Evidence
8 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-8).
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[1]research packet 836-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-933-lst933-pkt-836-packet-md
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[2]DANFS, LST-933 (NHHC, verified live 2026-10-03) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS LST-933 entry, full text
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Documented for this hull: 'LST-933 was laid down on 23 June 1944 at Hingham, Mass., by the Bethlehem-Hingham Shipyard, Inc.; launched on 26 July 1944; sponsored by Miss Helen M. Long; and commissioned on 20 August 1944, Lt. (jg.) M. L. Stokes in command.' During World War II assigned to the Asiatic-Pacific theater; participated in the Palawan Island landings (February and March 1945), the Mindanao Island landings (April and May 1945), and the assault and occupation of Okinawa Gunto (June 1945). Post-war occupation duty in the Far East until mid-February 1946; returned to the United States; 'decommissioned on 2 July 1946 and struck from the Navy list on 15 August that same year. On 25 May 1948, the ship was sold to Hughes Bros., Inc., New York, N.Y., for scrapping.' Earned two battle stars 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 (1944-46); shipbreakers, Hughes Bros., Inc., New York (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 campaign names.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-933-01
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[3]NavSource Online: Amphibious Photo Archive, USS LST-933 (10/16/160933) - timeline, campaign table, commanding officers, specifications, awards, photo captions (verified live 2026-10-03) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource 10/16/160933.htm header block, campaign table, awards block, specifications block, photo captions, CO table
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NavSource timeline for this hull: '542-Class Tank Landing Ship: Laid down, 23 June 1944, at Bethlehem-Hingham Shipyard, Inc. Hingham, MA. Launched, 26 July 1944. Commissioned USS LST-933, 20 August 1944, LTjg. Margil L. Stokes USN in command.' Campaign table: 'Consolidation and capture of Southern Philippines; Palawan Island landings, 28 February to 1 March and 6 to 7 March 1945; Mindanao Island landings, 17 to 23 April and 10 to 16 May 1945; Okinawa Gunto operation; Assault and occupation of Okinawa Gunto, 21 to 30 June 1945.' Navy Occupation Service Medal periods: 29 September to 10 October 1945, 30 October to 9 November 1945, 23 December 1945 to 22 February 1946. Decommissioned 2 July 1946; struck from the Naval Register 15 August 1946; final disposition sold for scrapping 25 May 1948 to Hughes Bros., Inc., New York, N.Y.; two battle stars. COs: LTjg Margil LeRoy (Mike) Stokes USN (20 August 1944 - 6 August 1945); LT Jack E. Norkool USNR (6 August 1945 - 2 July 1946). Awards displayed: American Campaign Medal, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal (2), WWII Victory Medal, Navy Occupation Service Medal (Asia clasp), Philippines Presidential Unit Citation, Philippines Liberation Medal (1). Radio call sign NKBY. 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: beached at Ormoc, Leyte with USS LSM-315 and USS LST-592; beached at Mangarin Bay, Mindoro with CTU 78.7.2 unloading the 41st Infantry Division, 8-10 February 1945 (caption analysis); beached at Tarakan, Borneo 1 May 1945 landing HQ 26th Infantry Brigade (attributed to Australian War Memorial photo 090850); under way in San Francisco Bay circa 1945-46 (NHHC photo NH 82173).
- 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); shipbreakers (1948)
- Limitations
- NavSource is a volunteer photographic-archive compilation, not a primary registry - milestone dates here agree with DANFS. Contains no asbestos content. Photo-caption operational detail rests on contributed captions/analysis, not official action reports; the Mindoro dating is the contributor's inference from hull numbers and unit records.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-933-02
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[4]Australian War Memorial, collection item 090850: 'TARAKAN, BORNEO. 1945-05-01. LANDING SHIP, TANK (LST) HIGH AND DRY AT LOW TIDE. HEADQUARTERS 26TH [INFANTRY BRIGADE]' (verified live 2026-10-03) [other_primary]
- Locator
- AWM collection 090850 catalog entry; NavSource 10/16/160933.htm Tarakan photo caption
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- The Australian War Memorial holds a photograph (item 090850) captioned 'Tarakan, Borneo. 1945-05-01. Landing Ship, Tank (LST) high and dry at low tide' associated with the Headquarters 26th Infantry Brigade amphibious landing. NavSource attributes this image (AWM 090850) to USS LST-933, landing troops and equipment of the Royal Australian Army's Headquarters 26th Infantry Brigade across a pontoon causeway at Tarakan on 1 May 1945 - placing this hull in the Oboe One operation, between its documented Mindanao (April-May 1945) campaign periods.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-10-03
- Study period
- 1945-05
- Population
- Ship's company and embarked Australian troops, 1 May 1945
- Limitations
- The AWM catalog page (verified live) captions the image generically as an LST and does not itself print the hull number; the identification of the ship as LST-933 rests on NavSource's caption attribution to AWM 090850 - verification of the hull attribution is therefore partial. Tarakan is not one of the hull's battle-star campaigns in DANFS/NavSource; no asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-933-03
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[5]Consolidated era inference - NavSource LST-933 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-01 (BuShips SD-1945 v2, source now 404)
- 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 (1944-46); Hughes Bros. shipbreakers, New York (1948)
- Limitations
- Class/era inference only - no hull-specific insulation survey, material schedule, or work package located for LST-933. 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, which annotates hull block 932-979 as carrying the GM 12-278A engine variant rather than the 12-567A on NavSource's spec block) returned 404 this session with no Wayback capture - the engine-model conflict is unresolved and logged in gaps.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-933-04
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[6]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) [reputable_press]
- Locator
- USNI Naval History June 2021 article body
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Builder context: the Bethlehem-Hingham Shipyard (Hingham MA) operated December 1941 - 1945 as a purpose-built emergency yard after Bethlehem Steel's established 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 records of a destroyer escort in 23 days and five LSTs in 50 hours, and twice received the Army-Navy 'E' Award. This hull 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.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-933-05
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[7]Archival leads: NARA RG 24 WWII deck logs (1941-1959 series) and RG 38 action reports/war diaries for this hull (NARA College Park); NHHC deck-log access policy [other_primary]
- Locator
- NARA RG 24 deck logs 1941-1959 (NHHC deck-log access policy); catalog.archives.gov search; NHHC Pacific Fleet Organization 1 May 1945 (searched, not listed)
- 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 Palawan, Mindanao, Okinawa, and Tarakan operations and any repair record; no digitized catalog entry for LST-933 deck logs was located this session. The NHHC-posted Pacific Fleet organization of 1 May 1945 does not list LST 933 (only the unrelated LCT 933 appears) - that roster corroboration avenue is closed.
- 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; the digitized-logs index did not surface this hull. Content unknown - no asbestos claim is made or implied.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-lst-933-06
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[8]Batch-7476 search ledger (this record): DANFS (live); NavSource (live); AWM 090850 (live); USNI yard article (live); NHHC Pacific Fleet organization (searched, hull not listed); NARA digitized-logs index and catalog; 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-933-01 through -09
- 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-933 was found in the public sources searched. CAVEAT: CourtListener could not be queried this session - the API returned a daily-quota response (~20,333 s / ~5.6 h to reset) on the first request; logged as blocked in search_ledger, not as a negative result. Secondary web sweeps surfaced no qualifying case and no law-firm marketing content naming this hull; an American Legion magazine archive page contains an unrelated crew-locator listing ('LST 933 (Southwest Pacific, May 1944-Nov. 1945)') adjacent to a general mesothelioma article - incidental co-occurrence, not an exposure record, 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-933-07