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AS-34 Canopus

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USS CANOPUS was the second SIMON LAKE - class submarine tender. Decommissioned on November 30, 1994, and stricken from the Navy list on May 3, 1995, the CANOPUS spent the next years laid up in the National Defense Reserve Fleet, James River, Fort Eustis, Va. She was later sold for scrapping to Able, UK, Teeside, England. On October 16, 2003, the CANOPUS left the James River and was towed to England for scrap.

General Characteristics: Awarded: September 19, 1963
Keel laid: March 2, 1964
Launched: February 12, 1965
Commissioned: November 4, 1965
Decommissioned: November 30, 1994
Builder: Ingalls Shipbuilding Corp., Pascagoula, Miss.
Propulsion System: two boilers, steam turbines, one shaft
Propellers: one
Length: 643.7 feet (196.2 meters)
Beam: 85 feet (25.9 meters)
Draft: 30 feet (9.1 meters)
Displacement: approx. 20,000 tons
Speed: 18 knots
Armament: four 20mm guns
Crew: approx. 1,200
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