USS Canopus

The printable version is no longer supported and may have rendering errors. Please update your browser bookmarks and please use the default browser print function instead.

Three ships of the United States Navy have been named Canopus after the first magnitude star Canopus in the constellation Argo.

USS Canopus (AS-9) was launched in 1919 by the New York Shipbuilding Company as the Santa Leonora.
USS Canopus (AD-33) (ordered as AS-27, but reclassified before keel-laying) was a destroyer tender, but construction was canceled in 1945 prior to launching.
USS Canopus (AS-34) was launched on 12 February 1965.

Sources

This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found here.

This article includes a list of ships with the same or similar names. If an internal link for a specific ship led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended ship article, if one exists.