Evidence
13 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-13).
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[1]research packet 639-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-130-lst130-pkt-639-packet-md
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[2]DANFS, LST-130 - construction, sponsor, commissioning, Saipan/Okinawa campaigns, occupation duty, decommissioning, strike, disposal (live NHHC page, verified HTTP 200 via Firecrawl 2026-10-02) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS LST-130 entry, full text
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS documents for this hull: laid down 5 July 1943 at Evansville, Ind., by the Missouri Valley Bridge & Iron Co.; launched 13 September 1943, sponsored by Ens. Marjorie M. Wilson, NC; commissioned 4 November 1943. Asiatic-Pacific theater operations: Marianas operation - capture and occupation of Saipan (June-August 1944); Okinawa Gunto operation - assault and occupation of Okinawa Gunto (March-April 1945). Occupation duty in the Far East until early March 1946; decommissioned 10 March 1946; struck from the Navy list 5 December 1947; sold 27 May 1948 to Bethlehem Steel Co., of Seattle, Wash., and subsequently scrapped. Two battle stars for World War II service.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-02
- Study period
- 1943-1948
- Population
- Construction trades (Evansville, 1943); ship's company and embarked troops (1943-46)
- Limitations
- Ship-specific official history only; no asbestos or material content. DANFS says she was decommissioned 'upon her return to the United States' 10 March 1946 - NavSource records the same date with simultaneous transfer to COMNAVFE/SCAJAP in the Far East as Q093; the decommissioning location is unresolved (see gaps). DANFS's campaign summary does not separately list Tinian, which the ship's own war diary documents at White Beach II on 24-25 July 1944 (ev-05).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-130-lst130-01
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[3]NavSource Online: Amphibious Photo Archive, USS LST-130 (10/16/160130.htm, last updated 18 April 2025) - designation timeline, unit assignments, spec block, commanding-officer list, awards, Mare Island repair photos, disposal [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource 10/16/160130.htm header block, campaign table, specifications block, CO table, photo captions
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NavSource documents for this hull: LST-1-class tank landing ship laid down 5 July 1943 at Missouri Valley Bridge and Iron Co., Evansville, IN; launched 13 September 1943; commissioned USS LST-130 4 November 1943, LT John E. Collins USNR in command. Assigned to LST Flotilla Thirteen (CAPT. J.G. Sampson USN), LST Group Thirty-Nine (CDR. B.T. Zelenka USN), LST Division Seventy-Seven. Campaign table matches DANFS (Saipan 25 June-7 August 1944; Okinawa 25 March-29 April 1945). Navy Occupation service periods 23 October-9 November 1945 and 3 February-10 March 1946. 'Decommissioned, 10 March 1946 and transferred to Commander Naval Forces Far East (COMNAVFE), Naval Shipping Control Agency for Japan (SCAJAP), redesignated Q093.' Struck 5 December 1947; sold for scrapping 27 May 1948 to Bethlehem Steel Co., Seattle, WA. Spec block: 1,625 t light / 4,080 t full / 2,366 t beaching; 328 ft oa x 50 ft; 11.6 kt; 2 x GM 12-567A 900 hp diesels, single Falk main reduction gear, 2 shafts 1,700 shp, 3 x 100 kW DC generators; complement 13 officers / 104 enlisted; troops 16 officers / 147 enlisted; radio call sign NDRM. Official Navy Yard Mare Island photos (6390-45, 6391-45, 6397-45, 6398-45) document the ship under repair at Mare Island 24 August-8 September 1945 and departing 9 September 1945. CO list: LT Collins USNR 4 Nov 1943-1945; LT L.S. Auchincloss USNR 1945-10 Mar 1946.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-02
- Study period
- 1943-1948
- Population
- Ship's company (~117) plus embarked troops (1943-46); SCAJAP-manned period (1946-?)
- Limitations
- NavSource is a volunteer secondary compilation, not a primary registry - dates cross-check cleanly against DANFS and the NARA war diaries, and the Mare Island availability is corroborated by the yard's own photo numbers. The SCAJAP/Q093 transfer detail is NavSource-specific and conflicts with DANFS's 'return to the United States' framing (see gaps). Contains no asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-130-lst130-02
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[4]NARA NAID 78465994, 'USS LST-130 - War Diary, 11/1-30/1943' (micro serial 75801; RG 38, World War II War Diaries; 22 images; digitized via Fold3) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NAID 78465994, images 0038-0059 (downloaded and OCR-read 2026-10-02)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- The ship's November 1943 war diary (all 22 pages OCR-read this session) documents the new hull's delivery transit and shakedown: on commissioning day, 4 November 1943, the ship was already underway on the river and secured at Berth 6, Algiers, La.; 10 November underway toward the lower Todd-Johnson dock and anchored at Quarantine, New Orleans Harbor; 11 November loading ammunition at the ammunition depot, Algiers, La.; mid-November transit to Panama City, Fla., with beaching practice landings in St. Andrews Bay alongside LST-230, LST-46, and LST-280, docking at Pier 1, ATB Panama City, and a grounding on a St. Andrews Bay sandbar. Diary is signed by LT J.E. Collins USNR, commanding.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-02
- Study period
- 1943-11
- Population
- Ship's company (commissioning crew); ATB Panama City training establishment
- Limitations
- Primary ship-produced record; no asbestos or material content. The diary opens on commissioning day with the ship already on the lower Mississippi - the Evansville-to-New-Orleans river transit itself is not narrated in this file unit. OCR is partial on two pages (0043-0046, faded carbon).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-130-lst130-03
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[5]NARA NAID 78544385, 'USS LST-130 - War Diary, 6/2-30/44' (micro serial 80427; RG 38, World War II War Diaries; 3 images; digitized via Fold3) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NAID 78544385, images 0833-0835 (downloaded and OCR-read 2026-10-02)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- The ship's June 1944 war diary (all 3 pages OCR-read this session) documents the Saipan assault and a machinery casualty: convoy as T.G. 52.5.2 Pearl Harbor-Eniwetok-Saipan; 15 June - arrived LST area 'A' Saipan Harbor 0708, disembarked LVTs loaded with Marines, bow ramp hinges broke leaving ramp hanging by chains during enemy air presence; 16-17 June - water ingress through bow doors put four feet of water on the tank deck; transferred 468 and 292 rounds of 5-inch/38 ammunition to USS Conyngham and USS Yarnall; 17-18 June - received seven Marine casualties by LVT, transferred to a hospital ship; 20 June - 'a crack was observed in the flywheel of the starboard engine and the engine secured... the second flywheel of this engine that has cracked in the same way in less than one month'; late June - distributed smoke floats/fog oil to the fleet as supply ship; 30 June - Fleet Post Office established aboard. Signed LT J.E. Collins USNR.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-02
- Study period
- 1944-06
- Population
- Ship's company; embarked Marines; ships' companies of Conyngham and Yarnall during alongside ammo transfers
- Limitations
- Primary ship-produced record; no asbestos or material content. Documents battle damage (bow ramp hinges) and a recurring machinery casualty (starboard flywheel) - relevant as operational context for the hull's documented repair history, not as an exposure record.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-130-lst130-04
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[6]NARA NAID 78626198, 'USS LST-130 - War Diary, 7/24-25/44' (micro serial 85888; RG 38, World War II War Diaries; 1 image; digitized via Fold3) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NAID 78626198, image 0572 (downloaded and OCR-read 2026-10-02)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- The ship's 24-25 July 1944 war diary (single page, OCR-read this session) documents the Tinian landing: underway from Saipan anchorage in T.G. 52.5.7 to White Beach II, Tinian; launched all 21 embarked DUKWs loaded with Marines and ammunition; shore batteries observed shelling the LST area; 25 July - discharged DUKWs and cargo near the beach, fire observed on LST-484; 'this vessel had to operate on only the port engine due to disabled starboard engine' - carrying forward the 20 June flywheel casualty.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-02
- Study period
- 1944-07-24 to 1944-07-25
- Population
- Ship's company; embarked Marines (1944-07)
- Limitations
- Primary ship-produced record; no asbestos or material content. Documents Tinian participation the DANFS campaign list does not separately name. A one-page fragment - the July month diary beyond these dates was not surfaced.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-130-lst130-05
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[7]NARA NAID 126465105, 'LST-130, 10/26/43-3/10/46' (RG 24, Muster Rolls of U.S. Navy Ships; Roll No. 4333; 272 images; digitized via Fold3) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NAID 126465105; spot-checked frames 00003-00008 of 272
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- The ship's quarterly muster rolls are digitized for the entire commissioned period, 26 October 1943 - 10 March 1946 (272 frames). Spot-check of the opening roll shows the plankowner crew reporting from A.T.B. (Amphibious Training Base) Solomons, Md., on 26 October 1943 - pre-commissioning crew assembly before the Evansville commissioning.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-02
- Study period
- 1943-10-26 to 1946-03-10
- Population
- Ship's company, full commissioned period 1943-46
- Limitations
- Personnel record only; no exposure or material content. 272 frames were not exhaustively read - the crew-source detail is from spot-checks of the opening pages; per-name muster analysis is an open archival lead.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-130-lst130-06
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[8]Vincent Piket, 'Louis Auchincloss: The Growth of a Novelist' (Palgrave Macmillan, 1991) - states the novelist was 'put in command of the LST 130' in the Pacific; NavSource CO table lists LT L.S. Auchincloss USNR, 1945 - 10 March 1946 [reputable_press]
- Locator
- Piket chapter excerpt via Springer PDF (search snippet); NavSource 160130.htm CO table
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- The novelist Louis Stanton Auchincloss (1917-2010) was LST-130's final wartime commanding officer: NavSource lists LT. Auchincloss, L.S., USNR in command 1945 - 10 March 1946, and Piket's scholarly biography records that after Normandy-era LST service in the Atlantic he was 'put in command of the LST 130' in the Pacific.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-02
- Study period
- 1945-1946
- Population
- Ship's company under final wartime CO (1945-46)
- Limitations
- Vessel-history fact only; this record makes no exposure claim for any individual, including Mr. Auchincloss. The biography is a secondary literary source; the CO assignment is corroborated by NavSource's commanding-officer table.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-130-lst130-07
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[9]Bureau of Ships, Ships' Data, U.S. Naval Vessels, Vol. 2 (1945), LST design table (shipscribe.com scan); NavSource LST-130 spec block; lst-1-class class profile (class-f worktree, 2026-09-16) [other_primary]
- Locator
- SDB 1945 v2 LST design table; NavSource 160130.htm specifications block
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Era inference for this hull: the LST-1 design group ran a diesel plant (2 x GM 12-567A diesels, 1,700 shp total, Falk reduction gear, twin screws - BuShips design table and this hull's NavSource spec block) with no boilers, so the steam-plant lagging pathway of boiler vessels does not apply. Asbestos-relevant applications aboard a 1943 diesel landing ship of this type were the era-standard set - diesel-exhaust and machinery-space lagging, gaskets and packing, accommodation thermal insulation, deck coverings - and the photo-documented 24 August - 8 September 1945 Mare Island Naval Shipyard repair availability (ev-02) placed this hull inside a wartime naval yard during the Navy's documented asbestos-use era.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-10-02
- Study period
- 1943-1948
- Population
- Missouri Valley Bridge & Iron construction trades (1943); ship's company and embarked troops (1943-46); Mare Island yard trades (Aug-Sep 1945 availability); SCAJAP crews (1946-?); 1948 shipbreakers (Seattle)
- Limitations
- Class/era inference only - no hull-specific insulation survey, material schedule, or Mare Island work package was located for LST-130. Names era-standard applications, not confirmed installed materials; no quantities; no manufacturer attribution.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-130-lst130-08
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[10]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 PDF 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 construction (1943), her Pacific service and Mare Island availability (1945), her SCAJAP period, and her 1948 scrapping.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-10-02
- Study period
- 1979
- 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, reconfirmed 2026-10-02) - content via product-page description, which itself verified live via Firecrawl.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-130-lst130-09
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[11]CourtListener API v4 search (authenticated, fleet-paced helper), opinion and docket indexes [court_record]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-lst-130-lst130-10 through -13
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- No qualifying asbestos litigation located: exact-phrase "LST-130" returned 0 in the opinion index and 4 hits in the docket index - Abunaim v. Chertoff (N.D. Ill. 1:08-cv-02649), Meridith v. Violetas General Contractors (N.D. Ill.), Genereux v. American Beryllia Corp. (D. Mass. 1:04-cv-12137), and Cantu v. Cameron County (S.D. Tex. 1:03-cv-00096) - all tokenized name collisions (the string match occurs inside civil cover-sheet/deposition filing text of unrelated cases, not as a vessel reference; none involves a ship or an asbestos claim naming this hull); "USS LST-130" in opinions returned 0; "LST 130" asbestos in opinions returned 0. No case or opinion naming this hull was located.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-02
- Study period
- 2026-10-02
- Limitations
- CourtListener indexes published opinions and RECAP dockets - state-court filings, unreported settlements, MDL-875 pleading-level vessel lists, and non-digitized dockets are outside coverage. Docket-level hits were classified at result/snippet level without per-document review; a zero qualifying result means no located docketed case/opinion naming this hull, not proof none exists.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-130-lst130-10
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[12]Batch-6700 search ledger (this record): DANFS; NavSource; NARA catalog + three war-diary file units read in full + muster-roll unit spot-checked; BuShips SDB 1945 v2; GAO product page; CourtListener API (opinion + docket); NVR; secondary web sweep [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-lst-130-lst130-01 through -19
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, material schedule, or qualifying case naming LST-130 was found in the public sources searched. The strongest ship-specific documentation is operational and personnel (three war diaries read in full; digitized muster rolls spanning the entire commissioned period) plus a photo-documented Mare Island Naval Shipyard repair availability (24 August - 8 September 1945) - a relevant yard event - but no primary source read names asbestos aboard 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 - construction at a wartime inland yard and a documented naval-yard availability sit squarely inside the Navy's asbestos-use era. Does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-130-lst130-11
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[13]NARA catalog, "LST-130" - 332 fuzzy-ranked file units; ship-titled digitized units: war diaries NAIDs 78465994 (Nov 1943), 78544385 (Jun 1944), 78626198 (Jul 1944) and muster rolls NAID 126465105 (full period); parent-unit COM LST GR 39 monthly war diaries digitized (Nov 1944 - Jul 1945 run); COMTASKUNIT 52.5.2 Saipan report NAID 78623593 [other_primary]
- Locator
- catalog.archives.gov "LST-130", "USS LST-130", "LST-130" 1945, "LST-130" "deck log", "LST GR 39" result sets
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Primary archive coverage for this hull is digitized but incomplete: ship-titled war-diary file units surfaced cover only November 1943, June 1944, and 24-25 July 1944 - the months covering the Okinawa assault (Mar-Apr 1945), the Mare Island availability (Aug-Sep 1945), and the occupation/SCAJAP period were not surfaced as ship-titled units. The muster-roll run is complete (26 Oct 1943 - 10 Mar 1946). Unit-level bridges exist: COM LST GR 39 monthly diaries are digitized through at least July 1945, and COMTASKUNIT 52.5.2's Saipan operation report (NAID 78623593) covers the flagship group this ship sailed in.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-02
- Study period
- 1943-1946
- Population
- Ship's company (1943-46); researchers
- Limitations
- Archival-lead row: months not surfaced may exist at College Park unindexed under variant titles; WWII deck logs proper for this hull are not in the digitized deck-log program checked; RG 181 Mare Island yard work-package records for the Aug-Sep 1945 availability are an open archival lead; no BuPers casualty report file unit surfaced for this hull.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-130-lst130-12