Evidence
5 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-5).
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[1]research packet tt-packet.md (3 sources cited) [nhhc_danfs]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: **VERIFIED
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-lsm-182-lsm182-pkt-tt-packet-md
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[2]NavSource Online, Amphibious Photo Archive, USS LSM-182 hull page [other_primary]
- Locator
- Hull history, awards, specifications, and commanding-officer table
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NavSource identifies USS LSM-182 as an LSM-1-class landing ship medium laid down 24 July 1944 at Charleston Navy Yard; launched 28 August 1944; commissioned 14 October 1944 with LT William D. Williams, USNR, in command; decommissioned 2 May 1946; struck from the Naval Register on an unknown date; and sold 23 October 1947 to Bauer-Smith Dredging Co., Fort Lavaca, Texas, with fate unknown. The specification block lists 5 officers and 54 enlisted, troop accommodations for 2 officers and 46 enlisted, and the diesel propulsion and generator plant recorded in the structured summary.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-01
- Study period
- 1944-1947
- Population
- Charleston Navy Yard construction workforce (1944); ship's company (1944-1946); post-sale industrial personnel
- Limitations
- NavSource is a specialist volunteer archive and identifies its history extract as a 1997 Turner Publishing compilation; it is not a Navy registry. The page establishes the listed identity and chronology but contains no asbestos, insulation-composition, hazmat, exposure, or causation information. Its occupation-service paragraph incorrectly refers to LSM-178; those dates are excluded from this record rather than attributed to LSM-182.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lsm-182-lsm182-01
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[3]National Archives, RG 181 Charleston commissioning files finding aid [other_primary]
- Locator
- Box 7 table row: Landing Ship, Medium; LSM-182; 10/14/1944
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- The National Archives Atlanta finding aid for RG 181 Sixth Naval District Charleston commissioning files lists LSM-182 as a Landing Ship, Medium in box 7, with commissioning date 10/14/1944.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-01
- Study period
- 1944
- Population
- U.S. Navy commissioning records
- Limitations
- The finding aid confirms the commissioning-file entry and date, not the contents of the file. It does not establish asbestos materials, quantities, condition, exposure, causation, or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lsm-182-lsm182-02
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[4]Charleston Naval Shipyard production table; National Archives RG 181 finding aid [other_primary]
- Locator
- Charleston table row LSM 182; corroborating NARA URL in citation_value
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- The Charleston Navy Yard production table lists LSM-182 as a Landing Ship with 520-ton light displacement, delivered 14 October 1944, and sold to Bauer-Smith Dredging in 1947. A separate NARA finding aid places LSM-182 in the Charleston commissioning-file series with the same 14 October 1944 date.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- correction
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-01
- Study period
- 1944-1947
- Population
- Charleston Navy Yard production records
- Limitations
- The production table is a compiled shipbuilding-history reference rather than a federal record and does not document asbestos or material composition. It is used as a cross-check for delivery and sale, not as evidence of asbestos aboard the hull.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lsm-182-lsm182-03
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[5]Batch-5988 source sweep: NavSource hull page; NARA RG 181 finding aid; Charleston Navy Yard production table; NHHC/DANFS candidate search; NVR candidate search; CourtListener exact-name/hull-number searches initiated through the authenticated helper [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-lsm-182-lsm182-01 through -11
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: the public sources searched for LSM-182 located no asbestos survey, product inventory, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, or ship-specific exposure record. Asbestos aboard this hull remains unknown.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-01
- Study period
- 1944-2026
- Population
- Construction workers, ship's company, and post-sale industrial personnel
- Limitations
- This is a negative public-source finding, not proof that asbestos was absent. CourtListener pacing stopped the required litigation sweep before result sets were returned, and the Firecrawl connector was quota-blocked; those are disclosed gaps. The finding does not establish or defeat exposure, causation, or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lsm-182-lsm182-04