Evidence
6 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-6).
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[1]research packet 506-packet.md (1 sources cited) [other_primary]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERIFIED
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-lcs-l-3-76-lcsl376-pkt-506-packet-md
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[2]NavSource Online, USS LSSL-76 ex USS LCS(L)(3)-76 - chronology, service designations, specifications, and photographs [other_primary]
- Locator
- Page lines 5-8, 18-41; chronology and image captions
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- USS LCS(L)(3)-76 was laid down 9 January 1945 at Albina Engine and Machine Works, Portland, Oregon; launched 15 February 1945; commissioned 12 March 1945 with Lieutenant B. H. Eklund in command; served in the Asiatic-Pacific Theater and then in occupation and China service; was decommissioned on an unknown date and laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet; redesignated USS LSSL-76 on 28 February 1949; transferred to Japan on 30 April 1953 as Kaido; returned to U.S. Naval custody on 20 October 1969; struck date and final disposition are unknown.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1945-1969
- Population
- Ship's company; Pacific theater and occupation/China service personnel; Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force personnel
- Limitations
- Live hull page documents the chronology and explicitly leaves decommissioning, strike, and final disposition dates unknown. It contains no asbestos, insulation, survey, abatement, or hazmat statement.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lcs-l-3-76-lcsl376-01
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[3]Bureau of Ships, Ships' Data, U.S. Naval Vessels, Vol. II, NAVSHIPS 250-011 (15 April 1945), p. 220 (ShipScribe scan of official publication) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NAVSHIPS 250-011, p. 220: LCS(L)(3) class characteristics and per-vessel build table
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- The official Bureau of Ships table lists LCS(L)(3)-76 under Albina Engine and Machinery Works, Portland, with keel laid 9 January 1945, launched 15 February 1945, and first commission 12 March 1945. The same class table records 250 tons light displacement, 387 tons full-load displacement, 158 feet overall length, 23 feet 8 inches beam, 6 officers and 65 enlisted, and diesel propulsion with two General Motors 6051 series 71 engine groups per shaft, single GM reduction gears, two diesel-driven 60-kW 450-volt generators, and twin variable-pitch propellers.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1945
- Population
- Albina construction trades; ship's company
- Limitations
- The 1945 BuShips publication is a construction and characteristics record, not a materials or insulation survey. It does not establish asbestos content, remaining material, or exposure aboard this hull.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lcs-l-3-76-lcsl376-02
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[4]NavSource hull page reproducing U.S. National Archives photograph captions for LCS(L)(3)-76 [other_primary]
- Locator
- Page lines 81-96, image captions; NARA 80-G-394930 for christening image
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- The hull page identifies a U.S. National Archives photograph of LCS(L)(3)-76 at its 15 February 1945 christening at Albina Engine and Machine Works and captions additional photographs of the vessel drydocked at Nakagusuku Wan, Okinawa, in September 1945 and at Saipan on 25 December 1945.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1945
- Population
- Construction and shipboard personnel; Pacific theater personnel
- Limitations
- The captions document photographic provenance and locations, not insulation content, asbestos presence, individual exposure, or causation. The NARA image identifiers are reproduced by NavSource; the underlying archival objects were not independently pulled in this session.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lcs-l-3-76-lcsl376-03
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[5]GAO, Navy Efforts To Protect Workers From Asbestos Exposure, HRD-80-2 (18 October 1979) [gao]
- Locator
- GAO product page HRD-80-2; full text access gap
- Finding type
- gov_survey
- Finding
- GAO's Navy asbestos-program review provides fleet-level context that Navy ships and shipyard work were subject to asbestos-protection policies during the postwar period; this is relevant to the era of LCS(L)(3)-76 but does not name this hull.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1979
- Population
- Navy shipyard workers and Navy asbestos program
- Limitations
- Program-level, post-service context rather than ship-specific evidence. The full GAO text was not retrieved because the product page blocks automated full-text access; no claim about a material aboard LCS(L)(3)-76 is based on this row.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lcs-l-3-76-lcsl376-04
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[6]Authenticated CourtListener v4 search via cl-auth-search.py for exact name and hull-number variants [court_record]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-lcs-l-3-76-lcsl376-01 through -08
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- No qualifying asbestos-litigation record naming USS LCS(L)(3)-76 or USS LSSL-76 was located in the exact-name and hull-number searches completed; any returned non-ship matches were classified as name collisions or other litigation and excluded. No ship-specific asbestos survey, abatement record, hazmat disclosure, or public exposure finding was located in the sources searched.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 2026-09-30
- Limitations
- A negative public-record search does not prove absence of asbestos or exposure. CourtListener coverage is limited to indexed public records returned by the authenticated helper; the exact queries, request pacing, and any throttle/access gap are logged in search_ledger.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lcs-l-3-76-lcsl376-05