Evidence
9 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-9).
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[1]research packet 529-packet.md [other_primary]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERIFIED.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-lsm-112-lsm112-pkt-529-packet-md
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[2]NARA RG 38, 'World War II War Diaries, Other Operational Records and Histories' - 'USS LSM-112 - Report of operations in the occupation of Sasebo, Kyushu, Japan, 9/22-24/45' (NAID 77599102; microfilm roll A1992, micro serial 153283, serial 195, dated 1945-10-07; two-page scan read in full this session) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NAID 77599102, images 0316.jpg and 0317.jpg (roll A1992); report pp. 1-2
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- This hull's own action report: USS LSM 112, Fleet Post Office San Francisco, file LSM112/A9, serial 195, dated 7 October 1945, CONFIDENTIAL, from the Commanding Officer to the Commander in Chief, U.S. Fleet, signed Davy E. Carroll, LT., USNR. Documented verbatim: carried '5th Tank Battalion, 5th Marines, forty-six men and two officers'; 'Embarked troops at Hilo, Hawaii on 27 August 1945, disembarked troops on 22 September 1945 at Sasebo, Kyushu'; cargo 'six M-7 Tanks, three trucks, two trailers, and two jeeps'; unloading 'quite easy on Green Beach #3 which was formerly used as a seaplane ramp'; 'Bearings on Vapor Compressor of distilling plant failed creating shortage of fresh water aboard'; 'No casualties occured among personnell.' Copy-to list includes ComPhibGrp4, Com5thPhibFor, Com5thFlt, CinCPac, ComTranRon12, AdComPhibPac.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-01
- Study period
- 1945-08-27 to 1945-10-07
- Population
- Ship's company (59 complement) plus embarked 5th Tank Battalion detachment (48) for the Hilo-Sasebo lift
- Limitations
- Establishes the Sasebo occupation operation, embarked units, cargo, commanding officer, and an engineering casualty. Contains no asbestos or material statement - supports vessel history, not any asbestos claim. NARA catalog page is JS-rendered; record retrieved via catalog proxy search, page images fetched directly (objects 77599103/77599104).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lsm-112-lsm112-01
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[3]NavSource Online: Amphibious Photo Archive, USS LSM-112 (10/14/14112) - timeline, LSM-1-class specifications, commanding-officer list, awards, photo captions, and disposition (page updated 2018-06-01; history extract credited to LSM-LSMR Amphibious Forces, Vol. II, Turner Publishing 1997) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource 10/14/14112.htm - header block, specifications block, commanding-officer table, photo caption table
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NavSource timeline for this hull: laid down 14 October 1944 at Brown Ship Building Co., Houston, TX; launched 4 November 1944; commissioned USS LSM-112 29 November 1944, LT. Davy E. Carroll USNR in command. WWII assignment: Asiatic-Pacific Theater, LSM Flotilla Eleven / LSM Group Thirty-One / LSM Division Sixty-One. Awards: China Service Medal (extended), American Campaign Medal, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal, WWII Victory Medal, Navy Occupation Service Medal (Asia clasp) - occupation service 16 September to 7 December 1945, China service 23 April to 24 May 1946. 'Decommissioned, Struck from the Naval Register, and Transferred to the Republic of China, 23 May 1946. Seized in October 1949 by the People's Republic of China forces, redesignated HUA-201. Final Disposition, fate unknown.' COs: LT. Carroll (29 Nov 1944 - Mar 1946), LTjg. Harold A. Redd USNR (Mar 1946 - 23 May 1946). Photo captions place the hull en route Saipan-to-Tulagi 4 July 1945 (from USS LSM-9), entering USS ABSD-6 at Guam with LSM-334 on 27 July 1945, and at the Sasebo seaplane ramp 22-24 September 1945 alongside LSM-343, LSM-440, and LSM-467. Spec block (class-level): 520/743/1,095 t.; 203'6" x 34'6"; 13.2 kt.; 5 officers + 54 enlisted; troops 2 officers + 46 enlisted; two Fairbanks-Morse 38D81/8X10 diesels, 1,440 BHP each, twin screws 2,800 shp; call sign NVIO.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-01
- Study period
- 1944-1949
- Population
- Brown Shipbuilding construction trades (1944); crew (1944-46); embarked troops (1945); ROC/PRC crews post-1946 undocumented
- Limitations
- NavSource is a volunteer secondary compilation, not a primary registry - dates tracked against the NARA action report and Shipbuilding History where available; all milestones mutually consistent. The spec block is class-level (identical across LSM-1-class pages) - individual-hull machinery fit not separately verified. Transfer port and ROC unit name not stated. Contains no asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lsm-112-lsm112-02
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[4]Shipbuilding History (T. Colton), 'Brown Shipbuilding, Houston TX' yard page and LSM build list [other_primary]
- Locator
- Brown yard table, row for hull 217; page header paragraph (yard history)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Brown yard list assigns this hull yard number 217: 'LSM-112, landing ship, 14 Oct 1944, 4 Nov 1944, 29 Nov 1944 - to China 1946, seized by PRC 1949 as HUA-201.' Yard context from the same page: Brown Shipbuilding was built in 1941 by George and Herman Brown at the junction of Green's Bayou and the Houston Ship Channel with $9 million in Navy funding; output was 359 vessels in four years - 12 PCs, 32 LCI(L)s, 61 DEs, and 254 LSMs; leased to Todd Shipyards 1949-1984, then an offshore fabrication yard, sold piecemeal 2004 (now the Brown Shipbuilding Industrial Park).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-01
- Study period
- 1941-1949
- Population
- Brown Shipbuilding Houston workforce (1941-45 construction era)
- Limitations
- Specialist secondary compilation (shipbuildinghistory), the standard public build-list reference - not a government registry; consistent with NavSource on every shared date. Establishes builder identity, yard hull number, and build tempo. Contains no asbestos or material content; yard-level asbestos documentation was not located for Brown Shipbuilding.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lsm-112-lsm112-03
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[5]32 Small Ship Squadron RAE Association (Australian veterans' unit association), 'Forgotten Fleet' unit-history project - ship-conditions description as quoted in the Wikipedia 'Australian landing ship medium Clive Steele (AV 1356)' article, which cites the association site [other_primary]
- Locator
- Wikipedia 'Clive Steele' article, 'Ship conditions' section, citing the 32 Small Ship Squadron RAE Association (32smallshipsqn.org.au, live 2026-10-01)
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Veteran-authored class-level description of asbestos aboard LSM-1-class hulls: describing the ex-U.S. Navy LSM-1-class ships operated by the Australian Army's 32 Small Ship Squadron (ex-LSM-315, -319, -477, -547) into the Vietnam era, the quoted passage states that accommodation spaces were below deck with poor ventilation and 'above the bunks were pipes lagged with asbestos, which would rain down on the sleeper during heavy seas, covering him in white dust.'
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-10-01
- Study period
- 1959-1971 (Australian squadron era); describes 1944-45 construction fabric
- Population
- Crews of Australian-operated ex-USN LSM-1-class hulls (postwar-Vietnam era)
- Limitations
- Class-level, non-hull-specific: describes Australian-operated sister hulls 20+ years after this hull's U.S. service, not LSM-112 itself. Reached via Wikipedia quotation citing the squadron association - the association site is live but the specific sub-page could not be relocated this session; verification_status partial accordingly. Supports era/class plausibility of asbestos pipe lagging on the type; establishes nothing about this hull.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lsm-112-lsm112-04
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[6]Corn, Jacqueline Karnell, and Jennifer Starr, 'Historical perspective on asbestos: Policies and protective measures in World War II shipbuilding,' American Journal of Industrial Medicine 11(3):359-373 (1987) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Abstract and article, AJIM 11(3):359-373
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Peer-reviewed historical study documents that asbestos was used extensively as a fireproofing and insulating material in U.S. shipbuilding during WWII - the emergency construction era and program under which this LSM-1-class hull was built at a Navy-funded emergency yard in 1944 - and that wartime demand drove unprecedented asbestos utilization in ship construction.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-10-01
- Study period
- 1940s era documented; article 1987
- Population
- WWII shipyard workers and ship crews (class context)
- Limitations
- Program/era-level scholarly documentation of asbestos use in WWII shipbuilding generally; does not name this vessel or class and does not establish that asbestos was aboard this hull, nor quantity, location, condition, exposure, or causation.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lsm-112-lsm112-05
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[7]GAO, Navy Efforts To Protect Workers From Asbestos Exposure, HRD-80-2 (Oct 18, 1979) [gao]
- Locator
- GAO product page HRD-80-2 (full text blocked, HTTP 403)
- 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 - covering this hull's entire construction (1944) and U.S. Navy service era (1944-46).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-10-01
- 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 (gao.gov blocks automated fetch, HTTP 403 - standing issue since batch-01, confirmed this session) - content via product-page description.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lsm-112-lsm112-06
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[8]Batch-5911 search ledger (this record): NHHC/DANFS (404, no entry exists); NavSource 10/14/14112; NARA catalog (NAID 77599102 fetched and read); NARA deck-log search; Shipbuilding History LSM list + Brown yard page; uboat.net 12723; 32 Small Ship Sqn RAE Assoc; Corn & Starr AJIM; GAO product page; CourtListener (fleet-paced, blocked at session time); secondary web litigation sweep [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-lsm-112-lsm112-01 through -10
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, material list, or verified litigation naming USS LSM-112 was found in the public sources searched. The hull's own action report (NAID 77599102) - the only digitized ship-specific federal record located - contains no asbestos or material content. CAVEAT: CourtListener could not be completed this session (fleet-wide pacing, ~114/hr shared budget momentarily spent) - logged as blocked in the search ledger, not as a negative result; re-run 'LSM-112' and 'USS LSM-112' (opinion and docket) when the budget clears. Secondary sweeps surfaced only generic LSM-asbestos listicle content, excluded by source policy.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-01
- Study period
- 2026-10-01
- Limitations
- Absence of a located public record does not prove absence of asbestos aboard - a 1944 emergency-built hull is era-consistent with asbestos-containing materials, and sister-hull veteran testimony describes asbestos pipe lagging on the class. Deck logs (RG 24), unit war diaries (RG 38), builder records, and any ROC/PRC-era records are unsurveyed. Does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lsm-112-lsm112-07
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[9]NARA record-group mapping: RG 24 (Records of the Bureau of Naval Personnel - deck logs), RG 38 (Office of the Chief of Naval Operations - WWII war diaries, where NAID 77599102 already sits); builder-records lead for Brown Shipbuilding unlocated [other_primary]
- Locator
- NARA Guide to Federal Records RG 24 guide page; NARA catalog series 4697018 (RG 38 WWII war diaries) as demonstrated by NAID 77599102
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Archival leads (not retrieved): (1) LSM-112 deck logs, November 1944 - May 1946, RG 24 at NARA College Park - not surfaced in the digitized catalog this session (query '"LSM-112" deck log' returned only war-diary and index hits); (2) war diaries of parent units LSM Flotilla 11 / LSM Group 31 / LSM Division 61 in RG 38 (the series already demonstrated to hold this hull's action report); (3) Brown Shipbuilding / Brown & Root construction records - a Houston-area repository lead (Brown & Root records exist in Houston public-history collections); (4) ROC/PRC naval records for the 1946-49 transfer period and HUA-201 service - not accessible through U.S. repositories.
- Verification
- unverified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-10-01
- Study period
- 1944-1949 records
- Limitations
- Record-group mapping only - no box-level retrieval performed; existence of asbestos-specific documents is unknown until surveyed in person. Nothing in this row is an asbestos finding.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lsm-112-lsm112-08