Evidence
8 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-8).
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[1]Naval Vessel Register (nvr.navy.mil), SHIPSDETAIL_CVN_70 - official Navy ship-status register [other_primary]
- Locator
- NVR CVN-70 vessel-status, milestone, physical-characteristics, and program blocks
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Naval Vessel Register detail page for CVN-70 (2020 Wayback capture of the rendered page): Award 04/05/1974; Keel 10/11/1975; Launch 03/15/1980; Delivery 02/26/1982; Commission 03/13/1982; status Active, in commission; fleet U.S. Pacific; homeport San Diego, CA; builder Newport News Shipbuilding; propulsion 'Steam Turbines (Nuclear)'; 4 propellers; accommodations 554 officers + 5,205 enlisted; full displacement 101,133 tons; planning yards Norfolk Naval Shipyard (hull) and Newport News Shipbuilding (nuclear).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-18
- Study period
- register content last updated 2018, captured 2020-10-29
- Limitations
- Official status register - milestones, status, and accommodations only; no material/insulation data. Live NVR page returns a JS template shell to automated fetch (same defect as batch-10); the 2020-10-29 Wayback capture of the rendered page was used.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-carl-vinson-cvn70-01
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[2]USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) official ship history page (cvn70.navy.mil/history.html) - U.S. Navy website [other_primary]
- Locator
- Official ship history, year-by-year entries 1980-2005 (launch, commissioning, homeport chain, PSNS availabilities, OEF first strikes)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- The ship's official history page records: launched 15 Mar 1980 - Congressman Carl Vinson, then 96, attended, 'the first person in the history of the United States to witness a launching in his honor'; commissioned 13 Mar 1982; 1983 eight-month around-the-world cruise from Norfolk to new homeport NAS Alameda (under the Golden Gate 28 Oct 1983); complex overhaul at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard 22 Sep 1990 - 6 Apr 1993; homeport Bremerton Jan 1997; 11-month drydocked planned incremental availability at PSNS Jul 1999 - Jun 2000 (> $230M); PIA Apr-Sep 2002; launched the first Operation Enduring Freedom strikes 7 Oct 2001; departed Bremerton Jan 2005 on the around-the-world cruise preceding RCOH.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-18
- Study period
- 1980-2005
- Population
- Ship's company ~3,200 + air wing ~2,480 (class figure); PSNS workforce during 1990-93 COH and 1999-2000 DPIA
- Limitations
- Official Navy ship page - good for milestones and yard-period dating; no materials/asbestos content. Yard availabilities documented as events only; asbestos scope unverified. Live cvn70.navy.mil retired; 2007-07-05 Wayback capture used.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-carl-vinson-cvn70-02
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[3]Navy News Service release NNS051115-08 (via globalsecurity.org); NAVSEA release via militarynews.com (2009-07-23); Northrop Grumman award release via marinelink.com [reputable_press]
- Locator
- NNS051115-08 (dry-dock move 2005-11-11); NAVSEA redelivery story (2009-07-11 redelivery, 20M man-hours, 2,300 compartments); Northrop Grumman award release (valve counts, $1.94B)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- RCOH record: the Navy awarded Northrop Grumman ~$1.94B for the FY2006 mid-life refueling and complex overhaul; the ship moved from Pier 14, Naval Station Norfolk to Dry Dock 11 at Northrop Grumman Newport News on 11 Nov 2005 (Navy News Service release NNS051115-08); NAVSEA announced redelivery 11 Jul 2009 - more than 20 million man-hours, modernization of 2,300+ compartments, hundreds of system upgrades, defueling/refueling both reactors; third Nimitz-class hull to complete RCOH. Northrop Grumman's award release specifies nearly 3,000 valves replaced and ~600 overhauled, plus flight-deck, catapult, combat-system and island work.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-18
- Study period
- 2005-11 to 2009-07
- Population
- Northrop Grumman Newport News RCOH workforce (~3,500 at peak) and ship's company
- Limitations
- Official Navy/shipbuilder statements carried in trade and local press - documents the RCOH event and its industrial scope; no statement addresses asbestos or legacy-material removal. The 3,000-valve replacement scope is the kind of work that disturbs original insulation, but any abatement performed is unverified - recorded as an event, not a materials finding.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-carl-vinson-cvn70-03
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[4]U.S. Pacific Fleet/Navy News Service releases (cpf.navy.mil 'Bin Laden Buried at Sea' 2011-05-02; surfpac.navy.mil 'Carl Vinson Carrier Strike Group Deploys' 2021-08-02; DVIDS 'USS Carl Vinson completes Planned Incremental Availability' 2026-06) [other_primary]
- Locator
- CPF release 2011-05-02 (burial at sea); SURFPAC release 2021-08-02 (first F-35C deployment; DPIA retrofit); DVIDS 568980 (PIA completion June 2026)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Navy release confirms Osama bin Laden was buried at sea aboard USS Carl Vinson in the North Arabian Sea on 2 May 2011 following Muslim rites. On 2 Aug 2021 she became the first carrier to deploy with an F-35C/CMV-22B air wing (SURFPAC release), following a 17-month, ~$367M docking planned incremental availability at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard (2019-20) that retrofitted the ship for fifth-generation aircraft; homeport returned to San Diego September 2020. A further PIA at NAS North Island ran Nov 2025 - Jun 2026 (DVIDS).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-18
- Study period
- 2011-2026
- Limitations
- Official Navy releases - documents operational and maintenance events only; no materials/asbestos content. The 2019-20 DPIA and 2025-26 PIA are yard events whose materials scope is not public.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-carl-vinson-cvn70-04
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[5]Sharpe v. United States, 134 Fed. Cl. 805 (2017), aff'd, 935 F.3d 1352 (Fed. Cir. 2019) [court_record]
- Locator
- 134 Fed. Cl. 805 - factual-background recital (RCOH 'non-operational and uninhabitable'; ashore duty; 2010-04-01 homeport change)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Court of Federal Claims opinion (affirmed Fed. Cir. 2019) in a military non-judicial-punishment case - NOT asbestos litigation: the factual record establishes that plaintiff Sharpe checked aboard USS Carl Vinson 20 Jun 2006 as a Public Affairs Officer while 'the ship was non-operational and uninhabitable because it was undergoing a refueling and complex overhaul,' that the RCOH 'was set to last during the entire pendency of Mr. Sharpe's assignment,' and that he therefore worked ashore in the 'Bank Building' at the Northrop Grumman Newport News complex; homeport officially changed Norfolk to San Diego 1 Apr 2010.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-18
- Study period
- 2006-2010 facts; opinion 2017, affirmed 2019
- Population
- Ship's company during RCOH, 2005-2010
- Limitations
- OTHER LITIGATION - a military-law dispute (Article 15 'vessel exception'), not an asbestos case; carried only because its undisputed facts independently document the ship's uninhabitable RCOH status and the 2010 homeport change. It contains zero asbestos or materials content and does not bear on exposure.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-carl-vinson-cvn70-05
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[6]Batch-83 search ledger (this record) plus nimitz-class.class.json member sweep (sl-nimitz-class-06) [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-carl-vinson-cvn70-03 and -04; class-profile ledger 2026-09-16
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Litigation sweeps returned no qualifying asbestos opinion naming this hull: the 2026-09-16 class-profile CourtListener sweep for 'Carl Vinson'/CVN-70 found no qualifying asbestos opinion, and this session's independent searches (law-firm sites excluded) surfaced only Sharpe v. United States (other litigation, military law) and marketing-listing pages - no asbestos case naming CVN-70.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-18
- Study period
- searches 2026-09-16 and 2026-09-18
- Limitations
- A null litigation result is not proof that no exposure claims exist - unindexed state-court filings, settled matters, and MDL-875 docket entries are invisible to opinion databases. CourtListener API was rate-limited this session (125/day exhausted); today's sweep relied on the verified class-file result plus mirror repositories (OpenJurist/vLex/Justia-indexed web search). Reported as a search outcome, not a fact about the ship.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-carl-vinson-cvn70-06
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[7]Batch-83 search ledger (this record) plus nimitz-class.class.json member-vessel notes [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-carl-vinson-cvn70-01 through -07; class profile member_vessels entry for CVN-70
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No ship-specific asbestos record of any kind located: no insulation survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, or docketed asbestos case naming USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70) was found in the public sources searched (see search_ledger). The Nimitz-class profile likewise records 'no member-specific record located' for this hull.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-18
- Study period
- searches 2026-09-16 and 2026-09-18
- Limitations
- Absence of a located public record does not prove absence of asbestos aboard - an October 1975 keel sits at the substitution boundary and original-material state is genuinely unknown. This row establishes what the public record does not contain, not what the ship did not contain. Does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-carl-vinson-cvn70-07
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[8]Nimitz-class profile (class-d/nimitz-class.class.json) rows ev-nimitz-class-06 (BuShips TM ch.39) and ev-nimitz-class-09 (GAO HRD-80-2); cited rather than re-researched per batch convention [other_primary]
- Locator
- Class profile ev-nimitz-class-06/09; member_vessels note for CVN-70 ('transition-era construction... installed material state unverified')
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Class/era context, with an explicit boundary flag: keel October 1975 falls at the edge of the Navy's early-1970s insulation-material substitution (GAO HRD-80-2 documents the 1975 removal policy and 1979 selective-replacement modification). The era-standard BuShips TM ch. 39 suite (85% magnesia/amosite pipe covering, asbestos felt, cloth/tape, millboard, finishing cement) is the specified insulation set for early-class hulls - whether this hull's specifications retained it is unverified. The documented yard periods (1990-93 COH, 1999-2000 DPIA, 2005-09 RCOH, 2019-20 DPIA) are the events that would have disturbed any original material.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-18
- Study period
- 1975-present
- Population
- Newport News construction trades 1975-82; crews and yard workers 1982-present
- Limitations
- Era-standard specification and Navy policy only - NOT a ship-specific finding. The substitution boundary makes era inference weaker for this hull than for CVN-68/69; nothing in the public record confirms or characterizes installed asbestos materials aboard. Priority-use context, not a finding.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-carl-vinson-cvn70-08