Evidence
9 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-9).
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[1]research packet 626-packet.md [other_primary]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: **VERIFIED
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-lst-1109-lst1109-pkt-626-packet-md
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[2]DANFS, LST-1109 (NHHC ship-history entry; live page returned 404 on 2026-10-02 - Wayback Machine capture 2025-12-09 used and labeled archived) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS LST-1109 entry, full text
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Documented for this hull: 'LST-1109 was laid down on 21 December 1944 at Evansville, Ind., by the Missouri Valley Bridge & Iron Co.; launched on 6 February 1945; sponsored by Mrs. Paul H. Derrick; and commissioned on 28 February 1945, Lt. William A. McCaskill, USNR, in command. Following World War II, LST-1109 performed occupation duty in the Far East until early November 1945. She was decommissioned on 6 May 1946 and struck from the Navy list on 19 June that same year. On 13 June 1948, the ship was sold to the Walter W. Johnson Co. for scrapping.' The entry carries no operation narrative - DANFS records no combat operations or battle stars for this hull.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-02
- Study period
- 1944-1948
- Population
- MVB&I construction trades (Dec 1944-Feb 1945); commissioning and wartime crew; occupation-duty crew
- Limitations
- Ship-specific history only; contains no asbestos or material content. The DANFS entry is short-form (typical for number-only LSTs) and does not identify where occupation duty was performed, where the ship decommissioned, or where scrapping occurred. Live NHHC URL 404s as of 2026-10-02; archived capture is the cited copy.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-1109-lst1109-01
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[3]NavSource Online: Amphibious Photo Archive, USS LST-1109 page (milestones, unit assignments, awards, spec block, commanding officer, photograph credits) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource 10/16/161109.htm milestone block, awards ribbons, specifications block, commanding-officers table
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NavSource record for this hull: 542-Class tank landing ship, radio call sign NAZU; laid down 21 December 1944 at Missouri Valley Bridge & Iron Co., Evansville IN; launched 6 February 1945; commissioned 28 February 1945, LT William A. McCaskill, USNR, in command (sole commanding officer listed, through 6 May 1946). World War II assignment: Asiatic-Pacific Theater, LST Flotilla Thirty-Three (CAPT C. A. Legg USN), LST Group Ninety-Seven (CDR H. B. McLean), LST Division One Hundred Ninety-Four. Post-war occupation service in the Far East 8 September - 11 November 1945. Decommissioned 6 May 1946; struck from the Naval Register 19 June 1946; sold for scrapping 13 June 1948 to Walter W. Johnson Co. Awards: American Campaign Medal, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal, World War II Victory Medal, Navy Occupation Service Medal (Asia clasp) - no battle stars. Spec block: 1,625 t light / 4,080 t full / 2,366 t beaching; 328 ft oa; 50 ft beam; 11.6 kt trial; complement 13 officers / 104 enlisted; troops 16 officers / 147 enlisted; propulsion two GM 12-567A 900-hp diesels, single Falk main reduction gear, three 100 kW 230V DC diesel-drive ship's-service generators, two propellers 1,700 shp, twin rudders.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-02
- Study period
- 1944-1948
- Population
- MVB&I construction trades (1944-45); ship's company ~117 (13 officers/104 enlisted design complement); embarked troops up to ~163 (16/147 design accommodations)
- Limitations
- NavSource is a volunteer secondary compilation, not a primary registry - its dates generally track DANFS/NVR and here concur with DANFS on every shared milestone. Spec block is the class-standard block (values are the LST-542 design figures, not a hull-measured survey). Contains no asbestos content. Page verified live 2026-10-02.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-1109-lst1109-02
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[4]Shipbuilding history (navalmarinearchive.com, Colton-derived table), Missouri Valley Bridge & Iron Company, Evansville IN - per-hull construction table [other_primary]
- Locator
- MVB&I Evansville table, row hull# 166
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- The yard's construction table lists this hull as yard hull no. 166 (LST, pennant 1109, FY 1944): keel laid 12/21/44, launched 2/6/45, delivered 2/28/45 - 47 days on the ways, 22 days fitting out, 69 days total - with disposition 'Scrapped 1947'. The yard was built for the war effort on the Ohio River at Evansville and closed after the war; the plant was destroyed by fire in 1946. The same source records 171 LSTs built at Evansville (the Indiana Historical Society/Kellar collection and Clark's 'A Cornfield Shipyard' record 167 LSTs of 202 total vessels - count discrepancy carried in gaps).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-02
- Study period
- 1944-1948
- Population
- MVB&I Evansville construction workforce (peak >19,000 in 1944 per Indiana Historical Society collection description)
- Limitations
- Secondary compilation of official build data - dates concur with DANFS/NavSource on every shared field. The 'Scrapped 1947' disposition conflicts at the margins with DANFS/NavSource 'sold for scrapping 13 June 1948' (sale vs completion year - see gaps). No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-1109-lst1109-03
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[5]Era inference built on: NavSource spec block (diesel plant, class-standard); DANFS Vol. VII LST class headnote (pp. 569-731, LST program/design history, via hazegray transcription); BuShips Ships' Data U.S. Naval Vessels Vol. 2 (Jan 1945) LST design table (2 x GM 12-567A, 1,700 shp, hull blocks); class profile lst-1-class (batch wave-2 session F) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource spec block; hazegray DANFS amphib/LST headnote; BuShips SDB1945 v2 LST table (shipscribe.com scan)
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- A diesel-driven LST-542-series tank landing ship built Dec 1944-Feb 1945 sits inside the Navy's documented asbestos-use era (GAO HRD-80-2: substitution did not begin until the early 1970s). The GM 12-567A diesel plant removes the boiler and steam-line lagging pathway of steam vessels; era-standard applications aboard a vessel of this type and period concentrate in diesel-exhaust and engine-room lagging, machinery gaskets and valve packing, deck coverings, accommodation insulation and bulkhead board, and winch/windlass brake linings. The 69-day construction cycle and wartime schedules are consistent with standardized, centrally procured outfit materials across the LST program.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-10-02
- Study period
- 1944-1948
- Population
- MVB&I construction trades (1944-45); ship's company and embarked troops (1945-46); 1947-48 shipbreakers
- Limitations
- Class/era inference only - no hull-specific insulation survey, material list, or work package located for LST-1109. Names era-standard applications for the type, not confirmed installed materials aboard this hull. No quantity. No manufacturer attribution for this hull. Does not establish individual exposure.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-1109-lst1109-04
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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 construction (Dec 1944-Feb 1945) and service era (Feb 1945-May 1946).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-10-02
- Study period
- 1979 (report); exposure era covered includes 1944-46
- 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 returns HTTP 403 to automated fetch, confirmed 2026-10-02) - content via product-page description.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-1109-lst1109-05
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[7]Woolsey v. Missouri Valley Bridge & Iron Co., 88 N.E.2d 54, 119 Ind. App. 391, No. 17,878 (Ind. Ct. App., filed 17 Oct 1949, Royse J.) - reporter citation via HallApproved index entry and Exa opinion text; CourtListener opinion URL not yet located (fleet-pacer quota spent this session - see search_ledger) [court_record]
- Locator
- 88 N.E.2d 54 / 119 Ind. App. 391 opinion text (parties, employment window, Board findings, affirmance)
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- The only occupational-disease litigation located for this hull's builder yard: the Indiana Court of Appeals affirmed the Industrial Board's denial of a Workmen's Occupational Diseases Act claim by the estate of Elbert Woolsey, a pipe fitter employed by Missouri Valley Bridge & Iron 'in the compartment of ships' from 21 June to 11 November 1944 - the same yard and the same production window in which this hull's construction block began (keel 21 Dec 1944). The claim alleged death by poisoning from inhaled galvanized-metal welding fumes - NOT asbestos. The Board found the decedent 'was not exposed to nor did he contract an occupational disease' in the employment; the court affirmed under the substantial-evidence rule. A companion case, Missouri Valley Bridge & Iron Co. v. Alsip, 63 N.E.2d 297, 116 Ind. App. 259 (Ind. Ct. App. 1945), is an accidental-injury award dispute (autopsy jurisdiction), likewise non-asbestos.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-10-02
- Study period
- 1944-1949
- Population
- MVB&I pipe fitters and compartment trades (1944 window)
- Limitations
- Classified DOWN to context_only by design: this is a yard-level, non-asbestos occupational-disease decision that does not name this hull and does not concern asbestos - included because it is the only litigation located tied to the builder and documents the contemporaneous claims pathway (state industrial-board compensation, not tort). It is not exposure evidence and must not be counted as qualifying asbestos litigation. CourtListener lookup of the opinion URL remains open.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-1109-lst1109-06
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[8]NavSource photographic record (Vallejo Naval & Historical Museum provenance); Indiana Historical Society collection SC 0967, James H. Kellar, 'The Evansville Shipyard: Outside Any Shipbuilding Zone' (368-page manuscript finding aid, accession 1998.0295) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource 10/16/161109.htm image row 1016110901; IHS finding aid SC 0967 (indianahistory.org PDF, verified live 2026-10-02); NARA catalog.archives.gov (JS-rendered, not retrievable)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Archival leads for this hull: (1) a Vallejo Naval & Historical Museum-held photograph (via NavSource, contributor Darryl Baker) shows USS LST-1109 entering San Francisco Bay circa 1946 with LCT(6)-1273 as deck cargo - documentary evidence of the hull's post-occupation return to the Pacific coast. (2) The Indiana Historical Society holds the Kellar manuscript collection (SC 0967) documenting the Evansville yard - which per the finding aid 'became the largest wartime employer in Evansville and, at its peak in 1944, employed over 19,000 individuals,' constructing 202 vessels, 167 of them LSTs - the builder-yard labor context for this hull's construction. (3) WWII deck logs for this hull would be held in NARA RG 24 (Bureau of Naval Personnel deck-log series); the catalog is JS-rendered and per-hull retrieval was not completed this session.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-02
- Study period
- 1944-1946
- Population
- crew returning via San Francisco (1946); Evansville yard workforce (1942-45)
- Limitations
- Archival leads only - photographs and collection descriptions establish physical presence and yard context, not material content. The NARA deck-log lead is a standard-collection inference, not a verified per-hull catalog hit. No asbestos content in any of these sources.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-1109-lst1109-07
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[9]Batch-6598 search ledger (this record): DANFS via Wayback; NavSource live; shipbuildinghistory yard table; hazegray DANFS index; ibiblio/hyperwar; NVR; NARA catalog; Indiana Historical Society; GAO product page; CourtListener opinion and docket queries; secondary web litigation sweep [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-lst-1109-lst1109-01 through -13
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, or litigation naming USS LST-1109 was found in the public sources searched. CourtListener API v4 (authenticated, fleet-paced) returned 0 opinion hits and 0 docket hits for the hull-number query 'LST-1109' on 2026-10-02; the exact-name variant 'USS LST-1109' is a phrase subset of that zero-count query and adds no hits. Secondary web sweeps surfaced no qualifying case or record; the only 'asbestos aboard' material located for LST-type hulls generally is law-firm marketing listicle content asserting asbestos without primary sourcing - excluded by source policy. Builder-yard litigation located is non-asbestos (Woolsey; Alsip) - see ev-06.
- 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 - the hull was built and scrapped (1947-48) entirely inside the Navy's documented asbestos-use era, and 1948 shipbreaking predates ACM-handling regulation. Deck logs, MVB&I work packages, and any scrapping-contract records are undigitized leads. Does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-1109-lst1109-08