Value for the heat and fire resistant properties, asbestos is widely used in naval ships and shipyards. A startling number of more than 300 asbestos-containing materials that are used regularly by Navy to mid 1970's. Although the Navy's abatement of asbestos, most of the contaminant is in the boat and still shockingly allowed if no other alternative.
Insulation made with asbestos and other asbestos-containing materials can be found on naval ships and boats:
* Battleships
* Amphibious ship
* Auxiliary ships
* Cruisers
* U. S. Coast Guard Auxiliary
* Aircraft and airships carrying
* Submarines
* Destroyer Destroyers and Escorts
* Escort aircraft carrier
* Minesweepers
* Frigates
* Patrol Ship
Aboard this ship laden with asbestos products, such as gaskets, brakes, valves, Adhesives, cement, and floor coverings. Much to the dismay of the Navy personnel, almost no area of naval ship or boat was built before the 1970s is free of asbestos. This toxic chemical has been used in engine and boiler rooms, mess halls, navigation room, and beds.
A collection of notes from the naval ship database, war Diaries, and offers some historical documents on a wide variety of lighting asbestos-containing materials used to mid 70s. Some of the various products, including:
* Pipe covering
* Insulating materials
* The hydraulic
* Grinders
* Meters
* Paneling
* Packing materials
* Tube
* Adhesives
* Deck covering materials
* Cable
* Block insulation
Mortar *
* Capacitors
* Aggregate mix
* Boiler
* Valves
* Thermal material
* Bedding compounds
Currently, several products containing asbestos that are used in Navy ships and shipyards. Military branch is now mainly concerned with the abatement of asbestos materials, as to become more complex and more fragile with age, so that the firing boring and very dangerous.
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