Evidence
15 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-15).
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[1]CourtListener opinion search: 'USS BOSTON' [court_record]
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- CourtListener opinion search 'USS BOSTON' returned 167 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
- uss-boston-ca69-cl-name-opinion
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[2]CourtListener docket search: 'USS BOSTON' [court_record]
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- CourtListener docket search 'USS BOSTON' returned 11956 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
- uss-boston-ca69-cl-name-docket
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[3]CourtListener opinion search: 'CA-69' [court_record]
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- CourtListener opinion search 'CA-69' returned 73235 result(s) (2026-10-07); individual records not reviewed
- Verification
- unverified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Limitations
- hit count only — underlying dockets/opinions not individually reviewed
- Evidence ID
- uss-boston-ca69-cl-hull-opinion
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[4]CourtListener docket search: 'CA-69' [court_record]
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- CourtListener docket search 'CA-69' returned 268164 result(s) (2026-10-07); individual records not reviewed
- Verification
- unverified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Limitations
- hit count only — underlying dockets/opinions not individually reviewed
- Evidence ID
- uss-boston-ca69-cl-hull-docket
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[5]Sebright v. General Electric Co., CBS Corp., Velan Valve Corp., 525 F. Supp. 3d 217 (D. Mass. 2021), Memorandum of Decision, No. 1:19-cv-10593-WGY, ECF No. 218 (Mar. 11, 2021), Young, D.J. (RECAP mirror: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mad.208183/gov.uscourts.mad.208183.218.0.pdf) [court_record]
- Locator
- Opinion ECF No. 218, pp. 1-2 (posture), pp. 11-20 (undisputed facts: GE generator sets, Boston Fire Room 2 service), pp. 57-65 (Velan/Boston analysis), pp. 65-70 (GE causation holding), p. 78 (conclusion)
- Finding type
- litigation_product_id
- Finding
- Published 78-page merits-stage opinion names this hull. Undisputed facts recited: GE manufactured the steam-turbine generator sets installed in the fire rooms of USS Boston and USS Little Rock upon construction in the 1940s, delivered to the Navy without heat insulation and built to Navy MILSPECs; aboard, the turbine units were covered by removable insulation pads secured by lagging hooks and wire. Plaintiff Glenn E. Sebright (Navy machinist's mate; malignant mesothelioma diagnosed April 2016) served aboard USS Boston October 1968-May 1970 as a fireman tending a generator in Fire Room 2 (approx. 40x40 ft): he boarded during her scheduled three-month overhaul at Boston Naval Shipyard, deployed to Vietnam May 1969, and left during her December 1969-May 1970 decommissioning availability at BNSY; his duties included cleaning around his generator and presence during senior firemen's valve/pump repacking maintenance. Shipmate George Hiltz estimated 30-60 valves in Fire Room 2 (~1/6 Velan) and described insulation-cutting and gasket-hammering work creating dust inhaled by the crew. Applying maritime law and the DeVries framework, the court DENIED GE summary judgment on negligence (count I) and warranty (count II) and on its government-contractor defense, ALLOWED GE summary judgment on counts III-IV, and ALLOWED Velan's motion because Sebright could not show that the Velan valves Hiltz identified contained asbestos.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-19
- Study period
- 1968-1970 (alleged exposure); 2021 (opinion)
- Population
- Navy machinist's mate/fireman, USS Boston Fire Room 2, Oct 1968-May 1970; shipmate testimony (Hiltz); mesothelioma
- Limitations
- Summary-judgment-stage ruling - denial of GE's motion means the exposure claim survived toward trial, not that exposure or causation was adjudicated. Asbestos content of this hull's insulation pads specifically rests on plaintiff-side inference drawn in his favor (Poulson's Little Rock-era identification plus Sebright's dust testimony); no quantity or sampling data. Velan's win is a merits-level negative as to that defendant. Post-SJ disposition (trial or settlement) not located. Does not establish legal eligibility for any other person.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-boston-ca69-01
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[6]McIsaac v. Air & Liquid Systems Corp. (successor by merger to Buffalo Pumps, Inc.), No. 1:19-cv-10282-NMG (D. Mass.), Memorandum & Order, ECF No. 470 (July 7, 2023), Gorton, J. [court_record]
- Locator
- Opinion ECF No. 470, pp. 2-3 (Navy archive/BNSY records recital), pp. 6-8 (causation holding), p. 11 (order)
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- Merits-stage Memorandum & Order names this hull and ALLOWS defendant Buffalo Pumps' summary-judgment motion. Recites: 'BNSY records confirm that the USS Albany was at the BNSY for work in 1967 and 1968 and the USS Boston was at the BNSY in 1968 and 1972. ... USS Boston ship records show that Buffalo manufactured more than eight pumps on that ship. Between 1955 and 1985 and during at least some periods of time prior to 1955, gaskets and packing supplied in certain original pumps manufactured by Buffalo contained asbestos.' Plaintiff alleged decedent John T. McIsaac, a Boston Naval Shipyard rigger (1965 and 1967-1970s; epithelioid mesothelioma diagnosed August 2018, died March 2019), was exposed while working aboard ships at the yard; co-worker Paul Troy deposed that he worked with McIsaac on the USS Boston (Sept 1967-late 1968) and perhaps the USS Albany. Summary judgment allowed: 'plaintiff can demonstrate that Buffalo pumps were aboard the USS Boston and the USS Albany and that Mr. McIsaac may have worked on both of those ships, [but] there is no evidence that Mr. McIsaac specifically worked on the Buffalo pumps' - 'mere minimal exposure' insufficient under the maritime substantial-factor test. Rule 56(d) application denied.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-19
- Study period
- 1967-1972 (alleged exposure window and yard records); 2023 (opinion)
- Population
- BNSY rigger (shipyard worker), 1965 and 1967-1970s; epithelioid mesothelioma
- Limitations
- Defense summary-judgment win = merits-level negative for this plaintiff, not exposure evidence. The Buffalo-pumps-aboard recital derives from Navy archive/ship records produced by plaintiff and accepted for purposes of the motion; product presence aboard is documented at discovery stage only and does not establish exposure for any individual. The 1972 BNSY record postdates decommissioning (reserve lay-up at South Boston Annex).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-boston-ca69-02
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[7]Jackson v. Anchor Packing Co., 994 F.2d 1295 (8th Cir. 1993) (No. 92-1828; decided June 2, 1993; rehearing denied July 19, 1993; Wollman, J.) [court_record]
- Locator
- Opinion at 994 F.2d 1305-1306 (Treadaway/Bruce recitals and Kaylo holding), 1306-07 (Keene holding)
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- Affirmed appellate judgment on summary judgment names this hull. In the consolidated E.D. Ark. 'tireworker' asbestos case, plaintiff-appellant David Lee Treadaway alleged exposure 'to insulation manufactured by Owens-Corning, Owens-Illinois, and Keene while he was stationed aboard the U.S.S. Boston from 1957 to 1960'; his deposition placed him working in Boston's boiler room. Norfolk Naval Yard insulation installer James Bruce testified that he personally 'had done some insulation work aboard the U.S.S. Boston during his career at the Norfolk Naval Yard' and that Kaylo (Owens-Corning/Owens-Illinois) and Ehret (Keene predecessor Ehret & Hill) pipe insulation were regularly used by yard installers in the 1950s-1960s. The Eighth Circuit affirmed: 'The evidence, at best, demonstrates only a possibility that Kaylo may have been used on board the Boston at some point during a nearly two-decade period of time' - a mere possibility insufficient for a submissible case under Arkansas law; the Keene holding is identical.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-19
- Study period
- 1957-1960 (alleged exposure); 1993 (opinion)
- Population
- Navy sailor, USS Boston boiler room, 1957-1960 (as CAG-1); Norfolk Naval Yard insulation installer
- Limitations
- Affirmed defense summary judgment = merits-level negative for Treadaway, not exposure evidence. Shipboard service and yard insulation-work testimony are recitals; the court found no showing that the defendants' products were aboard during his service window. Hull attribution verified by elimination: CA-69 (as CAG-1) was the only commissioned USS Boston in 1957-60 (SSN-703 not built until 1982; the earlier Boston was disposed 1946).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-boston-ca69-03
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[8]Perrin v. Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp., 871 F. Supp. 1092 (N.D. Iowa 1994) [court_record]
- Locator
- Opinion, 'Reasonable Inference of Exposure' section (Jackson precedent discussion)
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- Name-collision resolution: this opinion contains the string 'USS Boston' four times, all inside the court's recital of Jackson v. Anchor Packing Co. (994 F.2d 1295) as precedent - including 'The plaintiff in Anchor Packing claimed that he was exposed to the asbestos product Kaylo during Naval service on the USS Boston from 1956 to 1960' and the 'mere possibility' holding. Plaintiff Arthur Perrin's own alleged exposure vessel was USS Floyd B. Parks (DD-884), a Gearing-class destroyer. NOT a qualifying Boston finding; resolves the class-profile's recorded uncertainty over this hit.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- correction
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-09-19
- Study period
- 1994 (opinion); recounts 1993 precedent
- Population
- n/a (plaintiff's vessel was USS Floyd B. Parks, DD-884)
- Limitations
- Second-hand recital of the Jackson precedent only; Perrin itself documents nothing about CA-69. Full text was read via an alternate mirror because CourtListener web/API were throttled at fetch time; the citation URL is the canonical CourtListener opinion page (cluster 8728288, matching the class-profile ledger).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-boston-ca69-04
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[9]DANFS, Boston VI (CA-69), Vol. I (1964) + bracketed addendum (verbatim transcription - live NHHC page serves 404) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS entry, specifications block + full service narrative + bracketed addendum
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS record for this hull: launched 26 August 1942 by Bethlehem Steel Co., Fore River, Mass.; sponsored by Mrs. M. J. Tobin; commissioned 30 June 1943. Pacific service with TF 58/38 (Marshalls, Palau/Western Carolines, Hollandia, Truk, Saipan, Philippine Sea, Guam, Morotai, southern Palaus, Leyte Gulf, Formosa/Luzon/China-coast raids, Honshu and Kamaishi bombardments); Long Beach overhaul spring 1945; occupation duty to 28 February 1946; 'placed out of commission in reserve at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard 12 March 1946'; reclassified CAG-1 4 January 1952; towed from Bremerton to Philadelphia February 1952 for conversion by New York Shipbuilding Corp., Camden, N.J. (after 8-inch turret replaced by anti-aircraft missile launchers); recommissioned 1 November 1955; Mediterranean deployment November 1956-May 1957; ten WWII battle stars. Bracketed addendum: 'struck from the Navy list 4 January 1974, and sold 28 March 1975.'
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-19
- Study period
- 1941-1975
- Population
- Construction trades 1941-43; crew 1943-46, 1955-70
- Limitations
- DANFS documents service history and specifications, not materials or asbestos content. Entry omits the keel date and the final decommissioning (5 May 1970); its 'out of commission in reserve 12 March 1946' conflicts with the formal 29 October 1946 decommissioning recorded by NHHC Online Library and NavSource - carried in gaps. Live NHHC page returns 404; verbatim ibiblio/HyperWar transcription cited (corroborated by the HazeGray DANFS mirror).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-boston-ca69-05
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[10]Naval Historical Center, Online Library of Selected Images, USS Boston (CAG-1, previously and later CA-69), 1943-1975 (official NHC publication) [other_primary]
- Locator
- usnsh-b/cag1.htm narrative + photo captions NH 98280-98300; companion page ca69.htm (pre-conversion narrative)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Official NHC Online Library narrative: the 1952-55 Camden conversion 'involved removing her after triple eight-inch gun turret and its supporting structure, extensive modifications to her superstructure, and installation of two twin launchers for Terrier anti-aircraft guided missiles and their associated radars and other electronics' - the Navy's first guided-missile cruiser conversion. Three Seventh Fleet Vietnam combat deployments (April 1967; April-October 1968; May-November 1969) firing 'thousands of rounds of eight and five-inch shells'; reclassified back to CA-69 May 1968; decommissioned at Boston, Massachusetts May 1970; 'stricken from the Naval Vessel Register in January 1975'; sold late March 1975. Photo captions additionally document a post-overhaul departure from Boston Navy Yard 26 July 1960 and a 15 October 1944 Formosa-raid photo taken from Boston of the damaged USS Houston (CL-81).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-19
- Study period
- 1952-1975
- Population
- Crew 1955-70; conversion yard workers 1952-55
- Limitations
- Official history publication; no asbestos or materials content. Its 'January 1975' stricken text conflicts with the DANFS addendum's 4 January 1974 and NavSource's 1 April 1973 - unresolved, carried in gaps.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-boston-ca69-06
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[11]U.S. Navy Bureau of Ships, Ships' Data U.S. Naval Vessels, Vol. 1 (1945), HEAVY CRUISERS (CA) tables pp. 26-33 (shipscribe.com scan, OCR-extracted) [other_primary]
- Locator
- SDB1945v1.pdf book pp. 26-33, CA characteristics and machinery tables (Boston row)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Official 1945 characteristics record for this hull: Boston row in the CA tables - 673'5" overall, 70'10" beam, 13,600 tons standard, four boilers at 565 psi / 850 deg F, G.E. turbines, ~120,000 shp, and a 1945 wartime complement of 1,720 (vs DANFS design complement 1,142).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-19
- Study period
- 1945
- Population
- Wartime crew complement reference
- Limitations
- Official contract/characteristics record; contains no asbestos or insulation content - establishes plant, dimensions, and wartime complement only. OCR extraction from a scan without text layer; values cross-checked against the DANFS specifications block.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-boston-ca69-07
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[12]U.S. Navy, Bureau of Ships Technical Manual, NAVSHIPS 250-000, Chapter 39 'Thermal Insulation' (1960, page date 15 April 1959) + Atlas shipyard dataset records for the builder yards [other_primary]
- Locator
- BuShips TM ch.39, sections 39-11 through 39-13 (materials); shipyards.json records 'bethlehem-shipbuilding' and 'fore-river-shipyard'
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Era inference: wartime Baltimore-class construction (keel 1941, launched 1942, commissioned 1943) at Bethlehem/Fore River falls squarely in the documented Navy asbestos-insulation era. The 1960 BuShips Technical Manual insulation chapter enumerates the era-standard suite specified for steam plants of this class: 85% magnesia and amosite pipe covering (MIL-P-2781), roll asbestos felt (MIL-I-15091), chrysotile asbestos cloth/tape lagging (SS-C-466), asbestos millboard (HH-M-351), asbestos finishing cement, and molded asbestos block. The builder yard (Bethlehem/Fore River) is documented in the Atlas shipyard dataset with asbestos litigation and product-use records covering the same decades.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-19
- Study period
- 1941-1946 construction; 1960 (manual describing era specs)
- Population
- Bethlehem/Fore River construction trades 1941-43; crew
- Limitations
- Specification- and class/era-level inference only - names the materials the Navy specified for the era, not confirmed installed materials aboard this hull; the ship-specific rows are the litigation records. The 1960 manual postdates construction but documents the era specification family. No quantity.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-boston-ca69-08
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[13]Composite record: DANFS + NHC Online Library (conversion scope); Sebright opinion undisputed facts (1968-70 BNSY availabilities); McIsaac opinion (BNSY records incl. 1972 lay-up) [other_primary]
- Locator
- cag1.htm conversion paragraph and NH 98283 caption; Sebright ECF 218 pp. 11-13; McIsaac ECF 470 pp. 2-3
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Documented material-disturbing availabilities aboard this hull: (1) CAG-1 Terrier conversion at New York Shipbuilding, Camden, February 1952-November 1955 - after 8-inch turret and supporting structure removed, extensive superstructure modifications (DANFS/NHC); (2) Boston Navy Yard overhaul completed by 26 July 1960 (NHC photo record); (3) scheduled three-month overhaul at Boston Naval Shipyard beginning October 1968 (Sebright undisputed facts); (4) decommissioning availability at BNSY December 1969-May 1970 and reserve lay-up at BNSY documented into 1972 (Sebright; McIsaac BNSY records). Insulation disturbance in worked spaces is consistent with era conversion and overhaul practice, but no hull-specific abatement scope or record is public.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-19
- Study period
- 1952-1972
- Population
- Conversion yard workers 1952-55 (New York Shipbuilding); BNSY yard workers 1960, 1968, 1969-70; crew
- Limitations
- The yard periods are documented ship-specific events; asbestos disturbance during them is inference from scope of work - NOT a documented abatement record for this hull. No hull ACM survey or abatement contract located (hull scrapped 1975).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-boston-ca69-09
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[14]Batch-184 search ledger (this record): DANFS/NHC histories; NavSource disposition data; govinfo USCOURTS packages; Public.Resource.Org reporter mirror; CourtListener API/web (blocked); NVR detail page (no pre-1987 record) [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-boston-ca69-01 through sl-uss-boston-ca69-13
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No hull asbestos survey, abatement contract, donation-condition hazmat disclosure, or museum record exists for this hull (scrapped 1975; no preservation transfer). Litigation research located four docketed matters naming the hull - Sebright (exposure claim survived SJ vs GE), McIsaac and Jackson (merits-level negatives), and Perrin (name-in-precedent collision, resolved). CourtListener API and web search were unavailable at research time (HTTP 429 daily-quota throttle; CloudFront challenge), so exact-phrase 'USS Boston'/'CA-69'/'CAG-1'/'U.S.S. Boston' sweeps are incomplete; opinion texts were instead verified via govinfo (GPO judicial publications), Public.Resource.Org, and RECAP storage.
- 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 documentation - the JRG Asbestos Research ship-records exhibits produced in Sebright (see ev-11) document equipment aboard this hull but were not publicly retrieved, and additional state-court or unindexed matters may exist.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-boston-ca69-10
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[15]Sebright v. GE record (Velan SOF Ex. B/C, ECF 168-2/168-3, 'JRG Asbestos Research' ship records) + NARA Record Group 19 (Bureau of Ships series) - known holding, not yet searched [court_record]
- Locator
- Sebright ECF 218 p. 58 (Velan SOF Ex. B/C recital); NARA RG 19 (not yet searched)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Archival leads: (a) JRG Asbestos Research 'ship records' produced in Sebright v. GE (Velan Statement of Facts exhibits, ECF Nos. 168-2 and 168-3) are recited in the opinion as listing 'major equipment present during the construction and overhauls of the USS Boston' - a compiled equipment inventory in the court record, not publicly retrieved; (b) NARA RG 19 (Bureau of Ships) construction correspondence for CA-69 and the 1952-55 CAG-1 conversion work package (New York Shipbuilding, Camden) - the likeliest repositories of hull-level insulation and abatement records; not digitized.
- Verification
- unverified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-19
- Study period
- n/a
- Limitations
- Leads only - the JRG exhibits are referenced in the opinion but the exhibit files themselves were not retrieved (RECAP/paid access); the NARA holdings are inferred from standard BuShips records disposition, specific series not identified.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-boston-ca69-11