Evidence
12 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-12).
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[1]CourtListener opinion search: 'USNS Hayes' [court_record]
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- CourtListener opinion search 'USNS Hayes' returned 158 result(s) (2026-10-07); individual records not reviewed
- Verification
- unverified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Limitations
- hit count only — underlying dockets/opinions not individually reviewed; name query may match same-named vessels
- Evidence ID
- usns-hayes-cl-name-opinion
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[2]CourtListener docket search: 'USNS Hayes' [court_record]
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- CourtListener docket search 'USNS Hayes' returned 436 result(s) (2026-10-07); individual records not reviewed
- Verification
- unverified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Limitations
- hit count only — underlying dockets/opinions not individually reviewed; name query may match same-named vessels
- Evidence ID
- usns-hayes-cl-name-docket
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[3]Naval Vessel Register (NAVSEA), ship detail page: HAYES (AG 195), ex-AGOR 16, Auxiliary, General; UIC 20174 [other_primary]
- Locator
- NVR SHIPSDETAIL_AG_195 (Wayback capture 2024-06-24)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Official register entry records: award 12/10/1968; keel 11/12/1969; launch 07/02/1970; delivery 07/21/1971; stricken 10/01/2008; status 'Disposed of through Inter or Intra Agency Transfer' effective 01/12/2022. Builder Todd Shipyards Corp., Seattle Div. Characteristics as stricken: 246 ft overall, 75 ft beam, 22 ft max navigational draft, 2,329 tons light / 4,521 tons full load, steel hull and superstructure, diesel-electric propulsion, 2 propellers, accommodations 11 officers / 33 enlisted.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-19
- Study period
- 1968-2022
- Population
- MSC civilian mariners and embarked technical/scientific party
- Limitations
- Official milestone and characteristics record; contains no asbestos or materials information. Stricken-date field (10/01/2008) conflicts with the NAVSEA/NHHC historical evaluation's 12/03/2008 - both carried, conflict unresolved. Live NVR page no longer carries the disposed ship; record read from the 2024-06-24 Wayback capture (NVR last-updated field shows 09/20/2022). Does not establish exposure for any individual.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-usns-hayes-01
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[4]NAVSEA, Naval Vessel Historical Evaluation, HAYES (T-AG-195), FINAL DETERMINATION (initial evaluation 2011-02-09; final 2011-07-05) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NAVSEA SEA21 Inactive Ships Historic/2011 PDF, pp. 1-4 (Wayback capture)
- Finding type
- gov_survey
- Finding
- The Navy's formal NRHP evaluation determined HAYES ELIGIBLE for listing under Program Comment criterion (iv): her catamaran hull 'marked the first time that such an innovation had been used for a ship her size,' T-AGOR-16 'represented the most advanced design and engineering concepts in the U.S. oceanographic research vessels,' and as T-AG-195 she 'supported the U.S. Navy's Submarine Noise Reduction Program' - 'a one-of-a-kind vessel.' Records sponsor Mrs. Harvey C. [Katherine] Hayes; conversion 'to an acoustic research ship (T-AG-195) by Tacoma (WA) Boatbuilding Co.'; inactivated and stricken 3 December 2008; and two rescues (36 men from the Greek freighter ERYGENES, October 1973; 13 men from the Liberian-flag DROSIA off North Carolina, December 1975). Notes 'NHHC files contain no material concerning the ship's operations' and a DANFS entry 'in early stages of preparation.'
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-19
- Study period
- 1971-2011
- Population
- Ship's crew and embarked scientific/technical parties (historical); preservation stakeholders (2011)
- Limitations
- Ship-specific federal heritage evaluation; contains no asbestos, hazmat, or material-composition information - documents historic significance only. Its stricken date (12/03/2008) conflicts with NVR's 10/01/2008. NRHP eligibility did not prevent disposal; the ship was scrapped 2022. Does not establish exposure for any individual.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-usns-hayes-02
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[5]A. T. McClinton, 'USNS HAYES (T-AGOR 16) U.S. Navy Oceanographic Research Ship,' NRL Report 7370, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington DC, 7 April 1972 (DTIC AD0740748) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NRL Report 7370, AD0740748, pp. 1-5 (ship characteristics, general arrangements, machinery)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- The laboratory's own ship description documents: preliminary design by M. Rosenblatt & Son under Naval Ship Engineering Center direction completed 22 March 1968; construction contract awarded 10 December 1968 to Todd Shipyard Corp., Seattle, for $13,950,000, administered by PMS-391 (Oceanographic and Instrumentation Ship Acquisition Office); delivery July 1971; operation by MSC under NRL technical direction and funding control. Twin-hull catamaran with 85-ft center well and three 30-in instrument wells; machinery plant per hull of one EMD 20-645E5 2,700-bhp main diesel and one GM 6-71 165-bhp auxiliary diesel on a LIPS reversible-pitch propeller; 15 knots sustained, 6,000 nm at 13.5 knots; complement 11 officers, 34 crew, 25 scientists, 5 emergency berths.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-19
- Study period
- 1968-1972
- Population
- Construction trades (Todd Seattle 1969-71); MSC crew and embarked NRL scientific party
- Limitations
- Primary ship-description document - capabilities brochure, not a materials specification; contains no mention of asbestos, insulation products, or material composition. Does not establish or exclude asbestos aboard; does not establish exposure for any individual.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-usns-hayes-03
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[6]F. T. Erskine III, 'A History of the Acoustics Division of the Naval Research Laboratory: The First Eight Decades 1923-2008,' NRL/PU/7100--13-570, August 2013 (DTIC ADA586269) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NRL/PU/7100--13-570, pp. 95-96 and oral-history notes (Titcomb, Fleming interviews)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NRL's official division history documents Hayes's AGOR service: delivered to NRL in 1973; on the maiden cruise Environmental Sciences Section researchers worked a North Atlantic area of known Soviet submarine patrols and discovered the Hayes Fracture Zone, prompting reevaluation of Atlantic fracture-zone spacing (~35 nm); in 1973 NRL researchers aboard Hayes discovered the Molloy Deep (deepest point north of 65 deg N); late 1975 first large-scale Norwegian Sea survey by 12 kHz narrow-beam echo sounder with Transit satellite navigation; 1979-1989 bilateral program with Brazil operating Hayes, R/V Conrad, and Almirante Camara on the southern Mid-Atlantic Ridge. Oral-history notes record the ship was 'supposed to go to HL [Hudson Laboratories]' and that she 'did not work out very well due to its handling characteristics in rough seas' (the cross-structure slamming corrected by a forward hydrofoil).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-19
- Study period
- 1971-1989
- Population
- NRL embarked researchers; MSC civilian crew
- Limitations
- Primary institutional history; contains no asbestos or materials information. The Hudson Laboratories intent appears as oral-history recollection, not a program directive. Does not establish exposure for any individual.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-usns-hayes-04
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[7]Naval Research Laboratory, NRL Fact Book, March 1983 (DTIC ADA573784), p. 3 [other_primary]
- Locator
- NRL Fact Book (Mar 1983), Mobile Research Platforms section, p. 3
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NRL's FY83 fact book records the layup driver: 'In FY83 the Military Sealift Command (MSC) per diem costs are expected to exceed $20K per day. At this time, operating funds for the USNS Hayes have not been identified for FY83.' Hayes was placed in Ready Reserve 10 June 1983; custody transferred to MARAD for National Defense Reserve Fleet lay-up at James River, Fort Eustis, VA, in 1984 (per compiled sources); reacquired by the Navy in FY86 and placed on special duty February 1987 for conversion to an acoustic research ship.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-19
- Study period
- 1983-1987
- Population
- MSC crew; NRL program sponsors
- Limitations
- Primary federal document for the cost/layup decision; the 1984 NDRF custody transfer is corroborated by compiled sources (NavSource, shipscribe) - the official MARAD vessel status card was not retrievable (database errors). Contains no asbestos information.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-usns-hayes-05
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[8]E. L. Woo, A. L. Hendrican, J. F. Brown, 'Performance and Maneuvering Trials of USNS HAYES (T-AGOR 16) With and Without a Towed Array,' David W. Taylor Naval Ship Research and Development Center, Bethesda MD, March 1984 (DTIC ADA139171) [other_primary]
- Locator
- DTNSRDC report ADA139171, introduction and trial-procedures sections
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DTNSRDC's trials report documents the evaluation that redirected Hayes to acoustic work: 'The HAYES was the first large ocean-going catamaran designed and built in the western hemisphere,' built at Todd Shipyard Seattle; pierside for the prior year at MSC Marine Ocean Terminal, Bayonne NJ; baseline trials at the Hatteras East Coast Tracking Offshore Range (HECTOR) 5-7 October 1983 and towed-array trials at the Atlantic Undersea Test and Evaluation Center (AUTEC) 29-30 October 1983, towing a 4,000-ft cable / 1,968-ft neutrally buoyant section / 984-ft array.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-19
- Study period
- 1983-1984
- Population
- Trials personnel; MSC crew
- Limitations
- Primary federal trials report; documents the platform's acoustic-trial suitability, not conversion work performed. Contains no asbestos or materials information. Does not establish exposure for any individual.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-usns-hayes-06
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[9]U.S. GAO, HRD-80-2, 'Navy Efforts To Protect Workers From Asbestos Exposure' (1979), incl. Navy enclosures (Jan/Feb 1979) listing insulation status by ship [gao]
- Locator
- GAO HRD-80-2, Enclosures I-II and Attachment 1 ship list (AGOR section)
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- GAO documents the era's asbestos regime in Navy construction: thermal-insulation product specifications were changed to asbestos-free only in 1973; materials already purchased were still installed, so 'some ships were delivered with asbestos insulation as late as May 1978'; the Navy's formal no-asbestos policy (NAVSEAINST 5100.2) issued 24 October 1975; and asbestos continued in shipboard applications lacking designated substitutes (gaskets, pipe-hanger liners), the Navy noting 'it is nearly impossible to build a Navy ship free of the mineral.' Attachment 1 lists a sister-vintage AGOR, GYRE (T-AGOR-21, delivered August 1972), as carrying asbestos thermal insulation.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-19
- Study period
- 1969-1979
- Population
- Navy shipyard construction trades (era); MSC crew and embarked scientists (inference only)
- Limitations
- Program-level and class-era evidence, NOT hull documentation: Hayes (delivered July 1971) is not named in the GAO ship list, which covered ships delivered in the early/mid-1970s and under construction. AGOR-21's documented asbestos insulation makes era-consistent inference for Hayes reasonable but not ship-proven; the report establishes no asbestos application, quantity, or residual presence aboard this hull.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-usns-hayes-07
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[10]P. DeNolfo, M. Harrison, H. Thomson, M. Greise, 'South Toto Acoustic Measurement Facility (STAFAC) In-Water Systems Design,' NUWC Division Newport, September 2008 (DTIC ADA502725); and NSWC Carderock Division, SeaFrame Vol. 2 No. 1 (Winter 2006), 'South TOTO Acoustic Measurement Facility' (DTIC ADA522259) [other_primary]
- Locator
- ADA502725 introduction; ADA522259 pp. 20-22 (STAFAC article) and Core Equity summary
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Carderock Division's own publication describes Hayes as 'a signature measurements test platform for submarines based in Cape Canaveral, FL,' run by NSWC Carderock and operated by MSC, deploying the surface acoustic measurement system at the southern Tongue of the Ocean in support of AUTEC - and notes projected FY07-and-outyear overhaul costs approaching $9M plus ~$4M/yr expected savings from replacement. The NUWC program paper records that the southern-TOTO systems 'including their deployment vessel, the USNS HAYES' were end-of-life and replaced by a fixed, bottom-mounted, shore-connected acoustic system - main infrastructure installed April-May 2008, acoustic sensors July-August 2008, initial operational capability October 2008.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-19
- Study period
- 1992-2008
- Population
- MSC crew; NSWC Carderock / AUTEC technical staff
- Limitations
- Primary federal program publications; document the mission, basing, and retirement rationale, not the ship's material condition. Contain no asbestos information. Do not establish exposure for any individual.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-usns-hayes-08
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[11]NavSource Online Service Ship Photo Archive, USNS Hayes (T-AG-195) ex T-AGOR-16 page; corroborated by shipscribe.com class record (S. S. Roberts, compiled 19 Oct 2021) and Wikidata Q7866565 (IMO 7738589) [other_primary]
- Locator
- navsource.org/archives/09/49/49195.htm; shipscribe.com/usnaux2/AGOR/AGOR16.html
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Compiled records document final disposition detail the NVR page does not carry: ex-Hayes departed NAVSEA Inactive Ships Maintenance Facility, Philadelphia, under tow 16 December 2021 for scrapping at Brownsville, TX (shipscribe: 'Navy sale'; Wikidata identifies International Shipbreaking); scrapping completed 2022. NVR officially records 'Disposed of through Inter or Intra Agency Transfer' effective 01/12/2022. Shipscribe also supplies the reclassification effective date (AG 195 on 20 March 1989) and return-to-service (19 June 1992).
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-19
- Study period
- 2008-2022
- Population
- Shipbreaking workers, Brownsville TX (2021-22)
- Limitations
- Volunteer/specialist compilations of official records, not primary sources - the official disposal instrument (sale contract or transfer document) was not located in public sources. Brownsville scrapping detail and the 1989/1992 dates should be treated as archival leads pending an official disposal record. Does not establish hazmat content removed during dismantling.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-usns-hayes-09
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[12]Batch-416 search ledger (this record): NVR, NAVSEA/NHHC NVHE 2011, NRL Report 7370, NRL acoustics history, NRL Fact Book 1983, DTNSRDC trials report, NUWC STAFAC paper, GAO HRD-80-2, MARAD vessel-history DB, CourtListener, general legal-web sweep [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-usns-hayes-01 through sl-usns-hayes-13
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, or docketed case naming USNS Hayes / T-AGOR-16 / T-AG-195 was found in the public sources searched (see search_ledger). CourtListener could not be queried this session (API 429 - 125/day cap; web UI 403) and is logged blocked, so the litigation layer is partial, not exhausted.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-19
- Study period
- 2026-09-19
- Limitations
- Absence of a located public record does not prove absence of asbestos aboard - a 1971-delivery Navy auxiliary predates the 1973 asbestos-free insulation specification, and conversion/scrapping would have confronted any original ACM. Does not establish that asbestos is or is not present; does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility. Litigation coverage incomplete pending a CourtListener pass.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-usns-hayes-10