Evidence
11 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-11).
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[1]research packet 658-packet.md (1 sources cited) [other_primary]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERIFIED — real identity: USS LST-3 (never named; "properly referred to by her hull designation")
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-lst-3-lst3-pkt-658-packet-md
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[2]NHHC DANFS, 'LST-3' ship entry [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS LST-3 entry, full text
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS ship entry (live, verified 2026-10-02): LST-3 laid down 29 June 1942 at Pittsburgh, Pa., by the Dravo Corp.; launched 19 September 1942, sponsored by Mrs. A. C. Harlow; commissioned 8 February 1943. Assigned to the European theater; participated in the Sicilian occupation (July-August 1943) and the invasion of southern France (August-September 1944). Struck from the Navy list 19 June 1946; sold 10 September 1947 to Boston Metals Co., Baltimore, Md., for scrapping. Earned two battle stars for World War II service.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-02
- Study period
- 1942-1947
- Limitations
- Summary-level official entry: gives no decommissioning date ('sometime after World War II ended' - contradicted by NavSource/uboat.net's documented 1944-12-23 Bizerte decommissioning; see correction row) and omits the Royal Navy transfer entirely. Names no commanding officer. Contains no asbestos, materials, or exposure information; supports no asbestos claim.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-3-lst3-01
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[3]NavSource Online: Amphibious Photo Archive, HM LST-3 ex USS LST-3 page [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource LST-3 page: timeline, campaign table, Royal Navy history block, commanding-officer table, contributed photos (incl. beached in southern France, September 1944)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NavSource per-hull timeline (live at navsource.net, verified 2026-10-02): laid down 29 June 1942 at Dravo Corp., Neville Island, PA; launched 19 September 1942; commissioned USS LST-3 8 February 1943, LT. Roy E. Butler, USN, in command; Europe-Africa-Middle East theater with campaigns Sicilian occupation (9-15 July and 28 July-17 August 1943) and invasion of southern France (15 August-25 September 1944); decommissioned 23 December 1944 at Bizerte, Tunisia; commissioned into the Royal Navy 24 December 1944 at Bizerte as HM LST-3 (Mediterranean service - Messina, Taranto, Brindisi, Bari, Venice, Trieste, Naples, Piraeus, Malta, Gibraltar; at Taranto from 28 September 1945 for repairs); sailed back to the U.S. by RN crew April 1946; returned to U.S. naval custody 12 May 1946; struck from Naval Register 19 June 1946; sold for scrapping 10 September 1947 to Boston Metals Co., Baltimore, MD. Two battle stars. CO listing: LT Roy Everett Butler USN (Feb 1943-1944), LT William Rankin Bruce USNR (1944-23 Dec 1944). Call sign NDVG.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-02
- Study period
- 1942-1947
- Limitations
- NavSource is a volunteer-maintained archive reproducing official data plus contributed material; the Royal Navy service narrative is compiled detail, not a cited primary record, though it is independently corroborated by uboat.net's ship and commander entries (see ev-08). Specifications block (9 officers/120 enlisted) conflicts with the BuShips design table (13/106) - see gaps. No asbestos information; supports no asbestos claim.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-3-lst3-02
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[4]U.S. Maritime Administration, ShipHistory database - LST-3, Detail 9329, vessel status card 42Y_01 [marad_nrc]
- Locator
- ShipHistory Detail 9329, Status Cards section, card 42Y_01.png (handwritten entry)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- MARAD vessel status card for LST-3 (ShipHistory Detail 9329, card image 42Y_01): records the hull as 'Surplus of Department of Navy' on a basis-to-U.S.M.C. card; allocation line reads 'SP Oct 1946' (surplus-property allocation, October 1946); operator 'Boston Metals Co.'; form of agreement 'Pur.' (purchase); delivered 9/10/47. Independently corroborates the DANFS/NavSource-documented 10 September 1947 sale for scrapping and fixes the disposal chain: Navy surplus (Oct 1946) -> U.S. Maritime Commission custody -> sale/delivery to Boston Metals Co. (9/10/47).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-02
- Study period
- 1946-1947
- Limitations
- Custody/disposal record only - no materials, condition-survey, or asbestos information. Handwritten card: 'SP Oct 1946' read as surplus-property allocation October 1946; MARAD's database fields for this record are largely placeholder nulls (Year Built '9999', fate 'Sold - No Further Info'). Supports no asbestos claim.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-3-lst3-03
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[5]National Archives Catalog - USS LST-3 war diary file units, RG 38 [other_primary]
- Locator
- catalog.archives.gov search 'LST-3 War Diary'; NAIDs 78340476, 134277642, 135911470, 134346039, 136025482, 78290098, 78357471
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- NARA holds digitized war diaries for this hull in Record Group 38 (Records of the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations), series 'World War II War Diaries, Other Operational Records and Histories' - seven file segments covering February 1943 through March 1944: NAID 78340476 (2/1/43-3/11/44, Roll A866), NAID 134277642 (4/28-6/2/43, Roll A429), NAID 135911470 (6/3-7/31/43, Roll A485), NAID 134346039 (8/1-31/43 incl. action report 8/6/43, Roll A674), NAID 136025482 (9/1-11/30/43, Roll A718, 102 images), NAID 78290098 (1/1-31/44, Roll A809), NAID 78357471 (3/12-31/44, Roll A886). All available online via the National Archives Catalog.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-02
- Study period
- 1943-1944 (records); retrieved 2026-10-02
- Population
- Ship's company and embarked troops, Feb 1943-Mar 1944 coverage
- Limitations
- Digitized coverage ends March 1944 - the southern France campaign (Aug-Sep 1944) and the December 1944 Bizerte decommissioning/RN transfer are NOT covered by located segments; later-period diaries may exist undigitized or under different filing. War diaries document operations; any material-condition or insulation references would require page-level review not performed. Deck logs (RG 24) for USS LST-3 are listed in a commercial NARA deck-log index but not individually confirmed at box/NAID level. This row is a lead, not an asbestos finding.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-3-lst3-04
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[6]Bureau of Ships, Ships' Data, U.S. Naval Vessels, Vol. II (NAVSHIPS 250-011, April 15, 1945), LST design table + machinery table, LST1-490 group rows (shipscribe.com scan) + consolidated era inference [other_primary]
- Locator
- SDB 1945 v2, Landing Ship-Tank (LST) design table and machinery table, LST1-490 group; accommodations footnote 1
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Era/design inference for this diesel-powered amphibious hull: the Bureau of Ships Ships' Data 1945 Vol. II machinery table lists the LST1-490 design group (which includes LST-3) with 2 x G.M. Diesel 12-567A engines, 1,700 shp, and no boiler entries - a diesel plant with no steam-lagging pathway. Era-standard asbestos-relevant applications aboard a 1942 amphibious hull of this type would have been diesel exhaust lagging and gaskets, engine-room thermal/acoustic insulation, deck coverings, bulkhead and accommodation insulation, valve packing, and winch/crane brake linings.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-10-02
- Study period
- 1942-1948
- Population
- Dravo Neville Island construction trades (1942); ship's company (1943-44 USN; 1944-46 RN); Boston Metals shipbreakers (1947-48)
- Limitations
- Class/design-group documentation plus era inference - the BuShips table names the LST1-490 group, not this vessel, and states no 'asbestos' content; the application list is inference from era naval-shipbuilding practice for diesel amphibious hulls, not ship-proven materials. No quantity. Hull scrapped 1947-48 - no present-day presence possible.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-3-lst3-05
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[7]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
- 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 mass-production program under which this LST-1-class hull was built at Dravo's Neville Island yard - and that wartime demand drove unprecedented asbestos utilization in naval and merchant construction.
- 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 the LST class and does not establish that asbestos was aboard this hull, nor quantity, location, condition, exposure, or causation.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-3-lst3-06
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[8]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, confirmed 2026-10-02) - content via product-page description
- 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 (1942) and service era (1943-1946).
- 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 blocks automated fetch, HTTP 403).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-3-lst3-07
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[9]NavSource LST-3 page (Royal Navy history block); uboat.net Allied Warships USS LST 3 (ship/11166) and HMS LST 3 (ship/12246) + commander entries; MARAD status card 42Y_01 - vs. NHHC DANFS LST-3 entry [other_primary]
- Locator
- uboat.net HMS LST 3 page + commander table; NavSource RN block; MARAD card; DANFS sentence quoted
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- CORRECTION / source discrepancy: DANFS states LST-3 'was decommissioned sometime after World War II ended.' NavSource and uboat.net independently document decommissioning 23 December 1944 at Bizerte, Tunisia, with commissioning into the Royal Navy 24 December 1944 as HM LST-3 - i.e., eight months before the war's end. The Bizerte transfer is corroborated by uboat.net's Royal Navy commanding-officer listing (T/A/Lt.Cdr. Thomas Douglas Laverick Platt, DSO, RNVR, followed by T/A/Lt.Cdr. Ronald Petersen, RNR) and by the MARAD card's disposal sequence (surplus October 1946; delivered to Boston Metals 9/10/47). The 23-24 December 1944 dates are adopted in this record; DANFS's vaguer wording is logged as a discrepancy.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- correction
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-02
- Study period
- 1944-1946
- Limitations
- Resolves an editorial-level discrepancy between the official summary and compiled timelines; the RN transfer itself is not disputed by any source - only the DANFS 'after World War II ended' framing. Residual minor inconsistency: uboat.net lists Platt's command of HMS LST-3 'from 21 Dec 1944,' three days before its own 24 Dec 1944 commissioning date - unresolved, immaterial. No asbestos content in any source here.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-3-lst3-08
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[10]Batch-6835 search ledger (this record): NHHC DANFS; NavSource; MARAD ShipHistory card; NARA catalog (RG 38 war diaries); uboat.net; CourtListener API v4 opinions search; NVR coverage policy; OSTI/NIOSH Dravo surveys; secondary web sweep [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-lst-3-lst3-01 through sl-uss-lst-3-lst3-13
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, or docketed asbestos case naming LST-3 was found in the public sources searched (see search_ledger). CourtListener opinion search 'USS LST-3' returned 15 hits - all name collisions (Texas criminal appellate cases with OCR noise, three U.S. Navy-Marine Corps Court of Military Review courts-martial, unrelated admiralty and contract matters); none involve this vessel or asbestos. The hull was scrapped at Baltimore in 1947-48, decades before asbestos documentation or litigation practice; no survey can be expected to exist. Law-firm listicle content asserting asbestos aboard LST-class ships without primary sourcing was 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 - a 1942 amphibious hull is era-consistent with asbestos-containing applications. The CourtListener RECAP docket-level search could not be completed this session (fleet pacing throttle persisted across retries; logged as blocked/pending, not a negative result) - docket-level litigation remains an open check. War diaries and deck logs unsearched at page level for material references. Does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-3-lst3-09
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[11]DANFS, 'Tank Landing Ships (LST)' class introduction (hazegray.org transcription mirror, retrieved via Wayback Machine capture 2020-08-19 - hazegray.org DNS is dead; the NHHC canonical page for the class introduction was not separately located) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- Wayback capture of hazegray.org/danfs/amphib/lst.htm - DANFS LST class introduction paragraphs
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- DANFS 'Tank Landing Ships' class overview (transcription): the LST design was sketched by John Niedermair of the Bureau of Ships in November 1941 after the Argentia Conference; Congress authorized construction in three 1942-43 acts; of 1,051 LSTs built during WWII, 670 were constructed by five major inland builders - new 'cornfield' shipyards on inland waterways, including converted heavy-industry plants like this hull's builder (Dravo Corp., Neville Island, Pittsburgh); completed inland hulls were moved to coastal ports by Navy 'Ferry Command' crews for fitting out; construction time fell from four months (1943) to two months (1945).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-10-02
- Study period
- 1941-1945 program; capture 2020-08-19
- Population
- Inland-yard construction workforce (program context)
- Limitations
- Archived mirror of an official DANFS class narrative - class/program-level context, not a hull record; the cornfield-yard and Ferry Command detail documents the program under which this hull's builder operated but says nothing about this hull specifically. No asbestos information. Wayback capture is the accessible copy; original domain is dead.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-3-lst3-10