Evidence
10 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-10).
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[1]research packet 481-packet.md (3 sources cited) [other_primary]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERIFIED (identity, builder, dates from DANFS text reproduced via Wikipedia mirror;
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Limitations
- qualifier: VERIFIED (identity, builder, dates from DANFS text reproduced via Wikipedia mirror;
- Evidence ID
- uss-lci-l-874-lcil874-pkt-481-packet-md
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[2]DANFS, 'Kestrel II (AMCU-26)' entry (NHHC, published 2015): covers this hull from laying down as LCI(L)-874 through sale as Kestrel - stat block 'cl. LCI(L)-351', dp. 209, cpl. 239 [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS K-volume, 'Kestrel II (AMCU-26)' entry, full text + stat block
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Laid down by New Jersey Shipbuilding Corp., Barber, N.J., 7 September 1944; launched 6 October 1944; commissioned 13 October 1944, Lt. (j.g.) J. O. Harrison in command. Shakedown/training Atlantic coast; departed Key West 25 November 1944 for the Pacific; San Diego 13 December; departed 29 January 1945 via Pearl Harbor, Eniwetok, Guam; arrived Peleliu 12 April; picket and patrol duty Palau Islands through war's end. September 1945-February 1946 mail and shuttle service between Palau and Mariana Islands. Departed Eniwetok 4 February 1946, arrived San Pedro about a month later; sailed to Oregon in May and decommissioned there 10 July 1946, joining the Pacific Reserve Fleet. Reclassified and named Kestrel (AMCU-26) 7 March 1952; recommissioned 8 February 1954, Lt. Gurley P. Chatelain in command; San Diego 27 March 1954 for 11th Naval District operations; underwater mine location exercises 1954-57; reclassified MHC-26 February 1955; decommissioned San Diego 2 December 1957; sold to Murphy Marine Service 28 June 1960.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-1960
- Population
- Crew (1944-46, 1954-57); embarked troops (wartime)
- Limitations
- Official Navy history; verified live 2026-09-30. Contains no asbestos information - service history only. DANFS complement figure (239) conflicts with NavSource crew/troop breakdown; see gaps. Does not establish asbestos presence, quantities, or exposure.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-874-01
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[3]NavSource Online, Mine Warfare Vessel Photo Archive, 'Kestrel (MHC 26) ex-Kestrel (AMCU 26) ex-LSI(L)-874 ex-LCI(L)-874' - timeline, LCI specifications, commanding officers, post-Navy commercial disposition chain [other_primary]
- Locator
- Page header designation string; timeline; 'LCI Specifications' block; Commanding Officers table; photo captions
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Designation chain on one hull: Kestrel (MHC 26) ex-Kestrel (AMCU 26) ex-LSI(L)-874 ex-LCI(L)-874. LCI(L)-351 class / AMCU-7 class Coastal Minesweeper (Underwater Locator). Conversion to AMCU-26 began 24 August 1953 at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, WA; completed 1 March 1954. Sold 28 June 1960 to Murphy Marine Service; acquired 1967 by Greater Anchorage Development Corp., Anchorage, AK, renamed Teddy; acquired 1988 by Inlet Salmon, Inc., Soldotna, AK, renamed Qanirtuug Princess; acquired 2000 by Inlet Fisheries, Inc., Kenai, AK; out of documentation 2003, fate unknown. Specifications: displacement 216 t. light / 234 t. landing / 389 t. loaded; 158'5.5" x 23'3"; propulsion two sets of four 200 bhp General Motors 6-71 diesel engines, 4 per shaft, two variable-pitch propellers; complement 2 officers + 21 enlisted, troop capacity 6 officers + 182 enlisted. Commanding officers LTJG Judson O. Harrison, Jr., USNR (1945) and LT Gurley P. Chatelain, USN (8 February 1954).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-2003
- Population
- Crew (1944-46, 1954-57); conversion-yard trades at PSNSY (1953-54); commercial fishing crews (1960-2003)
- Limitations
- Volunteer-maintained photographic/historical archive consistent with DANFS on all overlapping dates; verified live 2026-09-30 (navsource.org is dead - navsource.net is the live domain). NavSource styles the commissioning unit 'USS LSI(L)-874' - retrospective postwar terminology; see ev-09. Post-1960 commercial history is NavSource-only. No asbestos information. Does not establish asbestos presence, quantities, or exposure.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-874-02
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[4]NHHC photographic catalog entry: 'USN 1046265 USS Kestrel (AMCU-26)' - National Archives original, black and white photograph [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- NHHC numerical image list, catalog no. USN 1046265
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- A National Archives-held official photograph of this hull in her Kestrel (AMCU-26) configuration is cataloged by NHHC - confirms the AMCU-26 conversion identity on this hull and marks NARA-held imagery as a surviving primary record.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1954-1957 (AMCU-26 service period)
- Limitations
- Photograph and catalog metadata only - contains no asbestos or material information; image content was not analyzed for insulation detail. Confirms identity, nothing more.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-874-03
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[5]Era inference built on: NavSource LCI specifications (eight GM 6-71 diesels, 4 per shaft, two variable-pitch propellers - no steam plant); DANFS class designation LCI(L)-351; NARA guided topic on asbestos in Navy materiel 1941-1961 (see ev-06); GAO HRD-80-2 (see ev-07) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource 'LCI Specifications' propulsion line; NARA asbestos guided topic; GAO HRD-80-2 product page
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- A diesel-powered amphibious landing craft built September-October 1944 sits inside the documented Navy asbestos-materiel era (NARA: asbestos in U.S. Navy materiel 1941-1961). With no steam plant, the boiler/turbine lagging pathway of larger combatants does not apply; era-standard applications aboard a craft of this type and period were diesel-exhaust and machinery lagging, thermal insulation within the confined hull, gaskets, valve packing, and electrical insulation.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-2003
- Population
- New Jersey Shipbuilding construction trades (1944); crew (1944-46, 1954-57); PSNSY conversion trades (1953-54); commercial fishing crews (1960-2003)
- Limitations
- Class/era inference only - no hull-specific insulation survey, material list, plans, or work package located for this hull. Names era-standard applications, not confirmed installed materials. No quantity. Does not establish that any listed material was present aboard this hull or that any individual was exposed.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-874-04
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[6]PMID 19235622, 'A visual historical review of exposure to asbestos at puget sound naval shipyard (1962-1972)'; and PMID 1065583, Beckett RR, 'Asbestos exposure control at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard,' Environ Res. 1976 Apr;11(2):248-60 [other_primary]
- Locator
- PubMed records PMID 19235622 (abstract) and PMID 1065583 (title/journal); PSNSY conversion event per NavSource timeline
- Finding type
- gov_survey
- Finding
- The yard that performed this hull's AMCU-26 conversion (August 1953-March 1954) is a documented asbestos-exposure site in peer-reviewed literature: a historical review of asbestos exposure at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard covering 1962-1972 presents photographs depicting work conditions there circa 1940-1965 as representative of military shipyards of the time, and a 1976 peer-reviewed study addresses asbestos exposure control at that same shipyard. The 1953-54 conversion window falls within the documented-era conditions.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1940-1976 (documentation era); hull conversion 1953-1954
- Population
- PSNSY trades working ship conversion/overhaul (era covering 1953-54)
- Limitations
- Yard-level documentation, not a hull record: neither paper names this vessel, and the visual review's stated coverage window (1962-1972, photographs circa 1940-1965) brackets rather than centers on 1953-54. Establishes that asbestos exposure conditions at PSNSY in that era are documented - does not establish that conversion work on this hull disturbed asbestos, nor materials aboard, quantities, or individual exposure. Bibliographic records verified via NCBI E-utilities 2026-09-30 (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov itself served a reCAPTCHA interstitial to automated fetch); detailed findings cited in the shipyards.json yard record for PSNSY were not independently re-verified here.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-874-05
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[7]National Archives, 'Researching Asbestos aboard US Naval Vessel up through 1961' - official guided research topic [other_primary]
- Locator
- Guided topic page, 'Beginning Research' and 'Bureau of Ships General, Confidential, and Secret Correspondence' sections (RG 19 entries P 29, A1 1266 series, UD 1001-1007+)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- NARA states 'the use of asbestos in U.S. Navy materiel from 1941-1961 is a frequently requested topic' and publishes a research guide for documenting whether a particular US naval ship does or does not have asbestos material aboard - directing researchers to Record Group 19 (Records of the Bureau of Ships) general/confidential correspondence 1940-1961 filed by hull designation, and to shipyard correspondence files (NY designations for naval shipyards; QM designations for private builders). For this hull those leads are: LCI(L)-874/LSIL-874 hull and LCI(L)-351-class correspondence, QM/New Jersey Shipbuilding (builder, 1944) and NY Puget Sound (conversion yard, 1953-54) files.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- Records coverage 1940-1961
- Population
- Researchers/veterans filing VA claims (audience); Navy personnel and yard workers 1941-1961 (subject)
- Limitations
- NARA's official framing covers the Navy materiel era 1941-1961 - spanning this hull's entire Navy career (1944-1957) - but is methodological guidance, not a finding about this vessel. The RG 19 series named are not digitized for this hull; presence of asbestos aboard is neither established nor excluded by this source.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-874-06
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[8]GAO, Navy Efforts To Protect Workers From Asbestos Exposure, HRD-80-2 (published Oct 18, 1979; publicly released Oct 22, 1979) [gao]
- Locator
- GAO HRD-80-2 product page, 'Highlights' section (verified live 2026-09-30)
- Finding type
- gov_survey
- Finding
- GAO reviewed Navy efforts to protect workers from asbestos exposure, including the use of asbestos in Navy ships and the cost of removing it; per the published highlights, Navy policy in 1975 was to remove and replace with nonasbestos materials only insulation that was damaged or had to be removed for repairs, modified in 1979 to selective replacement in high-maintenance areas - meaning original-era insulation typically remained in place for decades unless a yard period disturbed it.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1979 (review); policy era 1975-1979
- Population
- Navy shipyard workers; asbestos program review
- Limitations
- Program-level documentation; GAO fieldwork was at Long Beach and Norfolk Naval Shipyards, not this hull's builder or conversion yard. Supports era context for why asbestos material persisted aboard Navy vessels of the period - not any fact specific to this hull. This hull was sold out of Navy service in 1960, before the policies described took effect.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-874-07
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[9]Batch-5570 search ledger (this record): NHHC DANFS Kestrel II entry; NavSource AMCU-26 page; NHHC photo catalog USN 1046265; NARA asbestos guided topic + catalog; Naval Vessel Register; GAO HRD-80-2; PubMed E-utilities; CourtListener opinion and docket indexes (all name variants); secondary-web litigation sweep [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-lci-l-874-01 through -14
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, or docketed/published case naming LCI(L)-874, LSI(L)-874, LSIL-874, LCI-874, AMCU-26, or MHC-26 was found in the public sources searched (see search_ledger). The only asbestos-claims material surfaced is law-firm marketing content - including an asbestos-ships.com listicle naming 'USS Kestrel AMc-5,' a different vessel (the 1938-built coastal minesweeper AMc-5), i.e. a name collision that does not touch this hull - 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. The CourtListener 'USS Kestrel' query could not be completed at reporting time - fleet pacing budget repeatedly spent; logged as blocked in search_ledger, not as a negative result. RG 19 hull/class correspondence and deck logs are undigitized leads. Does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-874-08
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[10]NavSource timeline entry 'Commissioned USS LSI(L)-874, 13 October 1944' vs. DANFS 'LCI(L)-874 ... commissioned 13 October, Lt. (j.g.) J. O. Harrison in command' [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource timeline vs. DANFS Kestrel II entry
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- NavSource styles the 13 October 1944 commissioning as 'USS LSI(L)-874'; DANFS records the same date for LCI(L)-874. The LSI(L)/LSIL terminology is retrospective - applied to the wartime LCI(L) hull postwar (the craft was in reserve 1946-1952 when surviving LCIs carried the LSI(L) designation). This record treats LCI(L)-874 and LSI(L)-874/LSIL-874 as the same hull, which NavSource's own designation chain (ex-LSI(L)-874 ex-LCI(L)-874) confirms.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- correction
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-1952 (designation era)
- Limitations
- Terminology normalization only - no event discrepancy between the two sources (dates agree). Neither source gives a stricken date for this hull.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-874-09