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CS Dickenson
USS ''Kailua'' (IX-71) was originally CS ''Dickenson'', a civilian supply and personnel transport cable-repair ship of the Commercial Pacific Cable Company that was based in Honolulu serving the island cable stations at Midway and Fanning Island. The cable repair ship served as support ship for the company's central Pacific cable stations as well as doing cable repair. ''Dickenson'' evacuated personnel from the islands and arrived with the evacuees of Honolulu as the attack on Pearl Harbor began. The ship was acquired by the United States Navy on 19 May 1942 to be renamed ''Kailua'' and assigned the Miscellaneous Unclassified (IX) number 71. After wartime service in the Pacific and Southwest Pacific Area the ship was sunk as a target on 7 February 1946. The wreck was found off the coast of Oahu at a depth of in 2013 by the Hawaii Undersea Research Laboratory. CS ''Dickenson'' ''Dickenson'' was designed by naval architects Cox & Stevens for the Commercial Pacific Cable C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cable Layer
A cable layer or cable ship is a deep-sea vessel designed and used to lay underwater cables for telecommunications, electric power transmission, military, or other purposes. Cable ships are distinguished by large cable sheaves for guiding cable over bow or stern or both. Bow sheaves, some very large, were characteristic of all cable ships in the past, but newer ships are tending toward having stern sheaves only, as seen in the photo of CS ''Cable Innovator'' at the Port of Astoria on this page. The names of cable ships are often preceded by "C.S." as in CS ''Long Lines''. The first transatlantic telegraph cable was laid by cable layers in 1857–58. It briefly enabled telecommunication between Europe and North America before misuse resulted in failure of the line. In 1866 the successfully laid two transatlantic cables, securing future communication between the continents. Modern cable ships Cable ships have unique requirements related to having long idle periods in port b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
