Evidence
18 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-18).
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[1]research packet 462-packet.md (1 sources cited) [other_primary]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERIFIED (identity) — real identity: USS LCI(L)-711 | Hull: LCI(L)-711 | Designation: LCI(L) | Type: Landing Craft Infantry
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-lci-l-711-lcil711-pkt-462-packet-md
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[2]NavSource Online: Amphibious Photo Archive, USS LCI(L)-711 - construction timeline, campaign table, awards, specifications, disposal (history credited to 'USS LCI Landing Craft Infantry', Vol. II, Turner Publishing, 1995) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource 10/15/150711.htm class header, campaign table, awards ribbon block, specifications block, and photo caption table (Zamboanga Red Beach Two, 10 March 1945)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Documented for this hull: LCI-351 class Landing Craft Infantry (Large); laid down 20 July 1944 at George Lawley & Son, Neponset, MA; launched 26 July 1944; commissioned USS LCI(L)-711 on 7 August 1944. Assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater; campaign table credits the Consolidation and Capture of Southern Philippines - Mindanao Island landings 10 March 1945 and Sulu Archipelago landings 2-4 and 9-11 April 1945. One battle star for WWII service. Decommissioned and stricken dates unknown; transferred to the Maritime Commission 3 February 1947; final disposition fate unknown. Specs: 246 t. light / 264 t. landing / 419 t. loaded; 158'5.5" x 23'3"; two sets of 4 GM 6051-series-71 diesels (4 per shaft), single GM main reduction gears, twin variable-pitch propellers 2,320 shp; 16 kts max; complement 4 officers + 24 enlisted; troops 6 officers + 182 enlisted; five single 20mm gun mounts; radio call sign NQFI. Photo caption documents USS LCI(L)-711 and USS LCI(L)-713 beached on Red Beach Two, Zamboanga, Mindanao, 10 March 1945 (photo by PHom1/c Ken Kracht).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-1947
- Population
- Lawley construction trades (1944); crew (28) and embarked troops (up to 188) 1944-45
- Limitations
- NavSource is a volunteer secondary compilation, not a primary registry - its history text is credited to the published USS LCI association history (Turner, 1995) rather than to NHHC; construction milestones are corroborated by the Lawley yard table and uboat.net, and the campaign credits by the 1953 Navy-MC Awards Manual (ev-03). Decommissioned/stricken dates and post-1947 fate are unknown even to this source. The spec block reads 246 t. light while sister-hull pages carry 236 t. - a transcription variant, not reconciled. Contains no asbestos content. Page verified live at research time (navsource.net is the surviving domain; navsource.org is dead).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-711-lcil711-01
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[3]Naval History and Heritage Command, artifact record 'Ensign, USS LCI(L)-711, Leyte Landings', accession NHHC 2006-60-1, Headquarters Artifact Collection [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- Artifact record body text; accession line 'NHHC 2006-60-1'; description paragraph and design/insignia paragraph
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NHHC holds the 48-star national ensign flown aboard LCI(L)-711 during the landings on Leyte in October 1944 (accession NHHC 2006-60-1). The catalog text states LCI(L)-711 'was one of the later constructed LCIs, designed with a slightly elevated, round conning tower and a bow ramp for troop deployment,' that her painted insignia was two pairs of dice (one 5-2, one 5-6) on the conning tower, and that the LCI(L) type carried about 200 troops and 22 crew. The page documents the ship's presence in the Leyte landings of October 1944 as an official Navy artifact description.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944 (artifact event); 2020 (page published)
- Population
- Crew and embarked troops at the Leyte landings (October 1944)
- Limitations
- An artifact catalog record, not a unit history - it establishes that this ensign flew aboard during the October 1944 Leyte landings and describes the modified late-production configuration, but Leyte does not appear in the hull's official campaign-credit line (ev-03): presence documented, campaign credit not awarded. The rounded '200 troops and 22 crew' differs from the spec-block 188 troops / 28 crew - figures not merged. Contains no asbestos or materials information.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-711-lcil711-02
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[4]Navy and Marine Corps Awards Manual (rev. 1953), Part IV, Section 2 - Campaign and Service Medals, Asiatic-Pacific Area P39 'Consolidation of the Southern Philippines' vessel participation listing (NHHC online reading room) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- pt4-campaign-service-medals.html, Asiatic-Pacific P39 vessel table, 'LCI 711' row; P39/P39-3/P39-4 definitions in the same table header
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- The official 1953 awards manual credits LCI 711 with three engagement participations under campaign P39, Consolidation of the Southern Philippines (28 Feb - 20 Jul 1945): 10 March 1945 under engagement code P39-3 (Mindanao Island landings, including Zamboanga), and 2-4 April 1945 plus 9-11 April 1945 under P39-4 (Sulu Archipelago landings - spelled 'Zulu Archipelago' in the manual text - including Sanga Sanga, Tawi Tawi, and Jolo).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1945-03-10 to 1945-04-11 (credited windows)
- Population
- Crew and embarked troops, March-April 1945
- Limitations
- Official engagement-credit listing, not a narrative history - it documents credited participation windows, not day-by-day positions; the same credits appear in NavSource's campaign table. It is silent on Leyte (the ensign artifact documents October 1944 presence there without a campaign credit - see ev-02). Contains no asbestos or materials information.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-711-lcil711-03
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[5]NARA Special List 44, List of Logbooks of U.S. Navy Ships, Stations, and Miscellaneous Units, 1801-1947 - ship-number edition, p. 27: 'LCI(L)-711 9/1/1944 6/30/1945' [other_primary]
- Locator
- sl-44-ship-number.pdf, PDF page 27, LCI(L) block, line 'LCI(L)-711 9/1/1944 6/30/1945' (verified by pdftotext extraction)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- NARA Special List 44 lists Navy logbook coverage for LCI(L)-711 running 1 September 1944 through 30 June 1945 - deck logs for this hull are extant in RG 24 (Entry 118). The 6/30/1945 end date is the list's shared WWII-era holdings bound; the 9/1/1944 start postdates the documented commissioning (7 August 1944) by about three weeks, so coverage does not necessarily begin at commissioning for this hull - earlier logs may be in other series or unlocated.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-09-01 to 1945-06-30 (coverage)
- Population
- Ship's company and embarked personnel logged 1944-09-01 to 1945-06-30
- Limitations
- Log-coverage endpoints are holdings bounds only, not service dates - the start here is nearly a month after commissioning and the end is a shared list cutoff (the ship was still operating in 1945-47). Whether this hull's logs are digitized in the NARA catalog is unverified. Deck logs record movements, weather, and personnel - not materials; they are the retrieval path for day-by-day service detail. No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-711-lcil711-04
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[6]Shipbuilding History, George S. Lawley & Sons, Neponset MA yard table (updated 25 January 2019) - hull-by-hull production list [other_primary]
- Locator
- shipbuildinghistory.com/shipyards/yachtsmall/lawley.htm, Contract Award 30-Jun-43 block, hull row 1512
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- The Lawley yard production table records LCI(L) 711 as yard hull number 1512 under Navy Contract Award of 30 June 1943, type 'Landing Craft' (216d/158-ft series), delivered 7-Aug-44, disposition 'Sold 1947?' - corroborating the NavSource construction/commissioning sequence and roughly corroborating the 3 February 1947 Maritime Commission transfer.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1943-1947
- Population
- Lawley construction trades (1943-44)
- Limitations
- Secondary private compilation (long-standing shipyard reference), not a primary registry - it independently corroborates NavSource but is not itself authoritative. The 'Sold 1947?' disposition carries the source's own question mark - post-transfer fate unconfirmed. Delivery date equals NavSource's commissioning date (delivery and commissioning same day). No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-711-lcil711-05
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[7]uboat.net Allied Warships, USS LCI(L)-711 (LCI(L)-711), ship/21776 - data sheet [other_primary]
- Locator
- ship/21776.html data sheet (class, builder, laid down, launched, commissioned)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Independent warship-record compilation for this hull: LCI 351 class landing craft infantry; built by George Lawley & Sons (Neponset, Massachusetts); laid down 20 July 1944; launched 26 July 1944; commissioned 7 August 1944. Ordered, end-service, history, and command fields are blank - no events or commanding officers listed.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944
- Population
- Crew 1944-47
- Limitations
- Secondary research compilation; corroborates the NavSource/Lawley milestone dates but adds no operational history for this hull (events, COs, and disposal fields empty). Not a primary registry; contains no asbestos or materials information.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-711-lcil711-06
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[8]USS Landing Craft Infantry National Association, 'Elsie Item' No. 92 (November 2015), pp. 9-10 - 'Battlefield: Leyte Gulf, Operation King Two' article quoting Russell W. Hartwell, 'Amphibious Assault Landing Craft - USS LCI(L) 711' (Castle Publishers, 1992) [other_primary]
- Locator
- ELSIEITEM-92-Nov-2015.pdf, pp. 9-10, Hartwell quote block and photo captions
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- The LCI veterans' association journal quotes from the ship-specific memoir 'Amphibious Assault Landing Craft - USS LCI(L) 711' by signalman Russell Worden Hartwell (p. 55): 'as fast as you could look around at different places in the convoy, you could see Jap suicide planes crashing into American ships or into the sea […] as soon as we would get into our bunks, general quarter's alarm would sound and we would have to rush back to our battle stations' - a firsthand crew account of kamikaze attack conditions during the Leyte-period convoy operations. The same issue carries the NavSource conning-tower photo of this hull and a crew photo of Hartwell (p. 160 of the memoir).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-45 (memoir period); journal published 2015
- Population
- Crew of LCI(L)-711 (1944-45); signalman R.W. Hartwell
- Limitations
- Secondhand quotation of a self-published veteran memoir (Castle Publishers, 1992 - verified in bibliographic listings; the memoir itself was not directly consulted). Documentary evidence of crewed wartime service aboard this hull at Leyte-era operations; page-level attribution comes from the journal's excerpts. No asbestos or materials content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-711-lcil711-07
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[9]USS LCI National Association / Amphibious Forces Memorial Museum, 'Elsie Item Deck Log' No. 117 (June 2022), p. 6 - 'Recognition for a Life Well Lived' [other_primary]
- Locator
- 2022JuneELSIEDeckLog(117).pdf, p. 6, 'Recognition for a Life Well Lived' list
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- The association journal's June 2022 'Recognition for a Life Well Lived' column lists 'Harold Laabs MoMM3/c of the LCI(L) 711 age 101 this year' among its oldest living members - documentation of a named Motor Machinist's Mate (3rd class) who served aboard this hull, an engine-room rating, still living as of 2022.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 2022 (journal issue); wartime service period referenced
- Population
- Crew of LCI(L)-711 (wartime)
- Limitations
- Association-journal member note, not a service record - documents that a named veteran served aboard this hull in an engine-room rating, nothing more; it says nothing about materials, asbestos, or any health outcome. No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-711-lcil711-08
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[10]G. W. Blunt White Library, Mystic Seaport Museum - Lawley Family Collection, Coll. 279 (1839-1990, ca. 500 items) [museum_official]
- Locator
- Coll. 279 collection overview, Abstract and Scope/Content (series descriptions)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- The Lawley Family Collection holds the business papers of George Lawley and Son (South Boston/Neponset yards) including vessel records, cost sheets, scantlings, owners, wage information, lists, time sheets, and petitions - the likeliest surviving archive of build and material documentation for the Neponset yard that built this hull (yard hull 1512). The collection history confirms George Lawley & Son worked for the U.S. Navy from 1901 and operated at Neponset until its demise in 1946.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1839-1990 (collection); relevant era 1943-46
- Population
- Lawley yard trades and records, to 1946
- Limitations
- Archival lead only: the collection scope is described at series level; whether it retains hull-1512-specific construction or material lists is undetermined without a finding-aid pull or site visit. A yard archive is evidence about the builder, not documentation of materials installed aboard this hull. No asbestos content in the catalog description itself.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-711-lcil711-09
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[11]Historic American Engineering Record, LCI(L)-713, HAER No. OR-180 (National Park Service; data compiled by Justine Christianson, 2012) - written historical and descriptive data for a same-design sister hull [haer]
- Locator
- or0606data.pdf, HAER No. OR-180 data pages 1-3 (Description, Historical Information, Principal Measurements)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- HAER OR-180 documents sister hull LCI(L)-713 (Lawley, Neponset - keel laid 27 July 1944, one week after this hull) as the last surviving LCI-351-class craft in original configuration: an NPS-documented example of the same BuShips standard design as this hull, the post-1-June-1944 modified configuration with cylindrical pilothouse and centerline bow ramp (matching NHHC's 'later constructed LCIs' description of LCI(L)-711). Construction of welded 1/4-inch steel plate; eight GM 6-71 diesels; ~1,051 of the type built across ten yards. The sister hull went to the same campaign beach (photographed with 711 at Zamboanga, Red Beach Two, 10 March 1945) and served in LCI Flotilla 24, U.S. Seventh Fleet Amphibious Force (Task Force 78).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-45 (subject era); HAER compiled 2012
- Population
- LCI-351-class crews and embarked troops (class context)
- Limitations
- Sister-hull engineering documentation, not a record of this hull - design commonality is established (same class, same yard, keels one week apart, same modified configuration) but nothing in HAER OR-180 addresses this hull specifically, and its four-page data sheet contains no asbestos or materials-list content. LCI(L)-711's own flotilla assignment is not stated in any located source - the shared-beach photograph and identical campaign credits place her alongside Flotilla 24's LCI(L)-713 but do not document her flotilla number.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-711-lcil711-10
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[12]Naval History and Heritage Command, National Museum of the U.S. Navy - 'Landing Craft Infantry (Large)-10 (USS LCI(L)-10)' photography page carrying the NHHC class description of the LCI(L) type [museum_official]
- Locator
- Page lead paragraph (class description) under the LCI(L)-10 entry
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NHHC's National Museum of the U.S. Navy describes the LCI(L) type: 'Navy-designed (LCI) craft were launched by the hundreds. On the first version soldiers debarked by means of catwalks and ramps, but the later ones eliminated the ramps and used bow doors instead. The same hull was modified into mortar, gunboat and rocket versions to give direct fire support for amphibious assaults; others were altered for us as landing craft flotilla flagships. The 157 foot craft could make speeds up to 14 knots, had a crew of 24 officers and men, and four 20mm guns for armament.'
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- WWII (class description)
- Population
- LCI(L) crews and embarked troops (class context)
- Limitations
- Class-level description published on a sister hull's page, not LCI(L)-711-specific. Rounded class figures (157 ft, four 20mm guns, crew of 24) differ slightly from the detailed spec transcription for this hull (158 ft 5.5 in, five 20mm mounts, 4 officers + 24 enlisted) - variants not reconciled. Contains no materials or asbestos information.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-711-lcil711-11
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[13]GAO, Navy's Efforts To Protect Workers From Asbestos Exposure, HRD-80-2 (October 18, 1979) [gao]
- Locator
- HRD-80-2 letter text, 'Navy's Policy on Use of Asbestos' section and findings summary
- Finding type
- gov_survey
- Finding
- GAO documented that asbestos thermal insulation was 'the Navy's major use of asbestos aboard ships,' that 'all ships contain some asbestos in such components as clutches and electric cables,' and that product specifications were not revised to asbestos-free thermal insulation until 1973 (elimination policy October 1975) - meaning every WWII-era hull, including this 1944 landing craft, was built decades before the substitution era, and older ships 'contain large quantities of asbestos.'
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1979 (report); describes pre-1973 construction era
- Population
- Navy shipyard workers; asbestos program review (era context)
- Limitations
- Program-level documentation; supports era context only, not any fact specific to this hull - HRD-80-2 surveyed Long Beach and Norfolk Naval Shipyards and 1970s-construction hulls, not WWII landing craft. A diesel-powered LCI had far less insulation scope than steam combatants; the report does not segment by vessel type. Full text retrieved via Firecrawl PDF extraction at research time.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-711-lcil711-12
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[14]Corn JK, Starr J, 'Historical perspective on asbestos: policies and protective measures in World War II shipbuilding,' American Journal of Industrial Medicine 11(3):359-373 (1987); PMID 3555021 [other_primary]
- Locator
- PubMed abstract, PMID 3555021
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Peer-reviewed scholarship documents that asbestos was used extensively as a fireproofing and insulating material in U.S. shipbuilding in the 1940s - the era and program under which this 1944 naval landing craft was built - and that World War II industrial expansion produced an unprecedented rise in the amount of asbestos utilized; asbestos diseases later manifested among thousands of shipyard workers and others exposed in the 1940s and postwar period.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1940s era documented; article 1987
- Population
- WWII shipyard workers and ship crews (class context)
- Limitations
- Program/era-level documentation of asbestos use in WWII shipbuilding generally; does not name this vessel or the LCI(L) type and does not establish that asbestos was aboard this hull, nor quantity, location, condition, exposure, or causation.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-711-lcil711-13
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[15]USS Landing Craft Infantry National Association, 'Elsie Item' No. 98 (September 2017), p. 8 - excerpt from 'Monster Seven-Seven' by LCDR R. William Clark, LCI(G)-77 [other_primary]
- Locator
- ELSIEITEM-98-Sep-2017.pdf, p. 8, 'Monster Seven-Seven' excerpt
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- A firsthand veteran memoir of the LCI-family gunboat LCI(G)-77 records asbestos gloves kept at a 20mm gun mount as shipboard equipment: 'I got asbestos gloves from a 20 mm mount to use in picking up burning rockets rolling around in the fire and threw them over the side.' Documentary evidence that asbestos personal-protective equipment was carried aboard the WWII LCI type - the same craft family and 20mm armament fit as this hull.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-45 (memoir period); published 2017
- Population
- LCI-family gun crews (era context)
- Limitations
- LCI(G)-77 is a sister-type gunboat conversion, not LCI(L)-711 - class/era evidence only, not a hull finding. The passage names the equipment item (asbestos gloves) but nothing about insulation or other asbestos aboard; it documents one PPE application aboard the type, not quantity or extent.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-711-lcil711-14
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[16]LCI(L)-711 specification transcription (2 sets of 4 GM 6051-series-71 diesels, 4 per shaft; 2,320 shp; 30 kW diesel-driven generators; 860 bbl diesel) per NavSource Amphibious Photo Archive, corroborated by the same spec block across sister-hull pages of the class and by HAER OR-180's 'eight General Motors 6-71 diesel engines' for sister LCI(L)-713 [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource USS LCI(L)-711 page, 'Specifications' block (propulsion section); HAER OR-180 propulsion line
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- The LCI(L)-351 class was a diesel-powered beaching craft: the specification transcribed for this hull records eight GM 6051-series-71 diesel engines (four per shaft) with twin variable-pitch propellers and diesel-driven service generators - no boilers and no steam system. The era's dominant shipboard asbestos applications (boiler and steam-line lagging) were therefore absent by design on this craft type; residual era-typical candidate materials on a diesel landing craft (engine-exhaust/muffler lagging, gaskets, packing, electrical insulation, joiner and deck materials, coatings) are not documented for this hull.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-1947
- Population
- Engine-room crew (diesel machinery spaces); construction trades (Lawley, 1944)
- Limitations
- The diesel configuration is documented; the asbestos-relevant material content aboard is not. Absence of boilers/steam removes the largest era-typical asbestos mass, but era-typical smaller applications (exhaust lagging, gaskets, electrical insulation, coatings) are plausible and undocumented - this row bounds the inference, it does not establish presence or absence. The specification block is an unofficial archive transcription; no BuShips materials list for this hull was located.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-711-lcil711-15
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[17]Batch-5443 search ledger (this record): NavSource amphibious archive; NHHC artifact record NHHC 2006-60-1; NHHC 1953 Awards Manual P39 listing; NARA Special List 44 ship-number PDF; shipbuildinghistory.com Lawley yard table; uboat.net; USS LCI National Association journals (Elsie Item #92, #98; Deck Log #117); Mystic Seaport Coll. 279 finding aid; HAER OR-180; GAO HRD-80-2; PubMed 3555021; NHHC DANFS (no entry); NVR (excluded by coverage policy); NHHC Tokyo Bay surrender list (not present); CourtListener (exact-phrase and 'LCI-711' opinions clean; variants and docket fleet-paced); secondary web litigation sweep [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-lci-l-711-lcil711-01 through -24
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, build-material list, or verified litigation naming LCI(L)-711 was found in the public sources searched (see search_ledger). CourtListener opinion searches on exact phrases '"LCI(L)-711"', '"LCI-711"', and '"LCI(L) 711"' each returned 0 results; the '"LCI 711" asbestos' variant and the RECAP docket search were blocked by the fleet-wide pacing stand-down this session - partial coverage, logged honestly in search_ledger. Secondary web sweeps surfaced no qualifying case; hull-number collisions exist - asbestos-ships.com maintains a marketing page for USS Eugene A. Greene (DD-711), a different ship sharing the numeral (excluded by source policy), and USS LST-711 appears in unrelated records.
- 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 - and the litigation repository search remains partially open (three opinion lanes clean; the asbestos-qualified variant and docket queries unrun). A hull-name negative in court records would not in any case preclude crew claims filed under defendant names. Deck logs (SL44-documented coverage 9/1/1944-6/30/1945), Lawley yard papers (Mystic Coll. 279), and any Maritime Commission disposal file are undigitized leads. Does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-711-lcil711-16
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[18]National Archives and Records Administration record groups RG 19, RG 38, RG 24, plus Maritime Commission surplus-disposal series (mapped, not retrieved) [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-lci-l-711-lcil711-05 and -24
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Archival path for any deeper record: NARA RG 19 (Bureau of Ships records - LCI(L) design and construction correspondence and any materials specifications for the Lawley contract block), RG 38 (CNO wartime records - LCI flotilla war diaries and action reports covering this craft's Leyte-period and Southern Philippines operations), RG 24 deck logs for this hull covering 9/1/1944-6/30/1945 (confirmed extant, see ev-04), and Maritime Commission surplus-vessel disposal files for the 3 February 1947 transfer. The Hartwell memoir 'Amphibious Assault Landing Craft - USS LCI(L) 711' (Castle Publishers, 1992) is the ship-specific published memoir. None of these holdings is digitized for this hull; no retrieval was performed beyond the SL44 listing.
- Verification
- unverified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 2026-09-30
- Limitations
- Record-group mapping is a research path, not evidence about this hull; holdings' contents were not examined (other than the SL44 coverage listing) and their coverage of this specific craft's materials is unknown.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-711-lcil711-17