Evidence
9 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-9).
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[1]navysite.de USS Aspro (SSN-648) ship page (secondary compilation of DANFS-style history; no DANFS mirror entry located, live NHHC 404) [other_primary]
- Locator
- navysite.de/ssn/ssn648.htm
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Documented for this hull (navysite secondary compilation): contract awarded 26 March 1963; keel laid 23 November 1964 at Ingalls Shipbuilding Corp., Pascagoula MS; launched 29 November 1967; commissioned 20 February 1969. Homeported Pearl Harbor; overhaul at Ingalls April 1973 - May 1974; 21-month overhaul at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard October 1977 - March 1979; rendezvous with USS Tautog at the North Pole 20 November 1982 (first two-submarine winter rendezvous); overhaul with anechoic tiling at Mare Island November 1986 - October 1989. Decommissioned and stricken 31 March 1995 at Pearl Harbor; recycled through SRP at Puget Sound 1 October 1999 - 3 November 2000.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-18
- Study period
- 1964-2000
- Limitations
- No DANFS mirror entry located for this hull (mirror index shows none; live NHHC page 404) - history rests on navysite.de, a secondary compilation. NVR cross-checks milestones. No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-aspro-ssn648-01
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[2]Naval Vessel Register, SHIPSDETAIL SSN-648 (2019-03-24 Wayback capture) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NVR SHIPSDETAIL_SSN_648 milestone table
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NVR milestone data for ex-Aspro: builder Ingalls Shipbuilding; keel 11/23/1964; launch 11/29/1967; commission 02/20/1969; decommission and stricken 03/31/1995; status changed 11/03/2000 - disposed of by submarine recycling.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-18
- Study period
- 1964-2000
- Limitations
- NVR capture consistent with navysite disposal dates. No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-aspro-ssn648-02
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[3]Cooks v. General Electric Company, No. 3:07-cv-05451-EMC (N.D. Cal.), complaint Exhibit A work-history, ECF No. 1-2 (filed 2007-10-25) [court_record]
- Locator
- ECF No. 1-2, Exhibit A vessel list ('ASPRO (SSN-648)')
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- Asbestos complaint exhibit (plaintiff Alvin Cooks's work-history/exposure exhibit) lists vessels and locations of alleged asbestos exposure, expressly including 'ASPRO (SSN-648)' among dozens of hulls. Cooks worked at Mare Island Naval Shipyard as a marine machinist from April 1974 (helper through general foreman); the exhibit's job-duty recitals describe gasket and valve-packing removal and replacement, lagging-residue removal, and pipe cut-outs aboard listed vessels including work in reactor compartments.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-18
- Study period
- 1974-1995 (alleged exposure window); 2007 (filing)
- Population
- Alvin Cooks (Mare Island NSY marine machinist, 1974-1995)
- Limitations
- Pleading-stage allegation (complaint exhibit), unadjudicated; a vessel-list entry is not an individualized exposure finding and does not establish that asbestos products were aboard this hull, that any exposure occurred, causation, or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-aspro-ssn648-03
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[4]Halseth v. General Electric Co., No. 3:07-cv-02543-EMC (N.D. Cal.), consolidated complaint Exhibit A work-histories, ECF No. 1-2 (filed 2007-05-14) [court_record]
- Locator
- ECF No. 1-2, Exhibit A, Wagenman section, ship-sightings recall list ('ASPRO (SSN-648)')
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- Asbestos complaint exhibit (consolidated multi-plaintiff work-histories; section for plaintiff Robert Wagenman, Mare Island NSY ship scheduler, Building 866, 1982-1995) narrates that he 'recalls the following ships' from ship-sightings inspection work, expressly including 'ASPRO (SSN-648)'; the narrative describes crawling on and around asbestos-insulated pipe to ascertain equipment needing removal and repair.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-18
- Study period
- 1970-1995 (alleged exposure window); 2007 (filing)
- Population
- Robert Wagenman (Mare Island NSY electrician/ship scheduler, 1970-1995)
- Limitations
- Pleading-stage allegation (complaint exhibit), unadjudicated; a vessel-list entry is not an individualized exposure finding and does not establish asbestos aboard this hull, exposure, causation, or eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-aspro-ssn648-04
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[5]Webb v. Baldor Electric Company, No. 1:22-cv-00145-KHJ-MTP (S.D. Miss.), served summons & complaint Exhibit 1, ECF No. 1-1 (filed 2022-06-10) [court_record]
- Locator
- ECF No. 1-1 complaint (147 pp.); CourtListener index match for 'USS Aspro'
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- Asbestos wrongful-death complaint (estate of Allan Watson, who alleged Navy service 1960-64 aboard USS Saratoga followed by work at Ingalls Shipbuilding, Pascagoula, 1966-2001, where the court's remand order recites he 'worked on over forty naval vessels'): CourtListener full-text search matches 'USS Aspro' inside the served complaint (ECF No. 1-1, 147 pages), placing this hull in the complaint's vessel universe.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-18
- Study period
- 1966-2001 (alleged exposure window); 2022 (filing)
- Population
- Allan Watson, decedent (Ingalls Shipbuilding worker, 1966-2001)
- Limitations
- Pleading-stage allegation (served complaint), unadjudicated; exact list-line context not retrieved (document not in the RECAP archive and CourtListener document pages return CloudFront 403 to automated fetches; the string match is feed-verified and the allegation structure is confirmed by the court's published remand order). Does not establish asbestos aboard this hull, exposure, causation, or eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-aspro-ssn648-05
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[6]Era inference built on: DANFS/navysite spec blocks (S5W-class nuclear plant, steam turbines, single shaft); shipyard-exposure-map documented asbestos product lists for ingalls-shipbuilding, pearl-harbor-naval-shipyard, puget-sound-naval-shipyard, mare-island-naval-shipyard (thermal insulation, submarine steam/propulsion lagging, gaskets, packing, block insulation) [other_primary]
- Locator
- DANFS/navysite spec blocks; shipyards.json product lists for ingalls-shipbuilding, pearl-harbor-naval-shipyard, puget-sound-naval-shipyard, mare-island-naval-shipyard
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- A Sturgeon-class nuclear attack submarine built 1964-1969 at Ingalls Shipbuilding, Pascagoula MS and maintained through Navy-yard availabilities across the 1970s-90s sits inside the Navy's documented asbestos-use era; era-standard applications on the secondary steam plant and auxiliary systems included thermal/pipe insulation, gaskets, packing, and machinery insulation. The building and maintenance yards' asbestos product use in this period is independently documented at the yard level.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-18
- Study period
- 1964-1969
- Population
- Submarine construction trades; Navy-yard overhaul trades; crew
- Limitations
- Class/era inference only - no hull-specific insulation survey or material list located. Names era-standard applications on non-nuclear secondary/auxiliary systems, not confirmed installed materials; the reactor plant establishes nothing. No quantity; material disposition at recycling undocumented per-hull.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-aspro-ssn648-06
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[7]Kase v. Metalclad Insulation Corp., Cal. Ct. App. (4th Dist.) 2021 (CourtListener opinions 4324658, 4332654) [court_record]
- Locator
- Opinion, specification-history discussion (SUBSAFE/MIL-I-24244)
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- A docketed asbestos personal-injury opinion recounts that after USS Thresher's 1963 loss the Navy created the SUBSAFE program, which issued procurement specification MIL-I-24244 covering asbestos-containing insulation for submarines - court-documented evidence that asbestos-containing insulation was specified in the submarine-construction regime in force when this hull was built (laid down November 1964, inside the post-SUBSAFE era).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-18
- Study period
- 2021 (opinion); regime described 1963-forward
- Population
- Navy submarine construction/maintenance trades, SUBSAFE era
- Limitations
- Documents the era procurement-spec regime, not this hull's installed materials; the case concerns a different claimant aboard different vessels. Does not establish exposure, causation, quantity, or eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-aspro-ssn648-07
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[8]GAO, Navy Efforts To Protect Workers From Asbestos Exposure, HRD-80-2 (Oct 18, 1979) [gao]
- Locator
- GAO product page HRD-80-2 (full text blocked, HTTP 403)
- Finding type
- gov_survey
- Finding
- GAO documented that the Navy used asbestos insulation extensively aboard ships and did not begin substituting alternative insulation materials until the early 1970s - covering this hull's construction (1964-1969) and most service-era insulation events.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-18
- 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. Full text not retrieved (gao.gov blocks automated fetch, HTTP 403) - content via product-page description.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-aspro-ssn648-08
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[9]Batch-38 search ledger (this record): DANFS/NVR/navysite sweeps; CourtListener Atom-feed exact-name and hull-number searches (opinions + RECAP); verified exhibit-PDF greps (Cooks, Halseth, Cronin, Davis); GAO HRD-80-2; ACM-survey sweep [other_primary]
- Locator
- See this record's search_ledger rows for repositories, queries, and per-search outcomes
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No ship-specific asbestos survey, abatement contract, insulation material list, or SRP/recycling hazmat disclosure naming USS Aspro was located in any searched repository. CourtListener opinion search returned no adjudicated asbestos finding touching this hull.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-18
- Limitations
- Negative finding is a search result, not proof of absence: Navy hull-level industrial-hygiene records were not systematically published, SRP-era recycling documentation is not indexed by hull in public dockets, and CourtListener coverage excludes most state-court filings. Unverified feed-matched documents are logged as archival leads, not as evidence.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-aspro-ssn648-09