Evidence
8 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-8).
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[1]DANFS, La Salle II (LPD-3), Naval History and Heritage Command (published 2015-07-29; text of DANFS Vol. IV (1969) covering service through 1968). Live NHHC page returned 404 on 2026-09-20; Wayback capture 2025-02-08 used. [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS entry 'La Salle II (LPD-3)', full text
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS establishes this hull's construction and early service: laid down at New York Naval Shipyard, Brooklyn, N.Y., April 2, 1962; launched August 3, 1963; commissioned February 22, 1964. LPD-era operations include Operation Steel Pike I off Spain (Oct-Nov 1964), Sixth Fleet service at Naples, Caribbean operations from May 1965 with Commander Amphibious Forces Atlantic embarked (the Dominican intervention period), recovery of a Gemini II test capsule near Ascension Island Nov 3, 1966, repairs at Norfolk Naval Shipyard Jan 9 - Mar 20, 1967, and departure for the Mediterranean Nov 13, 1968.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-20
- Study period
- 1962-1969
- Population
- Ship's company and embarked troops (LPD era, 1964-1968); Norfolk Naval Shipyard workers (1967 repair period)
- Limitations
- The NHHC DANFS entry ends in 1969 (Vol. IV text) and never covers the AGF-3 conversion, Middle East flagship years, decommissioning, or sinking - post-1972 history relies on Navy News Service and the navy.mil fact sheet. Contains no asbestos, insulation, or materials information; establishes identity, builder, propulsion-era, and documented yard periods only.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-la-salle-agf3-01
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[2]Naval Vessel Register (NAVSEA), ship detail page USS La Salle (AGF 3) ex-LPD 3 - Wayback captures 2004-10-19 (active, homeport Gaeta, Italy) and 2011-05-14 (disposed) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NVR ship detail AGF 3, full record table
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- The NVR record for this hull (UIC 07172) documents: builder NAV SY/NEW YORK; award 08/08/1960; keel 04/02/1962; launch 08/03/1963; delivery 02/21/1964; commission 02/22/1964; status change 07/01/1972 (LPD-3 to AGF-3); homeport Gaeta, Italy; decommissioned and stricken 05/27/2005; disposed 04/11/2007 'in support of Fleet training exercise.' Hull: steel hull, steel superstructure. Propulsion type: steam turbines; 2 propellers. Displacement 9,559 tons light / 13,634 tons full; length 522 ft overall.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-20
- Study period
- 1960-2007
- Population
- N/A (register data)
- Limitations
- Official register of identity, status, and disposal dates; contains no asbestos, insulation, or hazardous-materials information. Does not state sinking location. Live NVR detail page for this disposed hull returns a navigation template only (2026-09-20); Wayback captures cited.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-la-salle-agf3-02
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[3]Navy News Service release NNS050528-01, '"Great White Ghost" Decommissions in Norfolk,' May 28, 2005 (Cmdr. Naval Surface Force Atlantic public affairs; mirrored at GlobalSecurity.org) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Full release text NNS050528-01
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Official Navy release documenting this hull's decommissioning pierside at Naval Station Norfolk May 27, 2005 (last CO Capt. Herman A. Shelanski), Sixth Fleet flagship service from 1994 based in Gaeta, relief by USS Mount Whitney Feb 25, 2005, and arrival in Norfolk Mar 17, 2005. Career summary: extensive overhaul in Philadelphia in 1972 followed by AGF re-designation and Middle East Force flagship duties; 1979 evacuation of 260 civilians from Bandar Abbas; first stateside return in almost nine years in late 1980 followed by an extensive Norfolk overhaul; Middle East Force flagship again from June 1983; 1984 Red Sea mine-sweeping; 1986 Gulf of Aden contingency operations; primary firefighting/rescue assistance to USS Stark (FFG-31) after the May 1987 Iraqi missile attack; command of the multinational Maritime Intercept Force in Desert Shield; 35 unit awards; post-decommissioning tow to the Philadelphia Navy Yard to await final disposition.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-20
- Study period
- 1964-2005
- Population
- Crew and embarked flag staff; Philadelphia NSY and Norfolk yard workers during documented overhaul periods
- Limitations
- Official Navy public-affairs release, mirrored on a third-party site (GlobalSecurity) after Navy NewsStand went offline; contains no asbestos, insulation, or hazmat information. 'Extensive overhaul in Norfolk' does not name the specific yard.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-la-salle-agf3-03
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[4]U.S. Navy ship fact sheet for USS La Salle (AGF 3), as mirrored at Federation of American Scientists dod-101 (sourced from spear.navy.mil ship page / naples.navy.mil C6F flagship page, ca. 1998) [other_primary]
- Locator
- FAS dod-101 AGF-3 page, narrative + specifications table
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- The Navy's own ship page documents: AGF designation and Middle East Force flagship assumption in 1972 with forward deployment to Bahrain ('Great White Ghost of the Arabian Coast,' ~55,000 miles annually); one of six U.S. Navy ships in the Persian Gulf at the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait Aug 2, 1990; coordination of the Maritime Intercept Force through Desert Shield/Storm with concurrent service as flagship for Commander, U.S. Naval Forces Central Command; first U.S. warship into liberated Ash Shuaybah, Kuwait, Mar 12, 1991; assumption of Sixth Fleet flagship duties Nov 8, 1994 after an extensive yard period. Specification block: De Laval steam turbines, twin shafts, 24,000 shp; 2 Babcock & Wilcox 600-psi boilers; complement - ship's company 420 enlisted/25 officers, staff 90 enlisted/48 officers.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-20
- Study period
- 1972-2005
- Population
- Ship's company ~445 plus embarked flag staff ~138 (AGF configuration)
- Limitations
- Mirror of the official Navy fact sheet (original navy.mil pages offline). Contains an apparent anachronism - a Guantanamo evacuation 'during the Cuban Missile Crisis' (Oct 1962, before this ship's Feb 1964 commissioning) - which is not carried as a claim in this record. No asbestos or materials information beyond the steam-plant specification.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-la-salle-agf3-04
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[5]Propulsion spec per Navy fact sheet (FAS mirror) and NVR propulsion type (steam turbines, 2 propellers); construction-era inference applied to this hull's documented 1962-64 build at New York Naval Shipyard [other_primary]
- Locator
- FAS dod-101 AGF-3 specifications block; NVR propulsion-type field
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- As built, La Salle's twin-boiler 600-psi steam propulsion plant, associated steam piping, turbines, pumps, valves, gaskets, and compartment insulation were fitted under early-1960s Navy construction specifications of the period when such systems were routinely asbestos-insulated; insulation would have been disturbed and partially replaced during the documented 1972 Philadelphia Naval Shipyard AGF conversion and later Norfolk overhauls.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-20
- Study period
- 1962-2005
- Population
- New York Naval Shipyard construction trades (1962-64); Philadelphia NSY conversion workers (1972); Norfolk overhaul workers (early 1980s, pre-1994); ship's force engineering crew (1964-2005)
- Limitations
- Inferred from the documented propulsion plant, builder, and construction era plus documented yard periods; no hull-specific insulation survey, construction specification itemization, or work-package record was located. Not a quantity; does not establish what was installed, removed, or retained aboard this hull.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-la-salle-agf3-05
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[6]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 the Navy's asbestos-protection program and insulation-removal policies, with fieldwork at Long Beach and Norfolk Naval Shipyards - Norfolk Naval Shipyard being a yard where this hull underwent documented repairs (Jan-Mar 1967, per DANFS) and where the Navy describes an extensive early-1980s overhaul.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-20
- Study period
- 1979 (report); yard periods 1967, early 1980s
- Population
- Navy shipyard workers; asbestos program review
- Limitations
- Yard/program-level documentation, not hull-specific; supports era context for insulation-disturbance work during this ship's documented Norfolk yard periods, not quantities or conditions aboard La Salle. Full text not retrieved (gao.gov returns HTTP 403 to automated fetches) - content via product-page description.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-la-salle-agf3-06
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[7]40 C.F.R. 229.2, MPRSA general permit 'Transport of target vessels' (EPA program page: epa.gov/marine-protection-permitting/transport-target-vessels-ocean-disposal; 1999 EPA-Navy interpretive letter on PCB inventory/removal) [federal_register]
- Locator
- 40 CFR 229.2 text; EPA SINKEX program page 'What are the permit requirements?'
- Finding type
- regulatory
- Finding
- This hull's documented disposal - sunk as a target in a fleet training (missile) exercise April 11-12, 2007, per NVR - occurred under EPA's MPRSA general permit for the Navy SINKEX program, which required pre-sinking removal 'to the maximum extent practicable' of petroleum (emptying/flushing fuel tanks and lines), other pollutants, and all readily detachable debris by qualified personnel, plus PCB inventory and removal under the 1999 EPA-Navy interpretation, with sinking at least 50 nautical miles offshore at depths of at least 6,000 ft and annual EPA reporting of each vessel's name, tonnage, location, and sinking date.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-20
- Study period
- 2007 (disposal); permit regime in force since 1977/1999 interpretation
- Population
- Navy/contractor personnel performing pre-sinking remediation (2005-2007)
- Limitations
- The permit regime and its application to this hull's disposal are documented; the vessel-specific remediation record is not public - what materials (including any asbestos) were actually present or removed from ex-La Salle before sinking is undocumented. The permit regime is petroleum/PCB/debris-focused, not asbestos-specific. The wreck is unrecoverable, foreclosing later survey.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-la-salle-agf3-07
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[8]Batch-724 search ledger (this record): NHHC DANFS; NVR; Navy News Service; navy.mil fact sheet; EPA/eCFR; govinfo USCOURTS full-text; CourtListener API v4 and web UI; general web index [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-la-salle-agf3-01 through sl-uss-la-salle-agf3-08
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no asbestos survey, abatement contract, hazmat disclosure, or verified docketed case naming USS La Salle / LPD-3 / AGF-3 was found in the public sources searched (see search_ledger). govinfo USCOURTS full-text queries returned only name collisions; CourtListener was unreachable on 2026-09-20 (API throttled at 125/day; web UI HTTP 403).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-20
- Study period
- 2026-09-20
- Limitations
- Absence of a located public record does not prove absence of asbestos aboard - the ship's construction era and steam plant are consistent with era-typical asbestos insulation. Litigation status is 'not located,' not 'none exists': the CourtListener index was not searched due to rate limiting, and PACER/MDL-875 docket-level lists were not exhaustively checked. Does not establish or defeat any claim of exposure or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-la-salle-agf3-08