Evidence
9 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-9).
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[1]research packet 616-packet.md (1 sources cited) [nhhc_danfs]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERIFIED
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-lst-1039-lst1039-pkt-616-packet-md
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[2]DANFS, LST-1039 (Naval History and Heritage Command ship-history entry) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- NHHC DANFS ship-history page for LST-1039, full entry
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- LST-1039 was laid down 26 November 1944 at Pittsburgh, Pa., by the Dravo Corp.; launched 6 January 1945; sponsored by Mrs. Jack H. Johnston; commissioned 9 February 1945, Lt. G. E. Paris in command. Assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific theater, she participated in the assault and occupation of Okinawa Gunto in June 1945, performed occupation duty in the Far East until early April 1946, returned to the United States, decommissioned 21 June 1946, was struck from the Navy list 31 July 1946, and on 2 September 1947 was sold to the Columbia River Packers Association, Inc., for operation. She earned one battle star for World War II service.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-02
- Study period
- 1944-1947
- Population
- Ship's company (13 officers / 104 enlisted design complement) and embarked troops
- Limitations
- Official but terse DANFS entry; establishes identity, milestones, and service outline only - contains no asbestos or materials information. Live page verified via rendered fetch 2026-10-02; note the NHHC site returns HTTP 404 to plain user-agent fetches (content is live for real browsers).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-1039-lst1039-01
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[3]NavSource Naval History, USS LST-1039 page (build/service timeline, campaign table, specifications, commanding officers, photographic record, merchant-career captions) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource USS LST-1039 page, timeline + specifications + image captions + commanding-officer table
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NavSource documents: reduced commission 30 January 1945 at Dravo Corp., Pittsburgh, under Lt. R. B. McArthur, USN (Ferry Crew #15); full commission 9 February 1945 at Naval Station Algiers, LA, Lt. George E. Paris in command; assignment to LST Flotilla Thirty-Two (Capt. D. J. Sweeny), LST Division One Hundred Ninety-Two; Okinawa Gunto operation 8-30 June 1945; Navy Occupation Service Medal (Asia clasp) periods 14 Nov-5 Dec 1945, 19 Dec 1945-4 Jan 1946, 12 Jan-12 Apr 1946; decommissioned 21 June 1946; struck 31 July 1946; sold 2 September 1947 to Columbia River Packers Association, Inc.; resold and renamed MV Tinian (recorded as reflagged France), then MV Iraty; photo captions place her in Tokyo Bay December 1945, San Francisco Bay ~14/18 May 1946, at CRPA Astoria 2 September 1947, and as MV Iraty at Bayonne, France, as a refrigerated tuna ship (bow doors removed, stem modified) fishing off Dakar for owner Cooperative 'Itsasokoa'. Specifications: 1,625 t light / 4,080 t full, 328 ft, 2 x GM 12-567A 900 hp diesels, single Falk main reduction gear, three diesel-driven 100 kW 230 V DC ship's service generators, 2 shafts 1,700 shp, complement 13 officers / 104 enlisted plus troops 16 officers / 147 enlisted; call sign NAAD.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-02
- Study period
- 1944-c.1980s (Iraty service); page last updated 2022-12-02
- Population
- Ship's company and embarked troops; postwar merchant crews (US, then French)
- Limitations
- NavSource is a volunteer-compiled photographic archive, not an official Navy source - treated here as the canonical per-hull reference consistent with project practice; its timeline agrees with DANFS on every overlapping point. Merchant-era particulars rest on photo captions and contributor notes; final disposition unknown; the Tinian flag state conflicts with secondary literature (see gaps). No asbestos or materials content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-1039-lst1039-02
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[4]USS LST-1039 ferry voyage report, 30 January-9 February 1945 (primary document hosted by NavSource), plus despatch voyage orders TU 96.4.13 Yokohama-Pearl Harbor, 12 April 1946 (161039b.pdf) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource-hosted PDFs 161039a.pdf (voyage report) and 161039b.pdf (despatch orders)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- The ship's own ferry-crew voyage report records reduced-commission acceptance at the Dravo Corp. Neville Island yard on 30 January 1945 by Lt. R. B. McArthur, USNR, with Ferry Crew #15 plus officers (including Lt. G. E. Paris, USN, and Ens. R. A. Corcoran, USNR) and enlisted men of the prospective commissioning complement; the log tracks the Ohio-and-Mississippi river passage through the lock system to Naval Station Algiers, LA, arriving 9 February 1945. A second scanned document carries despatch orders for Task Unit 96.4.13 (ComLSTGrp 107) directing the loaded ship from Yokohama to Pearl Harbor on 12 April 1946, reporting onward to Commander, Administrative Command, Amphibious Forces, Pacific.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-02
- Study period
- 1945-01-30 to 1945-02-09; 1946-04-12
- Population
- Ferry Crew #15 and commissioning complement (named officers/enlisted in log)
- Limitations
- Scanned primary documents; OCR text layer is partial and error-prone (names/dates verified against NavSource timeline). Document (b) is largely image-only. Establishes manning and movement of this hull; contains no materials, insulation, or asbestos content. Contributor-curated scans (CAPT Tom Meyers USCG Ret.); underlying originals presumed Navy record copies.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-1039-lst1039-03
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[5]NHHC, United States Pacific Fleet Organization, 1 May 1945 (official fleet roster) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- LST Flotilla 32 / LST Group 96 / LST Division 192 listing within the 1 May 1945 organization table
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- The official U.S. Pacific Fleet organization of 1 May 1945 lists LST 1039 under LST Division 192, LST Group 96 (ComLSTGrp 96, Comdr. J. M. Dod, USNR) - placing the hull in the Pacific Fleet amphibious establishment on the eve of the Okinawa phase she is documented to have joined in June 1945.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-02
- Study period
- 1945-05-01
- Population
- Ship's company
- Limitations
- Administrative roster entry only - confirms operational assignment, not employment detail or materials. No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-1039-lst1039-04
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[6]NavSource Tank Landing Ship (LST) index - WWII Type II LST class structure and LST-542 design-group description [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource LST type index (class descriptions) + USS LST-1039 specifications block
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- LST-1039 belongs to the LST-542 class ('Chelan County' class, 611 vessels), essentially similar to the LST-1 and LST-491 classes, built at both coastal and inland Ohio/Mississippi-system yards. Era/design inference for this diesel-powered hull (no boilers): asbestos-relevant applications aboard a 1944-45 LST were engine and exhaust-system lagging and gaskets, machinery packing, engine-room and accommodation thermal/acoustic insulation, deck coverings, and winch/windlass brake linings; the diesel plant narrows but does not eliminate era-typical insulation uses. WWII shipbuilding operated under federal asbestos priority allocations, and period gasket, packing, lagging, and deck-covering products commonly contained asbestos.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-10-02
- Study period
- 1944-1946 (Navy); 1947 onward (merchant)
- Population
- Construction trades (Dravo Neville Island, 1944-45); ship's company; merchant crews
- Limitations
- Design-level inference, not a hull record - no material schedule, specification extract, or survey names this vessel; the class index establishes design grouping only. Does not establish that asbestos was installed, its quantity, or what remained aboard into merchant service. The BuShips Ships' Data 1945 v2 design table previously cited by the class profile (shipscribe.com) returned 404 on 2026-10-02 with no Wayback capture - design-table details for this record rest on the ship's NavSource specifications block instead.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-1039-lst1039-05
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[7]ExplorePAhistory.com, 'Dravo Corporation [Steel]' Pennsylvania historical-marker page (dedicated 1995-08-18, Neville Island Blvd. and Grand Ave.) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Marker detail page, 'Behind the Marker' text
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- The Pennsylvania historical-marker program documents that Dravo's Neville Island yard was the Navy's lead designer and builder of LSTs - assembly-line prefabrication and welded construction, an expanded East Yard on a 66-acre riverside field, and more than 670 LSTs sent down the Ohio and Mississippi during the war, including the hull that became LST-1039 (Dravo Pittsburgh block).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-10-02
- Study period
- 1942-1945
- Population
- Dravo Neville Island construction workforce (peak ~16,000 per secondary accounts)
- Limitations
- Builder-yard context, not hull-level documentation: the marker page contains no asbestos, materials, or worker-exposure information and does not name LST-1039. Establishes only the construction site and production context of this hull's build.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-1039-lst1039-06
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[8]CourtListener API v4 authenticated search, 'LST-1039' (opinion index, type=o): 38 hits, all token-level name collisions - none names the vessel. The only genuine LST mention in the result set is Fireman's Fund Insurance v. The U.S. Army LST 34, an unrelated insurance-libel case about a different hull. [court_record]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-lst-1039-lst1039-05 (opinion sweep) and sl-uss-lst-1039-lst1039-06 (docket sweep)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying asbestos litigation naming USS LST-1039 located: opinion-index search 'LST-1039' returned only name collisions (numeric/token matches on '1039' and 'LST' appearing separately in unrelated opinions). No survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, or docketed asbestos case naming the hull was found in the public sources searched (see search_ledger). Law-firm listicle content asserting asbestos aboard LST-type vessels exists but is excluded by source policy.
- 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 insulation materials were typical of 1944-45 construction. The docket-index (RECAP) sweep could not be completed this session (fleet-wide request pacing; logged in search_ledger), so docket-level coverage is incomplete. Does not establish or defeat any exposure or legal-eligibility claim.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-1039-lst1039-07
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[9]National Archives, 'Logbooks of the US Navy at the National Archives' (RG 24 deck-log series, WWII-era Navy vessels) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NARA logbooks guidance page; catalog search not completable via automated fetch
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- NARA holds the U.S. Navy deck-log series covering commissioned vessels of this era; LST-1039's deck logs (commissioned 9 February 1945 - decommissioned 21 June 1946) are the likeliest remaining primary record of daily operation and any material-handling events aboard, but per-hull digitization status was not confirmed - the National Archives Catalog search interface is JavaScript-gated for automated access.
- Verification
- unverified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-10-02
- Study period
- 1945-1946 (records)
- Limitations
- Series-level archival lead only: existence of the series is documented, but whether this hull's logs are digitized or what they contain is unverified. Deck logs of this era rarely recorded materials content explicitly.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-1039-lst1039-08