USS LSM-102

Evidence

9 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-9).

1. [1]NavSource Online, Amphibious Photo Archive, USS LSM-102 hull page [other_primary]

   Locator

   Hull page history block (laid down / launched / commissioned lines)

   Finding type

   vessel_history

   Finding

   LSM-102 was laid down 23 September 1944 at Brown Ship Building Co., Houston, Texas; launched 14 October 1944; and commissioned as USS LSM-102 on 9 November 1944, with Lt. Sidney C. Schoenberger, USNR, in command.

   Verification

   verified

   Role

   supporting

   Documentation level

   ship_specific

   Accessed

   2026-10-01

   Study period

   1944

   Population

   Brown Ship Building Co. construction workforce and commissioning crew

   Limitations

   Establishes construction and commissioning identity; the page does not document asbestos, insulation composition, hazmat condition, exposure, or causation. NavSource is a volunteer compilation drawing on Turner Publishing's LSM-LSMR Amphibious Forces Vol. II (1997) for this hull's history extract - the strongest available public source for this hull, as no DANFS entry exists.

   Atlas source

   true

   Evidence ID

   ev-uss-lsm-102-lsm102-01

2. [2]NavSource Online, Amphibious Photo Archive, USS LSM-102 hull page (history extract from LSM-LSMR Amphibious Forces, Vol. II, Turner Publishing, 1997) [other_primary]

   Locator

   Hull page: WWII assignment block, awards ribbons, photo captions (Russell Islands; Leyte September 1945), commanding-officer list

   Finding type

   vessel_history

   Finding

   During World War II, USS LSM-102 was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater with LSM Flotilla Nine (CDR D. L. Francis, USN), as flagship of LSM Group Twenty-Six (LCDR L. Brouwer, USN), LSM Division Fifty-One. International radio call sign NVHT. The awards display lists the American Campaign Medal, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal, World War II Victory Medal, and Navy Occupation Service Medal (Asia clasp) - no battle stars. Contributed photographs place the ship in the Russell Islands (date unknown) and at Leyte in September 1945. Commanding officers: Lt. Sidney C. Schoenberger, USNR (9 Nov 1944 - Dec 1945); Lt.(jg) Frederick C. Von Dollen, USNR (Dec 1945 - Aug 1946); Ens. Alfred W. Lehman, USNR (Aug 1946 - 31 Oct 1946).

   Verification

   verified

   Role

   supporting

   Documentation level

   ship_specific

   Accessed

   2026-10-01

   Study period

   1944-1946

   Population

   Ship's company and Pacific theater operating personnel

   Limitations

   Establishes theater assignment, group-flagship status, photograph-documented locations, and the commanding-officer sequence; it is not a complete voyage narrative and contains no asbestos content or exposure information.

   Atlas source

   true

   Evidence ID

   ev-uss-lsm-102-lsm102-02

3. [3]Naval History and Heritage Command, Allied Ships Present in Tokyo Bay (archived copy); NavSource Online, USS LSM-102 hull page [nhhc_danfs]

   Locator

   Archived NHHC 'Medium Landing Ship (LSM)' table (LSM-102 absent); NavSource chronology (occupation windows) and Leyte photo caption

   Finding type

   vessel_history

   Finding

   Following World War II, LSM-102 performed occupation service in the Far East during the periods 20 September - 5 October 1945 and 19 October 1945 - 29 March 1946 (Navy Occupation Service Medal windows). LSM-102 does not appear on the official NHHC list of Allied ships present in Tokyo Bay on 2 September 1945 (archived copy reviewed; 13 LSMs are listed, including sister LSM-101, but not LSM-102) - consistent with the hull page's Leyte, September 1945 photograph and the 20 September start of her occupation window.

   Verification

   verified

   Role

   supporting

   Documentation level

   ship_specific

   Accessed

   2026-10-01

   Study period

   1945-1946

   Population

   Ship's company and occupation-service personnel

   Limitations

   Establishes the stated occupation-service windows and confirms absence from the Tokyo Bay surrender list; it does not establish asbestos materials, individual exposure, or causation. NHHC citation is an archived Wayback capture labeled as such - the live history.navy.mil FAQ URL is dead.

   Atlas source

   true

   Evidence ID

   ev-uss-lsm-102-lsm102-03

4. [4]NavSource Online, USS LSM-102 specifications block [other_primary]

   Locator

   NavSource specification block (displacement through ship's service generators)

   Finding type

   historical_record

   Finding

   The hull page's specification block lists: displacement 520 t (light) / 743 t (landing) / 1,095 t (fully loaded); length 203' 6" overall; beam 34' 6"; draft 3' 6" forward / 7' 8" aft (light), 6' 4" forward / 8' 3" aft (fully loaded); speed 13.2 knots maximum at 928 tons; complement 5 officers and 54 enlisted with troop accommodations for 2 officers and 46 enlisted; armament one twin bow-mounted 40mm gun and four single 20mm mounts; vehicle capacity 5 medium or 3 heavy tanks, or 6 LVTs, or 9 DUKWs; fuel 1,225 barrels diesel; armor 10-lb STS splinter shield to gun mounts, pilot house, and conning station; endurance 4,900 miles at 12 knots; propulsion two Fairbanks Morse model 38D81/8X10 reversible direct-drive diesel engines with hydraulic clutches, 1,440 BHP each at 720 rpm, twin propellers, 2,800 shp; ship's service generators two diesel-drive 100 kW 450 V A.C. and one diesel-drive 20 kW 120 V D.C.

   Verification

   verified

   Role

   supporting

   Documentation level

   ship_specific

   Accessed

   2026-10-01

   Study period

   1944-1946

   Population

   Ship's company and embarked troop capacity

   Limitations

   Supports dimensions, complement, armament, capacity, and diesel propulsion only. The specification block does not identify insulation composition or any asbestos-containing component; no boiler or steam plant is documented.

   Atlas source

   true

   Evidence ID

   ev-uss-lsm-102-lsm102-04

5. [5]NavSource Online, Amphibious Photo Archive, USS LSM-102 hull page (incl. credited U.S. Navy Defense Imagery/NHHC photo captions); Shipbuilding History LSM table (corroboration) [other_primary]

   Locator

   Hull page chronology (decommissioned / reserve fleet / struck unknown / transferred 3 Nov 1958 / final disposition) and photo captions; https://shipbuildinghistory.njscuba.net/us-navy-small/lsm/ LSM-102 row

   Finding type

   vessel_history

   Finding

   LSM-102 was decommissioned 31 October 1946 and laid up in the Reserve Fleet; NavSource states the date of striking from the Naval Register is unknown. She was transferred to Greece on 3 November 1958 and renamed HS Ipopliarchos Toyrnas (L-162). Final disposition per the hull page: struck by the Greek Navy, hulk retained for cannibalization. U.S. Navy/Defense Imagery photographs document the ex-LSM-102 afloat in Greek service as late as 31 August 1979, moored at Salamis Naval Base among seven other ex-U.S. amphibious ships (VIRIN DN-SC-82-00333, by PHC C. Pedrick, USN); a circa-1969 photo (NH 97466, U.S. Naval Historical Center collections) shows her stern, and contributor photos show her under way circa 1971 and beached during a 1972 Greek Army exercise. Shipbuilding History's U.S. Navy LSM table corroborates: 'LSM-102 | Brown SB | Houston TX | 9 Nov 1944 | laid up 1946, to Greece 1958 as L-162.'

   Verification

   verified

   Role

   supporting

   Documentation level

   ship_specific

   Accessed

   2026-10-01

   Study period

   1946-1979

   Population

   U.S. Navy crew to 1946; Hellenic Navy crew and Greek shipyard/maintenance personnel 1958 onward; reserve-fleet personnel 1946-1958

   Limitations

   Establishes decommissioning, reserve lay-up, Greek transfer and name, and stated final disposition. The strike date and post-cannibalization fate are undocumented; Greek-service details rest on NavSource captions and the SBH secondary table. No shipbreaking, hazmat, or asbestos record is supplied for either Navy.

   Atlas source

   true

   Evidence ID

   ev-uss-lsm-102-lsm102-05

6. [6]Inference from the ship-specific NavSource diesel specification plus the GAO-documented Navy shipboard application categories (ev-uss-lsm-102-lsm102-07); negative documented in search ledger [other_primary]

   Locator

   NavSource propulsion block; GAO HRD-80-2 Enclosure I application list

   Finding type

   asbestos_application

   Finding

   No ship-specific asbestos survey, product inventory, abatement record, or condition report was located. Because LSM-102 was a WWII U.S. Navy diesel landing ship with a direct-drive Fairbanks Morse plant and no steam system, the boiler/turbine lagging pathway does not apply; possible class/era application categories drawn from the Navy's own GAO-documented list are machinery and piping thermal insulation, diesel exhaust insulation, gaskets, packing, electrical insulation/cabling, and deck covering - none of which is documented aboard this hull.

   Verification

   inferred

   Role

   supporting

   Documentation level

   class_or_era

   Accessed

   2026-10-01

   Study period

   1944-1946

   Population

   WWII Navy diesel landing-ship construction and operating personnel

   Limitations

   Class/era inference only - not a finding that asbestos was installed aboard LSM-102. No quantity, location, manufacturer, condition, individual exposure, or causation is established. Diesel propulsion is documented; the absence of a steam plant removes the boiler/turbine pathway but says nothing affirmative about other materials.

   Atlas source

   true

   Evidence ID

   ev-uss-lsm-102-lsm102-06

7. [7]U.S. Government Accountability Office, HRD-80-2, Navy Efforts To Protect Workers From Asbestos Exposure, including Navy CNO enclosure (archived capture) [gao]

   Locator

   Archived PDF p. 1 (digest) and p. 11 (Enclosure I, application list); p. 15 (0.1 f/cc measurement). Live gao.gov returned HTTP 403 this session; Wayback capture 2026-08-10 used and labeled as archived.

   Finding type

   gov_survey

   Finding

   GAO HRD-80-2 (18 October 1979) reproduces a Navy CNO enclosure stating that 'thermal insulation for machinery, equipment and piping systems has been the major application of asbestos' aboard Navy ships and that asbestos is used on Navy ship decks, in Navy galley ranges' electrical cabling and electronic equipment resistors, in piping-system gaskets and packing 'throughout' Navy shipboard piping systems, and in Navy ship equipment brakes and clutches; the enclosure states all ships then in service contained some quantity of asbestos and that ships were delivered with asbestos thermal insulation as late as May 1978. The report's digest notes recently constructed ships have little or no asbestos thermal insulation and that Navy measurements showed operating ships with asbestos insulation at or below 0.1 fibers per cubic centimeter airborne.

   Verification

   verified

   Role

   context

   Documentation level

   class_or_era

   Accessed

   2026-10-01

   Study period

   1971-1979 (review); era practice applicable to 1944 construction

   Population

   U.S. Navy shipbuilding, repair, and shipboard personnel; 1979 program review

   Limitations

   Navy program-level documentation. The report does not name LSM-102 or the LSM-1 class, and its fieldwork yards were Long Beach and Norfolk Naval Shipyards - not this hull's builder. It supplies no hull-specific quantity, survey, condition, individual exposure, or causation evidence and cannot be upgraded to a ship-specific asbestos finding.

   Atlas source

   true

   Evidence ID

   ev-uss-lsm-102-lsm102-07

8. [8]Source-review negative across the repositories listed in search_ledger [other_primary]

   Locator

   search_ledger rows sl-uss-lsm-102-lsm102-01 through -12

   Finding type

   historical_record

   Finding

   No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record was located for LSM-102: the live NavSource hull page, the DANFS amphibious index (no entry exists for this hull), the archived NHHC Tokyo Bay list, NARA Special List No. 44 (which contains no LSM-hull entries at all), the Shipbuilding History build table, and the secondary web sweep contain no asbestos survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, product inventory, or exposure finding naming this hull.

   Verification

   verified

   Role

   negative_finding

   Documentation level

   ship_specific

   Accessed

   2026-10-01

   Study period

   2026-10-01

   Limitations

   A negative public-source finding is not proof that asbestos was absent. The CourtListener hull-number sweep completed as a negative (see ev-uss-lsm-102-lsm102-09), but the NARA catalog is JavaScript-rendered and unverifiable this session, and undigitized Navy, reserve-fleet, MAP-transfer, and Hellenic Navy records may contain additional evidence. Asbestos documentation therefore remains class_or_era.

   Atlas source

   true

   Evidence ID

   ev-uss-lsm-102-lsm102-08

9. [9]CourtListener API v4, authenticated searches (type=o and type=r), query "LSM-102" [court_record]

   Locator

   cl-auth-search.py authenticated requests, 2026-10-01: type=o {"count": 0, "results": []}; type=r {"count": 1} - sole result In re Tribune Media Company, Bankr. D. Del. 08-13141, RECAP doc /docket/4499201/12199/4/tribune-media-company/ (claims exhibit; 'LSM-102' is a schedule identifier, not the ship)

   Finding type

   litigation_documented

   Finding

   Authenticated CourtListener sweep for the exact hull designation completed with a litigation negative: opinion search (type=o, "LSM-102") returned HTTP 200 count 0 - no published opinion in CourtListener's index names this hull; docket/RECAP search (type=r, "LSM-102") returned HTTP 200 count 1, and the single hit is a name collision: a claims-schedule exhibit (docket entry 12199, attachment 4, 'Exhibit B - No Liability Benefit Continuation Claims') inside In re Tribune Media Company, Chapter 11, Bankr. D. Del., docket 08-13141 (filed 2008-12-08) - a media-company bankruptcy unrelated to this vessel. Classification: no qualifying asbestos litigation and no other litigation naming this hull; the sole hit is a name collision.

   Verification

   verified

   Role

   negative_finding

   Documentation level

   ship_specific

   Accessed

   2026-10-01

   Study period

   CourtListener opinion and RECAP indexes as of 2026-10-01

   Population

   N/A - litigation absence finding

   Limitations

   Covers CourtListener's published-opinion and RECAP/docket indexes for the exact hull string only. The exact-phrase variant 'USS LSM-102' was not completed before the pacing gate re-closed (a phrase-subset of the completed search - minor residual gap). A pleading-stage or unpublished filing in a repository outside CourtListener's indexes would not appear; this does not prove no litigation has ever named the hull.

   Atlas source

   true

   Evidence ID

   ev-uss-lsm-102-lsm102-09