Evidence
9 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-9).
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[1]research packet 563-packet.md (5 sources cited) [nhhc_danfs]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERIFIED — real identity: USS LSM-337 (unnamed; hull designation is the identity)
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-lsm-337-lsm337-pkt-563-packet-md
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[2]Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, USS LSM-337 entry (verbatim transcription by Patrick Clancey, HyperWar Foundation) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- Full entry text (single paragraph + spec block)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS entry for USS LSM-337 (LSM-337: dp. .9 [figure garbled/illegible in the transcription]; l. 203'6"; b. 34'; dr. 6'1" fwd, 3'5" aft; s. 13 k.; cpl. 52; cl. LSM-201): 'Laid down at Pullman Standard Car Manufacturing Company, Chicago, Ill., and commissioned 30 December 1944, Ens. Robert F. Davies, USNR, in command. LSM-337 earned no battle stars in World War II. She was decommissioned 6 July 1946 at Subic Bay, P.I. and sold 13 February 1948 to the Republic of China.'
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-01
- Study period
- 1944-1948
- Population
- Pullman Standard construction trades (1944); ship's crew (1944-46)
- Limitations
- Live NHHC page at history.navy.mil/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/l/lsm-337.html returned HTTP 404 on 2026-10-01 (confirmed via direct fetch); no Wayback Machine capture of that URL was found either (checked via archive.org Availability API, 2026-10-01). The HyperWar/ibiblio transcription is used as the standing DANFS-text source, consistent with the same link-rot pattern documented in prior batches (BATCH-01, BATCH-98). Gives no laid-down or launch date. The displacement figure 'dp. .9' is evidently a transcription/OCR artifact and is not usable; not carried as a displacement claim. Contains no asbestos, insulation, or material content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lsm-337-lsm337-01
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[3]NavSource Online: Amphibious Photo Archive, USS LSM-337 [other_primary]
- Locator
- Full page: header/spec block, awards block, commanding-officers table, photo captions
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NavSource Online: Amphibious Photo Archive, USS LSM-337 (radio call sign November-Victor-Lima-India): 'LSM-1 Class Landing Ship Medium: Laid down, 10 August 1944, at Pullman Standard Car Manufacturing Company, Chicago, IL. Launched, 30 June 1944. Commissioned USS LSM-337, 30 December 1944, ENS. Robert F. Davies, USNR, in command.' During WWII assigned Asiatic-Pacific Theater: LSM Flotilla Twelve (LCDR A. F. Dineen, USN), LSM Group Thirty-Six (LT V. L. Homer, USN), LSM Division Seventy-One. Awarded Navy Occupation Service Medal for Far East occupation duty 8-13 September 1945 and 20 September 1945-21 March 1946. 'Decommissioned, 6 July 1946, at NOB Subic Bay, Philippine Islands. Struck from the Naval Register, date unknown. Final Disposition, sold, 13 February 1948, to the Republic of China, fate unknown.' Full specifications given (displacement 520t light/743t landing/1,095t fully loaded; length 203'6"; beam 34'6"; complement 5 officers/54 enlisted; armament one twin 40mm bow mount, four single 20mm mounts; vehicle capacity 5 medium or 3 heavy tanks, or 6 LVTs, or 9 DUKWs; two Fairbanks Morse model 38D8-1/8x10 diesels, 1,440 BHP each, 2,800shp twin-shaft; endurance 4,900 miles at 12 kts). Commanding officers: Ens. Robert F. Davis, USNR (30 Dec 1944-Dec 1945); Lt. Christopher Clement Petroff, USNR (Dec 1945-Mar 1946); LTjg. John W. Wilson Jr., USNR (Mar 1946-6 Jul 1946). History extract credited to 'LSM-LSMR Amphibious Forces, Vol. II' (Turner Publishing Co., 1997, ISBN 1-56311-389-9).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-01
- Study period
- 1944-1948
- Population
- Pullman Standard construction trades (1944); ship's crew and three successive commanding officers (1944-46)
- Limitations
- Volunteer-maintained secondary compilation (sourced to a 1997 Turner Publishing unit history), not a government primary record - corroborates but does not independently verify DANFS. Gives a laid-down date (10 Aug 1944) that falls AFTER its own stated launch date (30 Jun 1944) for the same hull - an internal chronological impossibility in the source itself, not resolved by this research (see gaps). Spells the first CO's surname 'Davis' vs DANFS 'Davies'. All seven photo captions give 'date and location unknown' except one dated/located image (Guam, April 1946); none depict machinery, insulation, or interior spaces. No asbestos or material content anywhere on the page.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lsm-337-lsm337-02
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[4]HyperWar Foundation, 'Ships of the U.S. Navy, 1940-1945' index, USS LSM-337 entry [other_primary]
- Locator
- Full entry (spec block + one-line service note)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- CORRECTION/conflict flagged, not adopted: a general ship-type index page on the same HyperWar site ('Ships of the U.S. Navy, 1940-1945', compiled by Patrick Clancey, last updated 2001) lists USS LSM-337 under an 'LSM-210 class' heading with 'Built at Pullman, Chicago, and commissioned 17 June 1944' - a commissioning date five-and-a-half months earlier than the date given by both DANFS and NavSource (30 December 1944) for the same hull, and a different class label than either DANFS ('LSM-201') or NavSource ('LSM-1 class').
- Verification
- disputed
- Role
- correction
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-01
- Study period
- 1944
- Limitations
- This page is a general type/class index, not a transcribed DANFS entry, and is NOT treated as authoritative where it conflicts with DANFS proper - the 30 December 1944 commissioning date (DANFS + NavSource, two independent agreeing sources) is carried in this record; the 17 June 1944 date is logged here as an unresolved conflict only. Does not establish or imply any asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lsm-337-lsm337-03
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[5]Naval Marine Archive - The Canadian Collection, 'Pullman Standard Car Manufacturing Company, Chicago IL' (Emergency Shipbuilding Program pages) and companion 'Landing Ships, Medium - LSM, LSM(R), LSV' page [other_primary]
- Locator
- Pullman Standard yard-history page (production summary); https://navalmarinearchive.com/sbh/smallships/lsm.html (program totals, builder list, date range)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Builder/yard background: Pullman Standard Car Manufacturing Company established a shipbuilding division in 1943 at Lake Calumet, Chicago ('on the north side of 130th Street, at the most southerly point of the lake'), operating for approximately two years. Construction used modular assembly: hulls were 'built in 40-ton blocks... the blocks being assembled in a fab shop on 111th Street and moved to the yard on gondola cars.' The division built 34 PCEs (180 ft, 640 tons) and 44 LSMs (203 ft, 520 tons) in that period; 'no sign of a shipyard there now' remains at the site. The broader LSM building program (navalmarinearchive's separate LSM-class page) totaled 558 LSM hulls plus 60 LSM(R) and 6 LSV variants, built by seven yards (Brown Shipbuilding Houston, Charleston Navy Yard, Dravo Corp. Wilmington, Western Pipe & Steel San Pedro, Federal Shipbuilding Newark, Pullman Standard Chicago, and others for LSV variants) between April 1944 and November 1945.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-10-01
- Study period
- 1943-1945
- Population
- Pullman Standard shipyard construction trades, Lake Calumet, Chicago (1943-c.1945)
- Limitations
- Independent maritime-history archive, not an official Navy/NPS/NARA source - used here as builder/program background only, not as evidence of any fact specific to this hull. Contains no mention of workforce size, materials, insulation, or asbestos at the Pullman Standard yard; explicitly does not address industrial materials. Does not establish any asbestos claim.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lsm-337-lsm337-04
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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 - a program-level finding spanning this hull's construction (1944) and active-service era (1944-46).
- 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 (GAO fieldwork sites were Long Beach and Norfolk Naval Shipyards); supports general Navy-era context only, not any fact specific to this hull or to Pullman Standard/Chicago. Full text not retrieved - gao.gov returns HTTP 403 to automated fetch (confirmed 2026-10-01, same standing block documented in BATCH-98); content via product-page description only.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lsm-337-lsm337-05
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[7]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) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Abstract and article, AJIM 11(3):359-373
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Peer-reviewed historical study documents that asbestos was used extensively as a fireproofing and insulating material in U.S. shipbuilding during World War II, the era and program under which this LSM hull was built, and that wartime demand drove unprecedented asbestos utilization aboard Navy and merchant-type hulls alike.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-10-01
- 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, Pullman Standard, or the LSM type specifically, and does not establish that asbestos was or remains aboard this hull, nor quantity, location, condition, exposure, or causation.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lsm-337-lsm337-06
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[8]CourtListener API v4 searches (via cl-auth-search.py authenticated helper): queries 'USS LSM-337' (type=o, type=r), 'LSM-337' (type=o, type=r), 'LSM-337 asbestos' (type=o) [court_record]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-lsm-337-lsm337-05 through -09
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, museum/archival record, or litigation naming USS LSM-337 was found in the public sources searched. CourtListener was queried this session (not blocked/throttled - all requests returned HTTP 200) for exact phrase "USS LSM-337" (opinion: 0 hits; docket/RECAP: not separately phrase-queried), bare "LSM-337" (opinion: 1 hit - Tyrone Berry v. State, Tex. App. 2015, an unrelated Texas criminal appeal matched only by OCR noise in a scanned filing, classified name collision/no qualifying result; docket/RECAP: 1 hit - an Oklahoma bankruptcy docket entry numbered '337' in an unrelated real-estate matter, classified name collision/no qualifying result), and "LSM-337" asbestos (opinion: 0 hits). No qualifying asbestos litigation, other litigation, or name match naming this hull was found.
- 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 - a 1944 diesel landing craft of this type and era is era-consistent with some asbestos-containing machinery/electrical insulation, gaskets, and packing, but nothing ship-specific was found. Does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility. CourtListener coverage of 1940s-era small-craft litigation (if any exists) may be incomplete regardless of search discipline.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lsm-337-lsm337-07
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[9]Internal consistency check across ev-uss-lsm-337-lsm337-01, -02, and -03 (this record) [other_primary]
- Locator
- N/A - cross-reference row
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Internal date conflict flagged, not resolved: NavSource states this hull was 'Laid down, 10 August 1944' and separately 'Launched, 30 June 1944' - the stated launch date precedes the stated laid-down date by over six weeks, which is chronologically impossible for the same hull. DANFS gives no laid-down or launch date at all for cross-check. A third source (HyperWar ship-type index, ev-03) gives a commissioning date of 17 June 1944, which would place commissioning before even the earlier of NavSource's two (mutually contradictory) construction dates. No source reconciling these dates was located.
- Verification
- disputed
- Role
- correction
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-01
- Study period
- 1944
- Limitations
- This row documents an unresolved source conflict; it asserts no fact of its own beyond the conflict and is not asbestos-relevant. Flagged in gaps rather than silently adopting any one date.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lsm-337-lsm337-08