Evidence
12 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-12).
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[1]research packet 718-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-740-lst740-pkt-718-packet-md
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[2]Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, 'LST-740' (Naval History and Heritage Command), archived capture - live NHHC page returned HTTP 404 on 2026-10-03 [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS 'LST-740' entry body text
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS: LST-740 laid down 12 February 1944 at Pittsburgh, Pa., by Dravo Corp., Neville Island; launched 8 April 1944, sponsored by Miss A. Jean Blocker; commissioned 15 May 1944. Asiatic-Pacific operations: Morotai landings September 1944; Leyte landings October-November 1944; Lingayen Gulf landing January 1945; Mindanao Island landings April 1945; Balikpapan operation June-July 1945. Occupation duty in the Far East until late October 1945; decommissioned 8 March 1946; struck from the Navy list 12 April 1946; sold 14 June 1948 to Oil Transport Co., New Orleans, La., for non-self-propelled operation. Five battle stars for WWII service.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 1944-1948
- Population
- Ship's company and embarked troops, WWII (class-era complement figures)
- Limitations
- Authoritative Navy history, cited via Wayback capture 20240527002139 because the live NHHC URL 404s (standing NHHC link-rot defect). DANFS does not state the decommissioning location, wartime complement, or post-1948 disposition beyond the sale itself. Contains no asbestos information.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-740-lst740-01
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[3]NavSource Online, Amphibious Photo Archive: Tank Landing Ship LST-740 (page verified live 2026-10-03; last updated 17 January 2020) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource 10/16/160740: header timeline, campaign table, specifications block, Commanding Officers list, photo captions
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NavSource page for USS LST-740: LST-542 class, built Dravo Corp. Neville Island; commissioned 15 May 1944, LT. John Hampton, USNR in command; assigned LST Flotilla Eight (CAPT. E. Watts), LST Group Twenty-Two (CDR. E.H. Pope), LST Division Forty-Four. Campaign table: Morotai 15 September 1944; Leyte 16-30 October and 9-29 November 1944; Lingayen Gulf 4-17 January 1945; Mindanao 17-23 April 1945; Balikpapan 26 June-9 July 1945. Occupation service 2 September-23 October 1945. Decommissioned 8 March 1946; struck Naval Register 12 April 1946; sold 14 June 1948 to Oil Transport Co., New Orleans, 'fate unknown'. Spec block: 1,625 t light / 4,080 t full / 2,366 t beaching; 328 ft oa; 50 ft beam; 11.6 kt trial; 2 x GM 12-567A 900 hp diesels, single Falk main reduction gear, twin screws, 1,700 shp; complement 13 officers / 104 enlisted plus troops 16 officers / 147 enlisted; 2 LCVP. CO list: Hampton (to June 1945), McMahon (to December 1945), Wilson (to 8 March 1946). Photo record includes NARA photos 80-G-272632 (Leyte) and 80-G-299234 (MacArthur Lingayen landing, LST-740 in background).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 1944-1948
- Population
- Ship's company ~117 + embarked troops ~163 (spec block figures)
- Limitations
- Volunteer-maintained archival compilation, not an official Navy record; specifications reproduce BuShips-era data and conflict with the HyperWar compilation on complement, displacement, speed, and armament (see gaps). Confirms 'fate unknown' for the post-1948 hull. Contains no asbestos information.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-740-lst740-02
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[4]NARA file unit NAID 77506176, 'USS LST-740 - Report of operations at Balikpapan, Borneo, 7/3/45' (Record Group 38, Office of the Chief of Naval Operations; series 'World War II War Diaries, Other Operational Records and Histories') [other_primary]
- Locator
- NARA Catalog file unit page, NAID 77506176
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- The ship's own filed action report for the Balikpapan operation survives as a digitized NARA file unit (1 image, Fold3 scan; micro serial 143244, serial 265, report dated 9 July 1945; unrestricted access). It is contemporaneous primary documentation of this hull's participation in the Borneo operation.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 1945-07-03 (event); 1945-07-09 (report date)
- Limitations
- Operational content only - an action report, not a health, material, or engineering record; contains no asbestos information. Confirms the hull's presence in the Balikpapan operation; the document image was not transcribed or text-reviewed this session.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-740-lst740-03
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[5]NARA file unit NAID 139753572, 'USS LST-740 - Rep of Ops off Morotai Is, 9/18/44' (Record Group 38, Office of the Chief of Naval Operations; series 'World War II War Diaries, Other Operational Records and Histories') [other_primary]
- Locator
- NARA Catalog file unit page, NAID 139753572
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- The ship's own filed report of operations off Morotai Island, 18 September 1944, survives as a digitized NARA file unit (2 images, Fold3 scan; unrestricted access). Contemporaneous primary documentation of this hull's participation in the Morotai landings.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 1944-09-18
- Limitations
- Operational content only - not a health, material, or engineering record; contains no asbestos information. The document images were not transcribed or text-reviewed this session.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-740-lst740-04
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[6]Library of Congress, Veterans History Project: Clark E. Parks Collection, AFC/2001/001/100740 (page verified live 2026-10-03) [other_primary]
- Locator
- LOC VHP item page, service summary block
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- The Veterans History Project holds the Clark E. Parks Collection: service unit listed as USS LST-740 (Landing Ship Tank); Navy, WWII, service 1943-1946, Pacific Theater, highest rank Seaman/Signalman First Class; includes a recorded interview and manuscript materials. A preserved firsthand crew account for this hull.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 1943-1946 (service period documented)
- Population
- SM1/c Clark E. Parks (wartime signalman, this hull)
- Limitations
- Oral-history collection - firsthand veteran testimony, not an official Navy record; contents not reviewed for exposure-relevant statements this session. Contains no documented asbestos finding.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-740-lst740-05
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[7]'History and Story of the LST 740' - crew-created site by SM1/c Clark E. Parks built around his daily wartime diary (usslst740.com; live domain dead, DNS failure 2026-10-03; Wayback capture 2019-04-16) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Wayback capture 20190416031940, site index/story page
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Crew history site preserving Parks's daily diary kept while the ship was in commission: records a wartime crew of about 125 including 7 officers; states he boarded LST-740 at Pittsburgh 8 May 1944 and departed 17 February 1946 at Charleston, S.C., and that the ship was decommissioned there 8 March 1946.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 1944-1946 (site compiled later)
- Population
- Wartime crew (~125 per veteran account)
- Limitations
- Personal veteran site - firsthand but unofficial and not an authoritative source; cited via archived copy only because the live domain is defunct (citation labeled archived). Crew figure and Charleston decommissioning location are veteran-account data, not official records. No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-740-lst740-06
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[8]HyperWar 'Ships of the U.S. Navy, 1940-1945': USS LST-740 page (ibiblio; verified live 2026-10-03) [other_primary]
- Locator
- HyperWar LST-740 entry, spec list
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- HyperWar compilation entry corroborates Dravo (Pittsburgh) construction and 15 May 1944 commissioning, and carries divergent figures: displacement 1,490 t light / 4,080 t full; length 327 ft; speed 10.8 kt max / 9 kt econ; complement 7 officers / 204 enlisted; armament 1x3in/50 DP, 1x40mm, 6x20mm.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 1944-1945
- Limitations
- Compiled secondary reference, not an official record; its figures conflict with the NavSource/BuShips spec block on complement, light displacement, speed, and armament - variances logged in gaps; NavSource/BuShips values carried. No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-740-lst740-07
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[9]OSTI 6587634 (Billings & Lazar, June 1980): 'Walk-through survey report, Dravo Corporation, Engineering Works Division, Neville Island, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, January 30, 1979'; and OSTI 6065127 (Bloom, Dooley & Peguese, July 1985): 'Industrial-hygiene survey report of Dravo Corporation, Engineering Works Division, Neville Island' (July 1981 survey) [other_primary]
- Locator
- OSTI biblio records 6587634 and 6065127, abstracts
- Finding type
- gov_survey
- Finding
- Government industrial-hygiene documentation exists for the builder's yard: a 1979 NIOSH-program walk-through survey and a 1981 industrial-hygiene survey of Dravo's Neville Island Engineering Works Division evaluated occupational exposure to painting and coating processes (organic solvents, lead, nuisance dust) during postwar barge and towboat construction; lead and dust samples exceeded OSHA standards in 1981. Neither survey evaluated asbestos.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 1979-1981
- Population
- Dravo Neville Island production workforce (~1,200 personnel, 1979)
- Limitations
- Yard-level records dated 35+ years after this hull's construction, describing postwar river-craft work - they document that asbestos was not the evaluated hazard in the located government surveys of this yard, and neither establish nor exclude wartime asbestos use in LST construction. Full texts not digitized at OSTI (abstract-level verification).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-740-lst740-08
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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 to automated fetch, 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 required for repairs, modified 1979 to selective replacement in high-maintenance areas - meaning original-era insulation typically remained in place for decades unless a yard period disturbed it.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 1979
- Population
- Navy shipyard workers; asbestos program review
- Limitations
- Program-level documentation, not hull-specific. Temporal relevance is limited for this hull: she decommissioned 1946 and was sold 1948, decades before the program period described. gao.gov returned HTTP 403 to automated fetch 2026-10-03 (standing access defect since Batch 01); content via product-page description previously verified in class profile 2026-09-16.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-740-lst740-09
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[11]Consolidated era inference - BuShips Ships' Data 1945 v2 LST design data (diesel plant, no boilers; LST-542-group machinery data) plus era amphibious-ship construction practice; cf. class profile lst-1-class evidence ev-lst-1-class-01/-03 [other_primary]
- Locator
- Class technical data (lst-1-class class profile); NavSource spec block
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Era/design inference for diesel-powered LST-542-class hulls: with no boilers or steam plant, asbestos-relevant applications concentrate in GM diesel exhaust lagging and gaskets, engine-room thermal/acoustic insulation, deck coverings and tile, bulkhead and accommodation insulation, valve packing, and winch/crane brake linings - the era-standard amphibious-ship material set.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 1944-1948
- Population
- Dravo Neville Island construction trades (1944); ship's company (1944-1946); post-1948 commercial crews
- Limitations
- Class/era inference only - no ship-specific asbestos record exists for this hull; the BuShips source describes machinery, not insulation content, and does not name this vessel. Establishes no quantities, no present-day presence, and no exposure for any individual.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-740-lst740-10
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[12]Batch-7273 search ledger (this record): CourtListener opinion and RECAP docket indexes ('LST-740' and 'LST 740', authenticated API v4, all zero results, 2026-10-03); NavSource; NARA catalog; LOC; OSTI; NVR [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-lst-740-01 through sl-uss-lst-740-12
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, government material schedule, or docketed/opinion-level case naming LST-740 was found in the public sources searched (see search_ledger).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 2026-10-03
- Limitations
- Absence of a located public record does not prove absence of asbestos aboard - era-consistent construction materials remain a reasonable inference. Does not establish that asbestos is or is not present; does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-740-lst740-11