Evidence
11 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-11).
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[1]research packet 692-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-570-lst570-pkt-692-packet-md
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[2]DANFS, LST-570 (NHHC) - construction, sponsor, commissioning, campaign assignment, occupation/China duty, decommissioning, striking, disposal, battle stars [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS 'LST-570' entry (three-paragraph history)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Documented for this hull: 'LST-570 was laid down on 14 April 1944 at Evansviille [sic], Ind., by the Missouri Valley Bridge & Iron Co.; launched on 22 May 1944; sponsored by Mrs. L. J. Prues, Jr.; and commissioned on 9 June 1944, Lt. Frank A. Neun, USNR, in command.' Assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific theater; participated in the Lingayen Gulf landing in January 1945 and the assault and occupation of Okinawa Gunto April through June 1945. Post-war: occupation duty in the Far East and service in China until mid-November 1945; returned to the United States; decommissioned 14 May 1946; struck from the Navy list 19 June 1946; sold 31 December 1948 to the Patapsco Scrap Corp., Baltimore, Md. Earned two battle stars for World War II service.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-02
- Study period
- 1944-1948
- Population
- MVB&I construction trades (Apr-Jun 1944); crew and embarked troops (1944-46)
- Limitations
- Ship-specific official history; contains no asbestos or material content. Live NHHC page verified 2026-10-02 via full-text extraction (a plain fetch returned 404 - an access-method quirk, not link rot). Disposal-sale date conflicts with the MARAD-line date carried by NavSource (2 October 1947) - see gaps; launch date conflicts with the BuShips SDB roster (24 May) - see gaps.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-570-lst570-01
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[3]Bureau of Ships, Ships' Data, U.S. Naval Vessels, Vol. II (15 April 1945), NAVSHIPS 250-011 - official roster entry for LST-570 and LST design table (shipscribe.com scan) [other_primary]
- Locator
- SDB-1945 v2 LST roster (LST570 row, ~p. LST section) and LST design table
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- The official BuShips roster lists 'LST570' built by 'Missouri Valley B. & I. Co., Evansville, Ind.': keel laid 14 Apr 44, launched 24 May 44, commissioned 9 Jun 44. The volume's LST design table documents the class plant: approximately 328 ft oa, 50 ft beam, ~2,366 t light / 3,960-4,080 t trial, 11.6 kt, 2 x General Motors 12-567A diesels ~1,700 shp (per class profile extraction; the 542-group carries the 12-567A, not the 12-278A of blocks 932-979/1060-1080).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-02
- Study period
- 1944-1945 (publication April 1945)
- Population
- MVB&I construction trades; crew
- Limitations
- Official wartime BuShips record - ship-specific for builder and milestone dates (which is why its 24 May launch date is carried as a documented conflict against the 22 May date in DANFS, NavSource, and the Colton table - see gaps). Class design table is class-level. Contains no asbestos or material content. Scan relocated this session: the URL cited in the class profile (/styles/usnaux/sdb/SDB1945v2.pdf) now 404s; document verified live at /pubs/SDB1945v2.pdf 2026-10-02, full text extracted.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-570-lst570-02
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[4]NavSource Online: Amphibious Photo Archive, USS LST-570 - designation/class, milestone timeline, campaign and occupation/China service tables, flotilla assignment, awards display, specifications, commanding-officer list, NH 74308 and veteran-donated photographs [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource 10/16/160570.htm - header block, campaign tables, awards display, specifications block, commanding-officer table, photo captions
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NavSource record for this hull: LST-542-class tank landing ship; laid down 14 April 1944 at Missouri Valley Bridge and Iron Co., Evansville, IN; launched 22 May 1944; commissioned 9 June 1944, LT. Frank A. Neun USNR in command. Asiatic-Pacific campaigns: Luzon operation - Lingayen Gulf landings 4-18 January 1945; Okinawa Gunto operation - assault and occupation of Okinawa Gunto 1 April-28 June 1945, assigned to LST Flotilla Sixteen (CAPT. N. W. Sears), LST Group Forty-Seven (CDR. L. A. Drexler USN(23)), LST Division Ninety-Four. Post-war: Navy Occupation Service Medal periods 6-20 September 1945 and 3 October-19 November 1945; China Service Medal (extended) 3 October-19 November 1945. Decommissioned 14 May 1946; struck from the Naval Register 19 June 1946; custody transferred to the Maritime Commission for disposal; sold for scrapping 2 October 1947 to Patapsco Scrap Corp., Baltimore, MD. Two battle stars. Awards display: China Service Medal (extended), American Campaign Medal, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (2), WWII Victory Medal, Navy Occupation Service Medal (Asia clasp), Philippines Presidential Unit Citation, Philippine Liberation Medal (1) - no Europe-Africa-Middle East medal, relevant to the FCM.21 conflict (see ev-06). Commanding officers: LT. Frank A. Neun USNR (9 Jun 1944-14 Nov 1945); LTjg. Horace Lowell Barnes USN (14 Nov 1945-11 Mar 1946); LTjg. William K. Chave USNR (11 Mar-14 May 1946). Specifications: 1,625 t light / 4,080 t full / 2,366 t beaching; 328 ft oa; 50 ft beam; 11.6 kt; complement 13 officers + 104 enlisted; troops 16 officers + 147 enlisted; 2 LCVP; 2 x GM 12-567A 900 hp diesels, single Falk main reduction gear, 2 propellers 1,700 shp, twin rudders, three diesel-drive 100 kW 230 V DC ship's-service generators, diesel fuel 4,300 bbls. Photo captions document the hull beached at Okinawa June 1945 loading amtracks alongside LST-1040 (preparations for Kume Shima), beached at Olongapo Naval Base (Subic Bay) alongside LST-558 (date unknown), and at anchor circa 1945 (NHHC photo NH 74308).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-02
- Study period
- 1944-1948
- Population
- MVB&I construction trades (Apr-Jun 1944); ship's company 13 officers/104 enlisted; embarked troops 16 officers/147 enlisted; crew of record 1944-46
- Limitations
- NavSource is a volunteer secondary compilation, not a primary registry - milestone dates generally track DANFS/MARAD but its disposal-sale date (2 October 1947, MARAD-line data) conflicts with DANFS (31 December 1948); both carried, conflict logged in gaps. Contains no asbestos content. Direct fetch of navsource.net page verified live 2026-10-02 (navsource.org is the dead domain; .net canonical).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-570-lst570-03
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[5]USS Lesuth (AK-125) deck log, November 1944 - scanned official log pages naming 'LST #570'/'LST 570' alongside at Peleliu (Chapman ships-logs collection, private archive host) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Lesuth November 1944 log: 2 November remarks sheet (8-12 and 12-16 watches); 3 November remarks sheet (0-4 and 8-12 watches)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- A scanned official deck log of USS Lesuth (AK-125) documents this hull's presence at Peleliu, Palau Islands, in the forward-staging window: Thursday 2 November 1944, 8-12 watch - '1150 LST #570 came alongside port side'; 12-16 watch - '1256 Commenced loading rolling cargo from LST #570.' Friday 3 November 1944, 0-4 watch - 'Underway on various courses and speeds in unloading area, Peleliu Island, Palau Island, Caroline Islands, discharging cargo from #4 hold into LST 570 alongside port side... S.O.P.A. in U.S.S. LESUTH'; 8-12 watch - '1123. Cast off LST 570 from port side.' This places LST-570 in the Western Carolines logistics chain roughly two months before the Lingayen Gulf landings.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-02
- Study period
- 1944-11-02 to 1944-11-03
- Population
- Crew during Western Carolines cargo operations (Nov 1944)
- Limitations
- Physical-presence documentation only - establishes the hull alongside Lesuth at Peleliu 2-3 November 1944 in cargo-transfer operations; says nothing about asbestos, materials, or what cargo moved. The scan is hosted by a private document archive (sobco.com Chapman ships-logs collection), not NARA - underlying log is an official record but this copy is a private-host surrogate; RG 24 deck logs for this hull's era are not publicly digitized (see gaps).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-570-lst570-04
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[6]Era inference built on: BuShips SDB-1945 v2 LST design table (2 x GM 12-567A diesels - diesel plant, no boilers); NavSource specifications block (same plant for this hull); LST-1-class class profile (lst-1-class.class.json, class-f worktree); GAO HRD-80-2 (see ev-09) [other_primary]
- Locator
- BuShips SDB-1945 v2 LST design table; NavSource 160570 specifications; class profile class_notes
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- A diesel-powered LST-542-class tank landing ship built April-June 1944 sits inside the Navy's documented asbestos-use era; era-standard applications aboard a vessel of this type and period were diesel-engine exhaust lagging and gaskets, engine-room thermal and acoustic insulation, deck coverings and tile, bulkhead and accommodation insulation, valve packing, and winch/crane brake linings - concentrated in confined below-deck machinery spaces and crew accommodation. As a diesel ship she carried no steam plant: the boiler/turbine lagging pathway of steam vessels does not apply, but the shipyard-era fitting-out and crew-service exposure dynamic applies within the enclosed 328-ft hull.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-10-02
- Study period
- 1944-1948
- Population
- MVB&I construction trades (Apr-Jun 1944, incl. pipe fitters working inside ship compartments - cf. ev-08); crew and embarked troops (1944-46); 1947-48 shipbreakers at Patapsco Scrap Corp., Baltimore
- Limitations
- Class/era inference only - no hull-specific insulation schedule, material list, or work package located for LST-570. Names era-standard applications, not confirmed installed materials. No quantity. Product names are normalized era terms; no manufacturer attribution for this hull.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-570-lst570-05
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[7]Arnold Hague Convoy Database (convoyweb.org.uk), Convoy FCM.21 sailing record - Seine Bay to Falmouth, 2-3 July 1944; ship search and convoy page for 'LST 570' (data supplied by Don Kindell, extracted from Arnold Hague's papers) [other_primary]
- Locator
- convoyweb.org.uk FCM.21 convoy page ('LST 570 | 440 PoWs' row); hague/search3.php ship-search results for 'LST 21' (FCM.21 member) and 'LST-570' (hyphen-form returns not-listed - name-format artifact); en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_LST-570 service-history paragraph
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- DISPUTED RECORD - not adopted as ship history: the Arnold Hague Convoy Database's FCM.21 convoy page (Seine Bay to Falmouth, 2 July-3 July 1944, 33 ships) lists 'LST 570' with cargo '440 PoWs', and Wikipedia's USS LST-570 article repeats the claim citing this database. The attribution cannot be this hull: she was commissioned 9 June 1944 at Evansville, Indiana (DANFS, BuShips roster, NavSource) - a Seine Bay departure 23 days later is physically implausible (~1,000 river miles to New Orleans plus a ~4,700-nm Atlantic crossing at ~9-11 kt could not complete in that window even with no fitting-out or shakedown). Her awards display carries no Europe-Africa-Middle East Campaign Medal (NavSource), and DANFS records only the Asiatic-Pacific assignment. FCM.21 did carry genuine LST-542-class hulls (LST 504, LST 535, LST 539, LST 541) plus LST 21 - most plausibly a hull-number transcription error in the convoy record or its extraction. NOT adopted; carried as a documented dispute.
- Verification
- disputed
- Role
- correction
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-02
- Study period
- 1944-07-02/03 (record date)
- Limitations
- Corrects a circulating attribution that traces to the convoy record itself, not merely to Wikipedia - the error appears upstream (Hague extraction or the underlying sailing return), so this is a disputed primary-line record, not a Wikipedia invention. No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-570-lst570-06
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[8]Shipbuilding-history yard table, Missouri Valley Bridge & Iron Company, Evansville IN (Colton-derived compilation; navalmarinearchive.com mirror, corroborated by shipbuildinghistory.njscuba.net) - yard hull no. 95 row for LST-570 [other_primary]
- Locator
- navalmarinearchive.com missourivalley.html - hull-table row 95 (LST-570)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- The yard's production table row for this hull: yard hull no. 95, FY1943 program, keel laid 14 April 1944, launched 22 May 1944, delivered 9 June 1944 - 38 days on the ways, 18 days fitting/delivery, 56 total days - disposition 'Scrapped 1947'. The page documents the yard itself: built for the war effort on the Ohio River at Evansville, 171 LSTs produced, plant destroyed by fire in 1946 and closed; a sister LST (LST-325) is preserved as a museum in Evansville.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-02
- Study period
- 1944
- Population
- MVB&I construction trades (Apr-Jun 1944)
- Limitations
- Secondary compilation, not an official record - its build dates corroborate DANFS/NavSource (and conflict with the BuShips roster's 24 May launch date by two days; see gaps). 'Scrapped 1947' is consistent with the MARAD-line 2 October 1947 sale date and conflicts with the DANFS 31 December 1948 sale date; the conflict is logged, not resolved. Contains no asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-570-lst570-07
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[9]Woolsey et al. v. Missouri Valley Bridge and Iron Company et al., 88 N.E.2d 54, 119 Ind. App. 391 (Ind. Ct. App. Oct. 17, 1949), No. 17,878 (CourtListener cluster 3428445) [court_record]
- Locator
- Opinion text (Ind. App., Royse J.), procedural posture and Board finding
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- An occupational-disease claim arising from this hull's builder yard in her construction season: the estate of Elbert Woolsey, employed by Missouri Valley Bridge & Iron as 'a pipe fitter in the compartment of ships from June 21, 1944 to November 11, 1944' (he died 29 October 1945), sought compensation under the Indiana Workmen's Occupational Diseases Act alleging death 'from inhaling fumes and gases from galvanized metal being welded.' The Industrial Board (two members dissenting) found no occupational disease arising out of employment; the Court of Appeals affirmed the denial in banc. The employment window begins twelve days after this hull's 9 June 1944 commissioning and covers construction of her sister hulls - the case documents the confined-compartment fitting trades working LST hulls at this yard in 1944.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-10-02
- Study period
- 1944-1949
- Population
- MVB&I fitting trades inside ship compartments (Jun-Nov 1944)
- Limitations
- Yard-level litigation context, not a hull record and not an asbestos case: the claim alleged metal-fume (galvanized welding) poisoning, was decided against the claimant on exposure/disease grounds, and names no vessel. Carried as context for the builder-yard workforce environment in this hull's build season; establishes no asbestos exposure aboard any hull.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-570-lst570-08
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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 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 (Apr-Jun 1944) and service era (1944-46).
- 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-570-lst570-09
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[11]Batch-7084 search ledger (this record): DANFS live page; BuShips SDB-1945 v2 full text; NavSource 160570 live page; scanned USS Lesuth Nov-1944 deck log; convoyweb.org.uk Hague database (FCM.21 page + ship searches); CourtListener API v4 (opinion and RECAP docket searches); Colton/shipbuilding-history yard table; GAO product page; secondary web sweeps [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-lst-570-lst570-01 through -13
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, or litigation naming USS LST-570 was found in the public sources searched. CourtListener returned zero results for 'LST-570' and 'LST 570' in both the opinion (type=o) and RECAP docket (type=r) indexes - a completed negative result, not a blocked search. Secondary web sweeps surfaced no qualifying case and no marketing-page claim for this hull (unlike sister batches, no law-firm listicle covers LST-570). The only court opinion tied to this hull's builder is Woolsey v. MVB&I (ev-08) - a welding-fume occupational-disease claim decided against the claimant, not an asbestos record.
- 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 Navy-built amphibious ship is a reasonable era-consistent inference, not a ship-proven fact. Deck logs, MVB&I work packages, MARAD custody cards (JS-blocked), and any Patapsco scrapping-contract records are undigitized leads. A supplementary CourtListener sweep for 'Patapsco Scrap' asbestos also returned zero opinions (completed on third attempt after two fleet-pacer deferrals). Does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-570-lst570-10