Evidence
12 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-12).
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[1]research packet 478-packet.md (3 sources cited) [nhhc_danfs]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERIFIED
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-lci-l-815-lcil815-pkt-478-packet-md
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[2]NavSource Online: Amphibious Photo Archive, USS LCI(L)-815 - timeline, specifications, flotilla assignment, campaign data, disposal, and photo captions (page last updated 16 August 2019; history credited to 'USS LCI "Landing Craft Infantry" Vol. II,' Turner Publishing, 1995) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource 10/15/150815.htm header timeline, Asiatic-Pacific campaign table, specifications block, and photo captions (images 1015081501-1015081509)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Documented for this hull: LCI-351 class landing craft infantry (large); laid down 16 August 1944 at New Jersey Shipbuilding, Barber, N.J.; launched 15 September 1944; commissioned USS LCI(L)-815, 21 September 1944. Assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater - LCI Flotilla Nineteen (LCDR E.C. Floger), LCI Group Fifty-Six (LTjg C.M. Reese USNR), LCI Division One Hundred Twelve; participated in the Okinawa Gunto operation (assault and occupation, 28 April to 30 June 1945). Assigned to Occupation service in the Far East 20 September 1945 to 25 January 1946. Decommissioned, date unknown; struck from the Naval Register, date unknown; transferred to the Maritime Commission 9 February 1948 for disposal; sold February 1948, fate unknown. Page claims two battle stars for WWII service. Specifications: 236 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; 75 tons cargo; five 20mm guns; propulsion two sets of 4 GM Series-71 diesels (4 per shaft), GM reduction gears, twin variable-pitch propellers, 2,320 shp; two 30kW diesel-driven ship's-service generators. Photo captions document: beaching at Sesoke Shima off Okinawa (~30 men put ashore, per the journal of CO LT George A. Quandee); transport of Japanese prisoners of war circa August 1945; drydocking at the former Japanese Naval Base at Sasebo, September-November 1945 (crew worked topsides, Japanese yard labor worked the underwater hull, per the Quandee journal); and NHHC photo NH 89264 showing the craft underway in San Francisco Bay after the war.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-1948
- Population
- NJ Shipbuilding construction trades (1944); crew (4+24); embarked troops (up to ~188); POW transport passengers (Aug 1945); Japanese yard labor at Sasebo drydock (Sep-Nov 1945)
- Limitations
- NavSource is a volunteer secondary compilation, not a primary registry; its milestones here are corroborated by the Naval Historical Center entry (ev-03) and shipbuildinghistory tables (ev-05). Page contains internal artifacts: the flotilla line misreads 'USS LCI(L)-814' (template slip) and 'two battle stars' is claimed while only one campaign (Okinawa Gunto) is listed and the ribbon display shows a single Asiatic-Pacific star - see gaps. Decommission and struck dates are unknown on the page itself. Contains no asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-815-lcil815-01
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[3]NHHC photographic catalog record NH 89264, 'USS LCI(L)-815' - official photo-catalog entry for this hull; the sole item returned by an NHHC site search for 'LCI(L)-815' [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- NHHC NH-series photo page NH-89264 (verified live 2026-09-30 via rendered fetch; note: bare HTTP fetch without browser headers returns 404)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Official NHHC photographic record for this hull: 'Underway in San Francisco Bay, California, following the end of World War II. Courtesy of William H. Davis, 1979. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.' An NHHC site search for "LCI(L)-815" on 2026-09-30 returned this photograph as the only cataloged item - the hull's official NHHC coverage is this image record; no DANFS narrative article exists for this unnamed numbered landing craft.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- post-1945 (photo); 2026-09-30 (catalog check)
- Population
- Post-war crew (1946); William H. Davis (photo source, 1979)
- Limitations
- Photograph catalog record only - establishes the hull's post-war presence in San Francisco Bay and official-catalog identity, nothing more; no narrative history and no asbestos content. Absence of a DANFS article is structural (DANFS covers named vessels), not evidence about the hull's record content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-815-lcil815-02
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[4]Naval Historical Center, Online Library of Selected Images, 'U.S. NAVY SHIPS -- USS LCI(L)-815 (1944-1948)' - the former NHC ship-history entry, preserved as a verbatim transcription on HyperWar/ibiblio (original history.navy.mil Online Library page no longer resolves; page made 7 September 2004) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- HyperWar OnlineLibrary mirror of NHC page 'usnsh-l/lci815.htm' (history paragraph + NH 89264 caption)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- The Naval Historical Center's own entry for this hull: 'USS LCI(L)-815, a 387-ton landing craft, infantry, built at Barber, New Jersey, was commissioned in September 1944. She was soon sent to the Pacific and took part in the Okinawa campaign during April-June 1945. In September-December of that year, following Japan's surrender, LCI(L)-815 was employed on minesweeping operations in southern Japanese waters and on other occupation duties. She then returned to the U.S., was decommissioned and, in the fall of 1946, placed in disposal status. USS LCI(L)-815 was sold in February 1948.' Accompanied by photo NH 89264 (see ev-02).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-1948
- Population
- Crew during minesweeping support and occupation duty (Sep 1945-Jan 1946)
- Limitations
- Verbatim transcription of the defunct NHC Online Library entry hosted on HyperWar/ibiblio - the canonical original URL no longer resolves, so this mirror is the citable copy. Adds minesweeping duty and the fall-1946 disposal-status milestone that NavSource lacks. '387-ton' is the loaded-displacement figure (see HAER AK-52 principal dimensions for sister LCI(L) 653: 387 long tons loaded). Contains no asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-815-lcil815-03
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[5]HyperWar 'Ships of the U.S. Navy, 1940-1945' spec entry for USS LCI(L)-815 (compiled and formatted by Patrick Clancey, last updated 22 January 2010) [other_primary]
- Locator
- HyperWar USN/ships/LCIL/LCIL-815.html specification list
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Independent spec-block transcription corroborating the hull's identity: LCI(L)-351 class; built at New Jersey Shipbuilding, Barber, NJ; commissioned 21 September 1944; displacement 246 tons light / 264 tons landing; length 158'6"; beam 23'3"; speed 12 knots standard / 16 maximum; armament five 20mm + two .50-cal mg; complement 4 officers + 24 enlisted; troops 6 officers + 182 enlisted; 2 sets GM diesel engines, twin variable-pitch screws, 1600 BHP.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-1945 (specification era)
- Limitations
- Secondary transcription compiled from official lists - values conflict with NavSource (246 t light vs 236 t; 1600 BHP vs 2,320 shp; 158'6" vs 158'5.5") and the entry carries an obvious transcription error ('3,752 tons of cargo' where 75 tons is documented by NavSource and the LCI-713 NRHP nomination). Conflicts carried in gaps; no asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-815-lcil815-04
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[6]Shipbuilding History (Tim Colton): 'Landing Craft Infantry LCI(L)' master table and 'New Jersey Shipbuilding, Barber NJ' yard page - build/disposition tables for all 923 LCI(L)s and the builder profile [other_primary]
- Locator
- lcil.htm row for hull 815; shipyards/emergencysmall/newjersey.htm rows and yard description
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Colton's tables list this hull twice, consistently on builder: master LCI(L) table - 'LCI(L) 815, New Jersey SB, Barber NJ, 21-Sep-44, Sold 1948'; New Jersey Shipbuilding yard table - 'LCI(L) 815, US Navy, Landing Craft, Sep-44, Struck 1946.' The yard profile describes New Jersey Shipbuilding as an assembly line for LCIs on Arthur Kill in Barber (the community east of Perth Amboy now called Maurer), taken over at the Navy's request by Todd Shipyards management in 1942 and closed after the war; the site stood at the foot of what is now Maurer Road near the Chevron asphalt plant. Class context: 923 LCI(L)s built by only ten shipyards.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1942-1948
- Population
- NJ Shipbuilding wartime workforce (~2,500 workers per HAER AK-52)
- Limitations
- Secondary compiler tables, not primary registry data - the two tables themselves diverge on disposition wording ('Sold 1948' vs 'Struck 1946'), which is reconcilable with the NHC sequence (disposal status fall 1946; Maritime Commission transfer 9 February 1948; sale February 1948) but the struck date conflicts with NavSource's 'date unknown' - carried in gaps. URL verified live 2026-09-30 (HTTP 200). No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-815-lcil815-05
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[7]Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) AK-52, 'M/V Husky II (USS LCI(L) 653)' - Library of Congress / NPS federal documentation of a New Jersey Shipbuilding-built LCI(L) 351-class sister craft, written 2012 by Justine Christianson (HABS/HAER) [haer]
- Locator
- HAER AK-52 data report pp. 3-7 (builder history, NJ Shipbuilding hull list footnote 7, construction description, machinery)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Federal documentation of this hull's builder and class. Per HAER: New Jersey Shipbuilding Corporation of Barber, NJ (incorporated 1942 as a wholly owned subsidiary of Barber Asphalt Corporation, converting the idled Perth Amboy asphalt plant on Arthur Kill into an LCI yard) employed about 2,500 workers and produced 375 LCI(L)s - 'LCIs 239 to 318, 423 to 657, 782 to 821, and 866 to 884' (hull 815 falls inside the 782-821 group); the yard prefabricated hull and deckhouse sections at a factory 14 miles away and railroaded them to the ways for assembly-line construction; Todd Shipyards managed the yard. LCI(L) 351-class design details: welded steel throughout, 15-lb high-tensile steel in the pilot house and conning tower, 10-lb high-tensile steel forward, 2-inch 'plastic splinter protection' (crushed granite pebbles embedded in bitumen) on gun tubs/conning tower/pilot house; eight General Motors Series-71 six-cylinder diesel truck engines, four per shaft, driving variable-pitch propellers; hulls built after 1 June 1944 (which includes this August-September 1944 hull) carried the single double-file centerline bow ramp through side-opening bow doors.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1942-1946 (wartime construction); report written 2011-2012
- Population
- NJ Shipbuilding construction trades (~2,500 workers)
- Limitations
- Documents the class and the builder, not hull 815 specifically - all construction description is class-level. The report contains NO asbestos content: its only insulation references are post-Navy spray-foam conversions aboard LCI(L) 653 as a fishing tender. Does not itemize wartime insulation or gasket materials for the class.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-815-lcil815-06
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[8]National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places nomination (continuation sheets), USS LCI-713, Astoria, OR - federal documentation of the LCI(L) 351-class construction and arrangement [nps]
- Locator
- NRHP continuation sheet Section 7, 'LCI-713 As Built' and narrative description
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Federal NRHP documentation of the class's construction and internal arrangement (via sister LCI-713): constructed of quarter-inch steel plate, welded entirely throughout, designed for rapid assembly-line production; below-deck arrangement of bosun's locker, three troop compartments (~60 troops each), crew compartment with 24 tube-frame racks, engine room, fourth troop compartment (~24 troops), food-stores and ammunition lockers, and steering compartment; engine room held eight General Motors 6-71 diesel engines in two banks of four, each shaft rated ~1600 BHP, maximum speed 16 knots; engine exhaust system designed with both above- and underwater discharge, the latter used during landings to lessen engine noise; 158'5.5" x 23'3", 419 tons loaded, 75 tons cargo.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-1945 (as-built description); nomination ~2007
- Population
- LCI-class crew and embarked troops (design populations)
- Limitations
- Class documentation, not a hull record - LCI-713 was built by George Lawley & Son, Neponset MA, a different yard, and the nomination itself notes each shipyard was allowed construction latitude. Contains no asbestos or insulation-material content; does not establish materials aboard hull 815.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-815-lcil815-07
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[9]Era inference built on: GAO HRD-80-2 (ev-09); federal class documentation of a welded-steel diesel craft (HAER AK-52 ev-06; LCI-713 NRHP ev-07); NavSource/NHC specifications for this hull (diesel plant, no steam); the governing BuShips 'Detail and Special Specifications for Building Landing Craft Infantry (Large) LCI(L) 351-542' (1943, cited in HAER AK-52 footnote 4) - held in government records but not retrieved this session (archival lead) [other_primary]
- Locator
- GAO HRD-80-2 text (ev-09); HAER AK-52 construction description; NRHP LCI-713 as-built description; HAER AK-52 footnote 4 citing the BuShips detail spec
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- A welded-steel, diesel-powered infantry landing craft built in 1944 sits inside the Navy's documented asbestos-use era, but this craft carried no boilers or steam plant - the boiler and steam-line lagging that made up the major asbestos application aboard steam vessels does not apply. Era-standard asbestos-containing applications aboard a small diesel craft of this period were correspondingly limited: exhaust-system lagging and muffler/silencer insulation, machinery gaskets and valve packing, electrical insulation and resistors, deck tiling and galley-range insulation, and brake/clutch linings - the same product categories GAO lists as the residual, hard-to-eliminate asbestos uses across the fleet.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-1948
- Population
- NJ Shipbuilding construction trades (1944); crew (4 officers + 24 enlisted) in the confined craft volume; embarked troops (up to ~188)
- Limitations
- Class/era inference only - no hull-specific insulation survey, material list, or work package located for LCI(L)-815, and the federal class documentation reviewed does not itemize wartime insulation materials at all. 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-815-lcil815-08
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[10]GAO, Navy's Efforts To Protect Workers From Asbestos Exposure, HRD-80-2 (Oct 18, 1979; released Oct 22, 1979; full report 26 pp., PDF retrieved this session via rendered fetch after direct HTTP 403) [gao]
- Locator
- GAO HRD-80-2, transmittal letter and 'Use of Asbestos in Navy Ships' section (pp. i-iv of report PDF)
- Finding type
- gov_survey
- Finding
- Program-level Navy asbestos documentation spanning this hull's era. The Navy told GAO that 'all ships contain some asbestos in such components as clutches and electric cables'; that 'thermal insulation for machinery, equipment and piping systems has been the major application of asbestos'; and that 'there are so many common uses of asbestos that it is nearly impossible to build a Navy ship free of the mineral' - citing asbestos in Navy electronic-equipment resistors, ship deck tiling, galley ranges, piping-system gaskets and packing, and equipment brakes and clutches. Thermal-insulation product specifications were changed to asbestos-free in 1973 and the Navy's asbestos-elimination policy issued October 1975 - both long after this hull's 1944 construction and 1948 sale.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1979 (report); WWII-1970s (use era described)
- Population
- Navy shipyard workers (1970s review); construction-era trades (context)
- Limitations
- Program-level documentation - supports era context only and says nothing specific to this hull; GAO fieldwork covered the Long Beach and Norfolk Naval Shipyards in 1978-79, not WWII-era small-craft construction. Report text retrieved via rendered fetch (firecrawl) after gao.gov returned HTTP 403 to a plain request.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-815-lcil815-09
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[11]National Archives Catalog: 'World War II War Diaries, Other Operational Records and Histories' (RG 38, NAID 4697018, 116,110 file units) + RG 24 Entry 118 deck logs - holdings that should contain this hull's operational records [other_primary]
- Locator
- catalog.archives.gov series NAID 4697018 search-within page (JS-rendered); LCI(L)-414 file-unit NAIDs 78456370/78526386 surfaced via indexed catalog pages
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- NARA's digitized WWII War Diaries series contains per-ship file units for LCI(L)s (verified for sister craft - e.g., USS LCI(L) 414 war diaries for May-July 1944, NAIDs 78456370 and 78526386). A war diary for USS LCI(L)-815 covering its September 1944 - 1946 service may exist in this series but was not confirmed: the catalog search is JS-rendered and could not be fetched or independently verified from this session. WWII-era deck logs (RG 24, Entry 118) are held at Archives II, College Park; the digitization status of this hull's 1944-46 logs is likewise unconfirmed.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-1946 (record coverage sought)
- Population
- Crew and command records (1944-1946), if extant
- Limitations
- Archival lead only - establishes where this hull's operational records likely reside, not that they exist or what they contain. Catalog verification is open pending a rendered/API-capable NARA session. No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-815-lcil815-10
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[12]Batch-5549 search ledger (this record): NavSource; NHHC site search + NH-89264; NHC Online Library entry via HyperWar; HyperWar spec entry; shipbuildinghistory master + yard tables; LOC HAER AK-52; NPS NRHP LCI-713; GAO HRD-80-2 (full text); NARA catalog (JS-rendered); NVR policy page; CourtListener (blocked); secondary web litigation sweep [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-lci-l-815-lcil815-01 through -13
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, museum disclosure, or verified litigation naming USS LCI(L)-815 was found in the public sources searched (see search_ledger). No DANFS article exists for this unnamed numbered craft - the hull's NHHC coverage is a single photograph record. The Naval Vessel Register carries no entry (the NVR excludes hulls disposed of before 1987 per its own published policy; this hull was disposed of in 1948). Secondary web sweeps for this hull surfaced no qualifying case and not even the usual law-firm marketing listicles. CAVEAT: CourtListener could not be queried this session - the authenticated helper returned exit 2 on seven attempts across ~50 minutes because the fleet-wide pacing budget (~114 requests/hr shared across sessions) was spent; logged as blocked in search_ledger, NOT as a negative result.
- 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 - this hull's record is thin overall (even decommission/struck dates are unknown to the standard compilations). The litigation repository search is a genuine open gap (pacing-blocked, not run). The MARCOM disposal file, deck logs, war diary, and any 1948 purchaser documentation are undigitized leads. Does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-815-lcil815-11