Evidence
11 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-11).
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[1]NavSource Online: Amphibious Photo Archive, USS LCI(L)-586 (history sourced to USS LCI 'Landing Craft Infantry' Vol. II, Turner Publishing, 1995) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource 10/15/150586.htm history block, campaign table, specifications block, and Bizerte photo caption
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Documented for this hull: LCI-351-class Landing Craft Infantry (Large); laid down 8 March 1944 at New Jersey Shipbuilding Corp., Barber, N.J.; launched 31 March 1944; commissioned LCI(L)-586 on 7 April 1944. Assigned to the Europe-Africa-Middle East theater; campaign: Invasion of Southern France (Operation Dragoon), 15 August to 9 September 1944. Decommissioned and transferred under Lend-Lease to the Soviet Union at Cold Bay, Alaska, 14 June 1945. Struck from the Naval Register in 1955. Earned one battle star for World War II service. Ribbons shown: American Campaign Medal; Europe-Africa-Middle East Campaign (1 star); Asiatic-Pacific Campaign; WWII Victory Medal. Photo documentation: LCIs moored at Bizerte, Tunisia, circa May 1944 (photo by Robert W. Van Keuren, CO USS LCI(L)-665) with LCI(L)-586 in the front row alongside LCI(L)-589, -583, -581, -951, -582. Specs: 246 t. light / 264 t. landing / 419 t. loaded; 158'5.5"; beam 23'3"; 16 kts max / 14 kts continuous; complement 4 officers + 24 enlisted; troop capacity 6 officers + 182 enlisted; five single 20mm guns; two sets of 4 GM diesels, 4 per shaft, 1,600 BHP, twin variable-pitch propellers; 130 tons diesel fuel.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-1955
- Population
- New Jersey Shipbuilding construction trades (1944); crew (1944-45); embarked troops (up to 188); Soviet receiving crew (1945)
- Limitations
- Volunteer secondary compilation, not a primary registry - milestone dates track official sources (BuShips Ships' Data Vol. II agrees on all three dates) but the Soviet designation printed here (DS-33) conflicts with the official NHC Project Hula appendix (DS-37); see correction row ev-05. Contains no asbestos or material content. Horsepower figure (1,600 BHP) conflicts with the sister-hull page's 2,320 shp - see gaps.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-586-lcil586-01
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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 (Navy Department, 15 April 1945) - Google-digitized copy [other_primary]
- Locator
- NAVSHIPS 250-011 Vol. II, List of Naval Vessels - Landing Craft Infantry (Large) (LCI(L)) table, entry 'LCI( L ) 586'
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- The official Bureau of Ships vessel list documents this hull: 'LCI(L) 586', builder 'New Jersey S. B. Corp., Barber, N.J.' (by ditto chain from the column entry at LCI(L)-542), keel laid 8 Mar 44, launched 31 Mar 44, commissioned 7 Apr 44. The same table documents her sister hulls' transfer-era logbook end dates consistent with the Hula batches.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944
- Population
- New Jersey Shipbuilding construction trades (1944)
- Limitations
- Official wartime government tabulation of identity/construction milestones only; no material, insulation, or asbestos content. Digitized copy consulted (Google Books reproduction); canonical public URL for this specific volume not re-verified this session - citation carried without URL per house contract.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-586-lcil586-02
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[3]NARA Special List 44, List of Logbooks of U.S. Navy Ships, Stations, and Miscellaneous Units, 1801-1947 (Bradley, Kurtz, et al., comps.) - printed p. 345, 'Ships with Symbol and Number Designations' (Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center scan, display page 371); corroborated by the NARA-derived 'Special List #44, by Ship Numbers' PDF, page 26 [other_primary]
- Locator
- Special List 44 printed p. 345 (ACPL scan narasl44/371.jpg; viewer viewpage_narasl44.php?realpage=1775&display=371); SL44 'by Ship Numbers' PDF p. 26 entry 'LCI(L)-586 4/7/1944 6/13/1945'
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- The official wartime logbook inventory lists 'LCI(L)-586' with a logbook span of Apr. 7, 1944 - June 13, 1945 across 2 logbooks. The span begins the day she commissioned (7 Apr 1944) and ends the day before her 14 June 1945 transfer to the Soviet Union at Cold Bay - the catalog covers her complete U.S. commissioned life.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-1945
- Population
- crew (1944-45); embarked troops
- Limitations
- Archival lead only: establishes that 2 logbooks for this hull exist in NARA custody (RG 24-era Navy deck logs, College Park) - it does not supply their contents. The logs are not digitized for this hull; nothing in them has been read for material or repair references. No asbestos content in the inventory itself.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-586-lcil586-03
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[4]Richard A. Russell, Project Hula: Secret Soviet-American Cooperation in the War Against Japan, The U.S. Navy in the Modern World Series No. 4 (Washington, DC: Naval Historical Center, 1997), Appendix 'U.S. Navy Combatant Ships Transferred to the USSR Under Project HULA, May-September 1945', p. 39 (HyperWar/ibiblio mirror of the NHC publication) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Russell 1997, Appendix p. 39 (PDF p. 44), LCI(L) transfer table row 'LC!(L) 586 DS-37 14 June 1956-scrapped' [OCR of printed 'LCI(L)']
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- The Naval Historical Center's official Project Hula appendix documents for this hull: 'LCI(L) 586 -> DS-37', transfer date 14 June (1945), disposition '1956-scrapped'. The same table pairs sister LCI(L) 587 -> DS-33 (also 14 June) and shows the second Hula LCI(L) group transferred that day; 30 LCI(L)s total were transferred under the program.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1945-1956
- Population
- U.S. Navy Detachment 3294 (Cold Bay); Soviet receiving crews
- Limitations
- Program-level official table: establishes Soviet designation, transfer date, and recorded Soviet disposition only - no hull condition, work, or material data. The U.S. strike year (1955 per NavSource) is a separate registry event not covered by this table. No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-586-lcil586-04
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[5]Designation cross-check: NavSource 150586 (DS-33, citing Turner USS LCI Vol. II, 1995) vs NHC Russell appendix p. 39 (586->DS-37; 587->DS-33) and Wikipedia 'Project Hula' transfer list (LCI(L)-586 -> DS-37, LCI(L)-587 -> DS-33) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource 150586.htm header line; Russell 1997 appendix p. 39 rows 586/587/590; en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Hula LCI(L) transfer list
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- CORRECTION: NavSource prints the Soviet designation of this hull as DS-33. The Naval Historical Center's official Project Hula appendix assigns DS-33 to sister LCI(L)-587 and DS-37 to this hull; Wikipedia's Project Hula article agrees with the NHC pairing. NavSource's page for 587 carries DS-34, which the NHC table assigns to LCI(L)-590 - the NavSource/Turner designations for this block appear shifted relative to the official transfer table. DS-37 is carried in this record as the designations of record; DS-33 is retained in aliases as a circulating variant.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- correction
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1945
- Limitations
- Corrects a propagated designation error, not a material/exposure claim. Soviet-side primary records were not consulted; the NHC appendix is the highest-authority available source for the transfer pairings.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-586-lcil586-05
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[6]uboat.net Allied Warships of WWII, USS LCI(L)-586 (LCI(L)-586), LCI 351 class (Guðmundur Helgason compilation) [other_primary]
- Locator
- uboat.net ship/21651 data table and 'Notable events' entries for 3 May 1944 (UGS 41) and 24 May 1944 (Bizerte arrival)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Independent secondary compilation agrees on construction milestones (laid down 8 Mar 1944, launched 31 Mar 1944, commissioned 7 Apr 1944, New Jersey Shipbuilding Corp., Barber NJ) and end of U.S. service 14 Jun 1945, 'Transferred to the USSR.' Event record: convoy UGS 41 departed Hampton Roads 3 May 1944 carrying this hull among 16 LCIs, and 'USS LCI(L)-586 (Lt.(jg) J.S. Murtha, USNR)' is listed arriving at Bizerte 24 May 1944 with the LCI group - consistent with the circa-May-1944 Bizerte mooring photograph on NavSource.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-1945
- Population
- crew under Lt.(jg) J.S. Murtha, USNR (1944)
- Limitations
- Volunteer secondary war-events compilation, not an official record; the commanding-officer attribution (Lt.(jg) J.S. Murtha, USNR) rests on this source alone. No asbestos or material content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-586-lcil586-06
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[7]Era inference built on: NavSource LCI-351-class spec block (all-diesel plant: two sets of 4 GM diesels, 4 per shaft, twin variable-pitch propellers); BuShips Ships' Data Vol. II (1944 steel-hulled landing craft); Corn & Starr 1987 era documentation (ev-08); GAO HRD-80-2 program documentation (ev-09) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource specifications block; NAVSHIPS 250-011 Vol. II LCI(L) table; ev-08/ev-09 era documentation
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- A steel-hulled diesel landing craft built in early 1944 sits inside the documented WWII-era asbestos-use period in U.S. shipbuilding. Era-standard applications aboard a craft of this type and period were engine and exhaust/muffler lagging around the machinery space, flange and valve gaskets, stem packing, electrical insulation, and thermal insulation in accommodation spaces. As an all-diesel craft (8 GM diesels in quad sets, twin shafts, no boilers, no steam plant), the boiler/turbine lagging pathway of steam vessels does not apply.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-1956
- Population
- New Jersey Shipbuilding construction trades (1944); engine-room crew; any repair trades (1944-45); Soviet crews (1945-c1956)
- Limitations
- Class/era inference only - no hull-specific insulation schedule, material list, or work package was located for LCI(L)-586. Names era-standard applications, not confirmed installed materials. No quantity, no manufacturer attribution, no present-day presence implied.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-586-lcil586-07
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[8]Corn, Jacqueline Karnell, and Jennifer Starr, 'Historical perspective on asbestos: Policies and protective measures in World War II shipbuilding,' American Journal of Industrial Medicine 11(3):359-373 (1987) [other_primary]
- Locator
- AJIM 11(3):359-373, abstract and article
- Finding type
- gov_survey
- Finding
- Peer-reviewed historical study documents that asbestos was used extensively as a fireproofing and insulating material in U.S. shipbuilding during WWII - the era and program under which this LCI(L) was mass-produced - and that wartime demand drove unprecedented asbestos utilization across ship construction.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1940s era documented; article 1987
- Population
- WWII shipyard workers and ship crews (class context)
- Limitations
- Program/era-level scholarly documentation; does not name this vessel, builder, or class and does not establish that asbestos was aboard this hull, nor quantity, location, condition, exposure, or causation.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-586-lcil586-08
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[9]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 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 returns HTTP 403 to automated fetch, confirmed 2026-09-30) - content via product-page description.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-586-lcil586-09
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[10]NARA Catalog search 'LCI(L)-586' - 37 file-unit hits led by NAID 120242521, 'LCI(L) 586 - Muster Rolls' (RG 24-era records; digitized via NARA-Ancestry collaboration) [other_primary]
- Locator
- catalog.archives.gov id/120242521; catalog search q="LCI(L)-586" (37 hits, 2026-09-30)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- The National Archives Catalog holds digitized muster-roll file units for this hull (37 hits on the quoted hull-number search; lead record NAID 120242521, 'LCI(L) 586 - Muster Rolls'), documenting her crew complements across the 1944-45 commission - population documentation for this hull available online via the NARA-Ancestry scanning collaboration.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-1945
- Population
- crew (1944-45) as listed on muster rolls
- Limitations
- Archival lead only: muster rolls document personnel, not materials or work performed; individual file units were not itemized or read line-by-line this session. The deck logs themselves (2 logbooks per Special List 44) remain undigitized for this hull. Catalog proxy intermittently rate-limits scripted access - result count from the successful query carried.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-586-lcil586-10
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[11]Batch-5307 search ledger (this record): NavSource; NARA Special List 44 (ACPL scan + by-Numbers PDF); NHC Project Hula appendix; BuShips NAVSHIPS 250-011 Vol. II; uboat.net; NARA Catalog; NHHC DANFS index/site search; NVR; CourtListener opinions; secondary web sweep [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-lci-l-586-lcil586-01 through -13
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, or litigation naming USS LCI(L)-586 was found in the sources searched. CourtListener searches (authenticated API v4, 2026-09-30) on 'LCI(L)-586' OR 'LCI(L) 586' OR 'LCIL-586' OR 'LCI-586' returned 0 results in both opinions (type=o) and dockets (type=r) - a verified negative, not a blocked check. Secondary web sweeps surfaced no qualifying case and no 'asbestos aboard' assertions specific to this hull; only generic law-firm marketing listicles on Navy/LCI asbestos exist (mesotheliomahope.com, mesotheliomaveterans.org, asbestos.com) - excluded by source policy.
- 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 and BuShips work packages for this hull are undigitized; Soviet-era records after the 1945 transfer are outside U.S. repositories. Does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-586-lcil586-11
