Evidence
7 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-7).
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[1]research packet 832-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-289-lsm289-pkt-832-packet-md
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[2]NavSource Online, USS LSM-289, Amphibious Photo Archive [other_primary]
- Locator
- History bullets and specifications block
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NavSource records USS LSM-289 as laid down 18 November 1944 at Federal Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., Newark, New Jersey; launched 29 December 1944; commissioned 16 January 1945; assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater and the Okinawa Gunto operation; assigned to Far East occupation service from 20 September to 5 December 1945; decommissioned 15 November 1946 at Astoria, Oregon; laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet; struck from the Naval Register on an unknown date; and sold 29 April 1960 to Warm Construction Co., with fate unknown.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-01
- Study period
- 1944-1960
- Population
- Ship's crew; Navy and disposal personnel
- Limitations
- Ship-history and disposition record; it does not document asbestos content, an asbestos survey, abatement, individual exposure, causation, or legal eligibility. The page itself reports the struck date as unknown.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lsm-289-lsm289-01
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[3]NavSource Online, USS LSM-289, specifications block [other_primary]
- Locator
- Specifications: complement and propulsion
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NavSource's LSM-289 specification block lists a complement of 5 officers and 54 enlisted, two General Motors GM 16-278A diesel engines rated at 1,440 BHP each, direct drive, twin propellers, and 2,800 shp.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-01
- Study period
- 1945-1946
- Population
- Ship's crew and engineering personnel
- Limitations
- Specification record only; it does not identify insulation products or prove asbestos aboard this hull. It also does not establish individual exposure or causation.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lsm-289-lsm289-02
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[4]Naval History and Heritage Command, U.S. Pacific Fleet Organization, 1 May 1945 [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- LSM Group 39, Division 77 entry
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- The Naval History and Heritage Command's transcription of the U.S. Pacific Fleet Organization dated 1 May 1945 lists LSM 289 in LSM Group 39, Division 77, with LSM 290 and LSM 291.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-01
- Study period
- 1945-05-01
- Population
- Pacific Fleet landing-ship organization
- Limitations
- Operational organization record, not an asbestos or crew-exposure record. It does not establish asbestos aboard, material quantity, or individual exposure.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lsm-289-lsm289-03
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[5]U.S. GAO, Navy Efforts To Protect Workers From Asbestos Exposure, HRD-80-2 [gao]
- Locator
- Highlights: Navy ships, insulation removal and replacement policy
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- GAO reported that its review covered asbestos use in Navy ships and Navy policies for removing and replacing damaged insulation or insulation removed during repairs. The 1979 policy context supports Navy-wide and era-level asbestos-insulation background only.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-10-01
- Study period
- 1975-1979
- Population
- Navy ships and shipyard workers generally
- Limitations
- Navy-wide/program-level context, not a record for LSM-289. It does not establish that asbestos was installed aboard this hull, where it was located, in what quantity, or what remains. The full report was not retrieved because the linked report fetch was blocked; the GAO product page was live and supplied the cited highlights.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lsm-289-lsm289-04
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[6]NIOSH Health Hazard Evaluation Report HETA 85-021-1654, Portsmouth Naval Shipyard [other_primary]
- Locator
- PDF pp. 4-5, Background: former asbestos-insulation storage and shipboard rip-outs/pipe covering
- Finding type
- environmental_record
- Finding
- NIOSH documented that a Portsmouth Naval Shipyard insulation shop had previously prepared and stored asbestos insulation and that its insulators performed rip-outs and pipe covering aboard Navy ships and submarines. This is shipyard and occupational-health context, not documentation for LSM-289.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-10-01
- Study period
- 1984-1986
- Population
- Portsmouth Naval Shipyard insulation workers
- Limitations
- Different shipyard and later period; the report does not identify LSM-289, Federal Shipbuilding, or any material aboard this hull. It does not establish individual exposure or causation.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lsm-289-lsm289-05
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[7]Accessible-source research sweep and negative finding [other_primary]
- Locator
- Search ledger entries sl-uss-lsm-289-lsm289-01 through -08
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- No ship-specific asbestos survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, material inventory, or other primary asbestos record for USS LSM-289/LSM-289 was located in the accessible sources searched. Ship-specific asbestos documentation is unknown, not established absent.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-01
- Study period
- 1944-2026
- Population
- Hull-specific records
- Limitations
- Negative finding limited to accessible public sources. Firecrawl was quota-blocked for more than 22 hours; CourtListener exact-name and exact-hull requests were halted by the fleet pacing limiter before a complete sweep; the underlying Navy technical and non-digitized archival files were not reviewed. This does not prove absence of asbestos or defeat any exposure claim.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lsm-289-lsm289-06