Evidence
12 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-12).
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[1]research packet 562-packet.md (5 sources cited) [nhhc_danfs]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERDICT: VERIFIED
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-lsm-33-lsm33-pkt-562-packet-md
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[2]NavSource Online, Amphibious Photo Archive, USS LSM-33 hull page (chronology extract credited to LSM-LSMR Amphibious Forces, Vol. II, Turner Publishing, 1997) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Hull page chronology block
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- LSM-33 was laid down 14 May 1944 at Brown Shipbuilding Co., Houston, Texas; launched 6 June 1944; and commissioned as USS LSM-33 on 11 July 1944 with Lt. Gordon F. Rainey, USNR, in command.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-01
- Study period
- 1944
- Population
- Brown Shipbuilding construction workforce and commissioning crew
- Limitations
- Establishes construction and commissioning identity; the page does not document asbestos, insulation composition, hazmat condition, exposure, or causation.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lsm-33-lsm33-01
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[3]NavSource Online, Amphibious Photo Archive, USS LSM-33 hull page [other_primary]
- Locator
- Hull page chronology, disposition line, and Commanding Officers table
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- USS LSM-33 was decommissioned 19 April 1946 at Charleston Navy Yard, Charleston, South Carolina; its strike date is unknown; and it was sold 29 December 1947 to Georgia Marine Salvage Co., Inc., Brunswick, Georgia, with fate listed as unknown. Commanding officers listed: Lt. Gordon F. Rainey, USNR (11 July 1944 - December 1945) and Lt. (jg) W. E. Scott, USNR (December 1945 - 19 April 1946).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-01
- Study period
- 1945-1947
- Limitations
- Establishes decommissioning, unknown strike date, reported sale, and the listed command chronology; no shipbreaking, hazmat, or asbestos record is supplied.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lsm-33-lsm33-05
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[4]Naval History and Heritage Command, United States Pacific Fleet Organization, 1 May 1945, online reading room [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- Live page (HTTP 200 with browser user-agent); LSM Flotilla Three / LSM Group 9 / LSM Division 18 table row 'LSM 33 - Lt. G. F. Rainey (USNR)'
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- The official NHHC United States Pacific Fleet Organization record of 1 May 1945 lists LSM 33 in LSM Division 18 under LSM Group 9 (Lt. Cdr. J. A. Moss, USNR) of LSM Flotilla Three, and records Lt. G. F. Rainey (USNR) as commanding officer.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-01
- Study period
- 1945-05-01
- Population
- Ship's company and Pacific Fleet personnel
- Limitations
- Official contemporaneous organization record corroborating assignment and command on 1 May 1945. It places LSM 33 in LSM Division 18, conflicting with the NavSource/Turner figure of Division Seventeen; the discrepancy is logged in gaps and neither record is silently harmonized. The record provides no full service history and no asbestos, insulation, exposure, or causation finding.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lsm-33-lsm33-03
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[5]NavSource Online, USS LSM-33 specifications [other_primary]
- Locator
- Specification block
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- The hull page lists 5 officers and 54 enlisted, troop accommodations for 2 officers and 46 enlisted, and two Fairbanks Morse model 38D81/8X10 reversible diesel engines with hydraulic clutches, direct drive, 1,440 BHP each at 720 rpm, twin propellers, and 2,800 shp; it also lists two diesel-drive 100-kW 450-V AC generators and two diesel-drive 20-kW 120-V DC generators.
- 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 identify asbestos-containing components or establish that any listed machinery insulation, gasket, packing, electrical insulation, or deck covering contained asbestos.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lsm-33-lsm33-04
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[6]Shipbuilding History (shipbuildinghistory.com), Brown Shipbuilding Houston TX yard production table [other_primary]
- Locator
- Brown yard table, hull 138 / LSM 33 row
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- The shipbuildinghistory.com Brown Shipbuilding yard table lists hull 138 as LSM 33 with build dates matching the NavSource chronology (laid down 14 May 1944, launched 6 June 1944, delivered 11 July 1944) and records the post-Navy disposition as: sold to Georgia Marine Salvage 1947, converted to the barge Donald Sawyer in 1948, sold in 1960 to Hall Corp., and scrapped.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-01
- Study period
- 1947-1960
- Population
- Shipbreaking and conversion workforce (if disposition occurred as reported)
- Limitations
- Secondary compilation, not an official record; the barge-name conversion, 1960 Hall Corp. sale, and scrapping outcome are not corroborated by any official record located and are carried as leads. The row supplies no asbestos, hazmat, or shipbreaking-condition detail.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lsm-33-lsm33-06
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[7]National Archives Catalog file units NAID 126616972 (RG 24), NAID 77473027 and NAID 77473039 (RG 38, series: World War II War Diaries, Other Operational Records and Histories) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Catalog record pages for NAIDs 126616972, 77473027, 77473039 (all live and title-verified)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- The National Archives Catalog holds three ship-specific LSM-33 records verified live: muster rolls for LSM-33 covering 7/11/44-4/1/46 (NAID 126616972, Record Group 24, Muster Rolls of U.S. Navy Ships, Stations, and Other Naval Activities) and two World War II War Diaries reports in Record Group 38 - 'USS LSM-33 - Rep of opers in the invasion of Okinawa Jima, Ryukyu Islands, 4/1-9/45' (NAID 77473027, micro serial 134257, dated 22 April 1945) and 'USS LSM-33 - Rep of opers in the occupation of the Okinawa Gunto, Ryukyu Islands, 4/10/45 - 5/28/45' (NAID 77473039, micro serial 134258, dated 28 May 1945).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-01
- Study period
- 1944-1946
- Population
- Ship's company of record in muster rolls and after-action reports
- Limitations
- Catalog record titles and coverage dates verified; document contents were not reviewed page-by-page. The RG 38 report titles themselves corroborate LSM-33's Okinawa operation participation within the stated date ranges. These are personnel/operational records; no asbestos or material finding should be presumed from them.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lsm-33-lsm33-07
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[8]National Archives Catalog item NAID 205586498; vessel identification per NavSource image caption [other_primary]
- Locator
- NARA catalog record (live, title-verified); NavSource image table attribution
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- A U.S. Coast Guard photograph of the Okinawa invasion fleet (NARA NAID 205586498, local identifier 26-G-4438, USCG Photo 4438 by photographer Cepheus Martin, captioned 'Jap Planes Shot Down By Attack On Okinawa Invasion Fleet') shows USS LSM-33 among the vessels pictured off Okinawa circa April 1945, per the NavSource image caption.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-01
- Study period
- 1945-04
- Limitations
- The NARA catalog title describes the air-attack scene and does not itself name LSM-33; the vessel's presence in the image is attributed by the NavSource caption. The record corroborates operational context only and provides no asbestos, condition, or exposure finding.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lsm-33-lsm33-08
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[9]Inference from the ship-specific NavSource diesel specification and the documented source-review negative [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource propulsion/specification 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-33 was a World War II 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
- 1944-1947
- Population
- World War II Navy diesel landing-ship construction and operating personnel
- Limitations
- Possible categories only, not a finding that asbestos was installed aboard LSM-33. 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-33-lsm33-09
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[10]CourtListener API v4 via /Users/charlesfletcher/devin-prompts/cl-auth-search.py [court_record]
- Locator
- search_ledger sl-uss-lsm-33-lsm33-07; authenticated exact-name and hull-number queries
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- The authenticated CourtListener sweep found no qualifying asbestos litigation record for USS LSM-33. The exact-name opinion search ('USS LSM-33') and hull-number opinion search ('LSM-33') each returned zero results; the hull-number docket search returned two unrelated matters - Internet Media Corporation v. Dell Inc. (D. Del., 2005, patent) and Smith Cogeneration (Bangladesh) Pvt. Ltd. v. Bangladesh Power Development Board (D.D.C., 2006, foreign arbitral award enforcement) - classified as name/text collisions and excluded.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-01
- Study period
- 2026-10-01
- Limitations
- This is a search result, not proof that no unindexed or non-text-linked case exists. The unrelated docket matches do not identify this vessel, its crew, or asbestos exposure aboard this hull.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lsm-33-lsm33-10
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[11]Source-review negative across the sources listed in the search ledger [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-lsm-33-lsm33-01 through -08
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No ship-specific asbestos documentation was located in the public sources reviewed: the live NavSource hull page, the official NHHC 1 May 1945 Pacific Fleet organization record, live NARA catalog records, and the secondary yard table contain no asbestos survey, insulation-material statement, abatement record, hazmat disclosure, or qualifying asbestos litigation record for LSM-33.
- 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, shipyard, reserve-fleet, muster-roll, war-diary, and scrapping records may contain additional evidence; asbestos documentation therefore remains class_or_era.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lsm-33-lsm33-11
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[12]NavSource Online, Amphibious Photo Archive, USS LSM-33 hull page [other_primary]
- Locator
- Hull page chronology and campaign/occupation tables
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- During World War II, USS LSM-33 was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater with LSM Flotilla Three, LSM Group Nine, and (per this source) LSM Division Seventeen, and participated in the Okinawa Gunto operation, the assault and occupation of Okinawa Gunto, from 1 April to 28 May 1945. Post-war it performed Far East occupation service during 15 September-16 October 1945 and 26 October-3 December 1945, and earned one battle star for World War II service.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-01
- Study period
- 1944-1945
- Population
- Ship's company and Okinawa operating personnel
- Limitations
- Establishes the listed theater assignment, Okinawa operation dates, occupation periods, and one battle star; it is not a complete voyage narrative and does not establish asbestos content or exposure. The division number (Seventeen) conflicts with the official NHHC 1 May 1945 organization record, which places LSM 33 in LSM Division 18; see ev-uss-lsm-33-lsm33-03 and gaps.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lsm-33-lsm33-02