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 DALLAS (SSN 700), shipId 2082 (site updated 08/11/2026; record last updated 10/15/2024); corroborated by NVR Wayback captures 2019-03-24 and 2024-06-24 (physical characteristics and accommodations blocks the live view omits) [marad_nrc]
- Locator
- NVR getHull shipId=2082 (live, via getHullListDataByQuickfind.ajax); web.archive.org NVR SHIPSDETAIL_SSN_700 captures 2019-03-24 and 2024-06-24
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Official NVR record for this hull: Class SSN 688; UIC 20811; builder General Dynamics Electric Boat; award 10/31/1973; keel 10/09/1976; launch 04/28/1979; delivery 06/26/1981; commission 07/18/1981; inactivation 06/15/2017; decommission 04/04/2018; stricken 04/04/2018; status 'stricken, final disposition pending'; maintenance category Z. Wayback captures add: steam turbine (nuclear), 1 propeller; accommodations 12 officers/98 enlisted; 362 ft overall, 33 ft beam, 31 ft draft; 5,768 tons light / 6,143 tons full.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-19
- Study period
- 1973-2018
- Population
- Crew (1981-2018); EB construction trades (1976-81); yard trades at documented availabilities; PSNS inactivation/storage trades (2017- )
- 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. 'Final disposition pending' status reflects the register's 10/15/2024 update — the recycling schedule itself is not published on the record. Does not establish exposure for any individual.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-dallas-ssn700-01
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[2]navysite.de secondary compilation, USS Dallas (SSN 700) — narrative built from NHHC command histories (13th of class; sponsor Rita Crocker Clements; commissioned Groton under Capt. Donald R. Ferrier; SUBDEVRON 12 test platform; 27 Aug 1981 AUTEC grounding; Jan 1982 Newport News PSA; 1984 Indian Ocean circumnavigation; 1986 Med w/ USS Dace, Attain Document III/El Dorado Canyon; Oct 1988-Sep 1989 first DMP at Portsmouth NSY; Aug 1990-early 1991 Desert Shield/Storm Med deployment; 1995-98 ERO at PNSY with first 688 DDS fit; Sorbet Royal 2000 DSRV mother ship; final deployment to 22 Nov 2016; Groton departure 24 Mar 2017 -> Bremerton 22 May 2017; Hunt for Red October) [other_primary]
- Locator
- navysite.de/ssn/ssn700.htm (characteristics block, accident table, history narrative)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Service narrative for this hull (secondary compilation): first Los Angeles-class boat built from the start with an all-digital fire-control and sonar suite; Submarine Development Squadron TWELVE, New London; 27 August 1981 grounded approaching the AUTEC range off Andros Island, Bahamas (lower-rudder damage, surfaced transit home); January 1982 five-month Post-Shakedown Availability at Newport News; 18 May-8 December 1984 Indian Ocean deployment/circumnavigation (Cape of Good Hope, Diego Garcia, Perth, Albany, Panama Canal); early-1986 five-month Mediterranean deployment supporting Operations Attain Document III and El Dorado Canyon with USS Dace, Battle 'E' FY1986; 1988 North Atlantic deployment earning a Meritorious Unit Commendation; October 1988-September 1989 the Navy's first Depot Modernization Period at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, reassigned Submarine Squadron Two; December 1989 CNO Project 01387-07 BQQ-5D sonar operational evaluation; August 1990-early 1991 six-month Mediterranean deployment supporting Desert Shield/Desert Storm; Battle 'E' FY1991-93, Battenberg Cup nomination; September 1995-1998 Engineered Refueling Overhaul at Portsmouth NSY (D1G-2 core replaced by D2W; first Los Angeles-class submarine fitted for a Dry Deck Shelter, completed August 1998); Battle 'E' 1999; April-autumn 2000 Mediterranean deployment incl. Sorbet Royal 2000 as mother ship for DSRV-1 Mystic at Aksaz; further Med/Indian Ocean deployments 2004, 2006, 2008, 2011, 2013 (DDS removed by 2008 return); final deployment spring-22 November 2016 (~7.5 months, 37,000 nm; Brest, Al Hidd, Duqm); retirement announced for 2014, extended to FY2017 after the 2012 USS Miami fire; departed Groton 24 March 2017, arrived Bremerton 22 May 2017.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-19
- Study period
- 1973-2018
- Population
- Crew (1981-2018); Newport News PSA trades (1982); PNSY DMP trades (1988-89) and ERO trades (1995-98); PSNS inactivation trades (2017- )
- Limitations
- Secondary compilation built on NHHC command histories, not itself a primary source — used for service narrative only, consistent with prior-batch practice; never sole support for an asbestos claim. The Newport News PSA, PNSY DMP/ERO, and PSNS inactivation windows are documented yard periods (relevant window context only — none establishes asbestos exposure or disturbance). No asbestos or material content. Characteristics table prints launch year 1978 — internally inconsistent with its own narrative (1979) and NVR; NVR figure carried.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-dallas-ssn700-02
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[3]DVIDS/NNS official Navy releases: 'USS Dallas Decommissions after 38 Years of Service' (dvidshub.net/news/272302) and 'USS Dallas (SSN 700) Arrives in Bremerton for Inactivation' (dvidshub.net/news/234777) [other_primary]
- Locator
- DVIDS news articles 234777 (22 May 2017) and 272302 (4 April 2018)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Official Navy public-affairs record: arrived Naval Base Kitsap-Bremerton 22 May 2017 for inactivation — de-fueling and hull retention in safe storage conducted by Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility; decommissioning ceremony held 4 April 2018 in the Controlled Industrial Area at PSNS, closing 38 years of service; final commanding officer Cmdr. David Kaiser; second U.S. Navy warship named for Dallas, Texas; publicly the best-known U.S. submarine for its role in 'The Hunt for Red October.'
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-19
- Study period
- 2017-2018
- Population
- Final crew and PSNS&IMF inactivation trades (2017-2018)
- Limitations
- Official ceremony/inactivation coverage; no asbestos or material content. The Controlled Industrial Area is the shipyard's SRP work zone — presence there documents inactivation/de-fueling, not any hazmat characterization of the hull. Does not establish exposure for any individual.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-dallas-ssn700-03
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[4]Era inference built on: NVR record (S6G-plant 688-class build window 1976-81 at Electric Boat, Groton; ordered 10/31/1973); documented yard windows — Newport News PSA (1982), PNSY DMP (1988-89), PNSY ERO (1995-98), PSNS inactivation/SRP storage (2017- ); shipyard-exposure-map documented asbestos product lists for electric-boat-groton, newport-news-shipbuilding, portsmouth-naval-shipyard, and puget-sound-naval-shipyard (thermal insulation, lagging, gaskets, packing); GAO HRD-80-2 substitution timeline [other_primary]
- Locator
- NVR record (build window, builder); navysite yard-window narrative; shipyards.json product lists for electric-boat-groton, newport-news-shipbuilding, portsmouth-naval-shipyard, puget-sound-naval-shipyard; GAO HRD-80-2
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- A Flight I Los Angeles-class submarine ordered October 1973 and built 1976-81 at Electric Boat straddles the Navy's documented substitution boundary: GAO documented that substitution of alternative insulation materials began in the early 1970s, while asbestos-containing gaskets, packing, and residual insulation products persisted in shipboard applications into the 1980s. This hull's construction falls just after substitution began — earlier than the 1980-85 sister builds covered in batch 45 — and its documented yard windows (Newport News PSA 1982; Portsmouth NSY first-ever DMP 1988-89; PNSY ERO 1995-98 including pressure-hull access to the reactor compartment; PSNS inactivation/SRP storage from 2017) are the asbestos-relevant maintenance events. Residual asbestos applications and yard disturbance were era-plausible but are undocumented for this hull; nuclear propulsion itself establishes nothing.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-19
- Study period
- 1976-2018
- Population
- EB construction trades (1976-81); Newport News PSA trades (1982); PNSY DMP (1988-89) and ERO (1995-98) trades; crew (1981-2018); PSNS inactivation/SRP trades (2017- )
- Limitations
- Class/era inference only — weaker than for pre-1970 hulls because construction post-dates the Navy's documented substitution start, though marginally less so than later sister builds. No hull-specific insulation survey or material list located for SSN-700; none of the documented yard windows carries a material characterization. Names era-possible applications and documented yard events, not confirmed installed materials or disturbance; no quantity. Does not establish exposure.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-dallas-ssn700-04
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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 — the boundary regime applicable to this hull's 1976-81 construction and its subsequent availabilities, i.e., after substitution began but before asbestos products were eliminated from shipboard use.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-19
- 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-dallas-ssn700-05
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[6]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 1976-81 build and its 1982 PSA, 1988-89 DMP, and 1995-98 ERO windows.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-19
- 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-dallas-ssn700-06
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[7]CourtListener sweep 2026-09-19 (HTML search channel; v4 API throttled): "USS Dallas" (type=r dockets; type=o opinions); "SSN-700" and "SSN 700" (type=r) [court_record]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-dallas-ssn700-05 through -08
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- Negative litigation sweep: no asbestos case names this hull. 'USS Dallas' (type=r) returned 4 cases / 5 docket entries — all classified non-asbestos: North Atlantic States Regional Council of Carpenters Local 3073 (2026; complaint recites LA-class construction incl. 'USS Oklahoma City, USS Dallas, and USS Pittsburgh' — other litigation); AM General LLC v. Activision Blizzard (2019, trademark — USS Dallas in a list of military watercraft in exhibits — name collision); Estate of Marquis R. Polidore Sr. v. McBride (personnel case reciting a sailor's prior Dallas service — other litigation); Fox v. US Attorney's Office (civil rights, nature of suit 440 — name collision). 'USS Dallas' (type=o): zero hits. 'SSN-700'/'SSN 700' (type=r): 8 cases each — all verified string collisions ('Last 4 digits of SSN' + '$700.00'/'0700' fragments in unrelated bankruptcy/civil dockets).
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-19
- Study period
- 2026-09-19
- Limitations
- Sweep ran through the HTML search channel — the v4 REST API was throttled all session (125/day shared-quota exhausted, reset ~10h out; backed off rather than retrying into a ban). Index/snippet-level verification only for the four docket hits (entry texts not individually pulled); classification rests on returned snippets and nature-of-suit metadata. Bounded by index coverage — 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-dallas-ssn700-07
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[8]ACM survey / abatement / SRP-disclosure sweep (web) + search ledger [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-dallas-ssn700-09 through -10
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No hull ACM survey, abatement contract, scrapping/recycling hazmat disclosure, or adjudicated exposure finding naming USS Dallas (SSN-700) was located. The hull remains extant — de-fueled and held in safe storage at PSNS Bremerton under 'stricken, final disposition pending' status pending Ship-Submarine Recycling Program processing; 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
- 2026-09-19
- Study period
- 2017-present; sweep 2026-09-19
- Population
- PSNS&IMF storage/SRP trades (2017- )
- Limitations
- Absence of a located public record does not prove absence of asbestos aboard — the hull still exists in storage and has not yet been recycled, so material characterization could emerge at recycling (publicly stated schedule ~2028, unconfirmed). 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-dallas-ssn700-08