Evidence
8 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-8).
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[1]Naval Vessel Register, live record for CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI (SSN 705), shipId 2199 — NVR carries the name note '(ex - CORPUS CHRISTI)' (site updated 08/11/2026; record last updated 12/03/2024); corroborated by NVR Wayback capture 2019 (physical characteristics and accommodations) [marad_nrc]
- Locator
- NVR getHull shipId=2199 (live); web.archive.org NVR SHIPSDETAIL_SSN_705 captures
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Official NVR record for this hull: Class SSN 688; UIC 20832; name note '(ex - CORPUS CHRISTI)'; builder General Dynamics Electric Boat; award 10/31/1973; keel 09/04/1979; launch 04/25/1981; delivery 11/24/1982; commission 01/08/1983; inactivation 07/28/2016; decommission 08/03/2017; stricken 08/03/2017; status 'disposed of by dismantling (scrapping/recycling)'. 2019 capture adds: steam turbine (nuclear), 1 propeller; accommodations 12 officers/98 enlisted.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-18
- Study period
- 1973-2017
- Population
- Crew (1983-2017); EB construction trades (1979-83); PSNS&IMF inactivation/recycling trades
- Limitations
- Ship-specific administrative record only; no asbestos or material content. NVR milestone dates are the official register figures and may differ from ceremony dates in secondary sources (navysite reports a 30 May 2017 decommissioning ceremony vs NVR 3 Aug 2017 decommission/stricken). Does not establish exposure for any individual.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-city-of-corpus-christi-ssn705-01
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[2]navysite.de secondary compilation, USS City of Corpus Christi (SSN 705) — narrative built from NHHC command histories (sponsored by Lilla Burt Cummings, wife of Sen. John Tower of Texas; homeport Pearl Harbor; first major deployment 1984; decommissioning ceremony 30 May 2017) [other_primary]
- Locator
- navysite.de/ssn/ssn705.htm (characteristics block, history narrative)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Service narrative for this hull (secondary compilation): renamed City of Corpus Christi from Corpus Christi during construction; sponsored by Lilla Burt Cummings, wife of Sen. John Tower of Texas; commissioned 8 January 1983; homeported Pearl Harbor HI; first major deployment 1984; Pacific Fleet service; decommissioning ceremony held 30 May 2017; decommissioned and stricken 3 August 2017.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-18
- Study period
- 1973-2017
- Population
- Crew (1983-2017)
- Limitations
- Secondary compilation, not a primary source — used for service narrative only, consistent with prior-batch practice; never sole support for an asbestos claim. No asbestos or material content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-city-of-corpus-christi-ssn705-02
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[3]Era inference built on: NVR record (S6G-plant 688-class build window 1979-83 at Electric Boat, Groton); shipyard-exposure-map documented asbestos product lists for electric-boat-groton and puget-sound-naval-shipyard (thermal insulation, lagging, gaskets, packing); GAO HRD-80-2 substitution timeline [other_primary]
- Locator
- NVR record (build window, builder); shipyards.json product lists for electric-boat-groton, puget-sound-naval-shipyard; GAO HRD-80-2
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- A Flight I Los Angeles-class submarine built 1979-83 at Electric Boat sits at the tail of the Navy's peak asbestos-use era: GAO documented the Navy began substituting alternative insulation materials in the early 1970s, while asbestos-containing gaskets, packing, and residual insulation products persisted in shipboard applications into the 1980s. This hull's build and availabilities fall inside that transition — residual asbestos applications were era-plausible but are undocumented for this hull; nuclear propulsion itself establishes nothing.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-18
- Study period
- 1979-2017
- Population
- EB construction trades (1979-83); availability-yard trades; crew (1983-2017); PSNS&IMF recycling trades
- Limitations
- Class/era inference only — weaker than for pre-1970 hulls because construction post-dates the Navy's documented substitution start. No hull-specific insulation survey or material list located for SSN-705. Names era-possible applications, not confirmed installed materials; no quantity. Does not establish exposure.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-city-of-corpus-christi-ssn705-03
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[4]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 — the boundary regime applicable to this hull's 1979-83 construction, i.e., after substitution began but before asbestos products were eliminated from shipboard use.
- 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-city-of-corpus-christi-ssn705-04
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[5]Kase v. Metalclad Insulation Corp., Cal. Ct. App. (4th Dist.) 2021 (CourtListener opinions 4324658, 4332654) [court_record]
- Locator
- Opinion, specification-history discussion
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- Court-documented era regime: the Navy's submarine insulation procurement specifications (SUBSAFE's MIL-I-24244 post-1963; predecessor BuShips practice before) covered insulation for submarine construction and overhaul — the regime applicable to this hull's 1979-83 build and service-era availabilities.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-18
- Study period
- 2021 (opinion); regime described post-1963
- Population
- Navy submarine construction/maintenance trades
- Limitations
- This hull is not named in the opinion; documents the era spec regime only. Does not establish materials aboard this hull, exposure, causation, quantity, or eligibility. Description follows the batch-08 verified reading of the opinion.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-city-of-corpus-christi-ssn705-05
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[6]Wai Ola Alliance v. United States Department of the Navy (D. Haw. 1:22-cv-00272), ECF No. 226 Att. 7 (filed Aug 18, 2025) — National Response Center incident-report log exhibit covering Pearl Harbor naval vessels [court_record]
- Locator
- ECF No. 226 Att. 7, NRC log table
- Finding type
- environmental_record
- Finding
- Genuine non-asbestos ship reference: the hull string 'SSN-705' appears in an NRC incident-report log exhibit filed in an environmental suit against the Navy — the same log format verified at line level for sister hull LA JOLLA (SSN-701): 'NRC REPORT [number] [SHIP] SSN-688 SSN-7XX Port HARBOR, HI' discharge/incident entries. Consistent with this hull's Pearl Harbor homeport. Other litigation, not asbestos.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-18
- Study period
- log covers ~2010-era incident reports
- Population
- Pearl Harbor personnel (incident period)
- Limitations
- Index-level match: the SSN-705 line itself was not extracted (the verified line-level extraction was run for SSN-701); the document is an oil/environmental incident log, not an asbestos or material record. Establishes no exposure, no ACM content, no causation, no eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-city-of-corpus-christi-ssn705-06
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[7]CourtListener sweep 2026-09-18: "USS City of Corpus Christi" and "USS Corpus Christi" (type=r dockets, Atom feed; type=o opinions); "SSN-705" and "SSN 705" (type=r) [court_record]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-city-of-corpus-christi-ssn705-04 through -07
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- Negative litigation sweep: no asbestos case names this hull. 'USS City of Corpus Christi' returned 4 docket hits, ALL classified as municipal name collisions — In re Oil Spill by the Oil Rig 'Deepwater Horizon' (E.D. La. 2014) documents concern the City of Corpus Christi, Texas (a Gulf Coast municipality in the spill claims process), not the submarine. 'USS Corpus Christi' returned zero. 'SSN-705'/'SSN 705' returned the Wai Ola log (other litigation, above) plus Raul Ramirez and Elma Ramirez (Bankr. N.D. Ill. 2018) — an unverified match, likely an SSN-fragment string collision in a bankruptcy document; classified non-qualifying. Zero opinion hits.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-18
- Study period
- 2026-09-18
- Limitations
- The Deepwater Horizon collision classification is index-level (case context — a Gulf oil-spill MDL naming a Texas municipality; this hull was Pearl Harbor-homeported and irrelevant to that litigation). The Ramirez bankruptcy match is unverified. Atom feeds enumerate only the ~20 most recent matching documents; older unindexed docket text may exist. Absence of a located record does not prove absence of exposure or asbestos aboard.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-city-of-corpus-christi-ssn705-07
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[8]ACM survey / abatement / SRP-disclosure sweep (web) + search ledger [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger row sl-uss-city-of-corpus-christi-ssn705-08
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No hull ACM survey, abatement contract, scrapping/recycling hazmat disclosure, or adjudicated exposure finding naming USS City of Corpus Christi (SSN-705) was located. The hull was dismantled through the Ship-Submarine Recycling Program at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard; SRP hazmat documentation is not publicly retrievable for any 688-class hull reviewed in this or prior nuclear batches.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-18
- Study period
- 2016-2017; sweep 2026-09-18
- Population
- PSNS&IMF Ship-Submarine Recycling Program trades (post-2016)
- Limitations
- Absence of a located public record does not prove absence of asbestos aboard. Recycling-yard material characterization is not public. Does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-city-of-corpus-christi-ssn705-08