The USS Telamon (ARB-8) was an Aristaeus-class battle damage repair ship laid down on December 5, 1944, and launched on January 10, the following year. It was commissioned on February 5, 1945, with the hull number ARB-8 and served in the US Navy for 3 years until it was decommissioned on May 20, 1947. During its activity, the ship carried a complement of 260 people on board and had its main missions in Baltimore, Guam, Pearl Harbor, Bikini Atoll, Kwajalein, and San Diego. After the decommissioning, the ship was struck from the Navy List on June 1, 1973, and sold for scrapping the following year. The U.S. Navy was the military branch that had the highest demand for asbestos which was used as an insulator virtually everywhere aboard its vessels. This extensive usage is nowadays the well-known cause of the high number of lung cancer, mesothelioma, and asbestosis diagnoses which changed the lives of so many veterans. If you believe you might have been exposed to asbestos while serving aboard the USS Telamon (ARB-8) our advice is to get checked. Screening tests are useful for finding restrictive deficits associated with asbestos.
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