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Jason Bugher Email
07/02/08 at 11:07 PM

Rate/Rank E-3

Years aboard (19xx-19xx) 1992-1994

Division/Shop A-gang

Comments:

Missed that great ship!! And the great people!


Robert McLemore Email
07/01/08 at 04:24 AM

Rate/Rank SH3

Years aboard (19xx-19xx) 1978-1981

Division/Shop S-3

Comments:

Served on board in Rota and Charleston.


Jim Dennan Email
06/24/08 at 05:09 AM

Rate/Rank YN

Years aboard (19xx-19xx) 1967-1970

Division/Shop weapons Yeoman

Comments:
Played a lot of sports with W-1/Torpedo shop.  Bud Holmes, John Kahoe, Ray Thielmann, T.B. McSwain, Ken Geiger.  Had great games against the Deck Division, Repair Department, and great rivilary with W-4, Missile techs.  XO Cmdr Kraus was a great leader as were Lt. Emory Young, Lt Wm. Buckley, Lt. Wayne Hamilton.  TM Philip E. Smith (Smitty) where are you???????????? Bar Sonya was our hangout.
 

Michael Eubanks Email
06/19/08 at 04:27 PM

Rate/Rank DP1

Years aboard (19xx-19xx) 1973-1974

Division/Shop Data Processing

Comments:
Looking back I might be wearing rose colored glasses, but the experience on serving on the USS Canopus was great one.  I really enjoyed my time in Scotland...loved the people and the county side.  Way too many bomb scares.  Remember being on watch from midnight to 0400 looking for bubbles and low flying objects.  Remember waking up and coming out on deck with the ship covered in Snow.  I celebrated my 19th and 20th birthdays in Scotland and the first was a lot more fun that the second.  In 1973 on my birthday I was in a small Pub looking at the Castle in Edinburgh, but in 1974 the Canopus was in the North Sea in a huge storm and water was coming over the main deck.  I was lucky that I never got sick, but I sure can't say that about a lot of others.  My birthing compartment was below the mess deck and I could hear guys (no woman on board at that time) running a loosing their dinner.  I was on the Tug a War team for the ship and we got to pull against teams all over the country, but we were restricted from going to Ireland.  It was great fun.   We had one UDT member on the team that had just completed an assignment with President Nixon and other that just came off 3 tours in Viet Nam.  He was pretty intense....you really didn't want to piss him off.   I could go on and on.  I was just going through my old stuff and ran across my USS CANOPUS blue wind breaker.  I will try to dig up some pictures and send them over to be added to the site.

When I left Scotland I came back and finished up my tour at FCDSSA (Fleet Combat Direction Systems Support Activity) in San Diego.  I was discharged October 29, 1976...but I stayed in the reserves until High Year Tenure got be booted out in January 1997.  They were getting rid of the DP rating and there was just no room for advancement.  I certainly would have stayed in longer if it was for HYT.

I am currently Director of Sales and Operations for a live event production company in Torrance California called Cutting Edge Productions.  I was very sad last year when I heard that that they were  turning the Canopus into paper clips.

Michael Eubanks
Director of Sales and Operations
Cutting Edge Productions
22904 Lockness Avenue
Torrance, CA  90501
mike@cuttingedgeproductions.tv

Steven Dotski Email
06/14/08 at 10:21 PM

Rate/Rank sk3

Years aboard (19xx-19xx) 78/81

Division/Shop s1

Comments:
They used to Call me Slim.Worked in the Flambank and 80 bank
storerooms. Was sent TAD to the TRW that was moored near us.
Looking to make contact with my old  " steming buddies" Rafe,Spanky, Top  Where are you. Lt. Mcfarland was our division
commander. SKCS Wiands was our CPO

Phillip E Smith Email
06/13/08 at 08:03 PM

Rate/Rank TM

Years aboard (19xx-19xx) 1966-1972, 1975-1979

Division/Shop W-1 Div

Comments:

Spent many glorious years aboard Canopus or as we liked to call her then Canopee. Came aboard in 66 at Rota, came back to conus and thru the yards at Bremerton, on to Scotland. Left in 72 for 3 years then came back to Scotland to bring her back to Charleston and another Yard period then on to Rota again. The days/years on board were the highlights of my career. I went to the decommissioning and it choked me up to see her go. She was a great Lady. 


Mike Carter Email
06/10/08 at 07:14 AM

Rate/Rank DP3

Years aboard (19xx-19xx) 1970-1972

Division/Shop X3

Comments:
Hi All, I was a computer operator on the Canopus and was transferred to London England in 1972 to FLTOCCNAVEUR. I was discharged in 1974 and have been in computers ever since. I is a trip seeing the pictures of the Canopus. I have to admit I was sad to see her towed to the UK for recycling. I did go back to Dunoon before the Navy left and went into the Fish and Chip shop downtown. The same guy was behind the counter 30 years later! I miss the Argyle hotel. I will never forget all the "bubble heads" getting their dolphins and getting hauled down the pier in wagons after drinking a pint of all different kinds of liquor!
I now work in a school district as the district technology coordinator in my home state of Ohio. If anybody was on board that remembers me, feel free to email me! I would love to hear from you!

Rafael "Tony" Vazquez 
06/02/08 at 08:13 AM

Rate/Rank FA-FN

Years aboard (19xx-19xx) 1970-1972

Division/Shop A-Div/Hyd. Shop Forward

Comments:

   Hello again.  Just letting everyone know that I've only made contact with Rick Mangini, but with no one else.  Would love to go to the next reunion , but money constraints and papers leave me stranded.  It's good to read up on how this ship on which we spent just a few years on has affected such a large group of people in different ways.
   Besides working in the Hyd. Shop up forward, I did a small stint as Disc Jockey in the little room known back then as "WSTC - WE SERVE THE CREW" Radio.  Even though it wasn't a real radio station, I was glad for the chance to work there and learn something.  I was known as "Tony Bony and his Oldies Show." 
   If anyone wants to get in contact with me, write to me via slow mail at:
     R.A. Vazquez
     AM-10, 2nd Street, Urb. Pradera
     Toa Baja, PR   00949-4072

   Will answer back to anyone who writes me.  Take care and may God Bless all who served aboard the Canopus!


LARRY D. HARRIS Email
05/29/08 at 09:13 AM

Rate/Rank SFP1

Years aboard (19xx-19xx) DEC.76-APR.78

Division/Shop SHORE PATROL/ BASE POLICE

Comments:

I was signed to the AS-33 SIMON LAKE from Mar.-75-Dec.76 WENT TO CARPENTER SHOP THEN TO SAIL LOFT THEN TO SP DUTY. CROSSED OVER TO THE AS 34 CANOPUS.DEC.76-APR.-78 STAYED ON SP DUTY SO SHIP COULD GET SETTLED IN. THEY FORGOT ABOUT ME AT SP HQ. THEY CUT ME NEW ORDERS TO THE USS LEXINGTON CVT-16 IN APR.78. I HAD A BLAST IN ROTA MY SON JAY WAS BORN IN BASE HOSPITAL. IN 77. MANY CAMPING NIGHTS AT RONDA AND ARCOS IN THE MOUNTAINS OLIVE GROVES. I LIVED IN ROTA JUST OUTSIDE THE BASE GATE. LATER MOVED ON BASE. HAVE SEEN A LOT OF THE PEOPLE  ASSIGNED TO SP/BASE POLICE. WAS ASSIGNED TO BASE POLICE FOR 3 YEARS. I RETIRED IN 1988 HTC(SW) with 23 years and no regrets. 


Mike Bauer Email
05/26/08 at 11:19 PM

Rate/Rank CS3

Years aboard (19xx-19xx) 1970-74

Division/Shop Supplys

Comments:

i was one of the cooks aboard under the watchful eyes of chiefs Toti, Parker & Duke. I worked in the chief's mess several times and enlisted mess . i did my share of night shift were i met a lot of guys desperate for a sandwich. I could never figure out why the crew would prefer hot dogs to anything else for mid rats. I 'd like to hear from some of the guys . I live in Edinburgh Scotland after being discharged. Dunoon and sandbank has changed so much when I went back after the site was decommissioned .Em club and bowling alleys were torn down.


Bill Johnson Email
05/20/08 at 07:03 PM

Rate/Rank DT2 (DT1(SW/AW) Retired)

Years aboard (19xx-19xx) 1985-1988

Division/Shop Dental

Comments:
Hello all, 

   I had no idea this website existed.  There are so many on the list that I remember so well.  Ron Roath, Jeanne Walworth, Maureen Ruane (very good looking), my gosh over 20 years.
I enjoyed that time so much, the friends, the softball,  the trips to St Thomas, Bahamas, Annapolis, Ft Lauderdale, etc.   Playing golf with Van Strickland among others.  Worked some great people along with Jeanne.  Sue Evitts, Troy Brown,  Dr Ellis, Dr DeAngelis, etc.  So many people I remember fondly.  I hope all of you are doing well.  Later

warren chandler Email
05/17/08 at 06:02 PM

Rate/Rank fm e3

Years aboard (19xx-19xx) 1966-1968

Division/Shop repair tech library

Comments:

great time great ship


michael moore Email
05/15/08 at 01:01 PM

Rate/Rank bm/e-6 retired

Years aboard (19xx-19xx) 1989-1992

Division/Shop 1st div / Master-at-arms

Comments:

Anyone who serve on-board during this period that remember me send email  to the above address. 


Kenny Messano Email
05/15/08 at 09:00 AM

Rate/Rank MM2

Years aboard (19xx-19xx) 1971-1975

Division/Shop M-Division

Comments:

Hi Everyone, I Came Onboard The USS Canopus in October 1971. I watched Her Leave Holy Loch from the deck of the USS Holland in 1975. I made many friends over those years while onboard the Canopus, and probably a few enemies. She was a great ship and had a great crew. I returned to Scotland in Sept 2001, and the Holy Loch did'nt look the same without a Tender anchored there. I've been intouch with some shipmate and would'nt mind hearing from the rest.


David Hansey Email
05/10/08 at 08:51 PM

Rate/Rank CPL

Years aboard (19xx-19xx) 1989-1991

Division/Shop MARDET

Comments:
Hi everyone.  I've check out this site before but this is new.  I've seen three buddy Marines I know.  Ellis, Davis and Nykun.  I sent all of you an e-mail.  E-mail me back.  I think I was on the boat the longest as far as the MARDET Marines.  From 1989 Jan to 1991 Nov.  I wanted to stay longer but the MARDET Cdr and S-1 SSG said I had to go.  Man did I have some good times on that boat.  Memories that will last me a life time.  I went on in Marines to Camp Jejune and then transferred to the U.S. Army.  I wanted Hawaii and the Marines would not give it to me and the Army did.  Spent three years in Hawaii with the 25th Inf Div.  Then I went off to Ft. Drum N.Y.  Did 8 yrs with the 10th Inf Mtn Div, one year of that was in Korea with the United Nations Honor Guard.  Between the 25th and the 10th Mtn I was also deployed to other areas as you can imagine with todays hi tempo deployments.  After 15 years in I got out.

If anyone remembers me during the time I was on the Canopus feel free to e-mail me.  I remember lots of people on that boat.  Some people on the boat I'm sure did not like the MARDET but you have to remember what we where on the boat for.  I can speak for allot of the Marines, I for one, that we took our job very seriously.  I not only looked up and respected many Marines that I worked with but also sailors.  We where a team and that team worked because we all did our job to our best ability.  I was young and that is how I remember it.

Best
Dave.          
JEFF CLARK Email
05/08/08 at 10:34 PM

Rate/Rank ET3 (Currently NCC)

Years aboard (19xx-19xx) 1991-1994

Division/Shop R-4 Electronic Calibration

Comments:

The Canopus was my first command. I have a lot of great memories, ST. Thomas X 2 and the Bahamas. Would like to hear from any of the crew from R-4 or anyone else that might remember me. 


MICHAEL SHEARN Email
04/24/08 at 12:29 AM

Rate/Rank FN/SN

Years aboard (19xx-19xx) 1971--1972

Division/Shop A -DIV--- 2ND DIV CRANE DEPT

Comments:
JUST FOUND THIS WEBB SITE AND WOULD LIKE TO HEAR FROM YOU OLD SALTS. I WAS A CRANE OPERATOR IN 2ND DIV.. HAD A LOT OF GOOD TIMES ON BOARD THE GRAY LADY AND IN HOLY LOCH. SAD TO HEAR SHE WAS SCRAP, BUT SHE AND THE CREW WILL ALWAYS BE IN MY HEART. GOD BLESS THE CANOPUS CREW.
HOPE TO SEE SOME OF YOU AT THE NEXT REUNION. 

Aubrey Brewer Email
04/23/08 at 11:17 AM

Rate/Rank BM3 MM1

Years aboard (19xx-19xx) 1969-1972

Division/Shop Deck

Comments:

Hope that everyone is doing good. I'm getting ready to retire from US Steel in Birmingham Alabama. If any of the guys see this that on the ship when I was let me know. Anyone else got time stop in and say hi also.


jack mahar Email
04/22/08 at 11:36 AM

Rate/Rank mm1

Years aboard (19xx-19xx) 1972-1979

Division/Shop r-2&r-8

Comments:

anyone out there???


james nolen Email
04/14/08 at 04:13 PM

Rate/Rank e4

Years aboard (19xx-19xx) 1973-1975

Division/Shop r division

Comments:

started out in deck worked my way to r div, where i fell in cahoots with several persons of questional moral values( bill "uncle pervy" fuller, steve "fungus" williams, ) some of the best years of my time in the navy, killed many a poor newcastle soldier in pj's, and who could forget "the customs agent fast freddy? met my first wife there, divorced her in san diego, or she divorced me thinks are still a little hazy on the subject. anyway everything turned out for the best. but if bill or steve have learned to read, ( other than a cheap bottle of wine with an eagle on the label) they can contact me at 205 acorn rd se, rome ga 30161, for that matter anyone that remembers me can do the same, my email is jwnolen@hotmail.com. or phone 706 235 7513. jim

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