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Merchant Service

09360918

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Namesake

Santa Leonora - Eleanor was born in 1222 to Beatrice of Savoy and Raymond Berengar IV, and her grandfather was Blessed Umberto III, Count of Savoy, the first saint of the House of Savoy. Eleanor was a woman of great piety and culture, and on 14 January 1236 at Canterbury she married King Henry III of England. In her new English residence, many relatives and compatriots decided to follow her, leaving Provence in search of fortune. Many of them managed with her intercession to occupy various important public offices, but Eleanor's favoritism towards them aroused a great unpopularity on the part of her English subjects. They arose in 1261, forcing her to take refuge in the Tower of London. When Henry III was taken prisoner in 1264, during the Battle of Lewes, Eleanor had no choice but to flee to the continent, where she gathered an army with which she managed to free her husband. Returning to England in 1265, together with the Papal Legate, Eleanor did not fail to exert great influence, both during the reign of Henry and in the early years of the reign of her son born of their union, Edward I. Finally retired from public life, on July 3, 1276 she took the veil in the Benedictine abbey of Amesbury, where she spent her days until her death on 25 June 1291 in the concept of holiness.

Tommy Trampp

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SS Santa Leonora underway in 1919, probably during her trials. Constructed by the New York Shipbuilding Company of Camden, New Jersey, this steamer briefly served as USS Santa Leonora in July and August 1919 before being transferred to the U.S. Army. She was reacquired by the Navy in November 1921, converted to a submarine tender and served for the next two decades as USS Canopus (AS-9).
US Naval History and Heritage Command photo # NH 74064.

Robert Hurst

USS Canopus (AS-9)

09363425

47k

Namesake

Canopus - is the brightest star in the southern constellation of Carina and the second-brightest star in the night sky. Canopus has a visual apparent magnitude of -0.74, it is outshone only by Sirius. Canopus's mass is about eight or nine times that of the Sun and its girth more than 70 times the Sun’s, Its luminosity more than 10,000 to 13,000 times brighter than the Sun. Canopus also maintains a very high surface temperature of 7,350K, which is roughly 3,000°F hotter than the Sun’s visible surface.

Tommy Trampp

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USS Canopus (AS-9) at anchor, circa the 1920s. The original photograph is printed on post card ("AZO") stock.
US Navy photo # NH 106025 from the collections of the US Naval History and Heritage Command , donation of Dr. Mark Kulikowski, 2008.

Robert Hurst

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USS Canopus (AS-9) in the background entering dry dock at Mare Island Navy Yard, 28 July 1924.
Photo MINSY 4901-7-24 from the collections of the Vallejo Naval and Historical Museum

Darryl Baker

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USS Canopus (AS-9) in Apra Harbor, Guam, with Submarine Division 17 alongside, 29 October 1924. Submarine Division 17's members were:
USS S-36 (SS-141)
USS S-37 (SS-142)
USS S-38 (SS-143)
USS S-39 (SS-144)
USS S-40 (SS-145) and
USS S-41 (SS-146)
US Navy photo # NH 55048 from the collections of the US Naval History and Heritage Command

Robert Hurst

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USS Canopus (AS-9) in Apra Harbor, Guam, with Submarine Division 17 alongside, 29 October 1924. Submarine Division 17 consisted of:
USS S-36 (SS-141)
USS S-37 (SS-142)
USS S-38 (SS-143)
USS S-39 (SS-144)
USS S-40 (SS-145) and
USS S-41 (SS-146)
US Navy photo # NH 55048 from the collections of the US Naval History and Heritage Command

Robert Hurst

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USS Canopus (AS-9) with USS S-37 (SS-142) alongside, at Olongapo, Philippine Islands, date unknown.
US Naval History and Heritage Command photo # NH80140

Robert Hurst

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USS Canopus (AS-9) shown in a photograph sent 1 March 1926 by the ships' Commanding Officer to the Bureau of Construction and Repair.
US National Archives, RG-19-E, Photo # 19-N-10341 a US Navy Bureau of Ships photo now in the collections of the US National Archives, courtesy Shipscribe.com.

Mike Green

09360916

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USS Canopus (AS-9) at Naval Station Olongapo, Philippine Islands, circa 1926 with from outboard to inboard:
USS S-36 (SS-141)
USS S-38 (SS-143)
USS S-37 (SS-142)
USS S-41 (SS-146)
USS S-39 (SS-144) alongside.
From Hyman Fischer photo album via Sandie Larsen

Don Kehn, Jr.

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USS Canopus (AS-9) anchored in the harbor at Hong Kong BCC, 15 August 1928, with four submarines alongside.
Photo from Museum of Military History

Courtesy Frederick J. Moisson Collection Manager & Volunteer Coordinator

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USS Canopus (AS-9) at anchor, date and location unknown.
US Navy photo

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USS Canopus (AS-9) at anchor, date and location unknown.
US Navy photo

Hyperwar US Navy in WWII

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USS Canopus (AS-9), with the Asiatic Fleet's Submarine Squadron Five alongside, during the 1930s. Submarines present include (from left to right):
USS S-37 (SS-142);
USS S-40 (SS-145);
USS S-36 (SS-141);
USS S-38 (SS-143);
USS S-41 (SS-146); and
USS S-39 (SS-144).
US National Archives photo # 80-G-1014615, a US Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

US Naval History and Heritage Command

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USS Canopus (AS-9) with USS S-36 (SS-141) moored alongside, probably at Tsingtao, China, circa 1930 with the rest of the boats of Submarine Division Seventeen (SubDiv 17). The other S-boats are probably
USS S-37 (SS-142),
USS S-38 (SS-143),
USS S-39 3SS-144).
Note all the washing hung out to dry on the signal lines.

Courtesy of ussubvetsofworldwarii.org.

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USS Canopus (AS-9) at Olongapo, P.I., 9 March 1932 (upper right), with four submarines moored alongside. The outboard submarine is USS S-38 (SS-143). In the foreground USS Jason (AV-2) is in USS Dewey (YFD-1) Drydock.
US National Archives photo # 80-CF-22672-1 a US Navy photo now in the collections of the US National Archives.

US Naval History and Heritage Command

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Detailed view of USS Canopus (AS-9) moored near the floating drydock USS Dewey (YFD-1), at Naval Station Olongapo, Philippine Islands, 9 March 1932, with four submarines moored alongside. The outboard submarine is USS S-37 (SS-142)The tender's 5"/51 guns have been mounted on platforms fore and aft.
US Naval History and Heritage Command, Photo No. 80-CF-22672-1 (detail), courtesy Shipscribe.com.

Mike Green

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USS Canopus (AS-9) at Tsingtao, China, circa 1933-1934, with "S-Boats" of Submarine Squadron Five alongside. Outboard submarine is USS S-37 (SS-142).
US Navy photo # NH 80140, Courtesy G.K. Bishop, USAR, 1974.

US Naval History and Heritage Command

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USS Canopus (AS-9) at anchor in Manila Bay, Manila, P.I., 5 July 1938 with with four submarines alongside including USS S-39 (SS-144).
US National Archives Identified 68156699, a US Army Air Corps photo now in the collections of the US National Archives

David Upton

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USS Canopus (AS-9) moored with her brood in the far East, circa 1940s., location unknown.
Photo from "United States Submarine Operations In World War 11", by Theodore Roscoe

Robert Hurst