Navy Ship Asbestos Compensation

Settlements for Navy Ship Workers, California

Due to its durability and resistance to heat and friction, asbestos was widely used by the U.S. Navy between the 1930s and the 1970s. Even after the mineral was linked to several serious injuries and deaths, the Navy continued to use asbestos in hundreds of applications. More than 300 asbestos-laden materials were used on U.S. Navy ships, posing dangerous health risks to thousands of individuals who built, cleaned, maintained and worked on board the ships.

Navy Ships and Asbestos-Containing Materials

Asbestos was considered an ideal material by the U.S. military, overall, and can be found in several products on board Navy ships, including:

• Steam pipes
• Insulation materials
• Boilers, turbines and generators
• Hot water tanks and pipes
• Pumps and valves
• Fireproof clothing, blankets and equipment

Effects of Asbestos Exposure

Asbestos, although harmless in its natural state, is extremely toxic when broken down or disturbed. It is composed of strands of tiny fibers, that when broken down form a toxic dust that can be easily inhaled. If inhaled, the durable fibers can lodge themselves into the body’s vital organs and overtime can lead to the development of fatal diseases, including:

• Mesothelioma
• Lung cancer
• Asbestosis
• Throat cancer
• Larynx cancer
• Esophageal cancer

Who is at Risk of Asbestos Exposure?

Because asbestos was so widely used by the military, millions of Army, Marine Corp., Air Force, Coast Guard, Navy and other veterans are at risk of developing a fatal asbestos-caused disease. Thousands of other personnel that worked on board the ships or at the navy shipyards are also at risk of toxic asbestos exposure.

According to reports, it is estimated that nearly 30% of all veterans who served before the 1970s were exposed to asbestos at some point in their careers. Navy veterans are at an especially high risk of asbestos exposure, however, because of the amount of asbestos that was on board navy ships. Navy personnel who worked in the following jobs are at the highest risk:

• Boiler room workers
• Machine repair workers
• Shipyard workers and builders
• Maintenance and cleaning crews
• Submarine workers
• Installation and construction workers

Get More Information and Legal Help

If you or a loved one served or worked on board a U.S. navy ship and have been diagnosed with an asbestos-caused disease, we can help you recover compensation for your losses. For more information and help, please contact the Asbestos Legal Center today to speak with a mesothelioma attorney.

Following is a List of Navy Ships that Contain Asbestos:

Fletcher
Haskell
Haven
LST 542
SS President Harding
SS President Wilson
USCG Ingham
USCG Violet
USCG Winnebago
USCGC Androscoggin
USCGC Fir
USCGC Mendota
USCGC Northwind
USNS Private Elden H. Johnson
USS Abbot
USS Abraham Lincoln
USS Acme
USS Admiral Eberle
USS Admiralty Islands
USS Ajax
USS Alabama
USS Alameda County
USS Alamo
USS Albany
USS Albemarle
USS Albert W. Grant
USS Alstede
USS Altair
USS America
USS Ammen
USS Amphion
USS Andromeda
USS Angerholm
USS Antietam
USS Arcadia
USS Archerfish
USS Arcturus
USS ARD-22
USS ARD-28
USS Arenac
USS Arizona BB 39
USS Arkansas BB 33
USS Arnold J. Isbell
USS Ashtabula
USS Aucilla
USS Ault
USS Bache
USS Bainbridge
USS Bairoko
USS Baltimore
USS Barataria
USS Barb
USS Barbican
USS Bataan
USS Baussell
USS Beale
USS Beatty
USS Becuna
USS Begor
USS Benham
USS Benjamin Franklin
USS Bennington
USS Berkeley
USS Bethany
USS Beverly W. Reid
USS Biddle
USS Black
USS Blackfin
USS Blandy
USS Block Island
USS Blue
USS Blueback
USS Bluegill
USS Bonhomme Richard
USS Boston
USS Bowers
USS Boxer
USS Boyd
USS Briareus
USS Brinkley Bass
USS Brooke
USS Brown
USS Brownson
USS Buckley
USS Bulwark
USS Bunker Hill
USS Burton Island
USS Bushnell
USS Butler
USS Cadmus
USS California BB 44
USS Calvert
USS Cape Esperance
USS Capps
USS Capricornus
USS Carl Vinson
USS Cascade
USS Catfish
USS Cavalier
USS Charles Cecil
USS Charles F. Adams
USS Charles R. Ware
USS Charles S. Sperry
USS Chemung
USS Chicago
USS Chilton
USS Chipola
USS Cimarron
USS Claude V. Ricketts
USS Cleveland
USS Cliffrose
USS Cod
USS Colonial
USS Colorado BB 45
USS Columbus
USS Commencement Bay
USS Cone
USS Constant
USS Constellation
USS Coral Sea
USS Corregidor
USS Cowell
USS Croaker
USS Currituck
USS Cushing
USS Cutlass
USS Dace
USS Darby
USS Dayton
USS Decatur
USS DeHaven
USS Delta
USS Des Moines
USS Diphda
USS Dixie
USS Donner
USS Dortch
USS Douglas Blackwood
USS Douglas H. Fox
USS Duncan
USS Duxbury Bay
USS Eaton
USS Edisto
USS Edson
USS Elliot
USS Ellison
USS Endurance
USS Energy
USS English
USS Enterprise
USS Epping Forest
USS Erben
USS Ernest G. Small
USS Essex
USS Ethan Allen
USS Eugene A. Greene
USS Everglades
USS Eversole
USS F. D. Roosevelt
USS Fanshaw Bay
USS Farragut
USS Fayette
USS Firm
USS Fiske
USS Fitch
USS Flasher
USS Floyd Parks
USS Forrestal
USS Fort Mandan
USS Fort Snelling
USS Foss
USS Francis Marion
USS Frank E. Evans
USS Frank Knox
USS Fraser
USS Fred T. Berry
USS Frontier
USS Frost
USS Fulton
USS Galveston
USS Gearing
USS General JC Breckinridge
USS George A. Johnson
USS George Clymer
USS George K. Mackenzie
USS George Lukenbach
USS George Washington
USS Greenlet
USS Greenling
USS Greenwood
USS Guadalupe
USS Guardfish
USS Guitarro
USS Gurke
USS Gustafson
USS Hailey
USS Hale
USS Halibut
USS Halsey
USS Halsey Powell
USS Hambleton
USS Hancock
USS Hank
USS Harry E. Hubbard
USS Harry F. Bauer
USS Hartley
USS Harwood
USS Hector
USS Heerman
USS Helena
USS Henderson
USS Henley
USS Henry W. Tucker
USS Herbert Thomas
USS Hermitage
USS Higbee
USS Holland
USS Hollis
USS Hooper Island
USS Horne
USS Hornet
USS Howard Gilmore
USS Hummingbird
USS Hunt
USS Hunting
USS Huse
USS Idaho
USS Idaho BB 42
USS Independence
USS Independence
USS Indiana
USS Ingraham
USS Intrepid
USS Iowa
USS Iowa BB 61
USS Isherwood
USS J. Douglas Blackwood
USS J. Franklin Bell
USS Jallao
USS James C. Owens
USS James Madison
USS John Craig
USS John F. Kennedy
USS John Marshall
USS John S. McCain
USS John W. Thomason
USS John W. Weeks
USS Jonas Ingram
USS Joseph P. Kennedy
USS Joseph Tausig
USS Jouett
USS Julius Furer
USS Juneau
USS Jupiter
USS Kalinin Bay
USS Kearsarge
USS Kennedy
USS Kenneth D. Bailey
USS Kenneth M. Willett
USS Kenneth Whiting
USS Kermit Roosevelt
USS Kilauea
USS Kimberly
USS Kittiwake
USS Kitty Hawk
USS Klondike
USS Knapp
USS Knox
USS Krishna
USS Kula Gulf
USS Kwajalein
USS Laffey
USS Lake Champlain
USS Lakewood Victory
USS Lamar
USS Latimer
USS LCI L
USS Leahy
USS Leartes
USS Lee Fox
USS Lexington
USS Leyte
USS Lincoln County
USS Liscome Bay
USS Little Rock
USS Loeser
USS Long Beach
USS Los Angeles
USS LST-611
USS LST-790
USS Lukenbach
USS Luzerne County
USS Luzon
USS Lyman K. Swenson
USS Lynde McCormick
USS Macomb
USS Macon
USS Maddox
USS Magoffin
USS Mansfield
USS Marias
USS Markab
USS Marquette
USS Maryland BB 46
USS Massachusetts
USS Massachusetts BB 59
USS Massey
USS McKean
USS McNair
USS Mellena
USS Midway
USS Mindoro
USS Mississippi
USS Mississippi BB 41
USS Missouri
USS Missouri BB 63
USS Mitscher
USS Moale
USS Monssen
USS Montague
USS Monterey
USS Montgomery County
USS Monticello
USS Mount Baker
USS Mount McKinley
USS Mullinnix
USS Murray
USS Naifeh
USS Nantahala
USS Narwhal
USS Nathan Hale
USS Nathanael Greene
USS Nautilus
USS Navarro
USS Neches
USS Nereus
USS Nevada
USS Nevada BB 36
USS New Jersey
USS New Jersey BB 62
USS New Mexico BB 40
USS New York BB 34
USS Newport News
USS Niobrara
USS Noa
USS Noble
USS Norfolk
USS Norris
USS North Carolina BB 55
USS Northampton
USS Northwind Staten Island
USS Notable
USS Nueces
USS Oberon
USS O'Brien
USS Observer
USS O'Hare
USS Oklahoma BB 37
USS Oklahoma City
USS Olmstead
USS Orca
USS Orion
USS Oriskany
USS Orleck
USS Outpost
USS Oyster
USS Ozbourn
USS Palau
USS Panay
USS Pandemus
USS Patrick Henry
USS Paul Revere A
USS Pennsylvania BB 38
USS Perkins
USS Permit
USS Perry
USS Phantom
USS Piedmont
USS Pinckney
USS Pine Island
USS Pinkney
USS Platte
USS Plymouth Rock
USS Point Barrow
USS Point Cruz
USS Point Loma
USS Polaris
USS Pollack
USS Pompon
USS Pondera
USS Portland
USS Prairie
USS Preble
USS President Adams
USS Princeton
USS Procyon
USS Protector
USS Prowess
USS Puget Sound
USS Putnam
USS Pyro
USS Queenfish
USS Radford
USS Randolph
USS Ranger
USS Rankin
USS Rathburne
USS Reclaimer
USS Redfish
USS Rehoboth
USS Renville
USS Rexburg
USS Richey
USS Richmond Turner
USS Roark
USS Robert A. Owens
USS Robert E. Lee
USS Roberts
USS Rochester
USS Rockbridge
USS Rodman
USS Rogers
USS Rupertus
USS Rushmore
USS Sacramento
USS Sailfish
USS Saint Paul
USS Saipan
USS Salem
USS Salt Lake City
USS Sam Rayburn
USS Samoset
USS Sampson
USS Samuel Houston
USS Samuel N. Moore
USS Sanctuary
USS Sarasota
USS Sargo
USS Scamp
USS Scranton
USS Sculpin
USS Sea Lion
USS Seawolf
USS Severn
USS Shangri-La
USS Shannon
USS Shark
USS Shasta
USS Shea
USS Shenandoah
USS Siboney
USS Sierra
USS Simon Lake
USS Skate
USS Skipjack
USS Slater
USS South Dakota
USS South Dakota BB 57
USS Spadefish
USS Springfield
USS Sproston
USS Steamer Bay
USS Steinaker
USS Sterett
USS Stickell
USS Stoddard
USS Stribling
USS Strong
USS Sturdy
USS Sumner
USS Surfbird
USS Swordfish
USS Tacoma
USS Talbott County
USS Talladega
USS Tallahatchie County
USS Tangier
USS Tarawa
USS Tawasa
USS Tecumseh
USS Tennessee BB 43
USS Terror
USS Texas
USS Texas-BB 35
USS The Sullivans
USS Theodore Chandler
USS Theodore Roosevelt
USS Thomas A. Edison
USS Thomas E. Fraser
USS Thomas Jefferson
USS Thomaston
USS Thompson
USS Thor
USS Thornton
USS Thuban
USS Ticonderoga
USS Tidewater
USS Timmerman
USS Tirante
USS Toledo
USS Tolovana
USS Topeka
USS Towers
USS Towhee
USS Trenton
USS Tripoli
USS Truxton
USS Tullibee
USS Turner
USS Tusk
USS Tutuila
USS Uhlmann
USS Union
USS Utah BB 31
USS Valley Forge
USS Vance
USS Venture
USS Vicksburg
USS Vogelgesang
USS Vulcan
USS Wadleigh
USS Wahoo
USS Waldron
USS Walke
USS Waller
USS Wantuck
USS Washington BB 56
USS Wasp
USS West Virginia BB 48
USS Whitehurst
USS Whitley
USS Wickes
USS Wilkinson
USS Willard Keith
USS William Seiverling
USS Windham Bay
USS Wintle
USS Wisconsin
USS Worcester
USS Wren
USS Wyoming
USS Yancey
USS Yarnall
USS Yellowstone
USS YF
USS YO-116
USS Yorktown
USS Yosemite
USS YR-63
USS Zelima
USS Zellars

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