Evidence
5 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-5).
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[1]research packet 497-packet.md (9 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-3-2-lcsl32-pkt-497-packet-md
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[2]NavSource Online: Amphibious Photo Archive, USS LSSL-2, ex USS LCS(L)(3)-2 (live page; chronology, specifications, photo captions) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Header chronology and Specifications block, https://www.navsource.net/archives/10/05/050002.htm
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NavSource documents this hull as laid down 10 May 1944 by George Lawley & Sons Corp. at Neponset, Massachusetts; launched 10 June 1944; and commissioned USS LCS(L)(3)-2 on 19 July 1944 with LT. J. B. Whitmore in command. It records assignment to LCS(L)(3) Flotilla Five, Group Fifteen, Division Twenty-Nine; participation in the Okinawa Gunto assault and occupation, 18-30 June 1945; Far East occupation service, 20 September-20 November 1945; one World War II battle star; later lay-up with the Pacific Reserve Fleet's Columbia River Group at Astoria, Oregon; redesignation as USS LSSL-2 on 28 February 1949; transfer to France on 15 August 1950; transfer to South Vietnam on 12 October 1954; removal from South Vietnamese service in 1956; and reported 1957 scrapping. Its specification block gives a 6-officer/65-enlisted complement and a diesel propulsion plant.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-1957
- Population
- George Lawley construction workers (1944); ship's company (6 officers, 65 enlisted); wartime and occupation-service crew
- Limitations
- NavSource is a live volunteer-compiled archival page that attributes its specifications to named published and builder sources; it is corroborated for construction dates and machinery characteristics by the contemporaneous BuShips table in ev-02. It contains no asbestos, insulation, abatement, or hazardous-material information. Decommissioning and Naval Register strike dates are expressly unknown; the 1957 scrapping report does not establish the location or conditions of disposal.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lcs-l-3-2-lcsl32-01
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[3]Bureau of Ships, Ships' Data, U.S. Naval Vessels, Vol. II, NAVSHIPS 250-011 (15 April 1945), printed pp. 218-219 (ShipScribe scan of official publication) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NAVSHIPS 250-011, printed p. 218 (LCS(L)(3) 1-130 characteristics) and printed p. 219 (per-hull build table, LCS(L)(3)-2)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- The contemporaneous Bureau of Ships table lists LCS(L)(3)-2 as built by George Lawley & Sons Corp., Neponset, Massachusetts, with keel laid 10 May 1944, launch 10 June 1944, and first commission 19 July 1944. The class-characteristics table for LCS(L)(3) 1-130 specifies two General Motors Diesel 6051 series-71 propulsion units, 1,320 shaft horsepower, single GM reduction gears, two diesel-drive 60 kW 450V AC ship's-service generators, two propellers, and total accommodations of 8 officers and 70 enlisted.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-1945
- Population
- George Lawley construction workers (1944); class ship's companies
- Limitations
- This is a primary government type table with a per-hull construction line, not a materials list. It establishes diesel machinery and construction/commission dates but does not identify insulation, asbestos content, equipment-specific materials, or individual exposure. The accommodations figure is capacity and is not merged with NavSource's 6-officer/65-enlisted complement.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lcs-l-3-2-lcsl32-02
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[4]GAO, Navy Efforts To Protect Workers From Asbestos Exposure, HRD-80-2 (18 October 1979), product page [gao]
- Locator
- GAO product page HRD-80-2
- Finding type
- gov_survey
- Finding
- GAO's Navy asbestos-program review supplies fleet-level context for historical Navy asbestos controls and insulation-removal policy, but it postdates this hull's 1950 transfer from U.S. custody and does not name LCS(L)(3)-2.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1979
- Population
- Navy shipyard workers and asbestos-program review population; not identified as this hull's crew or workers
- Limitations
- Context only, not hull-specific evidence. Direct retrieval of the GAO product page returned HTTP 403 in this session, so neither the page nor report full text was retrieved; it cannot establish asbestos aboard this diesel landing craft, individual exposure, retained material, or disposal conditions.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lcs-l-3-2-lcsl32-03
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[5]Batch-5688 documented source and litigation research, including NavSource, BuShips Ships' Data, GAO, NVR/DANFS availability checks, and the required CourtListener authenticated-helper attempts [court_record]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-01 through sl-07; BATCH-5688-REPORT.md, CourtListener access gap
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos survey, abatement record, hazardous-material disclosure, or litigation record was located in the completed public-source work for USS LCS(L)(3)-2 / LSSL-2. The required CourtListener opinion and docket searches by exact name and hull number were initiated only through the authenticated v4 helper, but the fleet pace limiter did not return searchable results before this batch environment terminated each helper invocation; CourtListener therefore remains an explicit uncompleted gap rather than a negative litigation result.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 2026-09-30
- Limitations
- A failure to locate a public ship-specific record does not prove absence of asbestos aboard or negate any exposure claim. The CourtListener litigation sweep is incomplete and this row must not be read as a CourtListener no-result. Class/era evidence does not establish hull-specific asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lcs-l-3-2-lcsl32-04