Evidence
13 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-13).
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[1]NavSource Online, Amphibious Photo Archive, USS LSM-143 hull page (history extract from LSM-LSMR Amphibious Forces, Vol. II, Turner Publishing, 1997) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Hull page chronology, top of page
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- LSM-143, an LSM-1-class landing ship medium, was laid down 17 April 1944 at Charleston Navy Yard, Charleston, S.C.; launched 10 May 1944; and commissioned as USS LSM-143 on 30 June 1944, Lt. Robert C. White, USNR, in command.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-01
- Study period
- 1944
- Population
- Charleston Navy Yard construction workforce and commissioning crew
- Limitations
- Establishes construction and commissioning identity. The launch date conflicts with the christening-bottle inscription (May 18, 1944) - see ev-uss-lsm-143-lsm143-05 and gaps. The page does not document asbestos, insulation composition, hazmat condition, exposure, or causation.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lsm-143-lsm143-01
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[2]NavSource Online, Amphibious Photo Archive, USS LSM-143 hull page [other_primary]
- Locator
- Hull page chronology, decommission/stricken/final disposition lines
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- LSM-143 was decommissioned 14 June 1946 at Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, California, and was struck from the Naval Register on a date NavSource reports as unknown. Final disposition: sold in February 1947 to Elloit Chemical Cleaning Co., San Francisco, California; fate unknown.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-01
- Study period
- 1946-1947
- Limitations
- Establishes decommissioning location, sale, and stated unknown post-sale fate; no strike date, shipbreaking record, hazmat record, or asbestos record is supplied. Buyer name printed "Elloit"; a secondary compilation renders it "Elliott" - see gaps.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lsm-143-lsm143-07
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[3]NavSource Online, Amphibious Photo Archive, USS LSM-143 hull page - photo captions; photo by David Sweeten, USS Mona Island (ARG-9), donation of the David Sweeten family [other_primary]
- Locator
- Hull page photo captions (Okinawa reef photo; Iwo Jima beached photo)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- USS LSM-143 was photographed aground on a reef at Okinawa on 9 October 1945 during Typhoon Louise, alongside USS PC-590 and an unidentified YMS; a second photo shows her stern beached at Iwo Jima (date unknown). A crew memoir describes the ship surviving the typhoon.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-01
- Study period
- 1945
- Population
- Ship's company during Typhoon Louise
- Limitations
- Grounding is documented by photograph captions and crew memoir, not by a located action or damage report; the ship was later photographed under way in San Francisco Bay, so she was refloated. No asbestos-relevance established.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lsm-143-lsm143-03
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[4]Naval History and Heritage Command photography catalog, NH 79857 [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- NHHC catalog page, NH 79857 record (live content retrieved via firecrawl scrape)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- The official NHHC photography catalog holds photo NH 79857, titled "USS LSM-143," captioned "In San Francisco Bay, 1945-46," courtesy of D.M. McPherson, 1974.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-01
- Study period
- 1945-1946
- Limitations
- Confirms the hull's identity and its presence in San Francisco Bay in 1945-46, consistent with refloating after the Okinawa grounding and with decommissioning at Mare Island in June 1946. Contains no asbestos, material, or condition information.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lsm-143-lsm143-04
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[5]Patriots Point Naval & Maritime Museum, Artifacts & Archives, USS LSM-143 Christening Bottle (accession 2023.29) [museum_official]
- Locator
- Artifact page, description and context fields
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Patriots Point Naval & Maritime Museum holds USS LSM-143's woven-silver christening bottle (accession 2023.29, James A. McDonough Collection). The bottle is inscribed "LSM 143, Launched, Charleston Navy Yard, May 18 1944, Sponsor Mrs. JA McDonough," and the museum record states the ship was launched by Mary Edna McDonough at the Charleston Navy Yard on May 18, 1944 - a date that conflicts with the NavSource launch date of 10 May 1944.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-01
- Study period
- 1944
- Population
- Charleston Navy Yard launch/christening participants
- Limitations
- A contemporaneous christening artifact is strong evidence for sponsor (Mrs. J.A. McDonough / Mary Edna McDonough) and for a May 18, 1944 launch/christening; it conflicts with the 10 May 1944 launch date in the NavSource/Turner extract, and the discrepancy is unresolved - see gaps. Contains no asbestos or material information.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lsm-143-lsm143-05
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[6]NavSource Online, USS LSM-143 specifications block [other_primary]
- Locator
- Hull page specifications block
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- The LSM-143 hull page lists a complement of 5 officers and 54 enlisted, troop accommodations for 2 officers and 46 enlisted, and propulsion of two General Motors 16-278A non-reversible diesel engines with airflex clutch, direct drive, 1,440 BHP each at 720 rpm, twin propellers, 2,800 shp, with diesel-driven ship's service generators (two 100 kW 450 V AC, two 20 kW 120 V DC).
- 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 complement and diesel propulsion only. It does not establish any asbestos-containing component; no boiler or steam plant is documented in the cited specifications.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lsm-143-lsm143-06
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[7]National Archives Catalog, naId 126546813 and naId 118967603 [other_primary]
- Locator
- NARA Catalog API search results; catalog.archives.gov/id/126546813
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- The National Archives Catalog holds ship-specific file units for this hull: naId 126546813, "LSM-143, 6/30/44-6/14/46" (subject: muster rolls; 175 digital objects, scanned via the Ancestry-NARA collaboration) spanning the ship's commissioned life, and RG-24 file unit naId 118967603, "USS LCI(R)-704 to USS LSM-143" (1,218 digital objects), a records range ending with this hull.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-01
- Study period
- 1944-1946
- Population
- LSM-143 ship's company named in muster rolls
- Limitations
- Confirms ship-specific NARA holdings exist and are digitized. These are personnel/muster records, not material or asbestos documentation; the scans were not reviewed image-by-image, and nothing in the catalog descriptions addresses asbestos.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lsm-143-lsm143-08
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[8]Arnold Air Force Base (arnold.af.mil), "Ray McCoy pens book to share experiences of local WWII veteran," Dec. 5, 2016 [other_primary]
- Locator
- Article body (live content retrieved via firecrawl scrape; plain automated fetch returned 403)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- An official Arnold Air Force Base news article (5 December 2016) documents that lead signalman Del Garforth served aboard LSM-143 in the Pacific - including the Iwo Jima landings, kamikaze and suicide-swimmer attacks, and the Okinawa typhoon - and that author Ray McCoy located the ship's log book to write the crew memoir General Quarters! Memoirs of a World War II Veteran Aboard the LSM-143.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-01
- Study period
- 1944-1946 (service); 2016 (article)
- Population
- Del Garforth (lead signalman) and ship's company
- Limitations
- Confirms a named crew member's wartime service aboard this hull and the existence of a ship's log book used by the memoir's author; neither the memoir nor the article addresses asbestos, materials, or health outcomes.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lsm-143-lsm143-09
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[9]Inference from the ship-specific NavSource diesel specification and the documented research gap [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource propulsion block; source-review negative documented in search ledger
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- No ship-specific asbestos survey, product inventory, abatement record, or condition report was located. Because LSM-143 was a WWII U.S. Navy diesel landing ship, machinery or diesel-exhaust insulation, gaskets, packing, electrical insulation, and deck covering are possible class/era application categories, but none is documented aboard this hull.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-10-01
- Study period
- 1944-1946
- Population
- WWII Navy diesel landing-ship construction and operating personnel
- Limitations
- These are possible class/era categories, not a finding that asbestos was installed aboard LSM-143. The cited hull page does not identify asbestos or insulation composition; no quantity, location, condition, exposure, or causation is established.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lsm-143-lsm143-10
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[10]OSHA IMIS, Inspection 100361849, U.S. Dept of the Navy / Commander, Charleston Naval Shipyard [other_primary]
- Locator
- OSHA inspection detail page, violation summary (live via firecrawl scrape; plain automated fetch returned 403)
- Finding type
- regulatory
- Finding
- The builder, Charleston Naval Shipyard, has independent asbestos documentation at the yard level: OSHA inspection 100361849 (opened 6 January 1988, complaint-type health inspection of Commander, Charleston Naval Shipyard, Code 106) recorded citations under the asbestos standard, 29 CFR 1910.1001.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-10-01
- Study period
- 1988
- Population
- Charleston Naval Shipyard workforce (1988 inspection era)
- Limitations
- Yard-level documentation only: the 1988 inspection postdates this hull's 1944 construction by 44 years and documents conditions at the shipyard, not aboard LSM-143. It supports context for the builder yard and does not establish asbestos aboard, or exposure of, this hull's crew.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lsm-143-lsm143-11
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[11]CourtListener API v4 via /Users/charlesfletcher/devin-prompts/cl-auth-search.py; Chamberlain v. Shaver Transportation Co., 263 F. Supp. 47 (D. Or. 1966) [court_record]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-lsm-143-lsm143-07 through -09
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- CourtListener litigation sweep completed 2026-10-01 via the authenticated helper: exact-phrase "LSM-143" returned zero opinions and zero dockets; the unquoted query returned 14 opinion hits and 1,161 docket hits, all name collisions or token matches on inspection. The nearest other-litigation hit, Chamberlain v. Shaver Transportation Co., 263 F. Supp. 47 (D. Or. 1966), concerns a mechanic injured aboard a converted LSM used as a machine shop - the hull is not identified and the case is not asbestos-related. No qualifying asbestos litigation naming LSM-143 was located.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-01
- Study period
- 2026-10-01
- Limitations
- No opinion or docket names this hull. Chamberlain is classified as other litigation / name collision: the LSM in that case is an unidentified converted machine-shop hull, not shown to be LSM-143, and the case is a mechanic's injury suit, not asbestos litigation. Absence of a located case does not prove no claim was ever filed; unindexed or settled claims are outside the search's reach.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lsm-143-lsm143-12
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[12]Source-review negative across the repositories listed in search_ledger [other_primary]
- Locator
- Source-review negative; see search_ledger rows sl-uss-lsm-143-lsm143-01 through -12
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- The public research set located no ship-specific asbestos documentation for LSM-143: the live NavSource hull page, NHHC photo catalog, Patriots Point artifact record, Arnold AFB article, and NARA catalog entries document identity, service, propulsion, complement, disposition, and records holdings but do not document asbestos, insulation composition, abatement, or a hazmat survey. No individual DANFS entry exists for this hull, and the Naval Vessel Register does not index pre-1987 disposals.
- 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. Non-digitized Navy records, shipyard build files, post-sale conversion records, and litigation not indexed by the searched services may contain additional evidence; asbestos documentation therefore remains class_or_era.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lsm-143-lsm143-13
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[13]NavSource Online, Amphibious Photo Archive, USS LSM-143 hull page [other_primary]
- Locator
- Hull page chronology, campaign table and awards ribbon block
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- During World War II, USS LSM-143 was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater with LSM Flotilla Five, LSM Group Fifteen, and LSM Division Twenty-Nine, and participated in the Iwo Jima operation - assault and occupation of Iwo Jima, 20 February to 16 March 1945. The ship earned one battle star for World War II service and was awarded the American Campaign Medal, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal, and World War II Victory Medal.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-01
- Study period
- 1944-1945
- Population
- Ship's company and embarked troops during Iwo Jima operation
- Limitations
- Establishes assignment, organization, combat participation, and awards; not a complete voyage narrative and not asbestos content or exposure.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lsm-143-lsm143-02