Evidence
11 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-11).
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[1]research packet 495-packet.md (10 sources cited) [museum_official]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERIFIED
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-lcs-l-3-124-lcsl3124-pkt-495-packet-md
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[2]NavSource Online, USS LSSL-124 / ex USS LCS(L)(3)-124 hull page [other_primary]
- Locator
- Hull page, chronology bullets and campaign table
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- The hull was laid down 10 November 1944 at George Lawley & Sons Corp., Neponset, Massachusetts; launched 27 November 1944; and commissioned USS LCS(L)(3)-124 on 14 December 1944, Lt. D. Ward USNR in command. NavSource records assignment to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater with LCS(L)(3) Flotilla Four, Group Ten, and Division Twenty; participation in the Okinawa Gunto operation (assault and occupation, 3 to 30 June 1945); occupation service in the Far East from 2 September 1945 to 20 March 1946; decommissioning date unknown; redesignation as USS LSSL-124 on 28 February 1949; one battle star for World War II service; striking from the Naval Register at an unknown date; and final disposition as sold for scrapping to Southwest Steel Corp., Memphis, TN, on 14 December 1950.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-1950
- Population
- U.S. Navy crew
- Limitations
- NavSource is a photo archive; the page documents the listed dates and designations but does not document asbestos, decommissioning or striking dates, or a full service chronology. The 14 December 1950 disposal sale shares month and day with the 14 December 1944 commissioning - carried as published, flagged in gaps as a possible transcription coincidence.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lcs-l-3-124-01
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[3]NavSource Online, USS LSSL-124 / ex USS LCS(L)(3)-124 hull page, specifications and photograph captions [other_primary]
- Locator
- Hull page, specifications block and photograph caption table
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NavSource lists this hull at 250 tons light and 387 tons full displacement, 158 feet overall, 23-foot-8-inch beam, complement of 6 officers and 65 enlisted. Propulsion: two General Motors 6051 Series 71 diesel engines (1,600 BHP), a single General Motors main reduction gear, two diesel-drive 60-kW 450-V AC ship-service generators, and twin variable-pitch propellers. Photograph captions on the same page place the vessel at Aguni, Ryukyus, in June 1945 providing fire support for U.S. Marines, and at San Pedro Bay, Philippine Islands, date unknown.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-1945
- Population
- Ship's company during 1945 wartime service
- Limitations
- Specifications are reproduced by NavSource from NavShips 250-012 (15 April 1945), Baker's Allied Landing Craft of World War II, and Lawley's own class instructions and plans; they do not establish asbestos content, the location of any insulation, or exposure to any crew member.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lcs-l-3-124-02
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[4]NavSource Online, 'A Brief History of LCS (L) 124' - ship history contributed by the National Association of USS LCS(L) 1-130 [other_primary]
- Locator
- History subpage 050124h.htm, narrative text
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- The association-contributed history records: commissioning 14 December 1944 at George Lawley and Sons, Neponset; shakedown at Amphibious Training Base, Solomons, Maryland; an availability at Norfolk; departure 11 January 1945 via Key West, Coco Solo, and Balboa for San Diego; training operations and inspections at San Diego; departure 15 March 1945 for Pearl Harbor, arriving 28 March; onward routing via Eniwetok and Ulithi to Okinawa; rocket fire-support missions against Iheya Shima and Aguni Shima alongside five other LCSs; a two-week radar picket patrol northwest of Okinawa in mid-June with three other LCSs and three destroyers, including sinking a drifting mine with 40mm and .50-caliber fire; 'Skunk Patrol' anti-suicide-boat duty; departure from Okinawa 10 July 1945 for repairs at Leyte; and departure for Tokyo Bay in early September 1945 under Lt. David E. Ward, USNR, of Roselle Park, New Jersey.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-1945
- Population
- Ship's company, December 1944 - September 1945
- Limitations
- Veterans-association narrative hosted on NavSource, not an official Navy action report; dates and events are as the association history states them. Contains no asbestos information and does not establish exposure for any person.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lcs-l-3-124-03
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[5]Library of Congress, Veterans History Project, David Edgar Ward Collection, AFC/2001/001/99752 [other_primary]
- Locator
- VHP service summary, 'Service Unit/Ship' and 'Service History Note' fields
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- The Library of Congress Veterans History Project holds the David Edgar Ward Collection: service unit USS LCS(L)(3)-124 (Landing Craft Ship Large), with the service-history note that the veteran served as commanding officer aboard USS LCS-124 providing fire support for marines landing on Okinawa. The collection includes an oral-history interview (collected 18 May 2015), military papers, unit histories, and photographs.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-1945 service; collection assembled 1941-2015
- Population
- Lt. David E. Ward, USNR (commanding officer)
- Limitations
- Corroborates the commanding officer's identity and the hull's Okinawa fire-support role; contains no asbestos or materials information. loc.gov returned HTTP 403 to automated fetch; content verified via the Wayback Machine capture of 1 February 2025.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lcs-l-3-124-04
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[6]National Archives, 'LCS(L)(3)-124 - War Diary, 4/1-30/45,' NAID 139992118 (RG 38, WWII War Diaries; micro serial 120186; dated 5/2/1945; National Archives at College Park) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NARA catalog NAID 139992118; Wikimedia Commons file page carries NARA/DPLA provenance metadata
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- A ship-specific war diary for LCS(L)(3)-124 covering 1-30 April 1945 exists in NARA Record Group 38 (World War II War Diaries, Office of Naval Records and Library), micro serial 120186, serial 6-45. The diary is the primary archival lead for this hull's April 1945 transit and operations; its contents were not retrieved in this batch.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1945-04
- Limitations
- Identifier verified through the NARA-DPLA contribution reproduced on Wikimedia Commons; catalog.archives.gov is JavaScript-rendered and did not return content to a direct fetch, so the record's full metadata was not independently re-read at the catalog. War-diary content is operational, not material; it documents movements, not asbestos.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lcs-l-3-124-05
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[7]NavSource Online, LCS(L)(3) / LSSL class index page [other_primary]
- Locator
- Class index introductory paragraph
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NavSource's class index records that 130 LCS(L)(3)s were built during World War II; the type was developed by the George Lawley Company at Neponset and produced there and by Albina Engine and Machine Works and Commercial Iron Works of Portland, Oregon; the class served only in the Pacific campaign; LCS(L)(3)s remaining in U.S. inventory were redesignated Landing Ship Support Large (LSSL) in 1949; and 53 LSSLs were transferred to the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force in 1952.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-1952
- Population
- LCS(L)(3) class crews and builders
- Limitations
- Class-level background only: it does not document materials or asbestos aboard this or any other hull.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lcs-l-3-124-06
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[8]National Archives, 'Researching Asbestos aboard US Naval Vessel up through 1961,' RG 19 research guide [other_primary]
- Locator
- Research guide sections 'Specifications and Standards' and 'Cartographic Branch,' including S39, S48, and RG 19 Hull Series
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- NARA identifies Navy engineering drawings and specifications relevant to ship-specific asbestos research, including Record Group 19 hull drawings and S39 'Insulation and Lagging' and S48 'Piping' material groups, plus Bureau of Ships correspondence filed by hull designation. These records are an archival lead for LCS(L)(3)-124, not evidence that asbestos was aboard this hull.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1940-1961 records; accessed 2026
- Population
- Researchers seeking Navy vessel material records
- Limitations
- This research guide does not name LCS(L)(3)-124 and does not establish any product, quantity, location, condition, or exposure aboard it. The hull-specific RG 19 drawings were not retrieved in this batch.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lcs-l-3-124-07
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[9]U.S. Government Accountability Office, Navy Efforts To Protect Workers From Asbestos Exposure, HRD-80-2 (1979) [gao]
- Locator
- GAO product page highlights, 'use of asbestos in Navy ships' and replacement policy
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- GAO reviewed Navy ship asbestos use, removal costs, and worker-protection policy, describing asbestos insulation in Navy ships and a 1979 policy of selectively replacing damaged or repair-obstructing asbestos insulation. This establishes Navy-wide era context relevant to a 1944-built vessel but does not identify LCS(L)(3)-124.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1975-1979 policy and review period
- Population
- Navy shipyard workers and Navy ships in the GAO review
- Limitations
- Program-level evidence only: GAO's review concerned Long Beach and Norfolk Naval Shipyards and does not document this hull, its builder, its materials, or any person's exposure. Full text not retrieved: gao.gov returned HTTP 403 to automated fetch; content is taken from the product-page description.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lcs-l-3-124-08
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[10]Board of Veterans' Appeals, Citation Nr. 9828426, Docket 94-15 783 (23 September 1998) - M21-1-era adjudication guidance recital on WWII ship construction asbestos [court_record]
- Locator
- BVA Citation 9828426, Analysis section (M21-1 recital paragraphs)
- Finding type
- regulatory
- Finding
- A VA appellate decision recites the era's federal adjudication guidance: 'during World War II, several million people employed in U.S. shipyards and U.S. Navy veterans were exposed to chrysotile products, as well as amosite and crocidolite, since these varieties of African asbestos were used extensively in military ship construction.' This recital documents the federal adjudication baseline for WWII-era Navy hulls - the era within which this hull was built (November-December 1944) and crewed.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1998 (decision); era guidance on WWII construction
- Population
- WWII US shipyard workers and Navy veterans (era baseline)
- Limitations
- Era-guidance carrier only: the underlying decision concerned a Navy veteran aboard unnamed vessels and a Consolidated Steel (Orange, TX) yard - it names neither this hull nor its builder. The M21-1 recital is general-era documentation, not evidence of materials aboard this hull; merits ruling for that claimant only.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lcs-l-3-124-09
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[11]NavSource Online hull page, NARA catalog, and authoritative-source sweep, searched for ship-specific asbestos information [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-lcs-l-3-124-01 through sl-uss-lcs-l-3-124-16
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No ship-specific asbestos survey, abatement record, hazmat disclosure, or asbestos product identification was located in the authoritative vessel and archival-source sweep completed for LCS(L)(3)-124 / LSSL-124. Ship-specific asbestos documentation is therefore unknown, not presumed absent.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- Research through 2026-09-30
- Population
- Ship-specific public records
- Limitations
- A negative research result is not proof that no asbestos-containing material existed aboard. NARA RG 19 hull drawings, the NAID 139992118 war diary, and other non-digitized records may contain responsive material; this batch did not retrieve them. CourtListener status is recorded in the search ledger - where individual searches returned payloads they found no qualifying litigation; searches that could not be completed under the fleet limiter are recorded as blocked, not as no result.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lcs-l-3-124-10