Evidence
9 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-9).
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[1]Naval Vessel Register (NAVSEA/NAVSHIPSO), CORONADO (AGF 11) ship-detail entry - live register no longer displays the disposed hull; Wayback capture 2017-05-10 [other_primary]
- Locator
- NVR AGF-11 detail page, milestone and physical-characteristics tables (Wayback capture 2017-05-10; live page renders register shell only post-disposal)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Official register entry for CORONADO (AGF 11), ex-LPD 11, Miscellaneous Command Ship, UIC 07194: builder Lockheed Shipbuilding & Construction Co.; awarded 05/15/1964; keel laid 05/03/1965; launched 07/30/1966; delivered 05/15/1970; commissioned 05/23/1970; stricken 09/30/2006; status 'Disposed of in support of Fleet training exercise' changed 09/12/2012. Physical: steel hull and superstructure; steam turbines; 2 propellers; 569 ft overall; 16,405 tons full displacement; accommodations 106 officers / 1,247 enlisted.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-20
- Study period
- 1964-2012
- Limitations
- Authoritative for identity, milestones, and plant type. The entry's 'Decommission Date' field reads 02/25/2005, which conflicts with the official Pacific Fleet statement that the ship was decommissioned 09/30/2006 and with the documented 2005-02-25 recommissioning ceremony - the field is anomalous and reported here verbatim, not resolved. Contains no asbestos or materials information; establishes steam-turbine propulsion only.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-coronado-agf11-01
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[2]Commander, U.S. Pacific Fleet (navy.mil), 'U.S. Navy conducts SINKEX as part of Valiant Shield 2012' (2012-09-12 release, archived) [other_primary]
- Locator
- CPF release text, paragraphs 1-4
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Official Navy release: a live-fire exercise during Valiant Shield 2012 sank ex-USS Coronado (AGF-11) about 3:20 pm local on Sept. 12, 2012, 102 nautical miles south of Guam in 3,045 fathoms; 'Former Navy vessels used in SINKEXs are prepared in strict compliance with regulations prescribed and enforced by the Environmental Protection Agency.' The release's service summary: commissioned May 23, 1970; former Austin-class LPD serving the Atlantic Fleet (Caribbean, Northern Europe, Mediterranean); re-designated auxiliary command ship in 1980; command ship for U.S. Middle East Force and Sixth Fleet, then Third Fleet, homeported at Pearl Harbor then San Diego; 'the first U.S. Navy combatant ship to have female crew members'; decommissioned Sept. 30, 2006.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-20
- Study period
- 1970-2012
- Population
- None (target hull was unmanned at sinking); earlier crews/flag staffs as historical population
- Limitations
- Official hull-specific source for sinking date/site/depth and the service summary. The EPA-compliance statement is generic to the SINKEX program within a hull-specific release - it does not identify any material removed from this hull and does not establish that asbestos was or was not aboard. 'Austin-class' is used loosely; NavSource and standard references place LPD-11 in the Cleveland sub-class (LPD-7 group). The women-crew claim is stated without the widely reported 1994-02-28 date (secondary sources only).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-coronado-agf11-02
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[3]Navy News Service release, 'USS Coronado Deploys to Western Pacific' (NNS, March 2004; verbatim mirror at globalsecurity.org, mil-040302-nns02) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NNS release body text (globalsecurity mirror); NavSource CO list lines 25-27
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Official Navy release documents the MSC transition of this hull: after transfer to Military Sealift Command (Nov. 2003), Coronado completed a two-month yard period converting basic engineering, navigation and hotel services to civilian specifications; 'Feb. 18 [2004], a commissioned naval officer resumed command of Coronado' and the ship began operating with a hybrid crew (117 sailors + 146 CIVMARs, vs. ~481 sailors previously) - 'the first time the Navy and MSC have transitioned only a portion of the crew while the ship maintains its commissioned status.' She deployed 2004-03-05 to serve as temporary Seventh Fleet command platform at Yokosuka while USS Blue Ridge was in dry dock.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-20
- Study period
- 2003-2004
- Population
- Hybrid crew 2004: 117 Navy + 146 MSC civilian mariners
- Limitations
- Verbatim NNS text hosted on a third-party mirror; the underlying release is official. Documents the manning experiment and 2004 deployment; contains no asbestos or materials information. The T-AGF-11 interval (2003-11-14 to 2004-02) is corroborated by NavSource's commanding-officer list.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-coronado-agf11-03
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[4]NavSource Online Amphibious Photo Archive, USS Coronado (LPD-11/AGF-11/T-AGF-11) page - compilation of US Navy/NHHC and MOHAI photographs with captions and command chronology [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource page 0911 - chronology block, CO list, photo captions (IDs 10091163, 10091146, 10091145, 1009114359, 10091162, 2276k Point Loma ceremony)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Photographic record documents ship-specific yard and status events: keel-laying ceremony 1965-05-03 at Lockheed Shipbuilding, Seattle (MOHAI photo); launching ceremony 1966-07-01 with sponsor Mrs. Eleanor Ring (MOHAI photos); commissioning 1970-05-23 (USN photo); in drydock at Philadelphia Navy Yard in 1984 (US Navy photo by LI2 David Watts); white-painted Middle East Force flagship at Mina Salman, Bahrain, summer 1981; recommissioning ceremony at Naval Base Point Loma 2005-02-25 (US Navy photo). Command list records CAPT Porterfield (MSC) commanding T-AGF-11 from 2003-11-14 to 2004-02-19, succeeded by CAPT Noble (USN). Awards include Humanitarian Service Medal (Beirut evacuation) and Navy Expeditionary Medal (Iran, Libya).
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-20
- Study period
- 1965-2005
- Population
- Philadelphia Naval Shipyard workers (1984 drydock period)
- Limitations
- NavSource is a secondary compilation; evidentiary value rests on the underlying US Navy/NHHC/MOHAI photographs it hosts. Its 'Launched 1 July 1966' caption conflicts with NVR's launch date 07/30/1966 - the July 1 date is the christening/launch ceremony; treated as unresolved (see gaps). Specifications on the page (600 psi boilers, complement figures) are compiler data not verified against primary sources. Contains no asbestos information.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-coronado-agf11-04
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[5]EPA & MARAD, 'National Guidance: Best Management Practices for Preparing Vessels Intended to Create Artificial Reefs' (EPA842-B-06-002, May 2006) - asbestos chapter: 'Where is asbestos found on a ship?' [other_primary]
- Locator
- EPA842-B-06-002, Asbestos narrative chapter (~pp. 30-34), 'Where is asbestos found on a ship?'
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Federal guidance identifies asbestos as a material of environmental concern characteristically present aboard vessels of Coronado's construction era - in boiler and steam-pipe insulation/lagging, gaskets, valve packing, floor and deck tile, and bulkhead/insulation materials - and prescribes pre-sinking clean-up goals for it. Coronado is a documented steam-turbine ship built 1965-1970 (NVR); asbestos applications typical of such a plant would include boiler and steam-line insulation, machinery gaskets and packing, and interior deck/bulkhead materials.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-20
- Study period
- 1965-1970 (construction); guidance 2006
- Population
- Construction trades (Lockheed Shipbuilding, 1965-1970); crew; later overhaul/yard workers - era context only
- Limitations
- Program-level federal guidance, not a hull record - it documents where asbestos is typically found aboard vessels, not that it was or remained aboard this hull. Ship-specific presence is era-consistent inference only; no quantity, location, condition, or individual exposure is established.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-coronado-agf11-05
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[6]GAO, 'Navy Efforts To Protect Workers From Asbestos Exposure,' HRD-80-2 (Oct 18, 1979) [gao]
- Locator
- GAO product page HRD-80-2
- Finding type
- gov_survey
- Finding
- GAO documented the Navy's asbestos-protection program, including shipyard insulation-removal policy and worker-protection shortcomings during the era when Coronado was built and overhauled (fieldwork at Long Beach and Norfolk Naval Shipyards).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-20
- Study period
- 1979
- Population
- Navy shipyard workers (program context)
- Limitations
- Program/era documentation only; does not name this hull, its builder yard, or any yard period this hull underwent. Full text not retrieved - gao.gov returns HTTP 403 to automated fetch; content via product-page description (same limitation as Batch-01).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-coronado-agf11-06
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[7]Gorman v. Garlock, Inc. (with Lockheed Shipbuilding Company and Todd Shipyards Corporation), 118 P.3d 311 (Wash. 2005) [court_record]
- Locator
- Gorman v. Garlock, 118 P.3d 311 (Wash. 2005), paras. 1-3; related cites in finding text
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- Published Washington Supreme Court opinion: workers alleged asbestos exposure during employment at Lockheed Shipbuilding's Washington shipyard; suits against the employer-yard were barred by LHWCA exclusive-liability, affirmed on review. Related published decisions document the same premises (Campbell v. Lockheed Shipbuilding Corp., 61 P.3d 1160 (Wash. Ct. App. 2003) - asbestos exposure at Lockheed's premises in the 1970s; McAllister v. Lockheed Shipbuilding, 39 BRBS 35 (2005)). Coronado's builder yard is an adjudicated asbestos-exposure premises.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-09-20
- Study period
- litigation 2003-2005; underlying exposure era overlapping 1960s-1970s
- Population
- Lockheed Shipbuilding yard workers (yard-level context)
- Limitations
- Yard-level litigation context only - no opinion names this hull or ties exposure to Coronado's construction period (1965-1970); Campbell's exposure postdates the build. Establishes that the builder's premises were a documented asbestos-exposure site, not that any exposure occurred aboard or in building this hull.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-coronado-agf11-07
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[8]EPA, 'Transport of Target Vessels for Ocean Disposal' - MPRSA general permit at 40 C.F.R. 229.2 (SINKEX permit), incl. 2014 EPA-Navy Determination and Agreement [federal_register]
- Locator
- EPA MPRSA page, permit-requirements list; 40 CFR 229.2; 2014 Determination/Agreement PDF (epa.gov)
- Finding type
- regulatory
- Finding
- The EPA MPRSA general permit under which ex-Coronado was transported and sunk requires that before sinking 'appropriate measures are taken by qualified personnel at Navy or other certified facility to remove to the maximum extent practicable all materials which may degrade the marine environment,' including defueling tanks and lines and removing other pollutants and readily detachable debris; vessels must sink >=50 nm from land in >=6,000 ft; the Navy reports each vessel's name, tonnage, location, and date to EPA annually. The official release for this hull's sinking states strict EPA compliance.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-09-20
- Study period
- permit in force at sinking, 2012
- Population
- SINKEX preparation personnel (regime context)
- Limitations
- Program-level regulation applied to this hull's 2012 sinking (per the CPF release). The permit text does not name asbestos or this vessel; it does not establish what materials were found or removed from Coronado, only the governing removal standard. The hull-specific preparation record, if any exists, is not public.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-coronado-agf11-08
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[9]Batch-723 search ledger (this record): NVR (Wayback), CPF navy.mil release, NavSource archive, FAS/dod-101 Navy fact-file mirror, NNS release mirror, EPA MPRSA permit and BMP guidance, CourtListener API/web (blocked), web-index litigation sweep, NHHC DANFS and command-history probes [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-coronado-agf11-01 through -12
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, government hull survey, or docketed case naming USS Coronado / LPD-11 / AGF-11 / T-AGF-11 was found in the sources searched (see search_ledger). No DANFS history exists for this hull and no digitized NHHC command histories for it were located.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-20
- Study period
- 2026-09-20
- Limitations
- Absence of a located public record does not prove absence of asbestos aboard - a 1965-1970 steam plant is era-consistent with asbestos insulation, and SINKEX preparation records are not public. CourtListener was rate-limited (HTTP 429, 125/day) and its web UI blocked (403) during this batch; hull-level litigation coverage is therefore partial, mitigated by web-index searches which returned no qualifying result. Does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-coronado-agf11-09