Evidence
11 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-11).
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[1]research packet 503-packet.md (2 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-3-55-lcsl355-pkt-503-packet-md
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[2]NavSource Online: Amphibious Photo Archive, USS LSSL-55 ex USS LCS(L)(3)-55 (identity, construction milestones, organization, commanding-officer table) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource 10/05/050055.htm header block, service chronology, commanding-officers table
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NavSource identifies this hull as USS LCS(L)(3)-55, later USS LSSL-55: laid down 31 July 1944 at Albina Engine and Machine Works Inc., Portland, OR; launched 2 September 1944; commissioned USS LCS(L)(3)-55, 30 September 1944, LT. A. B. Cooper USNR in command (the commanding-officers table lists 'LT. Cooper, A. B., USNR - 30 September 1944 - ?'). Assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater: LCS(L)(3) Flotilla Three (CAPT. T. C. Aylward USN), LCS(L)(3) Group Seven (LCDR. F. P. Stone USNR), LCS(L)(3) Division Fourteen. International Radio Call Sign NVTM.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944
- Population
- Albina construction trades (1944); commissioning crew
- Limitations
- NavSource is a volunteer secondary compilation, not a primary registry - its milestones here are consistent with the Albina yard table and the participant memoir, but the 30 September 1944 commissioning date conflicts with the 16 October 1944 delivery/commissioning date carried by Shipbuilding History, uboat.net, and the Japanese LSSL fleet list - carried in gaps. No asbestos or materials content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lcs-l-3-55-lcsl355-01
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[3]NavSource Online: Amphibious Photo Archive, USS LSSL-55 ex USS LCS(L)(3)-55 (campaign table, awards block, specifications, photo captions including National Archives images) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource 10/05/050055.htm campaign table, awards block, photo captions, specifications block
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NavSource records this hull's campaigns: Iwo Jima operation (assault and occupation, 19 February 1945); Okinawa Gunto operation (assault and occupation, 20 March-30 June 1945); Minesweeping Operations Pacific (Formosa area, July 1945). Postwar: Navy Occupation Service Medal 19 September-26 October 1945; China Service Medal (extended) 29 October 1945-20 January 1946. Three battle stars for World War II service; awards listed include the Combat Action Ribbon (Iwo Jima), American Campaign Medal, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (3), World War II Victory Medal, Navy Occupation Medal (Asia clasp), and Philippines Liberation Medal. Photographic record: LCS(L) Group Seven at Pearl Harbor circa December 1944-January 1945 (this hull in company with LCS(L)(3)s 34, 35, 51, 32, 56, 33, 53 and group flagship LCS(L)(3)-31); this hull with LCS(L)(3)-56 'strafing the beach at Iwo Jima, 14 February 1945' (National Archives photo); 'in action off Okinawa while on picket duty at Radar Station No. 10, Guns #1 and #2 firing ... during a kamikaze attack, date unknown'; a mine 'blown up by USS LCS(L)(3)-55 while operating off Okinawa'; underway and at anchor at Wakayama, Japan, September 1945; passing under the Golden Gate Bridge 'circa late 1945, early 1946'. Specifications block: displacement 250 t (lt)/387 t (fl); length 158 ft o.a.; beam 23 ft 8 in; complement 6 officers, 65 enlisted; propulsion two quad-packs of four General Motors 6051-series-71 diesels per shaft (1,600 bhp), single GM main reduction gears, twin variable-pitch propellers, two diesel-driven 60 kW 450 VAC ship's-service generators - citing Ships' Data U.S. Naval Vessels NAVSHIPS 250-012, Baker's Allied Landing Craft of World War II, and Lawley's Instructions for and Original Plans of the LCS(L)(3) class.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-1946
- Population
- crew (1944-46); embarked Group Seven staff detachment
- Limitations
- Ship-specific service and photographic record. The 14 February 1945 Iwo Jima strafing photo predates the 19 February assault date in the campaign table - pre-assault operations; both carried as captioned. A secondary campaign-ribbon compilation additionally carries a post-surrender minesweeping window 9 November-13 December 1945 (see gaps). No asbestos or materials content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lcs-l-3-55-lcsl355-02
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[4]NavSource Online: Amphibious Photo Archive, USS LSSL-55 ex USS LCS(L)(3)-55 (disposition chronology) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource 10/05/050055.htm service chronology and disposition lines
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NavSource records this hull's disposition: decommissioned, date unknown; laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet; redesignated Landing Ship Support Large USS LSSL-55 on 28 February 1949; struck from the Naval Register, date unknown; final disposition sold for scrapping 29 December 1950 to Dulien Steel Products, Seattle, WA.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1946-1950
- Population
- Pacific Reserve Fleet; breakers at Dulien Steel Products, Seattle (1950-51)
- Limitations
- Decommissioning and Naval Register strike dates are stated as unknown on the live page; a secondary Japanese-language fleet compilation carries 27 June 1946 and 20 December 1950 respectively (unverified - see gaps). Scrapping location/yard and completion are not further documented. No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lcs-l-3-55-lcsl355-03
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[5]NavSource Online: 'A Brief History of LCS 55' by Louis V. Plant, SM1/c, Staff Signalman, LCS(L)(3) Flotilla Three (typescript 2000; cited in Rielly, American Amphibious Gunboats in World War II) - hosted via the National Association of USS LCS(L) 1-130 [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource 10/05/050055h.htm - full narrative
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Participant memoir by a Group Seven staff signalman who lived aboard this hull from late 1944 until transferring to the arriving group flagship LC(FF)-484 in May 1945: Group Seven staff were split across group ships pending the flagship's outfitting at Bremerton; Plant embarked on LCS(L)(3)-55 at Pearl Harbor. The group departed San Diego November 1944, anchored in West Loch, Pearl Harbor, rehearsed landings with Marines off Maui (Christmas Day 1944) and rocket firing at a target island, then transited via Eniwetok/Kwajalein to Saipan. At Iwo Jima on 19 February 1945 the ship launched its full rocket load ('all 600 of our rockets') before the landings, strafed Mount Suribachi, held station as Marine amtracs passed through the line, and fired harassing missions through the night; about D+2 it went to the beach to pull off wrecked small craft; it hosted a Marine officer and a captured Japanese soldier who broadcast surrender appeals through a 'Beachmaster' loudspeaker on the mast; departed about 1 March for Saipan. At Okinawa the ship took part in the 1 April 1945 diversion/demonstration force off the side of the island opposite the real landing beaches (smoke screen, cruiser gunfire, circling landing boats), patrolled inside what became Buckner Bay, and then spent about 30 days on the destroyer radar-picket line; one kamikaze made a run on this hull, took hits on the port wing, flipped and crashed into the sea - the destroyer-group commander radioed 'Well Done.' Plant transferred to LC(FF)-484 when it arrived about May 1945; subsequent narrative (Tacloban, Wakayama and Nagoya occupation duty) describes squadron operations from the flagship. The memoir describes the LCS(L)(3) interior: fresh-water evaporators, food refrigeration, PA system, mess compartment, fire-fighting system, crew's quarters.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-1945
- Population
- crew of LCS(L)(3)-55 (1944-45); embarked Group Seven staff detachment
- Limitations
- Participant memoir (typescript, 2000 - 55+ years after the events), not an official record; near-primary for this hull's operations while the author was aboard (November 1944-May 1945). Events after his May 1945 transfer describe the flagship and squadron, not this hull directly. No asbestos or materials content; memoir descriptions of spaces and systems are occupational context only.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lcs-l-3-55-lcsl355-04
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[6]Destroyer History Foundation (destroyers.org), USS Drexler (DD-741) history page - radar-picket support assignment naming this hull [other_primary]
- Locator
- destroyers.org DD-741 page, Okinawa radar-picket section
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- A destroyer-association history of USS Drexler (DD-741) documents this hull's presence at Drexler's loss: at 0130 on 28 May 1945 Drexler was ordered to picket station 15 off Okinawa, joining the picket destroyer USS Lowry (DD-770) at 0400 in relief of USS Boyd (DD-544) and USS Ammen, 'with ... two support craft, the "small boys" LCS(L) 55 and LCS(L) 56.' Beginning 0643 the station was attacked by kamikazes; Drexler took three hits and sank with heavy loss of life. 'The LCS 114 was closest when the destroyer went down and picked up 120 survivors ... The rest of the 199 survivors were rescued by LCS 55 and LCS 56. The landing craft transferred the survivors to the PAVLIC (APD-70), which carried them to the anchorage at Hagushi' for onward movement to the hospital-evacuation transport Crescent City (APA-21). This places LCS(L)(3)-55 at radar picket station 15 on 28 May 1945 and credits it (with LCS(L)(3)-56) with rescuing the balance of Drexler's survivors.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1945-05
- Population
- crew of LCS(L)(3)-55; picket ships USS Lowry (DD-770), USS Drexler (DD-741), USS LCS(L)(3)-56
- Limitations
- Veterans' association historical compilation, not an official record; consistent with the NavSource photo caption 'picket duty ... during a kamikaze attack' and the memoir's ~30 days on the picket line. The NavSource caption's 'Radar Station No. 10' and this account's picket station 15 are different stations - both carried as written. Documents operations only - no materials or asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lcs-l-3-55-lcsl355-05
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[7]Shipbuilding History (shipbuildinghistory.njscuba.net), Albina Engine & Machine Works yard table - builder's hull number and delivery record; cross-checked against NavSource and uboat.net [other_primary]
- Locator
- Shipbuilding History Albina table, row 209; NavSource 050055.htm commissioning line; uboat.net ship/22287; uswarships.jounin.jp/lssl.htm LSSL-55 row
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- CORRECTION/context on milestone dates. The Albina yard table assigns this hull builder's hull no. 209 and records 'Delivered 16 Oct 1944' with note 'scrapped 1950' (yard hulls 202-217 map to LCS(L)-48 through LCS(L)-63; the earlier Albina block 184-201 maps to LCS(L)-61 through -78, hull numbers reassigned from a cancelled LCI(L) contract). NavSource records commissioning 30 September 1944 with LT. A. B. Cooper in command; uboat.net lists 'Commissioned 16 Oct 1944' and the Japanese LSSL fleet list likewise carries 1944/10/16 as the in-service date - the two secondary compilations present the yard delivery date as the commissioning date. The 30 September NavSource commissioning (with a named commanding officer) is carried in this record; 16 October 1944 is carried as delivery.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- correction
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944
- Population
- Albina construction trades (1944)
- Limitations
- Resolves a date conflation propagated through secondary compilations: delivery date (16 Oct 1944, yard record) vs commissioning (30 Sep 1944, NavSource with named CO). Neither compilation is a primary register; the conflict is documented rather than silently reconciled. No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lcs-l-3-55-lcsl355-06
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[8]uswarships.jounin.jp, LSSL fleet list (Japanese-language compilation, decoded from Shift-JIS) - LSSL-55 row; cross-checked against NavSource [other_primary]
- Locator
- uswarships.jounin.jp/lssl.htm, LSSL-55 table row (columns: hull symbol, builder, in-service date, decommission date, strike date, notes); uboat.net/allies/warships/ship/22287.html
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- A secondary fleet compilation carries dated milestones NavSource lists as unknown: LSSL-55, Albina Engine & Machine Works - in service 1944/10/16 (the delivery date, see ev-06), decommissioned 1946/6/27, struck 1950/12/20, redesignated LSSL-55 1949/2/28, sold 1950/12/29 to Dulien Steel Products, Seattle, for scrapping. The decommissioning date (27 June 1946) and strike date (20 December 1950) are plausible but unverified against a primary register; the strike date is consistent with sale nine days later.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-1950
- Limitations
- Secondary compilation only - supplies candidate decommissioning and strike dates not found in any primary source this session; carried in gaps, not asserted. uboat.net (ship/22287) is a second secondary compilation adding a 5 April 1944 contract-order date - unverified against the contract record. No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lcs-l-3-55-lcsl355-07
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[9]K.M. (widow of J.M.) v. Lockheed Shipbuilding, Albina Engine and Machine, and Willamette Iron and Steel (McAllister), BRB No. 08-0403 (Benefits Review Board, U.S. Department of Labor, decided 30 December 2008), appeal of ALJ Decision and Order on Second Remand, 2003-LHC-2540 [court_record]
- Locator
- BRB No. 08-0403, full PDF - procedural history and findings at pp. 2-5
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- Adjudicated asbestos-exposure record for this hull's builder: under the Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act, a shipyard carpenter who worked at Albina Engine & Machine Works (his Albina employment ending 1957), Willamette Iron & Steel, and Puget Sound/Lockheed died 22 September 2002 of left pleural mesothelioma; the ALJ found 'clear, credible, and unrebutted evidence' of asbestos exposure and, applying responsible-employer law, found Albina Engine 'was the last employer to expose decedent to asbestos and is the employer responsible for claimant's benefits.' The Benefits Review Board affirmed (third Board decision in the case; McAllister I, 39 BRBS 35 (2005); McAllister II, 41 BRBS 28 (2007)).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1956-1957 (exposure); 2003-2008 (adjudication)
- Population
- Albina Engine & Machine Works shipyard trades (claimant's window 1956-57)
- Limitations
- Yard-level record, NOT a hull record: the adjudicated Albina exposure window (through 1957) post-dates this hull's 1944 construction, and LCS(L)(3)-55 is not named in the decision. Establishes that the builder yard is an adjudicated asbestos-exposure site in the mid-1950s; it does not establish materials installed aboard this hull in 1944, individual crew exposure, quantity, or present-day presence. Litigation stage: administrative merits finding affirmed on appeal (mature stage - not a pleading allegation).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lcs-l-3-55-lcsl355-08
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[10]NavSource Online: Landing Craft Support class page (operational description by Robin L. Rielly) + NavSource specifications block citing NAVSHIPS 250-012, Baker, and Lawley class instructions/plans; plus NPS NRHP nomination 15000716 (USS LCS(L)(3)-102 - class design/production record); DOL BRB 08-0403 (builder-yard litigation); GAO HRD-80-2 (Navy program era) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource 05func.htm class operational description + 050055.htm specifications block; npgallery.nps.gov NRHP/GetAsset/NRHP/15000716_text (nomination pp. on construction/machinery arrangement); dol.gov BRB 08-0403; gao.gov/products/hrd-80-2
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Class/era inference: the LCS(L)(3) was a 158-ft, 250-ton (light), all-welded steel gunboat designed by George Lawley & Sons, Neponset, on an LCI(L)-derived hull; 130 built 1944-45 by three yards (NPS nomination: Lawley 47, Albina 31, Commercial Iron Works 52). This hull was one of Albina's wartime emergency-production craft (builder's no. 209) powered by General Motors 6-71-series diesels - no boilers and no steam plant. Era-standard asbestos applications aboard a small diesel combatant of 1944 were engine-exhaust lagging, machinery-space thermal/acoustic insulation, gaskets and valve packing in fuel/lube/fresh-water systems, electrical insulation, and hot-surface board/sheet in machinery compartments; Navy-wide, the service did not substitute alternative insulation until the early 1970s (GAO HRD-80-2), well after this hull was built and sold. The hull was scrapped at Seattle in 1951 - an era and process in which no abatement regime existed.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-1951
- Population
- Albina construction trades (1944); crew 1944-46; Pacific Reserve Fleet maintenance; Dulien Steel Products scrapping trades (1950-51)
- Limitations
- Class/era and builder-yard inference only - NOT a hull-specific finding. No insulation survey, material list, builder's spec, or work package for this hull was located. Product names are normalized era terms; no manufacturer attribution for this hull. The diesel plant means the boiler/turbine lagging pathway of steam vessels does not apply; any era-typical material aboard was confined to machinery-space, gasket/packing, and electrical uses. GAO full text not retrieved (gao.gov blocks automated fetch, HTTP 403, confirmed this session) - program description only.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lcs-l-3-55-lcsl355-09
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[11]Batch-5727 search ledger (this record): NavSource ship/history/class pages; Shipbuilding History Albina yard table; uboat.net; uswarships.jounin.jp fleet list; destroyers.org (DD-741) picket-support record; NHHC DANFS; NVR; CourtListener authenticated API v4; NARA catalog; DOL BRB McAllister decision; NPS NRHP 15000716; GAO HRD-80-2; secondary web litigation sweep; LCS(L)-102 museum disclosures [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-lcs-l-3-55-lcsl355-01 through -16
- 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)-55 / LSSL-55 was found in the public sources searched (see search_ledger). Authenticated CourtListener searches on the exact designation returned zero opinion results and zero docket results (2026-09-30). Secondary web sweeps surfaced no qualifying case or ship-specific asbestos claim beyond excluded marketing listicles (a Washington asbestos job-sites list naming scrapping firm Dulien Steel Products in generic terms; generic landing-ship asbestos pages naming no hull).
- 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 a reasonable era-consistent inference, not ship-proven. CAVEAT: the variant-designation CourtListener queries (LSSL-55, LCS-55, LCS(L)-55, 'LCS(L) 55') were not completed - the authenticated helper reported the fleet-wide request budget momentarily spent on repeated attempts; logged as blocked/paced, not as a negative result. Does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lcs-l-3-55-lcsl355-10