Command History Timeline

Read the Command History documents for the years you were onboard

History of the USS Canopus AS-34
supplemented with pictures from the Association's archives

Ship History Summary from the Naval Historical Center

Naval Vessel Register

Ship's Emblem

Awards

Navy Times Ship in the Spotlight

Coffer Dam Engineering Feat (improved)

                                      Life Raft Rescue (28 Oct. 1980)
                                              Press Release
                                              The Bow Hook article 
                                              Photos from Captain Marxer 

Holy Loch Fire - November 28, 1970  

Commissioning Threads of the USS Canopus AS-34

Commissioning Booklet
     

Decommissioning Booklet
       

Rota Port Map & Aerial Photos

Sea Classics article on Holy Loch, Boomers and the Tenders
        
History of establishing SubRon 16 in Rota
from the oral history of Vice Admiral Philip A. Beshany

The History of Submarine Squadron Fourteen

History of the Old Canopus (AS-9)
Narrative from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships,
supplemented with pictures from the Association's archives

Canopus - The Great Star of the South
Read about the star our ship was named after