USS LSM(R)-513

Evidence

14 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-14).

1. [1]Naval History and Heritage Command, Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, 'Laramie River (LSMR-513)' entry (published online Tue Oct 03 2023) [nhhc_danfs]

   Locator

   DANFS statline and full narrative paragraphs; live NHHC page retrieved via firecrawl 2026-09-30

   Finding type

   vessel_history

   Finding

   NHHC DANFS entry ('Laramie River (LSMR-513)', statline cl. LSMR-401; 'A river in southeastern Wyoming which empties into the North Platte River'): laid down as LSMR-513 by Brown Shipbuilding Co., Houston, Tex., 21 April 1945; launched 19 May 1945; commissioned 9 July 1945, Lt. Robert E. Miles in command. After shakedown in Chesapeake Bay, LSMR-513 sailed to the Great Lakes during October 1945, then returned to Little Creek, Va., 15 November for additional training. Departing Little Creek 29 January 1946, she steamed to the Caribbean for winter maneuvers with various landing craft; upon return to Little Creek 24 March she participated in amphibious exercises in Chesapeake Bay for the remainder of the year. From 1947 until April 1948 she continued amphibious training along the east coast and in the Caribbean, then decommissioned at Green Cove Springs, Fla., 12 April 1948. While berthed with the Florida Group, Atlantic Reserve Fleet, LSMR-513 was named Laramie River 1 October 1955. Statline: dp. 790; l. 206'; b. 35'; dr. 8'; s. 13 k.; cpl. 147; a. 1 5", 4 40mm., 8 20mm., 4 4.2"m., 20 rkt.

   Verification

   verified

   Role

   supporting

   Documentation level

   ship_specific

   Accessed

   2026-09-30

   Study period

   1945-1955 (narrative coverage)

   Population

   Ship's company 1945-1948; reserve-fleet caretakers 1948-1973

   Limitations

   Authoritative Navy history. The narrative ends at the 1955 naming - it does not cover the 1969 LFR reclassification, 1973 striking, or 1974 sale (all from NavSource). Statline groups the hull under 'cl. LSMR-401' while NavSource and modern literature designate the Brown-built 501-536 series the LSM(R)-501 class (see correction row). DANFS records an entirely stateside commission (Chesapeake, Great Lakes, Caribbean); NavSource's Asiatic-Pacific flotilla assignment and Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal display are not corroborated here - flagged in gaps. No asbestos content.

   Atlas source

   true

   Evidence ID

   ev-uss-lsm-r-513-lsmr513-01

2. [2]NavSource Online: Amphibious Photo Archive, USS Laramie River (LFR-513) ex-USS Laramie River (LSMR-513), ex-USS LSM(R)-513 - designation timeline, awards, assignment history, CO list, disposal record [other_primary]

   Locator

   Header designation block, awards block, history timeline, commanding-officers table, disposal paragraph; live fetch verified 2026-09-30 (navsource.net - the .org domain is dead)

   Finding type

   vessel_history

   Finding

   NavSource hull page: designation sequence USS LSM(R)-513 (1945-1955), USS Laramie River LSMR-513 (1955-1969), reclassified Inshore Fire Support Ship LFR-513 1 January 1969; struck from the Naval Register 1 May 1973; sold by the Defense Reutilization and Marketing Service (DRMS) 1 May 1974 to Boston Metals Co., Baltimore, MD, 'for demilitarization and resale'; 'Sold to a Key West, FL. company for use as a Caribbean coastal freighter, fate unknown.' Awards displayed: American Campaign Medal, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal, World War II Victory Medal, National Defense Service Medal. WWII administrative assignment recorded: LSM(R) Flotilla Eighteen (CAPT. C. F. Macklin USN), LSM(R) Group Forty-Four, LSM(R) Division One Hundred Seven, Asiatic-Pacific Theater. Call sign November-Juliet-Sierra-Tango (NJST). Commanding officers: LT Robert E. Miles USNR (9 Jul 1945 - 16 Nov 1945), LT Albert G. Bellos USNR (16 Nov 1945 - ?), LT Ernest E. Hollyfield Jr. USN (Mar 1947 - 12 Apr 1948).

   Verification

   verified

   Role

   supporting

   Documentation level

   ship_specific

   Accessed

   2026-09-30

   Study period

   1945-1974+

   Population

   Ship's company 1945-1948; reserve-fleet caretakers 1948-1973; DRMS/shipbreakers and commercial crews 1974+

   Limitations

   NavSource is a volunteer secondary archive; its timeline generally tracks DANFS/NVR but is not a primary registry. Sole source for the post-1974 resale (Key West coastal freighter, fate unknown), the CO list, and the call sign. The Asiatic-Pacific flotilla assignment and Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal display are not corroborated by the DANFS narrative (stateside-only career) - administrative/paper assignment likely, unresolved (see gaps). No asbestos content.

   Atlas source

   true

   Evidence ID

   ev-uss-lsm-r-513-lsmr513-02

3. [3]NavSource Online: Amphibious Photo Archive, USS Laramie River (LFR-513) specification block [other_primary]

   Locator

   Specifications section: displacement, dimensions, speed, complement, armament, armor, fuel capacity, propulsion, generators

   Finding type

   vessel_history

   Finding

   NavSource specification block for this hull: displacement 758 t. light / 993 t. attack / 1,175 t. fully loaded; length 203'6" o.a.; beam 34'6"; draft 5'4" light / 6'9" attack / 7'9" fully loaded (mean); speed 13 kts; complement 6 officers, 137 enlisted. Armament: one single 5"/38 dual-purpose mount, two twin 40mm mounts, four twin 20mm mounts, ten twin-tube continuous-loading 5" (SS) spin-stabilized rocket launchers, four 4.2" mortars; armor 10-lb. STS on conning station, pilot-house, radio room, radar plot and rocket control, 10-lb. ASPP around 40/20mm mounts and directors. Fuel capacity 1,225 Bbls diesel. Propulsion: two General Motors 16-278A non-reversing diesels with airflex clutch, 1,440 BHP each at 720 rpm, direct drive, twin screws, 2,800 shp; ship's service generators four diesel-drive 100 kW 450V AC and two diesel-drive 20 kW 120V DC.

   Verification

   verified

   Role

   supporting

   Documentation level

   ship_specific

   Accessed

   2026-09-30

   Study period

   1945-1974

   Population

   Ship's company and embarked personnel

   Limitations

   Specification block is class boilerplate shared across LSM(R)-501-series pages; generally consistent with DANFS statline (790 t / 206' / 35' / 147 cpl vs NavSource 758-1,175 t / 203'6" / 34'6" / 143 cpl) - divergent figures flagged in the correction row. Identifies a diesel propulsion plant and states nothing about material composition; no boiler or steam-turbine plant is documented for this hull. Does not establish that any listed system contained asbestos.

   Atlas source

   true

   Evidence ID

   ev-uss-lsm-r-513-lsmr513-03

4. [4]Shipbuilding History (Tim Colton), Brown Shipbuilding Houston TX yard table - hull #320 row (LSM(R) 513); yard program totals [other_primary]

   Locator

   brown.htm yard table, row 320; program header paragraph (yard history, output totals, Todd lease)

   Finding type

   vessel_history

   Finding

   Shipbuilding History (Tim Colton compilation), Brown Shipbuilding yard table: hull #320, 'LSM(R) 513 | Landing Ship | keel 21-Apr-45 | launched 19-May-45 | delivered 9-Jul-45 | Later Laramie River 1955, LFR 513 1969, sold 1974 for scrapping but resold as a coastal freighter' - matching DANFS/NavSource dates exactly and corroborating the post-sale commercial path. Program header: Brown Shipbuilding was built in 1941 by George and Herman Brown at the junction of Green's Bayou and the Houston Ship Channel with $9mm from the Navy; total output 12 PCs, 32 LCI(L)s, 61 DEs and 254 LSMs = 359 vessels in four years; yard leased to Todd Shipyards 1949, operated as Todd Houston until 1984, reverted to Brown & Root as an offshore fabrication yard, sold piecemeal 2004, now the Brown Shipbuilding Industrial Park.

   Verification

   verified

   Role

   supporting

   Documentation level

   ship_specific

   Accessed

   2026-09-30

   Study period

   1941-2004 (yard history); 1945 (hull build)

   Population

   Brown Shipbuilding construction workforce (Green's Bayou yard, 1945)

   Limitations

   Compiler's yard table, secondary - corroborates builder, keel/launch/delivery dates, and the post-sale path. 'Delivered 9-Jul-45' is the delivery date that doubles as the commissioning date in Navy records. The disposition shorthand compresses the DRMS-to-Boston-Metals step and the Key West resale into one line. Contains no asbestos or materials information.

   Atlas source

   true

   Evidence ID

   ev-uss-lsm-r-513-lsmr513-04

5. [5]uboat.net Allied Warships of WWII - USS LSM(R) 513, ship 13165; class index class/611 ('LSM(R) 401 class', 48 ships) [other_primary]

   Locator

   uboat.net ship/13165 data table; class/611 ship list

   Finding type

   vessel_history

   Finding

   uboat.net Allied Warships entry ship/13165 for USS LSM(R) 513: 'Medium landing ship (rocket) of the LSM(R) 401 class'; built by Brown Shipbuilding Co. (Houston, Texas); ordered 30 August 1944; laid down 21 April 1945; launched 19 May 1945; commissioned 9 July 1945; end service 12 April 1948; stricken 1 May 1973; sold 1 May 1974 - corroborating the DANFS/NavSource chronology. The uboat.net class page (class/611) indexes all 48 rocket LSMs - LSM(R)-401 to -412 and -501 to -536 - under a single 'LSM(R) 401 class' umbrella, matching the DANFS statline convention.

   Verification

   verified

   Role

   supporting

   Documentation level

   ship_specific

   Accessed

   2026-09-30

   Study period

   1944-1974

   Limitations

   Specialist secondary compilation - corroborates all milestone dates. 'Ordered 30 Aug 1944' rests on uboat.net alone (not in DANFS or NavSource) - secondary-only detail, not carried into record fields. Renders decommissioning as 'End service'. Contains no asbestos information.

   Atlas source

   true

   Evidence ID

   ev-uss-lsm-r-513-lsmr513-05

6. [6]U.S. Naval Institute, Naval History magazine, 'Historic Fleets' (A. D. Baker III), August 1994 - LSM/LSM(R) program summary [reputable_press]

   Locator

   Historic Fleets column, LSM(R) paragraphs; retrieved via firecrawl 2026-09-30 (direct curl returns 403 bot-block)

   Finding type

   historical_record

   Finding

   USNI Naval History (August 1994, A. D. Baker III, 'Historic Fleets') class context: 494 LSM-1-class landing ships were completed between April 1944 and February 1946, with Brown Shipbuilding Company of Houston building most of them; 60 were converted or completed as LSM(R) rocket ships. LSM(R)-401 to -412 and the similar LSM(R)-501 to -536 - 'which had a forecastle and were about three feet longer' - carried ten twin-tube, trainable, automatically reloadable Mk 102 launchers, four 4.2-inch mortars, two twin director-controlled 40mm and four twin 20mm mounts. Three of the dozen LSMRs retyped LFR were reactivated for Vietnam service; LSM(R)-513 was not among them - she decommissioned into reserve in 1948 and never recommissioned.

   Verification

   verified

   Role

   context

   Documentation level

   class_or_era

   Accessed

   2026-09-30

   Study period

   1944-1994

   Population

   LSM(R)-501-class construction and operating personnel (class context)

   Limitations

   Professional naval-history journalism, not a registry or primary record: describes the class and program, not this hull's installed materials. Article's 'LSM-501 to 536' wording refers to the LSM(R)-501 to -536 series. Confirms the design family and that this hull was not a Vietnam reactivation. No asbestos content.

   Atlas source

   true

   Evidence ID

   ev-uss-lsm-r-513-lsmr513-06

7. [7]U.S. Naval Institute, Naval History magazine, 'The Brown Shipbuilding Company's Rise During World War II' (Eric Pearson), June 2025, Vol. 39 No. 3 [reputable_press]

   Locator

   Article body - yard founding, Greens Bayou site, workforce peak, assembly-line description; retrieved via firecrawl 2026-09-30

   Finding type

   historical_record

   Finding

   USNI Naval History (June 2025, Eric Pearson, 'The Brown Shipbuilding Company's Rise During World War II') builder context: Brown Shipbuilding was established in 1941 by George and Herman Brown of the Brown and Root construction company at a site on narrow Greens Bayou off the Houston Ship Channel, where sideways launches were forced by the waterway's width; it was the second-largest employer in the Houston area during WWII; at its peak it employed more than 25,000 workers starting in late 1942; assembly-line technique with rail-delivered steel fabricated into sections hoisted to the hull; DE construction tapered to ~20 weeks at one ship per week by program's end.

   Verification

   verified

   Role

   context

   Documentation level

   class_or_era

   Accessed

   2026-09-30

   Study period

   1941-1946 (relevant window); 2025 (publication)

   Population

   Brown Shipbuilding workforce - peaked >25,000 from late 1942 (Houston, TX)

   Limitations

   Yard history, not a hull record: establishes the scale and nature of the construction workforce population that built this hull in 1945. Contains no asbestos, materials, or exposure information. A ~25,000-worker emergency yard building ships on a 4-month cycle is the relevant exposure-population frame, not evidence of any material aboard this hull.

   Atlas source

   true

   Evidence ID

   ev-uss-lsm-r-513-lsmr513-07

8. [8]Royal Australian Corps of Signals, 'Pronto in South Vietnam 1962-1972', Chapter 5 Part 3 - 32 Small Ship Squadron (unit history, NavSource-hosted PDF, contributor Robert Hurst); Brown-hull cross-reference per shipbuildinghistory.com yard table [other_primary]

   Locator

   14319a.pdf 'Ship Conditions' section (verbatim lagging quote pp. 1-2 of the chapter part) and closing exposure paragraph; yard-table rows 284/320/354 at shipbuildinghistory.com/shipyards/emergencylarge/brown.htm

   Finding type

   asbestos_application

   Finding

   Royal Australian Corps of Signals unit history ('Pronto in South Vietnam 1962-1972', Chapter 5 Part 3 - 32 Small Ship Squadron, contributed by Robert Hurst; NavSource-hosted PDF) documents asbestos aboard ex-U.S. Navy LSM hulls of the same hull family and builder era: 'Above the bunks were pipes lagged with asbestos, which would rain down on the sleeper during heavy seas, covering him in white dust.' The squadron's four LSMs were US-built WWII veterans purchased from the U.S. Navy in Japan in 1959; per the shipbuilding-history Brown yard table, two of them - ex-USS LSM-477 (Brudenell White, yard hull 284, Feb-Apr 1945) and ex-USS LSM-547 (Clive Steele, yard hull 354, Jul 1945-Jan 1946) - were Brown Shipbuilding products built within weeks of this vessel's hull 320 (Apr-Jul 1945). The chapter also lists asbestos among the environmental exposures ('water, ventilation, heat, diesel fumes, cigarette smoke, asbestos, Agent Orange and other chemicals') the LSM crews endured.

   Verification

   verified

   Role

   supporting

   Documentation level

   class_or_era

   Accessed

   2026-09-30

   Study period

   1959-1972 (documented service window); hulls built 1945

   Population

   Australian Army/RAN LSM crews, 32 Small Ship Squadron (1959-1972); by extension, ship's company of comparable US-built LSM-family hulls including Brown-built sisters

   Limitations

   Class-family documentation, not a record of this hull: the lagging description is generic to the squadron's four LSM-1-class ships, and the LSM(R)-501 series is the rocket-bombardment derivative of the basic LSM hull - same hull lineage and same builder, but not the identical design (rocket deck over the LSM well). The quote does not state which of the four Australian ships carried the described arrangement, though two were Brown-built contemporaries of this hull. Verified as a document; its application to this specific hull is inference. No quantity, location-by-space, or present-day condition established.

   Atlas source

   true

   Evidence ID

   ev-uss-lsm-r-513-lsmr513-08

9. [9]GAO, Navy's Efforts to Protect Workers From Asbestos Exposure, HRD-80-2 (October 18, 1979) - full report text including Navy response attachment [gao]

   Locator

   HRD-80-2 full report (gao.gov/assets/hrd-80-2.pdf) retrieved via firecrawl; Navy response attachment, 'Navy's policy on use of asbestos' section and asbestos-applications paragraph (direct curl returns 403 bot-block)

   Finding type

   asbestos_application

   Finding

   GAO HRD-80-2 documents the Navy asbestos era spanning this hull's entire construction and service life. Per the report's Navy attachment: 'thermal insulation for machinery, equipment and piping systems has been the major application of asbestos' aboard Navy ships, and 'all ships presently in service contain some quantity of asbestos' - including piping-system gaskets and packing, deck floor tiling, electrical cabling and resistors, galley ranges, and equipment brakes and clutches. Thermal-insulation product specifications were changed to asbestos-free only in 1973, and ships already under construction continued to be delivered with asbestos insulation as late as May 1978. This hull was built in 1945 and sold out of Navy custody in 1974 - entirely within the documented asbestos-use era.

   Verification

   verified

   Role

   context

   Documentation level

   class_or_era

   Accessed

   2026-09-30

   Study period

   1979 (report); policy window covers this hull's 1945-1974 Navy custody

   Population

   Navy shipyard workers; ship construction and repair trades (program context)

   Limitations

   Program-level documentation: establishes Navy-wide shipboard asbestos use and the 1973 specification change, not anything specific to this hull. GAO fieldwork covered Long Beach and Norfolk Naval Shipyards; this hull sat in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet Florida Group (Green Cove Springs) 1948-1973 - reserve-fleet hulls are not addressed. Does not establish materials aboard this hull, quantity, condition, exposure, or causation.

   Atlas source

   true

   Evidence ID

   ev-uss-lsm-r-513-lsmr513-09

10. [10]HyperWar / ibiblio, Ships of the U.S. Navy 1940-1945, LSM(R)-401/501-series class page (specifications, design layout); era-product context per GAO HRD-80-2; class-family lagging account per RAN unit history (ev-08) [other_primary]

    Locator

    LSM(R)-401 class page (covers the 501 series per the shared class grouping): specifications and layout; hull-specific LSMR-513 page does not exist (lsmr513.html returns 404)

    Finding type

    asbestos_application

    Finding

    Era inference for this hull type: a diesel-powered LSM(R)-501-class amphibious rocket ship built at Brown Shipbuilding, Houston, in April-July 1945. For a hull of this type and era, possible asbestos-relevant applications include diesel-engine exhaust and machinery insulation, piping-system gaskets and packing, electrical insulation and cabling, deck coverings, galley equipment, and fireproofing/joiner materials - with the rocket-ship derivative's magazine and rocket-assembly spaces beneath the launcher deck adding thermal/fireproofing relevance documented for the class layout. Built during the period when the Navy's standard specifications still called for asbestos-containing thermal insulation and sheet/panel materials.

    Verification

    inferred

    Role

    supporting

    Documentation level

    class_or_era

    Accessed

    2026-09-30

    Study period

    1945-1974+

    Population

    Brown Shipbuilding construction trades (1945); ship's company (1945-1948); reserve-fleet maintenance personnel (1948-1973); 1974+ commercial/scrapping personnel

    Limitations

    Class/era inference only - no hull-specific insulation survey, material list, or work package located for LSM(R)-513/LSMR-513/LFR-513. Names era-standard applications, not confirmed installed materials; no quantity, no manufacturer attribution. A diesel hull - the boiler/turbine lagging pathway of steam vessels does not apply.

    Atlas source

    true

    Evidence ID

    ev-uss-lsm-r-513-lsmr513-10

11. [11]CourtListener API v4 opinion search via /Users/charlesfletcher/devin-prompts/cl-auth-search.py, authenticated queries on 2026-09-30 [court_record]

    Locator

    search_ledger rows sl-uss-lsm-r-513-lsmr513-07 through -11

    Finding type

    litigation_documented

    Finding

    CourtListener litigation sweep (authenticated API v4 via the batch helper, 2026-09-30): hull-number queries returned '"LSMR-513"' 0 opinions and '"LFR-513"' 10 loose-match opinions - every reviewed hit a name/string collision (VA contract dispute, habeas petitions, docket-string matches), none naming the vessel and none asbestos-related. Additional queries - the name query '"Laramie River"', the parenthesized variant '"LSM(R)-513"', all docket-type searches, and the yard query '"Brown Shipbuilding" asbestos' - could not be completed this session: the fleet-wide pacing limiter reported the shared request budget spent on each attempt. The opinion-level hull sweep is partially complete; name, docket, and yard layers remain open gaps (search_ledger rows sl-07 through sl-11).

    Verification

    partial

    Role

    negative_finding

    Documentation level

    ship_specific

    Accessed

    2026-09-30

    Study period

    2026-09-30

    Limitations

    A partial search-result negative, not proof that no litigation exists: the completed queries found nothing naming the hull, but the name query (high-collision river name - the Laramie River is a real Wyoming waterway appearing in water/land litigation), the docket layer, and the yard-level query were not run under the pacing stand-down. Even a complete sweep would carry the standing caveat that RECAP indexing is incomplete for older dockets. No complaint, discovery record, trial finding, or judgment is asserted or inferred either way.

    Atlas source

    true

    Evidence ID

    ev-uss-lsm-r-513-lsmr513-11

12. [12]DANFS 'Laramie River' statline vs. NavSource 06513 spec block and awards block; uboat.net class/611 index; shipbuildinghistory Brown row 320; master-hull-list.json H:LSMR-513 entry ('ship_class: Crosley') [nhhc_danfs]

    Locator

    Same citations as ev-01 through ev-05; master-hull-list.json (ships-worktrees/hull-list)

    Finding type

    historical_record

    Finding

    Source discrepancies documented, not reconciled: (a) class designation - NavSource and the batch prompt style the Brown-built 501-536 series 'LSM(R)-501 class'; the DANFS statline prints 'cl. LSMR-401' and uboat.net indexes all 48 rocket LSMs under 'LSM(R) 401 class' - the same hull family under two numbering conventions, not different classes. (b) complement - DANFS statline 147 vs. NavSource 143 (6 officers + 137 enlisted). (c) principal dimensions - DANFS 790 t / 206' / 35' / 8' draft vs. NavSource 758-1,175 t / 203'6" / 34'6" / 5'4"-7'9". (d) armament wording - DANFS '4 40mm., 8 20mm.' (gun count) vs. NavSource 'two twin 40mm mounts, four twin 20mm mounts' (mount count) - same fit, different expression; DANFS '20 rkt.' vs. NavSource 'ten twin-tube ... launchers' (20 tubes total). (e) WWII theater - NavSource prints the Asiatic-Pacific flotilla assignment (Flotilla Eighteen / Group Forty-Four / Division One Hundred Seven) and displays the Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal; the DANFS narrative documents an entirely stateside commission - the assignment was administrative and the ship, commissioned 9 July 1945, never reached the Pacific; the ribbon display implies the paper entitlement without a deployment. (f) 'LSM(R)-513' vs 'LSMR-513' - DANFS applies 'LSMR-513' retroactively to the 1945 construction entry; contemporaneous practice and NavSource use 'LSM(R)-513' for the 1945-55 period. (g) PRIMARY registry lists ship_class 'Crosley' - a data quirk (Crosley class is the APD-87 high-speed-transport class; no LSM(R) connection); the authoritative class is the LSM(R)-501 series.

    Verification

    disputed

    Role

    correction

    Documentation level

    ship_specific

    Accessed

    2026-09-30

    Study period

    1945-2026

    Limitations

    Resolves nothing - documents genuine multi-source divergences so a future pass does not silently pick one figure. None of these conflicts is an asbestos finding; the class-designation and complement divergences are the load-bearing ones for downstream joins.

    Atlas source

    true

    Evidence ID

    ev-uss-lsm-r-513-lsmr513-12

13. [13]NARA Special List #44 by ship number (no LSM/LSMR block); NARA 'Navy Deck Logs Available in the National Archives Catalog' list (sisters present, this hull absent); NVR SHIPDETAILS redirects; MARAD vesselhistory API 404 [other_primary]

    Locator

    sl-44-ship-number.pdf (direct PDF extraction - L-section verified); archives.gov/research/military/logbooks/navy-online; nvr.navy.mil SHIPSDETAIL_LSMR_513/SHIPSDETAIL_LFR_513 (302 to root); vesselhistory.marad.dot.gov API (404)

    Finding type

    historical_record

    Finding

    Archival-status verification: (a) NARA Special List #44 (List of Logbooks of U.S. Navy Ships, Stations, and Miscellaneous Units, 1801-1947, by ship number) contains NO LSM or LSMR section at all - the index runs LCS/LCT to LST blocks with no LSM-family entries, so no log run is indexed for this hull. (b) NARA's 'Navy Deck Logs Available in the National Archives Catalog' list contains no LSMR-513/LSM(R)-513/Laramie River - sisters that stayed in service past 1948 do appear (Clarion River LSMR-409, Des Plaines River LSMR-412, Gunnison River LSMR-508, St. Francis River LSMR-525, White River LSMR-536); this hull's 1948 decommissioning precedes the digitized logs' effective coverage. (c) The Naval Vessel Register carries no entry - SHIPDETAILS/LFR_513 and SHIPSDETAIL_LSMR_513 URLs redirect to the NVR root; hull disposed 1973-74 predates NVR's coverage window. (d) MARAD Vessel History Database API returns no record for 'LARAMIE RIVER' - consistent with a DRMS (not MARAD) disposal. Paper deck logs and the DRMS disposal file at Archives II remain open leads.

    Verification

    verified

    Role

    archival_lead

    Documentation level

    ship_specific

    Accessed

    2026-09-30

    Study period

    1945-1974 records

    Limitations

    Verifies negatives at the index level: no indexed log runs, no digitized logs, no NVR entry, no MARAD card. Does not prove records do not exist - unindexed RG 24 logbooks and the DRMS sale file at Archives II are plausible unexamined holdings; no box-level retrieval performed. Nothing in this row is an asbestos finding.

    Atlas source

    true

    Evidence ID

    ev-uss-lsm-r-513-lsmr513-13

14. [14]Batch-5872 search ledger (this record): NHHC DANFS live page; NavSource hull page and spec block; shipbuilding-history Brown yard table; uboat.net ship/class pages; USNI Naval History 1994 and 2025; HyperWar class page; RAN unit-history PDF; GAO HRD-80-2; NARA SL-44 + digitized-log list; NVR; MARAD; CourtListener (partial - pacing stand-down); secondary web sweep [other_primary]

    Locator

    search_ledger rows sl-uss-lsm-r-513-lsmr513-01 through -14

    Finding type

    historical_record

    Finding

    No ship-specific asbestos documentation was located in the official and archival sources reviewed for this hull: DANFS, the live NavSource hull page, the shipbuilding-history yard table, uboat.net, the USNI class and yard articles, HyperWar class page, NARA indexes, NVR, MARAD, and the partially completed CourtListener sweep identify the vessel and its service but document no asbestos survey, insulation material list, abatement record, hazmat disclosure, or qualifying litigation. The only 'asbestos aboard' material surfaced is law-firm marketing content covering the builder (Brown Shipbuilding pages at mesothelioma.com, mesothelioma.net, mesotheliomalawyercenter.org) and the LSMR-adjacent USS Carronade (LFR-1) - excluded by source policy; one such site concedes no state NESHAP abatement notifications exist for the Brown yard in current public records. The absence is reported as a research negative, not as proof that the hull never contained asbestos.

    Verification

    verified

    Role

    negative_finding

    Documentation level

    ship_specific

    Accessed

    2026-09-30

    Study period

    2026-09-30

    Limitations

    A negative public-source finding is not proof of absence. Deck logs (RG 24), BuShips work packages, Brown Shipbuilding build records, the DRMS disposal file for the 1974 sale, and any scrapping-contract or commercial-conversion records were not retrieved - most are undigitized. CourtListener coverage was partial this session (fleet pacing stand-down): name, docket, and yard queries remain open. Asbestos documentation level therefore remains class_or_era, not ship_specific.

    Atlas source

    true

    Evidence ID

    ev-uss-lsm-r-513-lsmr513-14