Evidence
7 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-7).
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[1]NavSource Online: Amphibious Photo Archive, USS LSIL-655 ex USS LCI(L)-655 - build/disposition timeline, Borneo campaign table, awards block, specifications, photographic record; page history credited to USS LCI 'Landing Craft Infantry' Vol. II (Turner Publishing, 1995) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource 10/15/150655 - history block, campaign table, awards block, specifications block, photo caption 1015065501
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NavSource record for this hull: LCI-351 class; laid down 16 June 1944 at New Jersey Ship Building Corp., Barber, N.J.; launched 19 July 1944; commissioned USS LCI(L)-655, 25 July 1944; assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater during WWII and participated in the Borneo operation - Tarakan Island operation 27 April to 5 May 1945 and Balikpapan operation 26 June to 7 July 1945; decommissioned, date unknown; designation changed to Landing Ship Infantry (Large) LSIL-655, 28 February 1949; struck from the Naval Register, date unknown; final disposition 'fate unknown'. Awards block: American Campaign Medal, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (1), World War II Victory Medal. Specifications: 236 t. light / 264 t. landing / 419 t. loaded; 158'5.5" x 23'3"; armament five single 20mm guns; propulsion two sets of 4 General Motors 6051-series-71 diesel engines, 4 per shaft, single GM main reduction gears, two diesel-drive 30 kW 120 V DC ship's service generators, twin variable-pitch propellers, 2,320 shp; 16 kts max (14 continuous). International radio call sign NPQI. One photograph: LCI(L)-655 at center with USS LCI(L)-1003 and an unidentified LCI discharging troops, date and place unknown, from 'When Victory Is Ours: Letters Home from the South Pacific 1943-1945'.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-1949
- Population
- Ship personnel (identity context only; crew count unverified)
- Limitations
- NavSource transcribes a Turner Publishing history and is not an official Navy record. Its specifications give design complement and troop capacity, not a verified muster for this hull; these figures are excluded from the record. Decommissioning and strike dates and final fate are unknown. No materials or asbestos content is stated. The awards block shows an Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal followed by (1); no separate official award confirmation was located.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-655-lcil655-01
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[2]NARA Special List 44, 'List of Logbooks of U.S. Navy Ships, Stations, and Miscellaneous Units, 1801-1947' - ship-number sequence, PDF page 27: 'LCI(L)-655 7/25/1944 6/30/1945' [other_primary]
- Locator
- sl-44-ship-number.pdf, PDF page 27, 'LCI(L)-655' row (verified against extracted text)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- The official NARA logbook inventory lists Navy deck logs held for this hull covering 25 July 1944 - 30 June 1945 (RG 24, Bureau of Naval Personnel logs, Entry 118). The coverage start coincides exactly with the commissioning date (25 July 1944, per NavSource), corroborating the hull's in-service window from commissioning.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-07-25 to 1945-06-30
- Population
- Ship's officers and crew maintaining logs, 1944-45
- Limitations
- This inventory establishes log coverage dates only, not commissioning or decommissioning dates and not the content of the logs. The 30 June 1945 endpoint falls during the NavSource Balikpapan campaign window, but its cause is unknown. It does not establish asbestos content or individual exposure. The indexed log range does not prove later logs did not exist.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-655-lcil655-02
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[3]U.S. Office of Naval Intelligence, ONI-226 'Allied Landing Craft and Ships' (April 1944), LCI(L)-351-group data table (HyperWar/ibiblio mirror) [other_primary]
- Locator
- ONI-226 PDF, LCI(L)-351 group table and conversion-program notes
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- ONI-226 describes the LCI(L)-351 design group as a steel, diesel-powered infantry landing craft. It supplies class design context, not this hull's installed equipment or crew roster.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944
- Population
- LCI(L)-351-class design crews and troops (class context)
- Limitations
- The April 1944 recognition manual predates this hull and does not name LCI(L)-655. Its crew figure is a design value and is excluded from this hull's complement field. It does not identify asbestos products.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-655-lcil655-03
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[4]DANFS, LCI(L)-513 (NHHC, verified via Firecrawl extraction 2026-09-30 - history.navy.mil was serving empty 404s to plain fetches this session while rendering normally through the scraper): 'laid down on 5 November 1943 at Barber, N.J., by the New Jersey Shipbuilding Corp.' [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS LCI(L)-513 entry, opening paragraph + specifications block
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NHHC's DANFS entry for sister craft LCI(L)-513 (same LCI(L)-351 class) officially documents the New Jersey Shipbuilding Corp., Barber, N.J., yard as a builder of this class - corroborating NavSource's builder attribution for LCI(L)-655, laid down at the same yard on 16 June 1944.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1943-1944
- Population
- New Jersey Shipbuilding construction trades (1943-44), class context
- Limitations
- Sister-craft record used strictly for builder-program corroboration - LCI(L)-513 went to the Mediterranean (Normandy/Dragoon) while 655 went to the Pacific (Borneo); nothing about 655's own service is drawn from this entry. No materials or asbestos content. No individual DANFS entry was located for LCI(L)-655 itself (NHHC page returns 'Page Not Found' - see search_ledger sl-02).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-655-lcil655-04
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[5]NavSource Online, LCI(L)-655 specifications, diesel propulsion section [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource specifications block, propulsion lines
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- The NavSource specifications describe an all-diesel propulsion plant for the LCI-351 class. This makes boiler and steam-turbine materials an inapplicable research pathway for this design. The source does not identify insulation composition or asbestos products on LCI(L)-655.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-1949
- Population
- LCI(L)-351 design context; no hull-specific material or exposure population established
- Limitations
- The listed machinery is class-design information on a hull page. No individual machinery survey or materials list was located. No asbestos material may be inferred as installed aboard this hull from these specifications.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-655-lcil655-05
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[6]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 reviewed asbestos use in Navy ships and worker protection at the Long Beach and Norfolk Naval Shipyards. Its summary says the Navy's 1975 policy replaced damaged asbestos insulation or insulation removed for necessary repairs and that the 1979 policy added selective replacement in high-maintenance areas.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1979
- Population
- Navy shipyard workers; asbestos program review
- Limitations
- Navy-wide policy context from the live GAO product-page summary. It does not name LCI(L)-655, document this hull's materials, or establish a substitution date for its 1944 construction. The full report was not retrieved.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-655-lcil655-06
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[7]Batch-5381 search ledger (this record): NARA SL-44 numbered-vessel PDF; NavSource amphibious archive; NHHC photo-catalog sweep; ONI-226; DANFS LCI(L)-513 (sister craft); NHHC DANFS for this hull (no entry); NARA digitized-logs index; Naval Vessel Register; USS LCI National Association site; secondary web litigation sweep; CourtListener [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-lci-l-655-01 through -12
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No public ship-specific asbestos survey, abatement record, or material list was located in the repositories searched. The prior session's authenticated CourtListener opinion query for "LCI-655" returned zero results; remaining exact-name, hull and LSIL opinion variants and dockets were not searched because the shared fleet limiter refused requests.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 2026-09-30
- Limitations
- This bounded search negative does not prove absence of asbestos, exposure, or litigation. Only the executed "LCI-655" opinion query is a CourtListener no-result; the wider sweep is incomplete, as ledger sl-07 records.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-655-lcil655-07