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)-690 - construction milestones, specifications, flotilla assignment, campaigns, awards, disposal (history credited to USS LCI 'Landing Craft Infantry' Vol. II, Turner Publishing, 1995) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource 10/15/150690.htm header block, awards display, LCI-351 class specifications block, photo captions
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Documented for this hull: laid down 17 May 1944 at George Lawley & Sons, Neponset, MA; launched 25 May 1944; commissioned USS LCI(L)-690, 31 May 1944. Assigned Asiatic-Pacific Theater: LCI Flotilla Twenty-Two (CDR Marion M. Byrd, USN). Campaigns: Luzon operation - Lingayen Gulf landing, 4-18 January 1945; Consolidation and capture of Southern Philippines - Mindanao Island landings, 17 April 1945. Occupation service in the Far East 11 September - 9 December 1945. Served as LCI Flotilla Twenty-Two flagship, CDR Philip Porter USN, from 10 October 1945. Decommissioned, date unknown; struck from the Naval Register 8 May 1946; sold 9 November 1946, fate unknown. Received the Navy Unit Commendation for service in Salvage, Fire Fighting, and Rescue Unit, Service Force, 7th Fleet - Philippine Islands area, 6 January - 15 February 1945; two battle stars for WWII service. Call sign NPXG. 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; armament five single 20mm guns; armor 2-inch plastic splinter protection on gun turrets, conning tower and pilot house; propulsion two sets of four General Motors 6051-series-71 diesel engines (four per shaft), GM main reduction gears, two 30kW 120V D.C. ship's-service generators, twin variable-pitch propellers, 2,320 shp.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-1946
- Population
- Construction trades, George Lawley & Sons, Neponset MA (1944); ship's company (4 officers + 24 enlisted) and embarked flotilla staff as flagship (1944-46)
- Limitations
- NavSource is a volunteer secondary compilation - the history section is credited to the Turner Publishing LCI book, not a primary registry; milestone dates corroborated by uboat.net and (for commissioning) by NARA log-coverage start. No commissioning commanding officer is named. Contains no asbestos or material-content information.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-690-lcil690-01
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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 ordering), PDF p. 27 [other_primary]
- Locator
- sl-44-ship-number.pdf p. 27, row 'LCI(L)-690 | 6/1/1944 | 6/30/1945'
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- NARA holds deck logs for this hull indexed as LCI(L)-690, coverage 6/1/1944 - 6/30/1945. The coverage window opens the day after the documented commissioning date (31 May 1944), independently corroborating that milestone; it ends mid-service (the ship was active through at least December 1945 on documented occupation duty) - post-June-1945 logs are not in this index.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-1945 (log coverage)
- Population
- Ship's company and embarked staff (1944-45)
- Limitations
- Index entry only - documents that logs exist and their date coverage, not their contents. The logs themselves are not digitized (RG 24, NARA College Park); no deck-log text was consulted for this record. These are log-coverage dates, not commissioning/decommissioning dates in themselves - the 6/30/1945 end date marks the limit of indexed holdings, not the end of service.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-690-lcil690-02
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[3]NHHC, Navy and Marine Corps Awards Manual (NAVPERS 15,790, rev. 1953), Part 4 'Campaign and Service Medals' - Asiatic-Pacific area operation/credit table (Wayback capture 2023-12-20; live page 404/502 on 2026-09-30) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Pt. 4 table, Asiatic-Pacific Area, P39 'Consolidation of the Southern Philippines' > P39-3 Mindanao Island landings > ship listing 'LCI 690'
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- The official awards manual names this hull in its ship-level credit table: 'LCI 690: 17 Apr 45 - 23 Apr 45' under operation code P39-3 - Mindanao Island landings (including Zamboanga, Malabang-Parang-Cotabato, Davao Gulf, Digos-Santa Cruz-Taloma Bay-Luayon-Cape San Augustin, Macajalar Bay, Sarangani Bay-Balut Island), itself a component of P39 'Consolidation of the Southern Philippines' (28 Feb - 20 Jul 45). This is the Navy's own record of the hull's 17-23 April 1945 participation window.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1945
- Population
- Ship's company during the credited window (17-23 April 1945)
- Limitations
- Official award-credit listing, not an operational narrative - it establishes credited participation dates for a battle star, not what the ship did day-to-day. Cited via Wayback capture: the live history.navy.mil page returned 404 (curl) / 502 (Firecrawl) on 2026-09-30 - standing NHHC link-rot defect since Batch-01. Contains no asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-690-lcil690-03
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[4]NHHC publication: Capt. Charles A. Bartholomew USN (Ret.) & Cdr. William I. Milwee Jr. USN (Ret.), Mud, Muscle, and Miracles: Marine Salvage in the United States Navy (2nd ed., 2009), p. 171 (Wayback capture; live content/dam URL returned empty response 2026-09-30) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Mud, Muscle, and Miracles p. 171, 'Combat Salvage' section, MIKE ONE report extract, 10 January 1945 entry
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- The official Navy salvage history quotes the Salvage and Rescue Group report (Commander Task Group 77.8, CDR Byron S. Huie Jr. USNR) at the MIKE ONE operation, Lingayen Gulf, Luzon, for a ten-day period including: '10 January 1945 - ... Chowanoc retracted LST-567 hard aground and in danger of broaching. Apache placed pumps aboard APD 10. . . . LCI-690 retrieved a broached barge. . . . War Hawk (AP 168) was severely damaged during the night by a small enemy craft apparently carrying a torpedo.' The hull is documented performing combat salvage work at Lingayen Gulf on 10 January 1945 - consistent with her Navy Unit Commendation for Salvage, Fire Fighting, and Rescue Unit service (see ev-01).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1945
- Population
- Ship's company during Lingayen Gulf operations (January 1945)
- Limitations
- Single line-item mention inside a quoted operational report - documents one salvage act on one date, not the unit's full activity. The source is an official NHHC-published monograph quoting a primary report (fn. 18: CTG 77.8 report); the underlying report itself was not consulted. Cited via Wayback capture of the live-dead NHHC URL. Contains no asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-690-lcil690-04
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[5]NavSource-hosted 'History of LCI Flotilla 22' - first-person memoir by J.E. 'Jim' Talbert, President, USS LCI National Association (flotilla staff, communications) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource 10/15/150618f.htm - Flotilla 22 narrative (ship roster; 21 Feb 1945 Subic Bay convoy; 10 Oct 1945 flag transfer; Dec 1945/Jan 1946 wind-down)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- The flotilla memoir names this hull in three operational contexts: (1) ship roster of Flotilla 22 (36 ships, Groups 64/65/66, formed August 1944 from old Flotilla 5); (2) 21 February 1945 - 'Commander Flotilla 22 in 618 with 433, 518, and 690 escorting 60 LCM's, 20 LCVP's and "J" boats of the 594th Engineer Special Brigade and 3 Army Tug Boats and 10 LCT's, proceeded to Subic Bay, Luzon,' where the flotilla based operations for 22 further combat landings (Legaspi 1 Apr, Parang Mindanao 17 Apr landing the 24th Infantry Division, Zamboanga 11 May, Basilan 13 May, among others); (3) 10 October 1945 - 'The Flag was transferred from the 618 to the 690 under the Command of Commander Philip Porter' at Jinsen, Korea, during occupation duty. The flotilla departed for the U.S. in December 1945 'where it was decommissioned in January 1946.'
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-1946
- Population
- Ship's company; embarked Group 66 / Flotilla 22 staff (1944-46)
- Limitations
- Veteran memoir hosted on NavSource - eyewitness association source, not an official record; dates and event sequence broadly corroborated by the NHHC awards manual and NavSource header block. 'Decommissioned January 1946' refers to the flotilla; this hull's own decommissioning date is undocumented (NavSource: date unknown). Contains no asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-690-lcil690-05
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[6]USS LCI National Association (usslci.org), 'The Journal of Arden Lee Hunt, LCI 226' - transcribed contemporaneous crew diary [other_primary]
- Locator
- usslci.org, Hunt journal, 'Dec. 30' [1944] entry
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- A diary kept aboard a sister LCI records this hull in a leadership position at the start of the Luzon invasion run: 30 December 1944, Sansapore - 'We are behind LCI 690, Flag ship of Squad 66. D day is 10 days. Pick other ships up at Leyte. We are going to attack Lozone [Luzon]... Biggest convoy ever in this part of the Pacific.' The entry places LCI(L)-690 as Group 66 flagship in the Sansapore-Leyte-Lingayen convoy on 30 December 1944 - a leadership role predating her documented 10 October 1945 elevation to flotilla flagship.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-1945
- Population
- Ship's company and embarked Group 66 staff (Dec 1944 - Jan 1945)
- Limitations
- Transcribed personal diary on a veterans-association site - eyewitness contemporaneous source, but the transcription's fidelity is unverified against the manuscript and 'Squad 66' is the diarist's wording (the flotilla memoir calls the subunit Group 66). Establishes flagship duty for the group during the Lingayen run; no asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-690-lcil690-06
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[7]Era inference built on: NavSource LCI-351 class spec block (diesel propulsion, 1944 steel-hulled construction at George Lawley & Sons, Neponset MA); GAO HRD-80-2 Navy asbestos-era documentation (see ev-08) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource specifications block (propulsion, armor); GAO HRD-80-2 product page (era context)
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- A steel-hulled diesel-powered landing craft built in May 1944 at George Lawley & Sons, Neponset, MA sits inside the Navy's documented asbestos-use era; era-standard applications aboard a small combatant of this type and period were engine-exhaust and muffler lagging, machinery thermal insulation, gaskets, valve packing, and electrical insulation in the confined hull volume. As a diesel-powered craft she carried no steam plant - the boiler/turbine lagging pathway of steam vessels does not apply, and her '2-inch plastic splinter protection' armor is not an asbestos product. Her flagship service (Group 66, then Flotilla 22) implies additional communications and staff spaces - more wired and insulated volume, same era materials environment.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-1946
- Population
- Construction trades, George Lawley & Sons (1944); engine-room crew and embarked staff (1944-46); unknown disposal handlers (1946)
- Limitations
- Class/era inference only - no hull-specific insulation survey, material list, or work package located for LCI(L)-690. Names era-standard applications, not confirmed installed materials. No quantity. The builder yard (George Lawley & Sons, Neponset MA) has no located asbestos-specific documentation of its own - inference rests on era and Navy practice, not yard records.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-690-lcil690-07
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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 (1944) and service era (1944-1946).
- 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 - standing defect since Batch-01); content via product-page description.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-690-lcil690-08
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[9]uboat.net Allied Warships database, USS LCI(L)-690 (LCI 351 class, ship ID 21755) - construction milestone table [other_primary]
- Locator
- uboat.net ship ID 21755, warship milestone table
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Secondary-compilation corroboration for this hull: laid down 17 May 1944; launched 25 May 1944; commissioned 31 May 1944; 'Sold on 9 November 1946.' George Lawley & Sons (Neponset, Massachusetts) as builder corroborated. All four dates agree with NavSource - no conflicts on this hull.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-1946
- Limitations
- uboat.net is a secondary research compilation with no sourcing displayed per page; used as corroboration only where it agrees with NavSource/NARA - on this hull the agreement is exact. 'Ordered' and 'End service' fields are blank on the uboat.net page. Contains no asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-690-lcil690-09
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[10]Batch-5420 search ledger (this record): NavSource ship page and linked Flotilla 22 memoir; NARA Special List 44 ship-number PDF; NHHC Awards Manual pt. 4 (Wayback); NHHC Mud, Muscle, and Miracles (Wayback); uboat.net milestone table; usslci.org content search (Hunt journal, Elsie Item in-memoriam); NHHC DANFS candidate URLs; NVR; CourtListener API v4 (all designation variants, opinion and docket); secondary web litigation/asbestos sweep; shipyards.json yard check [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-lci-l-690-lcil690-01 through -12
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, or qualifying litigation naming USS LCI(L)-690 was found in the public sources searched (see search_ledger). CourtListener exact-phrase searches for all designation variants returned zero: 'LCI(L)-690' (o: 0; r: 0), 'LCI-690' (o: 0; r: 0), 'LCI 690' (o: 0; r: 0); an unquoted 'LCI(L)-690' opinion query returned 646 fuzzy matches, all acronym collisions on 'LCI' (LCI International telecom, Louisiana Construction & Industry fund, etc.) with no ship-related hits on inspection. Secondary web sweep surfaced no asbestos claim of any kind for this hull - not even law-firm marketing listicles (a George Lawley & Sons asbestos page exists at mesowatch.org, a banned marketing source asserting era-typical yard exposure without primary sourcing - excluded, not evidence for this hull).
- 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 hull was built inside the Navy's asbestos era and was sold to unknown private hands in 1946, leaving no post-service material record and no surviving hull to survey. CourtListener coverage is complete for designation-string searches but cannot reach unindexed PACER filings or state-court complaints that never name the hull verbatim. Deck logs (NARA College Park, 1944-45 coverage verified) and any BuShips construction 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-690-lcil690-10