Evening star., 1918-07-24
|SSUNK
Off IRISH COAST,
10 OF CREW DEAD
Giant White Star Liner Bat.
ties TWenty-Four Hours
With Submarine.
By ths-Associated Press.

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By thu Associated Press.
AN IRISH PORT, Monday, July %.
The giant White star liner Justieia
has been torpedoed and sunk.
The Justicis was formerly the Dutch
steamer Statendam, which was taken
over by the British government on the
stocks at Belfast when she was near
ing completion. She was q vessel Of
49, ,234 tons gross.
Ten Of Crew Perish.
AN IRISH PORT. July 24.-Four
hundred Of the crew of the Justicia
have been landed here. They report
that the liner was sunk after -
twenty-four-hour Tight with subma-
rines.
No passengers were lost and only
ten of the crew were killed.
The first torpedo struck the engine
room and the ship then stopped.
Several other torpedoes were fred. but
only two of the missiles were effective.
Fine Chapter in Warfare.
AN IRISH PORT. July ,f4.-The
story Of the fight between the Ger
man submarine and the Justicia.
of the finest stories in the annals of
the antt-submarine warfare.
Nothing which has occurred in con-
nection with the sinking Of the former
White Star liner gives Navy men any
cause for misgivings over the sub
marine war The defensive measures
and methods showed up to excellent
advantage. and indicate that the en-
tente naval forces can always be
counted on to mako the enemy pay
dearly for every attempt he makes
Sunk Saturday Morning.
LONDON. July '24.-The White Star
liner Justicia, says . Belfast dispatch
today. was sunk OF the north Irish
coast Saturday morning last.
The Justicia carried q crew Of be-
tween 600 and 7e0. Eleven members
Of the crew are dead.
Tho news Of the sinking Of the Jus
ticia was announced by the Belfast
Evening Telegraph. The liner was
torpedoed. the newspaper states.
One of the crew OF the JusticiA II
quoted by the -Rewspaper as asserting
that ten torpedoes wersss 6tseheseea
at the Justicia. -Four OF the ap-
preaching missiles, he added. were AK
ploded by gunfire from the ship.
Returning to q. 8. Port.
NEW YORK. July 2l-The Justicia,
reported sunk apparently somewhere OF
the coast Of Ireland, was returning to an
American port after delivering . large
contingent Of American troops. 1t was
learned here.
The Justicia had a troop-carryins ca
pacity of between 1000 and 5000 men.
Her crew numbered about 500.
Bigger Than Lusitania.
Tie Justicia, with her gross tonnage
of about $4,000 tons. was the second
largest ship sunk during the war.
The Britannia, a White Star liner of
$4,000 gross tons, was sunk in the
Aegean sea in November. 1916. The
Lusitania was of about $4,000 tons.
officials of the Holland-American
line, for which the Justicia was built
and to which the ship would have re-
verted after the war. said today she
was valued at $10,000.000a and was
built to be one of the finest passenger
ships in transatlantic service. She
was supposed to be as nearly unsink-
able as modern ship construction
would make her.
On her last trip from an Atlantic port
the Justicia was commanded by Capt.
A. e. 8. Hambleton and carried nearly
10000 troops, considerably in excess Of
her rated capacity, and 15,000-ton
cargo. She was a triple screw turbine
driven vessel capable of eighteen knots
and had double bottom fore and aft,
with all watertight bulkheads extending
up to the bridge deck. The ship had
nine steel decks and three tunnels.