Evidence
10 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-10).
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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-332-lsm332-pkt-562-packet-md
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[2]NavSource Online: Amphibious Photo Archive, USS LSM-332 (LSM-1 Class Landing Ship Medium) - timeline, flotilla assignments, specifications, commanding officers (verified live 2026-10-02) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource 10/14/14332.htm header block, history extract, specifications block, commanding-officer table
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Documented for this hull: laid down 4 July 1944 at Pullman Standard Car Manufacturing Company, Chicago, IL; launched 20 October 1944; commissioned USS LSM-332, 18 November 1944, LTjg. Richard W. Trenkner USNR in command. World War II assignment: Asiatic-Pacific Theater - LSM Flotilla Eight (CDR. H. Doe USN), LSM Group Twenty-Four (LCDR. B. D. Lindman USNR), LSM Division Forty-Eight. Post-war: occupation service in the Far East, 18 October to 14 November 1945. Decommissioned 23 June 1947 at San Diego, CA; laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet; struck from the Naval Register in 1958; sold July 1958 to Dulien Steel Products Inc., Seattle, WA, converted to a barge, fate unknown. Specifications: displacement 520 t. light / 743 t. landing / 1,095 t. fully loaded; length 203'6"; beam 34'6"; speed 13.2 kts max; complement 5 officers + 54 enlisted; armament one twin 40mm bow mount, four single 20mm mounts; propulsion two Fairbanks Morse (model 38D81/8X10, reversible with hydraulic clutch) diesel engines, direct drive, 1,440 BHP each at 720 rpm, twin propellers 2,800 shp. Commanding officers: LT Richard W. Trenkner USNR (18 Nov 1944 - 4 Dec 1945); LTjg William B. Tilghman USNR (4 Dec 1945 - Jun 1946); LT Francis Joseph Gregory Kelly Jr. USN (Jun 1946 - Oct 1946); LTjg Lorin Peter Garlinger USN (Oct 1946 - 23 Jun 1947). Awards: American Campaign Medal; Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal; World War II Victory Medal; Navy Occupation Service Medal (Asia clasp).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-02
- Study period
- 1944-1958
- Population
- Pullman Standard construction trades (1944); crew (1944-47)
- Limitations
- Ship-specific history only; no asbestos or material content. NavSource is a volunteer secondary compilation, not a primary registry - its history extract for this hull is credited to LSM-LSMR Amphibious Forces, Vol. II (Turner Publishing, 1997), a veteran-published work; milestone dates are corroborated by the Colton yard table (ev-02) and uboat.net (ev-03). Contains no asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lsm-332-01
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[3]Naval Marine Archive (Canadian Collection) mirror of the Colton shipbuilding-history yard table: Pullman Standard Car Manufacturing Company, Chicago IL (verified live 2026-10-02) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Pullman yard table, LSM 310-353 block, row 'LSM 332'; introductory yard-description paragraphs
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Yard-table row for this hull: 'LSM 332, US Navy, Landing Ship, 520 tons, O.N. 283679, delivered 18-Nov-44; laid up 1947, sold to Dulien steel 1958, converted to barge 514 M.' Yard context from the same page: Pullman Standard Car Manufacturing Company established a shipbuilding division in 1943; the yard was on Lake Calumet on the north side of 130th Street at the most southerly point of the lake; hulls were built in 40-ton blocks, assembled in a fab shop on 111th Street and moved to the yard on gondola cars; in two years the yard built 34 PCEs and 44 LSMs.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-02
- Study period
- 1943-1958
- Population
- Pullman Standard construction trades (1943-45); 1958 conversion workers at Dulien Steel Products
- Limitations
- Secondary compilation (Colton shipbuilding-history data mirrored by the Naval Marine Archive), not an official registry; the delivery date equals the NavSource commissioning date (18 Nov 1944), so the two are mutually consistent but not independent proof of both events. The U.S. Official Number 283679 and barge identity '514 M' appear only in this source - unverified against Coast Guard merchant-documentation records. No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lsm-332-02
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[4]uboat.net Allied Warships database, USS LSM 332 (LSM 332) - medium landing ship of the LSM class (verified live 2026-10-02) [other_primary]
- Locator
- uboat.net ship page 12931, data table and history line
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Corroborating timeline for this hull: ordered 5 November 1943; built by Pullman Standard Car Co. (Chicago, Illinois); laid down 4 July 1944; launched 20 October 1944; commissioned 18 November 1944; end of service 23 June 1947; decommissioned 23 June 1947; stricken 29 August 1957; sold July 1958.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-02
- Study period
- 1943-1958
- Limitations
- Secondary database (community-maintained), not an official registry. Its stricken date (29 August 1957) conflicts with NavSource ('struck from the Naval Register in 1958') - conflict unresolved, carried in gaps. The 5 November 1943 order date appears only in this source - unverified against contract records. No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lsm-332-03
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[5]GAO, Navy's Efforts to Protect Workers From Asbestos Exposure, HRD-80-2 (B-163375; October 18, 1979) - full report PDF (26 pp.) [gao]
- Locator
- HRD-80-2 letter, p. 1 ('all ships contain some asbestos...'); Enclosure I, Navy response ('thermal insulation for machinery, equipment and piping systems has been the major application of asbestos'; specification changes 1971/1973; post-1973 deliveries)
- Finding type
- gov_survey
- Finding
- Program-level documentation of the Navy asbestos-use era that fully covers this hull's 1944 construction and 1944-47 service: per the Navy's own statements to GAO, 'all ships contain some asbestos in such components as clutches and electric cables,' and 'thermal insulation for machinery, equipment and piping systems has been the major application of asbestos' aboard Navy ships. Insulation specifications were changed as early as 1971, and military specifications for thermal insulation were changed in 1973 to specify asbestos-free materials - but asbestos materials already purchased were in some cases installed in ships under construction, so some ships were delivered with asbestos thermal insulation even after 1973. In 1979 the Navy stated it did not plan a one-time asbestos removal program (estimated $2 billion) and that shipyard employees 'will continue to work with or near asbestos for many years as ships are repaired.'
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-10-02
- Study period
- 1979 report; practice era documented back through WWII construction
- Population
- Navy shipyard workers (program review); era-consistent populations aboard and building Navy ships generally
- Limitations
- Program-level documentation; LSM-332 is not named. Establishes that asbestos thermal insulation and asbestos-containing components were standard Navy shipboard practice throughout this hull's era - it does not establish materials actually installed aboard this hull, quantity, individual exposure, or causation. Plain-HTTP fetch of gao.gov returns HTTP 403 (bot block, confirmed 2026-10-02); the report was verified live and retrieved in full via a real-browser fetch this session. Fieldwork yards were Long Beach and Norfolk Naval Shipyards - noted as context, not hull evidence.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lsm-332-04
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[6]Corn, Jacqueline Karnell, and Jennifer Starr, 'Historical perspective on asbestos: Policies and protective measures in World War II shipbuilding,' American Journal of Industrial Medicine 11(3):359-373 (1987) - Wiley Online Library [other_primary]
- Locator
- Wiley Online Library DOI landing page, article abstract
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Peer-reviewed historical study documents the extensive use of asbestos as a fireproofing and insulating material in shipbuilding in the 1940s, when WWII industrial expansion brought a hitherto unprecedented rise in the amount of asbestos utilized - the era and emergency construction program under which this LSM-1 class hull was built in 1944. The article further documents that asbestos diseases began to manifest twenty years after WWII among thousands of shipyard workers and others exposed in the 1940s and postwar period.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-10-02
- Study period
- 1940s era documented; article 1987
- Population
- WWII shipyard workers and ship crews (class/era context)
- Limitations
- Program/era-level scholarly documentation of asbestos use in WWII shipbuilding generally; does not name this vessel or class and does not establish that asbestos was installed aboard this hull, nor quantity, location, exposure, or causation. DOI landing page returns HTTP 403 to automated fetchers (bot block, confirmed 2026-10-02); verified live via real-browser session this session - title, authors, journal, volume/issue, and abstract confirmed.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lsm-332-05
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[7]Era inference built on: NavSource specifications block (LSM-1 class; two Fairbanks Morse diesels, direct drive, twin screws - diesel plant, no steam plant); GAO HRD-80-2 era documentation (ev-04); Corn & Starr 1987 WWII-shipbuilding documentation (ev-05) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource specifications block (ev-01); GAO HRD-80-2 (ev-04); Corn & Starr (ev-05)
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- An LSM-1 class landing ship built July-November 1944 under the WWII emergency construction program sits squarely inside the era GAO and the peer-reviewed literature document as standard asbestos-insulation practice in U.S. shipbuilding. Era-standard applications aboard a diesel amphibious vessel of this type and period were thermal insulation of machinery spaces and diesel-exhaust runs, gaskets, valve packing, and electrical insulation (GAO: 'all ships contain some asbestos in such components as clutches and electric cables'). As a diesel-driven vessel she carried no steam plant - the boiler/turbine lagging pathway of steam vessels does not apply.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-10-02
- Study period
- 1944-1958
- Population
- Pullman Standard construction trades (1944); crew (1944-47); any yard trades during 1944-47 availabilities; 1958 barge-conversion workers at Dulien Steel Products
- Limitations
- Class/era inference only - no hull-specific insulation survey, material list, work package, or contractor record located for LSM-332. 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-332-06
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[8]CourtListener API v4 searches, authenticated, 2026-10-02: opinions '"LSM-332"' (0 results); opinions '"LSM 332"' (0 results); opinions '"USS LSM-332"' (0 results); dockets/recap '"LSM-332"' (1 result - name collision) [court_record]
- Locator
- CourtListener search API responses (this session); collision docket: In re New Century TRS Holdings, Inc., 07-10416, Bankr. D. Del.
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying asbestos litigation located naming this hull. All three opinion searches returned zero. The single docket hit - New Century TRS Holdings, Inc., No. 07-10416 (Bankr. D. Del., filed 2007) - is a name collision: the string 'LSM-332' matches mortgage-loan document text inside a bankruptcy docket (HomeEq Servicing loan correspondence), not the vessel; it is not an asbestos case and names no ship.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-02
- Study period
- 2026-10-02
- Limitations
- CourtListener indexes federal and state appellate opinions and PACER recap dockets; it is not exhaustive of trial-level filings, MDL-875 pleading volume, or state trial courts. A zero result is a negative finding within that repository only - it does not prove no claim was ever filed naming this hull, and it establishes nothing about exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lsm-332-07
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[9]Batch-6143 search ledger (this record): NavSource LSM-332 page; Colton/Naval Marine Archive yard table; uboat.net; GAO HRD-80-2 full text; Corn & Starr 1987; CourtListener authenticated searches; hazegray DANFS amphibious index; NVR applicability check; NARA deck-log lead; secondary web sweep [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-lsm-332-01 through -13
- 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-332 was found in the public sources searched. DANFS has no entry for this hull (unnamed LSM; the hazegray DANFS amphibious-ships index lists only named LSMs - LSM-332 does not appear). A secondary web sweep for 'LSM-332 asbestos' surfaced no hull-specific content at all - not even the law-firm marketing listicles commonly seen for named ships.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-02
- Study period
- 2026-10-02
- Limitations
- Absence of a located public record does not prove absence of asbestos aboard - a 1944 emergency-program amphibious hull is era-consistent with installed asbestos-containing materials. Deck logs, builder outfitting specifications, and any 1958 conversion records 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-332-08
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[10]NARA Guide to Federal Records, RG 24 (Records of the Bureau of Naval Personnel) - deck logs series (lead; not retrieved) [other_primary]
- Locator
- RG 24 deck-logs series (College Park); NARA catalog query for 'LSM-332' returned JS shell only - pending
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Archival lead (not retrieved): deck logs for USS LSM-332 (1944-1947, including her 1945-46 Far East occupation-service period) should exist in NARA RG 24 deck-logs series at College Park; WWII-era deck logs for minor amphibious hulls of this vintage are largely not digitized publicly. NARA's online catalog is JavaScript-rendered and could not be queried from this session (returned script content only), so no catalog-level confirmation was obtained. Builder records for Pullman Standard's short-lived shipbuilding division (1943-45) - outfitting specifications, material lists - are an unlocated lead; no repository was identified this session.
- Verification
- unverified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-10-02
- Study period
- 1944-1947 records
- Limitations
- Record-group mapping only - no box-level retrieval performed; existence of asbestos-relevant documents for this hull is unknown until surveyed. Nothing in this row is an asbestos finding.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lsm-332-09