Evidence
8 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-8).
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[1]Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, 'LST-1017,' Naval History and Heritage Command [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS LST-1017 entry (verified live HTTP 200 on GET; HEAD requests return 404 - page is live)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS entry for LST-1017: laid down 25 March 1944 at Quincy, Mass., by the Bethlehem Steel Co.; launched 25 April 1944; commissioned 12 May 1944. Assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific theater; participated in Morotai landings (September 1944), Leyte landings (November 1944), Lingayen Gulf landing (January 1945), Mindanao Island landings (April 1945), and Brunei Bay operation (June and July 1945). Postwar occupation duty in the Far East and service in China until late June 1946; decommissioned 29 June 1946; transferred to the Republic of China 14 December 1946; struck from the Navy list 12 March 1948. Earned five battle stars for World War II service.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-02
- Study period
- 1944-1948
- Limitations
- Establishes identity, milestones, campaign credits, and disposition dates only. Contains no asbestos, material, or exposure information. Campaign names are DANFS's; NavSource's campaign table gives the Balikpapan operation dates for the same Borneo operation DANFS labels Brunei Bay.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-1017-lst1017-01
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[2]NavSource Online: Amphibious Photo Archive, USS LST-1017 (navsource.net) [other_primary]
- Locator
- LST-1017 hull page - timeline, campaign table, awards, specifications, commanding officers, photo credits (Australian War Memorial)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NavSource Amphibious Photo Archive per-hull page: LST-542 Class Tank Landing Ship; laid down 25 March 1944 Bethlehem Steel Co., Quincy MA; launched 25 April 1944; commissioned 12 May 1944, Lt. Bartin I. Sobel USNR in command; assigned Asiatic-Pacific Theater, LST Flotilla Eight / LST Group Twenty-Three / LST Division Forty-Five. Campaign dates: Morotai 15 September 1944; Leyte 5-18 November 1944; Lingayen Gulf 4-17 January 1945; Mindanao 17-23 April 1945; Balikpapan operation 26 June-9 July 1945. Navy Occupation Service Medal (Asia clasp) and China Service Medal (extended) qualifying periods 20 October 1945-29 June 1946. Decommissioned 29 June 1946; transferred to Republic of China 14 December 1946, named ROCS Chung Chi (LST-206); struck 12 March 1948; five battle stars; 'Final Disposition, fate unknown.' Specifications: 328 ft oa, 50 ft beam, 1,625 t light / 4,080 t full; 11.6 kt; two GM 12-567A diesels (900 hp each), single Falk reduction gear, three 100 kW diesel-driven generators, 1,700 shp, twin screws; complement 13 officers / 104 enlisted; troops 16 officers / 147 enlisted; 2 LCVP. Commanding officers: Lt. B.I. Sobel (1944-05-12 to 1945-11-16), Lt. J.V. Eppler (to 1946-01-08), Lt.(jg) G.C. Moore Jr. (to 1946-06-29).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-02
- Study period
- 1944-1948
- Limitations
- NavSource is the canonical per-hull reference for USN amphibious ships (volunteer-compiled, DANFS-anchored). Establishes service history and specifications; contains no asbestos or material information. Photo captions attributing hull identity rely on contributor/source captions (AWM item captions describe 'a landing ship, tank' without hull number).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-1017-lst1017-02
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[3]Foreign Relations of the United States, 1946, The Far East: China, Vol. X - Memorandum by Rear Admiral S. S. Murray to General Marshall, 11 November 1946 (Document 509, p. 804) [other_primary]
- Locator
- FRUS 1946 Vol. X, d509, para. 3 (Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- FRUS memorandum (Rear Admiral S. S. Murray, senior member U.S. Naval Advisory Survey Board, to General Marshall, Nanking, 11 November 1946) documents the Lend-Lease transfer pipeline: 'LST 1017, which was scheduled for turnover to the Chinese Navy in September, has not been transferred yet. Commander Seventh Fleet expects to turn LST 1017 over to the Chinese Navy about 20 November.' The ship was previously cleared by Marshall and the Navy Department for transfer under lend lease. Actual transfer occurred 14 December 1946 per DANFS/NavSource.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-02
- Study period
- 1946
- Limitations
- Official U.S. government documentary record naming this hull; corroborates the pending Lend-Lease transfer (slipped from September to ~20 November; actual 14 December 1946). Contains no asbestos or material information.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-1017-lst1017-03
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[4]Bureau of Ships, Ships' Data, U.S. Naval Vessels, Vol. 2 (Jan 1945), LST design table (ShipScribe scan) [other_primary]
- Locator
- SDB1945v2 LST design table + roster section. NOTE: URL corrected 2026-10-02 - class profile carried the stale path shipscribe.com/styles/usnaux/sdb/SDB1945v2.pdf (404); live file is at www.shipscribe.com/pubs/SDB1945v2.pdf (verified HTTP 200)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Bureau of Ships Ships' Data, U.S. Naval Vessels, Vol. 2 (January 1945) LST design table documents the machinery plant for this design series: two General Motors 12-567A diesels (~1,700 shp; engine-variant blocks LST-932 through LST-979 and LST-1060 through LST-1080 carried GM 12-278A engines), approximately 13 officers / 106 enlisted accommodations, 328 ft oa, 50 ft beam, ~11.6 kt. LST-1017 falls in the LST-980 through LST-1059 block - GM 12-567A plant. Diesel propulsion - no boilers.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-10-02
- Study period
- 1945
- Limitations
- Official design-table data for the class/design series, not a hull-specific record; it does not name LST-1017 and contains no asbestos or material information. Establishes the diesel plant (no steam system) for this hull's design group.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-1017-lst1017-04
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[5]Consolidated era inference - BuShips SDB 1945 v2 machinery data (ev-04) + era amphibious-ship construction practice; LST class profile ev-lst-1-class-03 (class-f/lst-1-class.class.json) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Class technical data; consolidated from lst-1-class class profile
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Era/design inference for a 1944 diesel-powered LST: with no boiler plant, the asbestos-relevant applications aboard a ship of this type and period were diesel exhaust lagging and gaskets, engine-room thermal and acoustic insulation, deck coverings/tile, bulkhead and accommodation insulation, valve and pump packing, and winch brake linings. Built at Bethlehem Steel's Quincy (Fore River) yard inside the wartime shipbuilding window when asbestos insulation was standard shipyard material.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-10-02
- Study period
- 1944-1990 (ROC service end date unverified)
- Population
- Bethlehem Steel Quincy construction trades (1944); ship's company and embarked troops (1944-1946); Republic of China Navy crews (1946 onward)
- Limitations
- Class/era inference only - no hull-specific insulation survey, material schedule, or work package located for LST-1017. Names era-standard applications for the type, not confirmed installed materials aboard this hull. No quantity. Establishes no exposure for any individual.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-1017-lst1017-05
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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) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Abstract and article, AJIM 11(3):359-373 (DOI resolves, HTTP 302 to publisher)
- 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 1944 Bethlehem Steel (Quincy) LST was mass-produced - and that wartime demand drove unprecedented asbestos utilization aboard wartime hulls.
- 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 context)
- Limitations
- Program/era-level scholarly documentation of asbestos use in WWII shipbuilding generally; does not name this vessel or this yard 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-lst-1017-lst1017-06
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[7]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 to automated fetch, HTTP 403; content via product-page description - same standing limitation as Batch 01 and class-f profile)
- Finding type
- gov_survey
- Finding
- GAO documented the Navy's asbestos-protection program: standing policy (1975) removed asbestos insulation only when damaged or required for repairs, modified 1979 to selective replacement in high-maintenance areas - meaning original-era insulation typically remained in place for decades unless a yard period disturbed it.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-10-02
- Study period
- 1979
- Population
- Navy shipyard workers; asbestos program review
- Limitations
- Program-level documentation, not hull- or class-specific. Additionally, this hull left U.S. Navy custody in December 1946 - decades before the documented 1975/1979 policies - so the Navy asbestos program never operated on this vessel; carried strictly as program context.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-1017-lst1017-07
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[8]Batch-6505 search ledger (this record): NHHC DANFS; NavSource; FRUS; NVR; CourtListener API v4; NARA digitized deck-log index; ShipScribe SDB 1945 v2; AWM collection; secondary web sweeps [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-lst-1017-lst1017-01 through -11
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, or docketed case naming USS LST-1017 was found in the public sources searched (see search_ledger). CourtListener via the authenticated fleet helper returned zero hits for 'LST-1017' in opinions (type=o), zero hits for 'LST-1017' in RECAP dockets (type=r), and zero hits for '"LST 1017" asbestos' in opinions. The class-level CourtListener sweep for the LST type (lst-1-class profile) found only an incidental scanned reunion-notice mention of 'USS LST 579' inside Gitto v. A.W. Chesterton (S.D.N.Y. 1:07-cv-04771) - not an exposure record and not this hull.
- 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 construction date inside the documented asbestos shipbuilding era makes era-consistent presence plausible. Deck logs (NARA RG 24), Bethlehem Quincy construction records, and ROC Navy disposition files are unretrieved leads. Does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-1017-lst1017-08