Evidence
10 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-10).
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[1]CourtListener opinion search: 'USS Louisville' [court_record]
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- CourtListener opinion search 'USS Louisville' returned 27 result(s) (2026-10-07); individual records not reviewed
- Verification
- unverified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Limitations
- hit count only — underlying dockets/opinions not individually reviewed; name query may match same-named vessels
- Evidence ID
- uss-louisville-ca28-cl-name-opinion
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[2]CourtListener docket search: 'USS Louisville' [court_record]
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- CourtListener docket search 'USS Louisville' returned 993 result(s) (2026-10-07); individual records not reviewed
- Verification
- unverified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Limitations
- hit count only — underlying dockets/opinions not individually reviewed; name query may match same-named vessels
- Evidence ID
- uss-louisville-ca28-cl-name-docket
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[3]CourtListener opinion search: 'CA-28' [court_record]
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- CourtListener opinion search 'CA-28' returned 174747 result(s) (2026-10-07); individual records not reviewed
- Verification
- unverified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Limitations
- hit count only — underlying dockets/opinions not individually reviewed
- Evidence ID
- uss-louisville-ca28-cl-hull-opinion
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[4]CourtListener docket search: 'CA-28' [court_record]
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- CourtListener docket search 'CA-28' returned 901209 result(s) (2026-10-07); individual records not reviewed
- Verification
- unverified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Limitations
- hit count only — underlying dockets/opinions not individually reviewed
- Evidence ID
- uss-louisville-ca28-cl-hull-docket
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[5]DANFS, Louisville III (CA-28) - verbatim transcription via HyperWar/ibiblio (live NHHC page returns 404) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS entry, specifications block + full service narrative
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- DANFS record for this hull: launched 1 September 1930 at Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton, Wash.; commissioned 15 January 1931, Capt. E.J. Marquart; classified CL-28 at commissioning and redesignated CA-28 effective 1 July 1931 under the London Naval Treaty of 1930. Prewar: 1931 shakedown via Panama Canal, fleet problems, AA schoolship at San Pedro, 1934 nine-month flag-showing cruise, 1937 Pacific cruise (Sydney ferry rescue), 1939-40 Simonstown voyage carrying $148 million in British gold to New York. WWII: at sea off Borneo 7 December 1941; Samoa landings; Gilbert-Marshall raids; TF 11 Salamaua-Lae-Rabaul strikes; Mare Island armament increase; Aleutians TF 8 (Kiska bombardment); TF 67 Battle off Rennell Island 29 January 1943; TF 16 Attu occupation and Kiska preinvasion bombardment; from January 1944 flagship of Rear Adm. J.B. Oldendorf's gunfire support groups - Marshalls, TF 58 Palau/Truk strikes, Saipan (11 days continuous bombardment), Tinian, Guam, Peleliu, Leyte, Surigao Strait 25 October 1944; TF 38 Luzon strikes; two kamikaze hits 5-6 January 1945 en route to Lingayen, repairs at Mare Island; TF 54 Okinawa, third kamikaze hit 5 June 1945, repairs at Pearl Harbor; postwar Darien POW evacuation, Tsingtao surrender, Jinsen escort, Chefoo and Yellow Sea force; decommissioned 17 June 1946 at Philadelphia into the Atlantic Reserve Fleet; struck 1 March 1959; sold 14 September 1959 to Marlene Blouse Corp. of New York; 13 battle stars.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-19
- Study period
- 1928-1959
- Population
- Puget Sound Navy Yard construction workforce 1928-31; ship's crew 1931-46; reserve-fleet custody 1946-59
- Limitations
- DANFS documents service history and specifications, not materials or asbestos content; it does not give a laid-down date for this hull. Mirror transcription cited because the live NHHC page returns 404. Repair periods are stated as events only - no asbestos scope is given or implied.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-louisville-ca28-01
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[6]Booklet of General Plans for USS Louisville (CA-28), dated 29 March 1945 - File Unit 'Plans for the Cruiser USS Louisville (CA-28), 1789-1967', Series 'Ship Engineering Drawings, 1874-1976', Record Group 19 (Records of the Bureau of Ships), U.S. National Archives; digitized copy via Internet Archive [other_primary]
- Locator
- Internet Archive item ca28bogp1945; NARA citation: RG 19, Ship Engineering Drawings, File Unit: Plans for the Cruiser USS Louisville (CA-28)
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- Hull-specific Bureau of Ships engineering drawings for CA-28 survive in NARA RG 19: a Booklet of General Plans dated 1945-03-29 covering outboard/inboard profile, bridges, forecastle and upper decks, main and second decks, first and second platforms, hold and inner bottom - the primary-source base for any materials/insulation research on this hull.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-19
- Study period
- 1945 (plan date)
- Limitations
- Plan sheets document ship configuration, not insulation composition; no 'asbestos' designation on the drawings was confirmed in the digitized copy. Item metadata fields (including 'laid down: july 4 1928') are contributor-supplied and are not treated as document text. The original file unit at NARA may contain additional sheets not in the scan.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-louisville-ca28-02
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[7]Navypedia, NORTHAMPTON-class heavy cruisers class page (4 Parsons geared turbines, 8 White-Forster boilers, 107,000 shp, 4 shafts, 32.5 kt; complement 617 for CA-26/27/28) + DANFS CA-28 specifications block (9,050 tons, 32 kt, cpl. 621) [other_primary]
- Locator
- Navypedia Northampton-class technical table; DANFS CA-28 specifications block
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Era inference: a treaty-era heavy cruiser built 1928-30 with an eight-boiler, 107,000-shp geared-steam plant would have carried the period-standard asbestos application set - boiler and turbine insulation, steam-line lagging between firerooms and machinery spaces, valve and flange gaskets, machinery packing, fireproofing, and deck coverings. The class was built 1928-31 across five yards (Bethlehem Fore River, New York Shipbuilding, Puget Sound NY, Mare Island NY, Newport News x2), all documented asbestos-era builders.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-19
- Study period
- 1928-1959
- Population
- Construction trades 1928-31; crew 1931-46
- Limitations
- Class/era inference only - NOT a ship-specific finding for CA-28. No insulation schedule, bill of materials, or hull survey for this hull was located. Does not quantify material aboard and does not establish exposure for any individual.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-louisville-ca28-03
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[8]Atlas shipyards.json records: puget-sound-naval-shipyard (tier 1; builder 1928-31), mare-island-naval-shipyard (tier 2; documented asbestos products incl. Unibestos, Marinite, Kaylo, packing/gaskets), philadelphia-naval-shipyard (tier 3; documented asbestos products incl. Thermasil, Unibestos, Kaylo, Garlock gaskets) + DANFS yard-period narrative [other_primary]
- Locator
- shipyards.json yard records (verified 2026-09-19); DANFS narrative for yard periods
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Builder and repair-yard inference: CA-28 was built at Puget Sound Navy Yard and spent documented periods at Mare Island Navy Yard (1942 armament increase; January-June 1945 kamikaze-damage repairs) and at Philadelphia Naval Shipyard (decommissioning and 1946-59 Atlantic Reserve Fleet lay-up). All three yards carry documented asbestos product/litigation records in the Atlas dataset for the same decades; yard work of this kind is the documented disturbance pathway for era insulation, and reserve-fleet lay-up is the documented setting for salvage-era asbestos removal aboard laid-up cruisers (cf. the Salem recital in Hickman v. CBS Corp., D. Del.).
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-19
- Study period
- 1928-1959
- Population
- Yard workers (PSNY 1928-31; Mare Island 1942, 1945); reserve-fleet and any salvage crews 1946-59; ship's crew during yard availabilities
- Limitations
- Yard-level records, not hull documentation - establishes that these yards handled asbestos products, not what was installed in or removed from CA-28. The Hickman reserve-fleet parallel is a context analogy involving a different hull; nothing in the located record ties salvage work to Louisville specifically. Asbestos scope of the 1942/1945 Mare Island periods is inference.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-louisville-ca28-04
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[9]U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings, 'Pictorial: Puget Sound Navy Yard' (February 1982) [reputable_press]
- Locator
- USNI Proceedings, February 1982, pictorial text ('the keel of the 10,000-ton ship was laid on the Fourth of July 1928')
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- USNI Proceedings pictorial on the Bremerton yard states that 'the keel of the 10,000-ton ship was laid on the Fourth of July 1928, and she was launched in September 1930,' naming Louisville (CA-28) as the heavy cruiser whose construction helped sustain the yard through the Depression - corroborating the 1928 laid-down year against secondary compilations that carry 1929.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-19
- Study period
- 1928-1930
- Population
- Puget Sound Navy Yard construction workforce
- Limitations
- A professional-institute historical pictorial, not a shipyard record; corroborates the keel date but does not address materials or asbestos content. usni.org returns HTTP 403 to automated fetch - keel-date text verified via search-index snippet quoting the passage.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-louisville-ca28-05
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[10]Batch-178 search ledger (this record): CourtListener API v4 and web/Atom endpoints; Justia/Google Scholar/general web litigation search; law-firm page review; NVR check [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-louisville-ca28-01 through sl-uss-louisville-ca28-08
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No qualifying ship-specific asbestos record located: no hull ACM survey exists or is feasible (hull scrapped circa 1959-60), no abatement or demolition-survey disclosure for the breakup was located, and no docketed asbestos case naming CA-28 was found in the sources searched. Litigation-index coverage is INCOMPLETE: CourtListener API returned HTTP 429 (125/day quota, ~8,500 s hold) and its web/Atom endpoints returned CloudFront blocks; fallback web searches surfaced only name collisions (e.g., Louisville Trust Co. v. Johns-Manville, Ky. 1979 - the city, not the ship) and uncitable law-firm list pages.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-19
- Study period
- 2026-09-19
- Limitations
- Absence of a located public record does not prove absence of asbestos aboard or absence of litigation - the CourtListener opinion/docket index was not searched to completion this session. A law-firm tribute page asserts an affidavit-based exposure claim for a 1942-43 crew member (warrant-officer carpenter, later peritoneal mesothelioma) but is an excluded marketing source and no underlying court or VA record was located. USS Louisville SSN-724 (submarine, commissioned 1986) is a separate hull and a live collision risk for any post-1986 'USS Louisville' docket text.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-louisville-ca28-06