Evidence
10 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-10).
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[1]research packet 663-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-336-lst336-pkt-663-packet-md
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[2]DANFS, LST-336 (live NHHC page verified 2026-10-02; verbatim transcription corroborated at ibiblio.org/hyperwar/USN/ships/dafs/LST/lst336.html) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS LST-336 entry (single paragraph + operations list)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Documented for this hull: laid down 17 July 1942 at the Norfolk Navy Yard; launched 15 October 1942, sponsored by Mrs. Thomas B. Richey; commissioned 11 December 1942. Assigned to the European theater; participated in the Sicilian occupation (July 1943), Salerno landings (September 1943), and Invasion of Normandy (June 1944). Decommissioned and transferred to the United Kingdom 27 November 1944; returned to United States Navy custody 7 March 1946; struck from the Navy list 5 June 1946; sold 22 October 1947 to Luria Bros. & Co., Inc., of Philadelphia, Pa. Earned three battle stars for World War II service.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-02
- Study period
- 1942-1947
- Population
- Norfolk Navy Yard construction trades (1942); USN crew (1942-1944); embarked troops
- Limitations
- Ship-specific history only; no asbestos or material content. DANFS gives operations by month only - the campaign-day ranges come from NavSource (ev-02). Live NHHC page returns HTTP 404 to a default curl user-agent but 200 to a browser user-agent and rendered fully via firecrawl on 2026-10-02 - the page is live; the site UA-blocks automated default agents.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-336-01
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[3]NavSource Online: Amphibious Photo Archive, USS LST-336 - convoy, campaign-date ranges, Royal Navy service detail, commanding officers, specifications, scrapping buyer (navsource.net verified live 2026-10-02; navsource.org is the dead legacy domain) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource 10/16/160336.htm header block, Royal Navy history block, commanding officers table, specifications block
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NavSource timeline for this hull: sailed for Europe in convoy SC 125 in company with HM LST-319 and HM LST-406 from Halifax, Nova Scotia, 31 March 1943, arriving Liverpool 14 April 1943. Campaign-date ranges: Sicilian occupation 9-16 July 1943; Salerno landings 9-21 September 1943; Invasion of Normandy 6-25 June 1944. Royal Navy section: commissioned HM LST-336 29 November 1944 at Rosneath, Scotland; sailed for the invasion of Malaya but broke down en route; at Port Said for repairs 5 June - 27 September 1945; returned to Rosneath circa November 1945; paid off and returned to US Navy custody at Norfolk, VA, 7 March 1946. Commanding officers: LT. Francis Crane Bidwell, USNR (11 Dec 1942 - Aug 1943); LT. David I. Biberman, USNR (Aug 1943 - 27 Nov 1944). Specifications: 2 General Motors 12-567A 900hp diesels, single Falk main reduction gear, 2 propellers, 1,700 shp; complement 13 officers / 104 enlisted; troop accommodations 16 officers / 147 enlisted; 2 LCVP; 328' oa x 50' beam.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-02
- Study period
- 1942-1947
- Population
- Norfolk Navy Yard construction trades (1942); USN crew (1942-1944); embarked troops; Royal Navy crew (1944-1946); Luria Bros. shipbreakers (1947-1948)
- Limitations
- NavSource is a volunteer secondary compilation - milestone dates track DANFS/BuShips (which verify the same dates) but the campaign-day ranges, convoy details, Royal Navy service narrative, and CO list rest on NavSource alone among sources retrieved. Contains no asbestos content. A contributor photo caption on the page ('Italian prisoners of war ... at Gila, Sicily in March 1943') carries an impossible date for this hull - flagged as a correction in ev-08.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-336-02
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[4]Bureau of Ships, Ships' Data, U.S. Naval Vessels, Vol. II (NAVSHIPS 250-011, 15 April 1945) - lend-lease transfer roster + LST design-group machinery table (shipscribe.com scan, full text extracted via pdftotext) [other_primary]
- Locator
- SDB1945v2.pdf - LST design characteristics table (LST1-490 row, machinery block) + lend-lease 'TRANSFERRED TO UNITED KINGDOM' roster (LST336 row)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Contemporaneous BuShips registry corroboration: the lend-lease table 'Vessels transferred to foreign governments under lend lease - TRANSFERRED TO UNITED KINGDOM' lists 'LST336' with name-after-transfer 'LST336' and date transferred '27 Nov 1944' - matching DANFS to the day and confirming the Royal Navy retained the hull-number name. The same volume's design table places this hull in the LST1-490 group: 328'0" oa, 50'0" beam, 11.6 knots, 2 x G.M. Diesel 12-567A, 1,700 shp.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-02
- Study period
- 1942-1945 (publication window)
- Population
- Registry record
- Limitations
- Primary government registry scan; the LST-336 transfer row is ship-specific, while the design-table data describes the LST1-490 group, not this hull individually. Contains no asbestos content. Scan's staggered OCR text layer required table reconstruction; row content verified in context (sister entries LST331 20 Nov 1944, LST337 2 Dec 1944 match their own DANFS transfer dates).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-336-03
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[5]NARA, NAID 205579084 / local ID 26-G-4385, 'Coast Guard-Manned LST Heads Into French Coast,' RG 26 (Records of the U.S. Coast Guard), file unit 'Europe - Normandy Invasion, Salerno' (catalog verified live 2026-10-02; hull attribution per NavSource caption) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NARA catalog item 205579084 (RG 26, 26-G-4385); NavSource photo grid item 1016033506
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- NARA-held U.S. Coast Guard photograph documenting an LST beached at a Normandy-area French rail spur in June 1944 - the floating-link railway landing operation LSTs performed on the invasion coast. NavSource's caption attributes the image to this hull ('USS LST-336 beached on the French coast in June 1944 while unloading. Far right is a rail head where LSTs carrying railroad engines and cars unloaded directly into the French rail system'). The NARA original caption describes 'a Coast Guard-manned LST' and does not name the hull number.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-02
- Study period
- 1944-06
- Population
- Crew and embarked troops during Normandy operations (June 1944)
- Limitations
- Archival lead only: the NARA record does not identify the vessel - the LST-336 attribution rests on NavSource contributor captioning, and the NARA caption's 'Coast Guard-manned' description has not been reconciled with NavSource's USNR-officer crew list for this hull. Physical-presence documentation, not a work or materials record. No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-336-04
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[6]Era/design inference built on: BuShips Ships' Data 1945 v2 LST1-490 machinery row (2 x GM 12-567A diesels, 1,700 shp - verified in this record's ev-03); NavSource propulsion block (diesel plant, no boilers); shipyard-exposure-map documented asbestos product list for norfolk-naval-shipyard (Thermobestos, Marinite, Kaylo, Unibestos, pipe insulation/lagging, boiler and turbine insulation, gaskets, packing, deck coverings, bulkhead fire barriers, electrical cable insulation) [other_primary]
- Locator
- SDB1945v2 LST1-490 machinery row; shipyards.json norfolk-naval-shipyard asbestos_products_documented
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- A diesel-powered LST-1-class ship built at the Norfolk Navy Yard in 1942 sits inside both the Navy's documented asbestos-use era (GAO HRD-80-2: Navy used asbestos insulation extensively aboard ships and did not begin substituting alternative materials until the early 1970s) and her builder yard's documented asbestos-product list. Era-standard applications aboard a diesel amphibious ship of this type: machinery and diesel-exhaust lagging, gaskets, valve packing, deck coverings, bulkhead and accommodation insulation, and electrical insulation. As a diesel ship she carried no boilers - the boiler/turbine steam-lagging pathway of steam vessels does not apply.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-10-02
- Study period
- 1942-1948
- Population
- Norfolk Navy Yard construction trades (1942); USN crew (1942-1944); embarked troops; Royal Navy crew (1944-1946); Port Said repair trades (1945); Luria Bros. shipbreakers (1947-1948)
- Limitations
- Class/era inference only - no hull-specific insulation survey, material schedule, work package, or crew account located for LST-336. Names era-standard applications, not confirmed installed materials. No quantity. Product names are normalized era terms drawn from the builder yard's documented list; no manufacturer attribution for this hull.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-336-05
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[7]NAVFAC Norfolk Naval Shipyard environmental-restoration site descriptions + EPA Superfund site VA1170024813 (asbestos named among disposed materials; Paradise Creek Landfill ACM disposal 1945-1983; 1979 inspection finding asbestos dust in Shop 56) + OSHA chemical-exposure sampling (two 1987 bulk samples at the yard) [marad_nrc]
- Locator
- shipyards.json norfolk-naval-shipyard evidence rows ev-01 through ev-06 (EPA VA1170024813; NAVFAC site descriptions; OSHA inspection 101704716)
- Finding type
- environmental_record
- Finding
- Government documentation of asbestos at this hull's builder: the Norfolk Naval Shipyard (Portsmouth, VA) is EPA Superfund site VA1170024813; NAVFAC site descriptions report wastes disposed at yard sites 'reportedly included ... asbestos,' with asbestos-containing material disposal documented at the Paradise Creek Landfill (1945-1983) and the 1927 Landfill (1927-1941). A 1979 government inspection found Shop 56's floors 'appeared as if they hadn't been cleaned in 20 years' and laden with asbestos dust; OSHA sampling returned two 1987 bulk results at the yard (40 percent and 0.001 percent). The yard's documented product list includes Thermobestos, Marinite, Kaylo, Unibestos, pipe insulation and lagging, gaskets, packing, deck coverings, bulkhead fire barriers, and electrical cable insulation.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-10-02
- Study period
- 1927-1999 (documented contamination/construction window); hull construction 1942
- Population
- Norfolk Navy Yard construction and maintenance trades (era of record 1927-1987)
- Limitations
- Yard-level environmental documentation, not a hull record: establishes asbestos use and contamination at the shipyard that built LST-336, but every dated item (1979 inspection, 1987 OSHA samples, 1945-1983 Paradise Creek disposal) postdates this hull's 1942 construction; the 1927 Landfill period (1927-1941) ends just before her keel. Does not establish materials aboard this hull, individual exposure, or quantity. NAVFAC page verified 403-blocked to curl on 2026-10-02 - content via the yard dataset's verified extraction (shipyards.json norfolk-naval-shipyard); EPA Superfund listing itself is undisputed public record.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-336-06
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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, 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 (1942) and service era (1942-1947).
- 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, confirmed 2026-10-02) - content via product-page description.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-336-07
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[9]NavSource 160336 photo grid item 10160333607, caption credited to Naval History Magazine, August 2021, p. 34; cross-checked against NavSource campaign table (Sicilian occupation 9-16 July 1943) and DANFS/NavSource passage dates (Liverpool arrival 14 April 1943) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource 160336 photo grid item 10160333607 (Naval History Magazine, Aug 2021, p. 34)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- CORRECTION: NavSource's photo grid reproduces a Naval History Magazine (August 2021, p. 34) caption reading 'While Italian prisoners of war are marched along the beach at Gila, Sicily in March 1943 trucks are moving along a pontoon causeway from USS LST-336 to the shore.' The caption's date is impossible for this hull - LST-336 did not reach the Mediterranean until after her April 1943 Liverpool arrival, and the Sicily landings opened 9 July 1943 (NavSource's own campaign table dates her Sicilian occupation service 9-16 July 1943). The image exists but its caption date is defective; 'Gila' also appears to be a misprint for Gela, Sicily.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- correction
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-02
- Study period
- 1943
- Limitations
- Corrects a captioned date defect in a secondary compilation, not a material claim. The correct date is almost certainly July 1943 but is not independently confirmed - the image is carried only for existence, not its caption date.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-336-08
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[10]Batch-6874 search ledger (this record): DANFS live page + HyperWar transcription; NavSource 160336; BuShips SDB 1945 v2 (shipscribe.com); NARA NAID 205579084; NVR (no entry - pre-1987 disposal); Norfolk Naval Shipyard yard dataset; GAO product page; CourtListener (opinion sweep run; quoted/docket blocked); secondary web litigation sweep [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-lst-336-01 through -11
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, or verified litigation naming USS LST-336 was found in the public sources searched (see search_ledger). CourtListener free-text opinion search for 'LST-336' ran and returned 144 hits that are name collisions on the token (e.g., 'lst Special Forces Command,' '1st' abbreviations) - no asbestos case naming this hull in the returned result set. CAVEAT: quoted-phrase and docket-type CourtListener sweeps could not be completed - the fleet pacing budget was spent at each of five attempts across the session (helper exit 2); logged as blocked in search_ledger, not as a negative result. Secondary web sweeps surfaced no qualifying case.
- 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 predates modern hazmat recordkeeping and was scrapped in 1947-48 before ACM-handling regulation. RG 24 deck logs, BuShips 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-336-09