BIG LINER SUNK AFTER LONG FIGHT WITH U-BOAT
ELEVEN PEOPLE KILLED
(Received July'2s, 8.40 a.m.) NEW YORK, 22nd July. The White Star liner Justicia was sunk off the Irish coast. The vessel was .outward bound . She fought the submarine for twenty-four hours. Four hundred of those on board have landed in Ireland. There were only eleven killed. «j>' [The Justicia was a triple screw turbine steamer of 32,120 tons. She was completed at Belfast last year for the Oceanic Steam Navigation' Company (White Star Line). Her length was 740 feet, breadth 86 feet, and depth 43 feet.]
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Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 22, 25 July 1918, Page 7
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