Evidence
11 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-11).
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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-134-lst134-pkt-639-packet-md
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[2]DANFS, LST-134 - construction, sponsor, commissioning, WWII campaigns, occupation duty, disposal, battle stars (live NHHC page) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS entry body, 'LST-134', published 2015-07-30
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Documented for this hull: 'LST-134 was laid down on 14 June 1943 at Seneca, III., by the Chicago Bridge & Iron Co.; launched on 9 November 1943; sponsored by Miss Marguerite Markland; and commissioned on 7 December 1943.' Initially assigned to the European theater; participated in the Normandy invasion 6-25 June 1944 and the invasion of southern France in August and September 1944; later transferred to the Asiatic-Pacific theater for the Okinawa assault in May and June 1945; performed occupation duty in the Far East until early February 1946. 'Upon her return to the United States, the ship was decommissioned on 17 February 1946 and struck from the Navy list on 31 October 1947. On 20 April 1948, she was sold to the Bethlehem Steel Co., of Seattle, Wash., and subsequently scrapped.' Three battle stars for WWII service.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-02
- Study period
- 1943-1948
- Population
- CB&I Seneca construction trades (1943); crew (1943-46); embarked troops and casualties handled (1944-45)
- Limitations
- Ship-specific history only; no asbestos or material content. DANFS's 'upon her return to the United States' framing conflicts in sequence/location with NavSource's same-day SCAJAP (Q064) transfer - both carried, tension flagged in gaps. Live page verified via Firecrawl render 2026-10-02; direct non-browser fetch returns 404 (NHHC bot management - the standing NHHC defect from BATCH-01); Wayback capture exists (2025-12-09).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-134-lst134-01
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[3]NavSource Online: Amphibious Photo Archive, USS LST-134 - timeline, commanding officers, flotilla organization, campaign/occupation windows, specifications, disposal (live, HTTP 200) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource 10/16/160134.htm header block, campaign table, commanding-officer list, specifications block, photo captions
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NavSource timeline for this hull: laid down 14 June 1943 at Chicago Bridge and Iron Co., Seneca, IL; launched 9 November 1943; commissioned 7 December 1943, Lt. Edgar G. Curtin USNR in command (relieved by Lt. William J. Shrewsbury USNR, 1945 - 17 Feb 1946). WWII service in both theaters: Invasion of Normandy 6-25 June 1944; Invasion of southern France 15 August-25 September 1944; Okinawa Gunto operation 24 May-30 June 1945, under LST Flotilla Thirty-Nine (CAPT D. H. Johnston), LST Group One Hundred-Five (CDR E. P. Wilson), LST Division Two Hundred-Nine. Occupation service in the Far East: 21 Sep-2 Oct 1945; 19 Oct-20 Dec 1945; 5 Jan-17 Feb 1946. 'Decommissioned, 17 February 1946 and transferred to Commander Naval Forces Fare East (COMNAVFE), Naval Shipping Control Agency for Japan (SCAJAP), redesignated Q064. Struck from the Naval Register, 31 October 1947 ... sold for scrapping, 20 April 1948, to Bethlehem Steel Co., Seattle, WA.' Spec block: displacement 1,625 t light / 4,080 t full / 2,366 t beaching; 328 ft o.a.; beam 50 ft; 11.6 kt trial; complement 13 officers + 104 enlisted, troop accommodations 16 officers + 147 enlisted; 6 LCVP; two GM 12-567A 900-hp diesels, single Falk main reduction gear, three diesel-drive 100 kW 230 V D.C. generators, two propellers 1,700 shp, twin rudders. NARA-credited photos: 80-G-252777, -252778, -252785, -252786, -252798 (Normandy, 12 June 1944, casualty evacuation to Britain); underway for Wakayama c.1945; at anchor off Oran, Algeria.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-02
- Study period
- 1943-1948
- Population
- CB&I Seneca trades (1943); crew (1943-46); embarked troops (1944-45); SCAJAP Japanese-crewed period (1946+); Bethlehem Steel Seattle breakers (1948)
- Limitations
- NavSource is a volunteer secondary compilation, not a primary registry - its milestone dates track DANFS here but it is not itself official. Contains no asbestos content. The '15 August to 25 September 1944' southern-France window is a campaign period, not the ship's precise participation dates. Spec-block figures are class-standard values for the LST-1 type.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-134-lst134-02
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[4]NHHC, 'United States Pacific Fleet Organization, 1 May 1945' (online reading room) - amphibious-force LST roster [other_primary]
- Locator
- NHHC Pacific Fleet organization page, 'LST GROUP 105 / LST DIVISION 209' section
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- The official 1 May 1945 Pacific Fleet organization list places LST-134 in LST DIVISION 209 under LST GROUP 105, alongside LSTs 51, 286, 492, 501, and 502 - independently corroborating NavSource's Flotilla 39 / Group 105 / Division 209 assignment for this hull during the Okinawa operation window.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-02
- Study period
- 1945-05-01
- Population
- Crew (May 1945)
- Limitations
- An organizational snapshot, not an exposure or material record: establishes the hull's command chain on 1 May 1945, nothing about conditions aboard. No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-134-lst134-03
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[5]shipbuildinghistory.com (Colton), Chicago Bridge & Iron, Seneca IL yard page - WWII LST build table with this hull's dates [other_primary]
- Locator
- shipbuildinghistory.com CB&I Seneca yard table, LST 133-136 rows and yard header paragraph
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Colton's yard table corroborates this hull at the builder: LST 134 at Chicago Bridge & Iron, Seneca IL - laid down 6/14/43, launched 11/9/43, commissioned 12/7/43 (all matching DANFS/NavSource); 148 days on ways. Yard context documented: 'The Navy requisitioned the Chicago Bridge facility in Seneca IL in 1942 and invested $6mm in its improvement. Known as the Prairie Shipyard, it was located on a 200-acre site on the east side of the town.' The same table lists sister LST 133's disposition as 'Sunk as target 1948' - the probable source of uboat.net's erroneous 'sunk as target' entry for LST-134 (see ev-10). Colton carries 'Scrapped 1947' for LST-134 - consistent with the Oct 1947 strike and Apr 1948 sale.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-02
- Study period
- 1942-1948
- Population
- CB&I Seneca construction trades (1943)
- Limitations
- Standard secondary shipbuilding reference (Tim Colton's compilation), not a primary registry - used for builder corroboration and yard context only. 'Scrapped 1947' is approximate against the documented 1948 sale. No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-134-lst134-04
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[6]NARA holdings surfaced via NavSource captions: US Navy photos 80-G-252777, -252778, -252785, -252786, -252798 (LST-134 beached at Normandy, 12 June 1944, from the collections of the US National Archives); RG 24 deck logs lead [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource 10/16/160134.htm photo captions (80-G-252777/778/785/786/798); NARA deck-log research portal (archives.gov/research/military/logbooks)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- NARA-held photographs (80-G series, US Navy) document this hull on the Normandy beachhead 12 June 1944 - beached at low tide unloading, embarking casualties for return to Britain, operating alongside LST-325. These are physical-presence records establishing the hull's documented wartime employment; NARA RG 24 deck logs for 1943-1946 are the open archival lead for daily activity (post-1940 deck logs are held at NARA College Park; WWII-era volumes are substantially digitized in the National Archives Catalog, but a direct per-hull hit for LST-134 was not verified this session - the catalog is JS-rendered and unfetchable via automated fetch).
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-02
- Study period
- 1943-1946 (service window); 1944-06-12 (photos)
- Population
- Crew and embarked casualties (June 1944)
- Limitations
- Archival lead only: photographs establish presence on the Normandy beachhead, not materials aboard or work performed. The 80-G numbers are transcribed from NavSource captions crediting 'the collections of the US National Archives' - not independently re-verified in the NARA catalog this session. No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-134-lst134-05
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[7]Bureau of Ships, Ships' Data, U.S. Naval Vessels, Vol. 2 (January 1945) - LST design-group characteristics table and vessel roster (shipscribe.com scan) [other_primary]
- Locator
- SDB1945v2 LST design table (characteristics + machinery columns) and 'LIST OF NAVAL VESSELS - LST' roster block
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- The official BuShips design table places this hull in the LST1-490 group: 328 ft o.a. / 316 ft p.p., 50 ft beam, 2,366 t (beaching) / 3,960-4,080 t trial, 11.6 kt, machinery 2 x G.M. Diesel 12-567A at 1,700 shp, accommodations 13 officers / 106 enlisted. The accompanying roster lists 'LST 133-134' among built vessels with no loss/transfer annotation as of January 1945. Diesel plant - no boiler row is populated for the LST1-490 group.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-10-02
- Study period
- 1945-01 (publication state)
- Population
- n/a (design-group data)
- Limitations
- Class-design documentation, not a hull record - the table defines the design group this hull number falls inside; it does not describe this specific ship's as-built or as-maintained material condition. PDF text layer is staggered-column OCR; figures cross-checked against the class profile's parse and NavSource's spec block (104 vs 106 enlisted variant flagged in gaps). URL moved since the class profile's citation (old /styles/usnaux/sdb/ path 404s; current /pubs/ path verified live 2026-10-02).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-134-lst134-06
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[8]Era inference built on: NavSource spec block and BuShips SDB-1945 v2 machinery table (diesel plant, no boilers, for this hull's LST1-490 design group); lst-1-class profile framing of era-standard applications for diesel LSTs; GAO HRD-80-2 program documentation (ev-08) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource specifications block; SDB1945v2 LST1-490 machinery row; class-file framing (lst-1-class.class.json ev-lst-1-class-03)
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- A diesel-powered tank landing ship built 1943 at a wartime inland yard sits inside the Navy's documented asbestos-use era. For a vessel of this type and period the era-standard asbestos-relevant applications were diesel-exhaust and machinery-space lagging, gaskets and valve packing, deck coverings and tile, bulkhead and accommodation insulation, and winch/crane brake linings. As a diesel vessel she carried no boilers or steam propulsion - the boiler/turbine lagging pathway of steamships does not apply; engine-room, exhaust-train, and accommodation-area materials are the relevant exposure pathways for crew and for shipbreakers at disposal.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-10-02
- Study period
- 1943-1948
- Population
- CB&I Seneca construction trades (1943); crew (1943-46); SCAJAP operators (1946+); Bethlehem Steel Seattle shipbreakers (1948)
- Limitations
- Class/era inference only - no hull-specific insulation survey, material schedule, or work package located for LST-134. Names era-standard applications, not confirmed installed materials. No quantity, no manufacturer attribution for this hull.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-134-lst134-07
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[9]GAO, Navy Efforts To Protect Workers From Asbestos Exposure, HRD-80-2 (Oct 18, 1979; publicly released Oct 22, 1979) [gao]
- Locator
- GAO product page HRD-80-2, Highlights section (full report PDF blocked to direct fetch)
- Finding type
- gov_survey
- Finding
- GAO reviewed the Navy's efforts to protect workers from asbestos exposure: the Navy used asbestos insulation extensively aboard ships; the 1975 policy was to remove/replace with nonasbestos materials only insulation that was damaged or had to be removed for repairs, modified in 1979 to selectively replace asbestos insulation in high-maintenance areas. This spans this hull's entire existence (1943-1948), confirming her construction and service occurred wholly inside the Navy's asbestos-use era.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-10-02
- Study period
- 1979 (report); Navy-use era reviewed
- Population
- Navy shipyard workers; asbestos program review
- Limitations
- Program-level documentation; supports era context only, not any fact specific to this hull - GAO fieldwork yards were Long Beach and Norfolk Naval Shipyards, not Chicago Bridge & Iron. Full PDF not retrieved (gao.gov returns HTTP 403 to direct automated fetch; product page rendered via Firecrawl).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-134-lst134-08
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[10]Batch-6704 search ledger (this record): DANFS live page; NavSource 10/16/160134; NHHC Pacific Fleet organization 1 May 1945; shipbuildinghistory CB&I Seneca; BuShips SDB-1945 v2; NARA leads; GAO product page; CourtListener API v4 (4 queries, all indexes); secondary web litigation sweep [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-lst-134-lst134-01 through -14
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, or litigation naming USS LST-134 was found in the public sources searched. CourtListener API v4 was fully queried this session (not blocked): "LST-134" opinions 0, "LST-134" dockets 0, "LST 134" opinions 0, "LST 134" dockets 0 - a genuine negative result across both indexes and both name forms. Secondary web sweeps surfaced only generic law-firm listicle coverage of LSTs as a class (excluded by source policy) and a 1947 All Hands reunion notice (not an exposure record). A NY workers' comp opinion naming the builder (Matter of Wilson v Chicago Bridge & Iron, 2 A.D.3d 1004, 2003) concerns 1967-1989 construction-site exposure - a corporate name collision, excluded.
- 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. RG 24 deck logs, CB&I Seneca work packages, SCAJAP custody records, and the 1948 Bethlehem Steel purchase/breaking records are undigitized leads. Does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-134-lst134-09
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[11]uboat.net Allied Warships, USS LST 134 (LST 134) entry - secondary compilation carrying a conflicting disposition [other_primary]
- Locator
- uboat.net ship/11262 History line; DANFS disposal paragraph; NavSource disposal line; shipbuildinghistory CB&I table LST 133 row
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- CORRECTION: uboat.net lists this hull 'Sunk as target on 20 April 1948.' Both primary-tier sources - DANFS ('On 20 April 1948, she was sold to the Bethlehem Steel Co., of Seattle, Wash., and subsequently scrapped') and NavSource ('sold for scrapping, 20 April 1948, to Bethlehem Steel Co., Seattle, WA') - document a sale for scrapping on that date, not a target sinking. The error appears to be a conflation with sister LST-133, which Colton's yard table lists as 'Sunk as target 1948.' The documented disposition - struck 31 October 1947, sold 20 April 1948, scrapped - is carried in this record.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- correction
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-02
- Study period
- 1948 (disposition event)
- Limitations
- Corrects a circulating disposition error on a secondary warship compilation; uboat.net is cited only as the source of the variant, not as authority for the disposition. Colton's LST-133 'sunk as target 1948' datum is itself secondary - the conflation mechanism is a reasonable inference, flagged as partial. No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-134-lst134-10