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SS Californian arriving in port . Californian was a steamship owned by the Leyland Line, part of J.P. Morgan's International Mercantile Marine Co. She was constructed by the Caledon Shipbuilding & Engineering Company in Dundee, Scotland, [8] and was the largest ship built in Dundee up to that time.
Titanic was 882 feet 9 inches (269.06 m) long with a maximum breadth of 92 feet 6 inches (28.19 m). The ship's total height, measured from the base of the keel to the top of the bridge, was 104 feet (32 m). [16] Titanic measured 46,329 GRT and 21,831 NRT [17] and with a draught of 34 feet 7 inches (10.54 m) and displaced 52,310 tonnes. [5]
Stanley Phillip Lord (13 September 1877 – 24 January 1962) was the British captain of the SS Californian, the nearest ship to the Titanic on the night she sank on 15 April 1912, and, depending on which sources are believed, likely the only ship to see the Titanic, or at least her rockets (also known as flares), during the sinking.
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The debris field was found close to the Titanic wreck
SS Californian, a cargo-passenger ship of the Leyland Line, notable for inaction while near the sinking RMS Titanic in April 1912; the ship was built in 1901 and sunk on 9 November 1915, during World War I, by the German submarine U-35; SS Californian, the name of the T2 tanker SS Sackett's Harbor between 1970 and 1975
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California was 8,662 GRT and 5,403 NRT, with a length of 470 feet (140 m), a beam of 58.3 ft (17.8 m) and a depth of 34 ft (10 m). The California had three decks: the poop deck was 70 feet (21 m) long, the bridge 213 feet (65 m) long and the forecastle 91 ft (28 m) long. She had two black funnels and two masts.