Evidence
10 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-10).
-
[1]research packet 721-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-755-lst755-pkt-721-packet-md
-
[2]DANFS, LST-755 (NHHC ship-history entry) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- NHHC DANFS entry, full page
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Documented for this hull: laid down 20 May 1944 at Ambridge, Pa., by the American Bridge Co.; launched 11 July 1944; sponsored by Mrs. L. W. Day; commissioned 3 August 1944, Lt. Hyman Harris, USNR, in command. Assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific theater; participated in the Lingayen Gulf landing (January 1945) and the Mindanao Island landings (April 1945). Post-war occupation duty in the Far East and service in China until late May 1946; decommissioned 29 May 1946 and transferred to Nationalist China; struck from the Navy list 12 March 1948. Earned two battle stars for World War II service.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 1944-1948
- Limitations
- Identity/service history only - contains no asbestos, material, or hazmat information and establishes nothing about exposure conditions aboard.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-755-lst755-01
-
[3]NavSource Online Amphibious Photo Archive, USS LST-755 page (10/16/160755) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource page 160755 - timeline, campaign/medal tables, specifications block, photo captions
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NavSource timeline for this hull: LST-542-class tank landing ship; placed in reduced commission 26 July 1944 (Lt. Hyman Harris) and commissioned in full at the New Orleans fitting-out yard 3 August 1944. Campaign table: Lingayen Gulf landings 13-18 January 1945; Mindanao Island landings 17-23 April 1945. Occupation service 2 September 1945 - 29 May 1946; China service 8 September 1945 - 29 May 1946. Served as flagship for LST Group Sixty-Four throughout her WWII service (photo captions). Transferred to the Republic of China as ROCS Chung Hai (LST-201): in the August 1958 Kinmen battle credited with sinking at least one PRC torpedo boat on 24 August, and struck by a PRC torpedo herself while carrying ~800 troops (8 crew dead, 12 wounded, 30 troop casualties), towed to Subic Bay and repaired with a new bow (~US$500,000); Plan 'Chung-Hsin' refit added German engines and an enlarged bridge; 75,126 steaming hours / 556,728 nm in ROC service; retired 1 February 2010. Class specification: 2x GM 12-567A diesels (900 hp), single Falk reduction gear, 3x diesel-driven 100 kW 230 V DC generators, two shafts, twin rudders; complement 13 officers/104 enlisted; troop berthing 16 officers/147 enlisted.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 1944-2010
- Limitations
- Volunteer-compiled archive; consistent with DANFS on all overlapping facts and adds fitting-out, group-flagship, ROC-service, and specification detail. Contains no asbestos or hazmat information; crew/complement figures not corroborated by DANFS (see gaps).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-755-lst755-02
-
[4]Taipei Times, 'Navy retires World War II-era landing craft' (2010-02-01); China Daily News (Tainan), '重要古物 中海艦落腳安平' (2021, archived copy); Taiwan English News, 'Veteran Navy ship sold for scrap' (2020-05-19, archived copy) [reputable_press]
- Locator
- Taipei Times live article; Wayback captures web.archive.org/web/20220914040316/cdns.com.tw/articles/447012 and /web/20240221045238/taiwanenglishnews.com/veteran-navy-ship-sold-for-scrap/
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- The hull survives: retired by the ROC Navy on 1 February 2010 at Sin Pin Pier, then the last ROC Navy ship with combat service still in operation; ROC Navy LST maintenance projects documented in 1966 (engine refurbishment) and 1990 (electrical equipment and air conditioning). Sold for scrap for NT$14 million in May 2020 after Kinmen preservation funding failed; sale suspended after public objection. Registered an 'Important Antiquity' (重要古物) by the ROC Ministry of Culture; Tainan City and the ROC Navy signed a 2021 cooperation letter of intent to base her at Anping, Tainan as part of a military-museum district alongside ROCS Te Yang (DDG-925), with restoration design budgeted at NT$20 million and full restoration estimated above NT$200 million.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 2010-2022
- Population
- ROC Navy crews (1946-2010); museum/restoration workers (contemporary)
- Limitations
- Disposition/preservation reporting only - no asbestos, condition-survey, or hazmat content. China Daily News and Taiwan English News items are cited from Wayback Machine captures because the live pages no longer resolve (labeled archived). Taipei Times misprints the 1958 battle year as '1953'; NavSource and the record use 1958. Whether original 1944 material survives the 1958 bow replacement and ROC refits is not addressed by these sources.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-755-lst755-03
-
[5]Christman v. Dravo Corp., 319 Pa. Super. 378, 466 A.2d 209 (Pa. Super. Ct. 1983) (OpenJurist text; reporter citation verified against vLex/OpenJurist listings) [court_record]
- Locator
- Opinion paragraphs 9-10 (p. 385-386 of 319 Pa. Super.)
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- Discovery-stage admission covering wartime LST construction at a sibling yard: the opinion recites that Dravo 'admitted in its answers to appellant's interrogatories that from 1941 to 1945 the major portion of the ships that it built (over 145 LST-type vessels) were for the Bureau of Ships of the United States Navy and asbestos was used as pipe insulating material in the construction of motor vessels at the Neville Island building docks.' The case resolved as a defense win: summary judgment for Dravo on Longshoremen's Act exclusivity grounds, affirmed by the Pennsylvania Superior Court - a jurisdictional disposition, not a merits adjudication of exposure. Johns-Manville appears in the pleading as the alleged asbestos supplier (allegation stage).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 1983 (opinion); 1941-1945 (documented construction window)
- Population
- Wartime LST construction workers (Dravo Neville Island, 1941-1945)
- Limitations
- Documents asbestos use at Dravo's Neville Island yard, a different builder than this hull's American Bridge Co., Ambridge yard - supports the class/era inference that wartime LST construction used asbestos pipe insulation, but establishes nothing about this hull or the Ambridge marine department. The operative material is an interrogatory answer (discovery record), and the judgment turned on LHWCA exclusivity, not exposure findings. OpenJurist mislabels the court 'Supreme Court of Pennsylvania'; the correct court is Pennsylvania Superior Court per the 319 Pa. Super. reporter.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-755-lst755-04
-
[6]Bureau of Ships, Ships' Data, U.S. Naval Vessels, 1945, Vol. II (NAVSHIPS 250-011, 13 April 1945) - Landing Ships, Tank design table (shipscribe.com scan) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NAVSHIPS 250-011, LST design-table section (shipscribe PDF scan)
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Class/design documentation for the LST-542 group this hull was built to: diesel-propelled tank landing ship (2x GM 12-567A-type diesels per NavSource specification consistent with the BuShips design table). No steam plant, so the asbestos-relevant systems were era-standard applications rather than boiler/turbine lagging: pipe and machinery insulation, gaskets, valve packing, electrical insulation, and interior finish materials - consistent with the Dravo interrogatory admission that asbestos pipe insulation was used in wartime LST construction.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 1944-1945
- Population
- Construction trades at the inland LST yards; LST crews
- Limitations
- Design-era document naming no individual hull and stating nothing about materials content; the asbestos reading is era inference consistent with the sibling-yard litigation admission, not ship-proven fact. Establishes no quantities and no exposure for any individual.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-755-lst755-05
-
[7]GAO, Navy Efforts To Protect Workers From Asbestos Exposure, HRD-80-2 (Oct 18, 1979) [gao]
- Locator
- GAO product page HRD-80-2, Highlights section (full-text PDF available; product-page text used)
- Finding type
- gov_survey
- Finding
- GAO documented the Navy's asbestos-protection program: asbestos insulation was in widespread Navy shipboard use and the 1975 policy removed/replaced only insulation that was damaged or had to be removed for repairs, modified in 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; Navy asbestos-program review
- Limitations
- Program-level documentation based on fieldwork at Long Beach and Norfolk Naval Shipyards; not LST-specific and not this hull. Post-dates this ship's U.S. Navy career (ended 1946).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-755-lst755-06
-
[8]American Bridge Company official corporate history (americanbridge.net) [other_primary]
- Locator
- americanbridge.net/about/history/ 1940s section; southlandholdings.com/american-bridge-lsts/ featured archive
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- This hull's builder, documented by the builder itself: 100% of American Bridge capacity went to National Defense projects 1941-1945, including 199 LSTs manufactured at Ambridge, PA (plus aviation repair vessels, Essex-class carrier components, cargo ships, tankers, and barges); the wartime Ambridge operation employed nearly 13,000 people at peak per the company's featured-archive page.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 1941-1945
- Population
- American Bridge Ambridge wartime workforce (~13,000 peak, all products)
- Limitations
- Corporate-published history documenting yard production scale only - names no individual hull, states nothing about asbestos or materials used, and the ~13,000-worker figure covers the whole wartime operation, not this vessel's crew of builders.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-755-lst755-07
-
[9]Carnegie Mellon University Steinbrenner Institute brownfields case study, 'The Moltoni and Nardelli Development in Ambridge Area' [other_primary]
- Locator
- CMU case-study PDF, site summary (contaminants line) and history section
- Finding type
- environmental_record
- Finding
- Site-legacy documentation for the builder's town: asbestos is listed among contaminants (with oil, debris, PCBs) at a 39-acre former steel-industry brownfield cluster in Ambridge associated with the American Bridge manufacturing era, after the plant's 1983 closure.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- post-1983 site legacy
- Population
- Ambridge brownfield redevelopment workers (2000s)
- Limitations
- Post-industrial site contamination context only - documents asbestos in the ground at former steel-era parcels in Ambridge, not aboard any ship, and the study parcels are not specifically identified as the marine LST-assembly site (which per American Bridge's own account was at the 'Employee Gardens south of the AB Plant in Leetsdale').
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-755-lst755-08
-
[10]Batch-7289 search ledger (this record): DANFS/NHHC; NavSource; Naval Vessel Register; CourtListener (blocked); GAO; NIOSH HHE index; builder and Taiwan press; secondary web sweep [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-lst-755-lst755-01 through -15
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, museum condition report, or verified litigation naming USS LST-755 (or ROCS Chung Hai LST-201) was found in the public sources searched (see search_ledger). CourtListener could not be queried this session (fleet daily quota exhausted) - logged as blocked, not as a negative result.
- 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 - the hull survives awaiting museum restoration and no condition/hazmat survey was located for her in either U.S. or ROC service. The CourtListener gap is a coverage limitation, not an all-clear; a prior class-level sweep found only an incidental LST mention and is unverified this session. Does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-755-lst755-09