Irish Wrecks On-Line - Justicia RMS (No. 544AYY)

*Vessel Type:*	White Star Liner	*Location:*	Co. Donegal
*Date of Loss:*	19th July 1918	*Place:*	Innistrahull
*Cause of Loss:*	Torpedoed	*Boat Dive from:*	Culdaff
*Charted Depth:*	70m	*Irish O.S. Map:*	Discovery Series No. 3
*Height of Wreck:*	10m	*Admiralty Chart No:*	2811 and/or 2723
*Hull Material:*	Steel	*Latitude (GPS):*	55 39.46 North
*Type of Seabed:*	Rock & kelp	*Longitude (GPS):*	7 43.12 West
*Average Visibility:*	20 - 30m	*Diving Experience:*	Very Experienced Tri-Mix

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Diving Information:

Lies 16 miles North-West of Innistrahull.

Hugh wreck, but very broken up.

Hull lies on its port side and has opened outwards and decks have collapsed downwards.

She has three huge propellors.

Boilers lie in pairs.

Some portholes are 1m x 0.5m across.

Can be dived at most stages of the tide.

A dive for the very experienced only.

Historical Information:

Owned by the White Star Line, she was built originally by Harland & Wolff, Belfast, as the "Staterdam" for the Holland Amerika Line and launched in 1914.
She measured 225.68 x 26.31 x 13.13m. and grossed 32,234 tons.
Bound Liverpool for New York she was torpedoed several times by UB-64.
Out of a crew of over 600, only 16 were lost.
One of the attacking U-Boat's was sunk by "HMS Marne" at 55.43N x 07.51W.

Source Publications:

"Dive" Magazine - article

by
Rich Stevenson (March 2001)

"Donegal Shipwrecks"

by
Ian Wilson

Impact Printing 1998 - ISBN: 094815456X

"Shipwreck Index of Ireland"

by
Richard & Bridget Larn

Lloyd's Register - Fairplay Ltd 2002 - ISBN: 1900839970

"Shipwrecks of the Irish Coast 932 - 1997"

by
Edward J. Bourke

Edward J. Bourke 1998 - ISBN: 0952302713

Other Sources:

E-mail

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Edgar Scott (2001)

Leigh Bishop

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www.deepimage.co.uk (2004)

Last update - 22-Mar-2004