Evidence
9 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-9).
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[1]NavSource Online: Amphibious Photo Archive, USS LCI(L)-584 page (history sourced to USS LCI 'Landing Craft Infantry,' Vol. II, Turner Publishing, 1995) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource USS LCI(L)-584 page, chronology and specifications blocks
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Hull chronology for this vessel: laid down 3 March 1944 at New Jersey Shipbuilding, Barber, N.J.; launched 29 March 1944; commissioned USS LCI(L)-584 on 4 April 1944; assigned to the Europe-Africa-Middle East Theater and participated in the invasion of southern France, 15 August-25 September 1944; decommissioned and transferred under Project Hula to the Soviet Union at Cold Bay, AK, 10 June 1945, designated Soviet landing ship DS-38; participated in the Soviet invasion of the Kuril Islands 18 August-1 September 1945; earned one battle star for WWII service; final disposition 'fate unknown.'
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-1945 (U.S. service); 1945 Soviet transfer
- Population
- U.S. Navy crew (4 officers, 24 enlisted per class spec) and embarked troops (up to ~188)
- Limitations
- Volunteer-compiled secondary source (its stated source is Turner Publishing's USS LCI Vol. II), not an official Navy record - used here because unnamed landing craft have no DANFS entries. One line on this page ('returned to US Naval custody in 1955') is contradicted by the NHHC-published Project Hula appendix - see ev-uss-lci-l-584-lcil584-05.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-584-lcil584-01
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[2]Ships of the U.S. Navy, 1940-1945 (HyperWar/ibiblio mirror of the official U.S. Navy compilation), Landing Ships and Craft - LCI(L)-351 Class section [other_primary]
- Locator
- ships-lc.html, 'LCI(L)-351 Class' table row 'LCI(L)-584-587'
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- The official-compilation mirror lists LCI(L)-584-587 as 1942-44-built vessels with the note 'Lend-Lease to USSR' under the LCI(L)-351 class heading, corroborating this hull's existence, class assignment, and transfer under Lend-Lease.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1940-1945
- Limitations
- Names the hull only inside a number range (LCI(L)-584-587) with no dates per hull; class specifications on the page (complement 4 officers/25 enlisted; displacement 385 t full load) are class-level and differ slightly from NavSource - neither figure is ship-proven.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-584-lcil584-02
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[3]NARA Special List 44, List of Logbooks of U.S. Navy Ships, Stations, and Miscellaneous Units (ship-number list), PDF page 25 [other_primary]
- Locator
- sl-44-ship-number.pdf, PDF p. 25, row 'LCI(L)-584 4/4/1944 6/9/1945'
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- NARA lists Navy deck-log holdings for LCI(L)-584 covering 4/4/1944-6/9/1945 - the full U.S. commission period, corroborating the 4 April 1944 commissioning and ending the day before the 10 June 1945 Soviet transfer.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-1945
- Population
- Deck-log subjects: the ship's U.S. crew
- Limitations
- These are log-coverage dates for paper holdings, not ship-event dates; the logs are physical RG 24 records and no digitized copy was located in the NARA Catalog. Coverage ending 6/9/1945 is consistent with decommissioning on 6/10/1945 but the list itself records no events.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-584-lcil584-03
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[4]Richard A. Russell, Project Hula: Secret Soviet-American Cooperation in the War Against Japan, Naval Historical Center, Department of the Navy, Washington, 1997 (mirrored text) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Project_HULA.htm, 'Appendix - U.S. Navy Combatant Ships Transferred' table; narrative section on returns/witnessed destruction
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- The appendix of this Naval Historical Center monograph lists 'LCI(L) 584 | DS-38 | 10 June | 1956-stricken' - the transfer date (10 June 1945) and Soviet designation DS-38 corroborate NavSource. The disposition column records the ship as stricken in 1956, not returned. The text states the Soviet navy returned only 15 of the transferred LCI(L)s, and the appendix's 'returned' marks do not include LCI(L)-584.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1945-1956
- Limitations
- Official U.S. Navy published history, mirrored on a third-party site (generalstaff.org) rather than history.navy.mil itself; text verified against the mirror. The appendix's disposition column is terse - '1956-stricken' is read here as stricken from the U.S. register while remaining in Soviet custody, consistent with the monograph's accounting of returned/destroyed/settled hulls.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-584-lcil584-04
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[5]Russell, Project Hula (Naval Historical Center, 1997) appendix, vs. NavSource USS LCI(L)-584 page [other_primary]
- Locator
- Appendix table row 'LCI(L) 584 | DS-38 | 10 June | 1956-stricken'; NavSource line 'Returned to US Naval custody in 1955'
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- CORRECTION: NavSource reports the ship was 'returned to US Naval custody in 1955 and struck from the Naval Register.' The NHHC-published appendix lists LCI(L)-584's disposition as '1956-stricken' and does not mark her among the 15 LCI(L)s the Soviet navy physically returned - i.e., she remained in Soviet custody and was struck from the U.S. Naval Register administratively in 1956.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- correction
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1955-1956
- Limitations
- The correction resolves a secondary-source conflict in favor of the official monograph. 'Stricken' does not document the hull's physical fate - scrapping under Soviet ownership is unconfirmed either way; 'fate unknown' stands.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-584-lcil584-05
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[6]National Archives Catalog, 'LCI(L) 584 - Muster Rolls' (NAID 120240125), RG 24 Records of the Bureau of Naval Personnel - 46 digitized images [other_primary]
- Locator
- catalog.archives.gov/id/120240125; catalog.archives.gov/id/134375843
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Digitized muster rolls for this hull survive in the National Archives Catalog (46 images; at least the 30 June 1944 roll). A NARA Catalog search for the hull also surfaced 'COM LCI(L) GR 10 - War Diary, 9/1-30/44' (NAID 134375843), the unit-level diary for the southern-France period.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944
- Population
- U.S. Navy crew of LCI(L)-584
- Limitations
- Personnel/operational records, not asbestos or medical documentation - they establish crew assignments and movements only. Whether LCI(L)-584 was actually attached to LCI(L) Group 10 is unverified from available sources; the war diary is a lead, not a confirmed association. Muster-roll image dates beyond the June 1944 roll were not individually read.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-584-lcil584-06
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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
- 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 construction (1944) and entire U.S. service era (1944-45).
- 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) - content via product-page description, same limitation as prior batches. A diesel landing craft carried far less insulation than steam-driven ships.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-584-lcil584-07
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[8]War Production Board, War Industrial Facilities Authorized July 1940-August 1945 (GovInfo) [other_primary]
- Locator
- GOVPUB-P32_4800-1226d01b08d0c7bf2f8de2cbd75b80cc.htm, alphabetic facility list, 'NEW JERSEY SHIPBUILDING CO PERTH AMBOY N J'
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- The WPB authorization list records 'New Jersey Shipbuilding Co., Perth Amboy, N.J.' as an authorized war industrial facility - corroborating the identity and wartime operation of this hull's builder (Barber is the Perth Amboy waterfront neighborhood where the yard stood).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1940-1945
- Population
- New Jersey Shipbuilding construction workforce
- Limitations
- Documents the yard's existence and wartime authorization only - it names no vessel and contains no materials or asbestos data. Yard-level context, not a hull record.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-584-lcil584-08
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[9]Batch-5305 search ledger (this record): NavSource; HyperWar USN compilation; NARA Special List 44 + NARA Catalog; NHHC-published Project Hula monograph (mirror); WPB facilities list (GovInfo); CourtListener API v4 (opinion index; docket index blocked by fleet pacing); NVR; secondary web sweeps [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-lci-l-584-lcil584-01 through -13
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, or litigation naming LCI(L)-584 was found in the public sources searched. CourtListener opinion and docket searches returned only name collisions (LCI telecommunications defendants and unrelated civil dockets). The hull's 14-month U.S. career ending in permanent Soviet custody makes U.S.-side abatement or survey records structurally unlikely.
- 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. CourtListener results are broad token matches, so a non-indexed or differently styled reference to the hull cannot be fully excluded. NARA deck logs (SL44 holdings 4/4/1944-6/9/1945) are undigitized and unread and could contain duty-level detail. Does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-584-lcil584-09