Evidence
9 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-9).
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[1]research packet 446-packet.md (7 sources cited) [other_primary]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERIFIED (hull exists, matches queue row). — real identity: none (hull-numbered only; no named collision).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-lci-l-604-lcil604-pkt-446-packet-md
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[2]NavSource Online: Amphibious Photo Archive, USS LCI(L)-604 - construction milestones, wartime flotilla assignment, occupation service, disposal, specifications (live fetch, HTTP 200) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource 10/15/150604.htm header block, service narrative, and specifications block
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Documented for this hull: LCI-351 Class Landing Craft Infantry (Large); laid down 3 April 1944 at New Jersey Shipbuilding Corp., Barber, N.J.; launched 28 April 1944; commissioned USS LCI(L)-604, 5 May 1944, LT. J. R. Tyler, USNR, in command. World War II assignment: Asiatic-Pacific Theater; LCI Flotilla Five, flagship, CDR. M. V. Milton; LCI Group Fifteen, LCDR. E. S. Dulcan; LCI Division Thirty. Post-war: occupation service in the Far East 12 September to 14 December 1945. Decommissioned, date unknown. Struck from the Naval Register 8 May 1946. Sold 1 November 1946, fate unknown. Ribbons displayed: American Campaign Medal; Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal; World War II Victory Medal; Navy Occupation Service Medal (Asia clasp). Specifications: displacement 246 t (light) / 264 t (landing) / 419 t (loaded); length 158' 5-1/2"; beam 23' 3"; 16 kts max; complement 4 officers + 24 enlisted; troop capacity 6 officers + 182 enlisted; armament five single 20mm; propulsion two sets of 4 General Motors 6051-series-71 diesels (4 per shaft), GM main reduction gears, two 30 kW diesel-drive DC ship's-service generators, twin variable-pitch propellers, 2,320 shp. International radio call sign NPFR.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-1946
- Population
- New Jersey Shipbuilding trades (Apr-May 1944); commissioning-era and wartime crew (4 officers + 24 enlisted); embarked troops (up to ~188) during operations; flotilla flag staff (CDR M. V. Milton's Flotilla 5 staff, if embarked)
- Limitations
- NavSource is a volunteer secondary compilation, not a primary registry - its dates generally track official sources but are not themselves official. No DANFS entry exists for numbered landing craft of this class, so NavSource is the best public vessel-history source. Contains no asbestos content. The page lists no campaign participation for this hull; sampled sibling pages on the same archive show NavSource does populate campaign credits when they exist - LCI(L)-607, -609, -613 (LCI Flotilla Fifteen) carry Leyte, Ormoc Bay, Mindoro, and Mindanao landing credits and 3-5 battle stars, and LCI(L)-617 (Flotilla Twenty Two) carries Lingayen Gulf and Mindanao credits - while same-flotilla siblings 605 and 606 (Flotilla Five, Group Fifteen) likewise show no campaign entries. Whether 604's absence of listed campaigns reflects flotilla-flagship employment or incomplete data is undetermined. 'Decommissioned, date unknown' per the same source.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-604-lcil604-01
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[3]NARA Special List 44, 'List of Logbooks of U.S. Navy Ships, Stations, and Miscellaneous Units, 1801-1947' (compiled Claudia Bradley, Michael Kurtz, et al.), printed page 346 - LCI(L)-604 row (digitized scan held by the Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center, NARA finding-aids collection) [other_primary]
- Locator
- SL44 printed page 346 (ACPL scan display page 372, 'Ships with Symbol and Number Designations' section), LCI(L)-604 row
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- The official National Archives inventory of Navy logbooks lists one logbook for LCI(L)-604: 'LCI(L)-604 | May 5, 1944-June 30, 1945 | 1' (Ship / Date Span of Logbooks / Number of Logbooks). The span begins on the commissioning date and ends 30 June 1945 - the inventory establishes in-scope commissioned Navy service for this hull across that window.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-05-05 to 1945-06-30
- Population
- Logbook-period crew, 5 May 1944 - 30 June 1945
- Limitations
- These are logbook-coverage dates, not commissioning/decommissioning dates, though the start coincides with the documented commissioning date (5 May 1944). The single accessioned logbook ends 30 June 1945 - the hull's documented occupation service (12 Sep - 14 Dec 1945), decommissioning, and 1946 disposal fall outside the inventory; the existence or location of later logbooks is undetermined. The underlying logbooks sit in RG 24, Entry 118 'Logs of U.S. Naval Ships and Stations, 1801-1946' (NAID 581208), National Archives at College Park; numbered landing craft do not appear in NARA's online digitized deck-log list, so the volume is a physical-archival lead, not an online record.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-604-lcil604-02
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[4]Navy and Marine Corps Awards Manual - 1953 (BuPers/SecNav publication), Part IV, Sections 17-21: eligible-ships list for the Navy Occupation Service Medal and China Service Medal (extended) - verbatim transcription at HyperWar/ibiblio [other_primary]
- Locator
- Awards-IV-17.html, Part IV 'II. Units Eligible (A) Ships' table, LCI (L) 604 row
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- The official eligible-units list credits 'LCI (L) 604' for Navy Occupation Service Medal service 12 Sep - 14 Dec 45, clasp 'A' (Asia); no China Service Medal period is listed for this hull. This independently corroborates NavSource's post-war occupation-service dates for this specific hull.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1945-09-12 to 1945-12-14
- Population
- Crew aboard during the credited window, 12 Sep - 14 Dec 1945
- Limitations
- Award-eligibility list - establishes the credited occupation-service window for the hull, not where she served or what duties she performed (Korea/Japan/China-side geography undetermined from this source). Transcription of an official publication hosted on a third-party mirror (ibiblio/HyperWar); no asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-604-lcil604-03
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[5]NavSource Online: Repair Ship Photo Archive, USS Ajax (AR-6) - photo caption documenting this hull (also displayed on NavSource LCI(L)-604 page 10/15/150604.htm) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource 09/25/2506.htm photo caption ('USS Ajax (AR-6) at anchor with USS LCI(L)-604 and an unidentified LCI alongside, date and place unknown. US Navy photo'); NavSource 10/15/150604.htm same image
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- A U.S. Navy photograph shows USS LCI(L)-604 and an unidentified LCI alongside repair ship USS Ajax (AR-6) at anchor, 'date and place unknown' (NavSource caption; captioned as a U.S. Navy photo from DANFS). Bounding context, marked inference: DANFS's Ajax (AR-6) history places that repair ship at Ulithi from October 1944 'in support of operations in the Philippines, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa' - the fleet-anchorage repair-availability context in which a Pacific LCI would have lain alongside her during 1944-45.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- circa 1944-1945
- Population
- Crew during an undated wartime repair-ship availability; Ajax repair crews
- Limitations
- Archival lead only: the photograph documents the hull alongside a fleet repair ship at an unknown date and place - a repair availability occurred, but the image is not a work order, scope sheet, or materials record and documents no specific repair or material aboard this hull. The Ulithi bound is inferred from Ajax's documented station, not stated by the photo source. No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-604-lcil604-04
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[6]ShipbuildingHistory.com (Tim Colton compilation of BuShips/yard records), 'New Jersey Shipbuilding, Barber NJ' - yard history and LCI(L) delivery table (live fetch, HTTP 200) [other_primary]
- Locator
- shipbuildinghistory.com/shipyards/emergencysmall/newjersey.htm - yard description paragraph and hull-delivery table, row 604
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- The builder of this hull was a wartime emergency yard: New Jersey Shipbuilding 'was an assembly line for LCIs on Arthur Kill, in Barber, a community immediately to the east of Perth Amboy which was later absorbed into Perth Amboy and is now called Maurer. Management of the yard was taken over by Todd Shipyards in 1942, at the Navy's request, and was closed after the war.' The yard's delivery table lists hull '604 - US Navy - Landing Craft - May-44 - Struck 1946,' corroborating builder, delivery month, and striking for this specific hull.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1942-1946 (yard's LCI program); hull 604 delivered May 1944
- Population
- New Jersey Shipbuilding construction trades, Barber NJ (1944)
- Limitations
- Secondary compilation (not an official registry) assembled from BuShips/merchant-vessel data - used here to corroborate builder identity and the yard's emergency-wartime character; dates corroborate, not replace, NavSource milestones. 'Struck 1946' agrees with NavSource's 8 May 1946 strike date. No asbestos or material content; the Todd management relationship does not by itself document any exposure practice at the Barber yard.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-604-lcil604-05
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[7]Era inference built on: NavSource LCI-351 class specifications (8 x GM 6051-series-71 diesels, diesel-drive generators, no steam plant); shipbuildinghistory.com yard record (wartime emergency LCI yard, 1944 build); GAO HRD-80-2 Navy asbestos-era documentation (see ev-06) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource 10/15/150604.htm specifications block; shipbuildinghistory.com New Jersey yard page; GAO product page HRD-80-2
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- A diesel-driven amphibious landing craft built in April-May 1944 at a wartime emergency yard sits inside the Navy's documented asbestos-use era. Era-standard applications aboard a diesel landing craft of this type and period were diesel exhaust lagging, machinery-space thermal insulation, gaskets, valve packing, and electrical insulation - within a small, crowded 158-foot hull carrying 28 crew plus up to ~188 embarked troops. Because the type carried no boilers, turbines, or steam lines, the boiler/steam-lagging pathway that dominates asbestos findings on larger WWII combatants does not apply; scope is reduced accordingly.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-1946
- Population
- New Jersey Shipbuilding trades (1944); crew 1944-46 (4 officers + 24 enlisted); embarked troops; repair-ship availability personnel; post-sale commercial breakers/operators (1946+, undocumented)
- Limitations
- Class/era inference only - no hull-specific insulation survey, material list, or work package located for LCI(L)-604 or for the LCI(L) class. Names era-standard applications, not confirmed installed materials. No quantity. No manufacturer attribution. The reduced scope relative to steam vessels is a design observation (diesel plant), not evidence of absence - small diesel craft of the era still carried asbestos in the applications named.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-604-lcil604-06
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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 (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 (April-May 1944) and service era (1944-46).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1979
- Population
- Navy shipyard workers; Navy asbestos program review
- Limitations
- Program-level documentation; supports era context only, not any fact specific to this hull. The report's emphasis is Navy shipyard and steam-era insulation practice; its application to a small diesel landing craft is era context at reduced scope, not a ship finding. Full text not retrieved - gao.gov blocks automated fetch (HTTP 403, confirmed 2026-09-30); content via product-page description.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-604-lcil604-07
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[9]Batch-5325 search ledger (this record): NARA Special List 44 (ACPL digitized scan); NavSource vessel and photo-archive pages; Navy & Marine Corps Awards Manual 1953; uboat.net; shipbuildinghistory.com; NARA digitized deck-log listing; MARAD vessel-history database; CourtListener API v4 (opinions searched, docket index blocked by fleet pacing); secondary web sweep [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-lci-l-604-lcil604-01 through -15
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, insulation material list, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, or published litigation naming USS LCI(L)-604 was found in the public sources searched. CourtListener opinion search returned zero hits for 'LCI(L)-604' and 'LCI-604' (API v4 type=o, 2026-09-30). CAVEAT: the CourtListener RECAP docket index could not be queried this session - repeated requests returned the fleet-pacing response (shared ~114/hr budget exhausted); logged as blocked in search_ledger, not as a negative result. Unlike larger veteran-heavy classes, no law-firm marketing listicle specifically naming this hull was surfaced either - the secondary web sweep returned only reference sources.
- 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 - and the docket-index search is a genuine open gap (paced, not run to completion). The wartime deck logbook (5 May 1944 - 30 Jun 1945) exists at NARA College Park (RG 24 Entry 118) but is undigitized and was not examined; builder work packages and any post-sale records are undigitized leads. Does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-604-lcil604-08
