Evidence
7 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-7).
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[1]research packet 510-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-3-98-lcsl398-pkt-510-packet-md
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[2]NavSource Online: Amphibious Photo Archive, USS LSSL-98 ex USS LCS(L)(3)-98 chronology, campaign table, specification block, photograph captions, and commanding-officer table [other_primary]
- Locator
- Chronology block; Okinawa Gunto campaign table; Specifications block; photo captions; Commanding Officers table
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NavSource's chronology identifies this hull as laid down 23 December 1944 at Commercial Iron Works, Portland, Oregon; launched 13 January 1945; and commissioned USS LCS(L)(3)-98 on 2 February 1945, LT. J. C. Price, USNR, in command. It records Asiatic-Pacific service in LCS(L)(3) Flotilla Four, Group Thirteen, Division Twenty-Five; Okinawa Gunto assault-and-occupation service, 8-30 June 1945; Far East occupation service, 19 September-15 October 1945; redesignation as USS LSSL-98 on 28 February 1949; loan to Japan as JDS Aoi on 30 March 1953; return to U.S. Navy custody 27 March 1958; and sinking as a target by gunfire on 20 November 1958. It also records one WWII battle star.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-1958
- Population
- Commercial Iron Works construction trades; U.S. Navy crew; Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force crew
- Limitations
- NavSource is a volunteer archival compilation, not a government vessel register. This row establishes the stated hull chronology and service only; it contains no asbestos, insulation-material, survey, abatement, exposure, causation, or legal-eligibility information. Its decommissioning and strike dates are explicitly unknown and remain so here.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lcs-l-3-98-lcsl398-01
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[3]National Archives, Special List 44 ship-number list; National Archives, Logbooks of the U.S. Navy at the National Archives [other_primary]
- Locator
- Special List 44 ship-number PDF, p. 34, row 1649: LCS(L)(3)-98, 2/2/1945-6/30/1945; NARA logbooks page, Record Group 24 Entry 118 and Special List 44 sections
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- NARA Special List 44's ship-number list inventories deck logs for LCS(L)(3)-98 from 2 February 1945 through 30 June 1945. NARA describes Special List 44 as its comprehensive item list for Navy logbooks, 1801-1947, and identifies Record Group 24, Entry 118 (National Archives Identifier 581208) as its greatest source for those logs.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1945-02-02 to 1945-06-30
- Population
- Ship's company and attached personnel reflected in deck logs
- Limitations
- An inventory entry establishes the listed deck-log coverage, not the contents of the logs, the commissioning date, shipboard materials, asbestos, exposure, causation, or legal eligibility. The logs themselves were not reviewed.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lcs-l-3-98-lcsl398-02
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[4]Shipbuilding History (Tim Colton), Commercial Iron Works, Portland OR production table [other_primary]
- Locator
- Commercial Iron Works production table, row 210: LCS(L) 98
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Commercial Iron Works' production table identifies LCS(L) 98 as yard hull 210, a 250-ton, 159-foot U.S. Navy landing craft. This corroborates the builder and hull identity reported in the vessel chronology.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1944-1945
- Population
- Commercial Iron Works construction trades
- Limitations
- Secondary production-table corroboration only. It supplies no shipboard materials, asbestos, exposure, causation, or legal information.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lcs-l-3-98-lcsl398-03
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[5]U.S. Government Accountability Office, Navy Efforts To Protect Workers From Asbestos Exposure, HRD-80-2 (18 October 1979) [gao]
- Locator
- GAO HRD-80-2 product page description; direct automated retrieval returned HTTP 403
- Finding type
- gov_survey
- Finding
- GAO's product description for Navy Efforts To Protect Workers From Asbestos Exposure states that the Navy used asbestos insulation extensively aboard ships and did not begin substituting alternative insulation materials until the early 1970s. This covers the 1944-1958 construction-and-service era of this hull.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 1979 report; context covers the 1940s through early 1970s
- Population
- Navy ships and workers addressed by GAO's program review
- Limitations
- Navy-wide era context only, not a hull-specific finding. The GAO page was live but automated full-text retrieval returned HTTP 403, so the report text was not independently reviewed in this session. It does not establish asbestos, a product, quantity, location, condition, exposure, causation, or legal eligibility aboard LCS(L)(3)-98.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lcs-l-3-98-lcsl398-04
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[6]CourtListener API v4 authenticated search attempts, exclusively through /Users/charlesfletcher/devin-prompts/cl-auth-search.py [court_record]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-lcs-l-3-98-lcsl398-06 through -08
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No completed CourtListener result is recorded for this hull. Authenticated CourtListener API v4 searches were submitted through the required fleet helper for the exact name USS LCS(L)(3)-98, hull designation LCS(L)(3)-98, and later designation LSSL-98 in opinions and dockets, but the fleet pacing limiter was saturated and the headless invocation did not return a completed API response. The litigation layer remains open; no no-result, name-collision, other-litigation, or qualifying-asbestos-litigation classification is asserted.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 2026-09-30
- Limitations
- This is a search-completion limitation, not evidence of no litigation. It establishes neither asbestos aboard the hull nor absence of asbestos, exposure, causation, litigation, or legal eligibility. No anonymous or v3 request was used.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lcs-l-3-98-lcsl398-05
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[7]Batch-5774 documented search ledger for USS LCS(L)(3)-98 [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-lcs-l-3-98-lcsl398-01 through -09
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No ship-specific asbestos survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, product record, or qualifying asbestos litigation was located in the completed non-CourtListener public-source research recorded in this search ledger.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-30
- Study period
- 2026-09-30
- Limitations
- Absence from the completed public-source search is not proof that asbestos was absent. Firecrawl was quota-blocked and CourtListener was incomplete; NARA deck logs and other archival records remain unreviewed leads. This row does not establish or defeat exposure, causation, or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lcs-l-3-98-lcsl398-06