Qualla: SS Justicia https://qualla.com/ss-justicia en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:13 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/f/s/ss-justicia-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: SS Justicia https://qualla.com/ss-justicia SS Justicia: Introduction https://qualla.com/ss-justicia/ Photo credit Bahnfrend, CC BY-SA 3.0. She was a sister ship of an idea, not a class. Built on the same Harland & Wolff slipway in Belfast where the Titanic had been laid down five years earlier, SS Justicia was meant to be the new flagship of the Holland America Line. The Great War interrupted that future. Acquired by the British government still incomplete, fitted out as a troop transport instead of an ocean liner, she carried American soldiers across the Atlantic to fight in France. On 19 July 1918, with the war four months from ending, two German U-boats found her off the Donegal coast. Six torpedoes, two days, and one of the largest ships ever built went down twenty-three miles north-west of Skerryvore. Sixteen men died with her. It was a near-miracle that the number was not far higher.

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/f/s/ss-justicia-wp/gcfs-ss-justicia-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full SS Justicia: An Unfinished Flagship https://qualla.com/ss-justicia/ Photo credit Bahnfrend, CC BY-SA 3.0. Statendam, as she was originally to be called, was an exercise in modernity. Holland America Line planned 800 first-class berths, 600 second-class, and 2,030 in third class, all served by a crew of 600. The first-class saloon was to be the largest of its type on any ocean liner o...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/f/s/ss-justicia-wp/gcfs-ss-justicia-an-unfinished-flagship.mp3 0:06 2 full SS Justicia: The Engineering https://qualla.com/ss-justicia/ Photo credit Bahnfrend, CC BY-SA 3.0. Justicia carried a hybrid propulsion arrangement that was Harland & Wolff's signature - the combination machinery. Two four-cylinder triple-expansion steam engines drove her port and starboard screws. Exhaust steam from those engines then powered a low-pressure turbine driving th...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/f/s/ss-justicia-wp/gcfs-ss-justicia-the-engineering.mp3 0:06 3 full SS Justicia: Renamed for a War https://qualla.com/ss-justicia/ Photo credit Bahnfrend, CC BY-SA 3.0. In 1915, with construction stalled and shipping in crisis, the British government requisitioned the half-finished hull. Cunard was offered her to replace Lusitania, torpedoed in May 1915. The name Justicia - Latin for justice - conformed with Cunard's convention of -ia endings (M...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/f/s/ss-justicia-wp/gcfs-ss-justicia-renamed-for-a-war.mp3 0:06 4 full SS Justicia: Two Days, Six Torpedoes https://qualla.com/ss-justicia/ Photo credit Bahnfrend, CC BY-SA 3.0. On 19 July 1918, sailing in convoy off the Donegal coast, Justicia was found by UB-64. She developed a list, but her watertight doors held. UB-64 fired two more torpedoes; one was shot down by Justicia's deck guns, the other missed. The tug Sonia took her in tow, heading for Loug...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/f/s/ss-justicia-wp/gcfs-ss-justicia-two-days-six-torpedoes.mp3 0:06 5 full SS Justicia: A Protected Grave https://qualla.com/ss-justicia/ Photo credit Bahnfrend, CC BY-SA 3.0. Justicia rests in the territorial waters of the Republic of Ireland, twenty-three miles north-west of Malin Head, in around seventy metres of water. Because the wreck is more than a century old and lies in Irish waters, she is automatically protected under the National Monuments ...

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