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-714-lcil714-pkt-463-packet-md
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[2]NavSource Online: Amphibious Photo Archive, USS LCI(L)-714 - construction, commissioning, theater assignment, occupation duty, disposal, specifications (live page verified 2026-09-30; history credited to Turner Publishing 'USS LCI Landing Craft Infantry' Vol. II, 1995) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource 10/15/150714.htm header block, disposition block, awards block, and specifications block
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Documented for this hull: LCI-351 Class Landing Craft Infantry (Large); laid down (printed as) 7 September 1944 at George Lawley & Sons, Neponset, MA - see correction row ev-09; launched 16 August 1944; commissioned USS LCI(L)-714, 29 September 1944. Assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater during WWII; post-war occupation duty in the Far East 19 September-17 December 1945. Decommissioned, date unknown; struck from the Naval Register, date unknown; transferred to the War Assets Administration for disposal, 10 February 1948. Awards display: American Campaign Medal; Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal; World War II Victory Medal; Navy Occupation Medal with Asia clasp - no battle stars shown. Radio call sign NQGI. Spec block: 236 t. light / 264 t. landing / 419 t. loaded; 158'5.5" x 23'3"; 16 kts max (14 continuous); 4 officers + 24 enlisted; troop capacity 6 officers + 182 enlisted; 75 tons cargo; five single 20mm guns; endurance 4,000 miles at 12 kts; two sets of 4 GM 6051-series-71 diesels (4 per shaft), GM main reduction gears, two diesel-drive 30 kW 120V DC 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
- 1944-1948
- Population
- Lawley yard construction trades (Aug-Sep 1944); crew 4 officers + 24 enlisted (1944-c.1946); embarked troops up to ~188
- Limitations
- NavSource is a volunteer secondary compilation - dates generally track official records but the page is not a primary registry; the printed laid-down date is internally inconsistent with launch and delivery dates (see ev-09). The un-starred ribbon display is NavSource's rendering; no battle-star award was found and none is claimed either way. Contains no asbestos or material content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-714-lcil714-01
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[3]Shipbuilding-history LCI(L) build table (Naval Marine Archive mirror of the Colton shipbuilding data), LCI(L)-714 row [other_primary]
- Locator
- navalmarinearchive.com/sbh/smallships/lcil.html, LCI(L) hull table row 714 ('Lawley & Sons | Neponset MA | 29-Aug-44 | To DoS 1948')
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- The build table lists: LCI(L) | hull 714 | Lawley & Sons, Neponset MA | delivered 29-Aug-44 | 'To DoS 1948' - corroborating the builder, yard location, and 1948 disposal year on the NavSource page, and supplying a delivery date (29 August 1944) one month before commissioning. Surrounding rows (700-716) are the same George Lawley & Sons/Neponset block: sisters include 713 (sold 1948, restored as a museum in Astoria OR), 715 (later LSIL-715, to France 1951, sunk in Vietnam 1954), 701/702/703/709/710 (later LSILs/AMCUs or foreign transfers), 704-708 (to NDRF or laid up).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-1948
- Population
- Lawley Neponset yard trades (1944)
- Limitations
- Secondary reference table - corroboration of builder/delivery/disposition, not a primary contract record. 'To DoS 1948' is the compiler's notation, read as Department of State but unverified; NavSource names the War Assets Administration with a precise date (10 February 1948) - the two most likely describe steps in the same disposal chain (see gaps). No asbestos or material content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-714-lcil714-02
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[4]NavSource, USS LCS(L)-18 history narrative (ship's-history attachment page) - transit record naming LCI 714 [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource 10/05/050018h.htm, LCS(L)-18 ship's history, paragraph on the 31 October-4 November 1944 Key West transit
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- A sister-yard ship's narrative names this hull in her post-shakedown transit: LCS(L)-18 was commissioned at the George Lawley Shipyard, Neponset, on 2 October 1944, shook down in Chesapeake Bay, and 'From 31 October to 4 November [1944] the 18 was enroute to Key West, Florida, in company with LCS 17 and LCI 714, with our Captain as Officer in Technical Command. Some logistics were completed in Key West, and at Coco Solo, Canal Zone.' - documenting LCI(L)-714, five weeks after commissioning at the same yard, in the Lambert's Point VA-to-Key West leg of the new-construction movement toward the Panama Canal and the Pacific.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944
- Population
- LCI(L)-714 crew on post-shakedown transit (Oct-Nov 1944)
- Limitations
- A ship's-history narrative hosted on NavSource - crew-authored and informal. It names 'LCI 714' in the Key West transit only; whether 714 transited the Canal with the LCSs (12 Nov) is not stated for this hull. No asbestos or material content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-714-lcil714-03
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[5]NavSource, 'History of LCI Flotilla 22' - first-person account by J.E. 'Jim' Talbert, President, USS LCI National Association [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource 10/15/150618f.htm, Flotilla 22 narrative paragraph on the 1 March 1945 Manila Bay convoy
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- A veteran staff member's account names this hull in a Philippine convoy operation and assigns her flotilla: 'March 1st 1945, Commander Flotilla 22 in 618 with 518, 63 and 714 of Flotilla 24, USS Day (DE225) and USS JOY escorting 12 Liberty Ships and LST's 932, 592 and 593 into Manila Bay, Commander Flotilla 22 SOPA (Senior Officer Present Afloat). This was the first merchant shipping in Manila Bay since 1941.' The narrator's own unit - Flotilla 22 - operated out of Subic Bay and conducted 22 Philippine-area combat landings, including Legaspi (1 Apr), Parang Mindanao (17 Apr, landing the 24th Infantry Division), Zamboanga and Basilan; that tempo belongs to the flotillas narrated, not to hull 714 individually.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1945
- Population
- LCI(L)-714 crew; Flotilla 22/24 staff
- Limitations
- A veteran's narrative hosted on NavSource - eyewitness but informal, with internal typos. It places 714 in LCI Flotilla 24 on 1 March 1945 (corroborated by a crew-member memorial plaque, ev-12, and sister 713's own NavSource page naming Flotilla Twenty-Four); the flotilla's group assignment for this hull is not stated. Hull-specific participation in individual assault landings is not established. No asbestos or material content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-714-lcil714-04
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[6]Hawaii Undersea Research Laboratory (HURL), University of Hawai'i at Manoa SOEST, Maritime Heritage Gallery artifact LC-28: LCI(L)-714 - wreck survey record (primary survey data by the organization that found the wreck) [other_primary]
- Locator
- HURL maritime_tmp.php?category=LC-28 artifact block and image gallery
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- A University of Hawaii deep-submergence survey documents this hull's physical disposition: wreck of LCI(L)-714 located 14 March 2009 (HURL dive PV-725, crew Kerby/Knudsen/MacDonald) at 467 m depth off South Oahu; 'Lost: After 10 February 1948'; circumstance of loss '*Scuttled' and reason '*Redundant' (asterisks denote HURL's own approximations/speculations); 'Artifact Condition: Excellent condition, despite having been stripped down for scuttling. Numbers are still clearly visible on the stern side. The after gun tubs are present. The wheelhouse is present and fully intact... orientated W-NW and has dredge spoils on top of it.' The page includes survey mosaics, sidescan imagery, and a historic photo; artifact history restates the Lawley build and Asiatic-Pacific/occupation service.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1948 (loss window); 2009 (survey)
- Population
- none aboard at loss; wreck now on the seabed
- Limitations
- Academic wreck-survey record - identification rests on hull numbers 'clearly visible on the stern' per HURL. 'Scuttled' and 'Redundant' are HURL's flagged speculations, not established facts; the precise date and agency of the sinking are not given. No asbestos or material-content survey was performed or claimed - the wreck's condition is described structurally only. The page's 'Built/Launched: 29 September 1944' field conflates the commissioning date. Data-download endpoint (ftp.soest.hawaii.edu) did not resolve this session.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-714-lcil714-05
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[7]NARA catalog, NAID 120295826 - 'LCI(L) 714 - Muster Rolls' (77 digitized images, Ancestry partnership; RG 353 Bureau of Naval Personnel, series 'Muster Rolls of U.S. Navy Ships, Stations, and Other Naval Activities', NAID 594996); related index block NAID 118967602 'USS K-1 (SSK-1) to USS LCI(R)-651' [other_primary]
- Locator
- catalog.archives.gov/id/120295826 (77 images, dated 1944-09-29 through 1946-09-01); /id/118967602 (2,586-image index block)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Digitized personnel records naming this hull: 77 muster-roll images for LCI(L) 714 are online, with reporting dates running 29 September 1944 (the commissioning date) through 1 September 1946 - establishing that the hull remained a crewed unit at least into late 1946, while NavSource carries her decommissioning as 'date unknown.' The ship also falls inside the digitized muster-roll index block covering hulls up to LCI(R)-651.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-1946
- Population
- LCI(L)-714 crew (1944-46)
- Limitations
- Catalog metadata verified live via the NARA catalog API (file unit, series, 77 digital objects with per-image muster dates); page-image contents not individually reviewed. Muster rolls are personnel records - crew rosters by reporting period, no material or asbestos content. They are leads for building a crew roster and for narrowing the undocumented decommissioning date, which this record does not do.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-714-lcil714-06
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[8]NARA catalog, NAID 2760197 - file unit 'LCI-714 (LCI(L)-714)', series 'Material Inspection Reports and Related Documentation' (NAID 2092723), RG 38 Records of the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations; creating agency: Department of the Navy, Board of Inspection and Survey (est. 09/18/1947) [other_primary]
- Locator
- catalog.archives.gov/id/2760197 - file-unit description; parent series NAID 2092723 (Material Inspection Reports and Related Documentation)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- A hull-named file unit exists in the Board of Inspection and Survey's material-inspection series - the Navy office responsible for material condition inspections - titled for LCI-714. For a hull turned over for disposal in February 1948, an InSurv-series file is the likeliest federal record to describe her material state near end of service. Not digitized: paper file at NARA College Park (container 4).
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- c.1947-1948 (creating agency active from Sep 1947; disposal Feb 1948)
- Population
- LCI(L)-714 crew/yard at time of inspection (unknown - contents unexamined)
- Limitations
- Archival lead only: catalog metadata verified live (title, series, RG 38, paper medium, College Park); contents not examined - what the file contains (acceptance, pre-disposal, or material-condition reporting, and any mention of insulation materials) is unknown. Existence of the file does not establish any asbestos content. No digital objects.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-714-lcil714-07
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[9]NARA Special List No. 44, List of Logbooks of U.S. Navy Ships, Stations, and Miscellaneous Units, 1801-1947 - ship-number sequence, PDF page 27 [other_primary]
- Locator
- sl-44-ship-number.pdf, PDF page 27, row 'LCI(L)-714 | 9/29/1944 | 6/30/1945' (verified via pdftotext extraction)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Special List 44 (by ship number) lists Navy deck logs held by NARA for LCI(L)-714 covering 9/29/1944-6/30/1945 - logbook coverage running from her commissioning date through mid-1945 (log-coverage dates per the batch brief, not commissioning evidence).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-09-29 to 1945-06-30
- Population
- LCI(L)-714 crew (1944-45 logging window)
- Limitations
- Archival lead: the list establishes that logs exist in NARA holdings for that window. A catalog search of the digitized WWII deck-log file units (series NAID 594258, 'Logbooks of U.S. Navy Ships and Stations') returned no file unit titled for this hull under any tested name form ('LCI(L) 714', 'LCI 714', 'LCIL 714', 'LCI(L)-714'), so these logs were not located online - physical-holdings lead only. Post-June-1945 coverage (through disposal) is not listed in SL44 at all. A deck log is an operational record, not a material survey.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-714-lcil714-08
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[10]Cross-source check: NavSource LCI(L)-714 header ('Laid down, 7 September 1944... Launched, 16 August 1944'); shipbuilding-history table (delivery 29-Aug-44); NavSource LCI(L)-713 page (laid down 27 July, launched 5 August, commissioned 18 August 1944 - a nine-day ways period) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource 10/15/150714.htm header block vs. navalmarinearchive.com/sbh/smallships/lcil.html row 714 and NavSource 10/15/150713.htm
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- CORRECTION: the LCI(L)-714 NavSource page prints 'Laid down, 7 September 1944' - a date that post-dates both the printed launch (16 August 1944) and the build-table delivery date (29 August 1944), which is impossible. Sister-ship data from the same yard shows a roughly nine-day laydown-to-launch rhythm (LCI(L)-713: 27 July to 5 August 1944), making '7 August 1944' the probable intended date - but the corrected value is not asserted; the printed date is carried only as a flagged error.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- correction
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944
- Limitations
- Corrects an internal inconsistency on one secondary page; no primary builder's record was located to fix the true laydown date. Not a material or asbestos claim.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-714-lcil714-09
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[11]Era inference built on: NavSource specifications block (GM 6051-series-71 diesel plant, diesel-drive generators - no steam plant); shipbuilding-history table (Lawley/Neponset, delivered Aug 1944); GAO HRD-80-2 (Navy asbestos-use era, ev-11); HURL wreck record (stripped hull in situ, ev-05) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource specifications block; shipyards.json yard list (no Lawley/Neponset entry); GAO HRD-80-2 context
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- A diesel-powered landing craft built August-September 1944 sits squarely inside the Navy's documented asbestos-use era. Era-standard applications aboard a small diesel craft of this type were diesel exhaust and muffler lagging, gaskets and valve packing in engine and piping systems, electrical insulation on wiring and in control panels, and thermal insulation in the confined machinery spaces. As a diesel vessel she carried no steam plant - the boiler/turbine lagging pathway of steam ships does not apply. Because the hull was stripped and scuttled rather than broken up or preserved, whatever era materials remained aboard at loss went down with the wreck - there is no scrapping-yard or museum phase in which abatement would have been documented.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-1948
- Population
- Lawley construction trades (1944); crew 28 (1944-c.1946); embarked troops (transient, up to ~188)
- Limitations
- Class/era inference only - no hull-specific insulation schedule, material list, builder's spec sheet, or work package located for LCI(L)-714. Names era-standard applications, not confirmed installed materials. No quantity, no manufacturer attribution. George Lawley & Son (Neponset) is not in the Atlas shipyards.json dataset, so no yard-level product list was attached.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-714-lcil714-10
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[12]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 US Navy service era (1944-c.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, confirmed 2026-09-30) - content via product-page description.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-714-lcil714-11
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[13]Orange County INGenWeb WWII honoree plaque transcription for Charles R. Ash, S1/c, USS LCI(L) 714; corroborating Boston Globe obituary of Brendan Fleming (quartermaster aboard USS LCI-714; former mayor of Lowell, MA), 11 June 2016 [other_primary]
- Locator
- ingenweb.org/inorange Military Honors plaque transcription, Charles R. Ash; Boston Globe 2016-06-11 obituary, Brendan Fleming
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Two named crew members document manning and flotilla assignment: the Ash memorial plaque records 'ASSIGNED TO THE USS LCI(L) 714 LANDING CRAFT, INFANTRY (LARGE) OF THE LCI(L) 351 CLASS FLOTILLA 24. SERVED IN THE ASIATIC-PACIFIC CAMPAIGN. MADE 22 HOSTILE COMBAT LANDINGS IN THE PHILIPPINES WITH THE U.S. ARMY 24TH INFANTRY DIVISION' with awards matching the NavSource display (American Campaign, Asiatic-Pacific, WWII Victory, Navy Occupation with Asia clasp); and the Boston Globe obituary records Brendan Fleming as a quartermaster aboard USS LCI-714 in the period when the military prepared to invade Japan. The plaque independently corroborates the Flotilla 24 assignment.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-1945
- Population
- S1/c Charles R. Ash (enlisted 6 Apr 1944-13 Dec 1945); QM Brendan Fleming (wartime service); crew generally
- Limitations
- Informal commemorative record (a hometown honors plaque transcribed on a genealogy site) plus a press obituary - crew-level documentation, not official records. The '22 hostile combat landings' phrasing mirrors the flotilla narrative's count and is flotilla-tempo language; individual landing credits for this hull are not established (no battle stars shown on NavSource). No asbestos or material content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-714-lcil714-12
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[14]Batch-5446 search ledger (this record): NavSource hull page, LCS(L)-18 and Flotilla-22 narratives; shipbuilding-history build table; NARA catalog (muster rolls, InSurv file unit, index block); NARA Special List 44 PDF; digitized deck-log series search; NHHC DANFS and photo-index checks; NVR check; CourtListener (opinions and dockets, partial coverage); secondary web sweep [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-lci-l-714-lcil714-01 through -12
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, or litigation naming USS LCI(L)-714 was found in the public sources searched. CourtListener returned zero qualifying hits on the queries completed (opinions '"LCI-714" OR "LCIL-714"' = 0; dockets '"LCI(L)-714" OR "LCI-714"' = 0); the remaining opinion-query variant under the parenthesized form was pacing-blocked on repeated attempts - an open, partial search gap rather than a fully negative litigation result. The disposal path forecloses the usual documentation trail: the hull was stripped and scuttled off South Oahu, so no scrapping-contract, museum-hazmat, or demolition record can exist; no ship-specific asbestos documentation survives to be found.
- 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 one opinion-search variant remains unsearched (pacing-blocked, not run). Undigitized deck logs (SL44 window 9/29/1944-6/30/1945), the unexamined Board of Inspection and Survey file (NAID 2760197), Lawley build records, and the HURL data-download package are open leads. Does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-714-lcil714-13