Evidence
15 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-15).
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[1]research packet 816-packet.md [other_primary]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERIFIED
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-lci-l-571-lcil571-pkt-816-packet-md
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[2]National Archives and Records Administration, Special List 44 - List of Logbooks of US Navy Ships, Stations, and Miscellaneous Units, 1801-1947 (ship-number list) [other_primary]
- Locator
- sl-44-ship-number.pdf, PDF page 16, row 'LCI(L)(FF)-571'
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NARA Special List 44, ship-number list, PDF page 16, lists Navy deck logs for 'LCI(L)(FF)-571' covering 3/16/1944-12/31/1945 - the official wartime log inventory establishing this hull's documented in-scope service; the log run opens on the hull's commissioning date.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-03-16 to 1945-12-31 (log coverage)
- Limitations
- Log-coverage dates record surviving logbooks, not commissioning/decommissioning dates per se - the start date here happens to match the 16 Mar 1944 commissioning independently documented by NavSource. Establishes that logs exist in RG 24; does not establish where the ship operated or any material condition aboard.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-571-lcil571-01
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[3]NavSource Online: Amphibious Photo Archive, USS LC(FF)-571 ex USS LCI(L)-571 page (history credited to USS LCI 'Landing Craft Infantry' Vol. II, Turner Publishing, 1995) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Hull page, LCI-351 class block and timeline bullets
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Documented timeline for this hull: laid down 11 February 1944 at New Jersey Shipbuilding Corp., Barber, N.J.; launched 8 March 1944; commissioned USS LCI(L)-571 on 16 March 1944, LTjg. J. G. Korner USNR in command; redesignated Landing Craft (Flotilla Flagship) LC(FF)-571 on 31 December 1944; assigned Asiatic-Pacific Theater under LC(FF) Flotilla Twenty-Three / Group Sixty-Eight / Division One Hundred Thirty-Six; occupation service in the Far East 31 January - 10 April 1946; decommissioned 31 October 1946; struck from the Naval Register 1946; transferred to the Maritime Commission 25 August 1947; registered 1948 as the tug Humble CI-3; out of documentation 1951; final fate unknown. LCI-351 class specifications: 246 t. light; 158'5.5"; two sets of four General Motors diesels, four per shaft, 1,600 BHP, twin variable-pitch propellers; complement 4 officers + 24 enlisted; five single 20mm guns.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-1951
- Population
- Wartime crew and embarked flag staff; amphibious troops carried
- Limitations
- Volunteer-compiled secondary transcription of a veterans-association history (Turner Publishing USS LCI Vol. II), not a Navy primary document - individual milestones here are corroborated where noted (commissioning by SL44 log start, LC(FF) redesignation by uboat.net and the TF-54 report, occupation window by the Navy Awards Manual, disposal consistent with the Naval Marine Archive yard list). Specifications are class-standard for the LCI-351 design, not hull-specific measurements. Verified live at navsource.net 2026-09-30 (the defunct .org domain is not cited).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-571-lcil571-02
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[4]NHHC, DANFS entry for ATR-10 [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- ATR-10 DANFS entry, June 1946 anchorage paragraph
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- The official DANFS history of rescue tug ATR-10 records that on 7 June 1946 LC(FF)-571 moored alongside ATR-10 in a San Francisco Bay anchorage nest together with LC(S)-95 and SC-659 - placing this hull back on the U.S. west coast after Far East occupation service, five months before decommissioning.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1946-06-07
- Limitations
- Mention is incidental to ATR-10's narrative - it fixes the hull's location on one date but says nothing about her condition, crew, or materials aboard.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-571-lcil571-03
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[5]Commander FIFTH Amphibious Force / Commander Task Force 54 (H. W. Hill), Report of Occupation of Southern Honshu and Kyushu, 15 August 1945 - 3 October 1945 (declassified U.S. Navy report; scan via Wikimedia Commons) [other_primary]
- Locator
- TF 54 detailed organization, escorts list (approx. scan page 103)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- The report's Detailed Organization of Task Force 54 lists 'LC(FF) 571 (ComLSMFlot 13)' among the task force's escorts - this hull served as flagship for Commander LSM Flotilla Thirteen in the occupation force for southern Honshu and Kyushu, August-October 1945.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1945-08-15 to 1945-10-03
- Population
- Embarked LSM Flotilla 13 staff; ship's company
- Limitations
- Scan OCR renders the parenthetical as '(Coth.1.61,1Flot 13)'; read as ComLSMFlot 13 - independently corroborated by the LST-585 unit history naming Comdr. Weigle, ComLSMFlot 13, embarked in LC(FF) 571. The document lists operational assignment only - no information about materials or conditions aboard. Wikimedia Commons hosts the scan; the underlying document is a declassified US Navy report.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-571-lcil571-04
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[6]Navy and Marine Corps Awards Manual, 1953, Part IV, Section 17 - Navy Occupation Service Medal and China Service Medal (Extended), ships eligible (HyperWar/ibiblio transcription mirror of the official Navy publication) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Section 17, II. UNITS ELIGIBLE, (A) SHIPS table, 'LC (FF) 571' row
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- The official awards list credits 'LC (FF) 571' with the Navy Occupation Service Medal, Asia clasp ('A'), for service 31 January - 10 April 1946 - official confirmation of the hull's postwar Far East occupation window.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1946-01-31 to 1946-04-10
- Limitations
- ibiblio/HyperWar is a transcription mirror of the official manual, not the issuing Navy site. The row establishes medal-eligibility dates and clasp only - no port detail and no materials information.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-571-lcil571-05
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[7]A History of the USS LST 585, USS LST 325 Memorial Museum Collection, Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library digital archive (item evpl-lst325bk-046-0024) [museum_official]
- Locator
- Occupation Duty chapter, transcript of item evpl-lst325bk-046-0024
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- The LST-585 unit history records that the occupation task unit of LSTs and LSMs commanded by Comdr. Weigle, ComLSMFlot 13, was embarked in LC(FF) 571; the unit sailed San Fabian, Lingayen Gulf, on 5 October 1945 and reached Wakanoura Wan, Honshu, on 16 October 1945 after sheltering from a typhoon at Casiguran Sound.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1945-10
- Population
- Embarked LSM Flotilla 13 staff; ship's company
- Limitations
- Crew/unit-authored ship's history held in a museum collection - a secondary narrative, but consistent with the primary TF-54 report's flagship listing for the same period and commander. Establishes movement, not materials.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-571-lcil571-06
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[8]NHHC Navy Department Library, U.S. Pacific Fleet Organization, 1 May 1945 [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- Landing Craft Flotillas, Pacific Fleet section, LCI Flotilla Twenty-Three block
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- The official fleet organization document lists LCI Flotilla Twenty-Three under Landing Craft Flotillas, Pacific Fleet, containing LCI Group Sixty-Eight (Lt. Cdr. E. S. Dulean (D) / Lt. Cdr. O. G. Howell (R)) and LCI Division One Hundred Thirty-Six - the flotilla structure NavSource assigns to LC(FF)-571, with Lt. Cdr. O. G. Howell matching the name NavSource gives for the group.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1945-05-01
- Limitations
- The document does not line-list hull 571 - Division 136's printed roster shows other hulls (789-793, 1083). Flotilla-flagship craft appear carried at group/flotilla headquarters rather than as division line units, but the hull's precise roster position is not confirmed by this source.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-571-lcil571-07
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[9]NHHC / National Museum of the U.S. Navy photography page for LCI(L)-10 (LCI(L) class description) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- LCI(L)-10 page, class description paragraph
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- NHHC's class description of the Landing Craft, Infantry (Large) type: 157-foot craft making up to 14 knots with a crew of 24 and 20mm gun armament; the same hull was modified into mortar, gunboat, and rocket versions, and 'others were altered for use as landing craft flotilla flagships' - official confirmation of the LC(FF) conversion type this hull received on 31 December 1944.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944
- Limitations
- Type-level description keyed to a sister hull (LCI(L)-10); confirms the flagship-conversion practice at class level only - not specific to 571.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-571-lcil571-08
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[10]National WWII Museum digital collections (ww2online.org), George A. Hill collection, accession 2009.046 [museum_official]
- Locator
- ww2online.org image index, accession 2009.046 (George A. Hill collection)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- The museum's digital collections index photographs captioned 'LC (FF) 571' - e.g., 'US sailors relax on the deck of the docked LC (FF) 571' and 'Ten US sailors stand together on deck aboard the LC (FF) 571' - within a donor collection (accession 2009.046) that also contains occupation-era Japan scenes (Tokyo, Ginza Street) consistent with this hull's Far East service.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1945-1946 (undated items)
- Population
- Ship's company (photographic record)
- Limitations
- Item-level page URLs were not resolved this session - captions verified through the collection's indexed search results. Photographs document the vessel and crew visually; they carry no materials information.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-571-lcil571-09
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[11]NARA Catalog full-text search, 'LCI(FF)-571' (Record Group 38, WWII War Diaries series) [other_primary]
- Locator
- catalog.archives.gov search 'LCI(FF)-571'; NAIDs 77562629, 77574460, 139868040, 139920820
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- NARA catalog search returns digitized WWII war diaries (RG 38) whose OCR'd text mentions this hull: COM LSM GR 39 war diaries for September and October 1945 (NAIDs 77562629, 77574460) and COM 11 war diaries for January and February 1945 (NAIDs 139868040, 139920820).
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1945
- Limitations
- Matched on extracted OCR text; the individual pages were not read this session, so the context of each mention is unverified. Separately, the hull's own deck logs (SL44-listed, 1944-45) are NOT in NARA's posted digitized deck-log index.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-571-lcil571-10
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[12]GAO HRD-80-2, 'Navy's efforts to protect workers from asbestos exposure' (product page, published 18 Oct 1979) [gao]
- Locator
- GAO product page, Highlights section
- Finding type
- gov_survey
- Finding
- GAO reviewed the Navy's asbestos-protection efforts: the Navy used asbestos insulation extensively aboard ships; its 1975 policy was to remove and replace with nonasbestos materials only insulation that was damaged or had to be removed for necessary repairs, modified in 1979 to selective replacement in high-maintenance areas - the program-level environment governing the asbestos era in which this 1944-built hull was constructed.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1979 (report); wartime-era practice
- Population
- Navy shipyard workers (program context)
- Limitations
- Program-level report; GAO fieldwork yards were Long Beach and Norfolk naval shipyards, and this hull was already out of service by 1946 - establishes the era policy environment, nothing about this hull's materials.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-571-lcil571-11
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[13]War Production Board / Civilian Production Administration, War Industrial Facilities Authorized July 1940-August 1945 (final consolidated directory, via govinfo) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Alphabetical index, 'New Jersey Shipbuilding Co' entry
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- The consolidated federal directory of authorized war industrial facilities lists 'New Jersey Shipbuilding Co., Perth Amboy, N.J.' - this hull's builder - as an authorized wartime facility producing landing craft infantry.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1940-1945
- Population
- Shipyard construction workforce (context)
- Limitations
- Establishes the builder's wartime facility status and product line only; carries no workforce, material, or hazmat detail.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-571-lcil571-12
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[14]Class/era inference row - propulsion type per NavSource LCI-351 specification; Navy asbestos-era documentation per GAO HRD-80-2 [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource LCI-351 class specification block; GAO HRD-80-2 product page
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Era-consistent inference only: a 1944-built all-diesel landing craft carried no boilers or steam lines, so no boiler/turbine lagging pathway exists aboard this type; period practice for small diesel amphibious craft put asbestos in machinery and exhaust insulation, gaskets, valve packing, and electrical insulation - applications consistent with the Navy's documented wartime-era asbestos use.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-1946
- Population
- Ship's company; embarked flag staff; embarked troops
- Limitations
- No ship-specific document located for this hull; this row records type-consistent inference, not a finding of asbestos aboard. Does not establish presence, quantity, or present-day survival; does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-571-lcil571-13
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[15]Batch-5292 search ledger (this record): CourtListener API v4 opinion and docket queries (4 completed queries, 0 hits); NHHC DANFS index; NARA digitized deck-log index; museum/archival sweeps [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-lci-l-571-lcil571-01 through -19
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, museum materials statement, or docketed case naming LCI(L)-571 / LC(FF)-571 was found in the public sources searched (see search_ledger).
- 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 Navy-built craft sits inside the documented asbestos era. Does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-571-lcil571-14