Evidence
8 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-8).
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[1]NavSource Online: Amphibious Photo Archive, USS LSM-301 (ex-MMC-6) - construction, service assignments, ports of call, decommissioning, conversion, transfer, disposal (verified live 2026-10-01) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource 10/14/14301.htm header block (timeline), 'LSM Specifications' block, ports-of-call list, and photo captions
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NavSource timeline for this hull: LSM-1 class Landing Ship Medium; laid down 18 October 1944 at U.S. Navy Yard, Charleston, S.C.; launched 19 November 1944; commissioned USS LSM-301, 1 January 1945, LTjg. Leonard P. Slutz USNR in command. Assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater: LSM Flotilla Sixteen, LSM Group Forty-Six, LSM Division Ninety-Two. Ports of call: Charleston (commissioning); Norfolk, VA and Davisville, R.I. (training); Coco Solo, Panama Canal Zone; Balboa, Panama; San Diego and San Pedro, CA (training); Pearl Harbor, T.H. (training); Eniwetok Atoll, Marshall Islands; Guam, Marianas Islands; Chuuk, Caroline Islands; New Orleans, LA; Green Cove Springs, FL (decommissioning). Decommissioned 2 May 1947 at Green Cove Springs; laid up in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet, Florida Group; struck from the Naval Register 22 December 1952. Authorized for conversion in FY 1953 to a Coastal Mine Layer for the Greek Navy at Ira S. Bushey & Sons Inc., Brooklyn, NY; conversion begun 27 February 1953, completed 20 November 1953; transferred 1 December 1953 to Greece and commissioned into the Greek Navy as Aktion (N-04); reclassified by the US Navy as MMC-6, 1 October 1960; final disposition - scrapped by the Greek Navy in late 2000. Awards: American Campaign Medal, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal, World War II Victory Medal. Specifications block: displacement 520 t. light / 743 t. landing / 1,095 t. full load; length 203'6" ovl; beam 34'6"; speed 13.2 kts; complement 5 officers, 54 enlisted; armament one twin bow-mounted 40mm and four single 20mm; propulsion two General Motors 16-278A diesels (1,440 BHP each @ 720 rpm), twin propellers, 2,800 shp. Photo captions document 'Lulu' nose art at Pearl Harbor (summer 1945), a drydocking in Micronesia circa 1945 reportedly for storm damage to her stern, a Panama Canal transit circa 1945, and crew photographs at Guam 1945; official Hellenic Navy photos show her in Greek service as Aktion (N-04).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-01
- Study period
- 1944-2000
- Population
- Charleston Navy Yard construction trades (1944); crew (1945-47); Green Cove Springs reserve-fleet caretakers (1947-53); Ira S. Bushey & Sons conversion trades (1953); Hellenic Navy crew (1953-c.2000); Greek shipbreakers (2000)
- Limitations
- NavSource is a volunteer secondary compilation, not a primary registry - its milestones generally track NVR/DANFS, but no DANFS entry exists for this unnamed hull and the decommissioning date conflicts with uboat.net (see gaps). Contains no asbestos or material content. The 1953 conversion and 2000 scrapping predate/postdate no located hazmat record. Complement figure is from the class specifications block, unverified against DANFS/NHHC.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lsm-301-lsm301-01
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[2]Official US Navy caption, commissioning ceremonies of LSM-300 and LSM-301, U.S. Navy Yard Charleston, 1 January 1945 (transcribed on the NavSource LSM-301 page) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource 10/14/14301.htm, first photo caption (official Navy caption, commissioning ceremony official party)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Contemporaneous official Navy caption (dated CHARLESTON, S.C., Jan 1 1945) documents the christening and commissioning ceremonies for LSM-300 and LSM-301 at the Charleston Navy Yard: LTjg. Leonard D. Slutz of Cincinnati, Ohio, assumed command of LSM-301; Mrs. William M. Moore of Charleston was sponsor of LSM-301; Rear Admiral Jules James, USN, Commandant of the navy yard and the Sixth Naval District, presided; the two ships were sponsored by a yard worker's wife and a woman yard employee.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-01
- Study period
- 1945
- Population
- Charleston Navy Yard personnel and ships' companies, LSM-300 and LSM-301, 1 January 1945
- Limitations
- Vessel-history documentation only; no asbestos or material content. The caption gives the commanding officer's middle initial as 'D.' while the NavSource page text reads 'P.' - conflict carried in gaps. The NavSource image title dates this photograph 19 November 1944 (the launch date) while the official caption itself is dated 1 January 1945 - the title appears to mislabel the launch/christening and commissioning as one event; carried in gaps.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lsm-301-lsm301-02
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[3]uboat.net Allied Warships of WWII, USS LSM 301 (LSM 301) - warship data sheet (verified live 2026-10-01) [other_primary]
- Locator
- uboat.net ship/12900.html data sheet ('History' block)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Independent secondary corroboration of this hull's milestones: built by Charleston Navy Yard (Charleston, S.C.); ordered 5 November 1943; laid down 18 October 1944; launched 19 November 1944; commissioned 1 January 1945; decommissioned 23 May 1947; stricken 22 December 1952; converted to a coastal minelayer; transferred to Greece 1 December 1953.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-01
- Study period
- 1943-1953
- Population
- Construction, crew, and conversion populations as in ev-01
- Limitations
- Secondary reference work, not a primary registry. The decommissioning date (23 May 1947) conflicts with NavSource (2 May 1947) - carried in gaps, neither silently reconciled. Contains no asbestos or material content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lsm-301-lsm301-03
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[4]Era inference built on: NavSource LSM specifications block (diesel propulsion, 2 x GM 16-278A, no steam plant); Atlas shipyard dataset record for Charleston Naval Shipyard (see ev-05); GAO HRD-80-2 (see ev-06) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource specifications block (propulsion); shipyards.json record 'charleston-naval-shipyard'; GAO HRD-80-2 product page
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- A diesel Landing Ship Medium built in 1944 at a U.S. Navy yard sits squarely inside the Navy's documented asbestos-use era; era-standard applications aboard a 1944 diesel amphibious hull of this size were thermal insulation, machinery and diesel-exhaust lagging, gaskets, valve packing, and electrical insulation in machinery spaces. As a diesel hull she carried no boilers or steam plant - the boiler/turbine lagging pathway of steam vessels does not apply.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-10-01
- Study period
- 1944-1953
- Population
- Charleston Navy Yard construction trades (1944); crew (1945-47); Bushey conversion trades (1953)
- Limitations
- Class/era inference only - no hull-specific insulation survey, material list, work package, or photograph of insulation was located for LSM-301. Names era-standard applications, not confirmed installed materials. No quantity. Product names are normalized era terms; no manufacturer attribution for this hull.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lsm-301-lsm301-04
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[5]Atlas shipyard dataset (shipyards.json), record 'charleston-naval-shipyard' (evidence_tier 2; flagship ev-charleston-naval-shipyard-06, Whalen v. John Crane 2014 verdict) [other_primary]
- Locator
- shipyards.json record 'charleston-naval-shipyard', asbestos_products_documented field
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Yard-level documentation for this hull's builder: the Atlas shipyard record for Charleston Naval Shipyard (Charleston, S.C.) documents asbestos products at the yard including magnesia pipe insulation, spray-on insulation for walls and ship interiors, asbestos gaskets in pumps and valves, packing materials for rotating equipment, thermal insulation for steam systems, and fireproofing materials in living quarters; the yard record carries evidence_tier 2 with a documented 2014 verdict for a Navy machinist (Whalen v. John Crane, Inc.). LSM-301 was built at this yard in 1944.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-10-01
- Study period
- 1944 (this hull's construction); yard documentation spans the yard's operating life
- Population
- Charleston Navy Yard trades, 1944 construction era
- Limitations
- Yard-level documentation, not a hull record: documents asbestos products in use at Charleston Naval Shipyard generally - LSM-301 is not named in any yard evidence row, and yard product lists do not establish materials installed aboard this hull. The dataset's own limitations note on its fiber-measurement row flags that the 70 f/cc figure is not a Charleston measurement.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lsm-301-lsm301-05
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[6]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 - spanning this hull's entire U.S. Navy era (construction 1944, service 1945-47, reserve 1947-53) and her 1953 conversion.
- 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, confirmed 2026-10-01) - content via product-page description, consistent with the Batch-01/98 treatment of this report.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lsm-301-lsm301-06
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[7]NARA, 'Navy Deck Logs Available in the National Archives Catalog' (digitized deck-log index); NHHC, 'Deck Log Access' (post-1940 logs held at NARA) [other_primary]
- Locator
- archives.gov/research/military/logbooks/navy-online (LSM section, LSM-301 absent); history.navy.mil/about-us/services-and-policies/deck-log-access.html
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Deck logs for USS LSM-301 (1945-1947 commissioned service) are held by the National Archives (per NHHC, deck logs after 1940 are at NARA) but are NOT among the digitized deck logs in the National Archives Catalog: the NARA digitized-index page lists other LSM hulls (e.g., LSM-161, LSM-297, LSM-397, LSM-419, LSM-448, LSM-462) but no entry for LSM-301. The logs are the open archival lead for her 1945-47 movements and any recorded yard availabilities.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-01
- Study period
- 1945-1947 (log window)
- Limitations
- Archival lead only: the digitized index was checked 2026-10-01 and LSM-301 is absent; the physical logs' existence at NARA follows from NHHC's general deck-log custody statement, not from a catalog entry verified for this hull. Deck logs in any case record movements and events, not materials - they are a lead for service history, not an asbestos source.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lsm-301-lsm301-07
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[8]Batch-6109 search ledger (this record): NavSource (live); official US Navy commissioning caption; uboat.net; NARA digitized deck-log index; shipyards.json cross-check; CourtListener API v4 (type=o and type=r, all queries); GAO product page (blocked); secondary web litigation sweep [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-lsm-301-lsm301-01 through -09
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, or litigation naming USS LSM-301 / LSM-301 / MMC-6 was found in the public sources searched. CourtListener was searched this session via the authenticated fleet helper: exact name and hull number ('USS LSM-301', 'LSM-301', 'LSM 301') against both opinions (type=o) and dockets (type=r) - all six queries returned count 0 on 2026-10-01 (a genuine negative result, not a block). Secondary web sweeps surfaced no qualifying case; the only 'asbestos aboard Navy ships' material is law-firm marketing content (asbestos.com, mesotheliomahope.com, mesotheliomaveterans.org listicles) asserting asbestos across pre-1983 Navy ships without hull-specific primary sourcing - 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 - it establishes only that no ship-specific public documentation was found. Deck logs, Charleston Navy Yard work packages, the 1953 Bushey conversion contract, and any Greek disposal records are undigitized or unfetched leads. Does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lsm-301-lsm301-08