Evidence
10 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-10).
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[1]research packet 457-packet.md (3 sources cited) [other_primary]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERIFIED
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-lci-l-674-lcil674-pkt-457-packet-md
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[2]NavSource Online Amphibious Photo Archive, USS LSIL-674 ex USS LCI(M)-674 ex USS LCI(L)-674 hull page (history compiled from USS LCI 'Landing Craft Infantry', Vol. II, Turner Publishing, 1995, ISBN 1-56311-262-0) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Hull page, history text, campaign table, specifications block, and image table
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- LCI-351-class Landing Craft Infantry (Large): laid down 31 March 1944 at George Lawley and Son, Neponset, MA; launched 8 April 1944; commissioned USS LCI(L)-674, 15 April 1944. Assigned to the Europe-Africa-Middle East Theater and participated in the Invasion of southern France, 15 August-25 September 1944 (a hull-page photograph shows LCI(L)-234, LCI(L)-674 and LCI(L)-562 moored at Ratonneau Island off the southern coast of France, 30 August 1944). Reclassified Landing Craft Infantry (Mortar) LCI(M)-674, 5 May 1945. Post-war reassigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater; occupation duty in the Far East 18 November 1945-2 April 1946 (a second photograph shows LCI(M)-674 and LCI(M)-353 moored to a barge at Taura, Japan, December 1945). Decommissioned 15 August 1946 at Algiers, LA. Reclassified Landing Ship Infantry (Large) LSIL-674, 14 November 1949. Struck from the Naval Register, date unknown. Sold 13 December 1950; final disposition 'fate unknown'. Earned one battle star for World War II service.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-1950
- Population
- Crew (4 officers / 24 enlisted as LCI(L); 4 / 49 as LCI(M)); embarked troops (up to 6 officers / 182 enlisted)
- Limitations
- Compiled secondary history (Turner Publishing) hosted by NavSource, not an official Navy record - no individual DANFS entry exists for this hull. Strike date and post-sale fate are unrecorded there. Photograph captions are privately-sourced submissions (J. Gilmartin via D. Blocker; P. Bolinger, a 1945-46 crew member; J. Ratomski), not official photo-catalog records. Contains no asbestos information.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-674-lcil674-01
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[3]NARA Special List 44, 'List of Logbooks of U.S. Navy Ships, Stations, and Miscellaneous Units, 1801-1947' - ship-number sequence, PDF page 19: 'LCI(L)(M)-674 4/15/1944 6/30/1945' [other_primary]
- Locator
- sl-44-ship-number.pdf, PDF page 19, 'LCI(L)(M)-674' row (verified against extracted text)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- The official NARA logbook inventory lists Navy deck logs held for this hull (under the combined designation LCI(L)(M)-674) covering 15 April 1944 - 30 June 1945 (RG 24, Bureau of Naval Personnel logs, Entry 118). The coverage start coincides exactly with the commissioning date (15 April 1944, per NavSource), corroborating the hull's in-service window from commissioning; the window spans the southern-France campaign and the May 1945 LCI(M) reclassification.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-04-15 to 1945-06-30
- Population
- Ship's officers and crew maintaining logs, 1944-45
- Limitations
- Establishes that deck logs exist at NARA and their coverage dates only - it is an inventory record, not the logs' contents. Coverage ends 30 June 1945, before the documented Far-East occupation service (from November 1945) and the August 1946 decommissioning: the endpoint reflects which logbooks were turned in and retained, not the end of operations. Does not establish asbestos content, locations served, or any individual exposure. The hull's logs do not appear in NARA's published digitized-logs index (see search_ledger sl-06).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-674-lcil674-02
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[4]HyperWar (ibiblio) mirror, 'Ships of the U.S. Navy, 1940-1945 - Landing Ships and Craft', LCI(L)-351 class and LCI(M) rosters [other_primary]
- Locator
- ships-lc.html, LCI(L)-351 class roster line 'LCI(L)-673-674' and LCI(M) roster line 'LCI(M)-673-674'
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Official-era ship list (HyperWar mirror) rosters LCI(L)-674 among the LCI(L)-351 class (line 'LCI(L)-673-674', commissioned 1942-44 block) and lists LCI(M)-674 under the 1945 Landing Craft, Infantry (Mortar) conversions (line 'LCI(M)-673-674'), corroborating the hull's existence in both designations.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1940-1945
- Limitations
- Transcription mirror of an official-era compilation; roster entry only - gives designation and year, no detail. Confirms the LCI(M) conversion listing but not the exact reclassification date, and predates the 1949 LSIL redesignation (which appears in no wartime-era roster).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-674-lcil674-03
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[5]Historic American Engineering Record (NPS), HAER No. OR-180, 'LCI(L)-713' written historical and descriptive data (2012) [haer]
- Locator
- HAER OR-180 data pages (description, measurements, historical information)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- HAER documents the LCI-351 class design - a Bureau of Ships standard design built of welded 1/4-inch steel plate, powered by eight General Motors 6-71 diesel engines, built to discharge a company of troops directly onto beaches - using LCI(L)-713, a sister hull built at the same George Lawley & Son yard, Neponset, MA, as the recorded example. Approximately 1,051 ships of the type were built at ten different shipyards during World War II.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1943-1946 (class)
- Limitations
- Sister-hull documentation: HAER OR-180 names LCI(L)-713, not this hull, and contains no asbestos information. It establishes class design and the shared builder (all-diesel propulsion, no steam plant or boilers) only - material composition aboard LCI(L)-674 specifically is not documented by this source.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-674-lcil674-04
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[6]Era inference built on: HAER OR-180 class design (welded steel hull, all-diesel plant - no boilers); NavSource specifications block (two sets of 4 GM 6051-series-71 diesels, 4 per shaft, 2,320 shp, twin variable-pitch propellers); GAO HRD-80-2 (asbestos use in Navy ships; selective substitution policy as late as 1975-79 - see ev-06); NAVSEA qualified-products asbestos categories (see ev-07) [other_primary]
- Locator
- HAER OR-180 class record; NavSource specifications block; GAO HRD-80-2 product page; NAVSEA asbestos QPL table
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- A 1944-built welded-steel landing craft of this class carried an all-diesel plant - the boiler/steam-line lagging pathway of larger combatants does not apply. Era-standard applications aboard a small diesel warship of this period were diesel-exhaust and muffler/manifold lagging, machinery-space thermal/acoustic insulation, gaskets and valve/flange packing, electrical insulation, and deck covering.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-1950
- Population
- George Lawley & Son construction trades (1944); wartime crew; southern-France embarked troops; postwar occupation crew; LSIL-era crew through 1950 disposal
- Limitations
- Class/era inference only - no hull-specific material list, survey, or work package located for this craft. Small diesel landing craft carried far less installed insulation than steam vessels; era-standard applications are named, not confirmed installed aboard this hull. No quantity.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-674-lcil674-05
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[7]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's review covered the use of asbestos in Navy ships (with shipyard fieldwork at Long Beach and Norfolk Naval Shipyards) and documented that Navy policy substituted nonasbestos material only selectively: the 1975 policy was to remove and replace insulation with nonasbestos materials only where damaged or where removal was needed for repairs, modified in 1979 to selective replacement in high-maintenance areas. No general asbestos substitution existed during this hull's construction (1944) and documented service era (through sale in 1950).
- 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, and the fieldwork yards did not include this hull's builder. Product-page highlights retrieved via Firecrawl render (gao.gov returns HTTP 403 to direct fetch); the 26-page full report PDF was not retrieved, so findings beyond the highlights are not asserted.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-674-lcil674-06
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[8]Naval Sea Systems Command FOIA Reading Room, 'Asbestos Related Files' - Navy qualified-products lists (QPLs) for asbestos material categories [other_primary]
- Locator
- NAVSEA FOIA Reading Room > Asbestos, QPL subject table
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- The Navy's own posted asbestos reading room lists qualified-products specifications covering asbestos insulation felt (thermal, asbestos fiber), metallic-asbestos spiral-wound gaskets, asbestos rod packing (high pressure, symbol 1100), compressed asbestos gasket sheet, thermal-insulation pipe covering, insulation block, deck covering materials, and cable stuffing-tube packing - the Navy-specified asbestos product categories of the fleet era.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1949-1996 (posted QPL dates)
- Population
- Navy-wide (context)
- Limitations
- Program-level document list: no hull is named and no product is tied to LCI(L)-674. Nearly all listed QPLs postdate this hull's 1944-1950 service (earliest posted listing dated 1949-01-01, most 1951-1996), so the page demonstrates Navy-specified asbestos product categories across the period rather than installation aboard this craft. Page blocks direct automated fetch (HTTP 403); content retrieved via Firecrawl scrape 2026-09-30.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-674-lcil674-07
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[9]U.S. National Archives, 'Researching Asbestos aboard US Naval Vessel up through 1961' (research guide to RG 19, Bureau of Ships records) [other_primary]
- Locator
- archives.gov guided-topic page, RG 19 correspondence series listing (Entries A1 1266-A through -N, P; UD series 1947-61)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- NARA's official guide for documenting asbestos aboard U.S. naval vessels (1941-1961) routes hull-level research to Record Group 19 (Bureau of Ships) correspondence filed by ship designation and hull number - for this hull, LCI(L) 674 / class correspondence - and to builder-yard files under the 'QM' private-contractor filing code (QM/George Lawley & Son).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1941-1961
- Limitations
- Research pathway only: the guide identifies where hull-specific asbestos documentation would sit but contains no data on this vessel. The RG 19 hull-designation correspondence for LCI(L)-674 has not been examined - it is not digitized in public sources.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-674-lcil674-08
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[10]Batch-5402 search ledger (this record): NavSource hull page and LCI index; NHHC/DANFS for hull and sister LCI(L)-713; NARA SL-44 logbook inventory and digitized-logs index; HyperWar official-list mirror; HAER OR-180; NAVSEA FOIA asbestos reading room; GAO HRD-80-2; NARA asbestos research guide; CourtListener opinion and docket search; shipyards.json yard dataset; secondary web sweep [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-lci-l-674-lcil674-01 through -12
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, crew exposure study, or docketed case naming LCI(L)-674 / LCI(M)-674 / LSIL-674 was found in the public sources searched (see search_ledger). CourtListener returned count=0 on both the opinion and RECAP docket indexes for all four designation forms. The hull was sold out of Navy custody in 1950 and its fate is unrecorded, so no extant-vessel survey or museum disclosure exists to draw on.
- 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 - wartime construction at a civilian yard inside the Navy's documented asbestos era is consistent with at least era-standard materials (gaskets, packing, localized insulation) aboard Navy craft of the period including small diesel landing craft. Does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility. An OCR-variant CourtListener query remained fleet-budget-blocked at drafting - see search_ledger sl-09.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-674-lcil674-09