SS Justicia

SS Justicia was a British troop ship launched in Ireland in 1914 and sunk off County Donegal in 1918. Harland and Wolff built her at Belfast as yard number 436 for the Holland America Line, designed and launched as the transatlantic liner Statendam, a new flagship; the First World War delayed her completion, and in 1915 the United Kingdom acquired her to be completed as a troop ship. White Star Line managed her across the North Atlantic from 1917. A pair of four-cylinder triple expansion engines drove her port and starboard screws and their exhaust steam powered a low-pressure turbine on the middle screw. Two U-boats hit her with six torpedoes in July 1918, and she was the second largest ship sunk by enemy action in the war.