Evidence
10 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-10).
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[1]research packet 444-packet.md (4 sources cited) [other_primary]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERIFIED — real identity: USS LCI(L)-590 · Hull: LCI(L)-590 · Designation: Landing Craft, Infantry (Large)
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-lci-l-590-lcil590-pkt-444-packet-md
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[2]NARA Special List 44, List of Logbooks of U.S. Navy Ships, Stations, and Miscellaneous Units, 1801-1947 (Washington, DC: NARA, 1978), 'Ships with Symbol and Number Designations' [other_primary]
- Locator
- Printed p. 345, LCI(L) block ('LCI(L)-590 ... Apr. 13, 1944-June 9, 1945 ... 2'); verified against the ACPL Genealogy Center scan of the 1978 volume (genealogycenter.net/nara/images/narasl44/371.jpg); batch tasking cites the fleet SL44 PDF extract p. 26
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Special List 44 lists two Navy deck logbooks for LCI(L)-590 covering 13 April 1944 - 9 June 1945, placing the craft in commissioned U.S. Navy service across that span. The window opens the day of her recorded commissioning (13 April 1944) and closes the day before her Project Hula transfer to the Soviet Union (10 June 1945).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-04-13 to 1945-06-09
- Population
- LCI(L)-590 officers and crew (wartime class complement ~4 officers, ~24 enlisted)
- Limitations
- A logbook-inventory entry documents the span of extant deck logs, not a service synopsis; it carries no operational detail and no asbestos information. In-scope service is established; individual operations and any shipboard conditions are not addressed by this source.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-590-lcil590-01
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[3]Richard A. Russell, Project Hula: Secret Soviet-American Cooperation in the War Against Japan (Washington, DC: Naval Historical Center, 1997), U.S. Navy in the Modern World Series No. 4 [other_primary]
- Locator
- Appendix, printed p. 39 (PDF p. 44 of the HyperWar-hosted scan); Kuril-operations narrative in ch. on final transfers
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Russell's appendix, 'U.S. Navy Combatant Ships Transferred to the USSR Under Project HULA, May-September 1945,' lists LCI(L) 590 with Soviet designation DS-34, transfer date 10 June 1945 (ditto under the 10 June group), and disposition '1955-returned.' The narrative records that the Soviet navy returned 27 frigates and 15 LCI(L)s to U.S. custody in the summer of 1955 and that Hula-trained LCI(L)s led the main Soviet attack in the Kuril Islands.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1945-1955
- Population
- U.S. Navy Detachment 3294 (Cold Bay); Soviet crews; returned-vessel disposal chain
- Limitations
- Official Naval Historical Center monograph; the appendix's ditto-mark cells resolve DS-34's disposition as '1955-returned' (read from the printed table, PDF p. 44). The source documents the transfer program and postwar returns, not materials aboard the craft; no asbestos information.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-590-lcil590-02
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[4]NavSource Online: Amphibious Photo Archive, USS LCI(L)-590 page (history credited to USS LCI 'Landing Craft Infantry,' Vol. II, Turner Publishing, 1995) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource Amphibious Photo Archive file 10/15/150590
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NavSource entry records: LCI-351 class; laid down 11 March 1944 at New Jersey Shipbuilding Corp., Barber, N.J.; launched 6 April 1944; commissioned USS LCI(L)-590 on 13 April 1944; assigned Europe-Africa-Middle East Theater; Invasion of Southern France 15-16 August 1944; decommissioned and transferred under Project Hula to the Soviet Union at Cold Bay, AK, 10 June 1945 as Soviet DS-34; DS-34 participated in the Soviet invasion of the Kuril Islands, 18 August - 1 September 1945; returned to U.S. Naval custody in 1955 and struck from the Naval Register; final fate unknown; one battle star for WWII service. Specification block: displacement 246 t light / 419 t loaded; 158'5.5"; eight GM diesels (4 per shaft), 1,600 BHP, twin variable-pitch propellers; complement 4 officers + 24 enlisted; troop capacity 6 officers + 182 enlisted; five single 20mm guns.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-1955
- Population
- LCI(L)-590 wartime crew; embarked troops (up to ~188 carried)
- Limitations
- NavSource is a privately maintained archive compiling official records and the credited Turner Publishing association history - a secondary source, not a primary Navy document. Its dates agree with NARA Special List 44's log window and Russell's appendix. A crew-donated photo caption ('had to abandon her and wade ashore in France') is unattributed recollection and is not carried as a finding. No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-590-lcil590-03
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[5]HyperWar, 'US Navy Landing Ships/Craft, 1940-1945' (compilation derived from official Ships' Data publications), LCI(L)-351 class table [other_primary]
- Locator
- ships-lc.html, 'LCI(L) -- Landing Craft, Infantry (Large),' LCI(L)-351 Class, row 'LCI(L)-590-593'
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- The LCI(L)-351-class table lists hulls LCI(L)-590 through LCI(L)-593 with the disposition note 'Lend-Lease to USSR.' The class block records full-load displacement 385 tons, length 160'4", beam 23'3", speed 15.5 knots, five 20mm guns, complement 4 officers/25 enlisted, capacity 9 officers/200 enlisted or 75 tons cargo, '2 sets G.M. diesel engines; twin variable-pitch screws, 1600 BHP.'
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1942-1945
- Limitations
- Compiled reference hosted on HyperWar; corroborates but does not originate the transfer or the class specifications. Per-craft commissioning column gives only the generic '1942-44' program range. No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-590-lcil590-04
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[6]Historic American Engineering Record AK-52, M/V Husky II (USS LCI(L) 653), Library of Congress [haer]
- Locator
- HAER AK-52 written historical and descriptive data, pp. 4-8 (construction dates, builder history, physical description, alterations)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- HAER AK-52 documents sister craft LCI(L)-653 - the same LCI(L)-351 class, built at the same New Jersey Shipbuilding yard at Barber, NJ, in the same year (laid down 14 June 1944): welded-steel construction; 159 ft overall, 387 long tons full load; eight six-cylinder General Motors Series 71 diesel truck engines, four per propeller shaft; variable-pitch propellers; maximum 16 knots; wartime complement 4 officers/24 sailors with troop capacity 9 officers/196 enlisted plus 32 tons cargo (wartime Navy guide figures). The report documents that New Jersey Shipbuilding was incorporated in 1942 as a wholly owned subsidiary of the Barber Asphalt Corporation, employed about 2,500 workers, and produced 375 LCI(L)s; Bureau of Ships design responsibility with George Lawley & Son Corp., Boston. The report contains no mention of asbestos; its only insulation item is spray-on insulation applied during the vessel's postwar conversion to fishing vessel Husky II.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1942-1945 (construction era documented); 1952+ (postwar alterations described)
- Population
- New Jersey Shipbuilding construction workforce (~2,500, 1942-1945); LCI(L) crews
- Limitations
- Sister-hull and builder/class documentation - it does not name this hull, and its material details describe the class design, not the as-built content of LCI(L)-590. The spray-on insulation it records was a postwar commercial-fishing alteration aboard a different craft and is not attributable to wartime LCI(L) construction. Contains no asbestos statement for the class.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-590-lcil590-05
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[7]Era inference built on: HAER AK-52 class documentation (welded steel, eight GM Series 71 diesels, no steam plant); NavSource specification block; GAO HRD-80-2 program finding that Navy ships of the era used asbestos insulation extensively through the early 1970s (see ev-uss-lci-l-590-lcil590-07) [other_primary]
- Locator
- HAER AK-52 (physical description); NavSource spec block; GAO HRD-80-2 product page
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- A diesel landing craft built in 1944 sits inside the Navy's documented asbestos-use era; era-standard small-craft applications aboard a craft of this type and period were machinery and exhaust-system insulation, gaskets, valve packing, electrical insulation, and interior joiner/insulation materials. As a diesel craft she carried no steam plant - the boiler/steam-line lagging pathway dominant on larger Navy types does not apply.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-1955
- Population
- New Jersey Shipbuilding construction trades (1944); wartime crew (~28) and embarked troops; Soviet crew (1945-1955); disposal/scrapping trades after 1955
- Limitations
- Class/era inference only - no hull-specific insulation survey, material list, or work package located for LCI(L)-590, and no asbestos-containing-materials list for the LCI(L)-351 class was located. Names era-standard applications, not confirmed installed materials. No quantity. GAO's finding is program-level. Product names are normalized era terms; no manufacturer attribution for this hull.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-590-lcil590-06
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[8]GAO, Navy Efforts To Protect Workers From Asbestos Exposure, HRD-80-2 (Oct 18, 1979) [gao]
- Locator
- GAO product page HRD-80-2, Highlights
- 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 craft's construction (1944), U.S. service (1944-45), and the period through her 1955 return.
- 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. gao.gov blocks direct automated fetch (HTTP 403 to curl, confirmed 2026-09-30); content via product-page Highlights retrieved through Firecrawl.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-590-lcil590-07
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[9]uboat.net Allied Warships of WWII, USS LCI(L)-590 entry (operational record compiled from RN/USN sources) [other_primary]
- Locator
- uboat.net/allies/warships/ship/21655.html, 'Notable events' and convoy UGS-43 narrative
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- uboat.net's compiled record for LCI(L)-590 corroborates the timeline - laid down 11 March 1944, launched 6 April 1944, commissioned 13 April 1944, transferred to the USSR 10 June 1945 - and adds operational detail: commissioned under Lt.(jg) Thomas A. Boland, USNR; departed Hampton Roads 23 May 1944 in convoy UGS-43 with twelve other LCI(L)s under Task Force 64 escort; arrived Bizerta, Tunisia, 12 June 1944; notable-event entry 15 August 1944 consistent with the Southern France landings.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-1945
- Limitations
- Compiled secondary database, not a primary document; the commanding-officer name and convoy movements derive from official operational records but are not independently verified here. No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-590-lcil590-08
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[10]Batch-5311 search ledger (this record): NARA Special List 44 (ACPL scan verified); NHC Project Hula appendix; NavSource; HyperWar landing-craft compilation; LOC HAER AK-52; NHHC DANFS and collections search (no entry); GAO product page; CourtListener API v4 (see ledger); shipyards.json cross-check; secondary web sweep [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-lci-l-590-lcil590-01 through -12
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, museum documentation, or verified litigation naming USS LCI(L)-590 / DS-34 was found in the public sources searched (see search_ledger). CourtListener searches of the exact hull designation "LCI(L)-590" returned zero hits in both the opinion and docket indexes (API v4, authenticated, 2026-09-30); a variant-spelling sweep ("LCI-590" / "LCI 590") could not be completed - fleet pacing budget was spent for the window (logged as blocked for those variants, not as a negative). NHHC has no DANFS entry and no photo/history file for this hull; the wartime deck logs exist but are undigitized. Secondary web sweeps surfaced no qualifying asbestos case naming 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 - the craft's 1944 construction falls inside the Navy's documented asbestos-use era. The undigitized deck logs and any BuShips construction/work-package records for the hull remain open archival leads. Does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-590-lcil590-09