Holy Loch

November 10, 1970, USS Canopus (AS-34)

A fire broke out in the stern of the U.S. Navy submarine tender USS Canopus
which was carrying several nuclear-armed missiles. The tender was at the Holy Loch submarine
base in Scotland moored alongside two American nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines. It
took four hours to bring the fire under control.

Selected Accidents Involving Nuclear Weapons, 1950-1993, Greenpeace.
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From A Nuclear Family, an eighteen-part series focusing nuclear accidents, warfare, testing and their consequences in nuclear plants and other places in different parts of the globe.

1. Red Alert In Three Mile Island. 2. Chernobyl Sunset. 3. A Night In Goiânia. 4. Pickerings. 5. Tokaimura Sunrise. 6. Chalk River. 7. Lucas Heights. 8. Windscale. 9. Angra. 10. The Palomares Affair. 11. The World Went White. 12. Radio Bikini. 13. Grenoble Night Sky. 14. Holy Loch. 15. A Greifswald Tour. 16. An Idaho Falls Excursion. 17. San Onofre Song. 18. The Nevada Fallout Path.

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