Evidence
8 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-8).
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[1]research packet 474-packet.md (10 sources cited) [museum_official]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERIFIED
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-lci-l-792-lcil792-pkt-474-packet-md
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[2]NavSource Online: Amphibious Photo Archive, USS LC(FF)-792 ex-USS LCI(L)-792 (10/15/150792) - designation timeline, awards block, specification block, Maui July 1945 crew photography (history credited to Turner Publishing 'USS LCI Landing Craft Infantry' Vol. II, 1995) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource 10/15/150792.htm header block, awards block, history block, specification block, and Maui July 1945 photo captions
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NavSource timeline for this hull: LCI-351 class; laid down 7 July 1944 at New Jersey Ship Building Corp., Barber, N.J.; launched 9 August 1944; commissioned USS LCI(L)-792 on 16 August 1944, LTjg. E. N. Engstrom USNR in command (May 1945); redesignated Landing Craft (Flotilla Flagship) LC(FF)-792 on 20 January 1945. Asiatic-Pacific assignment: LC(FF) Flotilla Twenty-Three (LCDR R. H. Brazeal USN), LC(FF) Group Sixty-Nine (LT T. T. Brooks USN), LC(FF) Division One Hundred Thirty-Eight. Postwar Occupation Service in the Far East, 2 September - 24 November 1945. Decommissioned date unknown; laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet, Columbia River Group, March 1946; struck from the Naval Register, date unknown; final disposition fate unknown. Awards displayed: American Campaign Medal, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal, World War II Victory Medal, Navy Occupation Medal with Asia clasp - no battle star is credited. Contemporaneous photographs place the hull beached at Maui, T.H., in July 1945 (photos by crewman Richard Padgham). Specification block: 246 t light / 264 t landing / 419 t loaded; 158'5.5" x 23'3"; 16 kts max (14 continuous); two sets of four General Motors diesel engines, four per shaft, BHP 1,600; twin variable-pitch propellers; five single 20mm guns; complement 4 officers + 24 enlisted; troop capacity 6 officers + 182 enlisted; call sign NWKK.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-1946
- Population
- New Jersey Shipbuilding construction trades (1944); crew and embarked flotilla staff (1944-46; 4 officers + 24 enlisted ship's complement); embarked troops up to 188 in LCI(L) configuration
- Limitations
- NavSource is a volunteer secondary compilation, not a primary registry - its history cites Turner Publishing's 1995 'USS LCI' Vol. II. Contains no asbestos content. The commanding-officer notation '(May 1945)' reflects the source's snapshot qualifier; the same officer is carried in the official 1 May 1945 NHHC organization (ev-02). The Flotilla 23 assignment is corroborated by NHHC, but the group/division numbers differ (69/138 here vs 68/136 in the NHHC document - variance carried in gaps). No battle star is credited - do not assert Okinawa or Iwo Jima participation from the flotilla assignment alone. Decommissioning, striking, and disposal dates are all unrecorded here.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-792-lcil792-01
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[3]NHHC, 'United States Pacific Fleet Organization, 1 May 1945' (official fleet organization document, Navy Department Library transcription); corroborated by HyperWar 'Ships of the U.S. Navy, 1940-1945' LC(FF) listing (LC(FF)-788-793, built 1943-44) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- NHHC Pacific Fleet Organization 1 May 1945, LCI Flotilla Twenty-Three > LCI Group 68 > LCI Division 136 table ('LCI 792 | Lt. (jg) E. N. Engstrom (USNR)'); HyperWar ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USN/ships/ships-lc.html, LC(FF) section ('LC(FF)-788-793 ... 1943-44')
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- An official U.S. Navy fleet-organization document dated 1 May 1945 lists 'LCI 792' in LCI Flotilla Twenty-Three, LCI Group Sixty-Eight, LCI Division One Hundred Thirty-Six, Lt. (jg) E. N. Engstrom (USNR) shown as the commanding officer - placing this hull in the Pacific Fleet amphibious order of battle alongside division-mates LCI 789, 790, 791, 793, and 1083. The HyperWar Navy-compilation mirror 'Ships of the U.S. Navy, 1940-1945' lists LC(FF)-792 within the LC(FF)-788-793 entry among the flotilla-flagship conversions (built 1943-44) and describes the type as 'converted from Landing Craft, Infantry (Large) - LCI(L) - to carry flag officers and crew', corroborating the (FF) designation.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1945-05
- Population
- Crew and embarked flotilla staff (1945)
- Limitations
- Ship-specific organizational placement only; no asbestos or material content. The NHHC document's group/division (68/136) differs from NavSource's assignment line (Group 69/Division 138) - same flotilla (23), different group/division numbers; unresolved, carried in gaps. The NHHC listing prints 'LCI 792' without an '(FF)' flag marker although NavSource dates the LC(FF) redesignation 20 January 1945 - three-plus months before the org snapshot; flag-marker annotation in this table is inconsistent (division-mate hulls elsewhere in the flotilla carry (FF) and (GF) markers) and is noted, not resolved. Order-of-battle placement is not proof of presence at any specific assault landing.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-792-lcil792-02
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[4]National Archives and Records Administration, Special List 44: List of Logbooks of U.S. Navy Ships, Stations, and Miscellaneous Units, 1801-1947 (RG 24 deck-log ship-number index) [other_primary]
- Locator
- sl-44-ship-number.pdf, 'LCI(L)(FF)-792' row (8/16/1944 - 6/30/1945), verified in the downloaded index; https://www.archives.gov/research/military/logbooks/navy-online (no LCI-792 entry)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- NARA holds deck logs for this hull indexed as 'LCI(L)(FF)-792' covering 16 August 1944 - 30 June 1945 in RG 24 logbook holdings - the commissioning date through the flotilla-flagship period and the end of the war. The hull does not appear on NARA's 'Navy Deck Logs Available in the National Archives Catalog' online list - the WWII-era LCI logs are undigitized; textual reference at College Park is the access path.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-1945
- Population
- Crew (1944-45)
- Limitations
- Holdings-level finding only: establishes that logs exist and their coverage window, not their content - no page was reviewed this session. Log coverage endpoints are not commissioning/decommissioning claims (though the 16 August 1944 start coincides exactly with the documented commissioning date). Absence from the online list means no digitized scans were located; does not bear on the physical holding. Coverage after 30 June 1945 is unverified.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-792-lcil792-03
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[5]ShipbuildingHistory (Tim Colton compilation), 'New Jersey Shipbuilding, Barber NJ' yard page and build table; corroborated by the same compiler's LCI(L) index table (shipbuildinghistory.com/smallships/lcil.htm) [other_primary]
- Locator
- shipbuildinghistory.com/shipyards/emergencysmall/newjersey.htm (yard profile and table row 'LCI(L) 792'); shipbuildinghistory.com/smallships/lcil.htm (row 'LCI(L) | FF | 792 | New Jersey SB | Barber NJ | 16-Aug-44 | Laid up 1946')
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- The New Jersey Shipbuilding yard page describes an assembly-line LCI yard on the Arthur Kill at Barber (a community absorbed into Perth Amboy and now called Maurer), managed by Todd Shipyards from 1942 at the Navy's request, and closed after the war. Its build table records 'LCI(L) 792, US Navy, Landing Craft, Aug-44' with disposition 'Struck 1957'; the compiler's LCI(L) index table lists the hull as 'LCI(L) FF 792, New Jersey SB, Barber NJ, 16-Aug-44' with disposition 'Laid up 1946' - both corroborating the build and the (FF) designation.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-1957
- Population
- New Jersey Shipbuilding construction trades (1944)
- Limitations
- Secondary compilation consistent with NavSource on build/commissioning. The 'Struck 1957' disposition in the yard table conflicts with NavSource's 'date unknown' and is carried as a striking-date variance in gaps; 'Laid up 1946' is consistent with NavSource's March 1946 Pacific Reserve Fleet layup. No asbestos, hazmat, or material content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-792-lcil792-04
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[6]National Park Service / Library of Congress, Historic American Engineering Record HAER AK-52, M/V Husky II (USS LCI(L)-653), LCI(L)-351-class written history and descriptive data [haer]
- Locator
- HAER AK-52 written history, pp. 2-7 (New Jersey Shipbuilding profile and LCI(L)-351-class construction/propulsion description; footnote 7 production blocks; p. 8 specialist-conversion note); NavSource 10/15/150792.htm specification block
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Era inference built on government documentation of this hull's class and builder: HAER AK-52 documents sister hull LCI(L)-653, built at the same yard - New Jersey Shipbuilding, Barber NJ, an assembly-line LCI builder (about 2,500 workers; 375 LCI(L)s delivered) - and explicitly lists the yard's production blocks as LCI(L)s 239-318, 423-657, 782-821, and 866-884, placing hull 792 inside the documented 782-821 block. The class record describes all-welded steel construction, eight six-cylinder General Motors Series 71 diesel truck engines (four per shaft) driving twin variable-pitch propellers, 16-knot maximum speed, 4-officer/24-enlisted complement, and late-design hulls built after 1 June 1944 with centerline ramps and bow doors (792 was laid down 7 July 1944). HAER notes about a third of LCIs were converted to specialist roles including flotilla flagships (LCI(FF)). A 1944-built diesel-powered landing craft sits inside the Navy's documented asbestos era and the wartime emergency-shipbuilding program; era-standard applications aboard a small diesel combatant of this type were diesel-exhaust lagging and silencer insulation, machinery-space thermal insulation, gaskets and valve/flange packing, electrical cable and switchboard insulation, refrigeration/galley insulation, and winch/windlass brake linings. The pre-January-1945 conversion to flotilla flagship - refitting troop compartments as offices and adding radio/communications spaces for the embarked staff - would have disturbed original insulation and installed current-spec materials wherever the conversion was performed, an exposure pathway for conversion-yard trades independent of crew exposure. Diesel propulsion means no boiler or turbine lagging pathway.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-1957
- Population
- New Jersey Shipbuilding construction trades (1944); LC(FF) conversion workforce (1944-45, location undocumented); crew and embarked flotilla staff (1944-46); reserve-fleet/disposal workforce post-1946
- Limitations
- Class/era inference only - HAER AK-52 records sister LCI(L)-653, not LCI(L)-792, and the document contains no asbestos, insulation-material, or fiber-content finding of any kind (its only insulation reference is post-Navy civilian spray-on insulation in a refrigerated-hold conversion). No hull-specific insulation survey, conversion work package, or material list was located for this hull; the LC(FF) conversion location is undocumented. Names era-standard applications, not confirmed installed materials. No quantity, no manufacturer attribution. Asbestos presence aboard is unproven; nothing here establishes individual exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-792-lcil792-05
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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 construction (1944) and service era (1944-46) plus the flotilla-flagship conversion window.
- 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; product-page description used).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-792-lcil792-06
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[8]Batch-5523 search ledger (this record): NavSource 10/15/150792; ShipbuildingHistory New Jersey Shipbuilding yard page + LCI(L) index; NARA SL-44 ship-number index PDF + online deck-log list; NHHC Pacific Fleet organization 1 May 1945 + DANFS URL checks; HyperWar LC(FF) listing; NPS/LOC HAER AK-52; CourtListener API v4 (opinion index); NVR; usslci.org; EPA Chevron Perth Amboy RCRA EI; secondary web litigation sweep [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-lci-l-792-lcil792-01 through -13
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, abatement contract, conversion work package, hazmat disclosure, or litigation naming LCI(L)-792 / LC(FF)-792 was found in the public sources searched (see search_ledger). CourtListener opinion index returned zero hits for 'LCI(L)-792', 'LC(FF)-792', and 'LCI-792' - a genuine negative result in the opinion index; the 'LCI 792' opinion variant and the RECAP/docket index query could not be completed this session (fleet-wide pacing stand-downs) and are logged as open gaps, not results. Secondary web sweeps surfaced no qualifying case; the only 'asbestos aboard' material pattern is law-firm marketing content (generic landing-craft listicles asserting asbestos without primary sourcing) - excluded by source policy. No asbestos litigation naming the builder yard (New Jersey Shipbuilding) was located either; the EPA RCRA Environmental Indicator document for the Chevron Perth Amboy facility on the yard site contains no asbestos finding.
- 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 and converted inside the documented Navy asbestos era. The litigation repository search is partially open (one opinion variant and the docket index unqueried due to fleet pacing). Deck logs (SL-44 holding, undigitized) and any conversion work package are unreviewed leads. Does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-792-lcil792-07