Evidence
8 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-8).
-
[1]research packet 691-packet.md (1 sources cited) [other_primary]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERIFIED
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-lst-564-lst564-pkt-691-packet-md
-
[2]Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (DANFS), 'LST-564' - Naval History and Heritage Command, live page verified HTTP 200 on 2026-10-02 [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS 'LST-564' full entry, history.navy.mil danfs/l/lst-564.html
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Verbatim DANFS entry: 'LST-564 was laid down on 5 March 1944 at Evansville, Ind., by the Missouri Valley Bridge & Iron Co.; launched on 4 May 1944; sponsored by Mrs. Frances Cassady; and commissioned on 25 May 1944. During World War II, LST-564 was assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific theater and participated in the Leyte landings in October 1944 and the assault and occupation of Okinawa Gunto from April until June 1945. Following the war, LST-564 performed occupation duty in the Far East until early November 1945. Upon her return to the United States, she was decommissioned on 8 March 1946 and struck from the Navy list on 1 May that same year. On 31 December 1948, the ship was sold to Brown & Root, Inc., of Houston, Tex., for operation. LST-564 earned two battle stars for World War II service.'
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-02
- Study period
- 1944-1948
- Population
- Ship's company (13 officers/104 enlisted spec) plus embarked troops up to ~163
- Limitations
- Authoritative service history; contains no asbestos, insulation, or hazardous-material information. DANFS credits two battle stars and names only the Leyte and Okinawa operations - NavSource credits three battle stars and additionally lists the 9 January 1945 Lingayen Gulf landing (conflict carried in gaps). DANFS spells the sponsor 'Mrs. Frances Cassady' vs 'Cassaday' in NavSource-derived secondary references (spelling carried in gaps). 'For operation' indicates commercial sale, not scrapping. Live page returns 404 to default-curl user agents but served HTTP 200 to a browser user agent on 2026-10-02; URL verified live.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-564-lst564-01
-
[3]NavSource Online: Amphibious Photo Archive, USS LST-564 - class identification, specification block, campaign table, flotilla assignments, awards block, CO roster, and photo caption sourcing NARA film and LST Flotilla 16 war diary [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource page 10/16/160564, specifications block, campaign table, awards block, CO roster, photo caption 1016056401
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identifies the hull as an LST-542 Class Tank Landing Ship. Specification block: two General Motors 12-567A diesels (900 hp each), single Falk main reduction gears, three diesel-drive 100 kW 230V D.C. ship's service generators, two propellers 1,700 shp, twin rudders, 11.6 knots trial - a diesel plant with no boilers. Complement 13 officers / 104 enlisted; troop accommodations 16 officers / 147 enlisted; armament 2 twin 40mm w/Mk.51 directors, 4 single 40mm, 12 single 20mm; 2 LCVP. Radio call sign NEVI. Commissioned 25 May 1944, LT. Richard E. Sankey, USNR, in command. Assigned Asiatic-Pacific Theater: LST Flotilla Sixteen for the Philippines campaigns; for the Okinawa Gunto operation, LST Flotilla Fourteen (CAPT. E. Seay USN), LST Group Forty-One (CDR. E. C. Parsons USNR), LST Division Eighty-Two. Campaign table: Leyte landings 20 October 1944; Lingayen Gulf landing 9 January 1945 (carrying a veteran's account: 'On the first day assault, landing under fire on the beach, we received two purple hearts for the wounded and approximately ten army personal were wounded' - Richard Thompson, USS LST-564); assault and occupation of Okinawa Gunto 1 April - 7 June 1945. Occupation service in the Far East 15 October - 5 November 1945. Decommissioned 8 March 1946; struck from the Naval Register 1 May 1946; sold 31 December 1948 to Brown and Root, Inc., Houston, TX - 'fate unknown.' Credits THREE battle stars. Awards block: American Campaign Medal; Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (3); World War II Victory Medal; Navy Occupation Medal (Asia clasp); Philippine Presidential Unit Citation; Philippine Liberation Medal (2); personnel awards two Purple Hearts (9 January 1945, Lingayen Gulf). CO roster: LT. Sankey (25 May 1944 - May 1945), LT. Baldwin (May - October 1945), LTjg. Imhof (October 1945 - February 1946), LTjg. Prendergast (February - 8 March 1946). Photo caption: 'LST-564 probably in convoy to Okinawa, July 1945,' sourced to the LST FLOT 16 War Diary at the National Archives and NARA film ID 79357 (Local ID 428-NPC-12553), 'Activities Aboard LST at Sea and on Beach.'
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-02
- Study period
- 1944-1948
- Population
- Ship's company ~117 per spec block; embarked troops up to ~163; two crew wounded at Lingayen per veteran account
- Limitations
- Volunteer-compiled archival page quoting Navy sources; consistent with DANFS where they overlap. Spec data are equipment descriptions only - no asbestos content stated or implied. Battle-star count (three) conflicts with DANFS (two); the Lingayen Gulf casualty quote is a veteran's recollection carried by NavSource, not an official record. 'Fate unknown' after the 1948 Brown & Root sale is the archive's characterization, not an affirmative disposition.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-564-lst564-02
-
[4]NOAA Office of National Marine Sanctuaries, Maritime Heritage Program, 'Maui's World War II Legacy - The Hazards of Training' - quoting the ship's history file for LST-564 obtained with the assistance of NHHC historian Bob Cressman [other_primary]
- Locator
- sanctuaries.noaa.gov/maritime/expeditions/maui/hazards.html, 'The Hazards of Training' section, block-quoted LST-564 history-file extract
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Documents LST-564's pre-deployment amphibious training in Hawaiian waters, verbatim from the NHHC ship's history file: 'Underway at 0712 on 1 September 1944, LST-564 participated in exercises at Maalaea Bay, Maui, embarking Army assault troops...launching and recovering LVTs, less two of the amphibian tractors that sank because of clogged bilge pumps. She anchored for the night in Maalaea Bay...The motor minesweeper YMS-311 came alongside at 1038 to transfer the survivors of the LVTs lost the previous day. Still later in that watch, Ens. Prendergast and a small boat crew, S2c Sendak, S1c Moore, S2c Beshers and F1c Wood reported back to the ship after the ship's number five boat had broached when attempting to pass a towline to a floundering LVT. Further training with LVTs continued on the 3rd.' NOAA notes the record cannot be positively associated with the surveyed LVT wreck sites in Makena Bay.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-02
- Study period
- 1-3 September 1944
- Population
- Ship's company and embarked Army assault troops during Maalaea Bay exercises; YMS-311 alongside
- Limitations
- Official federal (NOAA) heritage publication quoting NHHC archival material; establishes Hawaiian training operations in September 1944 but contains no asbestos, insulation, or materials information. Ens. Prendergast named in the extract is presumably the later commanding officer LTjg. Richard J. Prendergast (Feb-Mar 1946 per NavSource) - identity not independently confirmed.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-564-lst564-03
-
[5]NARA and NHHC primary records for this hull identified through secondary carriers: LST Flotilla 16 War Diary (National Archives); U.S. Navy film 'Activities Aboard LST at Sea and on Beach,' National Archives ID 79357, Local ID 428-NPC-12553; the NHHC ship's history file for LST-564 (quoted in the NOAA publication, ev-03); Air Warning Squadron 9 war diaries (USMC unit records) documenting transport aboard LST-564 [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource caption 1016056401 (NARA ID 79357, Local ID 428-NPC-12553; LST FLOT 16 War Diary); NOAA hazards.html history-file extract; AWS-9 war diary references (September-October 1945)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Ship- and unit-generated primary records exist: the NavSource photo caption sources an LST-564 image ('probably in convoy to Okinawa, July 1945') to the LST FLOT 16 War Diary at the National Archives and identifies the source film as NARA ID 79357 (Local ID 428-NPC-12553); NOAA's extract demonstrates an NHHC ship's history file for this hull containing deck-log-level detail (1-3 September 1944 Maalaea Bay exercises); and the Air Warning Squadron 9 war diary (a USMC unit record, cited in secondary compilations of that unit's history) records the squadron embarking at Pearl Harbor 13 September 1945 aboard LST-487 and LST-564, reaching Eniwetok 23 September, remaining until 7 October, and arriving Tokyo Bay off Yokosuka 18 October 1945 - consistent with the documented occupation-service window (NavSource: 15 October - 5 November 1945; DANFS: until early November 1945).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-02
- Study period
- 1944-1945
- Population
- Wartime ship's company; embarked AWS-9 Marines (September-October 1945)
- Limitations
- Archival lead, not an asbestos finding: these records document operations and passengers and contain no materials or insulation information. The underlying NARA film, war diaries, and NHHC ship's-history file were not independently retrieved during this pass; the AWS-9 detail reaches this record through secondary carriers citing the unit war diary. NARA's online catalog is JavaScript-rendered and was not machine-searched.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-564-lst564-04
-
[6]Corn JK, Starr J. 'Historical perspective on asbestos: policies and protective measures in World War II shipbuilding.' Am J Ind Med 12(4):359-373 (1987) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Am J Ind Med 12(4):359-373 (1987), DOI 10.1002/ajim.4700120402
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Peer-reviewed scholarship documents that WWII-era U.S. shipyards extensively installed asbestos-containing insulation, lagging, and gaskets in naval construction - the era and program under which this hull was built (1944, wartime LST mass production at an inland 'cornfield' yard, Missouri Valley Bridge & Iron, Evansville). For a diesel-powered LST with no boilers, the era-relevant applications concentrate in diesel exhaust lagging, engine-room thermal/acoustic insulation, gaskets and packing, deck coverings, accommodation insulation, and winch/crane brake linings.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-10-02
- Study period
- 1941-1945 (study scope); applied 1944-1948+
- Population
- WWII-era shipyard workers (Evansville, 1944); wartime crew; any post-sale commercial crew and yard workers (era context)
- Limitations
- Era-level scholarship plus class/type inference; the source does not name this hull or class and does not establish that any specific material aboard this ship contained asbestos. No ship-specific product is verified; the diesel plant (no boilers) narrows the exposure-relevant scope relative to steam vessels. DOI resolves to the Wiley article page (publisher bot-block returns 403 to automated fetch); citation by DOI.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-564-lst564-05
-
[7]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 the Navy's asbestos-protection program: standing policy (1975) removed asbestos insulation only when damaged or when required for repairs, modified in 1979 toward selective replacement in high-maintenance areas - meaning original-era insulation typically remained in place on active Navy hulls for decades.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-10-02
- Study period
- 1979
- Population
- Navy shipyard workers; asbestos program review (not this hull)
- Limitations
- Program-level Navy documentation that never governed this hull: she left naval service in March 1946 and was sold out of government hands in December 1948, decades before either policy existed. Context for the era fleet picture only. Full text not retrieved (gao.gov blocks automated fetch, HTTP 403); content via product-page description, consistent with prior batches.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-564-lst564-06
-
[8]Batch-7077 search ledger (this record): live NHHC DANFS entry; NavSource 160564; NOAA ONMS Maui heritage page; NARA identifiers via NavSource/NOAA; NVR; NPS NRHP; CourtListener API v4 (phrase searches, opinions + dockets); MARAD/merchant fate search; shipyards.json [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-lst-564-lst564-01 through sl-uss-lst-564-lst564-11
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, museum/operator materials disclosure, or litigation naming USS LST-564 was found in the public sources searched (see search_ledger). CourtListener API v4 phrase searches - "USS LST-564" OR "LST-564" (type=o) and "LST-564" OR "LST 564" OR "USS LST-564" (type=r) - returned zero results; an unquoted token query returned 125 opinion hits reviewed as name/token noise with no vessel reference. No qualifying asbestos litigation, and no litigation of any kind naming this hull, located.
- 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 1944-built LST is era-consistent with asbestos-containing materials, and the hull's post-1948 commercial fate is undocumented ('fate unknown'). Does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility. The unquoted CourtListener token sweep is inherently noisy for an 'LST-###' hull string; phrase coverage ran for 'LST-564'/'USS LST-564' in opinions and for all three name forms in dockets (a spaced-variant 'LST 564' opinion query was deferred by fleet pacing - see sl-07); RECAP party-name coverage can lag docket filings.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-564-lst564-07