Evidence
6 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-6).
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[1]research packet 562-packet.md (3 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-330-lsm330-pkt-562-packet-md
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[2]NavSource Online: Amphibious Photo Archive, USS LSM-330 (history extract credited to LSM-LSMR Amphibious Forces, Vol. II, Turner Publishing, 1997) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource LSM-330 page, history extract and specifications blocks
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Full hull timeline and specifications: laid down 22 June 1944 at Pullman Standard Car Manufacturing Company, Chicago, IL; launched 6 October 1944; commissioned USS LSM-330, 6 November 1944, LT. Basil L. Sherrill USNR in command. Assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater: LSM Flotilla Six, LSM Group Eighteen (flagship), LSM Division Thirty-Six. Decommissioned 28 October 1946; laid up in the Reserve Fleet; struck from the Naval Register in 1958; sold July 1959 to Ships Inc., Miami, FL, fate unknown. Specifications: 520 t. light / 1,095 t. fully loaded; 203'6" overall; two Fairbanks Morse reversible diesel engines, direct drive, 1,440 BHP each, twin propellers, 2,800 shp; complement 5 officers, 54 enlisted. Awards: American Campaign Medal, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal, World War II Victory Medal. Photographic record includes drydocking in USS ABSD-6 at Apra Harbor, Guam, 5 June 1946 (US Navy photo 379476) and San Francisco Bay, 1946 (NHHC photo NH 79722).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-01
- Study period
- 1944-1959
- Population
- Wartime crew (5 officers, 54 enlisted) and embarked troops
- Limitations
- NavSource is a volunteer-maintained archive transcribing published secondary and official material, not a government source; figures are carried here because no DANFS entry exists for this numbered landing ship (NHHC URL 404, confirmed 2026-10-01). No asbestos content whatsoever in this source. Struck date given only as '1958' - exact date not located.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lsm-330-lsm330-01
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[3]Naval History and Heritage Command photographic collection, catalog NH 79722 (USS LSM-330) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- NHHC photo catalog page NH 79722, metadata block
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- NHHC holds a black-and-white photograph of USS LSM-330 (catalog NH 79722), dated between 1940 and 1949 - consistent with the 1946 San Francisco Bay image credited to NHHC NH 79722 in the NavSource photographic record.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-01
- Study period
- 1940-1949 (cataloged date range)
- Limitations
- Catalog page carries only metadata (catalog number, copyright owner, date range 1940-1949, medium BW photo) - no caption detail, no condition or material information, and nothing about asbestos. Confirms the hull's photographic holding only.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lsm-330-lsm330-02
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[4]Hedley-Whyte J, Milamed DR. 'Asbestos and Ship-Building: Fatal Consequences.' Ulster Med J. 2008 Sep;77(3):191-200 (PMC2604477) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Sections 'Logistics of Asbestos' and 'Shipbuilding'; US asbestos use table; WPB order discussion
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Peer-reviewed medical-history documentation of the wartime asbestos regime under which this hull was built: US asbestos consumption averaged 783 million pounds annually during WWII; the first Asbestos Conservation Order of 20 January 1942 essentially banned asbestos use for non-military purposes and gave priority to merchant and US/Royal Navy shipbuilding (WPB Conservation Order M-123, amended December 1942; restrictions not relaxed until December 1944, revoked 31 August 1945); the US Navy had specified asbestos for gaskets, insulation, packing, and tape since 1922; and the proportional mortality rate for asbestosis among former shipyard workers is sixteen times that of other occupations.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-10-01
- Study period
- 1940-1945 (wartime period); article published 2008
- Population
- WWII shipyard workers and naval/merchant crews (class context)
- Limitations
- Era- and program-level documentation. The article does not name LSM-class vessels, this hull, or the Pullman Standard Chicago yard; it establishes the asbestos-intensive shipbuilding regime of 1944, not the presence of any material aboard LSM-330. Asbestos aboard this hull is era inference, not ship-proven. Does not establish quantity, products, or individual exposure.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lsm-330-lsm330-03
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[5]National Archives and Records Administration, 'Navy Deck Logs Available in the National Archives Catalog' (digitization project page); deck logs of US Navy ships, Record Group 24 [other_primary]
- Locator
- archives.gov digitized deck-logs project page; NARA logbook research guidance
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- LSM-330 was in commission November 1944 to October 1946, so deck logs for her entire commissioned life exist as records created; NARA holds unclassified WWII-era Navy deck logs (RG 24) and runs an ongoing multi-year digitization project. Whether LSM-330's 1944-46 logs are digitized was not confirmed this session (catalog JS-rendered; API v1 retired). Deck logs would document underway locations, drydockings (including the 5 June 1946 ABSD-6 availability at Guam), and shipyard periods - the primary-source path to any maintenance-disturbance exposure window.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-01
- Study period
- 1944-11-06 to 1946-10-28 (commissioned life)
- Population
- Wartime crew (records concern)
- Limitations
- Archival lead only - no log content was retrieved. Deck logs document operations, not materials; they would not themselves establish asbestos content aboard. Physical-holdings attribution to RG 24 follows NARA's published deck-log guidance, not a verified catalog entry for this hull.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lsm-330-lsm330-04
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[6]Batch-6141 search ledger (this record): NHHC DANFS candidate URLs; NHHC photographic collection; NavSource; Naval Vessel Register; GAO; NARA deck-log and catalog resources; CourtListener API v4; general web search [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-lsm-330-lsm330-01 through sl-uss-lsm-330-lsm330-09
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, museum file, or docketed case naming LSM-330 was found in the public sources searched (see search_ledger). CourtListener opinion searches on "LSM-330" and "USS LSM-330" returned zero results; the single docket hit for "LSM-330" is a name collision (Kirkland v. Hough International, N.D. Ala. 4:00-cv-03365, Fair Labor Standards, filed 2000-11-21 - a scanned-document string artifact in a labor case), not the vessel. Only law-firm marketing listicles of the banned-source class assert asbestos aboard LSM-class ships; none cites a primary source and none was used.
- 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 - construction-era inference remains reasonable but unproven for this hull. CourtListener coverage was completed this session after pacing delays (see search_ledger sl-uss-lsm-330-lsm330-05): no qualifying litigation of any stage names this hull. Does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lsm-330-lsm330-05