Evidence
12 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-12).
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[1]Naval Vessel Register, live record for LA JOLLA (SSN 701), shipId 2195 (site updated 08/11/2026; record last updated 06/10/2025); corroborated by NVR Wayback capture 2019 (physical characteristics and accommodations) [marad_nrc]
- Locator
- NVR getHull shipId=2195 (live); web.archive.org NVR SHIPSDETAIL_SSN_701 captures
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Official NVR record for this hull: Class SSN 688; UIC 62988; builder General Dynamics Electric Boat; award 12/10/1973; keel 10/16/1976; launch 08/11/1979; delivery/commission 09/30/1981; decommission 11/15/2019; stricken 11/15/2019; status 'stricken, to be disposed of, retain as submarine moored training ship' (status changed 11/15/2019); berth Naval Nuclear Power Training Unit, Charleston SC. 2019 capture adds: steam turbine (nuclear), 1 propeller; accommodations 12 officers/98 enlisted.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-18
- Study period
- 1973-present
- Population
- Crew (1981-2019); EB construction trades (1976-81); Mare Island DMP trades (1989-90); Norfolk MTS-conversion trades (2014-19); NPTU personnel (2019-present)
- Limitations
- Ship-specific administrative record only; no asbestos or material content. NVR commission date (09/30/1981) is the delivery/commission register figure — the commissioning CEREMONY was 24 October 1981 (coldwarboats veteran archive). Does not establish exposure for any individual.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-la-jolla-ssn701-01
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[2]navysite.de secondary compilation, USS La Jolla (SSN 701) — narrative built from NHHC command histories (sponsored by Jean Bryant Wilson, wife of Rep. Bob Wilson; first submarine to launch a Tomahawk cruise missile while submerged, at the Pacific Missile Test Center; homeports San Diego then Pearl Harbor, Submarine Squadron 1; overhaul at Kittery ME; Mare Island Depot Modernization Period beginning 1989; MTS conversion) [other_primary]
- Locator
- navysite.de/ssn/ssn701.htm (characteristics block, history narrative)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Service narrative for this hull (secondary compilation): 14th Los Angeles-class boat; sponsored by Jean Bryant Wilson, wife of California congressman Bob Wilson; commissioned 24 October 1981 (ceremony; NVR commission 9/30/81); first submarine to successfully launch a Tomahawk cruise missile while submerged, test-fired at the Pacific Missile Test Center; overhaul in Kittery, Maine, then homeport shifted to Pearl Harbor under Submarine Squadron One; Mare Island Depot Modernization Period beginning 1989; later conversion at Norfolk to a moored training ship for the Charleston NPTU.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-18
- Study period
- 1973-2019
- Population
- Crew (1981-2019); Mare Island DMP trades (1989-90)
- Limitations
- Secondary compilation, not a primary source — used for service narrative only, consistent with prior-batch practice; never sole support for an asbestos claim. The Mare Island DMP window is context only — it does NOT establish asbestos exposure or disturbance. No asbestos or material content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-la-jolla-ssn701-02
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[3]Cronin v. Todd Shipyards Corporation (N.D. Cal.), ECF No. 1 Exhibit A (filed Jul 8, 2008) — asbestos products-liability complaint exhibit; document text verified [court_record]
- Locator
- ECF No. 1, Exhibit A (vessel/work-history list)
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- PLEADING-STAGE allegation, document-verified: the complaint's Exhibit A (plaintiff work history for a Mare Island Naval Shipyard engineer) lists 'LA JOLLA (SSN-701) 1987; 1995 (6-9 months)' among the vessels the plaintiff alleged working on — consistent with this hull's 1989 Mare Island Depot Modernization Period. The exhibit alleges asbestos exposure in the course of that shipyard work.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-18
- Study period
- 1987-1995 (alleged work periods); filed 2008
- Population
- Mare Island Naval Shipyard engineering trades (alleged periods 1987, 1995)
- Limitations
- Pleading-stage allegation only — a complaint exhibit, never adjudicated on this point. Names the hull in a work history; does not establish that asbestos was present aboard, that the plaintiff was exposed aboard this vessel, causation, quantity, or eligibility. Defense-side outcomes in Cronin do not bear on the allegation's existence.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-la-jolla-ssn701-03
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[4]IN RE Asbestos Products Liability Litigation (No. VI), MDL-875 (JPML), ECF No. 8536 Att. 2 — Robert McKinley Jr. complaint (filed Mar 20, 2012); document text verified [court_record]
- Locator
- MDL-875 ECF No. 8536 Att. 2, complaint vessel list
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- PLEADING-STAGE allegation, document-verified: the McKinley complaint alleges the plaintiff worked aboard a multi-submarine vessel list including 'USS La Jolla' (alongside USS Los Angeles, USS Portsmouth, USS Salt Lake City and numerous other hulls) and was exposed to asbestos and asbestos-containing products during that work.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-18
- Study period
- plaintiff's alleged service era; filed 2012
- Population
- Shipyard/submarine workforce (plaintiff's alleged service)
- Limitations
- Pleading-stage allegation only — a boilerplate MDL-875 complaint's vessel list is an allegation, not an adjudicated finding. The list's breadth (dozens of hulls) is itself a limitation: it does not establish which specific vessel(s), if any, involved actual exposure. No causation, no quantity, no ACM confirmation, no eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-la-jolla-ssn701-04
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[5]Cooks v. General Electric Company (N.D. Cal. 3:07-cv-05451), ECF No. 1-2 Exhibit A (filed Oct 25, 2007) — asbestos complaint exhibit; document text verified [court_record]
- Locator
- ECF No. 1-2, Exhibit A vessel list (page 5 of 8)
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- PLEADING-STAGE allegation, document-verified: plaintiff Alvin Cooks's Exhibit A vessel list includes 'LA JOLLA (SSN-701)' among the submarines he alleged working around — the Mare Island Naval Shipyard work-history list (period columns 1974-1991 and 1984-1995; plaintiff diagnosed with asbestosis March 2007). The same exhibit also lists HOUSTON (SSN-713). Consistent with this hull's 1989-90 Mare Island Depot Modernization Period.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-18
- Study period
- 1974-1995 (alleged work periods); filed 2007
- Population
- Mare Island Naval Shipyard trades (alleged periods 1974-1995)
- Limitations
- Pleading-stage allegation only — a complaint exhibit, never adjudicated on this point. The list alleges the plaintiff's exposure environment across many vessels; it does not establish asbestos was present aboard this hull, that he was exposed aboard it, causation, quantity, or eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-la-jolla-ssn701-05
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[6]CourtListener index-verified matches 2026-09-18: Estes v. General Electric (N.D. Cal. 2017, ECF 1); Halseth v. General Electric (N.D. Cal. 2007, ECF 1-1); MDL-875 docs 8361/7743/6898/6480 (2010-2012) [court_record]
- Locator
- CourtListener search-index matches; doc-level verification pending (session throttling)
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- Index-verified pleading-stage namings: further asbestos-complaint documents match the hull string 'SSN-701' — Estes v. GE (N.D. Cal. 2017, Brayton Purcell complaint), Halseth v. GE (N.D. Cal. 2007, Mare Island/PSNS work-history exhibit family per batch-38 verification), and four additional MDL-875 filings (2010-12). Consistent with this hull's 1989-90 Mare Island Depot Modernization Period.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-18
- Study period
- alleged service eras; filed 2007-2017
- Population
- Mare Island/PSNS shipyard trades (plaintiff work histories)
- Limitations
- Index-level verification: the hull string appears in each document's indexed text but line-level context was not extracted this session (rate-limiting). All are pleading-stage allegations — complaints and work-history exhibits, not findings. No causation, no quantity, no ACM confirmation, no eligibility. Wren v. RGIS (N.D. Cal. 2008) also matched 'SSN-701' — context unverified, not counted here.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-la-jolla-ssn701-05b
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[7]Wai Ola Alliance v. United States Department of the Navy (D. Haw. 1:22-cv-00272), ECF No. 226 Att. 7 (filed Aug 18, 2025) — National Response Center incident-report log exhibit; document text verified [court_record]
- Locator
- ECF No. 226 Att. 7, NRC log line 4/20/2010
- Finding type
- environmental_record
- Finding
- Genuine non-asbestos ship reference, document-verified: an NRC incident-report log exhibit lists 'LA JOLLA SSN-688 SSN-701' for a 4/20/2010 report at Pier Y-2, Pearl Harbor HI — coded 'OTHER 100 Operations', cause 'PERSONNEL ERROR' — an environmental discharge/incident report in a suit challenging Navy activities in Hawaii. Other litigation, not asbestos.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-18
- Study period
- 2010
- Population
- Pearl Harbor personnel (incident period)
- Limitations
- An incident-log line only — establishes that an NRC report was logged for this hull on that date, nothing about asbestos, material content, exposure, causation, or eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-la-jolla-ssn701-06
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[8]Era inference built on: NVR record (S6G-plant 688-class build window 1976-81 at Electric Boat, Groton; Mare Island DMP 1989-90; Norfolk MTS conversion 2014-19); shipyard-exposure-map documented asbestos product lists for electric-boat-groton, mare-island-naval-shipyard, and norfolk-naval-shipyard (thermal insulation, lagging, gaskets, packing); GAO HRD-80-2 substitution timeline [other_primary]
- Locator
- NVR record (build window, builder); navysite DMP/conversion narrative; shipyards.json product lists for electric-boat-groton, mare-island-naval-shipyard, norfolk-naval-shipyard; GAO HRD-80-2
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- A Flight I Los Angeles-class submarine built 1976-81 at Electric Boat sits at the tail of the Navy's peak asbestos-use era: GAO documented the Navy began substituting alternative insulation materials in the early 1970s, while asbestos-containing gaskets, packing, and residual insulation products persisted in shipboard applications into the 1980s. This hull's build, its 1989-90 Mare Island Depot Modernization Period (the window matching the Cronin/Cooks/Halseth plaintiff work histories), and its 2014-19 Norfolk MTS conversion are the asbestos-relevant yard windows — residual asbestos applications and 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
- 2026-09-18
- Study period
- 1976-2019
- Population
- EB construction trades (1976-81); Mare Island DMP trades (1989-90); Norfolk MTS-conversion trades (2014-19); crew (1981-2019)
- Limitations
- Class/era inference only — weaker than for pre-1970 hulls because construction post-dates the Navy's documented substitution start. No hull-specific insulation survey or material list located for SSN-701. Names era-possible applications and documented yard windows, not confirmed installed materials or disturbance; no quantity. Does not establish exposure.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-la-jolla-ssn701-07
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[9]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 1989-90 depot period.
- 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-la-jolla-ssn701-08
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[10]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 1989-90 depot period.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-18
- 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-la-jolla-ssn701-09
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[11]CourtListener sweep 2026-09-18: "USS La Jolla" (type=r; type=o); "SSN-701" and "SSN 701" (type=r) [court_record]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-la-jolla-ssn701-04 through -06
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- Litigation landscape (full sweep): other litigation includes Piersall v. Johnson/Winter (D.D.C. 2007 + D.C. Cir. 2006 — Navy personnel/employment case, 'USS La Jolla' in service context) and United States v. Fleming (Court of Military Appeals 1993 — court-martial naming the hull). Verified string collision: Susan Gale Penley (Bankr. D.S.C. 2020) matched 'SSN-701' — document-verified as 'Last 4 digits of SSN: 0701' in a Chapter 13 filing, not the ship. Unverified: Wren v. RGIS (N.D. Cal. 2008) 'SSN-701' match — context not extracted.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-18
- Study period
- 2026-09-18
- Limitations
- Other-litigation and collision items establish no exposure and no ACM content. Wren match is unverified (likely work-history doc or fragment). Feed recency bounds apply (~20 newest documents per query).
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-la-jolla-ssn701-10
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[12]ACM survey / abatement / MTS-conversion hazmat sweep (web) + search ledger [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger row sl-uss-la-jolla-ssn701-07
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No hull ACM survey, abatement contract, recycling or MTS-conversion hazmat disclosure, or adjudicated exposure finding naming USS La Jolla (SSN-701) was located. The hull remains afloat as moored training ship MTS-701 at Charleston NPTU; conversion-yard hazmat documentation is not publicly retrievable.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-18
- Study period
- 2014-present; sweep 2026-09-18
- Population
- Norfolk conversion trades (2014-19); NPTU personnel (2019-present)
- Limitations
- Absence of a located public record does not prove absence of asbestos aboard. Conversion-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-la-jolla-ssn701-11