Evidence
9 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-9).
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[1]research packet 741-packet.md (3 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-896-lst896-pkt-741-packet-md
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[2]NavSource Online: Amphibious Photo Archive, USS LST-896 page [museum_official]
- Locator
- History bullets, awards block, and final-disposition line
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NavSource identifies USS LST-896 as an LST-542-class tank landing ship laid down on 6 October 1944 at Dravo Corporation, Pittsburgh; launched on 18 November 1944; and commissioned on 20 December 1944 under Ensign Vinton C. Vint. It records postwar occupation and China service from 2 September through 3 December 1945, grounding during Typhoon Louise at Okinawa on 9 October 1945, decommissioning on 3 December 1945, striking on 3 January 1946, and destruction of the damaged hulk on 8 March 1946.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 1944-1946
- Population
- Ship's company, embarked troops, and postwar occupation-service personnel
- Limitations
- NavSource is an archival naval photo/history resource, not a government source; its live .net page was verified at research time. It establishes identity and service history but contains no asbestos, material, exposure, or causation finding.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-896-lst896-01
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[3]NavSource Online: Amphibious Photo Archive, USS LST-896 specifications [museum_official]
- Locator
- Specifications block, propulsion and complement sections
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- NavSource's hull-specific specifications identify LST-896 as 328 feet long with a 50-foot beam, 11.6-knot trial speed, a complement of 13 officers and 104 enlisted personnel, accommodations for 16 officers and 147 enlisted troops, two General Motors 12-567A diesel engines, Falk reduction gears, two propellers, 1,700 shaft horsepower, and three diesel-drive 100-kW 230-V DC ship-service generators.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 1944-1945
- Population
- Engineering crew, shipyard trades, and maintenance workers
- Limitations
- The page presents design specifications for this hull but does not establish asbestos content in engines, exhausts, gaskets, insulation, coverings, or friction materials.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-896-lst896-02
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[4]National Archives and Records Administration, Special List No. 44, by Ship Numbers [other_primary]
- Locator
- PDF page 56, LST-896 rows
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- NARA Special List No. 44, by ship number, lists LST-896 deck-log coverage from 20 December 1944 through 31 December 1945, providing an archival lead for the commissioning, wartime, occupation, and decommissioning record.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 1944-1945
- Population
- Ship's company and wartime/postwar operations
- Limitations
- The index confirms logbook coverage dates only. The underlying logs were not retrieved, so this row makes no material, asbestos, maintenance, exposure, or causation finding.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-896-lst896-03
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[5]Naval History and Heritage Command, United States Pacific Fleet Organization, 1 May 1945 [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- Pacific fleet organization table, LST 896 row
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- NHHC's United States Pacific Fleet Organization, 1 May 1945, lists LST 896 in the Pacific fleet organization, providing contemporaneous administrative confirmation of the hull's wartime assignment.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 1945-05-01
- Population
- Pacific Fleet and LST personnel
- Limitations
- Administrative assignment evidence only; it does not document shipboard materials, maintenance, asbestos, exposure, or causation.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-896-lst896-04
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[6]Naval History and Heritage Command, Pacific Typhoon October 1945 - Okinawa [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- Ship table, LST 896 row
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NHHC's Pacific Typhoon October 1945 record lists LST 896 as grounded during the Okinawa typhoon, corroborating the hull-specific damage and final-disposition account.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 1945-10
- Population
- LST-896 crew and Okinawa-area naval personnel
- Limitations
- The record establishes grounding in the typhoon event, not the condition or composition of insulation or other materials and not any person's exposure.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-896-lst896-05
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[7]National Park Service, Evansville, Indiana, American World War II Heritage City page [nps]
- Locator
- Evansville Shipyard paragraph
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- NPS documents that the Evansville Shipyard was a wartime inland LST-production yard, producing 167 LSTs by February 1945 at a 1944 rate of one ship every four days, plus ammunition lighters and oceangoing barges. This is general wartime shipbuilding context, not a finding about LST-896.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 1942-1945
- Population
- WWII inland LST shipyard workforce, not this hull's builder workforce
- Limitations
- This is yard-level WWII LST context and does not name LST-896, Dravo Corporation, asbestos, materials, exposure, or causation. No Dravo Pittsburgh yard_id was found in the local shipyard dataset, so it is not used in related_shipyards.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-896-lst896-06
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[8]Bureau of Ships, Ships' Data, U.S. Naval Vessels, Vol. II (NAVSHIPS 250-011, 1945), LST design table [other_primary]
- Locator
- LST design/characteristics table
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Era/design inference only: BuShips Ships' Data 1945 identifies the LST design as diesel-powered with two GM 12-567A engines and no boilers; plausible asbestos-relevant applications for this type include diesel or exhaust insulation, gaskets and packing, deck coverings, accommodation or bulkhead insulation, and brake linings on deck machinery.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 1944-1945
- Population
- WWII LST construction trades, engineering crew, deck-machinery operators, and later maintenance workers
- Limitations
- The design table does not state asbestos content and does not name LST-896. This row does not establish presence, absence, quantity, condition, removal history, individual exposure, or causation aboard this hull.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-896-lst896-07
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[9]Batch-7439 source review and search ledger [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-lst-896-lst896-01 through -11
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record was located in the public sources searched: the NavSource hull page, NHHC fleet and typhoon records, NARA logbook index, NPS yard-context page, and BuShips design table contain no asbestos survey, abatement, hazmat, or material disclosure for LST-896. The authenticated CourtListener sweep was stopped by the fleet pacing limiter before exact-name and exact-hull litigation results were returned.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 2026-10-03
- Limitations
- This is a negative finding about records located, not proof that asbestos was absent. CourtListener coverage is incomplete because the authenticated helper returned a fleet pacing stand-down after the exact-name opinion request; no anonymous, raw, or v3 request was made. No litigation conclusion should be drawn from the blocked queries.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-896-lst896-08