Evidence
8 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-8).
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[1]Naval Vessel Register, ship detail page (archived capture; live nvr.navy.mil page not directly retrievable) (archived capture) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NVR vessel status + milestone dates + physical characteristics
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NVR milestones: builder General Dynamics Electric Boat; award 01/08/1971; keel laid 05/08/1976; launched 07/22/1978; commissioned 03/28/1981; inactivated 07/09/2018; decommissioned and stricken 05/21/2021; status stricken, final disposition pending. Class SSN 688; length 362 ft; beam 33 ft; draft 31 ft; light 5,789 t, full 6,159 t; steam turbine (nuclear), one propeller.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-18
- Study period
- construction through disposal
- Population
- Construction yard; successive crews
- Limitations
- Official register data for identity, milestones, builder, dimensions and propulsion only; contains no asbestos or material-content information. Archived capture used because the live NVR page was not directly retrievable; values as of capture date.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-bremerton-ssn698-01
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[2]DANFS / NHHC ship history entry (official; archived capture - live page 404 or not retrievable) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS service narrative and spec block
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Documented for this hull (DANFS): second Bremerton; laid down 8 May 1976 at General Dynamics Electric Boat, Groton; launched 22 July 1978 (sponsor Mrs. Helen H. Jackson, wife of Sen. Henry M. Jackson); commissioned 28 March 1981 at Naval Submarine Base New London, Capt. Thomas H. Anderson. Departed 11 Jul 1981 on an Indian Ocean deployment (Diego Garcia, Perth; 77 days continuously at sea); joined SubRon 7 at Pearl Harbor 28 Oct 1981 after a 36,000-mile maiden voyage. 1999: tasked to sink the grounded bulk carrier New Carissa off Oregon. Final voyage Pearl Harbor to Puget Sound Naval Shipyard 20-27 Apr 2018; inactivated there 9 Jul 2018. Inherited O'Kane's cribbage board from Los Angeles (SSN-688) as the oldest commissioned boat. Complement 110 per spec block.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-18
- Study period
- construction through disposition
- Population
- Construction yard; successive crews
- Limitations
- Ship-specific service history; no asbestos or material content. Yard-period asbestos disturbance is era inference, not a per-hull record.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-bremerton-ssn698-02
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[3]USS Bremerton Command Operations Report (command history), NHHC archives (archived PDF; live dam path 404) [other_primary]
- Locator
- 1984 COR chronology + basic history (homeport, squadron, WESTPAC deployment)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- 1984 command history: homeport Pearl Harbor; Commander Submarine Squadron Seven; WESTPAC deployment May-Aug 1984 (departed 5 May, Subic Bay port call); training/inspection tempo described.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-18
- Study period
- 1984
- Population
- Crew; yard workers during availabilities
- Limitations
- Primary ship-generated command history; documents operations and availabilities, not material content. No asbestos statement.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-bremerton-ssn698-03
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[4]DVIDS/Commander Submarine Group Nine, 'USS Bremerton (SSN 698) decommissioned' (2021-05-18) [other_primary]
- Locator
- DVIDS news 396944
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Official decommissioning record: inactivation/decommissioning ceremony held 18 May 2021 at the U.S. Naval Undersea Museum, Keyport WA (Submarine Group Nine, SubRon 19 presiding); formally decommissioned 21 May 2021 after 40 years of service; first commanding officer retired Capt. Thomas Anderson spoke; final voyage had carried her from Pearl Harbor to PSNS & IMF for decommissioning, inactivation and recycling.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-18
- Study period
- 2021
- Population
- Crew; former crew; PSNS & IMF workers
- Limitations
- Official release for the decommissioning event; no asbestos or material content. Recycling work scope not characterized.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-bremerton-ssn698-04
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[5]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. Her 1976-78 construction is late in the documented peak-use window and post-dates the early-1970s substitution start - original-fit materials uncertain either way; Pearl Harbor availabilities through her career remain inside the repair-era asbestos regime.
- 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-bremerton-ssn698-05
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[6]Siegfried v. Owens-Illinois (C.D. Cal., removed MDL-875), RECAP doc 50 (Navy spec history); Zimmerman v. Air & Liquid Systems Corp., No. 3:14-cv-00176 (D. Conn.), RECAP docs 65, 77-1 (submarine construction/asbestos regime at Electric Boat); storage.courtlistener.com RECAP PDFs [court_record]
- Locator
- Siegfried doc 50 summary-of-facts (spec history); Zimmerman doc 65 at 5-8 (EB-built submarine exposure regime)
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- Court-documented era regime: Navy thermal-insulation procurement specifications (32-I-3/MIL-I-2819 block and 32-P-8/MIL-I-2781 pipe insulation) required asbestos-containing thermal insulation in naval construction and repair; submarine insulation specs (SUBSAFE-era MIL-I-24244) covered submarine construction and overhaul. These regimes were in force during this hull's 1970s construction and service-era availabilities.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-18
- Study period
- 1940s-1980s (regime described); opinions 2015-2018
- Population
- Navy construction/repair trades; submariners and yard workers
- Limitations
- Hull not named in these documents; they court-document the era specification regime and shipyard exposure practices only. Does not establish materials aboard this hull, individual exposure, causation, quantity, or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-bremerton-ssn698-06
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[7]Era inference built on: Naval Vessel Register build/availability milestones; shipyard-exposure-map documented asbestos product lists for electric-boat-groton, pearl-harbor-naval-shipyard (thermal insulation, submarine steam/propulsion lagging, gaskets, packing, block insulation) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NVR milestones; shipyards.json product lists
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Built 1976-78 at Electric Boat - among the latest boats in this batch, after the Navy's substitution began - with a Pearl Harbor homeport and attendant PHNSY availabilities through 2018. Era-standard applications are consistent but the weakest-supported in this batch for original fit; repair-era exposure regime documented at the yards.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-18
- Study period
- construction and service era
- Population
- Builder-yard construction trades; Navy-yard availability trades; crew
- Limitations
- Class/era inference only - no hull-specific insulation survey or material list located. Names era-standard applications on secondary steam and auxiliary systems, not confirmed installed materials; the S6G reactor plant establishes nothing. This hull was built during the Navy's early-1970s asbestos-substitution transition, so original-asbestos inference is weaker than for 1950s-60s hulls and remains unverified either way. No quantity; current material condition undocumented.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-bremerton-ssn698-07
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[8]Batch-44 search ledger (this record): NVR, DANFS, NHHC CORs, DVIDS, CourtListener (throttled) + Google-indexed CL corpus [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows (this record)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, or qualifying asbestos case naming this hull was found. CourtListener API searches could not be run (125/day rate limit exhausted; reset ~15h) - Google-indexed CourtListener documents surfaced no document naming this hull as an exposure site; all surfaced hits were name collisions or unrelated litigation.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-18
- Study period
- 2026-09-18
- Limitations
- Absence of a located public record does not prove absence of asbestos aboard. A negative public-record search is not a materials survey; yard work-package and hazmat records, if they exist, are not public. CourtListener coverage was partial (API throttled; Google-indexed corpus only). Does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-bremerton-ssn698-08