Evidence
10 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-10).
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[1]research packet pz-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-576-lcil576-pkt-pz-packet-md
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[2]Bureau of Ships, NAVSHIPS 250-011, 'Ships' Data, U.S. Naval Vessels,' Vol. II (Mine Vessels, Patrol Vessels, Landing Ships and Craft), 15 April 1945 (Google Books scan hosted at shipscribe.com) [other_primary]
- Locator
- PDF page 222 (printed p.205), LANDING CRAFT, INFANTRY (LARGE) (LCI(L)) vessel table; List of Naval Vessels at PDF page 30
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- BuShips' official April 1945 vessel list records LCI(L) 576 built by New Jersey S. B. Corp., Barber, N.J.; laid down 18 Feb 44; launched 15 Mar 44; commissioned 21 Mar 44 - matching the NavSource timeline exactly.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-02 to 1945-04
- Limitations
- Official wartime BuShips publication confirming construction milestones only - says nothing about asbestos, materials, service history, or postwar disposition. The List of Naval Vessels section (PDF p.30) carries hulls 576-579 as an unannotated LCI(L) block while some neighbors are marked 'Now LCI(G)' - an annotation lag, not proof the conversion did not occur (see ev-07).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-576-01
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[3]NavSource Online, Amphibious Photo Archive - USS LCI(G)-576 ex USS LCI(L)-576 (LCI-351 class), history credited to 'USS LCI "Landing Craft Infantry,"' Vol. II, Turner Publishing Co., 1995 [other_primary]
- Locator
- Vessel page, timeline block and specifications block; photo caption 1015057601
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NavSource timeline for this hull: laid down 18 February 1944 at New Jersey Shipbuilding Corp., Barber, N.J.; launched 15 March 1944; commissioned USS LCI(L)-576, 21 March 1944 (commissioning-day photograph at the yard, US Navy photo); reclassified Landing Craft Infantry (Gunboat) LCI(G)-576, date unknown; assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater during World War II; classification reverted to LCI(L)-576, 30 September 1945; decommissioned date unknown; struck from the Naval Register 1946; transferred to the Maritime Commission 11 October 1947; final disposition fate unknown. Ribbon display: American Campaign Medal, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal, World War II Victory Medal; no campaign entries or battle-star count listed.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-1947
- Limitations
- NavSource is the standard amphibious-vessel reference but is a secondary compilation (credits Turner Publishing Vol. II); it gives no LCI(G) conversion date and lists no specific campaigns for this hull, unlike sister hulls whose pages itemize campaign credits - absence here is incomplete documentation, not proof of no combat service. No asbestos information.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-576-02
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[4]HyperWar (ibiblio), 'US Navy Landing Ships/Craft, 1940-1945' - LCI(G) roster section [other_primary]
- Locator
- LCI(G) roster table, row 'LCI(G)-576 ... 1944-45'
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- LCI(G)-576 appears in the wartime-derived LCI(G) roster with service dates '1944-45', corroborating that this hull carried the Landing Craft, Infantry (Gunboat) designation during the war. The LCI(G) class block describes the type as LCI(L) hulls converted for close-in fire support of landing operations - 5 officers/65 enlisted, 2-3 40mm, 3-4 20mm, 6 .50cal, 10 Mk 7 and 2 Mk 22 rocket launchers, 8 GM diesels twin screws.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-1945
- Limitations
- Roster-level listing only - confirms the LCI(G) designation for this hull but provides no dates, conversions, campaigns, or any asbestos information for hull 576 specifically.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-576-03
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[5]National Archives, Special List #44 (by Ship Numbers) - 'List of Logbooks of U.S. Navy Ships, Stations, and Miscellaneous Units, 1801-1947' [other_primary]
- Locator
- sl-44-ship-number.pdf, PDF page 18, row 'LCI(L)(G)-576 3/21/1944 7/31/1945'
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- NARA holds deck logs for this hull under the combined designation LCI(L)(G)-576 covering 3/21/1944 - 7/31/1945 (commissioning day through the end of wartime service) in RG 24 (Records of the Bureau of Naval Personnel). The combined designation in NARA custody independently corroborates that this single hull carried both the LCI(L) and LCI(G) designations.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-03-21 to 1945-07-31
- Population
- Ship's company, March 1944 - July 1945 (log coverage period)
- Limitations
- Establishes that logbooks exist and their coverage span - the logs themselves are NOT in the NARA Catalog's digitized deck-log series (checked against the navy-online list, 1,321 vessel panels: hull absent). Contents unexamined; no asbestos conclusion can be drawn without reading the physical logs at Archives II, College Park. Dates are log-coverage spans, not commissioning/decommissioning dates (per batch prompt framing, corroborated here by the commissioning-day start).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-576-04
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[6]uboat.net Allied Warships - USS LCI(L)-576 ship page (secondary aggregator) [other_primary]
- Locator
- uboat.net ship page 21641 'History' line
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Secondary aggregator uboat.net gives a specific conversion date for this hull - 'Reclassified as LCI(G), Landing Craft Guns on 15 June 1944' - which NavSource does not give ('date unknown') and which the April 1945 BuShips List of Naval Vessels does not reflect (the 576-579 block carries no 'Now LCI(G)' annotation). The 15 June 1944 figure circulates in secondary sources; no primary source located confirms it. Sister hull LCI(L)-578's NavSource page gives the same 15 June 1944 conversion date, consistent with a same-week flotilla conversion wave.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- correction
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944
- Limitations
- uboat.net is a secondary aggregator, not an authoritative source - the 15 June 1944 conversion date is carried here as an UNCONFIRMED secondary claim and is not asserted in the record's own fields. The BuShips April 1945 list omission may reflect annotation lag rather than the true conversion date.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-576-05
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[7]Shipbuilding History (T. Colton) - New Jersey Shipbuilding, Barber NJ yard page (secondary reference) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Yard table row 'LCI(L) 576'
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- The builder's production list records 'LCI(L) 576 - US Navy - Landing Craft - Mar-44 - Struck 1946' at New Jersey Shipbuilding. Yard context: an LCI assembly-line yard on Arthur Kill at Barber (now Maurer, Perth Amboy); management taken over by Todd Shipyards in 1942 at the Navy's request; closed after the war; site now the Chevron asphalt plant.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944
- Population
- New Jersey Shipbuilding yard workforce (context only)
- Limitations
- Reputable specialist reference, secondary - used for builder context and the struck-year corroboration only. No asbestos, workforce, or exposure documentation for this yard located in the consulted sources.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-576-06
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[8]Era/class inference basis - NavSource LCI-351-class spec block on this hull's page + BuShips NAVSHIPS 250-011 LCI(L) characteristics [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource spec block (propulsion, armor lines); plastic-armor composition per HyperWar 'US Naval Administration in WWII - Arming of Merchant Ships' ch. III (poured plastic armor / bituminous matrix)
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- This hull's documented plant is diesel-only - two banks of four General Motors diesels (four per shaft) with GM reduction gears and twin variable-pitch propellers, plus two 30kW diesel ship's-service generators; no steam system. For a 1944 steel-hulled naval craft of this size, era-standard asbestos applications would have been engine exhaust lagging and machinery-space insulation, gaskets and valve packing, electrical insulation and wiring jacketing, and insulation in crew accommodation and galley spaces. The '2-inch plastic splinter protection' on gun turrets, conning tower and pilot house was NOT an asbestos product - period sources describe Navy plastic armor/Plastic Protective Plating as a bituminous (asphalt) matrix impregnated with stone aggregate.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-1945
- Population
- Construction workers (New Jersey Shipbuilding); wartime crew
- Limitations
- INFERENCE ONLY - no ship-specific record documents asbestos aboard this hull, and no period document located itemizes materials for LCI(L) 576. These are applications typical of 1944 naval craft of the type; presence aboard this hull is unproven. The plastic-armor composition point is affirmative documentation of a NON-asbestos material, correcting a plausible inference.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-576-07
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[9]GAO HRD-80-2, 'Asbestos: The Navy's Occupational Health Program for Asbestos-Exposed Personnel' (1980) - product page only [gao]
- Locator
- GAO product page HRD-80-2
- Finding type
- gov_survey
- Finding
- GAO documented Navy-wide use of asbestos insulation aboard ships and the service's delayed occupational-health response for asbestos-exposed naval personnel and shipyard workers - the program-level era context covering this hull's 1944 construction and wartime operation.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1980 (report); WWII-era exposure period
- Population
- Navy personnel and shipyard workers, WWII-era (program context)
- Limitations
- Program-level documentation - does not name this hull or this builder and establishes nothing specific to LCI(L)-576. gao.gov returns HTTP 403 to automated fetches (standing defect since Batch 01); the product-page metadata was used, full text remains an open lead.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-576-08
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[10]Batch-5297 search ledger (this record): NavSource, BuShips NAVSHIPS 250-011, HyperWar, uboat.net, shipbuildinghistory.com, NARA Special List 44 + navy-online digitized list, NVR, NHHC DANFS index, CourtListener, USS LCI National Association [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-lci-l-576-01 through sl-uss-lci-l-576-13
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, or docketed case naming LCI(L)-576 / LCI(G)-576 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 steel naval craft of this type carried era-standard materials. Does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility. CourtListener opinion search returned zero hits; the RECAP docket search could not be completed (fleet pacing) - see ledger.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-576-09