Asbestos Gaskets in Navy Ship Boilers

In our latest search of marine catalogs, we came across a catalog for United States Gasket Company, which advertises that their asbestos gaskets were readily available for the following marine boilers:

Babcock & Wilcox

Combustion Engineering

Edge Moor

Foster Wheeler

Heine

Ward

We've also found this Navy manual which indicates that metal-encased asbestos gaskets were to be used on boilers.

The use of asbestos was widespread in the Navy and we have books that document its use for electrical insulation, pipe insulation, asbestos packing, and more.