Return to Naval Historical Center home page. Return to Online Library listing

DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY -- NAVAL HISTORICAL CENTER
805 KIDDER BREESE SE -- WASHINGTON NAVY YARD
WASHINGTON DC 20374-5060

Photo # 80-CF-22672-1: USS Canopus in the background of a photo of USS Jason in the Dewey Drydock at Olongapo, Philippines, 9 March 1932

Online Library of Selected Images:
-- U.S. NAVY SHIPS --

USS Canopus (AS-9), 1922-1942 --
Distant Views


This page features all the distant views we have of USS Canopus (AS-9). Note that these photographs generally have locations or other ships as their primary subjects.

For other images concerning this ship, see:

  • USS Canopus (AS-9), 1922-1942. Originally USS Santa Leonora (ID # 4352-A), 1919-1919, and S.S. Santa Leonora (American Passenger Liner, 1919).


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."

    Click on the small photograph to prompt a larger view of the same image.

    Photo #: 80-CF-22672-1

    USS Jason
    (AV-2)

    In the Dewey Drydock, at Olongapo, Philippine Islands, on 9 March 1932.
    USS Canopus (AS-9) is in the upper right, with four submarines moored alongside. The outboard submarine is S-38 (SS-143).

    Photograph from Department of the Navy collections in the U.S. National Archives.

    Online Image: 105KB; 740 x 605 pixels

    Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

     
    Photo #: NH 51872

    Vought O3U-1 "Corsair" observation planes


    From the USS Augusta (CA-31) aviation unit, on a barge alongside USS Heron (AM-10) at Subic Bay, Philippines, circa 1933-1934. Partially visible at the extreme right is a Martin T4M-1 torpedo plane being serviced on board Heron.
    Larger ships in the background are USS Canopus (AS-9), with submarines alongside (at left); and USS Black Hawk (AD-9), with destroyers alongside (right center).

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 112KB; 740 x 525 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 82094

    Kuma
    (Japanese Light Cruiser, 1920)

    Anchored off Tsingtao, China, 16 July 1935.
    Note details of the ship's forward superstructure, tripod foremast, awning spread over the torpedo tubes, 5.5-inch guns, windscoops attached to some portholes, and forward smokestack.
    USS Canopus (AS-9) is in the distance, at right.

    The original print came from Rear Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison's World War II project working files.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 72KB; 740 x 545 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 78061

    Hong Kong


    View overlooking Hong Kong harbor, circa 1937.
    Among the ships present are British heavy cruiser Cumberland or Suffolk, alongside the dock in right center; British minelayer Adventure, off the heavy cruiser's port bow; USS Augusta (CA-31), in the middle of the harbor in center; British submarine tender Medway, with submarines alongside, to the right of Augusta; and USS Canopus (AS-9), with "S-boats" of Submarine Squadron 5 alongside, seen end-on astern of Medway.

    Courtesy of Rear Admiral Onnie P. Lattu, Supply Corps, USN (Retired), 1973.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 164KB; 700 x 1225 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 78062

    Hong Kong


    View overlooking Hong Kong harbor, circa 1937.
    Among the ships present are British heavy cruisers Cumberland and Suffolk, alongside the dock in left center and offshore in the center; British minelayer Adventure, between the heavy cruisers; British submarine tender Medway, with submarines alongside, offshore at the extreme left; and USS Canopus (AS-9), with "S-boats" of Submarine Squadron 5 alongside, astern of Medway.

    Courtesy of Rear Admiral Onnie P. Lattu, Supply Corps, USN (Retired), 1973.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 149KB; 690 x 1225 pixels

     
    Photo #: 80-G-178321

    Cavite Navy Yard, Philippines


    Vertical aerial photograph, taken 27 October 1941.
    The larger ship docked at the Navy Yard (in the right side of the image) is USS Canopus (AS-9), with two destroyers flanking the nearby pier. Six motor torpedo boats (PT) are tied up to the pier in upper right center.

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

    Online Image: 200KB; 1200 x 970 pixels

    Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

     
    Photo #: 80-G-178320

    Cavite Navy Yard, Philippines


    Oblique aerial photograph, with Sangley Point in the left distance, taken 27 October 1941.
    The larger ship docked at the Navy Yard (near the right edge of the image) is USS Canopus (AS-9). USS Langley (AV-3) is tied up at Sangley Point, in the upper left center.

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

    Online Image: 104KB; 1200 x 920 pixels

    Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

     


    For other images concerning this ship, see:

  • USS Canopus (AS-9), 1922-1942. Originally USS Santa Leonora (ID # 4352-A), 1919-1919, and S.S. Santa Leonora (American Passenger Liner, 1919).


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."


    Return to Naval Historical Center home page.

    Page made 27 August 2007