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Harland Duzen
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On the 29th September 1900, the Caledon Shipbuilding and Engineering Company Ltd would receive an order from the Leyland Line to construct a new ship that would be the largest ever built in Dundee. This ship would become the SS Californian.
In what initially began as a small sentence in a script and Identifying un-named photos of the Californian boilers on Dundee City Archives, a month of mad-typing and research later has led to this; two mini papers, the first explaining the construction and outfitting of the Californian (which turns out was quite chaotic) and the second being an Appendix giving a brief timeline of her career.
Special thanks to Julian Atkins, Inger Sheil, My family and everyone here at Encyclopedia Titanica for helping to write this as without it, this might have never been made.
May this mini-paper give everyone a new perspective on the Californian and provides a few new facts that might be useful in figuring out what happened in April 1912.
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Technical Note: I hope the links work (and aren't too big).
www.encyclopedia-titanica.org
In what initially began as a small sentence in a script and Identifying un-named photos of the Californian boilers on Dundee City Archives, a month of mad-typing and research later has led to this; two mini papers, the first explaining the construction and outfitting of the Californian (which turns out was quite chaotic) and the second being an Appendix giving a brief timeline of her career.
Special thanks to Julian Atkins, Inger Sheil, My family and everyone here at Encyclopedia Titanica for helping to write this as without it, this might have never been made.
May this mini-paper give everyone a new perspective on the Californian and provides a few new facts that might be useful in figuring out what happened in April 1912.
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Technical Note: I hope the links work (and aren't too big).

The SS Californian and Dundee: Scotland’s Forgotten Leviathan
The Californian was as important to Dundee as the Titanic was to Belfast, perhaps more so...
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