Evidence
9 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-9).
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[1]DANFS entry, USS Puffer (SSN-652) (verbatim transcription via Wayback; live NHHC 404) [other_primary]
- Locator
- DANFS transcription (Wayback capture), full entry
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Documented for this hull (DANFS): contract awarded 26 March 1963; keel laid 8 February 1965 at Ingalls Shipbuilding Corp., Pascagoula MS; launched 30 March 1968, sponsored by Mrs. John B. Colwell; commissioned 9 August 1969, Lt. Cmdr. John M. Will Jr. in command. Deactivated 8 September 1995; placed in reserve, in commission, 1 October 1995; entered SRP at Bremerton 20 October 1995; decommissioned and stricken 12 July 1996 upon completion of recycling.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-18
- Study period
- 1965-1996
- Limitations
- Verbatim DANFS transcription via Wayback - live NHHC 404. Service detail beyond construction is thin in the surviving transcription. No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-puffer-ssn652-01
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[2]Naval Vessel Register, SHIPSDETAIL SSN-652 (2019-03-24 Wayback capture) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NVR SHIPSDETAIL_SSN_652 milestone table
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NVR milestone data for ex-Puffer: builder Ingalls Shipbuilding; keel 02/08/1965; launch 03/30/1968; commission 08/09/1969; decommission and stricken 07/12/1996; status changed 03/28/1997 - disposed of by submarine recycling.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-18
- Study period
- 1965-1997
- Limitations
- NVR capture consistent with DANFS bracket disposal sequence. No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-puffer-ssn652-02
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[3]Cooks v. General Electric Company, No. 3:07-cv-05451-EMC (N.D. Cal.), complaint Exhibit A work-history, ECF No. 1-2 (filed 2007-10-25) [court_record]
- Locator
- ECF No. 1-2, Exhibit A vessel list ('PUFFER (SSN-652)')
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- Asbestos complaint exhibit (plaintiff Alvin Cooks's work-history/exposure exhibit) lists vessels and locations of alleged asbestos exposure, expressly including 'PUFFER (SSN-652)' among dozens of hulls. Cooks worked at Mare Island Naval Shipyard as a marine machinist from April 1974 (helper through general foreman); the exhibit's job-duty recitals describe gasket and valve-packing removal and replacement, lagging-residue removal, and pipe cut-outs aboard listed vessels including work in reactor compartments.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-18
- Study period
- 1974-1995 (alleged exposure window); 2007 (filing)
- Population
- Alvin Cooks (Mare Island NSY marine machinist, 1974-1995)
- Limitations
- Pleading-stage allegation (complaint exhibit), unadjudicated; a vessel-list entry is not an individualized exposure finding and does not establish that asbestos products were aboard this hull, that any exposure occurred, causation, or legal eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-puffer-ssn652-03
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[4]Halseth v. General Electric Co., No. 3:07-cv-02543-EMC (N.D. Cal.), consolidated complaint Exhibit A work-histories, ECF No. 1-2 (filed 2007-05-14) [court_record]
- Locator
- ECF No. 1-2, Exhibit A, Robinson section, alphabetical vessel list ('PUFFER (SSN-652)')
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- Asbestos complaint exhibit (consolidated multi-plaintiff work-histories; section for plaintiff Larry Robinson, a Puget Sound Naval Shipyard pipefitter 1975-2004) lists 'PUFFER (SSN-652)' in an alphabetical roster of vessels he worked on or around; duty recitals describe engine-room, fire-room, and reactor-room piping and valve work, steam-trap gasket changes, and close proximity to laggers and other trades 'blowing around asbestos dust', including work around General Electric and Westinghouse turbines and Johns-Manville insulation.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-18
- Study period
- 1975-2004 (alleged exposure window); 2007 (filing)
- Population
- Larry Robinson (Puget Sound NSY pipefitter, 1975-2004)
- Limitations
- Pleading-stage allegation (complaint exhibit), unadjudicated; an alphabetical roster entry is not an individualized exposure finding and does not establish asbestos aboard this hull, exposure, causation, or eligibility. The roster spans many hulls at one yard (PSNSY Bremerton); it documents a work-assignment universe, not per-hull materials.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-puffer-ssn652-04
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[5]Webb v. Baldor Electric Company, No. 1:22-cv-00145-KHJ-MTP (S.D. Miss.), served summons & complaint Exhibit 1, ECF No. 1-1 (filed 2022-06-10) [court_record]
- Locator
- ECF No. 1-1 complaint (147 pp.); CourtListener index match for 'USS Puffer'
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- Asbestos wrongful-death complaint (estate of Allan Watson, who alleged Navy service 1960-64 aboard USS Saratoga followed by work at Ingalls Shipbuilding, Pascagoula, 1966-2001, where the court's remand order recites he 'worked on over forty naval vessels'): CourtListener full-text search matches 'USS Puffer' inside the served complaint (ECF No. 1-1, 147 pages), placing this hull in the complaint's vessel universe.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-18
- Study period
- 1966-2001 (alleged exposure window); 2022 (filing)
- Population
- Allan Watson, decedent (Ingalls Shipbuilding worker, 1966-2001)
- Limitations
- Pleading-stage allegation (served complaint), unadjudicated; exact list-line context not retrieved (document not in the RECAP archive and CourtListener document pages return CloudFront 403 to automated fetches; the string match is feed-verified and the allegation structure is confirmed by the court's published remand order). Does not establish asbestos aboard this hull, exposure, causation, or eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-puffer-ssn652-05
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[6]Era inference built on: DANFS/navysite spec blocks (S5W-class nuclear plant, steam turbines, single shaft); shipyard-exposure-map documented asbestos product lists for ingalls-shipbuilding, puget-sound-naval-shipyard (thermal insulation, submarine steam/propulsion lagging, gaskets, packing, block insulation) [other_primary]
- Locator
- DANFS/navysite spec blocks; shipyards.json product lists for ingalls-shipbuilding, puget-sound-naval-shipyard
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- A Sturgeon-class nuclear attack submarine built 1965-1969 at Ingalls Shipbuilding, Pascagoula MS and maintained through Navy-yard availabilities across the 1970s-90s sits inside the Navy's documented asbestos-use era; era-standard applications on the secondary steam plant and auxiliary systems included thermal/pipe insulation, gaskets, packing, and machinery insulation. The building and maintenance yards' asbestos product use in this period is independently documented at the yard level.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-18
- Study period
- 1965-1969
- Population
- Submarine construction trades; Navy-yard overhaul trades; crew
- Limitations
- Class/era inference only - no hull-specific insulation survey or material list located. Names era-standard applications on non-nuclear secondary/auxiliary systems, not confirmed installed materials; the reactor plant establishes nothing. No quantity; material disposition at recycling undocumented per-hull.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-puffer-ssn652-06
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[7]Kase v. Metalclad Insulation Corp., Cal. Ct. App. (4th Dist.) 2021 (CourtListener opinions 4324658, 4332654) [court_record]
- Locator
- Opinion, specification-history discussion (SUBSAFE/MIL-I-24244)
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- A docketed asbestos personal-injury opinion recounts that after USS Thresher's 1963 loss the Navy created the SUBSAFE program, which issued procurement specification MIL-I-24244 covering asbestos-containing insulation for submarines - court-documented evidence that asbestos-containing insulation was specified in the submarine-construction regime in force when this hull was built (laid down February 1965, inside the post-SUBSAFE era).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-18
- Study period
- 2021 (opinion); regime described 1963-forward
- Population
- Navy submarine construction/maintenance trades, SUBSAFE era
- Limitations
- Documents the era procurement-spec regime, not this hull's installed materials; the case concerns a different claimant aboard different vessels. Does not establish exposure, causation, quantity, or eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-puffer-ssn652-07
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[8]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 - covering this hull's construction (1965-1969) and most service-era insulation events.
- 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-puffer-ssn652-08
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[9]Batch-38 search ledger (this record): DANFS/NVR/navysite sweeps; CourtListener Atom-feed exact-name and hull-number searches (opinions + RECAP); verified exhibit-PDF greps (Cooks, Halseth, Cronin, Davis); GAO HRD-80-2; ACM-survey sweep [other_primary]
- Locator
- See this record's search_ledger rows for repositories, queries, and per-search outcomes
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No ship-specific asbestos survey, abatement contract, insulation material list, or SRP/recycling hazmat disclosure naming USS Puffer was located in any searched repository. CourtListener opinion search returned no adjudicated asbestos finding touching this hull.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-18
- Limitations
- Negative finding is a search result, not proof of absence: Navy hull-level industrial-hygiene records were not systematically published, SRP-era recycling documentation is not indexed by hull in public dockets, and CourtListener coverage excludes most state-court filings. Unverified feed-matched documents are logged as archival leads, not as evidence.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-puffer-ssn652-09