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-582-lcil582-pkt-pz-packet-md
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[2]NavSource Online: Amphibious Photo Archive, USS LCI(M)-582 ex USS LCI(L)-582 main page (history from 'USS LCI Landing Craft Infantry' Vol. II, Turner Publishing, 1995) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource LCI(L)-582 main page, specifications and campaign table
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Build and milestones: laid down 29 January 1944 at New Jersey Shipbuilding Co., Barber, N.J.; launched 24 March 1944; commissioned USS LCI(L)-582, 1 April 1944. Campaigns: invasion of southern France 15 August-9 September 1944; Iwo Jima operations 15 February-16 March 1945; Okinawa Gunto operation 24 March-30 June 1945. Redesignated USS LCI(M)-582 on 5 May 1945; assigned LCI Flotilla Twenty-One / Group Sixty-Two / Division One Hundred Twenty-Three. Struck from the Naval Register 8 January 1946; transferred to the Maritime Commission for disposal 11 March 1948; fate unknown. Earned three battle stars for WWII service.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-1948
- Population
- Ship's company (4 officers + 24 enlisted as LCI(L); 4 officers + 49 enlisted as LCI(M)) plus embarked troops
- Limitations
- NavSource is a volunteer-edited archival compilation (this page draws on the Turner Publishing LCI history, Vol. II) - the house-standard authoritative source for numbered amphibious craft, but secondary in strict terms; milestone dates not corroborated by an individual DANFS entry because none exists for this hull. Decommissioning date is unrecorded ('date unknown'). Contains no asbestos information whatsoever.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-582-01
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[3]NavSource Online: Amphibious Photo Archive, USS LCI(L)-582 photo pages (captions credited largely to crew member George C. Weisert, ETM1/c, Group Staff) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource LCI(L)-582 photo pages, image descriptions
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Photographic record places the craft at Oran and Mers-el-Kebir, Algeria; as a Group Staff LCI carrying ~60 Army communications personnel into the beach at St. Tropez on 15 August 1944 (invasion of southern France D-Day); at Marseilles with French troops; dry-docked at Naples in fall 1944 just prior to her return to the United States; and moored at San Diego, CA, mid-October 1945 with returning LCI(G)/LCI(M) sisters. Captions document troop-ferry employment including Seabees, French and African troops, and Italian POWs.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-1945
- Population
- Ship's company; Group Staff detachment; embarked troops
- Limitations
- Photograph captions are contributor-supplied and anecdotal; useful for itinerary and employment detail, not for technical or material claims. Contains no asbestos information.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-582-02
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[4]NARA Special List 44 - List of Logbooks of US Navy Ships, Stations, and Miscellaneous Units, 1801-1947 (ship-number listing) [other_primary]
- Locator
- sl-44-ship-number.pdf, page 19, LCI(L)(M)-582 line
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- NARA Special List 44 (ship-number list, PDF page 19) lists Navy deck logs under LCI(L)(M)-582 covering 4/1/1944-12/14/1945 - matching her commissioning date (1 April 1944) and extending past the war's end; logs are held in RG 24 and are not digitized.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-1945 (log coverage); list consulted 2026-09-30
- Limitations
- Confirms only that deck logs exist and their date coverage; log contents (refits, casualties, materiel notes) are unexamined - this is a lead for ship-specific primary documentation, not evidence of any asbestos condition.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-582-03
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[5]Commander in Chief, U.S. Pacific Fleet (Cominch P-0012), Operations in the Pacific Ocean Areas, February 1945 - 'Capture of Iwo Jima' section, LCI(M) Mortar Plan [other_primary]
- Locator
- Iwo-2.html, 'LCI(M) MORTAR PLAN' section (HyperWar transcription of Cominch P-0012)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- The official post-action report describes the LCI(M) mortar program - three 4.2-inch chemical mortars mounted on an LCI, tested, with standard conversion plans drawn for beach-preparation and post-H-hour deep-support fire - the conversion type this craft received when redesignated LCI(M)-582 on 5 May 1945.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-1945
- Population
- LCI(M) conversion crews and crews of converted craft (class context)
- Limitations
- Class/program-level documentation of the conversion type; does not name this hull or establish where/when her conversion was performed (in-theater vs. stateside is undocumented). Contains no asbestos information.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-582-04
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[6]uboat.net Allied Warships, USS LCI(L)-582 page (convoy UGS-41 event listing) [other_primary]
- Locator
- uboat.net ship/21647, 'Notable events' convoy UGS-41 section
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Convoy records list LCI(L)-582 (Lt.(jg) D. Radford, USNR) in convoy UGS-41, which departed Hampton Roads 3 May 1944 for the Mediterranean - consistent with her group reaching Oran, Algeria, in summer 1944. The named commander matches NavSource photo captions identifying LTjg. Duval Radford as her skipper.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944
- Limitations
- uboat.net is a secondary specialist database; the convoy listing corroborates but does not independently document the Atlantic crossing. The same page carries a laid-down date (29 February 1944) that conflicts with NavSource (29 January 1944) - see gaps. Contains no asbestos information.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-582-05
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[7]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 (1944-1948).
- 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 condition from Batch-01) - content via product-page description.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-582-06
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[8]GAO HRD-80-2 (Navy asbestos insulation use to early 1970s) read against NavSource LCI(L)-582 specifications (GM diesel plant, no steam) [other_primary]
- Locator
- GAO HRD-80-2 product page; NavSource LCI(L)-582 specifications block
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Era-consistent asbestos applications plausible for a 1944 diesel-powered landing craft of this class: engine exhaust and muffler lagging; machinery piping gaskets and flange packing; electrical insulation and cabling; insulation and deck covering in accommodation spaces; winch brake linings. The craft's diesel plant means no boiler or steam-line lagging - the highest-burden asbestos systems on steam vessels were absent.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-1948
- Population
- Ship's company; embarked troops; New Jersey Shipbuilding construction trades (Barber, NJ, 1944)
- Limitations
- INFERENCE ONLY. No product identification, survey, work order, or crew account documents asbestos aboard this hull; applications are drawn from Navy-wide era documentation plus the vessel's diesel propulsion spec, not from any LCI(L)-582 material record. Does not establish presence, quantity, fiber type, or any individual exposure.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-582-07
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[9]Naval Marine Archive, 'New Jersey Shipbuilding, Barber NJ' yard page (emergency small-shipyard tables) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Naval Marine Archive emergency small-shipyard table, New Jersey Shipbuilding page
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- The builder's yard was a Navy-driven assembly line for LCIs on the Arthur Kill at Barber, N.J.; management was taken over by Todd Shipyards in 1942 at the Navy's request, and the yard closed after the war. The yard table lists hull 582 (LCI(L), delivered Apr-44) as 'Struck 1946' - consistent with NavSource.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1942-1945
- Population
- New Jersey Shipbuilding construction workforce, Barber NJ (yard-level context)
- Limitations
- Secondary archive (Canadian maritime-history nonprofit) compiled from shipbuilding registers - builder context only, not a ship-specific record; does not document materials, conditions, or asbestos practice at the yard. Contains no asbestos information.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-582-08
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[10]Batch-5303 search ledger (this record): NavSource main + photo pages; NARA Special List 44; MARAD Vessel History Database; NVR; NHHC DANFS; CourtListener opinion index; uboat.net; Naval Marine Archive; HyperWar/Cominch; secondary web asbestos sweep [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-lci-l-582-01 through sl-uss-lci-l-582-12
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, abatement or shipcheck record, hazmat disclosure, or litigation naming LCI(L)-582 / LCI(M)-582 was found in the public sources searched (see search_ledger). CourtListener opinion and docket-index searches returned zero hits. The only 'asbestos aboard' material located is law-firm marketing content asserting asbestos aboard landing craft generally (asbestos-ships.com and similar listicles) - excluded by source policy; none names this hull.
- 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. Deck logs (NARA RG 24, undigitized) and any Maritime Commission disposal file are the live leads. Does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-582-09