Evidence
8 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-8).
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[1]research packet 564-packet.md (11 sources cited) [other_primary]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERIFIED
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-lsm-343-lsm343-pkt-564-packet-md
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[2]NavSource Online: Amphibious Photo Archive, USS LSM-343 - construction, service assignments, occupation service, decommissioning, reserve layup, transfer to Spain, disposal (verified live 2026-10-01) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource 10/14/14343.htm header block (timeline), 'LSM-1 Class' and 'Specifications' blocks
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NavSource timeline for this hull: LSM-1 class Landing Ship Medium; laid down 29 September 1944 at Pullman Standard Car Manufacturing Company, Chicago, IL; launched 19 January 1945; commissioned USS LSM-343, 17 February 1945, LT Edward K. Schade USNR in command. During World War II assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater: LSM Flotilla Fourteen, LSM Group Forty, LSM Division Seventy-Nine. Assigned to Occupation service in the Far East from 15 September 1945 to 21 March 1946. Decommissioned 1 November 1946 at Astoria, OR; laid up in the Pacific Reserve Fleet, Columbia River Group, Astoria; struck from the Naval Register, date unknown. Transferred 25 March 1960 to Spain, redesignated LSM-3. Final disposition - sold for scrapping 9 April 1976 by the Spanish Navy to Isabel Carrasco Poso, Seville, Spain. Awards: American Campaign Medal, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal, World War II Victory Medal, Navy Occupation Service Medal (with Asia clasp). 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 Fairbanks Morse (model 38D81/8X10, reversible with hydraulic clutch) Diesel engines, direct drive with 1,440 BHP each @ 720 rpm, twin propellers, 2,800 shp. The history extract is credited to LSM-LSMR Amphibious Forces, Vol. II (Turner Publishing, 1997).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-01
- Study period
- 1944-1976
- Population
- Pullman Standard construction trades (1944-45); crew (1945-46); Astoria reserve-fleet caretakers (1946-60); Spanish Navy crew (1960-76); Spanish shipbreakers (1976)
- 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 stricken date is unknown. The history extract is a transcribed secondary account (Turner Publishing via the USS LSM/LSMR Association). Contains no asbestos or material content. Complement figure is from the class specifications block, unverified against DANFS/NHHC. The propulsion fit (Fairbanks Morse) is page-stated for this hull; class-level blocks on other LSM pages carry GM diesels - see gaps.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lsm-343-lsm343-01
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[3]NavSource Online: Amphibious Photo Archive, USS LSM-343 - photo captions (verified live 2026-10-01) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource 10/14/14343.htm photo-caption table
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- NavSource photo captions document: six LSMs including USS LSM-343 at the Sasebo Harbor seaplane ramp, Kyushu, Japan, circa 22-24 September 1945, the group having just transported the 5th Marine Tank Battalion from Hilo, Hawaii to Sasebo; USS LSM-343 underway (multiple undated views); USS LSM-343 en route to Pearl Harbor photographed from USS LSM-467; and ex-USS LSM-343 underway in 1969 as Spanish Navy LSM-3 (official Spanish Navy photo).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-01
- Study period
- 1945-1969
- Population
- Ship's company (1945); Spanish Navy crew (1969)
- Limitations
- Photographic documentation of presence and movements only; no asbestos or material content. Caption dates are approximate ('circa', 'date unknown'). The 1969 Spanish-service photograph corroborates the transfer but no Spanish Navy source was independently fetched.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lsm-343-lsm343-02
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[4]navypedia.org, LSM1 medium landing ships (1944-1945/1960) - Spanish Navy LSM class page (verified live 2026-10-01) [other_primary]
- Locator
- navypedia.org/ships/spain/sp_ls_lsm1.htm ship table (LSM3 ex-LSM343 row)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Independent secondary corroboration of this hull's Spanish service: LSM3 (ex-LSM343), built by Pullman Standard Car, Chicago, USA; laid down 1944, launched 1945, commissioned 2.1945 // 1960; fate 'stricken 1974'. Lists sister transfers LSM1 (ex-LSM329) and LSM2 (ex-LSM331) as context.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-01
- Study period
- 1960-1976
- Population
- Spanish Navy crew (1960-74)
- Limitations
- Secondary enthusiast reference work, not a primary registry. The 'stricken 1974' fate reads as the Spanish Navy striking; NavSource's 9 April 1976 date is the scrapping sale - carried as a consistent sequence, not a conflict. Contains no asbestos or material content. Its technical-data block carries '4 General Motors diesels' for the class, which conflicts with the NavSource ship-page Fairbanks Morse fit - see gaps.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lsm-343-lsm343-03
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[5]Era inference built on: NavSource LSM-343 specifications block (diesel propulsion, 2 x Fairbanks Morse 38D81/8X10, no steam plant); GAO HRD-80-2 (see ev-05) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource specifications block (propulsion); GAO HRD-80-2 product page
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- A diesel Landing Ship Medium built in 1944-45 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. Her builder (Pullman Standard) has no Atlas shipyard-dataset record, so no yard-level product list attaches - the inference rests on era alone, which is thinner than a yard-anchored record.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-10-01
- Study period
- 1944-1960
- Population
- Pullman Standard construction trades (1944-45); crew (1945-46); Astoria reserve caretakers (1946-60)
- Limitations
- Class/era inference only - no hull-specific insulation survey, material list, work package, or photograph of insulation was located for LSM-343. Names era-standard applications, not confirmed installed materials. No quantity. Product names are normalized era terms; no manufacturer attribution for this hull. Weaker than a yard-anchored inference: the builder has no Atlas yard record.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lsm-343-lsm343-04
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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 - spanning this hull's entire U.S. Navy era (construction 1944-45, service 1945-46, reserve 1946-60).
- 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-01/98/109 treatment of this report.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lsm-343-lsm343-05
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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 (full page fetched, grep count 0 for LSM-343)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Deck logs for USS LSM-343 (1945-46 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 full index page (8.5 MB fetched 2026-10-01) contains zero mentions of LSM-343. The digitized index skews to the Vietnam era (e.g., LSMR-409, 1965-70). The logs are the open archival lead for her 1945-46 movements and any recorded yard availabilities.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-01
- Study period
- 1945-1946 (log window)
- Limitations
- Archival lead only: the digitized index was checked 2026-10-01 and LSM-343 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-343-lsm343-06
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[8]Batch-6155 search ledger (this record): NavSource (live); navypedia Spanish LSM page (live); NARA digitized deck-log index; shipyards.json cross-check (37 yard_ids); CourtListener API v4 via authenticated fleet helper (type=o, 3 queries; type=r attempted, paced out); GAO product page (blocked); NVR (unreachable); secondary web litigation sweep [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-lsm-343-lsm343-01 through -10
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, or litigation naming USS LSM-343 / LSM-343 was found in the public sources searched. CourtListener was searched this session via the authenticated fleet helper: 'USS LSM-343', 'LSM-343', and 'LSM 343' against opinions (type=o) - all three queries returned count 0 on 2026-10-01 (genuine negatives, HTTP 200). The matching docket queries (type=r) were not completed: the fleet-wide pacing limiter stood all three down (momentarily spent, ~114/hr shared budget), logged as pending rather than as negatives. Secondary web sweeps surfaced no qualifying case; the only 'asbestos aboard Navy ships' material is law-firm marketing content 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, Pullman Standard work packages, and any Spanish disposal records are undigitized or unfetched leads. The docket side of CourtListener was not completed this session (fleet pacing stand-down, not a negative). Does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lsm-343-lsm343-07