Evidence
14 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-14).
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[1]research packet 463-packet.md (2 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-713-lcil713-pkt-463-packet-md
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[2]NavSource Online: Amphibious Photo Archive, USS LCI(L)-713, archive 10/15/150713; page verified live 2026-09-30 [other_primary]
- Locator
- Header timeline, campaign table, awards block, and postwar disposition section
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NavSource timeline for this hull: laid down 27 July 1944 at George Lawley and Son Shipyard, Neponset, MA; launched 5 August 1944; commissioned USS LCI(L)-713 on 18 August 1944, LTjg. Walter W. Parris in command; assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater, LCI Flotilla Twenty-Four, and credited with the Consolidation of the Southern Philippines campaign (Mindanao Island landings, 10 March 1945); decommissioned 6 October 1946 at Seattle, WA; struck from the Naval Register, date unknown; earned one battle star for World War II service, with the awards block displaying the American Campaign Medal, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (one star), World War II Victory Medal, Philippines Presidential Unit Citation, and Philippines Liberation Medal; transferred to the Maritime Commission for disposal; sold to C.T. Smith & Sons of Portland, OR, 10 February 1948 for use as a storage vessel for log-towing tugs; under restoration at Portland, OR, for public display by the Amphibious Forces Memorial Museum.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-present
- Population
- Construction workers, George Lawley & Son, Neponset (1944); U.S. Navy crew (1944-1946); postwar commercial/museum populations
- Limitations
- NavSource is a volunteer secondary compilation, not a primary registry. Its 18 August 1944 commissioning date conflicts with NPS sources (September 1944) - see gaps and ev-13. No asbestos or material content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-713-lcil713-01
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[3]NavSource specifications block and photo-caption record for USS LCI(L)-713 [other_primary]
- Locator
- Specifications section; photo-caption table (Zamboanga, Long Beach, Portland berths)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Specifications block: displacement 236 t. light, 264 t. landing, 419 t. loaded; length 158 ft 5.5 in; beam 23 ft 3 in; complement 4 officers and 24 enlisted; troop capacity 6 officers and 182 enlisted; propulsion two sets of four General Motors 6051 Series 71 diesel engines (four per shaft), single GM main reduction gears, twin variable-pitch propellers, 2,320 shp; armament five single 20mm guns. Photo captions place this hull beached with USS LCI(L)-711 on Red Beach Two, Zamboanga, Mindanao, P.I., 10 March 1945; underway with a tug alongside at Long Beach, CA, January-February 1946 returning from the Pacific; and moored at Portland-area berths (Hayden Island 2010-2012, Multnomah Channel near Scappoose circa 2014, Swan Island June 2015).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-2015
- Population
- Crew and embarked troops (1944-46); museum volunteers and visitors (2003-present)
- Limitations
- Specification figures are the archive's class-standard block and are not verified against a hull-specific builder's spec sheet. Photo captions document physical presence, not work performed. The caption's 'Red Beach Two' for the 10 March 1945 Zamboanga photograph conflicts with the NARA action report's 'Red Beach One, Slot Two' assignment for this hull (see ev-03) - the report, a primary operational record, is carried. No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-713-lcil713-02
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[4]NARA NAID 139936822, 'COM LCI(L) GR 79 - Rep of ops in the invasion of Zamboanga, Mindanao Is, Philippines on 3/10/45' (serial 018, dated 13 March 1945), RG 38, WWII War Diaries series, Roll A1479 [other_primary]
- Locator
- NAID 139936822, images 1-7 (report body: staging paragraph, beach-berth assignment list, per-ship summary item (e), Part IV battle damage item 2)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- A contemporaneous U.S. Navy action report names this hull repeatedly. LCI(L)-713 was one of six craft of LCI(L) Group SEVENTY-NINE (654(GF), 709, 710, 711, 713, 779) that departed San Pedro Bay, Leyte, 1 March 1945 to stage at Mindoro via San Juanico Strait; the six remained under administrative command of Commander LCI(L) Group 79 and tactical/operational command of Commander LCI(L) Flotilla 24 for the Victor-Four operation, embarking troops of the 41st Infantry Division, Eighth Army, at Bubug Point, Mindoro, on 6 March. The report's per-ship summary states the U.S.S. LCI(L) 713 transported 153 enlisted men and three officers of the 296th Port Company, 41st Division, Eighth Army (a segregated unit, in the report's period language '153 colored enlisted men and three white officers'); dispatched by the control station at 1215(I) 10 March 1945 as part of Wave Nine to Red Beach One, Slot Two, she beached at 1232(I), disembarked all troops by 1235(I), retracted, and anchored in area EASY at flank speed; no damage to Army or Navy personnel aboard and ineffective enemy mortar fire, none landing within 200 yards. The battle-damage section lists LCI(L)'s 654(GF), 709, 711, and 713 as having no battle damage.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1945-03-01 to 1945-03-13
- Population
- Ship's company; embarked 296th Port Company troops (153 enlisted, 3 officers), 41st Infantry Division, Eighth Army
- Limitations
- Operational record only: documents the hull's combat employment and troop load in detail but contains no material, construction, or asbestos content. Digitized microfilm images read directly (Roll A1479, images 1325-1331).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-713-lcil713-03
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[5]National Register of Historic Places nomination, 'U.S.S. LCI-713' (David McKay, February 2006), NRIS 07000300, listed 12 April 2007; NRIS asset record https://npgallery.nps.gov/AssetDetail/NRIS/07000300 [nps]
- Locator
- NRHP nomination Sections 7 (narrative description/integrity analysis) and 8 (statement of significance); NRIS supplementary listing record
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- The NRHP nomination documents: welded 1/4-inch steel plate construction to a Bureau of Ships design at George Lawley & Son, Neponset; eight General Motors 6-71 truck diesel engines in two banks of four to two shafts; the centerline bow-ramp 'round conn' configuration; assignment to LCI(L) Flotilla 24, Seventh Fleet Amphibious Force (Task Force 78); Task Group 78.1 participation in Operation Victor IV - troops landed at Zamboanga City 10 March 1945; post-assault duties in the Mindanao area (reinforcement transport, offshore security, salvage, supply); staging from Morotai with the amphibious force that landed Australian 9th Infantry Division troops unopposed at Brunei Bay, Borneo, 10 June 1945 (she did not participate in the Balikpapan assault three weeks later); post-war western-Pacific transport, guard, and patrol duty into 1946; decommissioning at Seattle 6 October 1946; Maritime Commission disposal and 1948 auction sale to C.T. Smith of The Dalles, Oregon; use as a storage barge and sinking in the Columbia River; raising and tow to Portland by river pilot Arthur A. Raz (1976); purchase by Walt James; move to Pier 39, Astoria, in late 2004; and 2006 handover to the Amphibious Forces Memorial Museum. The nomination documents the museum's same-kind-materials restoration doctrine (NPS/Naval Historical Ships Association guidelines, NARA blueprint file for the class) and states the vessel is structurally essentially unchanged since WWII, with armament and interior equipment stripped over the postwar decades. Listed 12 April 2007, NRIS 07000300; the nomination was filed for the Astoria (Clatsop County) berth and the NRIS record now locates the property at Portland, Multnomah County.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-2007
- Population
- Construction trades, Neponset (1944); crew and embarked troops (1944-46); museum restoration volunteers and visitors (2003-present)
- Limitations
- Ship-specific history and physical-fabric description, but the nomination is internally inconsistent on commissioning date (Section 8 historic context states 'September 18, 1944'; Section 8 significance narrative states 'September 29, 1944'; Section 7 narrative says 'October 1944') and dates the launch to 27 July 1944 where NavSource/HAER give 27 July as keel-laying and 5 August as launch. It contains no asbestos, insulation-content, or hazmat information whatsoever - it neither establishes nor excludes asbestos aboard this hull.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-713-lcil713-04
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[6]Historic American Engineering Record HAER OR-180, LCI(L)-713 (written historical and descriptive data, HAER historian Justine Christianson, 2012), Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division [haer]
- Locator
- HAER OR-180 data pages, Library of Congress tile.loc.gov scan (4 pp.)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- HAER documentation identifies LCI(L)-713 as 'the last remaining example of a World War II Landing Craft Infantry (LCI) 351-class amphibious assault vessel in its original configuration.' Recorded data: keel laid 27 July 1944, launched 5 August 1944, commissioned 18 September 1944; builder George Lawley & Son, Neponset, MA; eight GM 6-71 diesel engines (the engine room 'once containing' them - engines removed post-Navy); welded 1/4-inch steel plate; shakedown and training at Solomons, Maryland; Flotilla 24 service including Operation Victor IV and the Brunei Bay landing of Australian 9th Infantry Division troops; decommissioned October 1946; sold 1948 to C.T. Smith & Son of Oregon; storage barge and sinking near Stevenson, Washington in the 1950s; raised by Arthur A. Raz and towed to Portland 1976; sold to Walt James 1998; moved to Pier 39, Astoria, late 2004; purchased by the Amphibious Forces Memorial Museum 2006.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-2012
- Population
- Museum volunteers; documentation field team (2012)
- Limitations
- Ship-specific HAER record; commissioning date given as September 18, 1944 conflicts with NavSource's 18 August 1944 (see gaps). Derived largely from the NRHP nomination, NavSource, and the museum website - it is a compiled documentation record, not a builder's survey. No asbestos or insulation-content information.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-713-lcil713-05
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[7]NARA Special List 44, 'List of Logbooks of U.S. Navy Ships, Stations, and Miscellaneous Units, 1801-1947' (ship-number edition), entry for LCI(L)-713 [other_primary]
- Locator
- SL44 ship-number PDF, p. 27 (LCI(L) block): 'LCI(L)-713 9/18/1944 12/31/1945'
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Special List 44 lists Navy deck-log coverage for LCI(L)-713 of 18 September 1944 through 31 December 1945. These logs are not among the digitized deck logs indexed at archives.gov (navy-online index checked - no LCI(L)-713 entry); they remain an undigitized archival holding at NARA.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-09-18 to 1945-12-31 (coverage window); holdings current to SL44 compilation
- Population
- Ship's company (log-coverage window)
- Limitations
- Log-coverage endpoints are holdings metadata, not commissioning or decommissioning dates - though the 18 September 1944 start is consistent with the September 1944 commissioning date given by NPS sources rather than NavSource's 18 August. The logs themselves were not reviewed; they may or may not contain material, maintenance, or personnel detail relevant to asbestos.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-713-lcil713-06
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[8]Amphibious Forces Memorial Museum official site - 'Visit the LCI713' page plus AFMM Deck Log/Elsie Item newsletters (2017, 2023, 2024, 2026 issues reviewed) [museum_official]
- Locator
- amphibiousforces.org home page and Visit/Visit.htm; newsletter PDFs 2017SummerDeckLogFinal.pdf, 2023JuneElsieDecklog121.pdf, 2024DecDeckLogElsie127.pdf, 2026JuneElsie133.pdf
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- AFMM documents that the LCI-713 is its museum vessel 'located within the Vigor Shipyard on Swan Island in Portland,' accessed via an unmanned locked gate, with Saturday volunteer workdays. The 2026 newsletter reports fundraising for a marine-engineering survey (Tim Greeson, TM Marine Services) and a hoped-for drydocking to replate the hull; the museum reports the ship 'has never been out of the water since its launch' and has never been drydocked (notwithstanding its 1950s sinking and 1976 raise). A 2017 newsletter reports an Oregon State historic grant purchased enough steel to re-plate the bottom and that engines for repowering have been acquired.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 2003-2026
- Population
- AFMM volunteers and visitors; Vigor Shipyard-adjacent workforce (shared site)
- Limitations
- Museum self-published material: documents current custody, berth, and restoration program but contains no asbestos, hazmat, or abatement disclosure in the issues reviewed (2017, 2023, 2024, 2026). Absence of disclosure is not absence of material.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-713-lcil713-07
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[9]Derick S. Hartshorn, 'An Unofficial History of USS LCI(L)-713' (NavSource-hosted contributor history) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource 10/15/150713h.htm, full text
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Contributor history records: shakedown and training at Solomons, Maryland; two combat landings on Mindanao and Borneo; post-war transport of troops, mail, and supplies around the Philippines until December 1945; return to the United States January 1946; decommissioning 6 October 1946 and release to the Maritime Commission; purchase at government auction 10 February 1948 by C.T. Smith & Son, picked up from the Navy in Seattle; use for stowing gear and fuel; settling to the bottom as a breakwater in the Columbia River near Stevenson, Washington; acquisition and raising by Arthur A. Raz in 1976; purchase by Walt James in 1998; formation of the Amphibious Forces Memorial Museum 501(c)(3) in 2003 and acquisition of the ship from Mr. James in December 2003.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-2003
- Population
- Postwar owners and museum volunteers
- Limitations
- Unofficial contributor history hosted on NavSource - secondary compilation consistent with but subordinate to the NRHP nomination, HAER, and the NARA action report. Acquisition dates conflict with the NRHP nomination's 2006 handover (see gaps). No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-713-lcil713-08
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[10]Fleischer WE, Viles FJ Jr, Gade RL, Drinker P., 'A health survey of pipe covering operations in constructing naval vessels,' Journal of Industrial Hygiene and Toxicology 28(1), 1946, PMID 21016030 [other_primary]
- Locator
- PubMed abstract and indexed citation for PMID 21016030
- Finding type
- gov_survey
- Finding
- The 1946 U.S. Public Health Service survey documents asbestos pipe-covering operations in construction of naval vessels during the wartime contract-yard era, including cutting and fitting insulation materials. This is relevant era context for a landing craft built under Navy contract in mid-1944; it is not a finding about LCI(L)-713.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- Wartime construction era; publication 1946
- Population
- Naval contract-yard pipe-covering workers (era population)
- Limitations
- The survey does not name LCI(L)-713 or George Lawley & Son, does not identify material aboard this hull, and does not establish individual exposure, quantity, or present-day condition. Carried only as class/era context. As a diesel craft she lacked boiler lagging; any era insulation aboard would have been limited to machinery, exhaust, gaskets, and electrical applications.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-713-lcil713-09
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[11]GAO, Navy Efforts To Protect Workers From Asbestos Exposure, HRD-80-2 (Oct 18, 1979) [gao]
- Locator
- GAO product page HRD-80-2
- 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 1944 construction and 1944-46 service era.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1979 (report); Navy asbestos-use era
- 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); content via product-page description.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-713-lcil713-10
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[12]Batch-5445 search ledger (this record): NavSource; NARA action-report scans and Special List 44; NPS NRHP nomination and NRIS; HAER OR-180; AFMM official site and newsletters; NHHC/DANFS; NVR; CourtListener (partial); secondary web sweep [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-lci-l-713-lcil713-01 through -19
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, abatement contract, shipyard work package, hazmat disclosure, or verified litigation naming LCI(L)-713 was found in the public sources searched (see search_ledger). The NRHP nomination and HAER documentation describe the hull fabric but are silent on insulation materials; AFMM newsletters reviewed (2017-2026) contain no asbestos or abatement disclosure; CourtListener returned zero results on completed exact-name and hull-number queries (variant queries pacing-blocked, logged honestly).
- 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 vessel is an intact 1944 hull of substantially original configuration that has never been through a documented abatement, which is consistent with retained era materials as much as with their absence. Does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-713-lcil713-11
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[13]CourtListener API v4 via authenticated fleet helper (/Users/charlesfletcher/devin-prompts/cl-auth-search.py) [court_record]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-lci-l-713-lcil713-10 through -14
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- Authenticated CourtListener searches returned zero results: 'LCI(L)-713' in opinions (count 0) and RECAP dockets (count 0), 'USS LCI(L)-713' in opinions (count 0), and 'LCI-713' in opinions (count 0). Variant queries 'LCI 713' (opinions) and 'USS LCI(L)-713' (RECAP dockets) were halted by the fleet-wide pacing limiter before results returned; they are logged blocked, not negative.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- Through 2026-09-30
- Population
- Court records indexed by CourtListener
- Limitations
- Near-complete litigation negative: zero-result queries cover the exact name and hull number in both indexes and the hyphenated variant in opinions, but the two pacing-blocked variants were never run and differently formatted references cannot be excluded. No qualifying asbestos-litigation hit is recorded; a name match would not in any case constitute an asbestos finding.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-713-lcil713-12
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[14]Commissioning-date cross-check: NavSource archive 10/15/150713 (18 August 1944); NPS NRHP nomination 07000300 ('September 18, 1944' in Section 8 historic context; 'September 29, 1944' in Section 8 significance narrative; 'October 1944' in Section 7 description); HAER OR-180 (September 18, 1944); NARA SL44 deck-log coverage begins 18 September 1944 [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource 150713.htm header; NRHP nomination Sections 7-8; HAER OR-180 data page; SL44 p. 27
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- DISCREPANCY RECORDED: the commissioning date is conflicted across authoritative sources. NavSource records 18 August 1944 (LTjg. Walter W. Parris in command). NPS documentation records September 1944 - the NRHP nomination itself states both 'September 18, 1944' and 'September 29, 1944' in different sections, and 'October 1944' in its description section; HAER OR-180 states September 18, 1944. NARA Special List 44's deck-log coverage for the hull begins 18 September 1944, consistent with the September dates. The NavSource date is carried in the commissioned field; the conflict is unresolved and logged in gaps.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- correction
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944
- Limitations
- This row records a date conflict, not a material finding; no resolution was possible from the public sources searched. Launch/keel dates also conflict in the nomination's phrasing (it calls 27 July 1944 the launch date where NavSource/HAER record keel-laying 27 July and launch 5 August).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-713-lcil713-13