Evidence
9 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-9).
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[1]research packet 745-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-925-lst925-pkt-745-packet-md
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[2]DANFS, LST-925 (NHHC, verified live 2026-10-03) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS LST-925 entry, full text
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Documented for this hull: 'LST-925 was laid down on 10 May 1944 at Hingham, Mass., by the Bethlehem-Hingham Shipyard, Inc.; launched on 21 June 1944; and commissioned on 15 July 1944.' During World War II assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific theater; 'participated in the Lingayen Gulf landing in January 1945.' Returned to the United States; 'decommissioned on 26 November 1945 and struck from the Navy list on 5 December that same year. On 9 May 1948, the ship was sold to Consolidated Builders Inc., Seattle, Wash., for scrapping.' Earned one battle star for World War II service.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 1944-1948
- Population
- Bethlehem-Hingham construction trades (1944); crew (1944-45); shipbreakers, Consolidated Builders Inc., Seattle (1948)
- Limitations
- Ship-specific history only; no asbestos or material content. The DANFS entry is the short-form LST entry - no command history, repair narrative, or damage detail beyond the campaign name.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-925-01
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[3]NavSource Online: Amphibious Photo Archive, USS LST-925 - timeline, unit assignments, commanding officers, specifications, awards, attack photo captions (verified live 2026-10-03) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource 10/16/160925.htm header block, campaign table, specifications block, photo captions 1016092501/1016092502, CO table
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NavSource timeline for this hull: '542 Class Tank Landing Ship: Laid down, 10 May 1944, at Bethlehem-Hingham Shipyard, Inc., Hingham, MA. Launched, 21 June 1944. Commissioned USS LST-925, 15 July 1944, LT. Furr, Floyd M. USN in command.' Assigned Asiatic-Pacific Theater; campaign: 'Luzon operation; Lingayen Gulf landing, 9 January 1945.' Post-Southwest Pacific assignment: LST Flotilla Six (CAPT. Laidlaw), LST Group Seventeen (CAPT. E. Watts USN), LST Division Thirty-four. Decommissioned 26 November 1945; struck from the Naval Register 5 December 1945; final disposition sold for scrapping 9 May 1948 to Consolidated Builders Inc., Seattle, WA; one battle star. COs: LT Floyd McDaniel Furr USN (15 Jul 1944 - 19 Apr 1945); LT Joseph A. Foyle USNR (19 Apr 1945 - Sep 1945); LT John Gamble Cooke USNR (Sep 1945 - 26 Nov 1945). Awards displayed: Combat Action Medal (9 January 1945), American Campaign Medal, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (1), WWII Victory Medal, Philippines Presidential Unit Citation, Philippines Liberation Medal (1). Specifications: 1,625 t light / 4,080 t full / 2,366 t beaching; 328 ft oa; 50 ft beam; 11.6 kt trial; endurance 24,000 mi at 9 kt displacing 3,960 t; 13 officers / 104 enlisted; troops 16 officers / 147 enlisted; 2 LCVP; 4,300 bbl diesel; propulsion two General Motors 12-567A 900 hp diesels, single Falk main reduction gear, three diesel-drive 100 kW 230 V DC ship's-service generators, two propellers 1,700 shp, twin rudders. Photo captions document the Lingayen attack: 'Early in the morning of January 10th, USS LST-925 ... was struck by an explosive charge placed by an enemy small craft. The gunners on USS LST-925 destroyed the boat and crew, but the damage was already done. USS LST-1028 came alongside to render assistance and was also struck by a similar craft before they too destroyed their attackers. Taking on water and assisted by tugs, both ships elected to beach at the extreme edge of the landing area' - photo dated 16 January 1945 shows LST-925 broached at a right angle to LST-1028 on Orange Beach, with LST-623 and LST-687 nearby.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 1944-1948
- Population
- Bethlehem-Hingham construction trades (1944); crew (1944-45); shipbreakers (1948)
- Limitations
- NavSource is a volunteer photographic-archive compilation, not a primary registry - milestone dates here agree with DANFS and the CO table agrees with the NHHC fleet-organization roster on names (though on CO timing it conflicts - see gaps). Contains no asbestos content. Attack detail rests on photo captions contributed by participants/collectors, not an official action report or war-damage survey.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-925-02
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[4]NHHC, 'United States Pacific Fleet Organization, 1 May 1945' (official organizational roster, verified live 2026-10-03) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Pacific Fleet Organization 1 May 1945, LST Group 17 / LST Division 34 table
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Official NHHC-posted Pacific Fleet organization of 1 May 1945 lists 'LST 925, Lt. F. M. Furr (28618)' within LST Division 34 under LST Group 17 (ComLSTGrp 17 Capt. E. Watts) - corroborating this hull's unit assignment and Pacific service late in the war.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 1945
- Population
- Ship's company, spring 1945
- Limitations
- The roster still lists Lt. F. M. Furr as of 1 May 1945, while NavSource's CO table shows LT Joseph A. Foyle USNR in command from 19 April 1945 - an unresolved timing discrepancy (roster lag vs relief date). Ship-specific placement only; no asbestos or material content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-925-03
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[5]Walter Karig, Russell L. Harris, and Frank A. Manson, Battle Report: Victory in the Pacific (Rinehart, 1949) - official-source-based Navy history; Lingayen Gulf attack passage (archive.org full text, verified 2026-10-03) [reputable_press]
- Locator
- Battle Report: Victory in the Pacific, ch. on Lingayen Gulf (p. 187-188 in the scanned edition), 0353 Colorado-log entry
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Karig's account of the pre-dawn hours following the 9 January 1945 Lingayen landings, drawn from USS Colorado's log: '0353 - TBS transmission from an LST: "Any ship this circuit send small boats. We have been damaged by enemy torpedo boats and are taking on water." (It was the LST 925 and she had been attacked by three boats.)' Japanese small-craft attacks that night also hit USS Robinson (DD) and War Hawk (AP); the craft were Japanese explosive/suicide motorboats - NavSource captions describe LST-925 struck by an explosive charge from an enemy small craft and LST-1028 similarly damaged while assisting.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 1945-01
- Population
- Ship's company under attack; LST-1028 assisting crew
- Limitations
- Published official-source-based history, not a primary document; the contemporaneous Colorado log called the attackers 'torpedo boats' - secondary literature identifies them as Japanese Army Shin'yo-class explosive motorboats. No date is printed adjacent to the passage; the narrative sequence places it in the pre-dawn hours after S-day (9 January), consistent with NavSource's 'early morning of January 10th.' No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-925-04
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[6]Consolidated era inference - NavSource LST-925 specifications block (verified live: 2 x GM 12-567A 900 hp diesels, Falk reduction gear, diesel-drive generators - a diesel plant with no boilers) + era amphibious-ship construction practice (per LST-1/542 class profile, class-f worktree) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource specifications block (this record ev-02); LST-1-class class profile ev-lst-1-class-03
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- An LST-542-class diesel-powered tank landing ship built mid-1944 sits inside the era when insulating and gasket/packing materials aboard Navy auxiliaries and amphibious ships were commonly manufactured with asbestos fiber. With no steam plant, the boiler/turbine lagging pathway does not apply; era-consistent asbestos-relevant applications aboard a ship of this type and period were diesel engine and exhaust lagging, machinery thermal/acoustic insulation, gaskets and valve packing, deck coverings/tile, bulkhead and accommodation insulation, and winch/crane brake linings.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 1944-1948
- Population
- Bethlehem-Hingham construction trades (1944); ship's company and embarked troops (1944-45); Consolidated Builders shipbreakers, Seattle (1948)
- Limitations
- Class/era inference only - no hull-specific insulation survey, material schedule, or work package located for LST-925. Names era-standard applications, not confirmed installed materials; establishes no quantity and no individual exposure. No manufacturer attribution for this hull. BuShips Ships' Data 1945 v2 (the class profile's machinery source) now returns 404 with no Wayback capture - the diesel machinery detail here is carried on NavSource's verified-live spec block instead.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-925-05
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[7]Will Buckley, 'The Bethlehem-Hingham Shipyard in World War II,' Naval History (U.S. Naval Institute), Vol. 35 No. 3, June 2021 (verified live 2026-10-03 via rendered fetch; CDN 403s plain curl) [reputable_press]
- Locator
- USNI Naval History June 2021 article body
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Builder context: the Bethlehem-Hingham Shipyard (Hingham MA, on Weymouth Back River) operated December 1941 - 1945 as a purpose-built emergency yard after Bethlehem Steel's other yards hit capacity; it grew to more than 23,500 workers daily (over 2,700 women), produced 227 ships in 3.5 years including destroyer escorts and LSTs, set a record of a destroyer escort in 23 days and five LSTs in 50 hours, and twice received the Army-Navy 'E' Award. This hull (yard no. 3395 per secondary sourcing) was built inside that mass-production workforce.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 1941-1945
- Population
- Bethlehem-Hingham construction workforce (>23,500 daily at peak), 1941-45
- Limitations
- Yard-level historical journalism, not an official record - documents the construction workforce and tempo, not materials or conditions aboard this specific hull. Contains no asbestos content. Yard number 3395 traces to secondary sources (shipbuildinghistory.com via Wikipedia), unverified against a primary document.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-925-06
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[8]Archival leads: NARA RG 24 WWII deck logs (1941-1959 series) and RG 38 action reports/war diaries for this hull; State Historical Society of Missouri manuscript collection C0068 (World War II Letters) finding aid indexes a letter associated with LST 925 [other_primary]
- Locator
- NARA RG 24 deck logs 1941-1959 (NHHC deck-log access policy); catalog.archives.gov search; SHSMO C0068 finding aid PDF
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Undigitized primary records for this hull exist: NARA holds WWII-era deck logs (RG 24) at College Park and wartime action reports/war diaries (RG 38) that would document the Lingayen attack and repair record; no digitized catalog entry for LST-925 deck logs was located this session. The SHSMO World War II Letters collection (C0068) finding aid is indexed with an LST 925 reference (a 1944-era serviceman letter donated by William G. McNeel, per the search-index snippet).
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 1944-1946
- Limitations
- Archival leads only - none of these records was retrieved this session. The NARA catalog search is non-phrase tokenized (78,000+ results for 'LST-925'); the digitized-logs index did not surface this hull. The SHSMO finding-aid PDF text could not be extracted this session (search-index snippet only). Content unknown - no asbestos claim is made or implied.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-925-07
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[9]Batch-7468 search ledger (this record): DANFS (live); NavSource (live); NHHC Pacific Fleet organization (live); Karig Battle Report full text; USNI yard article (live); NARA digitized-logs index and catalog; SHSMO C0068; NVR; shipscribe BuShips SDB v2 (now 404); CourtListener (blocked - daily quota); secondary web litigation/asbestos sweep [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-lst-925-01 through -11
- 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-925 was found in the public sources searched. CAVEAT: CourtListener could not be queried this session - the API returned a daily-quota response (~28,200 s / ~7.8 h to reset); logged as blocked in search_ledger, not as a negative result. Secondary web sweeps surfaced no qualifying case; the only 'asbestos aboard' material is law-firm marketing listicle content asserting asbestos without primary sourcing - excluded by source policy. A Facebook community post mentions later lawsuits by former Bethlehem-Hingham employees - anecdotal, unverified, not carried as evidence.
- 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, action reports, and any scrapping-contract records are undigitized leads. Does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-925-08