Evidence
9 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-9).
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[1]U.S. Maritime Administration, ShipHistory database - KANSAS CITY (AOR-3), Ship History Detail 2839 (historical narrative reproducing the NHHC DANFS entry + milestone table + status card) [marad_nrc]
- Locator
- ShipHistory Detail/2839, History and Milestones tabs; status card image 2839_RS10334AF.jpg
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- USS Kansas City (AOR-3) was the third of seven Wichita-class replenishment oilers; keel laid April 18, 1968 at General Dynamics Corporation, Quincy, Massachusetts; launched June 1, 1969; commissioned June 6, 1970. Served in the Vietnam War and Operation DESERT STORM; decommissioned October 7, 1994; berthed in the NDRF on a reimbursable custody basis from September 2, 1999; MARAD accepted title for disposal February 24, 2001; California SHPO cleared the ship for disposal June 21, 2005; departed Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet July 31, 2013 under a scrap sales contract; fate listed 'Sold - Scrap.'
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-25
- Study period
- 1968-2013
- Limitations
- Establishes identity, construction, service outline, custody and disposal chronology. Contains no asbestos, insulation, or hazmat statement; supports no asbestos claim. The live NHHC DANFS page 404s (known link-rot); DANFS text is carried via MARAD's reproduction. The milestone record does not name the buyer - 'All Star Metals, Brownsville' appears in secondary sources only.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-kansas-city-aor3-01
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[2]MARAD ShipHistory status card for KANSAS CITY (AOR-3), image 2839_RS10334AF.jpg (Van Ginderen U.S. Auxiliary Ships reference page, highlighted for AOR-3) [marad_nrc]
- Locator
- Status Cards tab of ShipHistory Detail/2839; 'Kansas City (AOR 3)' entry on the scanned page
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- MARAD-hosted status card for AOR-3 (a scanned L. & L. Van Ginderen reference page, 1-87) documents the plant: GE geared turbines, 2 propellers, 32,000 shp; 3 Foster-Wheeler boilers at 43.3 kg/cm2, 454 deg C; electric plant 8,000 kW; complement 20 officers and 363-420 men; cargo capacity 175,000 barrels fuel, 600 tons ammunition, 575 tons provisions.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-25
- Study period
- 1987 (reference edition); plant as-built 1968-1970
- Population
- Engineering department crew (context)
- Limitations
- Confirms a 600-psi-class oil-fired steam plant aboard this hull - the machinery category in which asbestos lagging, gaskets, and packing were era-standard. The card itself contains no asbestos statement and does not establish presence, quantity, or condition of any material aboard.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-kansas-city-aor3-02
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[3]KANSAS CITY (AOR-3) Booklet of General Plans (Bureau of Ships plan AOR-845-2522022), MARAD ShipHistory document download [other_primary]
- Locator
- Plate 1 title/correction block (OCR of scanned plate); Documents tab of ShipHistory Detail/2839
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- MARAD hosts the ship's Booklet of General Plans (15 plates, BuShips plan AOR-845-2522022, posted/dated 5-24-1984). The title-plate correction block records the plan 'CORRECTED TO SUIT SHIP' at Long Beach Naval Shipyard dated 2-16-77, with further SUPSHIP San Francisco corrections dated December 1979 - documenting post-construction yard work under those activities.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-25
- Study period
- 1977; 1979; plan issue 1984
- Population
- Long Beach Naval Shipyard and SUPSHIP SF work force (context)
- Limitations
- The correction block evidences ship availabilities at/under Long Beach Naval Shipyard (1977) and SUPSHIP San Francisco (1979), but does not describe work scope; any asbestos-disturbance scope is unknown. The 15 plates are arrangement drawings (profiles, deck plans, sections) - no insulation schedule or material list present; spot-OCR found no insulation or asbestos annotations.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-kansas-city-aor3-03
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[4]Naval Sea Systems Command, FOIA Reading Room - 'Asbestos Related Files' listing (military specifications and Qualified Products Lists with coverage dates) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NAVSEA FOIA Reading Room, Asbestos page - spec/QPL table
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- NAVSEA's own FOIA reading room publishes the Navy's asbestos-era material specifications and Qualified Products Lists: QPL-15091 asbestos thermal insulation felt (listed 1962); QPL-15342 metallic-asbestos spiral-wound gaskets 'for boilers' (1961-1974); QPL-17340 asbestos rod packing, high pressure (1953-1968); QPL-19564 bedding compound and QPL-19565 coating compound for thermal insulation pipe covering (1957-1980); QPL-2781 thermal pipe-covering (1951-1993); and MIL-I-24244 thermal-insulation specification (issues spanning 1965-1976). These qualified-product coverages span AOR-3's entire construction (1968-1970) and early service era.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-25
- Study period
- 1951-1993 (spec/QPL coverage); ship build 1968-1970
- Population
- Navy ship construction trades and steam-plant crew (class context)
- Limitations
- Navy-level material qualification documentation, not a hull record: the QPLs establish that asbestos products were qualified for Navy shipboard use during this ship's build era, not that specific products were installed aboard this hull. navsea.navy.mil returns HTTP 403 to automated fetch; table contents verified via search-index listing, not a live page pull. Does not establish quantity, location, condition, exposure, or causation for this vessel.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-kansas-city-aor3-04
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[5]Historic American Engineering Record CA-356, USS Wichita (AOR-1) written historical and descriptive data, HAER/MARAD cosponsored documentation (2009), MARAD-hosted PDF [haer]
- Locator
- HAER CA-356 cover block (principal characteristics), 'Wichita class' list (p. ~14 of written data)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- HAER No. CA-356, the Historic American Engineering Record documentation of USS Wichita (AOR-1) cosponsored by HAER/NPS and MARAD (historian Brian Clayton, summer 2009), records the Wichita-class design: General Dynamics Corporation, Quincy, builder; 658 ft LOA, 96 ft beam, 40,100 long tons; 3 Foster & Wheeler boilers, 2 electric turbines P&S, 32,000 shaft horsepower, 20 knots, twin screw; complement 22 officers and 398 enlisted. Its class list records 'Kansas City (AOR-3) - decommissioned 1994, NDRF Suisun Bay, CA.'
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-25
- Study period
- Reported 2009; class in commission 1969-1996
- Population
- Wichita-class crews (class context)
- Limitations
- Class-level engineering documentation of the lead ship; Kansas City is named only in the class list. The report contains no asbestos, insulation-material, or hazmat content whatsoever (full-text searched). Supports class characteristics and disposition context only.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-kansas-city-aor3-05
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[6]California Regional Water Quality Control Board, SF Bay Region - 'Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet Consent Order Fact Sheet' and Board item 7B consent-decree retrospective (Sept 2017), with MARAD ShipHistory milestones for this hull [other_primary]
- Locator
- suisunbay_facts.pdf (judgment terms); 2017 item 7B SSR (57-vessel removal completion, Aug 7 2017 Cape Borda last); MARAD Detail/2839 milestones (entry 9/2/1999, departure 7/31/2013)
- Finding type
- environmental_record
- Finding
- Kansas City lay in the Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet non-retention fleet from September 2, 1999 until its July 31, 2013 departure - a period covering the April 14, 2010 consent judgment entered by Judge Garland Burrell (E.D. Cal.) resolving litigation by the SF Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board, Arc Ecology, San Francisco Baykeeper and NRDC against MARAD/DOT. The judgment required removal of hazardous paint debris from vessel decks within 120 days, cleaning of flaking paint on all non-retention vessels within 2 years, drydock hull cleaning before tow-out, quarterly deck cleaning, and removal of all obsolete vessels for disposal by September 30, 2017.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-25
- Study period
- 2010-2013 (decree period applicable to this hull)
- Population
- SBRF maintenance and tow-preparation contractor personnel (context)
- Limitations
- The hull's presence in the covered fleet is ship-specific (MARAD milestone record); the decree's requirements were fleet-level and addressed heavy-metal paint contamination of Suisun Bay and tow-preparation hull cleaning - NOT asbestos. No asbestos abatement, survey, or hazmat finding is made by these sources for this or any hull. Decree vessel exhibit not separately verified; ship's coverage inferred from its documented berth in the non-retention fleet during the decree period.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-kansas-city-aor3-06
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[7]National Archives at College Park - Still Pictures, Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files, item 6474934 (caption record for USS Kansas City AOR-3, 1991-06-01) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NARA catalog item 6474934 (photo caption); mirrored at DPLA dp.la/item/2f610f422e2bf7b409ee18eb88656834
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NARA still-picture record (catalog.archives.gov id 6474934, DoD/AFIS Defense Visual Information Center collection) documents USS Kansas City (AOR-3) returning to its home port of Naval Station San Diego in June 1991 after serving in the Persian Gulf region during Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm - corroborating the MARAD/DANFS service statement and the 1991 homeport.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-25
- Study period
- 1991
- Limitations
- Archival photo caption - corroborates deployment history and 1991 homeport only. Contains no asbestos or material information. Caption homeport (San Diego, 1991) differs from class-overview sources listing Oakland - carried as a date-stamped caption fact, not reconciled.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-kansas-city-aor3-07
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[8]Batch-2029 search ledger (this record): MARAD ShipHistory record and hosted documents; Water Board Suisun Bay file; HAER CA-356 full text; NAVSEA FOIA asbestos reading-room listing; CourtListener API v4 opinion and docket queries [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-kansas-city-aor3-01 through sl-uss-kansas-city-aor3-09
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located for this hull: no asbestos survey, no abatement or hazmat-remediation contract record, no museum/donation-condition disclosure (ship was scrapped, not donated), and no docketed opinion or RECAP-surfaced case naming USS Kansas City or AOR-3 as an exposure site in the searches executed (see search_ledger). Commercial law-firm content pages asserting asbestos aboard this ship exist but are excluded sources under batch rules.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-25
- Study period
- 2026-09-25
- Limitations
- Absence of a located public record does not prove absence of asbestos aboard - a 1968-70 steam auxiliary is era-consistent with installed ACM, and the ship was dismantled rather than surveyed for preservation. Does not establish that asbestos was or was not present, and does not establish or defeat any individual exposure or legal claim.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-kansas-city-aor3-08
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[9]National Archives and Records Administration, 'Researching Asbestos aboard US Naval Vessel up through 1961' (guided topic, Military Records Research) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NARA guided-topic page; RG 19 entry series listed (general correspondence 1940-1961, specification and standard development case files)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- NARA's research guide 'Researching Asbestos aboard US Naval Vessel up through 1961' identifies the archive path for shipboard asbestos documentation: RG 19 Bureau of Ships correspondence filed by hull/class designation, specification case files, and Qualified Products Lists. For this hull (built 1968-70, past the guide's 1961 coverage), the corresponding path is NAVSEA/BUSHIPS-era construction and specification records and QPL files; none of these records were retrieved in this pass.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-09-25
- Study period
- guide current as accessed 2026-09-25
- Limitations
- Research-guide pointer only - no hull record retrieved. The guide's enumerated RG 19 series cover 1940-1961, pre-dating this ship's construction; a 1968-70 hull would be documented under later NAVSEA-era series the guide does not enumerate. No paid reproduction or archival visit was authorized.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-kansas-city-aor3-09
