Evidence
9 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-9).
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[1]research packet 728-packet.md (2 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-801-lst801-pkt-728-packet-md
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[2]DANFS, LST-801 - construction, sponsor, commissioning, Okinawa service, occupation duty, decommissioning, sale (archived NHHC page; live page returned 404) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS service narrative (full entry)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Documented for this hull: laid down 6 September 1944 at Jeffersonville, Ind., by the Jeffersonville Boat and Machine Co.; launched 14 October 1944, sponsored by Miss Jane E. Calhoun; commissioned 8 November 1944, Lt. Herbert G. Whitehead, USNR, in command. Assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific theater; participated in the assault and occupation of Okinawa Gunto March through June 1945; performed occupation duty in the Far East until early March 1946; decommissioned 18 July 1946 and struck from the Navy list 18 August 1946; sold 29 December 1947 to Pablo N. Ferrari & Co. for operation. Earned one battle star for World War II service.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 1944-1947 (entry coverage)
- Population
- JeffBoat construction trades (1944); crew (1944-1946)
- Limitations
- Ship-specific history only; no asbestos or material content. The DANFS entry ends at the 1947 sale - Argentine service comes from other rows. Live NHHC DANFS page returned HTTP 404 on 2026-10-03; the archived Wayback capture of 2025-05-31 is cited and labeled as archived.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-801-lst801-01
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[3]NavSource Online: Amphibious Photo Archive, USS LST-801 (10/16/160801) - timeline, spec block, campaign table, commanding officers, photo captions [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource USS LST-801 page - timeline, Specifications block, CO list, photo captions
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Unit detail: LST Flotilla Twenty-Five, LST Group Seventy-Five, LST Division One Hundred Fifty; Okinawa Gunto operation credited 26 March - 30 June 1945; Navy Occupation Service periods 9-25 September 1945, 19 December 1945 - 1 January 1946, 11 January - 14 February 1946, 4-10 March 1946. Spec block: 328' oa, 50' beam, 11.6 kt trial; complement 13 officers / 104 enlisted, troop accommodations 16 officers / 147 enlisted; propulsion two General Motors 12-567A 900-hp diesels, single Falk main reduction gear, two propellers, 1,700 shp - diesel plant. Disposition chain: sold 29 December 1947 to Pablo N. Ferrari & Co. (named Don Antonio), resold 1947 to the government of Argentina as ARA BDT No. 5, named ARA Cabo Buen Tiempo (BDT-13) in 1963, disposed of by the Argentine Navy in 1969 per NavSource. Commanding officers: LT Herbert G. Whitehead (Nov 1944 - Dec 1945), LTjg Leon Garfield Lewis (Dec 1945 - 4 Jun 1946), LTjg Paul E. Roth Jr. (4 Jun - 18 Jul 1946). Photographs: alongside a water tanker with LST-78 and LST-244, circa 1945 (possibly Tinian or Saipan); entering San Francisco Bay homeward bound circa July 1946 (NHHC photo NH 82168); ARA BDT-5 underway (Histarmar credit).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 1944-1969
- Population
- Crew (1944-1946); embarked troops
- Limitations
- Ship-specific unit and technical record; no asbestos or material content. NavSource's Argentine end-dates ('named BDT-13 in 1963', 'disposed 1969, fate unknown') conflict with the Histarmar per-ship record in ev-03, which documents rename 1959, baja 17 July 1963, and sale to Mapenave S.A. 5 December 1966 - the Histarmar record is more detailed and is carried for the disposition; the NavSource variant is preserved in gaps. Spec block is a class block repeated across LST-542 pages.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-801-lst801-02
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[4]Fundacion Histarmar, B.D.T. No. 13 ship page (archived) + Argentine Navy general fleet list 1900-2013 (archived) - Argentine service and disposal record [other_primary]
- Locator
- Histarmar BDT13.htm ship page; ListGralBuques900a2003.htm fleet list rows (BDT No. 5 and Cabo Buen Tiempo BDT-13)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Argentine record for this hull: fleet list carries the ex-USS LST 801/'Don Antonio' as BDT No. 5/Cabo Buen Tiempo, buque desembarco de tanques, 1947-1959, then Cabo Buen Tiempo BDT-13, 1959-1963. Per-ship page: 1959 - incorporated into the Servicio de Transportes Navales, renamed CABO BUEN TIEMPO (2); 17 July 1963 - baja from the Servicio de Transportes Navales, laid up (en desarme) at Base Naval Rio Santiago; 1965 - radiado; 5 December 1966 - sold to Mapenave S.A. Machinery line on the same page: 'Dos motores diesel GM 12-567; 12 Cilindros (216 x 254); General Motors Corp.', 1,800 CV, 2 propellers, 11 knots; the boilers field is blank.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 1947-1966
- Population
- Argentine Navy transport crews (1947-1963); Argentine disposal/scrapping trades (1963-1966)
- Limitations
- Argentine maritime-history foundation record (Histarmar cites Rodriguez/Arguindeguy fleet volumes) - the most detailed disposition source located; it documents sale to a private Argentine buyer (Mapenave S.A., 1966) rather than NavSource's 'disposed 1969, fate unknown'. histarmar.com.ar is DNS-unreachable this session (curl error 6) - archived Wayback copies are cited and labeled as archived. No asbestos or material content; the blank boilers field is consistent with (not proof of) the diesel plant.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-801-lst801-03
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[5]ShipbuildingHistory (Colton), 'Landing Ships, Tank - LST, Part 3 of 4 (LST 797-1155)' - per-hull construction table [other_primary]
- Locator
- LST part 3 table, row for LST-801
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Production-table row for LST-801: JeffBoat, Jeffersonville IN; keel laid 6 September 1944; launched 14 October 1944; delivered 8 November 1944; 38 days on the ways, 25 days in the water, 63 days total; disposition 'to Argentina 1947'. Table header notes the LST program ran 1,155 contracted hulls from 11 private yards and 5 Navy yards.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 1944
- Population
- JeffBoat construction trades (1944)
- Limitations
- Secondary reference work (Tim Colton's shipbuilding-history site), not an official record - build dates corroborate DANFS; construction-time figures (38/25/63 days) appear nowhere else and are carried as reported. No asbestos or material content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-801-lst801-04
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[6]Bureau of Ships, Ships' Data, U.S. Naval Vessels, Vol. II, NAVSHIPS 250-011 (15 April 1945), LST design table (shipscribe.com scan) [other_primary]
- Locator
- SDB 1945 v2, LST section design table (machinery group rows)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Official BuShips machinery table for the LST design groups: groups LST1-490, LST491-541, LST542-931 (this hull's group), LST980-1059, and LST1081-1152 each list 2 x 'G. M. Diesel, 12-567A' engines at 1,700 shp, with the boiler columns blank; only groups LST932-979 and LST1060-1080 carried the GM 12-278A variant, and only LST-1153 carried boilers (2-drum) with Westinghouse turbines. A diesel-powered landing ship with no boiler plant.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 1945
- Population
- n/a
- Limitations
- Class/design documentation, not a hull record - the table assigns machinery by design group, and LST-801 falls in LST542-931. Confirms 'diesel, no boilers' at the design level; does not establish insulation materials, quantities, or any asbestos content. PDF text layer is OCR-degraded; group rows were read in context. Prior class-profile citation (styles/usnaux/sdb/SDB1945v2.pdf) 404s; the live URL is the /pubs/ path cited here.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-801-lst801-05
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[7]Era inference built on: BuShips SDB 1945 v2 LST design table (diesel plant, no boilers); NavSource spec block; lst-1-class class profile (research/class-profiles-f, 2026-09-16); era amphibious-ship construction practice [other_primary]
- Locator
- BuShips SDB v2 machinery data; NavSource specifications; lst-1-class.class.json ev-lst-1-class-03
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- A diesel-powered LST built in late 1944 sits inside the era when shipboard insulation, gaskets, and friction materials were commonly manufactured with asbestos fiber. Era-standard applications for a diesel LST of this type and period: diesel exhaust lagging and gaskets, engine-room thermal/acoustic insulation, deck coverings/tile, bulkhead and accommodation insulation, winch and crane brake linings. As a diesel ship she carried no boilers - the boiler/steam-line lagging pathway of steam vessels does not apply. This hull saw no known conversion to ARL/AGP/ARB, so the conversion-interior-rework pathway documented for some sister ships does not apply either.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 1944-1966
- Population
- JeffBoat construction trades (1944); USN crew (1944-1946); Argentine Navy crews and yard/base trades (1947-1966)
- Limitations
- Class/era inference only - no hull-specific insulation survey, material list, work package, or litigation record located for LST-801. 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-801-lst801-06
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[8]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 required for repairs, modified 1979 to selective replacement in high-maintenance areas - era program context for Navy asbestos handling generally.
- 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 only. This hull left U.S. custody in December 1947, three decades before the documented program period - the policies described never applied to LST-801 in service; included for era context only. gao.gov returns HTTP 403 to automated fetch; content via the product-page description (same access defect as prior batches).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-801-lst801-07
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[9]Batch-7340 search ledger (this record): DANFS via archived NHHC page; NavSource; Histarmar fleet list + BDT-13 ship page; BuShips SDB 1945 v2; ShipbuildingHistory production table; NVR; NIOSH/OSHA Jeffboat sweep; NARA catalog; CourtListener (blocked); secondary web litigation sweep [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-lst-801-lst801-01 through -10
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, or verified litigation naming USS LST-801 (or her Argentine identities Don Antonio / ARA BDT No. 5 / ARA Cabo Buen Tiempo BDT-13) was found in the public sources searched. CAVEAT: CourtListener could not be queried this session - the authenticated helper reported the fleet-shared daily quota exhausted; a second attempt later the same day (04:48 CDT, ~7.4 h to reset) confirmed the quota still spent; logged as blocked in search_ledger, not as a negative result. Secondary web sweeps surfaced no qualifying case and no asbestos content naming this hull. A prior class-level CourtListener sweep (lst-1-class profile, 2026-09-16) likewise found no qualifying asbestos docket naming any LST hull - only an incidental reunion-notice mention of LST-579 inside an unrelated case file.
- 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 - and the litigation repository search is a genuine open gap (quota-blocked, not run). Deck logs, JeffBoat work records, and Argentine-era maintenance/disposal files are undigitized leads. Does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-801-lst801-08