Evidence
9 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-9).
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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-676-lcil676-pkt-457-packet-md
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[2]NavSource Online: Amphibious Photo Archive, USS LCI(L)-676 - construction, commissioning, campaigns, command structure, disposal (history credited to 'USS LCI Landing Craft Infantry', Vol. II, Turner Publishing 1995) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource 10/15/150676.htm header block, campaign table, specifications block, commanding-officers table, photo caption
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Documented for this hull: LCI-351 Class Landing Craft Infantry (Large); laid down 6 April 1944 at George Lawley & Sons, Neponset, MA; launched 15 April 1944; commissioned USS LCI(L)-676, 22 April 1944, LTjg. H. P. Sisk USNR in command (Commanding Officers table: Sisk from 22 April 1944). WWII Asiatic-Pacific Theater campaigns: Leyte landings 20 October 1944; Lingayen Gulf landing 9 January 1945; assault and occupation of Okinawa Gunto 26 March - 28 June 1945 - at Okinawa under LCI Flotilla Thirteen (CDR M. B. Brown USN), LCI Group Fifty-Seven (LCDR A. J. Ormstom), LCI Division One Hundred-Fourteen. 'USS LCI(L)-676 earned three battle stars for World War II service.' Decommissioned, date unknown; struck from the Naval Register, date unknown; sold 14 November 1946; 'Final Disposition, fate unknown.' IRCS NPUF. Spec block: displacement 236 t. light / 264 t. landing / 419 t. loaded; length 158' 5 1/2"; beam 23' 3"; 16 kts max (14 continuous); complement 4 officers + 24 enlisted; troop capacity 6 officers + 182 enlisted; five single 20mm guns; propulsion - two sets of 4 GM '6051 series 71' diesels (4 per shaft), single GM main reduction gears, two diesel-drive 30kW 120V DC ship's-service generators, twin variable-pitch propellers, 2,320 shp. Photo caption documents LCI(L)-676 nested in anchorage with USS LCI(M)-1023, USS LCI(R)-764, USS LCI(M)-757, date/location unknown.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-1946
- Population
- Lawley construction trades (Apr 1944); ship's company 4 officers + 24 enlisted; embarked troops up to 6 officers + 182 enlisted during Leyte/Lingayen/Okinawa operations
- Limitations
- Ship-specific history only; no asbestos or material content. NavSource is a volunteer secondary compilation crediting the Turner Publishing LCI history - milestone data, not a primary registry; dates here are corroborated by NARA SL-44 (commissioning) and shipbuildinghistory.com (builder/delivery/sale). Decommission and struck dates are explicitly 'date unknown' in the source - carried as unknown, not guessed.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-676-lcil676-01
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[3]Shipbuilding History (Tim Colton), US Navy Small Ships - LCI(L) build table, njscuba.net mirror (canonical shipbuildinghistory.com path 404s; mirror is the live URL) [other_primary]
- Locator
- shipbuildinghistory.njscuba.net/us-navy-small/lcil/ row 'LCI(L)-676'
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Independent build-table corroboration for this hull: 'LCI(L)-676 | Lawley & Sons | Neponset MA | 22 Apr 1944 | sold 1946' - builder, yard location, delivery date (matching the 22 April 1944 commissioning), and 1946 sale. The same table situates the hull inside Lawley & Sons' LCI production block (rows 658-693 sequential at Neponset, March-June 1944).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-1946
- Limitations
- Secondary reference compilation (Tim Colton's shipbuildinghistory.com, njscuba.net mirror - the canonical shipbuildinghistory.com URL returns 404; the mirror is the live site). Its date column is 'delivered' - for these craft delivery coincides with commissioning, but the table does not label it a commissioning date. No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-676-lcil676-02
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[4]NARA Special List 44 - List of Logbooks of U.S. Navy Ships, Stations, and Miscellaneous Units, 1801-1947 (by ship number): LCI(L)-676 logbooks held in RG 24 (Bureau of Naval Personnel entry 118), coverage 4/22/1944 - 6/30/1945 [other_primary]
- Locator
- sl-44-ship-number.pdf, PDF page 27, row 'LCI(L)-676 4/22/1944 6/30/1945'
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- NARA's own finding aid documents a surviving deck-log run for this hull: LCI(L)-676, coverage 4/22/1944 through 6/30/1945. The begin date coincides exactly with her documented commissioning date (22 April 1944) - consistent with a deck log opened at commissioning. These logs are the primary-source lead for her actual steaming history: Leyte, Lingayen, Okinawa-period operations and the crew rosters they embed.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-1945
- Population
- Commissioned crew, Apr 1944 - Jun 1945 log window
- Limitations
- Archival lead only: a finding-aid entry proves the logs exist at NARA, not what they contain. Per the finding aid's nature, coverage endpoints are log-run endpoints, NOT decommissioning or striking dates - the 6/30/1945 end is not evidence she left service then (logs simply were not forwarded beyond that window). Logs are paper holdings; the digitization status of this specific run was not confirmed (catalog.archives.gov is JS-rendered and unfetchable from this session). No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-676-lcil676-03
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[5]HAER OR-180, LCI(L)-713 (Historic American Engineering Record, NPS, Library of Congress) - class design and construction documentation for a Lawley-built sister hull [haer]
- Locator
- HAER OR-180 written historical and descriptive data (4 pp.), tile.loc.gov storage-services PDF
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Federal engineering documentation of the class and builder for this hull: LCI(L)-713 is the LCI-351-class sister of LCI(L)-676, built at the same George Lawley & Son yard at Neponset to the same standard Bureau of Ships design ('a standard design developed by the U.S. Navy's Bureau of Ships'). HAER records the class construction: welded 1/4" steel plate; two decks; engine room containing four pairs of General Motors 6-71 diesel engines connected to two shafts and variable-pitch propellers; deckhouse with troop accommodations, mess, wardroom, galley; enclosed foredeck housing ramp and winch; five single 20mm Oerlikon guns; transport capacity 182 enlisted + 6 officers; ~1,051 ships of the type built in ten U.S. yards during WWII. LCI(L)-713 itself was commissioned September 1944, fought at Zamboanga and Brunei Bay, decommissioned October 1946, sold by the Maritime Commission 1948, and survives as a museum vessel on the National Register.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944 design documentation
- Population
- class-wide construction trades; embarked troop populations class-wide
- Limitations
- Sister-hull documentation, not this hull: HAER documents LCI(L)-713 (keel 7/27/1944) and the class design generally - LCI(L)-676 is not named in it. The HAER text names NO asbestos or insulation material; it cannot support a materials claim for 676 or even for 713. LCI(L)-713 also represents the post-1-June-1944 'modified design' (cylindrical pilothouse, centerline ramp); 676 was completed April 1944 and is of the earlier configuration - ramp/pilothouse details do not transfer.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-676-lcil676-04
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[6]MIT Museum collection record - George Lawley & Son (shipyard, Neponset, Massachusetts) and McInnis-Lawley Collection (Lawley yard plans archive). ARCHIVED COPY cited: live page returns HTTP 429 (Vercel security checkpoint) to automated fetch; Wayback capture 2024-07-22 verified verbatim [museum_official]
- Locator
- Wayback captures: web.archive.org/web/20240722121536/.../organization/1754 (George Lawley & Son) and web/20250517092807/.../collection/mcinnis-lawley-collection ('about 1,700 sheets representing approximately 150 designs'; 'shut down in 1946, after producing hundreds of ships for the World War II effort')
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- The builder of this hull is a documented, extinct yard: MIT Museum's collection record describes George Lawley & Son, Neponset MA, operated by three Lawley generations from the 1860s to the 1940s, builder of yachts and working vessels 'including dozens of World War II landing craft, before closing in 1946.' The McInnis-Lawley Collection at MIT holds roughly 1,700 plan sheets across ~150 Lawley designs - a live archival lead for LCI(L) construction drawings of this hull's own yard. (Lawley was also the LCI(L) primary design yard whose drawings were shared with nine other builders - secondary literature consistent with the museum's role as plan repository.)
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1866-1946 (yard); 1944 (this hull's build)
- Population
- Lawley yard workforce (construction era)
- Limitations
- Builder-level context, not a hull record - the museum page does not name LCI(L)-676. It corroborates that the yard existed at Neponset, built WWII landing craft, and closed in 1946 (after which no yard records program, NIOSH-era survey, or abatement contractor could plausibly exist). The 1,700-sheet plans collection is a lead, not a retrieved source; whether LCI(L) sheets are among them is unverified. Cited URL is a Wayback archive capture (2024-07-22) - the live page is behind a Vercel bot-check returning HTTP 429; archive, not live, is cited per citation hygiene.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-676-lcil676-05
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[7]Era inference built on: NavSource LCI-351 spec block and HAER OR-180 class construction record (welded-steel hull, eight GM 6-71 diesels, variable-pitch props); GAO HRD-80-2 Navy asbestos-use era documentation (see ev-06) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource specifications block; HAER OR-180 description; shipyard-exposure-map era product conventions
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- A welded-steel diesel landing craft built April 1944 sits inside the Navy's documented asbestos-use era; era-standard applications aboard a naval craft of this type and period were thermal insulation and engine/exhaust lagging in the machinery space, gaskets, valve packing, and electrical insulation within the confined hull volume. As a direct diesel-drive craft she carried no steam plant - the boiler/turbine lagging pathway of steam vessels does not apply - but the small-craft confined-space exposure dynamic (28-man crew plus embarked troops in a 158-ft hull) applies.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-1946
- Population
- Lawley construction trades (1944); ship's company + embarked troops (1944-46); unknown post-sale civilian owners/yard crews
- Limitations
- Class/era inference only - no hull-specific insulation survey, material list, work package, or construction drawing was located for LCI(L)-676. Names era-standard applications, not confirmed installed materials. No quantity. Product names are normalized era terms; no manufacturer attribution for this hull. The class's own federal documentation (HAER OR-180) names no asbestos either way.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-676-lcil676-06
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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 1944) and Navy service era (1944-46).
- 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 or to landing craft. Full text not retrieved (gao.gov returns HTTP 403 to automated fetch, confirmed 2026-09-30 - same standing defect as prior batches); content via product-page description.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-676-lcil676-07
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[9]Batch-5404 search ledger (this record): NavSource live fetch; shipbuildinghistory.com mirror; NARA Special List 44 full PDF; HAER OR-180 + NRHP nomination (LCI(L)-713); MIT Museum; CourtListener API (all name variants, opinions + dockets, zero); DANFS structural check; NVR; usslci.org; secondary web litigation/asbestos sweeps [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-lci-l-676-lcil676-01 through -12
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, litigation, or museum/restoration material report naming USS LCI(L)-676 was found in the sources searched. CourtListener (authenticated API, 2026-09-30) returned ZERO hits for every name/hull variant in both indexes - '"LCI(L)-676"', '"LCI-676"', '"LCIL-676" OR "LCI 676"' (opinions) and '"LCI(L)-676" OR "LCI-676"' (dockets). Secondary web sweeps surfaced no qualifying case and - notably - no law-firm marketing claim naming this specific hull (the hull is too obscure for the listicle mills; nothing to exclude on source-policy grounds).
- 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 RG 24 deck-log run (4/22/1944-6/30/1945), any Bureau of Ships construction drawings (MIT's McInnis-Lawley collection is the lead), and the 1946 sale/disposal contract are undigitized leads. Does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-676-lcil676-08