Evidence
8 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-8).
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[1]DANFS, Longspur II (LCI(L)-884) - construction, WWII service, 1949/1952/1953 reclassifications, disposal (NHHC live page verified) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- NHHC DANFS 'Longspur II (LCI(L)-884)' page - spec block and full service narrative
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Documented for this hull: laid down as LCI(L)-884 by New Jersey Shipbuilding Co., Barber, N.J., 22 September 1944; launched 20 October 1944; commissioned 27 October 1944, Lt. (jg.) R. G. Townsend in command. After shakedown departed Norfolk 25 November, steamed through the Panama Canal, arrived San Diego 20 December; sailed 6 March 1945 for the Marianas, arrived Guam 8 April; arrived Okinawa 28 April and was assigned mail-delivery and smoke-station duty for large ships operating off Okinawa for the rest of the war. Postwar operated as a mine-destruction vessel out of Nagasaki and Sasebo until December 1945; returned to the U.S. early 1946; decommissioned 24 March 1947, Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Green Cove Springs, Fla.; reclassified LSI(L)-884, 28 February 1949. Named and redesignated Longspur (AMCU-28) 7 March 1952; recommissioned June 1952, assigned to the 6th Naval District for harbor defense; reclassified MHC-28 on 7 February 1953 (DANFS date - see gaps for the class-wide 1955 conflict); decommissioned 1 January 1954 to the Atlantic Reserve Fleet at Charleston, S.C.; struck 1 January 1960; sold to Mills Marine Co. 18 May 1960 and towed away for scrap 22 June 1960. LCI(L)-884 received one battle star for World War II service.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-1960
- Population
- NJ Shipbuilding construction trades (1944); LCI(L)-884 crew (1944-47); Longspur crew (1952-54); Charleston NSY conversion trades (1953-54); Mills Marine shipbreakers (1960)
- Limitations
- Ship-specific history only; no asbestos or material content. DANFS spec block (dp. 206; l. 159'; b. 23'8"; dr. 6'; s. 14 k.; cpl. 239; a. 5 20mm.; cl. LCI(L)-351) conflicts with NavSource specifications on complement and armament - see gaps. DANFS's 7 February 1953 MHC-28 date conflicts with class-wide AMCU->MHC redesignation dating of Feb-Jul 1955 - see gaps. Live NHHC page verified 2026-09-30 (unlike the link-rot affecting some DANFS pages this cycle).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-884-lcil884-01
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[2]NavSource Online: Mine Warfare Vessel Photo Archive, Longspur (MHC 28) ex-AMCU 28 / ex-LSI(L)-884 / ex-LCI(L)-884 - designation timeline, specifications, commanding officers, conversion and disposal [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource 11/0428.htm - header designation block, 'LCI Specifications' block, commanding-officer table, DANFS transcription
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NavSource timeline for this hull (filed under the Mine Warfare archive - converted LCIs carry no separate landing-craft page; navsource.net/archives/10/15/150884.htm does not exist): laid down 22 September 1944 by New Jersey Shipbuilding Co., Barber, NJ; launched 20 October 1944; commissioned USS LCI(L)-884, 27 October 1944; decommissioned 24 March 1947; reclassified LSI(L)-884, 28 February 1949 (header line prints 'LSI(L)-844' - typo, see ev-08); named Longspur and reclassified AMCU-28, 7 March 1952; conversion to AMCU-28 began 15 November 1953 at the Charleston Naval Shipyard, Charleston, SC, completed 15 May 1954; recommissioned June 1952; reclassified MHC-28, 7 February 1953; decommissioned 1 January 1954; struck 1 January 1960; sold for scrap 18 May 1960 to Mills Marine Co. of Suffolk, VA. Commanding officers: LTJG Robertson G. Townsend, USNR (27 Oct 1944 - 1946); LTJG Glynn I. Nash, USNR (1946 - 24 Jun 1946). Spec block: 216 t light / 234 t landing / 389 t loaded; 158'5.5" x 23'3"; 16 kts max; complement 2 officers + 21 enlisted, troop capacity 6 officers + 182 enlisted; 4 x 20mm guns (later two .50 cal MGs); two sets of four 200 bhp GM 6-71 diesels, 4 per shaft, two variable-pitch propellers.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-1960
- Population
- NJ Shipbuilding construction trades (1944); crew (1944-47, 1952-54); Charleston NSY conversion trades (1953-54); Green Cove Springs/Charleston reserve-fleet caretakers (1947-52, 1954-60); Mills Marine shipbreakers (1960)
- Limitations
- NavSource is a volunteer secondary compilation, not a primary registry - milestone dates generally track DANFS/NVR but are transcription work (the 'LSI(L)-844' header typo is itself on this page). Contains no asbestos content. The 1953-54 conversion at Charleston NSY is documented as an event; no work package, material list, or insulation record for that conversion was located.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-884-lcil884-02
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[3]HAER AK-52, 'M/V Husky II' (ex-USS LCI(L) 653) - Historic American Engineering Record documentation of the LCI(L)-351 class and of New Jersey Shipbuilding Corp., Barber NJ (Library of Congress / NPS HAER) [haer]
- Locator
- HAER AK-52 data pages 4-5 (builder history, footnote 7 production blocks) and the LCI(L)-351 class description (~p. 8)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- HAER documents this hull's builder and type: New Jersey Shipbuilding Corporation was incorporated in 1942 as a wholly owned subsidiary of the Barber Asphalt Corporation, converting the idled asphalt plant on the Arthur Kill at Perth Amboy (Barber section) into an assembly-line LCI(L) yard; it was eventually managed by Todd Shipyards Corporation, employed about 2,500 workers, produced 375 LCI(L)s, and was dismantled after the war. HAER footnote 7 (citing Shipbuilding History production tables) lists the yard's output blocks as LCI(L)s 239-318, 423-657, 782-821, and 866-884 - making this hull the last LCI built at the yard. The report's LCI(L)-351 description: welded steel throughout (15-lb HTS pilot house/conning tower, 10-lb forward third), 2-inch plastic splinter protection consisting of crushed granite pebbles embedded in bitumen, five 20mm guns, eight six-cylinder GM Series 71 diesel truck engines (four per shaft, variable-pitch propellers, 16 knots), 110 tons diesel fuel, ~8,000-mile range at 12 knots; designed deliberately simple 'to facilitate rapid construction.'
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1942-1945 (yard operations); report prepared circa 2011
- Population
- NJ Shipbuilding construction trades (1942-45)
- Limitations
- Shipyard- and class-level documentation: the HAER records a sister hull (LCI(L)-653), not this one - the 866-884 production block is what ties the yard description to this hull. The report contains no asbestos content; its insulation mentions concern post-Navy fishing-tender refrigeration work (1980s), not wartime construction. Does not establish materials aboard this hull.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-884-lcil884-03
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[4]U.S. Naval Institute, Naval History Magazine, 'Historic Fleets' (A. D. Baker III, Combat Fleets of the World), June 1994 - AMCU/MHC program overview [other_primary]
- Locator
- USNI Naval History Magazine June 1994, 'Historic Fleets' AMCU/MHC paragraphs
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Program-level documentation of the AMCU-7 class this hull joined: 'AMCU' meant minesweeper, coastal underwater locator; AMCU-15 through 42 were a group of ex-LSI(L)s given bird names and equipped with sonars and safe-channel marker-buoys; all were discarded by 1959-60; 'all surviving AMCUs... were redesignated MHC-coastal minehunters on 2 July 1955.' The article's dates conflict with DANFS for this hull on two points (see limitations).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1945-1960 (program scope)
- Limitations
- Secondary professional-literature summary, not a hull record. Two date conflicts with DANFS/NavSource for this hull: the article dates the bird-named LSIL->AMCU group redesignation to 3 July 1952 (DANFS/NavSource: 7 March 1952 for Longspur; NavSource shows the same 7 March 1952 date for sister Skimmer AMCU-41) and the AMCU->MHC redesignation to 2 July 1955 (DANFS/NavSource: 7 February 1953 for this hull; NavSource shows 7 February 1955 for Skimmer). Conflicts carried in gaps - DANFS dates retained for the record fields. No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-884-lcil884-04
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[5]Era inference built on: DANFS spec block and service narrative; NavSource specifications (8 x GM 6-71 diesels, variable-pitch propellers); HAER AK-52 LCI(L)-351 construction description (all-welded steel, diesel plant, bitumen splinter protection); Atlas shipyards.json asbestos-product list for charleston-naval-shipyard (conversion site Nov 1953 - May 1954) [other_primary]
- Locator
- DANFS spec block; NavSource 'LCI Specifications'; HAER AK-52 class description; shipyards.json charleston-naval-shipyard product list; GAO HRD-80-2 (program-era context, full text blocked HTTP 403)
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- An LCI(L)-351-class craft built in September-October 1944 at a wartime emergency yard sits inside the Navy's documented asbestos-use era (GAO HRD-80-2: the Navy used asbestos insulation extensively aboard ships until the early 1970s). As a diesel-powered landing craft she carried no boilers or steam plant, so the boiler/turbine lagging pathway does not apply; era-standard applications aboard a small diesel combatant of this period were exhaust/manifold and engine lagging, machinery gaskets and packing, electrical-wiring insulation, and heat insulation in the galley and small crew spaces. Her 1953-54 AMCU conversion at Charleston Naval Shipyard - a yard with documented asbestos products (magnesia pipe insulation, asbestos gaskets/packing, spray-on insulation, electrical insulation per the Atlas yard record) - is the principal documented industrial event on this hull within the asbestos era.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-1960
- Population
- NJ Shipbuilding construction trades (1944); crew (1944-47, 1952-54); Charleston NSY conversion trades (1953-54); Mills Marine shipbreakers (1960)
- Limitations
- Class/era inference only - no hull-specific insulation survey, material list, work package, or specification document located for LCI(L)-884/Longspur. Names era-standard applications, not confirmed installed materials; no quantity; no manufacturer attribution. The Bureau of Ships 'Detail and Special Specifications for Building Landing Craft Infantry (Large)' (cited in HAER AK-52) may contain materials detail but was not located in digitized sources - open archival lead. Does not establish individual exposure.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-884-lcil884-05
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[6]NavSource 11/0428 (conversion event documentation) + Atlas shipyards.json record for Charleston Naval Shipyard (documented asbestos products and litigation at the yard) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource 11/0428.htm header block (conversion dates/yard); shipyards.json charleston-naval-shipyard.asbestos_products_documented
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- This hull underwent a six-month industrial conversion to a Coastal Minesweeper (Underwater Locator) at the Charleston Naval Shipyard, Charleston, SC, beginning 15 November 1953 and completing 15 May 1954, straddling her 1 January 1954 decommissioning (NavSource). Charleston NSY is an Atlas-dataset shipyard (charleston-naval-shipyard) with documented asbestos products aboard worked vessels - magnesia pipe insulation, asbestos cement, spray-on insulation for walls and ship interiors, asbestos gaskets in pumps and valves, packing, thermal insulation for steam systems, electrical insulation - and documented asbestos litigation arising from yard-era exposure.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1953-1954
- Population
- Charleston NSY trades during the conversion availability (1953-54); any crew/yard overlap during the decommissioning window
- Limitations
- The conversion event is documented for this hull; the asbestos scope of that conversion is NOT - no work package, material list, or insulation record was located. Yard-level asbestos documentation does not establish that asbestos-containing material was installed in, removed from, or disturbed aboard this specific hull. Timeline oddity: the conversion window (Nov 1953 - May 1954) straddles the decommissioning (1 Jan 1954) - as documented, carried without reconciliation.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-884-lcil884-06
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[7]Batch-5581 search ledger (this record): DANFS live page; NavSource live page; HAER AK-52; USNI Historic Fleets; NARA deck-log digitized list; NVR; NHHC photo search; CourtListener API v4 (authenticated, fleet-paced); secondary web litigation sweep [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-lci-l-884-lcil884-01 through -13
- 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)-884 / LSI(L)-884 / Longspur (AMCU-28 / MHC-28) was found in the public sources searched (see search_ledger). CourtListener (authenticated, 2026-09-30): opinion searches 'LCI(L)-884', 'LCI-884', 'AMCU-28', 'MHC-28' each returned zero; docket searches 'LCI(L)-884', 'LCI-884', 'AMCU-28' returned zero; 'MHC-28' docket returned a prisoner-condition case (name collision); 'Longspur' returned 4 opinions and 102 dockets, all name collisions (street-address/in-rem property matters). 'LSI(L)-884' could not be run - refused by the fleet-wide request pacer - logged as blocked, not a negative result. Secondary web sweep surfaced only unrelated Navy cases (Spurlin, Goodrich) and excluded law-firm content.
- 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. LSI(L)-884 searches remain unrun (fleet-paced), a genuine open gap; deck logs (RG 24), the conversion work package, and any Mills Marine scrapping records are undigitized leads. Does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-884-lcil884-07
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[8]Designation cross-check: NavSource 11/0428 header line vs the DANFS transcription on the same page vs NHHC DANFS page [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource 11/0428.htm header block line 5 vs DANFS transcription paragraph on same page; NHHC longspur-ii.html
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- CORRECTION: the NavSource page's own header line reads 'Reclassified as a Landing Ship, Infantry (Large), LSI(L)-844, 28 February 1949' - the correct designation is LSI(L)-884. The DANFS transcription printed on the same NavSource page, the NHHC DANFS entry, and secondary literature (Wikipedia) all read LSI(L)-884; 'LSI(L)-844' is a transcription slip in the NavSource header and should not be propagated.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- correction
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1949
- Limitations
- Corrects a transcription typo in a secondary compilation, not a material claim. No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-884-lcil884-08