflict with NavSource's Sidney N. Ruffin, see gaps), escorted by Task Force 62, bound via the Mediterranean toward Port Said.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-1946
- Population
- Ship's company during Atlantic crossing, May 1944
- Limitations
- uboat.net is a secondary research compilation with no sourcing displayed per page; treated as corroboration where it agrees with NavSource/USCG and as a documented conflict on the commanding officer's middle initial (S.M. vs Sidney N.). The UGS-41 listing establishes Atlantic crossing on that convoy date but not the full Mediterranean itinerary. Contains no asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-562-lcil562-06
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[8]USS LCI National Association (usslci.org), story post 'USS LCI(L)330 and USS LCI(G)418' - firsthand memoir by Charlie Savary, E-M, describing service aboard LCI(L)-562 during her stateside rebuild [other_primary]
- Locator
- usslci.org story post text, second paragraph (Savary narrative) - live via fetch 2026-09-30
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- A veteran's firsthand account of this hull's late-1944/early-1945 stateside period: Savary went aboard LCI(L)-562 at Portsmouth, VA 'which had just returned from Europe'; eight sailors ('deck gang and... black gang') worked alongside civilians on a roughly three-month rebuild before she was turned over to a Coast Guard crew - corroborating the documented December 1944 - January 1945 repair/overhaul window at Portsmouth/Norfolk that official sources compress into a single sentence.
- Verification
- unverified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-1945
- Population
- Sailors and civilian yard workers during the Portsmouth/Norfolk overhaul, December 1944 - January 1945
- Limitations
- Self-published veterans' memoir on an association website - firsthand but unverified; dates are approximate ('the next 3 Mos.') and the narrative contains typos. Used only to corroborate the stateside overhaul period documented by NavSource and the 1949 USCG history, not as an independent source of dates. Contains no asbestos content - though its 'rebuilt... working with civilians' description is consistent with yard-period disturbance of era materials.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-562-lcil562-07
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[9]Era inference built on: NavSource LCI-351 class spec block (diesel propulsion, 1944 steel-hulled construction at New Jersey Shipbuilding Corp.); USCG Historian's Office spec block; GAO HRD-80-2 Navy asbestos-era documentation (see ev-09) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource and USCG Historian's Office specifications blocks (propulsion, armor); GAO HRD-80-2 product page (era context); usslci.org memoir (overhaul-period context)
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- A steel-hulled diesel-powered landing craft built in early 1944 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. Her documented December 1944 - January 1945 rebuild at Portsmouth/Norfolk (a crew member's memoir describes ~3 months working alongside civilian yard workers) is the kind of yard event during which era insulation would have been disturbed - noted as an exposure-relevant context, not a material finding.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-1946
- Population
- Construction trades, New Jersey Shipbuilding (1944); engine-room crew ('black gang') Navy and USCG (1944-46); civilian yard workers and ship's company during the Portsmouth overhaul (Dec 1944 - Jan 1945); unknown post-sale owners/handlers (1946 onward)
- Limitations
- Class/era inference only - no hull-specific insulation survey, material list, or work package located for LCI(L)-562. 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-562-lcil562-08
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[10]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 (1944) and service era (1944-1946).
- 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-562-lcil562-09
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[11]Batch-5283 search ledger (this record): NavSource page and photo captions; NARA Special List 44 ship-number PDF; USCG Historian's Office vessel page; HyperWar transcription of The Coast Guard at War Vol. II pp. 129-130; NHHC U.S. Pacific Fleet Organization 1 May 1945; uboat.net milestone table and UGS-41 convoy record; usslci.org veteran memoir; USNA MS 415 action-report finding aid; NHHC DANFS candidate URLs; NVR; Wikipedia; CourtListener API v4 (all designation variants, opinion and docket); secondary web litigation/asbestos sweep; GAO HRD-80-2 product page [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-lci-l-562-lcil562-01 through -13
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, material list, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, or qualifying litigation naming USS LCI(L)-562 was found in the public sources searched (see search_ledger). CourtListener exact-phrase searches for all designation variants ('LCI(L)-562', 'LCI-562', 'LCI(L) 562') returned zero hits at both opinion (type=o) and docket (type=r) level; an unquoted 'LCI(L)-562' query returned 635 fuzzy matches, all 'LCI' acronym collisions (telecom carrier LCI International, Louisiana Construction and Industry Self Insurers Fund, etc.) with no ship-related hits on inspection of the sample. 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 in 1946 to an undocumented buyer, 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. Deck logs (NARA College Park, coverage verified through 30 June 1945; post-June-1945 logs an open lead) 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-562-lcil562-10