Evidence
6 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-6).
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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; keel laid 08/03/1973; launched 10/09/1976; commissioned 07/08/1978; decommissioned and stricken 11/07/1997; status disposed of by submarine recycling. Class SSN 688; length 362 ft; beam 33 ft; draft 32 ft; light 5,780 t, full 6,143 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-groton-ssn694-01
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[2]seaforces.org ship page reproducing NHHC/DANFS-attributed text (secondary aggregator - lead only, not citable as evidence) [other_primary]
- Locator
- seaforces.org ship narrative
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- An NHHC-attributed narrative is reproduced at seaforces.org: laid down 3 Aug 1973 at Groton (the city for which she was named) by General Dynamics Electric Boat Division; launched 9 Oct 1976 (sponsor Mrs. Anne H. Richardson, wife of former Attorney General Elliot Richardson); commissioned 8 Jul 1978, Cmdr. R. William Vogel III; 1980 Indian Ocean deployment; 1982 Arabian Gulf; three North Atlantic deployments 1983-85; overhaul in Groton (Electric Boat) before four Mediterranean deployments 1989-1996 incl. Operation Sharp Guard (1994) and Adriatic peacekeeping (1995-96); decommissioned 7 Nov 1997 at Portsmouth NH and stricken same day; entered Nuclear-Powered Ship and Submarine Recycling Program at Bremerton 1 Oct 2011; recycling completed 2014. Awards incl. Navy Unit Commendation (1980) and 'Hook 'Em' ASW award (1989).
- Verification
- unverified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-18
- Study period
- service era
- Limitations
- Secondary reproduction of an NHHC-attributed narrative; the underlying official entry was not located on the live or archived NHHC site, so these particulars are leads pending primary confirmation, not findings. NVR confirms milestones; the availability/operational particulars await the underlying NHHC entry, which was not located.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-groton-ssn694-02
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[3]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 1973-76 construction and availabilities incl. the reported Groton overhaul sit inside the documented asbestos era and its substitution transition.
- 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-groton-ssn694-03
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[4]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-groton-ssn694-04
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[5]Era inference built on: Naval Vessel Register build/availability milestones; shipyard-exposure-map documented asbestos product lists for electric-boat-groton, portsmouth-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 1973-76 at Electric Boat with a reported overhaul at Electric Boat, Groton (pre-1989) and inactivation/decommissioning at Portsmouth NH: construction and repair events inside the documented asbestos era; era-standard applications consistent but unverified for this hull.
- 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-groton-ssn694-05
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[6]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-groton-ssn694-06