Evidence
8 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-8).
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[1]research packet ue-packet.md (4 sources cited) [nhhc_danfs]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERIFIED (MIRROR-SOURCED). No phantom, no name collision. — real identity: USS LSM-258. Designation: LSM-258 (no name ever assigned —
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Limitations
- qualifier: VERIFIED (MIRROR-SOURCED). No phantom, no name collision.
- Evidence ID
- uss-lsm-258-lsm258-pkt-ue-packet-md
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[2]NavSource Online: Amphibious Photo Archive, USS LSM-258 (construction, service, specifications, commanding officers, disposal); narrative sourced by NavSource to LSM-LSMR Amphibious Forces, Vol. II (Turner Publishing Co., 1997, ISBN 1-56311-389-9) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource 10/14/14258.htm - header/spec block, campaign table, commanding-officers list, final-disposition line
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Documented for this hull: laid down 23 March 1944 at Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Co., Newark, N.J.; launched 12 May 1944; commissioned USS LSM-258, 2 June 1944, LTjg. Robert M. Donaldson USNR in command. Assigned Asiatic-Pacific Theater: LSM Flotilla Two (flagship), LSM Group Five. Campaigns: Leyte landings (11 Oct-29 Nov 1944) and Ormoc Bay landings (7-8 Dec 1944, carrying the 2nd wave of the US Army 77th Division near Ormoc, Leyte); consolidation/capture of the Southern Philippines, Mindanao Island landings (Mar-May 1945); Luzon operation, Mindoro landings (12-18 Dec 1944); Borneo operation, Balikpapan (25 Jun-8 Jul 1945). Occupation service, Far East, 10 Sep-11 Dec 1945. Decommissioned 2 May 1946; struck from the Naval Register, date unknown. Earned four battle stars for WWII service. Final disposition: sold 21 November 1946 to Alexander Shipyard Inc., New Orleans, LA, fate unknown. Spec block: displacement 1,095 t. fully loaded; length 203'6" (ovl); beam 34'6"; speed 13.2 kts max; complement 5 officers/54 enlisted; armament one twin bow-mounted 40mm gun, four single 20mm mounts; propulsion two Fairbanks Morse Model 38D8-1/8x10 diesel engines, 1,440 BHP each, twin propellers (2,800 shp combined). Five commanding officers served between commissioning and decommissioning (Donaldson, Schaefer, Latimer, Black, Leland).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-01
- Study period
- 1944-1946
- Population
- Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Co. construction trades (1944); crew (1944-1946)
- Limitations
- No individual NHHC/DANFS entry exists for this hull (confirmed: all three candidate history.navy.mil DANFS URLs returned HTTP 404 on 2026-10-01; unrenamed numbered LSMs generally were not given individual DANFS coverage). This NavSource page is the closest ship-specific primary-adjacent record; its narrative service history is explicitly sourced by NavSource to a 1997 Turner Publishing unit-history book (secondary compilation), not a Navy-authored record - weaker sourcing than a DANFS entry. Contains no asbestos or material content of any kind.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lsm-258-lsm258-01
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[3]National Archives Identifier 80662843 (US Army Signal Corps photo # 199456), captioned via NavSource 10/14/14258.htm [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource 10/14/14258.htm, Ormoc Bay photo caption citing NAID 80662843
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- NARA-identified photograph (NAID 80662843, US Army Signal Corps photo #199456) depicts LSMs including USS LSM-258 and USS LSM-318 carrying the second wave of the US Army 77th Division onto a beach near Ormoc, Leyte Island, Philippine Islands, 7 December 1944 - physical-presence documentation of this hull's Ormoc Bay landing, not a work or material record.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-01
- Study period
- 1944-12-07
- Population
- Crew and embarked 77th Division troops, 7 December 1944
- Limitations
- Archival lead only: the NARA catalog page at catalog.archives.gov is JS-rendered and could not be independently fetched or verified in this session (same defect noted in prior batch research on other hulls); the NAID and caption are transcribed via NavSource's photo caption, not independently confirmed against the NARA record itself. No asbestos content; establishes operational presence, not any hazard or material fact.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lsm-258-lsm258-02
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[4]Owens-Illinois, Inc.'s Supplemental Answers to Second Interrogatories, Heathman v. Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp. et al. (Brazoria County, TX, filed 20 Sep 1990), referencing 'Industrial Health Survey of the Federal Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., Kearny, New Jersey, at 14 (August 30-31, September 1-2, 1944)' [court_record]
- Locator
- toxicdocs.org document 4ayjMMY2q6pqomB4eDk5Nq9op, interrogatory reference list
- Finding type
- gov_survey
- Finding
- Discovery-stage litigation document (Owens-Illinois interrogatory answers, verified live on toxicdocs.org) lists, as a reference item, the existence of an 'Industrial Health Survey of the Federal Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., Kearny, New Jersey' conducted 30 August-2 September 1944 - a date window roughly contemporaneous with this hull's commissioning (2 June 1944) and continued yard presence. The interrogatory document also states Owens-Illinois acknowledged general asbestos-hazard awareness 'since 1948 or before.'
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-10-01
- Study period
- 1944-08-30 to 1944-09-02 (survey); 1990-09-20 (interrogatory document date)
- Population
- Federal Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co. trades, Kearny, NJ (surveyed Aug-Sep 1944)
- Limitations
- This is a citation-of-a-citation: the interrogatory response only lists the 1944 survey's title/date as a reference in discovery; it does not reproduce the survey's actual findings (no dust counts, product names, or work descriptions were located in the fetched document). Discovery-stage litigation document in an unrelated plaintiff's case - not a finding about this hull, and not an adjudicated result (litigation-stage discipline: classified at discovery-record level, the least-final stage this document supports). Yard-level only; LSM-258 is not named. Full text of the underlying 1944 survey itself was not located this session.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lsm-258-lsm258-03
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[5]Era inference built on: NavSource specifications (diesel propulsion, no boilers); Federal Shipbuilding/Kearny yard-period industrial hygiene survey reference (see ev-03); general LSM-1 class design (confined cargo-deck/crew/engine-room volume) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource specifications block; ev-uss-lsm-258-lsm258-03 (yard-period survey reference)
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- An LSM-1 class landing ship built in 1944 at the Federal Shipbuilding/Kearny-Newark industrial complex sits inside that yard's documented 1944 industrial-hygiene-survey era. Era-standard applications aboard a diesel-powered vessel of this type and period were thermal/machinery insulation, diesel-exhaust lagging, pipe and electrical insulation, and gaskets/valve packing within the confined cargo-deck, crew-berthing, and engine-room spaces characteristic of the LSM design. As a diesel vessel she carried no steam plant - the boiler/turbine lagging pathway of steam combatants does not apply, but confined small-ship exposure dynamics apply with full force.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-10-01
- Study period
- 1944-1946
- Population
- Federal Shipbuilding construction trades (1944); crew (1944-1946)
- Limitations
- Class/era inference only - no hull-specific insulation survey, material list, or work package located for LSM-258. Names era-standard applications, not confirmed installed materials. No quantity, no manufacturer attribution for this hull.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lsm-258-lsm258-04
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[6]GAO, Navy Efforts To Protect Workers From Asbestos Exposure, HRD-80-2 (Oct 18, 1979) - archived copy (live gao.gov returns HTTP 403 to automated fetch, confirmed 2026-10-01) [gao]
- Locator
- GAO HRD-80-2 product page, 'Highlights' section (Wayback capture 20250402135701)
- Finding type
- gov_survey
- Finding
- GAO reviewed the Navy's efforts to protect workers from asbestos exposure at Long Beach and Norfolk Naval Shipyards, including use of asbestos aboard Navy ships generally. The Navy's 1975 policy was to remove and replace with nonasbestos materials only insulation that was damaged or had to be removed for necessary repairs; this was modified in 1979 to include selective replacement of asbestos insulation in high-maintenance areas ahead of a ship's next operating cycle.
- 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, decades after this hull's 1946 disposal; supports general Navy asbestos-use/removal-policy era context only, not any fact specific to this hull. Fieldwork yards (Long Beach, Norfolk) are not this hull's builder or any yard she is documented at. Live gao.gov blocks automated fetch (HTTP 403, confirmed 2026-10-01); highlights text taken from the Wayback-archived product page, labeled as archived per citation-hygiene policy.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lsm-258-lsm258-05
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[7]National Guard Militia Museum of New Jersey (NJ Dept. of Military and Veterans Affairs; Center for U.S. War Veterans' Oral Histories), oral-history page on a crewman's WWII service aboard USS LSM-256 [museum_official]
- Locator
- njmilitiamuseum.gov oral-history page (Seidler account, USS LSM-256 engine-room section)
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Official New Jersey state military-museum oral-history page documents an electrician's mate (Seidler) serving aboard USS LSM-256 - an LSM-1 class sister hull also built at Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Co. (commissioned 27 May 1944, one week before LSM-258's 2 June 1944 commissioning) - whose engine-room duties 'included repairing a 240 volt cable insulated with asbestos.'
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-10-01
- Study period
- 1944-1946
- Population
- USS LSM-256 engine-room crew (1944-1946)
- Limitations
- This record is about USS LSM-256, NOT USS LSM-258 - a different hull. Carried here only as same-yard, same-class, near-identical-build-date context; it is NOT ship-specific evidence for LSM-258 and must not be read as documenting asbestos aboard this hull. No finding about quantity, extent, or present-day condition; a single crewman's recollection of one cable-repair task, not a survey.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lsm-258-lsm258-06
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[8]Batch-6060 search ledger (this record): CourtListener API v4 (opinion + docket, exact-phrase and broad queries); NavSource; NARA NAID lead; toxicdocs.org; GAO (Wayback); njmilitiamuseum.gov; NHHC DANFS candidate URLs; NVR; secondary web sweep [court_record]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-lsm-258-lsm258-01 through -10
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, or verified litigation naming USS LSM-258 was found in the public sources searched. CourtListener was searched this session without throttling: exact-phrase queries "LSM-258" and "LSM 258" returned zero results on both opinion (type=o) and docket (type=r) search. A broader, unquoted query "USS LSM-258" surfaced exactly one result, Amerace Esna Corp. v. United States, 462 F.2d 1377 (Ct. Cl. 1972) - a self-locking-fastener patent-infringement case with no asbestos content; the exact phrase "LSM-258" does not appear in that opinion per the null-result phrase search, so this is classified as a non-matching token artifact / name collision, not a qualifying hit, and is not carried as a finding.
- 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 - deck logs, any Federal Shipbuilding work-completion records, and the 1946 Alexander Shipyard sale/post-sale disposition are undigitized or unlocated leads. Does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lsm-258-lsm258-07