Evidence
8 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-8).
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[1]NavSource Online: Amphibious Photo Archive, USS LCI(G)-957 ex USS LCI(L)-957 (10/15/150957) - designation timeline, campaigns, awards, specifications, CO list, photographic record (verified live) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource 10/15/150957.htm header block, campaign table, awards display, specifications block, Commanding Officers table
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NavSource timeline for this hull (LCI-351 class): laid down 14 February 1944 at Consolidated Steel, Orange TX; launched 10 March 1944; commissioned USS LCI(L)-957 on 5 April 1944; reclassified Landing Craft Infantry (Guns) LCI(G)-957 on 15 June 1944; classification reverted to LCI(L)-957 on 10 September 1945; decommissioned December 1946; struck from the Naval Register December 1946; transferred to the Maritime Commission for disposal 19 January 1948; final disposition, fate unknown. Campaigns (Asiatic-Pacific Theater): Cape Sansapor operation (Western New Guinea) 31 July - 1 August 1944; Leyte landings 19 - 29 November 1944; Mindoro landings (Luzon) 12 - 18 December 1944. Three battle stars for WWII service; Philippines Presidential Unit Citation; Philippines Liberation Medal (2). Commanding officer listed: LTjg. Hal Buckner Stewart, USN, September - December 1946. Page history is sourced to 'USS LCI Landing Craft Infantry, Vol. II' (Turner Publishing, 1995).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-1948
- Population
- Consolidated Steel construction trades (Feb-Apr 1944); ship's crew 1944-1946 (24 as LCI(L), 70 as LCI(G) complement); embarked troops (up to 6 officers + 182 enlisted per landing)
- Limitations
- NavSource is a volunteer secondary compilation, not a primary registry - milestone dates track NVR/BuShips practice and are cross-confirmed here by uboat.net, but no primary register page exists for this hull (DANFS has no entry; NVR excludes pre-1987 disposals). Contains no asbestos or material content. The page's stated history source (Turner Publishing LCI volume) is itself a secondary work.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-957-lcil957-01
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[2]DANFS, Yakutat (AVP-32) - postwar passenger-transfer entry naming LCI-957 (verified live) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS Yakutat entry, postwar return passage paragraph (departed Sasebo 19 November, fueled at Midway 27 November, Port Townsend 6 December 1945)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS documents this hull by name in the Yakutat (AVP-32) entry: 'Reaching Port Townsend, Wash., on 6 December [1945], Yakutat transferred all passengers to LCI-957 for further transportation' - placing the craft at Port Townsend, Washington, on 6 December 1945 ferrying returning personnel, consistent with the designation reversion to LCI(L)-957 on 10 September 1945.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1945-12-06
- Population
- Ship's crew; ~199 passengers embarked from Yakutat (58 officers + 141 enlisted per DANFS)
- Limitations
- Ship-specific presence/service fact only; no asbestos or material content. This is the only DANFS reference located for this hull - numbered landing craft do not receive their own DANFS entries (dedicated NHHC page for LCI-957 returns 404, verified 2026-09-30).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-957-lcil957-02
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[3]uboat.net Allied Warships, USS LCI(L)-957 (ship 22022) - build data and Operation Globetrotter (Cape Sansapor) task-organization entry (verified live) [other_primary]
- Locator
- uboat.net ship/22022 warship record + 'Notable events' Operation Globetrotter task-organization and chronology sections
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- uboat.net's warship record cross-confirms: class LCI 351; built by Consolidated Steel Corp., Ltd., Orange, Texas; laid down 14 February 1944; launched 10 March 1944; commissioned 5 April 1944; 'Reclassified as LCI(G), Landing Craft Guns on 15 June 1944.' Its order-of-battle reconstruction of Operation Globetrotter (Cape Sansapor, 30 July 1944) places this hull in Task Unit 77.2.5 (LCI Unit), Task Force 77, under commanding officer Lt.(jg) J.F. Hartmann, Jr., USNR, as a unit of LCI Flotilla 8 (COMLCIFLOT 8 embarked in LCI(L)-546); landing operations east of Cape Sansapor and on Middelburg and Amsterdam Islands commenced 0700 30 July 1944 with no enemy opposition.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944
- Population
- Ship's crew under Lt.(jg) Hartmann (July 1944); embarked 6th Division troops at Sansapor
- Limitations
- uboat.net is a secondary compilation (compiled from official action reports and reference works), not a primary registry - used for corroboration and operational detail. No asbestos or material content. Names the wartime CO at Sansapor; NavSource's CO table covers only the final period (Sept-Dec 1946) - the two are complementary, not conflicting.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-957-lcil957-03
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[4]NavSource photographic record for LCI(G)-957: Sansapor beach photo with LCI(L)-519 (credited to Bill Brinkley); Drydock #3, Navy Yard Long Beach photo with LCI(L)-955/-956 and nine other LCIs (US Navy photo from the Long Beach Navy Yard newspaper 'Drydock Digest,' 12 September 1945) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource 10/15/150957.htm image table (photos 1015051901 and 1015095501 captions)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Contemporaneous photographs document this hull (a) landing 6th Division troops on the beach at Sansapor, New Guinea, 30 July 1944, alongside LCI(L)-519; and (b) in Drydock #3 at the Navy Yard, Long Beach, California, in September 1945, alongside LCI(L)-955, LCI(L)-956, and nine other LCIs - the latter a US Navy photograph published in the yard newspaper 'Drydock Digest' dated 12 September 1945. The drydock image is presence documentation at a naval shipyard and an archival lead for any September-1945 availability work.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-07-30; 1945-09
- Population
- Crew and any Navy Yard Long Beach trades during the September 1945 docking
- Limitations
- Photographs establish physical presence, not work performed: a drydock photo is not an availability, overhaul, or material record - no work package or task description was located for the Long Beach docking. The Sansapor caption date (30 July 1944) reflects the actual landing day; official campaign credit is 31 July - 1 August 1944 (see ev-08). No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-957-lcil957-04
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[5]Era inference built on: NavSource specification block (diesel propulsion - two sets of 4 GM diesels, 4 per shaft, 1,600 BHP, twin variable-pitch propellers; 2-inch 'plastic splinter protection' on turrets/conning tower/pilot house); GAO HRD-80-2 Navy asbestos-era documentation (see ev-06) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource 10/15/150957.htm specifications block; GAO HRD-80-2 product page
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- A steel-hulled landing craft built February-April 1944 sits inside the Navy's documented asbestos-use era; era-standard applications aboard a small diesel amphibious craft of this period were engine and exhaust insulation in the machinery space, gaskets, valve packing, electrical insulation, and insulation board in accommodation spaces. As a diesel craft she carried no steam plant - the boiler/turbine lagging pathway of steam vessels does not apply, but the small-ship confined engineering-space dynamic applies.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-1948
- Population
- Consolidated Steel construction trades (1944); crew (1944-1946); any yard trades during the September 1945 Long Beach docking
- Limitations
- Class/era inference only - no hull-specific insulation survey, material list, or work package located for LCI(L)-957/LCI(G)-957. Names era-standard applications, not confirmed installed materials. No quantity. The 2-inch 'plastic splinter protection' listed in the spec block is undocumented as to composition - no source states whether it contained asbestos (see gaps).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-957-lcil957-05
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[6]GAO, Navy Efforts To Protect Workers From Asbestos Exposure, HRD-80-2 (Oct 18, 1979) [gao]
- Locator
- GAO HRD-80-2 product page (verified live via firecrawl 2026-09-30)
- 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 and service era (1944-1946) plus her 1948 disposal. The review's fieldwork yards were the Long Beach and Norfolk Naval Shipyards - the former being the yard where this hull sat in Drydock #3 in September 1945 (a coincidence of venue; the report contains no vessel-specific finding).
- 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. The Long Beach fieldwork detail does not extend to this hull's September 1945 docking - no work record for that docking was located.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-957-lcil957-06
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[7]Batch-5604 search ledger (this record): NavSource (live); DANFS Yakutat cross-reference (live); uboat.net (live); GAO product page (live); CourtListener opinion + docket searches, all hull/name variants, zero hits; NHHC dedicated page (404); NVR (no entry - pre-1987 disposal); Wikipedia (no article); usslci.org association site (no hull-specific page); shipyard asbestos sweep (law-firm sources only, excluded) [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-lci-l-957-lcil957-01 through -10
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, or litigation naming USS LCI(L)-957 / LCI(G)-957 / LCI-957 was found in the public sources searched. CourtListener returned zero results on both the opinion index and the RECAP docket index for all designation variants - a verified negative this session, not a throttle event (see search_ledger). The Maritime Commission transfer (19 January 1948) and unknown final fate mean no scrapping or disposal material record exists in located sources.
- 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. Undigitized leads remain: RG 24 deck logs and any BuShips/MARCOM disposition file for this hull (1948 transfer). Does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-957-lcil957-07
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[8]Date reconciliation: NavSource campaign table (official campaign-credit window 31 July - 1 August 1944, Cape Sansapor operation) vs NavSource photo caption and uboat.net operation chronology (landing operations commenced 0700, 30 July 1944); also NavSource caption text 'USS LCI(L)-960' linking to page 150969 (LCI(L)-969's archive slot) - a NavSource caption/link ambiguity, unresolved [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource 10/15/150957.htm campaign table + image captions; uboat.net ship/22022 Operation Globetrotter chronology
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- RECONCILIATION: the Cape Sansapor landing in which this hull participated occurred 30 July 1944 (uboat.net chronology: '0700K/30, Task Force 77... commenced landing operations east of Cape Sansapor and on Middelburg and Amsterdam Islands'; NavSource photo caption: 'landing 6th Division troops on the beach at Sansapor... 30 July 1944'), while the official Asiatic-Pacific campaign credit window listed by NavSource is 31 July - 1 August 1944. Both statements are carried - the landing day and the credit window - not conflated. Separately, NavSource's drydock-photo caption names 'USS LCI(L)-960' but links to archive slot 150969 (which corresponds to LCI(L)-969) - which hull was actually present is unresolved.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- correction
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-07-30 to 1944-08-01; 1945-09
- Limitations
- Corrects/reconciles dating and a captioning detail, not a material claim. The '960 vs 969' ambiguity is left open rather than resolved by guesswork. No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lci-l-957-lcil957-08