Evidence
10 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-10).
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[1]Naval Vessel Register, live record for PORTSMOUTH (SSN 707), shipId 2201 (site updated 08/11/2026; record last updated 12/03/2024); corroborated by NVR Wayback capture 2019 (physical characteristics and accommodations) [marad_nrc]
- Locator
- NVR getHull shipId=2201 (live); web.archive.org NVR SHIPSDETAIL_SSN_707 captures
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Official NVR record for this hull: Class SSN 688; UIC 20883; builder General Dynamics Electric Boat; award 12/10/1973; keel 05/08/1980; launch 09/18/1982; delivery 08/27/1983; commission 10/01/1983; decommission 08/18/2005; stricken 08/18/2005; status 'disposed of by dismantling (scrapping/recycling)'. 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
- 1973-2005
- Population
- Crew (1983-2005); EB construction trades (1980-83); Mare Island DMP trades (1991); PSNS recycling trades (post-2005)
- Limitations
- Ship-specific administrative record only; no asbestos or material content. NVR milestone dates are the official register figures and may differ from ceremony dates in secondary sources. Does not establish exposure for any individual.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-portsmouth-ssn707-01
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[2]navysite.de secondary compilation, USS Portsmouth (SSN 707) — narrative built from NHHC command histories (sponsored by Helen Poe Goodrich; 20th of class, 15th EB-built; homeport San Diego; first nuclear-powered U.S. warship to visit Fiji — Suva, 5 Jan 1986; Mare Island Depot Modernization Period from February 1991; Submarine Squadron Three) [other_primary]
- Locator
- navysite.de/ssn/ssn707.htm (characteristics block, history narrative)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Service narrative for this hull (secondary compilation): 20th Los Angeles-class boat, 15th built by Electric Boat; sponsored by Helen Poe Goodrich; commissioned 1 October 1983; homeported San Diego; first WestPac with port calls in Japan and Australia; on 5 January 1986 became the first nuclear-powered U.S. warship to visit Fiji (Suva) after Fiji reversed its non-nuclear policy; February 1991 entered Mare Island Naval Shipyard at Vallejo for a Depot Modernization Period (engineering and combat-systems upgrades), returning to San Diego under Submarine Squadron Three; decommissioned, stricken, and inactivated 18 August 2005.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-18
- Study period
- 1973-2005
- Population
- Crew (1983-2005); Mare Island DMP trades (1991)
- 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-portsmouth-ssn707-02
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[3]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 Portsmouth' (alongside USS Los Angeles, USS La Jolla, 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, nor which Portsmouth namesake is meant (this hull vs CL-102 — the plaintiff's service era determines this and was not extracted). No causation, no quantity, no ACM confirmation, no eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-portsmouth-ssn707-03
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[4]CourtListener index-verified matches 2026-09-18: Yoder v. CBS Corporation (W.D. Wash., filed Feb 10, 2014); Holck v. Carrier Corporation (W.D. Wash., ECF 69-4, filed Jan 7, 2014) [court_record]
- Locator
- CourtListener search-index matches; doc-level verification pending (session throttling)
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- Index-verified asbestos-litigation matches with undetermined namesake: two Puget Sound plaintiff-family suits match 'USS Portsmouth' — Yoder v. CBS and Holck v. Carrier (both W.D. Wash. 2014). The namesake could be THIS hull (recycled at PSNS after 2005 — plaintiffs who worked the recycling program could have encountered her), the WWII-era USS Portsmouth (CL-102, scrapped 1974), or Portsmouth Naval Shipyard itself; document texts were not retrievable this session (rate-limiting). W.R. Grace & Co. (Bankr. D. Del. 2006) also matched — context unverified.
- Verification
- unverified
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-18
- Study period
- filed 2014; alleged work eras unextracted
- Population
- Puget Sound shipyard trades (plaintiff work histories)
- Limitations
- UNVERIFIED at document level — namesake identity undetermined in each match; carried as archival leads only. If verified as this hull, each would be a pleading-stage allegation at most — not a finding of exposure or asbestos aboard. The verified McCrossin collision (below) shows the W.D. Wash. 'USS Portsmouth' string is ambiguous.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-portsmouth-ssn707-04
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[5]McCrossin v. A.W. Chesterton Company (W.D. Wash., filed Jul 31, 2014) — asbestos products-liability suit; exhibit text verified [court_record]
- Locator
- McCrossin v. A.W. Chesterton, exhibit index (1972 Navy doc reference)
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- Verified name collision, not qualifying litigation for SSN-707: McCrossin's 'USS Portsmouth' references are (1) a 1972 Navy document 'Protection of Workers During Removal Operation in USS Portsmouth' — the WWII-era light cruiser CL-102, scrapped 1974, a decade before this hull's 1982 launch — and (2) Portsmouth Naval Shipyard itself. Not evidence about SSN-707.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-18
- Study period
- 1972 (referenced document); filed 2014
- Limitations
- Document-level verification completed (exhibit-index text extracted). Establishes nothing about this hull — demonstrates that W.D. Wash. 'USS Portsmouth' matches are ambiguous without doc-level verification.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-portsmouth-ssn707-05
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[6]Era inference built on: NVR record (S6G-plant 688-class build window 1980-83 at Electric Boat, Groton; Mare Island DMP from Feb 1991; PSNS recycling post-2005); shipyard-exposure-map documented asbestos product lists for electric-boat-groton, mare-island-naval-shipyard, and puget-sound-naval-shipyard (thermal insulation, lagging, gaskets, packing); GAO HRD-80-2 substitution timeline [other_primary]
- Locator
- NVR record (build window, builder); navysite DMP narrative; shipyards.json product lists for electric-boat-groton, mare-island-naval-shipyard, puget-sound-naval-shipyard; GAO HRD-80-2
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- A Flight I Los Angeles-class submarine built 1980-83 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 February 1991 Mare Island Depot Modernization Period, and its post-2005 PSNS recycling 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
- 1980-2005
- Population
- EB construction trades (1980-83); Mare Island DMP trades (1991); crew (1983-2005); PSNS recycling trades (post-2005)
- 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-707. 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-portsmouth-ssn707-06
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[7]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 1980-83 construction and 1991 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-portsmouth-ssn707-07
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[8]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 1980-83 build and 1991 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-portsmouth-ssn707-08
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[9]CourtListener sweep 2026-09-18: "USS Portsmouth" (type=r; type=o); "SSN-707" and "SSN 707" (type=r) [court_record]
- Locator
- search_ledger rows sl-uss-portsmouth-ssn707-04 through -06
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- Sweep summary: 'SSN-707'/'SSN 707' returned zero docket hits; 'USS Portsmouth' opinion search returned zero. All five 'USS Portsmouth' docket hits classified above: McKinley MDL-875 (verified pleading naming), Yoder + Holck (unverified asbestos leads, undetermined namesake), McCrossin (verified CL-102/shipyard collision), W.R. Grace bankruptcy (unverified). No qualifying litigation beyond pleading-stage namings; no opinion or adjudication names this hull.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-18
- Study period
- 2026-09-18
- Limitations
- Negative findings bounded by Atom-feed recency (~20 newest documents) and index coverage; document-level verification incomplete this session (shared-quota throttling). Absence of a located record does not prove absence of exposure or asbestos aboard.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-portsmouth-ssn707-09
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[10]ACM survey / abatement / SRP-disclosure sweep (web) + search ledger [other_primary]
- Locator
- search_ledger row sl-uss-portsmouth-ssn707-07
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No hull ACM survey, abatement contract, scrapping/recycling hazmat disclosure, or adjudicated exposure finding naming USS Portsmouth (SSN-707) was located. The hull was dismantled through the Ship-Submarine Recycling Program at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard; SRP hazmat documentation is not publicly retrievable for any 688-class hull reviewed in this or prior nuclear batches.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-18
- Study period
- 2005+; sweep 2026-09-18
- Population
- PSNS&IMF Ship-Submarine Recycling Program trades (post-2005)
- Limitations
- Absence of a located public record does not prove absence of asbestos aboard. Recycling-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-portsmouth-ssn707-10