Evidence
10 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-10).
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[1]DANFS entry, USS Sturgeon (SSN-637) (verbatim transcription; live NHHC page 404) [other_primary]
- Locator
- DANFS transcription, full entry
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Documented for this hull (DANFS): contract awarded to General Dynamics Corp., Electric Boat Division, Groton CT, 30 November 1961; keel laid 10 August 1963; launched 26 February 1966, sponsored by Mrs. Everett M. Dirksen; commissioned 3 March 1967, Lt. Cmdr. Curtis B. Shellman Jr. in command. Lead ship of the Sturgeon class. Assigned to Submarine Development Group 2; participated in the search for USS Scorpion (June 1968); overhaul at Electric Boat October 1970 - October 1971; ran aground at the Fleet Weapons Range in the Caribbean 21 May 1973; bow repairs at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard October 1973 - April 1974; Mediterranean deployment from November 1974. Decommissioned and stricken 1 August 1994; disposed through the Nuclear-Powered Ship and Submarine Recycling Program at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-18
- Study period
- 1963-1994
- Limitations
- Verbatim DANFS transcription via HazeGray/LostHistory mirror - the live NHHC page returns 404 in this environment. DANFS covers service history, not materials; no asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-sturgeon-ssn637-01
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[2]Naval Vessel Register, SHIPSDETAIL SSN-637 (2019-03-24 Wayback capture; live NVR returns generic shell for disposed hulls) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NVR SHIPSDETAIL_SSN_637 milestone table
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NVR milestone data for ex-Sturgeon: builder General Dynamics Corp.; keel 08/10/1963; launch 02/26/1966; commission 03/03/1967; decommission and stricken 08/01/1994; status changed 09/11/1995 - disposed of by submarine recycling.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-18
- Study period
- 1963-1995
- Limitations
- NVR capture is a 2019 Wayback snapshot of a disposed-hull record; recycling-completion date in secondary compilations (12/11/1995) differs from the NVR status-change date (09/11/1995) - both flagged in gaps. No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-sturgeon-ssn637-02
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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 ('STURGEON (SSN-637)')
- 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 'STURGEON (SSN-637)' 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-sturgeon-ssn637-03
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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 ('STURGEON (SSN-637)')
- 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 'STURGEON (SSN-637)' 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-sturgeon-ssn637-04
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[5]Lindquist v. Heim, L.P., No. 1:04-cv-00249-SJ (E.D.N.Y.), Exhibit C, ECF Nos. 32-6 and 50-6 (filed 2006) [court_record]
- Locator
- ECF Nos. 32-6 and 50-6, Exhibit C (CourtListener index match)
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- Asbestos-era litigation exhibit: CourtListener full-text search matches 'USS Sturgeon' and 'SSN-637' inside Exhibit C filed at ECF Nos. 32-6 and 50-6 in Lindquist v. Heim, L.P. (E.D.N.Y., a 2004 asbestos-related docket). Document text not retrieved; whether the references allege exposure aboard this hull is unverified.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-18
- Study period
- 2006 (filing)
- Limitations
- Unverified at line level: matched strings inside an unretrieved exhibit. E.D.N.Y. civil docket consistent with maritime asbestos litigation but the exhibit's context is unknown. Logged as archival lead, not counted as a verified naming. Does not establish asbestos aboard this hull, exposure, causation, or eligibility.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-sturgeon-ssn637-05
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[6]Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, Inc. v. Department of Navy, 891 F.2d 414 (2d Cir. 1989) [court_record]
- Locator
- Opinion text, ship-class enumeration
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- FOIA opinion mentions 'SSN-637 [Sturgeon] and 668 [Los Angeles] class submarines' among ship classes whose sonar performance data the Navy withheld. A class-designator reference only - names the design class, not this hull, and concerns document disclosure, not asbestos or exposure.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- context_only
- Accessed
- 2026-09-18
- Study period
- 1989 (opinion)
- Limitations
- Other litigation, not asbestos litigation; the class-number reference is incidental to a FOIA dispute over sonar-system data. No exposure, materials, or causation content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-sturgeon-ssn637-06
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[7]Era inference built on: DANFS/navysite spec blocks (S5W-class nuclear plant, steam turbines, single shaft); shipyard-exposure-map documented asbestos product lists for electric-boat-groton, portsmouth-naval-shipyard, 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 electric-boat-groton, portsmouth-naval-shipyard, puget-sound-naval-shipyard
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- A Sturgeon-class nuclear attack submarine built 1963-1967 at General Dynamics Electric Boat, Groton CT 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
- 1963-1967
- 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-sturgeon-ssn637-07
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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 (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 August 1963, 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-sturgeon-ssn637-08
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[9]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 (1963-1967) 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-sturgeon-ssn637-09
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[10]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 Sturgeon 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-sturgeon-ssn637-10