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USS Kailua (IX-71)

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Building
Naval service
Rediscovery
Awards
References
Links

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Ship caption=Civilian cable layer Dickenson, later USS Kailua
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Ship country=United States

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Ship name=*CS Dickenson (1923–42)

USS Kailua (1942–45)

Ship namesake=Kailua, Hawaii

Ship owner=Commercial Pacific Cable Company

Ship operator=*Commercial Pacific Cable Company (1923–42)

United States Navy (1942–45)

Ship registry=New York

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Ship builder=Sun Shipbuilding & Drydock Company

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Ship launched=1923

Ship completed=April 1923

Ship acquired=19 May 1942

Ship commissioned=5 May 1943

Ship decommissioned=29 October 1945

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Ship struck=

Ship identification=*US official number 222822

code letters MFBS (until 1933)
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call sign KFHG (from 1934)
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Ship fate=Sunk as target February 7, 1946

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tonnage under deck 742
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Ship displacement=1,411 tons

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Ship complement=61

3|in|mm|abbr=on}} gun

4 × .50-caliber machine guns
2 × depth charge tracks

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USS Kailua (IX-71), formerly CS Dickenson, was a civilian cable-laying ship that became an auxiliary ship of the United States Navy in the Second World War.

Building

The Sun Shipbuilding & Drydock Company of Chester, Pennsylvania built the ship as Dickenson for the Commercial Pacific Cable Company. She was launched in 1923, completed that April and registered in New York.^[1]

The ship had four corrugated furnaces with a grate area of {{convert|82|sqft|0}} that heated two single-ended boilers with a combined heating surface of {{convert|3303|sqft|0}}. They supplied steam at 185 lb_f/in² to her three-cylinder triple expansion engine, which developed 166 NHP and gave her a speed of {{convert|9.8|kn|km/h|abbr=on}}.^[1]

Naval service

The United States Navy bareboat chartered Dickenson on 19 May 1942 and renamed her Kailua. She was commissioned on 5 May 1943 with Lieutenant C.R. Bower in command.

Kailua left Pearl Harbor on 15 May 1943 to join the Service Force of the United States Seventh Fleet. Upon her arrival at Pago Pago, Samoa, 25 May she immediately began operations as an auxiliary in the Pacific islands. In June she reached Milne Bay, New Guinea, and for the next year remained there laying cables, anti-submarine nets, and buoys. Kailua reached Pearl Harbor 4 July 1944 and performed similar services there for the rest of the War.

She was decommissioned at Pearl Harbor 29 October 1945 and sunk as a target on 7 February 1946.^[2]

Rediscovery

In 2013 the wreck of the Kailua was discovered by the Hawaii Undersea Research Laboratory. It is located 20 miles off the coast of Oahu at a depth of 2,000 feet.^[2]

Awards

Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal
World War II Victory Medal

References

1. ^¹{{cite book |url= http://www.plimsollshipdata.org/pdffile.php?name=31b0329.pdf |year=1931 |title=Lloyd's Register, Steamships and Motor Ships |location=London |publisher=Lloyd's Register |accessdate=15 September 2014}}
2. ^¹{{cite web |url=http://www.sciencealert.com/world-war-ii-ghost-ship-discovered-off-the-coast-of-hawaii |title=World War II 'ghost ship' discovered off the coast of Hawaii |publisher=ScienceAlert |date=8 December 2014 |accessdate=8 December 2014}}

{{DANFS|http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/k1/kailua.htm}}

Links

photo gallery at navsource.org
press release announcing discovery of the wreck of the Kailua.
[https://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/12/09/gerontic_ghost_ship_might_make_you_hurl/ news article] GERONTIC 'Ghost ship' prowled the undersea cables of the 1940s

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