Evidence
6 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-6).
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[1]NavSource Online Submarine Photo Archive (SSN-718) + navysite.de ship page (secondary compilations) [other_primary]
- Locator
- navsource.net/archives/08/08718.htm; navysite.de/ssn/ssn718.htm
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Documented for this hull (secondary compilations): contract awarded 15 September 1977 to Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co.; keel laid 10 November 1981; launched 24 September 1983 sponsored by Mrs. Joan B. Clark; commissioned 6 July 1985, Cmdr. Robert M. Mitchell - the third USN ship named for Honolulu, Hawaii. Homeported Pearl Harbor throughout service; departed 8 May 1987 on her first Western Pacific deployment - moored at Moen harbor, Truk (Chuuk) lagoon; on departure made light contact with the bottom, damaging her hull and requiring diversion to Guam for repairs alongside a tender before continuing patrols (Subic Bay, Yokosuka, Hong Kong port cycle through autumn 1987); PACSUBASWEX 89-1; second WestPac from 27 December 1988; further Pacific deployments through the 1990s-2000s; departed Pearl Harbor November 2006 for deactivation at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard; decommissioned and stricken 2 November 2007; entered the Nuclear-Powered Ship and Submarine Recycling Program.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-18
- Study period
- 1977-2007
- Limitations
- Secondary compilations (navysite, NavSource, Wikipedia) - no live NHHC DANFS page or transcription exists for this hull; details unverified against a primary Navy record. No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-honolulu-ssn718-01
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[2]Navy Times 'Navy grafting new bow onto submarine' (2010); NAVSEA/PSNSY statements as reported in Navy Times and subsequent coverage of USS San Francisco (SSN-711) repair; Honolulu Magazine 'Shipping Out' (Nov 2006) [reputable_press]
- Locator
- Navy Times (2010-04); subsequent SSN-711 repair coverage; honolulumagazine.com (2006-11)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- After this hull's 2007 decommissioning and entry into SRP at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, her forward (bow) section was cut and grafted onto sister submarine USS San Francisco (SSN-711) to replace that hull's collision-damaged bow - a repair completed at PSNSY, with San Francisco returning to service in 2011. The bow transplant is documented in Navy Times reporting citing Navy statements.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-18
- Study period
- 2007-2011
- Population
- PSNSY SRP and repair trades
- Limitations
- Documents a structural disposition fact (the only major surviving section of this hull), not material content; no asbestos content. Press reporting of Navy statements - not a shipyard record proper.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-honolulu-ssn718-02
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[3]Era inference built on: NavSource/navysite spec blocks (S6G plant, steam turbines, single shaft ~35,000 shp); shipyard-exposure-map documented asbestos product lists for newport-news-shipbuilding and puget-sound-naval-shipyard (thermal insulation, submarine steam/propulsion lagging, gaskets, packing, block insulation) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NavSource/navysite spec blocks; shipyards.json product lists for newport-news-shipbuilding, puget-sound-naval-shipyard
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- A first-flight Los Angeles-class nuclear attack submarine built 1981-1985 at Newport News Shipbuilding and maintained through Navy-yard availabilities (PHNSY homeport availabilities; PSNSY inactivation/SRP 2006-07) sits at the tail of the Navy's documented asbestos-use era; era-standard applications on the secondary steam plant and auxiliary systems included thermal/pipe insulation, gaskets, packing, and machinery insulation. The building and maintenance yards' asbestos product use in this period is independently documented at the yard level.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-18
- Study period
- 1981-2008
- Population
- Newport News Shipbuilding construction trades (1981-85); PHNSY yard trades; crew (1985-2007); SRP workers
- Limitations
- Class/era inference only - no hull-specific insulation survey or material list located for SSN-718. Names era-standard applications on non-nuclear secondary/auxiliary systems, not confirmed installed materials; the reactor plant establishes nothing. Hull construction postdates the early-1970s start of Navy insulation substitution; residual-era ACM and maintenance-era disturbance remain inference. No quantity; SRP-era material disposition undocumented per-hull.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-honolulu-ssn718-03
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[4]Kase v. Metalclad Insulation Corp., Cal. Ct. App. (4th Dist.) 2021 (CourtListener opinions 4324658, 4332654) [court_record]
- Locator
- Opinion, specification-history discussion (SUBSAFE/MIL-I-24244)
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- A docketed asbestos personal-injury opinion recounts that after USS Thresher's 1963 loss the Navy created the SUBSAFE program, which issued procurement specification MIL-I-24244 covering asbestos-containing insulation for submarines - court-documented evidence that asbestos-containing insulation was specified in the submarine-construction regime in force when this hull was built (keel 1981).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-18
- Study period
- 2021 (opinion); regime described 1963-forward
- Population
- Navy submarine construction/maintenance trades, SUBSAFE era
- Limitations
- Documents the era procurement-spec regime, not this hull's installed materials; the case concerns a different claimant aboard different vessels. Does not establish exposure, causation, quantity, or eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-honolulu-ssn718-04
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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 - covering this hull's construction period (1981-1985) within the transition era and most service-era insulation events.
- 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-honolulu-ssn718-05
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[6]Batch-46 search ledger (this record): DANFS mirror sweep; navysite + NavSource compilations; NVR; Navy Times/NAVSEA bow-graft reporting; verified RECAP exhibit PDFs (Cooks, Halseth, Cronin, Guthrie, Davis) grepped for name AND hull number; GAO product page; CourtListener (blocked) [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows on this record
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, or adjudicated exposure case naming this hull was found. This hull does not appear in any of the five verified RECAP complaint-exhibit work histories checked (Cooks, Halseth, Cronin, Guthrie, Davis) - 'Honolulu' hits are shipyard/place collisions (Pearl Harbor/Honolulu yard references), not this vessel. CourtListener direct searches (exact name + hull number, opinions and RECAP) could not be run this session - API returned HTTP 429 '125/day' and site search CloudFront 403 - logged as blocked, not 'no result'.
- 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. Hull disposed through SRP; per-hull hazmat handling records, if any exist, are not public. 'Honolulu' is a place-name collision (city; Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard is in Honolulu) - hits were checked for hull-number corroboration. Does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-honolulu-ssn718-06