Evidence
7 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-7).
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[1]DANFS, Sculpin II (SSN-590) - construction at Ingalls Shipbuilding, Mare Island availabilities (1961-62 post-shakedown; 1963 hull survey and restricted availability; Dec 1963-Feb 1964 piping repairs; Jan-Apr 1971 and Feb-May 1973 restricted availabilities), Puget Sound overhaul/refueling 1968-69, service history to June 1974 (verbatim transcription via HistoryCentral mirror; live NHHC page returned 404 at all tested slugs; hazegray mirror file absent) [nhhc_danfs]
- Locator
- DANFS service narrative and spec block (HistoryCentral transcription)
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Documented for this hull: laid down 3 February 1958 by Ingalls Shipbuilding Corp., Pascagoula, Miss.; launched 31 March 1960 (sponsor Mrs. Fred Connaway, widow of the wartime Sculpin SS-191 commanding officer); commissioned 1 June 1961, Comdr. C. N. Mitchell. Post-shakedown availability at Mare Island Naval Shipyard October 1961 to late March 1962; hull survey at Mare Island January 1963; restricted availability there April-August 1963; returned to Mare Island for repairs December 1963 to 25 February 1964 after defective piping aborted a deployment; demonstration dive for President Johnson 11 November 1967; first major overhaul and reactor refueling in drydock at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard 30 January 1968 to 22 January 1969; three-month restricted availability at Mare Island January-April 1971; bottom sandblasted and painted at Puget Sound October-November 1971; three-month restricted availability at Mare Island February-May 1973; extended western Pacific cruise from 7 January 1974 into June 1974.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-18
- Study period
- 1958-1974 (DANFS coverage)
- Population
- Ingalls construction trades (1958-61); MINSY/PSNSY overhaul trades (1961-1973); crew (1961-1990)
- Limitations
- Ship-specific history only; no asbestos or material content. Yard-period asbestos disturbance is era inference, not a per-hull record. Live NHHC DANFS page returned 404; transcription mirror used.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-sculpin-ssn590-01
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[2]Navysite.de, USS Sculpin (SSN-590) unofficial ship page - post-DANFS disposition data (secondary compilation; not a primary record) [other_primary]
- Locator
- navysite SSN-590 general-characteristics and history sections
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Post-DANFS history (secondary compilation): awarded 18 January 1957; refueling overhaul at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard beginning 1975, returning to San Diego operations early 1977; 1977 incident in which USS Snook (SSN-592) struck Sculpin while mooring alongside a submarine tender (Snook bow torpedo-tube door damage; several weeks drydock); RIMPAC 78; home-port change San Diego to Groton, CT June-July 1978 via Panama Canal; Exercise Northern Wedding fall 1978 (Holy Loch repairs); Mediterranean February 1979; non-refueling overhaul at Mare Island Naval Shipyard completed 1982 (crashback severe-angles casualty during trials); Mediterranean 1984 (Lebanon-era operations); decommissioned 3 August 1990 (ceremonies at Norfolk Naval Base; decommissioning at Newport News Naval Shipyard); stricken from the Naval Vessel Register 30 August 1990; recycling at PSNSY 1 October 2000 to 30 October 2001.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-18
- Study period
- 1974-2001
- Population
- PSNSY overhaul trades (1968-69, 1975-77); MINSY overhaul trades (early 1980s); NNSY decommissioning workers (1990); PSNSY recycling workers (2000-01); crew
- Limitations
- Secondary compilation (unofficial US Navy site), not a primary record - used for post-1974 disposition per prior-batch precedent. No asbestos or hazmat content; SRP hazmat handling not described. NavSource prints conflicting dates (struck 31 March 1990; SRP completed 23 March 1999) - conflict carried in gaps.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-sculpin-ssn590-02
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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 ('SCULPIN (SSN-590)'), archive.org RECAP mirror gov.uscourts.cand.197119.1.1
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- Asbestos complaint exhibit (plaintiff Alvin Cooks's work-history/exposure exhibit; asbestosis and asbestos-related pleural disease diagnosis) lists vessels and locations of alleged asbestos exposure during his Mare Island Naval Shipyard machinist employment (1974-1982 listed), expressly including 'SCULPIN (SSN-590)' among dozens of hulls.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- supporting
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-18
- Study period
- 1974-1982 (listed window); 2007 (litigation)
- Population
- Alvin Cooks (Mare Island Naval Shipyard marine machinist, 1974-1982 listed)
- Limitations
- Complaint-exhibit vessel list; unadjudicated pleading-stage allegation. The listed hulls are places the plaintiff claimed exposure occurred, not findings that asbestos was aboard any listed hull. Cooks's Mare Island window (1974-1982) overlaps this hull's documented Mare Island presence only at its tail (last documented MINSY restricted availability ended May 1973; the early-1980s non-refueling overhaul completed 1982 falls inside the window) - recorded as pled, not reconciled. Establishes nothing about materials aboard.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-sculpin-ssn590-03
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[4]Era inference anchored to DANFS-documented construction and yard periods for this hull [other_primary]
- Locator
- construction-era inference from DANFS/navysite dates and yard periods
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- Era inference: a first-generation nuclear attack submarine built 1958-61 at Ingalls Shipbuilding in the peak asbestos era would era-typically have carried asbestos-containing insulation, gaskets, and packing around secondary steam and auxiliary machinery; documented yard periods (Mare Island post-shakedown 1961-62, survey/RAV/repairs 1963-64, RAV 1971 and 1973, non-refueling overhaul completed 1982; Puget Sound refueling overhauls 1968-69 and 1975-77) are yard-disturbance windows of the kind in which era insulation was installed and removed.
- Verification
- inferred
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-18
- Study period
- 1958-2001
- Population
- Ingalls construction trades; MINSY/PSNSY overhaul trades; crew (1961-1990)
- Limitations
- CLASS/ERA INFERENCE ONLY - no ship-specific material schedule, survey, or insulation record was located for this hull. Does not establish asbestos aboard USS Sculpin, any exposure, or any quantity. The S5W reactor plant establishes nothing; asbestos-relevant systems are secondary/auxiliary. Never infer ship-specific findings from this row.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-sculpin-ssn590-04
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[5]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
- Court-documented era regime: the post-1963 SUBSAFE program issued procurement specification MIL-I-24244 covering asbestos-containing insulation for submarines - the regime applicable to this hull's post-1963 yard periods (Puget Sound refueling overhauls 1968-69 and 1975-77; Mare Island availabilities through 1982).
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- class_or_era
- Accessed
- 2026-09-18
- Study period
- 2021 (opinion); regime described 1963-forward
- Population
- Navy submarine construction/maintenance trades, post-SUBSAFE era
- Limitations
- Sculpin is not named in the opinion; the row documents the submarine insulation-spec regime only. Does not establish materials aboard this hull, exposure, causation, quantity, or eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-sculpin-ssn590-05
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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 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 (1958-61) and first overhaul cycle (through the 1968-69 refueling). The 1975-77 and early-1980s availabilities postdate the substitution-era start.
- 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-sculpin-ssn590-06
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[7]Negative finding: no qualifying non-litigation ship-specific asbestos record located across DANFS/NHHC (transcription), NVR, and ACM-survey/abatement/disposal sweeps [other_primary]
- Locator
- see search_ledger sl-uss-sculpin-ssn590-01..08
- Finding type
- historical_record
- Finding
- No hull ACM survey, abatement contract, scrapping/recycling hazmat disclosure, or adjudicated exposure finding naming USS Sculpin was located. CourtListener sweeps produced one verified pleading-stage complaint exhibit naming this hull (Cooks) plus a verbatim 'USS Sculpin' index match in an MDL-875 master-docket attachment (doc 8536-2) that could not be content-verified (not in the RECAP mirror; CourtListener WAF-blocked) - unresolved lead, not a finding. No opinion hits.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- negative_finding
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-18
- Limitations
- Absence of a located record is not proof no record exists - the 2000-01 recycling-disposal path left no retrievable hazmat-disclosure trail in located sources. The single litigation hit is an allegation; nothing was adjudicated about asbestos aboard this hull.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-sculpin-ssn590-07