Evidence
6 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-6).
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[1]research packet 744-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-913-lst913-pkt-744-packet-md
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[2]NavSource Online: Amphibious Photo Archive, USS LST-913 [museum_official]
- Locator
- Live hull page: LST-542 Class Tank Landing Ship history bullets and campaign/occupation tables
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NavSource's live USS LST-913 hull page identifies an LST-542-class tank landing ship laid down on 15 March 1944 at Bethlehem-Hingham Shipyard, Inc., Hingham, Massachusetts; launched on 26 April 1944; and commissioned on 23 May 1944 with Lieutenant Lucien C. Gwin, USNR, in command. It records southern-France service from 15 August to 25 September 1944, Leyte landings from 5 to 18 November 1944, Okinawa operations from 26 to 30 June 1945, Far East occupation periods, decommissioning on 16 July 1946, striking on 14 March 1947, and sale for operation to Humble Oil and Refining Co. on 18 June 1948.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 1944-1948
- Population
- Bethlehem-Hingham construction workers; ship's company and embarked personnel
- Limitations
- The exact navsource.net page returned HTTP 200 and was read live. It supports the listed identity, chronology, service, and disposition facts only; it contains no asbestos, insulation-material, survey, abatement, hazmat, exposure, causation, or quantity finding.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-913-lst913-01
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[3]NavSource Online: Amphibious Photo Archive, USS LST-913 specifications (reported by Office of Naval Intelligence, 1945) [museum_official]
- Locator
- Live hull page, Specifications section
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NavSource's LST-913 specifications list a complement of 13 officers and 104 enlisted, troop accommodations for 16 officers and 147 enlisted, two General Motors 12-567A 900-hp diesel engines, Falk main 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
- 1944-1946
- Population
- Engineering crew and construction/maintenance workers
- Limitations
- The page presents design/class specifications with the hull history. Machinery and complement data do not establish that any insulation, gasket, packing, cable, covering, or friction material aboard LST-913 contained asbestos.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-913-lst913-02
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[4]National Archives and Records Administration, Special List No. 44: List of Logbooks of the U.S. Navy, 1801-1940s, by Ship Number [other_primary]
- Locator
- PDF p. 60, LST-913 entries
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- NARA Special List No. 44, an index arranged by ship number for U.S. Navy logbooks, includes two entries for LST-913, providing an archival lead to logbook holdings.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Population
- Ship's company
- Limitations
- The index establishes entries under this hull number, not the contents, dates, or asbestos relevance of any underlying logbook. No logbook volume was retrieved; this is not an asbestos or exposure finding.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-913-lst913-03
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[5]Fleischer WE, Viles FJ Jr, Gade RL, Drinker P, 'A health survey of pipe covering operations in constructing naval vessels,' Journal of Industrial Hygiene and Toxicology 28 (1946): 9-16 (PMID 21016030) [other_primary]
- Locator
- PubMed record PMID 21016030; article pp. 9-16
- Finding type
- gov_survey
- Finding
- A 1946 U.S. Public Health Service industrial-hygiene survey of pipe-covering operations in two Navy yards and two Navy contract yards reported that amosite asbestos was an important ingredient of pipe-covering material used on U.S. Navy vessels and also described asbestos cloth and asbestos cement in those operations.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 1944-1946
- Population
- Pipe coverers in surveyed Navy and Navy-contract yards
- Limitations
- This is wartime Navy-vessel construction context, not a record naming Bethlehem-Hingham or LST-913. It does not establish that asbestos pipe covering, cloth, cement, or any asbestos-containing material was installed aboard this hull; it does not establish quantity, condition, individual exposure, causation, or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-913-lst913-04
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[6]Batch-7456 search ledger (this record): live NavSource hull page; NARA Special List No. 44; authenticated CourtListener helper attempts; Firecrawl MCP response [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-lst-913-lst913-01 through -08
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record was located in the completed public-source review: the live NavSource hull page contains no asbestos, survey, abatement, hazmat, or insulation-material disclosure; NARA's logbook index identifies archival entries but not their contents. The required CourtListener exact-name and exact-hull searches did not receive result responses because the authenticated fleet pacing limiter held the helper before an HTTP response, and Firecrawl authoritative-web searches were blocked by the keyless quota.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 2026-10-03
- Limitations
- This is a finding about records located, not proof asbestos was absent. CourtListener coverage is incomplete because no result response was obtained for either required query, and Firecrawl was quota-blocked; no litigation conclusion may be drawn from those blocked searches. It does not establish or defeat exposure, causation, or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-913-lst913-05