Evidence
9 evidence entries recorded; each entry has a stable permalink (#ev-1 … #ev-9).
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[1]DANFS entry, USS Sunfish (SSN-649) (verbatim transcription; live NHHC 404) + navysite.de service history (secondary compilation) [other_primary]
- Locator
- DANFS transcription + navysite.de/ssn/ssn649.htm
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- Documented for this hull (DANFS + navysite): contract NObs-4583 awarded to Bethlehem Steel 22 August 1962 for construction at the Quincy yard (per Ct. Cl. opinion; NVR lists award 03/26/1963 - flagged); keel laid 15 January 1965 at General Dynamics Quincy Shipbuilding Division; launched 14 October 1966 in a double launching with USS Whale (SSN-638), sponsored by Mrs. Robert C. Byrd; commissioned 15 March 1969, Cmdr. Richard L. Thompson in command. Homeported Charleston; overhaul at Norfolk Naval Shipyard October 1972 - August 1973; overhaul at Ingalls East Bank yard January 1978 - 1980 (Hurricane Frederic delays); overhaul at Norfolk Naval Shipyard May 1988 - 1990; SRA at Newport News 1993; deployed to Haiti for Operation Uphold Democracy August 1994; completed her 1,000th dive 13 February 1996; final Mediterranean deployment November 1995 - March 1996. Decommissioned and stricken 31 March 1997; recycled through SRP at Puget Sound, completed 31 October 1997.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-18
- Study period
- 1965-1997
- Limitations
- DANFS transcription for construction/early service; extended service detail and disposal dates from navysite secondary compilation - cross-checked against NVR. Award-date conflict (contract 08/22/1962 per Ct. Cl. opinion vs. NVR 03/26/1963) flagged in gaps. No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-sunfish-ssn649-01
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[2]Naval Vessel Register, SHIPSDETAIL SSN-649 (2019-03-24 Wayback capture) [other_primary]
- Locator
- NVR SHIPSDETAIL_SSN_649 milestone table
- Finding type
- vessel_history
- Finding
- NVR milestone data for ex-Sunfish: builder General Dynamics Corp.; keel 01/15/1965; launch 10/14/1966; commission 03/15/1969; decommission and stricken 03/31/1997; status changed 10/31/1997 - 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 navysite disposal dates. No asbestos content.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-sunfish-ssn649-02
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[3]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 ('SUNFISH (SSN-649)')
- 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 'SUNFISH (SSN-649)' 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-sunfish-ssn649-03
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[4]Gilstrap v. CBS Corporation, No. 1:19-cv-00309-MN-SRF (D. Del.), ECF No. 109 (filed 2021-01-13) [court_record]
- Locator
- ECF No. 109 (CourtListener index match)
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- CourtListener full-text search matches 'USS Sunfish' inside ECF No. 109 in Gilstrap v. CBS Corporation (D. Del., asbestos products-liability docket). Document text not retrieved; the match context (work-history vessel list vs. incidental reference) is unverified, and the same name could denote the WWII-era SS-281.
- Verification
- partial
- Role
- archival_lead
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-18
- Study period
- 2021 (filing)
- Limitations
- Unverified at line level: asbestos-docket document, string matched, context unconfirmed; ship identity ambiguous between SSN-649 and SS-281. 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-sunfish-ssn649-04
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[5]General Dynamics Corp. v. United States, 585 F.2d 457 (Ct. Cl. 1978) [court_record]
- Locator
- Opinion text, NObs-4583 discussion
- Finding type
- litigation_documented
- Finding
- Government-contract opinion records that contract NObs-4583 was awarded to Bethlehem Steel on 22 August 1962 for construction of SSN-649 at the Quincy yard for $33,500,000, and that General Dynamics purchased the yard on 31 December 1963 - a ship-specific procurement record. Construction-contract litigation, not asbestos litigation; no exposure content.
- Verification
- verified
- Role
- context
- Documentation level
- ship_specific
- Accessed
- 2026-09-18
- Study period
- 1978 (opinion); contract facts 1962-1966
- Limitations
- Other litigation (contract dispute over submarine-construction pricing), not an asbestos case. Useful as primary documentation of the award date and builder chain only.
- Atlas source
- true
- Evidence ID
- ev-uss-sunfish-ssn649-05
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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 fore-river-shipyard, norfolk-naval-shipyard, ingalls-shipbuilding, newport-news-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 fore-river-shipyard, norfolk-naval-shipyard, ingalls-shipbuilding, newport-news-shipbuilding, puget-sound-naval-shipyard
- Finding type
- asbestos_application
- Finding
- A Sturgeon-class nuclear attack submarine built 1965-1969 at General Dynamics Quincy Shipbuilding Division (former Bethlehem Fore River yard), Quincy MA 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-sunfish-ssn649-06
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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 January 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-sunfish-ssn649-07
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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-sunfish-ssn649-08
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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 Sunfish 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-sunfish-ssn649-09