Evidence
10 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-10).
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[1]NavSource Online: Amphibious Photo Archive, USS LCI(L)-621 - construction milestones, campaign record, specifications, disposal (hull history credited to USS LCI 'Landing Craft Infantry', Vol. II, Turner Publishing 1995) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource 10/15/150621.htm header block, campaign table, specifications block
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Documented for this hull: laid down 25 April 1944 at New Jersey Ship Building Corp., Barber, N.J.; launched 25 May 1944; commissioned USS LCI(L)-621, 31 May 1944; international radio call sign NPJE. Assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater: Leyte operation (Leyte landings 28-29 November 1944); consolidation and capture of the southern Philippines (Mindanao Island landings, Zamboanga, 1 April 1945; Zulu Archipelago landings 9-11 April 1945). Decommissioned, date unknown; struck from the Naval Register, date unknown; transferred to the Maritime Commission for disposal 23 October 1947; final disposition fate unknown. Earned two battle stars for World War II service. Class specification block: displacement 246 t. light / 264 t. landing / 419 t. loaded; length 158'5.5"; beam 23'3"; speed 16 kts max; complement 4 officers, 24 enlisted; troop capacity 6 officers, 182 enlisted; cargo 75 tons; propulsion two sets of 4 GM diesels (1,600 BHP), twin variable-pitch propellers; armament five single 20mm guns; 2-inch plastic splinter protection on gun turrets, conning tower, and pilot house.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-1947
- Population
- New Jersey Shipbuilding construction trades (1944); crew (1944-1947); troops embarked (up to 188 aboard for amphibious lift)
- Limitations
- NavSource is a volunteer secondary compilation, not a primary registry - milestone dates generally track official sources but this hull's decommissioning and striking dates are blank ('date unknown'); a secondary yard record (shipbuildinghistory.com) lists 'Struck 1946' - conflict unresolved, see gaps. Contains no asbestos or material content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-621-01
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[2]NARA Special List 44: List of Logbooks of U.S. Navy Ships, Stations, and Miscellaneous Units, 1801-1947 - 'Special List #44, by Ship Numbers' (archives.gov-hosted PDF, 137 pp.) [other_primary]
- Locator
- sl-44-ship-number.pdf, page 26, row 'LCI(L)-621 5/31/1944 6/30/1945'
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Special List 44's ship-numbers index lists deck-log holdings for LCI(L)-621 covering 5/31/1944 - 6/30/1945 (PDF page 26) - commissioning through the immediate pre-V-J-Day period, i.e. essentially the hull's entire commissioned combat career. These are physical logbook holdings at NARA, not digitized: the National Archives' 'Navy Deck Logs Available in the National Archives Catalog' index contains no entry for this hull.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-05-31 to 1945-06-30 (coverage window)
- Population
- Crew and officers named in wartime deck logs (1944-45)
- Limitations
- Log-coverage endpoints are holdings ranges, not commissioning/decommissioning dates - the 5/31/1944 begin date coincides with commissioning but the 6/30/1945 end date is a holdings boundary, not the end of service. Deck logs are operational records; they are an archival lead, not an exposure record, and contain no asbestos data per se.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-621-02
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[3]USS Landing Craft Infantry National Association, 'Honor, Valor, Sacrifice' casualty table; same entry published in The Elsie Item No. 109 (June 2020), official newsletter of the USS LCI National Association and the Amphibious Forces Memorial Museum [museum_official]
- Locator
- usslci.org 'Honor, Valor, Sacrifice' table row '(L) 621'; ElsieItem-109-Jun-2020.pdf memorial list
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- The association's casualty roll records for ship (L) 621: 'January 4, 1945 | PTO | Mindoro Philippines | Damaged' with 'KIA Raymond Carter' - i.e., the craft was damaged at Mindoro, Philippine Islands, 4 January 1945, with one sailor killed in action. The same entry appears in Elsie Item No. 109's memorial list ('LCI(L) 621 - SWPA Mindoro Philippine Islands 1/4/1945 - KIA Raymond Carter').
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1945-01-04
- Population
- Crew aboard at Mindoro, 4 January 1945; Raymond Carter (KIA)
- Limitations
- Association-compiled roll, a secondary memorial source, not an action report: it does not state the weapon or cause of damage. The date and place coincide with the kamikaze destruction of ammunition ship SS Lewis L. Dyche in Mindoro Strait the same day (see ev-04); secondary accounts attribute this hull's damage to the Dyche explosion, but this record asserts only the documented date, place, damage, and casualty.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-621-03
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[4]MARAD Vessel History Database, SS Lewis L. Dyche (status card): sunk - other hostile act, 4 January 1945, Mindoro Strait; 82 lives lost [marad_nrc]
- Locator
- MARAD Vessel History Database, Lewis L. Dyche detail page (ShipHistory/Detail/9162), Incident Information section
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- MARAD documents that on 4 January 1945 the WSA ammunition ship SS Lewis L. Dyche was 'struck by Japanese kamikaze plane while en route from Leyte, Philippines, to Mindoro, Philippines' and lost in the Mindoro Strait with 82 lives lost - the same date and location at which LCI(L)-621 was damaged with one KIA (ev-03). Secondary accounts state debris from the Dyche's explosion damaged this hull.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1945-01-04
- Population
- Vessels in the Mindoro Strait/Mangarin Bay anchorage, 4 January 1945
- Limitations
- Context only: the MARAD card documents the Dyche's loss, not LCI(L)-621's damage - no official record located directly linking the two events. Provides the contemporaneous context for the hull's 4 January 1945 damage, not an asbestos finding.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-621-04
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[5]U.S. Navy photographs held at the U.S. National Archives, Nos. 359825, 359827, 359831, 359834 (captions transcribed in NavSource LCI(L)-621 photo archive) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource 10/15/150621.htm photo table; NARA photo nos. 359825/359827/359831/359834
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- NARA-held U.S. Navy photographs document this hull at Zamboanga, Mindanao Island, Philippines, 1 April 1945: photo 359834 shows LCI(L)-636, LCI(L)-621, LCI(L)-700, LCI(L)-702, LCI(L)-774 and one additional LCI approaching the beach; 359831 shows LCI(L)-634, -636, and -621 approaching; 359825 shows LCI(L)-636 and -621 beaching; 359827 shows LCI(L)-634, -636, and -621 beached. Physical-presence documentation corroborating the Zamboanga landing on the documented campaign date.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1945-04-01
- Population
- Crew and embarked troops at the Zamboanga landing, 1 April 1945
- Limitations
- Archival lead: photographs establish the hull's presence and activity at Zamboanga on 1 April 1945; they carry no material or asbestos content. Photo numbers transcribed via NavSource captions; the NARA catalog is JS-rendered and could not be fetched for independent verification this session.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-621-05
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[6]Historic American Engineering Record (NPS), HAER No. OR-180, LCI(L)-713 - written historical and descriptive data for a sister LCI(L)-351-class hull (compiled 2012) [haer]
- Locator
- HAER OR-180, principal measurements, significance and description sections (pp. 1-3)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- NPS HAER documentation of the LCI(L)-351 class via preserved sister hull LCI(L)-713: Bureau of Ships design; welded 1/4-inch steel plate construction; eight General Motors 6-71 diesel engines (four per shaft) on twin shafts with variable-pitch propellers; approximately 1,051 ships of the type constructed in ten shipyards during WWII; craft of the type were ocean-going infantry carriers designed to land about 200 assault troops directly onto beaches. Hull 621 was launched 25 May 1944 - before the 1 June 1944 changeover to centerline bow ramps documented for later hulls.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1942-1945 (class construction era)
- Population
- LCI(L) construction trades at ten yards; crews class-wide
- Limitations
- Class documentation for a sister hull - establishes design and construction features of the type, not this specific hull's as-built materials. The HAER report contains no statement on asbestos, insulation fiber type, or hazardous materials aboard.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-621-06
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[7]Historic American Engineering Record (NPS), HAER No. AK-52, M/V Husky II (ex-USS LCI(L)-653) - written historical and descriptive data covering the builder of this hull (compiled 2012) [haer]
- Locator
- HAER AK-52, pp. 4-8 (builder history, class design history, footnotes 7-8)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- NPS HAER documentation for LCI(L)-653 - a sister hull built by the same yard as LCI(L)-621 - documents New Jersey Shipbuilding Corporation, Barber, N.J.: incorporated 1942 as a wholly owned subsidiary of Barber Asphalt Corporation to convert the company's Perth Amboy asphalt plant on Arthur Kill into an LCI(L) yard; managed by Todd Shipyards; employed about 2,500 workers; prefabricated hull and deckhouse sections at a factory 14 miles away; produced 375 LCI(L)s - hulls 239-318 (to Britain), 423-657, 782-821, and 866-884 - a production run that includes hull 621; yard dismantled after the war. The report also notes the ex-LCI(L)-653 was 'cleaned of hazardous materials' in a Coast Guard-headed project before her 2010 breakup - hazmat handling documented for a sister hull's disposal, not this hull's.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1942-1945 (yard operation era)
- Population
- New Jersey Shipbuilding workforce (~2,500, 1942-1945); LCI(L) crews class-wide
- Limitations
- Yard- and class-level documentation - does not name hull 621 and contains no statement that asbestos was used in construction. The 'hazardous materials' cleaning note applies to a different hull (653/Husky II) in 2010 and does not identify the materials. The Bureau of Ships 'Detail and Special Specifications' for LCI(L) 351-542 cited by the report is an undigitized archival lead at NHHC.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-621-07
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[8]Era inference built on: NavSource LCI(L)-351-class specification block (GM diesel propulsion, no steam plant); HAER OR-180 class construction description (welded 1/4-inch steel plate); HAER AK-52 builder history; GAO HRD-80-2 program documentation (ev-09) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource specifications block; HAER OR-180 description; HAER AK-52 (construction methods)
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- A diesel-powered welded-steel landing craft built in early 1944 sits inside the Navy's documented asbestos-use era, but the application scope is that of a small auxiliary-type craft, not a steam combatant: era-standard uses aboard this type were diesel-exhaust lagging, machinery gaskets and valve packing, electrical insulation, and limited thermal/fireproofing insulation in the deckhouse and machinery spaces. No boiler or steam-turbine lagging pathway applies - the two GM diesel banks and variable-pitch propellers are the entire propulsion plant.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-1947
- Population
- New Jersey Shipbuilding construction trades (1944); crew (1944-1947); disposal workforce (1947-forward, undocumented)
- Limitations
- Class/era inference only - no hull-specific insulation survey, material list, or work package located for LCI(L)-621. Names era-standard applications, not confirmed installed materials. No quantity. The LCI(L)'s small size, welded-steel minimal construction, and short-occupancy design (48-hour troop capacity) make the plausible scope narrower than for larger hulls - inference should not be overstated either direction.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-621-08
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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 service era (1944-1947).
- 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, confirmed 2026-09-30) - content via product-page description, consistent with prior-batch treatment.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-621-09
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[10]Batch-5344 search ledger (this record): NavSource hull page; NARA Special List 44 ship-numbers PDF; NARA online deck-log index; USS LCI National Association (Honor/Valor/Sacrifice table + Elsie Item No. 109); MARAD vessel history (Lewis L. Dyche); HAER OR-180 and AK-52 (full text); shipbuildinghistory.com NJ yard page; NVR; GAO product page; CourtListener name/hull-number variants; secondary web litigation sweep [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-lci-l-621-01 through sl-uss-lci-l-621-12
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, or docketed case naming LCI(L)-621 was found in the public sources searched (see search_ledger). CourtListener opinion and docket searches on name and hull-number variants returned zero results on all queries run.
- 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 - 1944 wartime construction materials lists for LCI(L)s are not publicly digitized, and this hull's disposal-era records (Maritime Commission file, final buyer/scrapper) were not located. Does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-621-10