Evidence
7 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-7).
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[1]Naval Vessel Register, ship detail page (archived capture; live nvr.navy.mil page not directly retrievable) (archived 2019 capture) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NVR vessel status + milestone dates + physical characteristics
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NVR milestones: builder General Dynamics Corp.; award 01/24/1972; keel laid 10/19/1974; launched 07/30/1977; delivered 11/30/1979; commissioned 01/05/1980; decommissioned and stricken 12/22/1998; status stricken, final disposition pending; berth Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & IMF, Pier 7. Class SSN 688; length 362 ft; beam 33 ft; draft 32 ft; light 5,784 t, full 6,154 t; steam turbine (nuclear), one propeller; accommodations 12 officers + 98 enlisted.
- 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-indianapolis-ssn697-01
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[2]DANFS / NHHC ship history entry (official; archived capture - live page 404 or not retrievable) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS service narrative and spec block
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Documented for this hull (DANFS): third Indianapolis; laid down 19 October 1974 at Groton by Electric Boat Division, General Dynamics Corp.; launched 30 July 1977 (anniversary of the loss of cruiser Indianapolis CA-35), sponsor Mrs. William G. Bray; delivered 30 November 1979; commissioned at Naval Submarine Base New London 5 January 1980, Cmdr. Harry P. Salmon Jr.; survivors of CA-35 attended commissioning. Navy Unit Commendation (awarded at inactivation ceremony 17 Feb 1998) for operations 1 Apr-1 Sep 1997; Humanitarian Service Medal for rescue of 30 Vietnamese refugees. Decommissioned and stricken 22 December 1998; disposed of by recycling. Spec block: complement 127.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-18
- Study period
- construction through disposition
- Population
- Construction yard; successive crews
- Limitations
- Ship-specific service history; no asbestos or material content. Yard-period asbestos disturbance is era inference, not a per-hull record.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-indianapolis-ssn697-02
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[3]DANFS spec block (127) vs NVR accommodations (12+98) [other_primary]
- Locator
- DANFS spec block; NVR accommodations fields
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- COMPLEMENT conflict: DANFS spec block lists 127; NVR accommodations list 12 officers + 98 enlisted (110). Both figures carried; the 127 likely includes additional embark/staff billets, but the discrepancy is unresolved - neither source explains it.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- correction
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-18
- Study period
- 1980-1998
- Limitations
- Unresolved source discrepancy; no asbestos relevance.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-indianapolis-ssn697-03
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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. Her 1974-79 construction and Pearl Harbor homeport service 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-indianapolis-ssn697-04
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[5]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-indianapolis-ssn697-05
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[6]Era inference built on: Naval Vessel Register build/availability milestones; shipyard-exposure-map documented asbestos product lists for electric-boat-groton, pearl-harbor-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 1974-79 at Electric Boat with a Pearl Harbor homeport for essentially her entire career (1980-1997): construction and service-era maintenance 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-indianapolis-ssn697-06
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[7]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-indianapolis-ssn697-07