USS Canopus (AS-34)
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| Name: | USS Canopus |
| Namesake: | Canopus |
| Builder: | Ingalls Shipbuilding, Pascagoula, Mississippi |
| Laid down: | 2 March 1964 |
| Launched: | 12 February 1965 |
| Acquired: | 25 October 1965 |
| Commissioned: | 4 November 1965 |
| Decommissioned: | 7 October 1994 |
| Struck: | 3 May 1995 |
| Identification: | IMO number: 8628353 |
| Fate: | Disposed at Able Shipyard, Teesside, UK, 2010 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Simon Lake-class submarine tender |
| Displacement: | 12,686 long tons (12,890 t) |
| Length: | 644 ft (196 m) |
| Beam: | 85 ft (26 m) |
| Draft: | 30 ft (9.1 m) |
| Propulsion: | 2 boilers, steam turbine, single shaft |
| Speed: | 20 knots (37 km/h; 23 mph) |
| Complement: | 1,420 |
| Armament: | 4 × 3"/50 caliber gun mounts |
USS Canopus (AS-34) was a Simon Lake-class submarine tender of the United States Navy, operational from 1965 to 1994.
Canopus's keel was laid on 2 March 1964 and she was launched on 12 February 1965, at Ingalls Shipbuilding Corporation in Pascagoula, Mississippi. Canopus was completed and delivered to the Navy in record breaking time on 25 October 1965.
Canopus joined Submarine Squadron 18 at Charleston and was commissioned on 4 November 1965. After a short outfitting period, Canopus sailed for the Caribbean on 7 January 1966. Canopus visited Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, for shakedown training. She returned to Charleston Naval Shipyard on 24 February for the usual post-shakedown work.
In mid-April 1966, Canopus completed her acceptance trials and upon final loading and outfitting deployed to the Cooper River FBM Replenishment Site on 24 June. Canopus started refitting submarines of Squadron 18.
On 24 September 1966, Canopus deployed from Charleston, South Carolina, arriving in Rota, Spain, on 10 October. Canopus relieved Holland (AS-32) and reported to the Commander of Submarine Squadron 16 for duty. While at Rota, Canopus accomplished more Polaris refits than any other submarine tender in a comparable amount of time.
On 20 April 1969, Canopus was relieved by Holland and sailed for Bremerton, Washington, via the Panama Canal. In Bremerton, Canopus was extensively overhauled and thereby gained the title of the first submarine tender in the United States Navy capable of refitting and maintaining a submarine with the Poseidon Missile System.
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