Evidence
12 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-12).
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[1]research packet 743-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-910-lst910-pkt-743-packet-md
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[2]DANFS, LST-910 - construction at Bethlehem-Hingham Shipyard, Inc., Hingham MA; sponsor; commissioning; Pacific campaign list; China service; decommissioning, striking, and 1948 disposal (live NHHC page, verified 2026-10-03; UA-gated, fetched via Firecrawl) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS service narrative, LST-910 entry
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Documented for this hull: 'laid down on 23 February 1944 at Hingham, Mass., by the Bethlehem-Hingham Shipyard, Inc.; launched on 8 April 1944; sponsored by Mrs. Gerald Donovan; and commissioned on 24 May 1944, Lt. Harold V. Ruble in command.' Assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific theater; participated in the Battle of Surigao Strait (DANFS dates it November 1944), the Lingayen Gulf landing (January 1945), Zambales-Subic Bay (January 1945), the Palawan Islands landings (February and March 1945), the Mindanao Island landings (April and May 1945), and the Balikpapan operation (June and July 1945). Post-war occupation duty in the Far East and service in China until early April 1946; returned to the United States; decommissioned 27 June 1946; struck from the Navy list 31 July 1946; sold 25 November 1948 to the Bethlehem Steel Co., Bethlehem, Pa., for scrapping. 'Three battle stars' credited for World War II service - conflicts with NavSource's five (see gaps).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 1944-1948
- Population
- Bethlehem-Hingham construction trades (1944); crew (1944-46); embarked troops
- Limitations
- Ship-specific history only; no asbestos or material content. DANFS does not name a class in this entry's prose; class assignment (LST-542) comes from the NavSource header. Two internal conflicts: the 'Battle of Surigao Strait-November 1944' date label (the battle was fought 24-25 October 1944 and NavSource's campaign table credits 24-26 October) and the 'three battle stars' count (NavSource shows five - see gaps).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-910-lst910-01
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[3]NavSource Online: Amphibious Photo Archive, USS LST-910 (10/16/160910.htm, last updated 13 December 2019) - class header, unit assignments, specifications, campaign table, commanding-officer list, captioned photography (live page, verified 2026-10-03 via Firecrawl) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource 10/16/160910.htm header block, awards/campaign/occupation tables, specifications block, commanding-officer table, photo captions
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NavSource header identifies this hull as an LST-542 Class Tank Landing Ship; call sign NVPK. Unit assignment: LST Flotilla Eight (CAPT. E. Watts USN), LST Group Twenty-Two (CDR. E.H. Pope USN), LST Division Forty-Four - corroborated by the ship's own war diaries ('Division 44, Group 22, Flotilla 8, 7th Amphibious Force, 7th Fleet'). Campaign table: Leyte operation / Battle of Surigao Strait 24-26 October 1944; Lingayen Gulf landing 4-17 January 1945; Zambales-Subic Bay 29-30 January 1945; Palawan Islands landings 28 February-1 March and 6-7 March 1945; Mindanao Island landings 17-23 April and 10-16 May 1945; Balikpapan operation 28 June-7 July 1945. Navy Occupation Service 15 September-4 October 1945 and 8 January-11 April 1946; China Service (extended) 8 January-11 April 1946. 'Five battle stars' credited - conflicts with DANFS's three (see gaps). CO table: LTjg Harold V. Ruble USN 25 May 1944-25 September 1945; LTjg Anthony V. Yuskis USNR to 19 December 1945; LTjg William E. Kelley USNR to 22 February 1946; LTjg Peter W. Metz USNR to 27 June 1946. Specifications: displacement 1,625 t light / 4,080 t full / 2,366 t beaching; 328 ft o.a.; 50 ft beam; 11.6 kt trial; endurance 24,000 mi at 9 kt; complement 13 officers + 104 enlisted; troop accommodations 16 officers + 147 enlisted; two General Motors 12-567A 900-hp diesels, single Falk main reduction gear, two propellers 1,700 shp, twin rudders, three 100-kW diesel-driven ship-service generators; 2 LCVP. Awards: China Service (extended), American Campaign Medal, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (5), World War II Victory Medal, Navy Occupation Service Medal (Asia clasp), Philippines Presidential Unit Citation, Philippines Liberation Medal (2). Photo captions place the hull beached and underway in the Philippines circa 1944, beached at Hollandia Dutch New Guinea 1944, beached at Palawan 28 February 1945 (photographed from LSM-224), and moored in the Whangpoo River, Shanghai, alongside LST-1013 in early 1946; photos credited to crew member Millard Hathaway.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 1944-1948
- Population
- Bethlehem-Hingham construction trades (1944); USN/USNR ship's company (1944-46); embarked troops (incl. 24th Infantry Division elements to Mindanao, April 1945)
- Limitations
- NavSource is a volunteer secondary compilation, not a primary registry - milestone dates track DANFS but the spec block is unattributed and armament figures are the class's 'ultimate armament design,' not an outfit record for this hull. Its five-star count conflicts with DANFS's three, and its CO table starts Ruble 25 May 1944 against DANFS's 24 May commissioning - both carried in gaps. Photo attributions are NavSource/donor captions. Contains no asbestos content. The 1948 scrapping predates modern ACM-handling regulation; no hazmat or material record for the disposal was located.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-910-lst910-02
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[4]NARA still-textual catalog record NAID 134367821 (RG 38 WWII War Diaries; microfilm serial 88982; Roll A1175), 'USS LST-910 - War Diary, 6/1/44 to 8/31/44' - 17 digitized images (live catalog page, verified 2026-10-03; images downloaded and OCR'd this session) [other_primary]
- Locator
- catalog.archives.gov/id/134367821; images 0881-0897 of Roll A1175 (June diary pp. 1-3, July diary, August diary; CO forwarding letter serial 06-44)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Ship's own contemporaneous war diary, June-August 1944 (forwarded by CO letter of 27 September 1944, serial 06-44): task organization 'Div. 44, Group 22, Flotilla 8, 7th Amphibious Force, 7th Fleet.' 1 June - passage Boston to Chesapeake Bay for shakedown under ComPhibTraLant order; structural firing completed en route (25 rounds from seven 40 mm and twelve 20 mm guns). 12-16 June - availability for repairs and approved alterations at Norfolk Navy Yard including drydocking for installation of a new port propeller (casualty to stern anchor cable and port propeller, CO serial 54-44 of 11 June). 18-30 June - New York area: lifted three sections of LCT 1032 and middle/after sections of LCT 1146 at Pier 45, North River; loaded 900 tons of explosives at NAD Earle, N.J.; anchored Gravesend Bay. 5 July - underway in Convoy NG-445 New York to Guantanamo Bay; transit to Cristobal/Coco Solo, C.Z.; reported to 7th Fleet for duty per Conf. Despatch 172258 of July 1944 (DTG 17 July); passage Balboa, C.Z., to Australia with LST-742 in company; anchored Brisbane 24 August, moored 25-31 August discharging the 900 tons of explosives. Signature block: 'H. V. RUBLE, Lieutenant, U.S. Navy, Commanding' - primary-source confirmation of the commissioning CO (Lieutenant rank; NavSource table lists him LTjg).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 1944-06 - 1944-08
- Population
- USN ship's company (1944); Norfolk Navy Yard repair trades (June 1944)
- Limitations
- Primary ship-generated record read via local OCR of the digitized microfilm images - OCR was used for content extraction and may contain transcription errors in coordinates/serials; substantive facts quoted were legible. Covers June-August 1944 only; the October-December 1944 combat months are covered by separate action reports (ev-05), not by a located diary. No asbestos or material content - wartime operational diary, not a material survey. Establishes the Norfolk Navy Yard availability/drydock as a documented yard event for this hull.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-910-lst910-03
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[5]NARA catalog record NAID 134377578 (RG 38 WWII War Diaries; microfilm serial 90538; Roll A1195), 'USS LST-910 - War Diary, 9/1-30/44' - 4 digitized images (live catalog page, verified 2026-10-03; images downloaded and OCR'd this session) [other_primary]
- Locator
- catalog.archives.gov/id/134377578; images 0056-0059 of Roll A1195
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Ship's own contemporaneous war diary, September 1944: 'Attached to Division 44, Groupe 22, Flotilla 8, 7th Amphibious Force, 7th Fleet' (primary-source confirmation of the unit assignment NavSource lists). 1-5 September - moored Port of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, discharging tank-deck cargo of approximately 900 tons of high explosive. 6 September - underway for Milne Bay, New Guinea, carrying 9 officers and 155 men embarked for transport to Manus plus mail for Milne, Finsch, and Manus and 527 cases of merchandise for the U.S. Army at Manus. 11 September - in Milne Bay; discharged mail; additional passengers embarked for Manus. Documents the ship's staging through the Southwest Pacific ahead of the Leyte operation.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 1944-09
- Population
- USN ship's company; embarked Army passengers (September 1944)
- Limitations
- Primary ship-generated record read via local OCR of the digitized microfilm images; OCR may contain transcription errors in coordinates/serials. Covers September 1944 only. No asbestos or material content. The '9 officers and 155 men' figure is embarked passengers for transport, not ship's complement - NavSource's spec block (13 officers + 104 enlisted; troop accommodations 16 officers + 147 enlisted) is carried for complement.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-910-lst910-04
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[6]NARA catalog: four additional ship-titled digitized action-report file units for USS LST-910 (RG 38) - NAIDs 78690233, 139888391, 633407256, 633402768 [other_primary]
- Locator
- catalog.archives.gov search 'USS LST-910' (42 fuzzy results); file units at /id/78690233, /id/139888391, /id/633407256, /id/633402768
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Digitized ship-generated action reports exist covering this hull's combat operations: 'USS LST-910 - Form Rep of AA Act in San Pedro Bay, Leyte Gulf, Philippines, 11/12/44' (NAID 78690233, Roll A1269); 'USS LST-910 - Rep of ops in the invasion of Lingayen Gulf, Luzon Is, Philippines 1/8-12/45' (NAID 139888391, Roll A1425); 'USS LST-910 - Rep of ops in the assault landing in the San Narcisco Area, Southern Zambales Province, Luzon Is, Philippines 1/29-30/45' (NAID 633407256, Roll A1542); and 'USS LST-910 - Rep of ops in the invasion of Palawan Is, Philippines 2/28/45 - 3/1/45' (NAID 633402768, Roll A1531). These independently corroborate the campaign record (Leyte Gulf AA action 12 November 1944; Lingayen; Zambales-Subic; Palawan) at the ship level.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 1944-11 - 1945-03
- Population
- USN ship's company (1944-45); embarked troops
- Limitations
- Archival lead: file-unit titles and NAIDs verified in the live catalog; report contents not individually read this session. The November 1944 San Pedro Bay AA report places the ship at Leyte Gulf in November - consistent with DANFS's 'Battle of Surigao Strait-November 1944' phrasing, while NavSource's campaign credit runs 24-26 October (see gaps). No ship-titled war diary for October-December 1944 or 1945-46 was located in the catalog; no asbestos content expected in action reports.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-910-lst910-05
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[7]MARAD Vessel History Database, LST-910 (Detail/9555) - stub entry, type 'LST Tank Landing Ship', MARAD type 'Military', fate 'Sold - No Further Info' (live page, verified 2026-10-03) [marad_nrc]
- Locator
- vesselhistory.marad.dot.gov ShipHistory/Detail/9555, all tabs
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- MARAD's vessel-history database carries an entry for this hull that is a bare stub: all specification fields blank, 'Year Built' set to the database's 9999 placeholder, no historical narrative, no images, no documents. The sole substantive datum is 'Fate: Sold - No Further Info' - consistent with the documented 25 November 1948 sale to Bethlehem Steel Co. (DANFS) but adding no detail.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 1948
- Limitations
- Stub-quality record: confirms only that MARAD indexes the hull and codes its fate as a sale. 'Year Built 9999' is a placeholder, not data. No disposal instrument, status card, or builder record attached. No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-910-lst910-06
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[8]U.S. Naval Institute, Naval History Magazine, 'The Bethlehem-Hingham Shipyard in World War II' (Will Buckley, June 2021, Vol. 35 No. 3) - documented history of this hull's builder (live page, verified 2026-10-03) [reputable_press]
- Locator
- usni.org Naval History Magazine, June 2021, 'The Bethlehem-Hingham Shipyard in World War II'
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Builder documentation from a professional naval-history publication: the Bethlehem-Hingham Shipyard operated 1941-1945 on a 150-acre purpose-built site, peaked at more than 23,500 workers daily, and produced 227 ships for the war effort - destroyer escorts (Evarts, Edsall, Cannon, and Buckley classes; roughly half of the 154 Buckley-class DEs) plus landing ship tanks, setting a yard record of 'a destroyer escort in 23 days and five landing ship tanks in 50 hours.' The yard twice earned the Army-Navy 'E' Award. LST-910 is one of the yard's documented wartime LSTs (laid down, launched, and delivered there Feb-May 1944 per DANFS).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 1941-1945
- Population
- Bethlehem-Hingham construction trades incl. women workers (>2,700 by year two) (1941-45)
- Limitations
- Yard-level production context, not a hull record - does not document materials or conditions aboard any single hull, and contains no asbestos content. Article totals differ from other secondary counts of the yard's output (227 here vs 277 in Wikipedia's unsourced line) - USNI figure carried with attribution. Mass-production tempo context only.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-910-lst910-07
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[9]Era inference built on: DANFS construction record (Bethlehem-Hingham Shipyard, Hingham MA, 1944); NavSource specifications (LST-542 class, GM 12-567A diesel plant); Fleischer et al. 1946 PHS survey (ev-09); GAO HRD-80-2 (ev-10) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Fleischer et al. 1946 (PMID 21016030); GAO HRD-80-2 product page; DANFS/NavSource construction and spec records
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- A tank landing ship built Feb-May 1944 in a Navy-contract emergency yard sits inside the documented wartime asbestos-construction era: the PHS industrial-hygiene survey of pipe covering in naval-vessel construction found amosite asbestos was 'an important ingredient of pipe covering material used on U.S. Navy vessels,' with asbestos cloth and asbestos cement also used; GAO documented asbestos thermal insulation as the Navy's major shipboard asbestos use through the early 1970s. Era-standard applications aboard a diesel landing ship of this type and period were pipe and machinery insulation/lagging, diesel-exhaust lagging, gaskets, valve packing, electrical cable insulation, winch/windlass brake linings, and interior finish materials in quarters and mess spaces. Diesel plant - no boilers aboard.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 1944-1948
- Population
- Bethlehem-Hingham construction trades (1944); USN ship's company (1944-46); Norfolk Navy Yard repair trades (June 1944); Bethlehem Steel shipbreakers (post-1948)
- Limitations
- Class/era inference only - no hull-specific insulation survey, material list, or work package located for LST-910 (including in the ship's digitized war diaries, which are operational records, not material records). 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-910-lst910-08
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[10]Fleischer WE, Viles FJ Jr, Gade RL, Drinker P, 'A health survey of pipe covering operations in constructing naval vessels,' J Ind Hyg Toxicol 1946 Jan;28:9-16 (PMID 21016030) - U.S. Public Health Service industrial-hygiene survey of two Government Navy yards and two Navy contract yards [other_primary]
- Locator
- PubMed record PMID 21016030 (verified via NCBI E-utilities); article text pp. 9-16 (pipe-covering materials section; X-ray results)
- Finding type
- gov_survey
- Finding
- Wartime government survey documenting the asbestos regime inside naval-vessel construction: amosite asbestos was 'an important ingredient of pipe covering material used on U.S. Navy vessels,' valued for low thermal conductivity, light weight, and refractoriness; asbestos cloth and asbestos cement were likewise used. X-ray examination of 1,074 pipe coverers across four yards found three asbestosis cases, each with 20+ years in the trade. Surveyed operations (layout and cutting, band-saw cutting, cement mixing, installing, sewing asbestos cloth, stuffing with amosite) generated the era's principal insulation-trade dust exposure.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 1944-1946 (survey era)
- Population
- Navy yard and contract-yard pipe coverers/insulators (wartime)
- Limitations
- Era-level occupational survey, not a hull record: the four yards are anonymized (Navy Yards A-B, Contract Yards C-D), and Hingham and LSTs are not named - pipe covering was principally a steam-plant application, so the asbestos cloth/cement and general-insulation findings carry the weight for a diesel hull. Does not establish materials aboard this hull, individual exposure, or quantity. Citation metadata re-verified 2026-10-03 via NCBI E-utilities (esummary 21016030); the pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov page itself is reCAPTCHA-gated to automated fetch.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-910-lst910-09
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[11]GAO, Navy Efforts To Protect Workers From Asbestos Exposure, HRD-80-2 (Oct 18, 1979; publicly released Oct 22, 1979) [gao]
- Locator
- GAO product page HRD-80-2 (Highlights section; PDF blocked to automated fetch, HTTP 403)
- Finding type
- gov_survey
- Finding
- GAO documented the Navy's asbestos regime and its remediation timeline: asbestos thermal insulation was the Navy's major asbestos use aboard ships, alternative insulation materials were not substituted until the early 1970s, and the Navy's removal policy - initially (1975) limited to replacing only insulation that was damaged or had to be removed for repairs, expanded in 1979 to selective replacement in high-maintenance areas - postdates this hull's entire life (built 1944, sold for scrapping 1948).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 1979
- Population
- Navy shipyard workers; asbestos program review
- Limitations
- Program-level documentation; supports era context only, not any fact specific to this hull. Product page verified live via Firecrawl 2026-10-03; direct curl fetch of the page and PDF returns HTTP 403 (standing gao.gov automated-fetch defect) - content via the product-page Highlights abstract.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-910-lst910-10
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[12]Batch-7453 search ledger (this record): live NHHC DANFS; NavSource; NHHC Pacific Fleet organization document; NARA catalog (two queries; six ship-titled file units; two war diaries downloaded and OCR'd); MARAD vessel-history entry; NVR; BVA decisions index; GAO product page; PubMed/NCBI E-utilities; CourtListener (blocked); USCG historian site; USNI Naval History; secondary web litigation sweeps [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-lst-910-lst910-01 through -19
- 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-910 was found in the public sources searched (see search_ledger), and no post-1948 hull record can exist (sold for scrapping 25 November 1948). CAVEAT: CourtListener could not be queried this session - the authenticated API reported the shared daily quota exhausted (server-requested wait ~8.0 h); logged as blocked in search_ledger, not as a negative result. The BVA decisions index returned no results for 'LST-910'; the Naval Vessel Register carries no entry; secondary web sweeps surfaced no qualifying case - only a veteran's memoir in a 24th Infantry Division Association newsletter (embarked passenger to Mindanao, April 1945 - non-qualifying secondary) and law-firm marketing pages (excluded by source policy).
- 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). RG 24 deck logs/muster rolls and any 1948-49 scrapping records are undigitized or unsearched leads. Does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-910-lst910-11