MĀNOA, HAWAII—An intact ship has been discovered sitting upright under 2,000 feet of water off the coast of O’ahu by a team of scientists from the University of Hawaii, Hawai’i Undersea Research Laboratory, and NOAA’s Office of National Marine Sanctuaries. First launched in 1923 for the Commercial Pacific Cable Company, Dickenson repaired telecommunications equipment and carried supplies to remote stations at Midway and Fanning Island until 1941, when the ship was employed to evacuate Cable and Wireless Ltd. employees from Fanning Island and deliver them to Pearl Harbor on the morning of December 7. Dickenson was eventually chartered by the U.S. Navy to service communications cables during World War II as the USS Kailua. It was eventually sunk as a target by submarine torpedo fire in 1946, but the ship’s exact location had not been recorded. “From her interisland service to her role in Pacific communications and then World War II, Dickenson today is like a museum exhibit resting in the darkness, reminding us of these specific elements of Pacific history,” said Hans Van Tilburg of the maritime heritage program in NOAA’s Office of National Marine Sanctuaries. To read more about nautical archaeology, see "History's 10 Greatest Shipwrecks."