Evidence
8 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-8).
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[1]NavSource Online: Amphibious Photo Archive, USS LST-1016 page - embeds the ship's Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (DANFS) print entry verbatim, plus specification block, commanding-officer roster, and photographic captions (Balikpapan beaching 14 Jul 1945; Japanese POW embarkation at Shanghai, Jan 1946; San Francisco Bay return 1946, US Navy photo via Vallejo Naval and Historical Museum) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Main text block (DANFS transcription), Specifications block, commanding-officer table, photo captions
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- LST-542-class tank landing ship: laid down 25 March 1944 at Bethlehem Steel Co., Quincy, MA; launched 25 April 1944; commissioned USS LST-1016 on 10 May 1944, Lt. John W. Chapman, USNR, in command. WWII Asiatic-Pacific assignment: LST Flotilla Eight, LST Group Twenty-Three, LST Division Forty-Five; campaigns: Mindanao Island landing 17-23 April 1945 (Southern Philippines) and Balikpapan operation 24 June-9 July 1945 (Borneo). Navy Occupation Service periods 1-26 Oct 1945, 14 Nov-15 Dec 1945, 27 Dec 1945-24 Feb 1946. Decommissioned 26 June 1946; struck from the Naval Register 31 July 1946; sold for scrapping 9 December 1947 to the Learner Co., Oakland, CA. Two battle stars for WWII service. Specifications: 328 ft oa, 50 ft beam, 1,625 t light / 4,080 t full, 11.6 kt trial, complement 13 officers/104 enlisted, troop accommodations 16 officers/147 enlisted; propulsion 2 GM 12-567A diesels, Falk reduction gear, 2 shafts, 1,700 shp.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-02
- Study period
- 1944-1947
- Limitations
- Establishes identity, construction, service history, and disposal. Contains no asbestos or insulation-material statement; supports no asbestos claim. NHHC online DANFS has no standalone digitized LST-1016 page (both URL patterns returned 404 on 2026-10-02), so the embedded DANFS transcription is the accessible carrier of the print entry.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-1016-01
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[2]Bureau of Ships, Ships' Data, U.S. Naval Vessels, Vol. II (1945), NAVSHIPS 250-011, LST design table (shipscribe.com scan, Google source copy) [other_primary]
- Locator
- SDB 1945 Vol. II, LST design table and hull roster
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Bureau of Ships, Ships' Data, U.S. Naval Vessels, Vol. II (1945), NAVSHIPS 250-011: official design table for the LST groups - 328 ft oa, 50 ft beam, ~2,366 t light / ~4,080 t full, 11.6 kt, 2 GM 12-567A diesels 1,700 shp (engine-variant blocks LST-932-979 and LST-1060-1080 carried GM 12-278A engines; LST-1016 falls in the 980-1059 block which carried the 12-567A), accommodations 13 officers/106 enlisted. Confirms the diesel-only machinery fit - no boilers, no steam lagging pathway - for the design series this hull belongs to.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-10-02
- Study period
- 1945
- Population
- n/a
- Limitations
- Official BuShips class data - does not name this hull in the design table and contains no asbestos or insulation-material statement; machinery fit is class documentation, not a hull survey.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-1016-02
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[3]Consolidated era inference - BuShips SDB 1945 v2 machinery data (diesel plant, no boilers) + 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
- AJIM 11(3):359-373; SDB 1945 v2 LST design table
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Era/design inference for diesel-powered LSTs: with no boilers or steam system, the era-typical asbestos-relevant applications aboard this class concentrate in GM diesel exhaust lagging and flange gaskets, engine-room thermal/acoustic insulation, deck coverings/tile, bulkhead and accommodation insulation, and winch/windlass brake linings. Peer-reviewed historical study documents extensive asbestos use as fireproofing and insulation in WWII U.S. shipbuilding, the era and program under which this hull was mass-produced.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-10-02
- Study period
- 1944-1946
- Population
- LST crew (~117 ship's company) and embarked troops; construction trades at Fore River, Quincy (1944)
- Limitations
- Era- and design-level inference, not a hull record: neither source names this vessel, and neither establishes that asbestos was or remains aboard this hull, nor quantity, location, condition, exposure, or causation. DOI resolves to Wiley, which blocks automated fetches (HTTP 403 on 2026-10-02); bibliographic details verified, full text not re-read this session.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-1016-03
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[4]O'Connor v. Raymark Industries, Inc., 401 Mass. 586, 518 N.E.2d 510 (1988), Mass. SJC, decided 1988-01-25 [court_record]
- Locator
- CourtListener opinion 2020073 (confirmed via authenticated API v4 search: case name, Mass. SJC, 1988-01-25 match the reporter cite); also indexed in shipyard-exposure-map shipyards.json yard record 'fore-river-shipyard' (products_documented pd-fore-river-01)
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- Builder-yard litigation record: in O'Connor v. Raymark Industries, Inc., 401 Mass. 586, 518 N.E.2d 510 (1988), the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court record documents Raybestos-Manhattan asbestos welding blankets used for welder protection at the Bethlehem Steel (Fore River) Shipyard, Quincy, in the 1940s - the yard and era in which this hull was built.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-10-02
- Study period
- 1940s construction era; opinion 1988
- Population
- Fore River Shipyard construction workforce, 1940s (yard context)
- Limitations
- Yard-level product documentation, not a hull record: establishes asbestos product use at the builder's yard in the construction era, not that any specific product was installed aboard LST-1016. Opinion existence and metadata verified via CourtListener API search; the opinion HTML page returns a CloudFront WAF challenge (HTTP 202) to automated fetches - live for browsers.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-1016-04
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[5]Oliver v. General Electric Co. et al., D. Md., Civ. No. 1:16-cv-01057 [court_record]
- Locator
- USCOURTS-mdd-1_16-cv-01057 PDF (govinfo)
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- Builder-yard litigation record: Oliver v. General Electric Co. et al., U.S. District Court, District of Maryland, Civ. No. 1:16-cv-01057 - court record states the plaintiff worked as a pipefitter's/drafting apprentice at Fore River Shipyard in Quincy, Massachusetts, 1967-1970, and sued over asbestos-related disease. Confirms asbestos litigation arising from work at the yard that built this hull (a later period than this hull's 1944 construction).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-10-02
- Study period
- 1967-1970 (employment); case filed 2016
- Population
- Fore River Shipyard workforce (yard context)
- Limitations
- Yard-level litigation documentation, not a hull record: the plaintiff's stated employment period (1967-1970) postdates this hull's 1944 construction by two decades; establishes asbestos-related litigation tied to the builder's yard, not conditions aboard LST-1016. Does not establish exposure, quantity, or causation for this hull.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-1016-05
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[6]U.S. General Accounting Office, Navy Efforts To Protect Workers From Asbestos Exposure, HRD-80-2 (October 18, 1979) [gao]
- Locator
- GAO product page HRD-80-2
- Finding type
- gov_survey
- Finding
- GAO, Navy Efforts To Protect Workers From Asbestos Exposure, HRD-80-2 (18 October 1979): program-level documentation that the Navy used asbestos insulation aboard ships through the early 1970s and that shipyard workers were exposed; the WWII construction era of this hull precedes the period the report's fieldwork describes, and the report does not address landing ships specifically.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-10-02
- Study period
- report issued 1979; program era mid-20th century
- Population
- Navy shipyard workers and ship crews (program context)
- Limitations
- Program-level context only - does not name this hull, class, or builder yard; gao.gov returns HTTP 403 to automated fetches (standing access gap documented since Batch 01), so the citation rests on the product-page description rather than full text.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-1016-06
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[7]Batch-6504 search ledger (this record): NavSource/DANFS; NHHC online DANFS (404 both patterns); hazegray/losthistory mirror; shipscribe BuShips SDB 1945 v2; NVR online; NARA catalog; CourtListener API v4 (opinion + docket); web search 'LST-1016' asbestos [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-lst-1016-01 through sl-uss-lst-1016-10
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, museum conservation record, or docketed case naming LST-1016 was found in the public sources searched (see search_ledger). CourtListener opinion search for 'LST-1016' returned 32 hits, all name collisions (land-use, criminal, tax, corrections cases where the string appears as an unrelated identifier); the phrase query '"USS LST-1016"' returned zero opinions; the docket-side search returned 1,723 hits driven by docket-number tokenization (e.g., 'cv-01016'), none naming the vessel. The hull was sold for scrapping in December 1947, foreclosing the surviving-hull survey track.
- 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 - era-consistent inference for a 1944 diesel LST makes asbestos-containing materials plausible. Does not establish that asbestos was or was not present, and establishes or defeats no claim of individual exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-1016-07
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[8]National Archives and Records Administration, Records of the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, 'World War II War Diaries, Other Operational Records and Histories' (series) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NARA Catalog NAID 305236 (series level)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- NARA holds the WWII War Diaries series (RG 38, Office of the Chief of Naval Operations) in which an LST-1016 deck log/war diary is expected to exist; the series is live in the National Archives Catalog. An LST-1016-specific catalog entry was not individually verified this session - the catalog search interface is JavaScript-gated and did not return records to direct queries.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-02
- Study period
- 1944-1946
- Limitations
- Series-level lead only - war diaries document operations, not materials; even if retrieved, the LST-1016 diary would be a service record, not an asbestos source. Hull-specific NAID not located; catalog search is JS-gated to automated access (2026-10-02).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-1016-08