Evidence
6 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-6).
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[1]research packet 722-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-763-lst763-pkt-722-packet-md
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[2]Bureau of Ships, Ships' Data, U.S. Naval Vessels, Volume 2 (January 1945), Landing Ship, Tank table [other_primary]
- Locator
- PDF printed p. 182, Landing Ship, Tank table, LST-759 through LST-766 rows
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Bureau of Ships Ships' Data lists LST-763 as built by American Bridge Co. at Ambridge, Pennsylvania; keel laid 29 June 1944; launched 16 August 1944; and first commissioned 8 September 1944.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 1944
- Population
- American Bridge Co. construction workers and initial ship's company
- Limitations
- This primary technical register establishes construction milestones and builder only. It does not identify insulation, gaskets, packing, other materials, asbestos content, individual exposure, or causation.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-763-lst763-01
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[3]NavSource Online: Amphibious Photo Archive, USS LST-763 [museum_official]
- Locator
- Live page, LST-542 Class Tank Landing Ship history bullets and awards section
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NavSource's live LST-763 page states that the Coast Guard-manned ship served with LST Flotilla Twenty-Nine, LST Group Eighty-Five, and LST Division One Hundred Seventy; participated in the Iwo Jima operation from 19 February to 3 March 1945 and Okinawa Gunto operation from 26 April to 10 June 1945; performed Far East occupation service from 10 September to 13 November 1945; was decommissioned 29 April 1946; struck 15 August 1946; earned two battle stars; and was sold for scrapping to Southern Shipwrecking Co., New Orleans, on 11 December 1947.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 1944-1947
- Population
- U.S. Coast Guard and Navy personnel assigned to the vessel
- Limitations
- NavSource is an archival photo/history resource; the page was live-verified. It supports the stated operational and administrative history, not asbestos content, material quantity or condition, individual exposure, or causation.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-763-lst763-02
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[4]Bureau of Ships, Ships' Data, U.S. Naval Vessels, Volume 2 (January 1945), LST-542-931 machinery tables; NavSource LST-763 specifications [other_primary]
- Locator
- BuShips PDF printed pp. 168-169, LST-542-931 rows; supporting live specification page https://www.navsource.net/archives/10/16/160763.htm
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Bureau of Ships Ships' Data places LST-763 in the LST-542-931 design group, whose table lists two General Motors 12-567A diesel engines totaling 1,700 shaft horsepower, Falk reduction gear, and three 100-kW 230-V DC diesel-driven ship-service generators. NavSource gives the same general propulsion arrangement and a complement of 13 officers and 104 enlisted.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 1944-1946
- Population
- 1944 construction trades, engineering crew, and maintenance workers
- Limitations
- The BuShips tables document the design group rather than an asbestos material list. They do not establish that any particular insulation, gasket, packing, cable, covering, or friction material aboard LST-763 contained asbestos, nor quantity, condition, retention, exposure, or causation.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-763-lst763-03
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[5]National Archives and Records Administration, Special List No. 44, List of Logbooks of the U.S. Navy at the National Archives, by Ship Number [other_primary]
- Locator
- PDF text p. 49, LST-763 entries
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- NARA Special List No. 44 indexes two LST-763 logbook entries, each covering 8 September 1944 through 30 June 1945. The index is an archival lead for ship operations records.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 1944-1945
- Population
- Ship's company and wartime operations
- Limitations
- The index confirms catalogued coverage dates, not the contents of the logbooks. No logbook volume was retrieved, and this row is not an asbestos or exposure finding.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-763-lst763-04
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[6]Batch-7298 research ledger: live NavSource LST-763 page; BuShips Ships' Data; NARA Special List No. 44; authenticated CourtListener helper attempt; Firecrawl MCP response [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-lst-763-lst763-01 through -07
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record was located in the accessible sources searched: the live NavSource page and retrieved BuShips/NARA records contain no asbestos survey, abatement, hazardous-material disclosure, or material schedule for LST-763. The required authenticated CourtListener exact-name sweep was started through the prescribed helper but halted before a result response because the service reported a daily-quota wait of about 11.4 hours; Firecrawl authoritative-source search was also unavailable because its keyless quota was exhausted. No litigation conclusion is drawn from either incomplete search.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 2026-10-03
- Limitations
- This is an access- and coverage-limited negative finding about public records located, not proof that asbestos was absent. It does not establish or defeat asbestos presence, individual exposure, causation, legal eligibility, or litigation status.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-763-lst763-05