Evidence
8 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-8).
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[1]research packet 509-packet.md (3 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-3-92-lcsl392-pkt-509-packet-md
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[2]NavSource Online: Amphibious Photo Archive, USS LSSL-92 ex USS LCS(L)(3)-92 - milestone timeline, specification block (sourced to Ships' Data U.S. Naval Vessels, NavShips 250-012, 15 April 1945), campaign credit, awards, and final disposition [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource 10/05/050092.htm header timeline, campaign table, specifications block, commanding-officer list
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Documented for this hull: laid down 30 November 1944 at Commercial Iron Works, Portland, OR; launched 22 December 1944; commissioned USS LCS(L)(3)-92, 8 January 1945, LT J. J. Cardamone USNR in command. WWII assignment: LCS(L)(3) Flotilla Four (CDR N. Phillips USN), LCS(L)(3) Group Twelve (LCDR B. D. Voegelin USNR), LCS(L)(3) Division Twenty-Four; Asiatic-Pacific Campaign - Okinawa Gunto operation, assault and occupation of Okinawa Gunto, 10 May - 30 June 1945. Occupation service in the Far East 2 September 1945 - 5 March 1946. Decommissioned, date unknown; laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet; redesignated Landing Ship Support Large USS LSSL-92 on 28 February 1949; struck from the Naval Register, date unknown; one battle star for WWII service; final disposition - sold for scrapping 16 March 1951 to The Learner Company, Alameda, CA, for $10,870. Spec block: displacement 250 t light / 387 t full; 158 ft o.a.; beam 23 ft 8 in; speed 16.5 kt max; complement 6 officers + 65 enlisted; propulsion 2 quad packs of 4 General Motors 6051-series-71 diesels per shaft (1,600 BHP), GM main reduction gears, twin variable-pitch propellers; armament bow twin 40mm, two twin 40mm AA, four single 20mm, four .50 cal MG, ten Mk 7 rocket launchers.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-1951
- Population
- Commercial Iron Works construction trades (Nov-Dec 1944); crew ~71 (1945-46); Pacific Reserve Fleet caretakers (1946-51); Learner Company shipbreakers, Alameda (1951)
- Limitations
- Ship-specific milestones only; contains no asbestos or material content. NavSource is a volunteer secondary compilation, not a primary registry - dates here are consistent with the CO-authored history and the NARA log inventory but the underlying BuShips records are not directly quoted. Decommissioning and stricken dates are genuinely unknown in the public record.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lcs-l-3-92-lcsl392-01
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[3]Lt. Joseph J. Cardamone, Commanding Officer, 'A Brief History of LCS(L) 92' - CO-authored ship's history hosted by NavSource, provided by the National Association of USS LCS(L) 1-130 [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource 10/05/050092h.htm, full text
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- First-person ship's history written by her commanding officer. Commissioned 8 January 1945 on the Willamette River at Portland; 'the Captain, the five junior officers and the 65 men' crewed her; 'in all respects ready for sea' 16 January; San Diego 23 January and six-week shakedown; departed CONUS 3 March, Pearl Harbor 12 March, one month advanced training; sailed 13 April, Eniwetok 24 April, departed 28 April, Saipan 3 May, then convoy duty to Okinawa arriving 10 May 1945. At Okinawa to 22 July: repeated General Quarters against kamikaze raids; radar picket Station 9 from 25 May ('ten endless days'), gunners destroyed a diving 'Zeke' over the fantail 29 May; anti-suicide-boat duty and smoke-screen assignments; radar picket Station 16A ('Mainstreet'); then Ie Shima for night smoke screens and day AA cover, mine checks, and rescue of a downed Black Widow flyer. Departed 22 July for the Philippines; San Pedro Bay (Leyte Gulf) availability and repairs until 3 September; then Tokyo Bay with Third Fleet occupation forces until 1 October 1945. Left Tokyo Bay February 1946 via Guam, Eniwetok and Pearl Harbor; San Francisco 1 April 1946; placed in the Reserve Fleet at Astoria, Oregon, summer 1946; 'In 1951, the 92 was stricken from the Naval Register and scrapped.'
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1945-1951
- Population
- Officers and crew (~71); shipyard workers during San Pedro Bay availability July-August 1945
- Limitations
- Primary-flavor ship-authored history but not a contemporaneous log - written retrospectively by the CO for the veterans' association; dates corroborate NavSource and the NARA log run (log coverage begins on the 8 January 1945 commissioning date). No asbestos, material, or maintenance-detail content beyond 'minor repairs' and repainting at San Pedro Bay.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lcs-l-3-92-lcsl392-02
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[4]National Archives, Special List 44 'List of Logbooks of U.S. Navy Ships, Stations, and Miscellaneous Units, 1801-1947' (ship-number ordering, official archives.gov PDF) [other_primary]
- Locator
- sl-44-ship-number.pdf, PDF page 34, LCS(L)(3) block, line 'LCS(L)(3)-92 1/8/1945 12/31/1945' (verified by direct PDF text extraction 2026-09-30)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Special List 44 inventories Navy deck logs for LCS(L)(3)-92 covering 8 January 1945 - 31 December 1945: 'LCS(L)(3)-92 1/8/1945 12/31/1945'. The run begins on the documented commissioning date and covers her entire commissioned WWII service (shakedown, Okinawa, occupation through end-1945). These dated Navy records establish in-scope WWII service; the log coverage dates are not claimed as commissioning/decommissioning dates. The logbooks themselves (RG 24 deck logs) are the primary-source lead for machinery hours, availabilities, and any maintenance notes bearing on exposure pathways.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1945-01-08 to 1945-12-31
- Population
- Crew generating/recorded in the logs (~71)
- Limitations
- Inventory entry only - confirms NARA holds a log run for this hull for that date span; the logs' contents were not examined. Coverage ends 31 December 1945, so the February-April 1946 return voyage and any later reserve-fleet log activity are outside this inventoried run. Whether the logs are digitized in the National Archives Catalog was not verified (catalog is JS-rendered; API v1 retired).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lcs-l-3-92-lcsl392-03
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[5]NHHC Archives Branch, 'L. Richard Rhame Collection: National Association of USS LCS(L)(3) 1-130 Papers,' AR/453 (formerly COLL/245), dates 1943-2000 [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- NHHC finding aid AR/453, Scope and Content Note
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- NHHC holds the National Association of USS LCS(L)(3) 1-130 papers (transferred to the Naval Historical Center in 1989). Scope note: 'The bulk of the collection is comprised of files on individual LCS(L) ships. This material is arranged in ship order and includes reminiscences of crewmembers, crew lists, ships' histories, war diary and action report extracts, ship newsletters, and photographs. There also are lists of crewmembers for the individual LCS(L) ships.' Per-ship files arranged in ship order make a hull-92 file the near-certain provenance of the Cardamone history hosted at NavSource, and the lead for crew rosters and any war-diary extracts for this hull.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1943-2000 (collection span)
- Population
- LCS(L)(3) crews including this hull's ~71
- Limitations
- Archival lead only - the finding aid describes per-ship files for the class generally; the contents of any hull-92 file were not examined. Presence of asbestos-relevant material (work packages, maintenance records) in the collection is unknown and not implied.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lcs-l-3-92-lcsl392-04
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[6]GAO, Navy Efforts To Protect Workers From Asbestos Exposure, HRD-80-2 (Oct 18, 1979) [gao]
- Locator
- GAO product page HRD-80-2
- Finding type
- gov_survey
- Finding
- GAO documented that the Navy used asbestos insulation extensively aboard ships and did not begin substituting alternative insulation materials until the early 1970s - spanning this hull's entire construction (Nov-Dec 1944), commissioned service (1945-46), reserve-fleet layup (1946-51), and scrapping (1951).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1979
- Population
- Navy shipyard workers; asbestos program review
- Limitations
- Program-level documentation; supports era context only, not any fact specific to this hull. Full text not retrieved this session - content via product-page description (gao.gov is known to block automated fetch).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lcs-l-3-92-lcsl392-05
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[7]Era inference built on: NavSource spec block (diesel plant, no steam), CO ship's history (construction-era fitting-out population), GAO HRD-80-2 (Navy-wide asbestos use through early 1970s), NavSource class operational description (130 built by Lawley, Albina, Commercial Iron Works) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource 050092.htm specifications block; 05func.htm class operational description; GAO HRD-80-2
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- A small diesel-powered amphibious gunboat built Nov-Dec 1944 sits inside the Navy's documented asbestos-use era; era-standard applications aboard a vessel of this type and period were diesel exhaust lagging, engine-room and machinery insulation, gaskets, valve packing, electrical insulation, and interior insulating/deck materials. As a diesel craft she carried no steam plant - the boiler/turbine lagging pathway of steam vessels does not apply - but the small-hull confined-space exposure dynamic applies: 71 men aboard a 158-ft craft.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-1951
- Population
- Commercial Iron Works construction trades (Nov-Dec 1944); crew ~71 (1945-46); Learner Company shipbreakers, Alameda (1951)
- Limitations
- Class/era inference only - no hull-specific insulation survey, material list, or work package located for LCS(L)(3)-92. Names era-standard applications, not confirmed installed materials. No quantity. Product names are normalized era terms; no manufacturer attribution for this hull.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lcs-l-3-92-lcsl392-06
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[8]CourtListener API v4 authenticated searches (this session): opinion search "LCS(L)(3)-92" - 0 results; opinion search "LSSL-92" - 0 results; docket search "LCS(L)(3)-92" OR "LSSL-92" - 0 results [court_record]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-lcs-l-3-92-lcsl392-05 through -07
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific litigation record located: authenticated CourtListener searches on the exact hull designation and its later LSSL designation returned zero opinion hits and zero docket hits. A general web sweep surfaced no case naming this hull; the only vessel-adjacent asbestos content is law-firm marketing material (excluded by source policy).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 2026-09-30
- Limitations
- Negative result is narrow by construction: queries were exact hull/designation strings. Crew-era exposure claims, if any were ever filed, would plead the hull by name ('LCS 92', 'landing craft support 92') and could evade exact-match search; a looser 'LCS(L)(3)' asbestos opinion query timed out this session (logged in search_ledger). Absence of located litigation does not establish that no exposure occurred or that no claim was ever filed.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lcs-l-3-92-lcsl392-07