Evidence
15 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-15).
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[1]research packet zbw-packet.md (4 sources cited) [other_primary]
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Identity packet verdict: VERIFIED
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Evidence ID
- uss-boone-ffg28-pkt-zbw-packet-md
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[2]Naval Vessel Register (NVR), BOONE (FFG 28) entry (Wayback capture 2016-05-31 of nvr.navy.mil) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NVR FFG28 detail page (status block and characteristics table)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NVR record for this hull: UIC 21053; class FFG 7; builder TODD PAC/SEATTLE; award date 01/23/1978; keel 03/27/1979; launch 01/16/1980; delivery 05/06/1982; commission 05/15/1982; inactivation, decommission, and stricken all 02/23/2012; status 'Stricken, to be disposed of'; berth NAVSEA Inactive Ships On-site Maintenance Office, Philadelphia, PA; 445 ft overall, 47 ft extreme beam, 4,086 tons full displacement; steel hull, aluminum superstructure; gas turbines; one propeller.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1978-2012
- Population
- Todd Pacific Shipyards Seattle construction trades 1979-1982; crews 1982-2012
- Limitations
- NVR documents registry data, builder, dates, and disposition status - no materials or asbestos content. Live nvr.navy.mil page for this stricken hull is no longer served; 2016 Wayback capture of the official NVR entry is cited.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-boone-ffg28-01
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[3]USS BOONE (FFG 28) official ship website, 'About the USS BOONE' / crest page (NARA webharvest capture of boone.navy.mil, 2004-10-14) [other_primary]
- Locator
- boone.navy.mil crest.htm, HISTORY and SHIP'S MISSION sections
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- The ship's own official Navy site: 'The USS BOONE is a member of the OLIVER HAZARD PERRY class of guided missile frigates. Launched, 16 January 1980 by Todd Pacific Shipyards Corp., Seattle Division. Following sea trials she was commissioned on 15 May 1982.' Describes the class's gas-turbine propulsion plant with variable-pitch propeller, austere manning, two helicopter hangars, and auxiliary propulsion units; crest symbolism documents namesake Vice Admiral Joel T. Boone, M.D. (Medal of Honor, France; service to three presidents) - the first U.S. Navy ship named for him; site also carries the ship's awards including a U.S. Coast Guard Meritorious Unit Commendation for Caribbean/eastern Pacific counter-drug operations with embarked law-enforcement detachments.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 2004 (capture); content current to early 2000s
- Population
- Crew (austere-manning complement)
- Limitations
- Official contemporary record of identity, builder, mission, and propulsion type - contains no materials or asbestos information. Site is an official Navy page preserved as a federal record by NARA's web harvest program.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-boone-ffg28-02
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[4]U.S. Navy Fact File, 'Frigates - FFG' (CHINFO, updated 2003-06-24; NARA webharvest capture) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Navy Fact File ship-ffg.html, General Characteristics section (builders list, power plant, crew, ships list)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Official class characteristics: builders list assigns FFG 28 to 'Todd Shipyards, Seattle' (FFG 28, 31, 37, 40, 48, 52); power plant two GE LM 2500 gas turbines, one shaft, 41,000 shp; length 445 ft (453 ft with LAMPS III modification); beam 45 ft; displacement 4,100 tons full load; speed 29+ knots; crew 17 officers, 198 enlisted; FFG 28 is in the two-SH-60 LAMPS III group; USS Boone (FFG 28) homeported Mayport, Fla.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 2003 (page update)
- Population
- FFG-7 class crews; Todd Seattle-built hulls
- Limitations
- Class-level official characteristics naming this hull in the builder and LAMPS III groupings; class standard figures (crew, dimensions) are not hull-specific measurements. No materials or asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-boone-ffg28-03
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[5]Naval Sea Systems Command public affairs release, 'Carderock Supports Atlantic Thunder 2022' (NAVSEA, Sept. 2022; mirrored on DVIDS, the official DoD distribution service) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NAVSEA/DVIDS article text (lead paragraph and Kipp quotation on four phases)
- Finding type
- environmental_record
- Finding
- Official Navy release for this hull's disposal: combined U.S. and U.K. forces sank decommissioned ex-USS Boone (FFG 28) on Sept. 7, 2022 during Atlantic Thunder 22 in the North Atlantic Ocean. 'Prior to being transported for participation in a sinking exercise, each vessel undergoes a rigorous cleaning process for environmental safety.' Carderock supported four phases: 'preparing the ship in Philadelphia, conducting an at-sea precursor static detonation training exercise, final pre-SINKEX ship preps in Campbeltown, Scotland, including a pier side BDA event, and the SINKEX itself.' Monitoring above and below the surface was conducted under U.K. MOD environmental policy.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 2022
- Population
- SINKEX preparation and tow personnel; exercise participants
- Limitations
- Documents that environmental cleaning occurred and its regulatory context; the release does not enumerate which hazardous materials were removed and does not mention asbestos - it neither establishes nor excludes residual ACM aboard at sinking. Canonical navsea.navy.mil URL 403s to automated fetchers; DVIDS mirror used.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-boone-ffg28-04
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[6]Royal Navy official release, 'British and American forces obliterate former US warship during impressive test of firepower' (2022-09-23) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Royal Navy news release, opening paragraphs
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Royal Navy account of this hull's sinking: HMS Westminster fired two Harpoon missiles simultaneously with a P-8 Poseidon launch (660 kg of explosive striking simultaneously); the ship's Wildcat helicopter fired Martlet missiles (first live Martlet use against a realistic target) and laser-guided RAF Typhoon (41 Squadron) Paveway IV strikes - first RAF Typhoon live drop on a warship used as a maritime target; the exercise was the first of its type for the Royal Navy in 18 years. The companion U.S. Naval Forces Europe-Africa release (republished by Seapower) adds: USAF F-15E Strike Eagles (494th FS) dropped maritime-strike JDAMs, and USS Arleigh Burke (DDG-51) struck ex-Boone with an SM-6 - the first anti-ship SM-6 engagement in the U.S. European Command area of responsibility; Westminster's salvo was the first live RGM-84D Harpoon firing by the U.K. since 2004.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 2022-09
- Population
- Exercise participants (no personnel aboard the hulk)
- Limitations
- Participating-nation official account corroborating date and manner of sinking; no materials or hazmat content. royalnavy.mod.uk 403s automated fetches; text verified via search-indexed copy and consistent with the NAVSEA release.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-boone-ffg28-05
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[7]Department of the Navy, Report to Congress on the Annual Long-Range Plan for Construction of Naval Vessels for Fiscal Year 2022 (June 2021), submitted per 10 U.S.C. 231, Table A3-3 (copy hosted on DocumentCloud; authenticity corroborated by CBO Pub. 57472) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Report to Congress FY2022 (June 2021), Table A3-3
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Official DoN report to Congress names Ex-BOONE (FFG 28) in Table A3-3, 'Ships Planned for Use in Future Fleet Training Exercises' (with ex-Rodney M. Davis FFG 60, ex-Vandegrift FFG 48, ex-Ingraham et al.) - decommissioned ships designated as targets for live-fire sinking exercises (SINKEX); CNO guidelines authorize SINKEX for Title 10 ship-survivability/weapons-lethality evaluation or major joint/multinational exercises.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 2021
- Limitations
- Documents the Navy's 2021 designation of this hull for SINKEX disposal; table predates the 2022 exercise and is disposition planning, not a hazmat record. PDF fetch of the circulating copy was blocked by host bot-filtering; Table A3-3 contents verified via search-indexed text of the authentic document.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-boone-ffg28-06
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[8]EPA, 'Transport of Target Vessels for Ocean Disposal' - MPRSA general permit for Navy SINKEX at 40 C.F.R. 229.2 (issued 1977, 42 FR 2489), as interpreted by 'Determination by the EPA and Agreement between the Navy and the EPA' (January 2014); see also 78 FR 20518 (Apr. 5, 2013) petitions notice [federal_register]
- Locator
- EPA marine-protection-permitting page and 40 CFR 229.2 text; 2014 Determination and Agreement PDF
- Finding type
- regulatory
- Finding
- The regulatory regime under which this hull was prepared and sunk: before sinking, qualified personnel must take measures to remove to the maximum extent practicable all materials that may degrade the marine environment, including emptying and flushing all fuel tanks and lines essentially free of petroleum and removing other pollutants and all readily detachable material capable of creating debris or chemical pollution; vessels are sunk at least 50 nautical miles from land in at least 6,000 feet of water; the Navy submits an annual report naming each vessel, tonnage, and location/date of sinking. The 2014 Determination clarifies and tightens PCB-removal verification - potential PCB shipboard materials include bulkhead insulation, wire and cable insulation, and felt and rubber gaskets.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1977-2022
- Population
- SINKEX preparation workers (program-wide)
- Limitations
- Program-level framework, not a hull record. The permit regime targets petroleum, debris, and PCBs; it does not enumerate asbestos and does not certify the hulk asbestos-free. Ex-Boone's individual preparation documentation under the permit was not located in public sources; the Navy's 2022 annual SINKEX report to EPA should name this vessel (archival lead).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-boone-ffg28-07
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[9]GAO, Navy Efforts To Protect Workers From Asbestos Exposure, HRD-80-2 (Oct 18, 1979) [gao]
- Locator
- GAO HRD-80-2 report (Navy response letter reproducing insulation-transition dates) and product page
- Finding type
- gov_survey
- Finding
- Navy asbestos-transition chronology relevant to this hull's build window: thermal-insulation product specifications were changed in 1973 to specify asbestos-free materials, and the Navy's policy to eliminate asbestos where suitable alternates existed issued October 1975; the Navy advised GAO that asbestos materials already purchased had been installed in ships under construction, so 'some ships were delivered with asbestos insulation as late as May 1978'; the same response states all ships then in service contained some quantity of asbestos in applications for which technically acceptable substitutes had not been identified. Boone was ordered January 1978, keel-laid March 1979, and delivered May 1982 - after the last-documented asbestos-insulation delivery.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1979 (report); policy era 1973-1979
- Population
- Navy shipyard workers; construction-era crews (class context)
- Limitations
- Program-level documentation; GAO fieldwork was at Long Beach and Norfolk Naval Shipyards. Establishes the transition era this hull falls within - it does not inventory this hull's materials, and non-insulation applications lacking substitutes persisted fleet-wide. gao.gov returns HTTP 403 to automated fetch; content verified via product-page description and indexed verbatim excerpts of the report PDF - full-text pull remains the open lead.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-boone-ffg28-08
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[10]Australian Department of Veterans' Affairs, CLIK Policy Library s 4.4.11, 'Claims relating to asbestos exposure while serving on certain RAN vessels' (vessel list provided by the Department of Defence; last amended 2020-05-13) [other_primary]
- Locator
- CLIK s 4.4.11 ship list and 'Asbestos on RAN Ships 2011 Onwards' OHSIR list
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Official Australian government list of RAN ships aboard which 'asbestos was likely to be present' during service (1940-2010 window), adopted for presumptive claims handling: includes all four Todd Pacific Shipyards Seattle-built Adelaide-class (FFG-7 derivative) frigates - HMAS Adelaide II (1980-2008, USN hull FFG-17), HMAS Canberra II (1981-2005, FFG-18), HMAS Sydney IV (1983-2015, FFG-35), and HMAS Darwin (1984-2017, FFG-44) - plus the two Australian-built sisters (Melbourne II, Newcastle II). A companion post-2010 OHSIR incident list records potential asbestos-exposure events aboard HMAS Newcastle (2011), HMAS Darwin (2011), HMAS Stuart (2011), HMAS Sydney (2012), and HMAS Tobruk (2012).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 2020 (policy); exposure window to 2010; incidents 2011-2012
- Population
- RAN crews of Todd Seattle-built Adelaide-class hulls 1980-2017
- Limitations
- Sister-hull evidence only: the listed Adelaide-class ships were built to the same FFG-7 design at the same Seattle yard in the same 1977-1984 window as FFG-28, but the list documents Australian hulls, not USS Boone, and cannot be promoted to a ship-specific finding. CLIK page timed out on direct fetch; verbatim text verified via search-indexed copy and a verbatim mirror (rancba.org.au).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-boone-ffg28-09
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[11]Lewis v. Todd Pacific Shipyards Corp., 30 BRBS 154 (Benefits Review Board, BRB No. 93-0661, Sept. 12, 1996) [court_record]
- Locator
- DOL OALJ Longshore newsletter digest of 30 BRBS 154; BRB decision 93-0661 (Sept. 12, 1996)
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- Published DOL Benefits Review Board decision documenting asbestos exposure at this hull's builder yard during her construction window: claimant, a general laborer, 'worked intermittently for Todd between 1974 and 1983, where he was exposed to asbestos' at the Seattle shipyards; diagnosed with asbestos-related pleural disease in 1988; LHWCA claims for asbestosis/occupational lung disease adjudicated on timeliness and responsible-employer grounds.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1974-1983 (exposure); 1996 (decision)
- Population
- Todd Pacific Shipyards Seattle yard workers 1974-1983
- Limitations
- Builder-yard exposure documentation - proves asbestos exposure occurred at Todd's Seattle yard during the years this hull was built there, but does not document asbestos aboard the hull herself. Decision merits reach timeliness/responsible-employer issues, not ship-specific ACM. dol.gov PDF 403s automated fetch; holding verified via DOL's own Longshore newsletter digest and LHWCA Benchbook citations (30 BRBS 154).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-boone-ffg28-10
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[12]United States v. Revolorio-Ramo, 468 F.3d 771 (11th Cir. 2006) (CourtListener opinion id 77485; cluster search via cl-auth-search.py) [court_record]
- Locator
- 468 F.3d 771, Part I factual recital
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- CourtListener opinion search 'USS Boone' returns published appellate litigation naming this hull in a non-asbestos posture: U.S. Navy frigate U.S.S. BOONE intercepted the Guatemalan fishing vessel Martita Lau ~200 miles south of Guatemala on 2002-10-24 and recovered ~5,500 lb of cocaine; appeal concerned due-process claims from the government's destruction of the unseaworthy vessel. Classification: OTHER LITIGATION (MDLEA drug-interdiction), not asbestos litigation. No asbestos personal-injury, MDL-875, or product-liability opinion naming this hull was located in the opinion index.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 2002 (interdiction); 2006 (opinion)
- Population
- Ship's boarding team and embarked USCG LEDET (contextual)
- Limitations
- Names the ship as the intercepting unit in a criminal MDLEA case - operational mention only; says nothing about materials or exposure aboard. The docket (type=r) sweep and hull-number query ('FFG-28') remained blocked by the fleet-wide CourtListener pace limiter at research time; full hit inventory deferred - see search_ledger sl-uss-boone-ffg28-11/12.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-boone-ffg28-11
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[13]DVIDS All Hands Update, 'USS Boone Decommissioned After 30 Years of Service' (Navy Region Southeast / official DoD media, posted 2012-02-27) + NavSource FFG-28 photo chronology (secondary compilation) [other_primary]
- Locator
- DVIDS video record 138393; NavSource archives/07/0728.htm building-and-operational data block
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Decommissioning and post-service record: official Navy coverage of the 23 February 2012 decommissioning ceremony at Naval Station Mayport (Rear Adm. Mark H. Buzby speaking; ~30 years of service). NavSource's timeline (secondary) supplies: launch sponsor Mrs. Milton F. Heller, Jr., daughter of the late Vice Admiral Boone; commissioning at Seattle with Cmdr. Claude A. LaVarre in command; assignment to Destroyer Squadron 8; an 11-month Flight IV (long-hull/LAMPS III) upgrade availability at Avondale Shipyard, New Orleans, 8 Aug 1987 - 3 Sep 1988; reassignment to the Western Hemisphere Group September 1995, to the Naval Reserve Force/DESRON 14 on 30 Sep 1998, and to DESRON 6 on 30 Aug 2000; loss of the rudder underway in the western Mediterranean 30 Nov 2006 with replacement at Rota, Spain, December 2006; and tow to the Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility, Philadelphia, 25 Feb 2012.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1987-2012
- Population
- Crew at decommissioning; Avondale yard workers 1987-88 (if confirmed)
- Limitations
- DVIDS content is official; NavSource detail (Avondale venue/dates, tow date) is secondary compilation - the LAMPS III upgrade itself is independently corroborated by the Navy Fact File's two-SH-60 group listing FFG 28, but the Avondale yard period specifics rest on NavSource alone. Neither source addresses materials or asbestos.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-boone-ffg28-12
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[14]NHHC Command Operations Reports collection: USS Elrod (FFG-55) Command History 1989 (declassified, hosted on history.navy.mil) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NHHC COR collection, Elrod FFG-55 1989 command history PDF
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Sister-ship primary document naming this hull operationally: Elrod's 1989 command history records an 04 August 1989 turnover with USS Boone in the Persian Gulf, establishing a 1989 Persian Gulf deployment for Boone.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 1989
- Limitations
- Names the hull in an operational turnover only - no materials or asbestos content. Boone's own command operation reports were not located in NHHC's digitized collection (Boone COR path 404s); the NHHC file URL for the Elrod PDF was intermittently unavailable during research and should be re-verified.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-boone-ffg28-14
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[15]Batch-4627 search ledger (this record): NHHC DANFS and ship-histories pages (404), NARA/hazegray DANFS mirrors (no FFG-28 entry), NHHC command-operations-report collection (Boone CORs not digitized), NARA deck logs, NAVSEA inactive-ships records, EPA SINKEX vessel preparation records, VA/BVA decisions naming the hull [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-boone-ffg28-01 through sl-uss-boone-ffg28-14
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no hull asbestos survey, abatement contract, hazmat/materials disclosure, ship-specific asbestos litigation, or BVA decision naming USS Boone (FFG-28) was found in the public sources searched (see search_ledger). The 2022 SINKEX preparation followed the EPA MPRSA general permit (petroleum, debris, PCBs), which does not enumerate asbestos.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-29
- Study period
- 2026-09-29
- Limitations
- Absence of a located public record does not prove asbestos was absent - post-2010 OHSIR records for sister hulls show residual ACM persisted in FFG-7-derivative ships decades after construction. Does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility. CourtListener RECAP docket sweep was blocked by fleet pacing at research time and is deferred.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-boone-ffg28-13