Evidence
5 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-5).
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[1]research packet 737-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-866-lst866-pkt-737-packet-md
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[2]NavSource Online, USS LST-866 ship page [other_primary]
- Locator
- Specifications, complement, troop-accommodations, and propulsion sections, lines 43-79 of the live page
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- The ship-specific NavSource record lists 13 officers and 104 enlisted in the ship's company, troop accommodations for 16 officers and 147 enlisted, two General Motors 12-567A 900-hp diesel engines, Falk main reduction gears, three diesel-drive 100-kW 230-volt DC generators, two propellers, and 1,700 shaft horsepower.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 1944-1946
- Population
- Ship's company and embarked troops
- Limitations
- The machinery summary documents a diesel plant but does not identify insulation or other material composition. It supports no ship-specific asbestos claim and does not establish individual exposure or causation.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-866-lst866-02
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[3]U.S. Government Accountability Office, Navy Efforts To Protect Workers From Asbestos Exposure, HRD-80-2 [gao]
- Locator
- GAO Highlights: Navy use of asbestos in ships and 1975/1979 replacement policies
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- GAO's 1979 review states that the Navy used asbestos on naval vessels and describes policies for removing or replacing asbestos thermal insulation when equipment or machinery was repaired. This establishes Navy-wide era context only; it does not name LST-866 or establish that asbestos was installed aboard this hull.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 1975-1979 policy review
- Population
- Navy shipyard workers and naval-vessel personnel generally
- Limitations
- Program-level Navy documentation, not a record for LST-866 or the LST-542 class. It does not establish a product, location, quantity, condition, present-day presence, exposure, or causation aboard this hull.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-866-lst866-03
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[4]Batch-7409 source review: NavSource LST-866 page; National Archives Special List 44; NHHC/DANFS page access check; CourtListener authenticated-helper diagnostics [other_primary]
- Locator
- Search-ledger rows sl-uss-lst-866-lst866-01 through sl-uss-lst-866-lst866-08; official NARA list https://www.archives.gov/files/research/military/logbooks/sl-44-ship-number.pdf; NHHC URL https://www.history.navy.mil/content/history/nhhc/research/histories/ship-histories/danfs/l/lst-866.html returned HTTP 404
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No ship-specific asbestos record was located in the accessible official/authoritative sources searched: the live ship record documents history and machinery but no asbestos, insulation-material, abatement, or hazmat statement; the official NARA ship-number list confirms LST-866's commissioning date and 1945 logbook coverage but contains no asbestos information. Because LST-866 was scrapped in 1947, no public museum or present-day hull survey was expected. The required CourtListener exact-name and hull-number sweep was not completed because authenticated helper requests returned a multi-hour daily-quota stand-down.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 2026-10-03
- Limitations
- A negative public-source finding is not proof that asbestos was absent. The CourtListener litigation classification is incomplete, not a no-result finding: exact-name opinion and docket requests were attempted through the required authenticated helper, which reported a roughly 9.1-hour quota wait; hull-number requests were stood down. No litigation conclusion is drawn from the incomplete sweep.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-866-lst866-04
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[5]NavSource Online, USS LST-866 ship page [other_primary]
- Locator
- Ship history and service bullets, lines 21-41 of the live page
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- The ship-specific NavSource record identifies USS LST-866 as an LST-542-class tank landing ship laid down 1944-10-14 at Jeffersonville Boat & Machine Co., launched 1944-11-27, and commissioned 1944-12-21. It records assignment to the Asiatic-Pacific Theater, participation in the Okinawa Gunto assault and occupation from 1945-06-08 through 1945-06-30, postwar occupation and China service, decommissioning 1946-06-27, striking from the Naval Register 1946-07-31, and sale for scrapping 1947-09-25 to Consolidated Builders, Inc., Seattle.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 1944-1947
- Population
- Jeffersonville construction workers; U.S. Navy crew; occupation and China-service crew
- Limitations
- The page is a naval-history archive and links to the official DANFS entry, but the linked NHHC/DANFS page returned 404 at research time. This row supports the identity and service chronology; it does not establish asbestos content, exposure, causation, or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-866-lst866-01