Evidence
8 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-8).
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[1]NavSource Online: Amphibious Photo Archive, USS LCI(L)-779 (history sourced to USS LCI 'Landing Craft Infantry,' Vol. II, Turner Publishing, 1995, ISBN 1-56311-262-0) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource 10/15/150779.htm - timeline block, LCI-351 specifications block, awards block; 'no images available' per page
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NavSource timeline for this hull: laid down 3 July 1944 at Commercial Iron Works, Portland, OR; launched 23 July 1944; commissioned USS LCI(L)-779, 15 August 1944; assigned to Far East occupation service 5-25 September 1945; decommissioned 13 March 1946; struck from the Naval Register 5 June 1946; transferred to the Maritime Commission at Charleston, S.C., 5 June 1947 for disposal (document PDX-225 dated 27 September 1946); sold, date unknown; registered 1953 as the wrecker Victor, homeport Miami, FL; registered as a freighter 1956; final disposition abandoned 1957. LCI-351 class spec block: 246 t. light / 264 t. landing / 419 t. loaded; 158'5.5" x 23'3"; 16 kts max; complement 4 officers + 24 enlisted; troop capacity 6 officers + 182 enlisted; five single 20mm guns; two sets of 4 GM 6051-series-71 diesels, 4 per shaft, twin variable-pitch propellers, 2,320 shp; two 30kW 120V DC diesel-drive ship's service generators. NavSource credits the hull with one battle star for World War II service.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-1957
- Population
- Commercial Iron Works construction trades (1944); Navy crew 4 officers + 24 enlisted and embarked troops (1944-46); merchant crews (1953-57)
- Limitations
- NavSource is a volunteer secondary compilation, not a primary registry; its history line is sourced to a Turner Publishing compilation. The same page omits the hull's documented 10 March 1945 sinking entirely and carries a chronologically impossible Normandy campaign attribution (see ev-05 correction row). Post-war milestones (MarCom transfer, Victor registration, 1957 abandonment) are unverified against the underlying MARAD status card, which was not machine-searchable this session. Contains no asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-779-01
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[2]Robert J. Cressman, The Official Chronology of the U.S. Navy in World War II (Contemporary History Branch, Naval Historical Center, 1999), p. 638, entry for 10 March 1945 (HyperWar transcription; archive.org PDF verified identical) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- USN-Chron-1945.html, '10 March, Sat.' Pacific section; print p. 638
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- The official Naval Historical Center chronology records for 10 March 1945, Pacific: 'TG 78.1 (Rear Admiral Forrest B. Royal) lands Army troops (41st Infantry [Reinforced] less 186th RCT) near Zamboanga, Mindanao; landing is supported by naval gunfire and USAAF planes. Japanese shore batteries, however, sink tank landing ships LST-591 and LST-626, and infantry landing craft LCI-710 and LCI-779.' This is Operation Victor IV, the Zamboanga landing, within the Consolidation and capture of Southern Philippines campaign - the hull's documented combat event.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1945-03-10
- Population
- Crew (4 officers + 24 enlisted class complement) and embarked 41st Infantry troops during the assault; salvage forces (undocumented)
- Limitations
- 'Sink' in this entry describes craft settling in shallow water at the landing beach, not necessarily permanent loss: the same sentence names LCI-710, which is documented as taking 18 mortar hits, getting off the beach, and continuing in service (later LSIL-710, to France 1951), and LST-591, documented on Far East occupation service through February 1946. No salvage/repair record for LCI(L)-779 itself was located - recovery is inference from the documented post-war career (ev-01). No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-779-02
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[3]DANFS, Phoenix III (CL-46) - Operation Victor IV narrative, TG 74.3 cruiser covering group gunfire support at Zamboanga [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS Phoenix III narrative, Operation Victor IV / Zamboanga passage (verified live 2026-09-30)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NHHC's DANFS entry for USS Phoenix (CL-46) independently states: 'Japanese shore batteries sank tank landing ships LST-591 and LST-626, and infantry landing craft LCI-710 and LCI-779' during the 10 March 1945 landings near Zamboanga, Mindanao (Operation Victor IV; TG 78.1 under Rear Adm. Forrest B. Royal; 41st Infantry Division Reinforced less 186th RCT; Phoenix and Boise operated in TG 74.3, the cruiser covering group).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1945-03-10
- Population
- Crew and embarked troops at the assault; recovery forces undocumented
- Limitations
- Corroborating mention inside another vessel's DANFS entry; same 'sank' usage as Cressman - shallow-water sinking at the beach, with salvage and return to service undocumented for this hull. No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-779-03
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[4]NARA Special List 44: List of Logbooks of U.S. Navy Ships, Stations, and Miscellaneous Units, 1801-1947 - ship-number section [other_primary]
- Locator
- sl-44-ship-number.pdf p. 28, row 'LCI(L)-779 8/16/1944 6/30/1945' (verified live 2026-09-30)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Special List 44 (ship-number PDF, page 28) lists Navy deck-log holdings for LCI(L)-779 covering 16 August 1944 - 30 June 1945: the window opens the day after commissioning and closes weeks after the documented sinking. The logs are the undigitized primary record of her Pacific service and the Zamboanga loss.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-08-16 to 1945-06-30
- Population
- Crew during the logged window
- Limitations
- Coverage endpoints are NARA cataloging endpoints for the log series, NOT commissioning/decommissioning dates. The window ends 30 June 1945 - before the documented September 1945 occupation service - so post-June-1945 movements are outside this listing. Whether the volumes are digitized in the National Archives Catalog was not confirmed (catalog.archives.gov is JS-walled to automated access this session).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-779-04
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[5]NavSource USS LCI(L)-779 campaign/awards block (EAME ribbon with star; 'Invasion of Normandy, 6 to 25 June 1944'; 'one battle star') vs the same page's construction dates and vs Cressman/DANFS Zamboanga record [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource 10/15/150779.htm awards block and timeline; NavSource 10/15/150780.htm (sister LCI(L)-780) for yard/theater comparison
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- CORRECTION: NavSource's published campaign attribution - 'assigned to the Europe-Africa-Middle East Theater... Invasion of Normandy, 6 to 25 June 1944,' with the Europe-Africa-Middle East Campaign ribbon displaying one star - is chronologically impossible: the hull was laid down 3 July 1944 (eight days after the Normandy window closed) and did not commission until 15 August 1944. The documented engagement is the Zamboanga landing of 10 March 1945 in the Asiatic-Pacific theater (ev-02, ev-03); sister hull LCI(L)-780, built at the same yard on overlapping dates, is documented by the same source as an Asiatic-Pacific unit (Visayan Island landings). The NavSource 'one battle star' line is retained as stated, but its basis is unresolved - the ribbon display attaches it to the impossible EAME campaign while the plausible actual basis is the Southern Philippines consolidation (P39) engagement.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- correction
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-1945
- Limitations
- Corrects a circulating campaign-attribution error traceable to the Turner Publishing compilation NavSource cites. No official per-ship battle-star list was located to confirm which engagement the star attaches to; carried as a gap. The correction rejects the attribution only - not the underlying build/milestone data.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-779-05
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[6]Era inference built on: NavSource LCI-351 class spec block (all-diesel plant, no steam); class context of WWII steel landing-craft construction [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource 10/15/150779.htm specifications block (propulsion); shipyards.json confirms Commercial Iron Works has no Atlas yard entry
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- A steel landing craft built mid-1944 at a wartime Portland yard sits inside the documented Navy asbestos-use era; era-standard applications aboard a diesel-powered landing craft of this type and period were machinery and diesel-exhaust lagging, gaskets and valve packing, electrical insulation, and accommodation-space insulation and paints in the confined hull volume. As an all-diesel craft she carried no steam plant - the boiler/turbine lagging pathway of steam vessels does not apply.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-1957
- Population
- Commercial Iron Works construction trades (1944); crew (1944-46); undocumented salvage/repair forces (1945); MarCom disposal and merchant trades (1947-57)
- Limitations
- Class/era inference only - no hull-specific insulation survey, material list, or work package located for LCI(L)-779, and no yard-level asbestos documentation for Commercial Iron Works was found in public sources (only excluded law-firm marketing pages). Names era-standard applications, not confirmed installed materials. No quantity, no manufacturer attribution for this hull.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-779-06
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[7]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 1944 construction and service era.
- 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 returns HTTP 403 to automated fetch, confirmed 2026-09-30) - content via product-page description.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-779-07
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[8]Batch-5509 search ledger (this record): NavSource timeline and spec block; NHHC DANFS hull-page check (404); NARA Special List 44 ship-number PDF; Cressman Official Chronology (HyperWar + archive.org PDF); DANFS Phoenix III; sister-hull NavSource comparison (LCI(L)-780, LCI(L)-710, LST-591, LST-779); CourtListener API v4 (all variants clear at opinion and docket level); MARAD Vessel History Database; NVR; usslci.org; secondary web sweep [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-lci-l-779-01 through sl-uss-lci-l-779-11
- 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)-779 was found in the public sources searched (see search_ledger). CourtListener (authenticated API v4) returned zero results at both opinion and docket level for 'LCI(L)-779', 'LCI-779', 'LCI 779', and the 'LCIL-779/LCIL 779' variants. Secondary web sweeps surfaced only law-firm marketing content asserting asbestos aboard WWII landing craft without primary sourcing - excluded by source policy.
- 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 - construction-era materials were era-standard. A zero CourtListener result covers indexed opinions and RECAP dockets only; state-court and non-indexed filings are outside scope. Deck logs (NARA SL44 window), salvage/repair records, and MarCom disposal papers are undigitized leads. Does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-779-08