Evidence
9 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-9).
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[1]research packet 497-packet.md (5 sources cited) [other_primary]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERIFIED (mirror-sourced)
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Limitations
- qualifier: VERIFIED (mirror-sourced)
- Evidence ID
- uss-lcs-l-3-17-lcsl317-pkt-497-packet-md
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[2]NavSource Online: Amphibious Photo Archive - USS LSSL-17 ex USS LCS(L)(3)-17 page (verified live 2026-09-30; navsource.org domain is dead, .net verified) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource 10/05/050017.htm - header block, campaign table, specification block, photo captions, commanding-officer list
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Milestone record for this hull: laid down 28 August 1944 at George Lawley & Sons Corp., Neponset, MA; launched 4 September 1944; commissioned USS LCS(L)(3)-17, 30 September 1944, LTjg. J. M. Sharpe USNR in command. Assigned to LCS(L)(3) Flotilla Three (CAPT. T.C. Aylward USN), LCS(L)(3) Group Eight (LCDR. E. C. Thomas USNR), LCS(L)(3) Division Fifteen. Campaign credit: Okinawa Gunto operation - assault and occupation of Okinawa Gunto, 26 March to 25 June 1945; earned one battle star for WWII service. Ribbon block: Combat Action Ribbon (retroactive, Okinawa), American Campaign Medal, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (1 star), WWII Victory Medal, Navy Occupation Service Medal with Asia clasp. Postwar: Occupation Service in the Far East 2 September 1945 to 15 February 1946; decommissioned, date unknown; laid up Pacific Reserve Fleet, Columbia River Group, Astoria, OR; redesignated LSSL-17, 28 February 1949; struck from the Naval Register, date unknown; sold for scrapping 8 January 1951 to The Learner Company, Alameda, CA. Spec block: 250 t light / 387 t full; 158 ft o.a.; beam 23 ft 8 in; 6 officers + 65 enlisted; armament one single 40mm bow gun, two twin 40mm, four single 20mm, four .50 cal MG, ten Mk7 rocket launchers; 10-lb STS splinter shields; GM 6051-series-71 diesels in quad packs, 1,600 bhp, twin variable-pitch screws; two 60 kW 450V AC diesel-drive generators. Page states verbatim: 'There is no history available for USS LCS(L)(3)-17 at NavSource.' Photo captions document the hull possibly off Guadalcanal early 1945, with LCS(L) Group 8 practicing off Guadalcanal, moored at Leyte Gulf with LCS(L)(3)-16 in fall 1945, and drydocked at Sasebo, Japan with LCS(L)(3)-21 in November 1945 - all credited to the National Association of USS LCS(L) 1-130.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-1951
- Population
- Lawley Neponset construction trades (Aug-Sep 1944); wartime crew (design complement 71); occupation-era crew (1945-46); Learner Co. scrapping workforce (1951)
- Limitations
- NavSource is a volunteer-maintained secondary compilation, not a primary registry - it generally tracks NVR/DANFS but no DANFS entry exists for this hull to cross-check, and NavSource itself disclaims a narrative history for it ('There is no history available...'). Two dates the record lacks (decommission, stricken) are documented as unknown. Contains no asbestos or material-content information. The spec block is class boilerplate sourced to Baker (1989) and Lawley class documents, not a hull-attested survey.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lcsl317-01
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[3]Shipbuilding History (Tim Colton), George S. Lawley & Sons, Neponset MA yard list - hull 1622 row [other_primary]
- Locator
- shipbuildinghistory.com Lawley page, 'Built in Neponset' table, hull no. 1622 row
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- The Lawley yard table lists hull 1622: 'LCS(L) 17', US Navy landing craft, 250 d, 158 ft, delivered 30 September 1944, disposition 'Later LSSL 17, scrapped 1951' - independently corroborating the yard, delivery date, LSSL redesignation, and scrapping. The table covers Lawley's entire LCS(L) production run (hull nos. 1606 forward).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-1951
- Population
- Lawley Neponset construction trades (1944)
- Limitations
- A compiled secondary reference (Colton's Shipbuilding History), not a primary registry - but it is the standard yard-production reference and its row independently corroborates NavSource. 'Delivered 30-Sep-44' coincides with the documented commissioning date. No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lcsl317-02
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[4]uboat.net Allied Warships of WWII, USS LCS(L)-17 (ship 22249); corroborating compilations: navypedia.us LCS(L)(3) table (17 = George Lawley, laid 8.1944, launched 4.9.1944, commissioned 9.1944, BU 1.1951), uswarships.jounin.jp LSSL/LCS(L) tables, officialmilitaryribbons.com Navy Occupation eligibility list [other_primary]
- Locator
- uboat.net ship/22249 facts table; navypedia.org/ships/usa/us_aws_lcv_lcsl3.htm LCS(L)(3) table row 17; uswarships.jounin.jp lssl.htm row LSSL-17; officialmilitaryribbons.com occupation/China-service L-list row 'LCS (L) (3) 17'
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Secondary corroboration: uboat.net records this hull as ordered 5 April 1944, laid down 28 August 1944, launched 4 September 1944, commissioned 30 September 1944, built by George Lawley & Sons, Neponset - matching NavSource on every shared point and adding the order date. navypedia records 'BU 1.1951'. uswarships.jounin.jp records decommissioned 14 September 1946 and stricken 20 December 1950 (dates NavSource prints as unknown - unverified, see gaps). officialmilitaryribbons.com's occupation-service eligibility list corroborates the Asia-clasp window 2 Sep 1945 - 15 Feb 1946.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-1951
- Limitations
- All four are secondary compilations of Navy data; none is a primary record. The order date (5 Apr 1944) and the decommission/stricken dates (14 Sep 1946 / 20 Dec 1950) rest on these compilations alone and are not asserted as verified facts - the dates are carried in gaps pending a primary anchor. No asbestos content in any of them.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lcsl317-03
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[5]National Archives, Special List 44 - 'List of Logbooks of U.S. Navy Ships, Stations, and Miscellaneous Units' (ship-number index) [other_primary]
- Locator
- SL-44 ship-number index, LCS(L)(3) sequence, 'LCS(L)(3)-17' line (PDF p. ~4473ff of text extraction); archives.gov/research/military/logbooks/navy-online digitized list (no LCS entry present)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- NARA Special List 44 indexes a logbook entry for 'LCS(L)(3)-17' - deck logs for this hull are cataloged in RG 24 holdings at Archives II, College Park. The hull does NOT appear on NARA's 'Navy Deck Logs Available in the National Archives Catalog' digitized list (checked 2026-09-30) - the logs exist but are not digitized. The National Association of USS LCS(L) 1-130 research page further notes that action reports and class plans (microfilm, Cartographic Section) exist at NARA for these ships.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-1951 (log coverage period inferred)
- Population
- Wartime and occupation-era crew (1944-46) - logbook coverage only
- Limitations
- Archival lead only - an index entry establishes that logs exist, not their contents. Deck logs are administrative/narrative records; whether they bear on materials or exposure aboard this hull is unknown and unexamined. Column-pairing of index rows to specific date ranges could not be recovered from the flat PDF extraction.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lcsl317-04
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[6]NHHC personal/donated collections index - 'Rhame, L. Richard and National Association of LCS(L)(3) Papers' (collection listing) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- NHHC personal-donated-collections index, R-surnames list ('Rhame, L. Richard and National Association of LCS(L)(3) Papers')
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- NHHC holds a donated collection of L. Richard Rhame and the National Association of LCS(L)(3) - the class association's archive. Rhame's photographs supply the bulk of NavSource's LCS(L) imagery (including this hull's page). The collection is the likeliest public repository of class documentation - construction photos, plans references, correspondence - that might bear on fitted materials for this class.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-1949 (class service era)
- Population
- Class-wide population - not hull-specific
- Limitations
- Collection listing only - contents unexamined; whether it holds LCS(L)(3)-17-specific material, and whether anything in it addresses insulation or asbestos, is unknown. A veterans' association collection is a lead, not a finding. No asbestos content in the index record itself.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lcsl317-05
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[7]National Register of Historic Places nomination, LCS-102 (NRHP 15000716, listed 13 October 2015) - sister ship, Commercial Iron Works build; NPS NPGallery AssetDetail/NRIS/15000716 and CA OHP draft nomination PDF [nps]
- Locator
- NRHP nomination Section 7 (Narrative Description) - materials line 'Steel Plating, Frame & Piping', summary paragraph, engine-room narrative; NPGallery NRIS record 15000716
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- The NRHP registration file for preserved sister LCS(L)(3)-102 documents the class design this hull was built to: shallow-draft, all-welded steel gunboat, 158 ft x 250 t (387 t full), flush-deck with raised forecastle; 130 contracted 1944-45 across three yards; designed to accompany landing craft ashore and deliver close-in fire support; crew 6 officers + 65 enlisted; quad-pack diesel engine rooms (the 102's original quad packs were replaced by the Royal Thai Navy in 1983 with two MTU diesels). The nomination describes compartment layout in detail - deckhouse, magazines, generator room, engine room, 26 integral fuel/lube/fresh-water tanks.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-2015 (nomination coverage)
- Population
- Class design population; museum volunteers aboard 102 (contemporary, separate hull)
- Limitations
- Sister-ship documentation from a different yard (Commercial Iron Works, Portland OR - not Lawley): the class built to a shared Lawley design, so the design description carries over, but 102's material fabric was altered by Japanese and Thai service and museum restoration - it cannot establish what -17 carried. The nomination contains NO asbestos, insulation, or material-fiber content whatsoever (full text searched) - it is design/layout context, not a materials record.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lcsl317-06
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[8]Corn, Jacqueline Karnell, and Jennifer Starr, 'Historical perspective on asbestos: Policies and protective measures in World War II shipbuilding,' American Journal of Industrial Medicine 11(3):359-373 (1987); plus GAO HRD-80-2, Navy Efforts To Protect Workers From Asbestos Exposure (Oct 18, 1979) [other_primary]
- Locator
- AJIM 11(3):359-373 (DOI link); GAO product page https://www.gao.gov/products/hrd-80-2 (full text blocked to automated fetch, HTTP 403 - standing access gap per BATCH-01)
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Era-level inference only: peer-reviewed scholarship documents that asbestos was used extensively as a fireproofing and insulating material in U.S. shipbuilding during WWII - the program and era under which this hull was built (Aug-Sep 1944, George Lawley & Sons). GAO documented Navy-wide use of asbestos insulation aboard ships through the early 1970s. Aboard a ~250-ton, 158-ft all-welded steel diesel gunboat - no boilers, no steam plant - the plausible era-standard applications, if any, would be machinery fittings: diesel exhaust insulation/lagging around the two quad-pack engine banks and their uptake trunks, gaskets and valve packing, electrical insulation, and fireproofing/paneling in accommodation and magazine spaces.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-1951
- Population
- Lawley Neponset construction trades (Aug-Sep 1944); wartime crew (design complement 71); Astoria reserve-fleet lay-up and decommissioning workforce; Learner Co. shipbreakers, Alameda (1951)
- Limitations
- Program/era-level scholarship only - neither source names this hull, this class, or landing craft generally; neither establishes that asbestos was aboard, nor quantity, location, condition, individual exposure, or causation. No class- or design-specific materials documentation for the LCS(L)(3) design was located (the Lawley 'Instructions for LCS(L)(3) Class' booklet and 'Original Plans' cited by NavSource are not publicly digitized - archival lead). The diesel-only plant materially narrows the plausible envelope relative to steam vessels. Lawley closed in 1945-46, so no yard-level asbestos survey of the builder exists in the usual HETA universe.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lcsl317-07
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[9]Batch-5685 search ledger (this record): NavSource; NHHC DANFS candidate URLs; NVR; shipbuildinghistory; uboat.net; navypedia; uswarships.jounin.jp; officialmilitaryribbons; NARA SL-44 + digitized deck-log list; MARAD vesselhistory; NPS/NPGallery + CA OHP NRHP nomination; usslcs102.org/mightymidgets.org/lcsmuseum.org; NHHC donated-collections index; archive.org; MIT Museum; Dorchester Atheneum; CourtListener API v4 (authenticated); master-hull-list.json; class-profile worktrees [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-lcsl317-01 through sl-uss-lcsl317-18
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, or docketed case naming USS LCS(L)(3)-17 / LSSL-17 was found in the public sources searched. CourtListener (authenticated, API v4): opinion search for 'LCS(L)(3)-17' returned 0, 'LSSL-17' returned 0, combined 'LCS(L)(3)-17' OR 'LSSL-17' returned 0; RECAP docket search for 'LCS(L)(3)-17' OR 'LSSL-17' OR 'LCS(L)-17' returned 0/0; asbestos-qualified opinion search '"LCS-17" asbestos OR "LCS(L)(3)-17" asbestos OR "LSSL-17" asbestos' returned 0 - no case names this hull in any designation, and no asbestos opinion even collides with the bare LCS-17 pennant (shared with USS Indianapolis, LCS-17). Secondary web sweeps surfaced no hull-level marketing content at all; yard-level law-firm material exists for George Lawley & Sons (mesowatch.org, jeffreysglassman.com) and is excluded by source policy - it asserts generic shipyard asbestos claims without primary sourcing and gets the yard's operating era wrong (it closed 1945-46).
- 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-built Navy combatant is era-consistent with asbestos-containing machinery fittings even on a diesel-only platform. The hull was scrapped in 1951, so no surveyable structure exists and no museum-era abatement record can arise. CourtListener coverage was complete this session: all five queries executed authenticated with zero hits, so 'no qualifying litigation' is a real negative - subject to the standing caveat that RECAP indexing is incomplete for older dockets and that unindexed complaints naming the hull cannot be ruled out. Does not establish presence or absence; does not establish or defeat any exposure claim or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lcsl317-08