Evidence
10 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-10).
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[1]research packet 478-packet.md (3 sources cited) [other_primary]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERIFIED (identity); dates UNVERIFIABLE
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-lci-l-819-lcil819-pkt-478-packet-md
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[2]NavSource Online: Amphibious Photo Archive, USS LCI(L)-819 - construction timeline, specifications, campaigns, disposition (verified live) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource 10/15/150819.htm header block, campaign table, disposition lines, specifications block, photo caption 1015081901, commanding-officers table; page last updated 26 January 2024
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Documented for this hull: LCI-351 class Landing Craft Infantry (Large); laid down 22 August 1944 at New Jersey Ship Building Co., Barber, N.J.; launched 21 September 1944; commissioned USS LCI(L)-819, 27 September 1944 (LTjg. E. H. Weigel). WWII assignment: Asiatic-Pacific Theater, LCI Flotilla Nineteen, LCI Group Fifty-Six, LCI Division One Hundred Twelve. Campaigns: Okinawa Gunto operation - assault and occupation of Okinawa Gunto, 28 April to 30 June 1945; Minesweeping operations-Pacific - Kochi-Shikoku (Honshu area), 8 to 16 September 1945, Nagoya (Honshu area), 28 September to 25 October 1945. Occupation service in the Far East 2-16 September 1945. Departed Saipan after Christmas, arrived San Francisco Bay January 1946, docking at Sausalito. Decommissioned 1 November 1946; struck from the Naval Register, date unknown; two battle stars for WWII service. Transferred to the Maritime Commission 23 January 1948. Registered 1950 by Hugh E. Shaw, Portland OR as freighter Nomad; 1956 by S. E. Alaska Marine Transport Co., Seattle WA; 1957 by Peninsula Packers, Seattle; 1960 by the Ajax Co., Seattle. Out of documentation 1969; final disposition fate unknown. Spec block: 236 t light / 264 t landing / 419 t loaded; 158'5.5" x 23'3"; 16 kts max / 14 kts continuous; complement 4 officers + 24 enlisted, troop capacity 6 officers + 182 enlisted; cargo 75 tons; five single 20mm guns; radio call sign NWRR; propulsion two sets of four 'General Motors 6051 series 71' diesels, GM main reduction gears, twin variable-pitch propellers, 2,320 shp, two 30kW diesel-drive generators.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-1969
- Population
- Construction trades, New Jersey Shipbuilding, Barber NJ (Aug-Sep 1944); ship's company and embarked troops (1944-46); merchant crews as Nomad (1950-69)
- Limitations
- NavSource is a volunteer secondary compilation, not a primary registry - its hull page sources the history to Turner Publishing's 'USS LCI Landing Craft Infantry' Vol. II (1995). Milestones corroborated at points by NHHC Pacific Fleet organization (ev-02), the official awards manual (ev-03), the USN call-sign book (ev-04), and shipbuildinghistory's yard table (ev-05). Contains no asbestos content. 'Struck 1946' at shipbuildinghistory vs 'struck, date unknown' at NavSource - see gaps. Engine-series rendering '6051 series 71' is likely a garbled '6-71' (GM Detroit Diesel) - flagged, not corrected.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-819-lcil819-01
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[3]Naval History and Heritage Command, 'United States Pacific Fleet Organization, 1 May 1945' (official fleet organization roster, NHHC online reading room) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NHHC online reading room page, 'LCI FLOTILLA NINETEEN' > 'LCI GROUP 56' > 'LCI DIVISION 112' table rows (page ~81 of the original roster)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Official NHHC roster places this hull in the Pacific Fleet as of 1 May 1945: 'LCI 819' is listed under LCI FLOTILLA NINETEEN (Commander: Lt. Cdr. E. C. Folger, Jr. (4287)), LCI GROUP 56 (ComLCIGrp 56: Lt. (jg) C. M. Reese (USNR)), LCI DIVISION 112, alongside LCI 814-818. The hull's command billet is printed vacant ('..........'). This confirms NavSource's Flotilla 19 / Group 56 / Division 112 assignment from an official publication.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1945-05-01
- Population
- LCI Flotilla 19 / Group 56 personnel (1 May 1945)
- Limitations
- Roster establishes organizational assignment at a single date (1 May 1945) - not movement, position, or material condition. NavSource renders the flotilla commander's name 'Floger'; the NHHC roster reads 'Folger, Jr.' - NHHC spelling carried in this record. No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-819-lcil819-02
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[4]Navy and Marine Corps Awards Manual (1953), Part IV, Section 2, 'Campaign and Service Medals - Requirements For' - List of Ships and Units eligible for Engagement Stars (verbatim transcription via HyperWar/ibiblio) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Awards-IV-16.html Part IV ship-eligibility lists: P207 minesweeping section ('LCI 819' rows) and P34 Okinawa section ('LCI(L) 819' row)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- The official awards manual lists this hull for engagement-star eligibility: 'LCI(L) 819: 28 Apr 45 - 30 Jun 45, P34-1' under the Okinawa Gunto operation (P34-1 = assault and occupation of Okinawa Gunto, 24 Mar-30 Jun 45); and 'LCI 819: 28 Sep 45 - 25 Oct 45, P207-3' and '8 Sep 45 - 16 Sep 45, P207-6' under Minesweeping Operations Pacific (P207-3 = Nagoya, Honshu area; P207-6 = Kochi-Shikoku, Honshu area). One star is authorized per operation group - consistent with NavSource's 'two battle stars for World War II service.'
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1945-04-28 - 1945-10-25 (participation windows); manual published 1953
- Population
- Ship's company during the Okinawa and post-surrender minesweeping periods
- Limitations
- Establishes participation windows for award eligibility, not operational detail or material condition. HyperWar transcription of an official manual - OCR artifacts exist elsewhere in the file but the LCI 819 rows read cleanly. No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-819-lcil819-03
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[5]U.S. Navy Radio Call Sign Book (WWII), Section 18 - 'U.S. Navy Ships by Classes' (verbatim transcription via HyperWar/ibiblio) [other_primary]
- Locator
- CallSigns-18.html, LCI(L) table row 'LCI (L) 819'
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- The official wartime call-sign book assigns 'LCI (L) 819 | NWRR' - matching the international radio call sign (November-Whiskey-Romeo-Romeo) displayed on the NavSource hull page.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- WWII (1944-45)
- Limitations
- Confirms hull identity and wartime call sign only; no service, condition, or asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-819-lcil819-04
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[6]shipbuildinghistory.com (Tim Colton), 'New Jersey Shipbuilding, Barber NJ' - yard history and LCI(L) build table; corroborated by War Department, 'War Industrial Facilities Authorized July 1940-August 1945' (GovInfo) listing 'New Jersey Shipbuilding Co., Perth Amboy N.J.' for landing craft infantry [other_primary]
- Locator
- shipbuildinghistory.com/shipyards/emergencysmall/newjersey.htm yard description + build-table row 819; GovInfo GOVPUB-P32_4800-1226d01b08d0c7bf2f8de2cbd75b80cc facility list
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- The builder's yard: New Jersey Shipbuilding was 'an assembly line for LCIs on Arthur Kill, in Barber, a community immediately to the east of Perth Amboy which was later absorbed into Perth Amboy and is now called Maurer. Management of the yard was taken over by Todd Shipyards in 1942, at the Navy's request, and was closed after the war.' The yard's hull table lists 'LCI(L) 819 - US Navy - Landing Craft - Sep-44 - Struck 1946'. The War Department's war-industrial-facilities authorization list independently records 'new Jersey shipbuilding co PERTH AMBOY N J' with LANDING CRAFT INFANTRY among listed products.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944
- Population
- New Jersey Shipbuilding construction trades (Aug-Sep 1944 build window)
- Limitations
- shipbuildinghistory.com is a private compiled reference (not an official registry) - its 'Struck 1946' conflicts with NavSource's 'struck, date unknown' and is flagged in gaps rather than resolved. The GovInfo facility list confirms the yard and product type only. No asbestos content; the yard's wartime materials records are not digitized.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-819-lcil819-05
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[7]Bureau of Ships, 'An Administrative History of the Bureau of Ships During World War II' (official USN administrative history, verbatim transcription via HyperWar/ibiblio), vol. 4, materials/chemistry sections [other_primary]
- Locator
- BuShips Admin History WWII v.4, pp. ~156-157 ('Asbestos-Glass Insulation Lagging Cloth' paragraph, chemistry section) and p. ~218 (rubber-program 'rubber asbestos gaskets' line)
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- The Bureau of Ships' own administrative history documents asbestos as a standard wartime material: a 'Standard asbestos cloth' existed for insulation lagging, and when asbestos fiber ran short BuShips developed an 'Asbestos-Glass Insulation Lagging Cloth' - 'an asbestos yarn around a glass yarn ... a better and more workable cloth of about 1/2 the weight and which used about 1/2 the asbestos used in the Standard asbestos cloth.' The R&D summary separately records 'high temperature resistant rubber asbestos gaskets' among rubber-program improvements. A landing craft built Aug-Sep 1944 inside BuShips specifications sits squarely in this documented use era; era-standard applications for a diesel craft of this type were machinery and exhaust thermal insulation, piping gaskets and packing, electrical insulation, deck covering, and friction linings on winches/capstans.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1941-1945 (wartime program), build window Sep 1944
- Population
- Navy shipbuilders/repairers and crews, WWII era (context); this hull's construction trades and crew by inference only
- Limitations
- Program-level wartime documentation, not a hull record - the administrative history names no LCI and certifies no bill of materials for this hull. Asbestos presence aboard LCI(L)-819 is era inference: the Bureau documented these materials in Navy-wide use, not aboard this craft. No quantity, no present-day presence, no exposure fact. Diesel craft - the boiler/steam-line lagging pathway of steam vessels does not apply.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-819-lcil819-06
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[8]GAO, 'Navy's Efforts to Protect Workers From Asbestos Exposure' (HRD-80-2, 18 Oct 1979) - full text retrieved via PDF asset this session [gao]
- Locator
- GAO HRD-80-2 PDF, transmittal letter and 'Navy's Policy on Use of Asbestos' section; Navy enclosure response to questions 1, 2 and 4 (shipboard applications enumeration)
- Finding type
- gov_survey
- Finding
- GAO documented that Navy thermal-insulation specifications were not revised to require asbestos-free materials until 1973, and that 'thermal insulation for machinery, equipment and piping systems has been the major application of asbestos' aboard Navy ships. A Navy enclosure in the report enumerates shipboard asbestos applications: electrical resistors, deck floor tiling, electric cabling and galley ranges, piping-system gaskets and packing, and equipment brakes and clutches - 'it is nearly impossible to build a Navy ship free of the mineral.' Ships were still delivered with asbestos insulation as late as May 1978 from pre-purchased stock. A 1944-built hull sits entirely inside the documented asbestos-specification era.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1979 (report); documented use era spans this hull's entire life (1944-69)
- Population
- Navy shipyard workers (program review); era crews by inference only
- Limitations
- Program-level documentation; supports era context only, not any fact specific to this hull - LCI(L)-819 is not named and the report's fieldwork yards (Long Beach, Norfolk Naval Shipyards) are unrelated to this craft's construction or service. Does not establish materials aboard this hull, individual exposure, quantity, or present-day presence.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-819-lcil819-07
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[9]Richards, Nathan (UNC Coastal Studies Institute / ECU Program in Maritime Studies), 'Pappy Lane Shipwreck (PAS0001): Public Education and Outreach as a Part of Mitigation For TIP B-2500,' report prepared for NCDOT under Section 106/NHPA, 2018 (academia.edu mirror) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Report abstract/conclusion and candidate-disposition table (entry 'LCI(L)-819 ... ON260657'); ECU Maritime Studies project page confirms the LCS(L)(3)-123 identification
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- A government-sponsored archaeological identification study evaluated this hull's post-Navy identity: its candidate-disposition table lists 'LCI(L)-819 - Became freighter Nomad, out of Washington, out of documentation 1969 (ON260657)' (citing Williams 2013:31), independently corroborating the merchant-service chain and the vessel's official number. The study's conclusion identifies the Pamlico Sound wreck as 'likely the LCS(L)(3)-123' (ex-petroleum tank barge Hunt Bros. No. 10) - the Rodanthe 'Pappy's Lane' wreck is therefore NOT this hull; LCI(L)-819's fate remains unknown.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- correction
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 2018 (study); vessel window 1948-69
- Limitations
- The wreck identification is a reasoned archaeological conclusion ('likely'), not a proven legal identity; it is carried here only to foreclose the competing possibility that this hull is the Pappy's Lane wreck and to corroborate ON 260657. Merchant-registration details trace to secondary compilations (Williams 2013; NavSource) rather than to a digitized USCG/MARAD registry record - the MARAD Vessel History Database returned no record for ON 260657 (see search_ledger).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-819-lcil819-08
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[10]Batch-5553 search ledger (this record): NHHC DANFS candidate URLs (404); NVR detail page (no entry - pre-1987 disposal); NHHC Pacific Fleet organization; Navy/MC Awards Manual 1953; USN Radio Call Sign Book; shipbuildinghistory yard table; GovInfo war-facilities list; BuShips administrative history v4; GAO HRD-80-2; MARAD Vessel History Database; usslci.org; NCDOT Pappy's Lane report; secondary web sweeps; CourtListener (status per ledger) [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-lci-l-819-lcil819-01 through -16
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, or verified litigation naming USS LCI(L)-819 was found in the public sources searched. Secondary web sweeps surfaced no 'asbestos' or litigation content naming this hull at all - not even the usual law-firm listicle coverage larger Navy hulls attract. The sole litigation surface area is generic LCI-class marketing claims, none naming this hull.
- 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 - a 1944 BuShips-spec hull sits in the documented asbestos era, and the absence finding reflects thin digitization of small-craft records, not affirmative clearance. Deck logs, NJ Shipbuilding work packages, and Maritime Commission disposal files are undigitized leads (see gaps and search_ledger). Does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-819-lcil819-09