Evidence
12 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-12).
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[1]research packet 457-packet.md (4 sources cited) [museum_official]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERIFIED
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-lci-l-677-lcil677-pkt-457-packet-md
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[2]NavSource Online: Amphibious Photo Archive, USS LCI(L)-677 (10/15/150677) - milestones, flotilla assignment, occupation service dates, disposition, specifications; history sourced to USS LCI 'Landing Craft Infantry', Vol. II (Turner Publishing, 1995) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource 10/15/150677.htm header block, flotilla assignment line, service/disposition lines, specifications block
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Documented for this hull: laid down 8 April 1944 at George Lawley & Sons, Neponset, MA; launched 18 April 1944; commissioned USS LCI(L)-677, 25 April 1944, LT. C.F. Stroker, USNR in command (May 1945). WWII assignment: Asiatic-Pacific Theater, LCI Flotilla Nineteen (LCDR. E.C. Folger), LCI Group Fifty-Five (LCDR. S.J. Kelley, USNR), LCI Division One Hundred-Ten. Post-war: Occupation Service in the Far East, 8 March - 25 April 1946. Decommissioned date unknown; struck from the Naval Register date unknown; final disposition - destroyed, 14 April 1947. Ribbons: American Campaign Medal; Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal; WWII Victory Medal; Navy Occupation Medal (Asia clasp) - no battle stars recorded. Spec block: displacement 246 t. light / 264 t. landing / 419 t. loaded; length 158' 5.5"; beam 23' 3"; complement 4 officers + 24 enlisted; troop capacity 6 officers + 182 enlisted; five single 20mm guns; two sets of 4 General Motors series-71 diesel engines (4 per shaft), GM main reduction gears, twin variable-pitch propellers, 2,320 shp.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-1947
- Population
- Lawley Neponset construction trades (Apr 1944); crew 1944-46; embarked troops (transient, up to ~188)
- Limitations
- NavSource is a volunteer secondary compilation - its history section is sourced to the Turner Publishing USS LCI Vol. II (1995), not a primary registry; milestone dates are consistent with uboat.net, NavalCoverMuseum, and the Naval Marine Archive table. Decommission and strike dates are explicitly unknown in every located source. No asbestos content. No images of this hull exist in the NavSource archive.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-677-lcil677-01
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[3]NARA, Special List #44: List of Logbooks of U.S. Navy Ships, Stations, and Miscellaneous Units, 1801-1947, by Ship Numbers (RG 24 Bureau of Naval Personnel logs) [other_primary]
- Locator
- sl-44-ship-number.pdf, p. 27 (LCI(L) listing): 'LCI(L)-677 | 4/25/1944 | 6/30/1945'
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Special List 44 (by ship number) lists Navy logbook holdings for LCI(L)-677 covering 25 April 1944 through 30 June 1945 - NARA holds this hull's deck logs for the commissioning-through-June-1945 period.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-04-25 to 1945-06-30 (listed coverage)
- Population
- crew 1944-45 (log subjects); later NARA researchers
- Limitations
- Log-coverage endpoints are holdings boundaries, NOT commissioning/decommissioning dates - the 25 April 1944 begin date coincides with commissioning, but the 30 June 1945 end reflects SL44's 1801-1947 scope/cutoff, not decommissioning (the ship remained in service into 1946). Logs after June 1945 and any rough/smooth distinction are unresolved. The logs themselves are not digitized - physical records at NARA College Park (RG 24, Entry 118, NAID 581208 series).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-677-lcil677-02
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[4]DANFS, Lagarto (SS-371), NHHC (archived Wayback capture 2025-02-03; live NHHC page returned 404 on 2026-09-30) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS Lagarto (SS-371) service narrative, first-war-patrol section
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- The DANFS entry for USS Lagarto (SS-371) names this hull in service context: approaching the Marianas with Haddock (SS-231), the submarines 'reached the Marianas on 4 February [1945]... Escorted in by the large infantry landing craft LCI(L)-677 on 5 February, Lagarto moored in a nest alongside Angler (SS-240) as she lay alongside Fulton (AS-11) in Tanapag Harbor' (Saipan).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1945-02-05
- Population
- crew aboard at Saipan, Feb 1945
- Limitations
- Incidental mention in another vessel's DANFS entry - it documents LCI(L)-677 operating at Saipan on 5 February 1945 (escort/harbor duty), nothing more. No DANFS entry exists for LCI(L)-677 itself (unnamed numbered landing craft; candidate NHHC URL 404s). Archived copy cited because the live NHHC page returned 404 - the underlying text is the same DANFS narrative reproduced in secondary sources. No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-677-lcil677-03
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[5]National Museum of the Pacific War Oral History Collection: Oral History Interview with James Sigrist, April 15, 2011 (OH03227; audio + transcript ark:/67531/metapth1605954), via The Portal to Texas History, UNT Libraries [museum_official]
- Locator
- Portal to Texas History item record OH03227 (Description field); transcript metapth1605954
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- First-person crew account for this hull: James Sigrist reported aboard USS LCI-677 at Norfolk, VA as diesel electrical engineer and supply officer after V-7 midshipman school and General Motors Institute marine-diesel training. Per the museum's interview description: the ship proceeded to San Diego for practice landings with the 4th Marines; was ordered to Pearl Harbor, ferrying liberty parties between Pearl Harbor and Maui for six months; transported the 204th General Hospital to Guam along with twenty-one other LCIs (interview dates this '1944'); encountered a typhoon at Saipan; was subjected to kamikaze attacks at Ulithi; and after the Japanese surrender was sent to Yap. Sigrist returned to the U.S. and was discharged in 1946.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-1946
- Population
- officer crew member (diesel electrical engineer/supply officer), 1944-46
- Limitations
- Oral-history recollection recorded 2011 - first-person but uncorroborated detail. Internal date imprecision: '1944' for the Guam lift postdates a Norfolk-to-Pacific transit and six months of Maui liberty duty after an April 1944 commissioning, so late-1944/1945 is more consistent; the catalog dates are as stated in the interview. Does not establish campaign participation for award purposes (NavSource records no battle stars). No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-677-lcil677-04
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[6]Witness to War Foundation oral-history videos: John Mahmarian, LCI-L 677 (2 segments, WWII/11312 and WWII/11313) [other_primary]
- Locator
- witnesstowar.org combat_stories WWII/11312 and /11313 (Mahmarian LCI-L 677 segments)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- First-person crew account for this hull: John Mahmarian - previously executive officer of LCI(L)-500 at Normandy - joined the crew of a Pacific-bound LCI (interview tagged LCI-L 677) and 'became the skipper of his ship as the war was ending,' per the host's description.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1945-1946
- Population
- officer crew member (commanding officer, late war), 1945-46
- Limitations
- Oral-history recollection; the command succession is unresolved - NavSource lists LT. C.F. Stroker, USNR in command as of May 1945, so Mahmarian's assumption of command was presumably later in 1945, but no muster or document confirms the sequence. Interview keyword tags (Iwo Jima, Ulithi, Yap, etc.) span his full interview series and are not asserted as this hull's campaign record. No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-677-lcil677-05
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[7]Naval Cover Museum (Museum of Naval Cover History): LCI(L) 677 ship page and Covers Page 1 [museum_official]
- Locator
- navalcovermuseum.org/wiki/LCI(L)_677 designation history; USS_LCI(L)-677_Covers_Page_1 (1945-04-09 cover)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Designation/milestone line for this hull - 'USS LCI(L)-677: Commissioned April 25 1944 - Decommissioned (date unknown); Struck from Naval Register (date unknown); Destroyed April 14 1947' - matching NavSource. A censored wartime cover dated 1945-04-09 survives (Locy Type 2z; posted from another ship or station - the ship had no post office). Ribbon list matches NavSource including Navy Occupation Medal (Asia clasp).
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-1947
- Population
- crew 1945 (cover era)
- Limitations
- Philatelic museum record - confirms the milestone line and physical existence of a 1945 cover but adds no service detail; 'date unknown' for decommission/strike corroborates (rather than resolves) the open dates. No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-677-lcil677-06
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[8]Naval Marine Archive (Canadian Collection) ships database: Landing Craft, Infantry (Large) - LCI(L) build-and-disposition table (last updated 2015-05-04) [museum_official]
- Locator
- lcil.html table row LCI(L) 677
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- The Naval Marine Archive's LCI(L) hull table records for this hull: 'LCI(L) 677 - Lawley & Sons - Neponset MA - delivered 25-Apr-44 - Destroyed in Guam 1947.' This supplies the location (Guam) for the 14 April 1947 destruction recorded by NavSource, and corroborates builder and delivery/commissioning date.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-1947
- Population
- disposal crew/personnel at Guam, Apr 1947
- Limitations
- Museum-compiled secondary table; the archive itself cautions that 'disposed of' is short-hand where buyer/use records are unknown. 'Destroyed in Guam 1947' gives location and year only - method (sinking, demolition, burning, grounding) is undocumented in every located source. No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-677-lcil677-07
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[9]Mystic Seaport, G. W. Blunt White Library, Lawley Family Collection (Coll. 279) - business papers of the George Lawley and Son / F.D. Lawley yards at South Boston, Neponset, and Quincy, MA [museum_official]
- Locator
- Coll. 279 finding aid (Abstract and History sections); MIT Museum org record for George Lawley & Son (fetch returned HTTP 429 on 2026-09-30)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- The builder of this hull - George Lawley & Son, Neponset, MA - is documented as a yard that built 'dozens of World War II landing craft' and closed in 1946; the Mystic Seaport collection holds the yard's vessel records, cost sheets, scantlings, wage information, and time sheets - an archival lead for construction-era documentation on this hull.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944 (build window)
- Population
- Lawley Neponset construction trades, 1944
- Limitations
- Yard-level archival collection - the finding aid establishes that Lawley business records survive (vessel records, scantlings, time sheets) but the collection contents are not digitized and no hull-specific document was examined. Secondary literature further describes Lawley as the primary design yard for the LCI(L) program (drawings shared with nine other yards); that design-yard role is secondary-sourced and not asserted as a primary finding here. No asbestos content; George Lawley & Sons is not an Atlas shipyards.json entry.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-677-lcil677-08
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[10]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 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.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-677-lcil677-09
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[11]Era inference built on: NavSource LCI-351-class spec block (GM series-71 diesel plant, twin variable-pitch propellers, diesel-drive 30kW generators); uboat.net LCI-351 class entry (diesel engines, 2 shafts); GAO HRD-80-2 era documentation (ev-09) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource spec block (10/15/150677.htm); uboat.net class/690 and ship/21742; GAO HRD-80-2 product page
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- A diesel-powered LCI-351-class landing craft built April 1944 sits inside the Navy's documented asbestos-use era; era-standard asbestos applications aboard a small diesel landing craft of this type were engine-exhaust and machinery lagging, thermal insulation, gaskets, valve packing, and electrical insulation in the hull's confined spaces. As a diesel craft she carried no boilers or steam plant - the boiler/turbine lagging pathway of steam vessels does not apply, but the confined-space exposure dynamic of a 158-foot, 28-man landing craft applies with full force.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-1947
- Population
- Lawley construction trades (Apr 1944); crew 1944-46; embarked troops (transient); Guam disposal personnel 1947
- Limitations
- Class/era inference only - no hull-specific insulation survey, material list, work package, or builder specification located for LCI(L)-677. Names era-standard applications, not confirmed installed materials. No quantity. Product names are normalized era terms; no manufacturer attribution for this hull.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-677-lcil677-10
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[12]Batch-5405 search ledger (this record): NavSource; NARA SL44 ship-number PDF; NHHC DANFS (no entry for this hull; Lagarto entry mention via Wayback); NMPW/UNT oral history; Witness to War oral history; NavalCoverMuseum; Naval Marine Archive; Mystic Seaport Coll. 279; CourtListener API v4 (4 authenticated queries); secondary web litigation sweep [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-lci-l-677-lcil677-01 through -12
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, abatement record, hazmat disclosure, or litigation naming LCI(L)-677 was found in the public sources searched. CourtListener returned zero results on every query run - "LCI(L)-677" (opinions and dockets), "LCI-677" (dockets), and "LCI 677" asbestos (opinions), all authenticated API v4 on 2026-09-30. A secondary web sweep surfaced only law-firm marketing content asserting asbestos aboard WWII landing ships generally without primary sourcing - excluded by source policy. Note: hull-number collision exists - USS LST-677 (later USS Yolo, APB-43) is a different vessel; searches were evaluated for this collision.
- 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 - a 1944 combat landing craft sits squarely in the documented asbestos era. Deck logs (RG 24, SL44-listed coverage Apr 1944-Jun 1945), builder work records (Mystic Seaport Coll. 279), and any Guam disposal 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-677-lcil677-11