| Career (France) | |
|---|---|
| Namesake: | Justice |
| Commissioned: | February 1908 |
| Decommissioned: | 1922 |
| In service: | 1908 |
| Fate: | scrapped |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type: | Liberté class battleship |
| Displacement: | 14 900 tonnes |
| Length: | 134 m |
| Beam: | 24.25 m |
| Draught: | 8.40 m |
| Propulsion: | 3 steam engines, 22 boilers, 20,500 hp (15,300 kW) |
| Speed: | 19.4 knots (35.9 km/h) |
| Range: | 8,000 nmi (15,000 km) at 12 knots (22 km/h) |
| Endurance: | 900 tonnes of coal |
| Complement: | 25 officers, 715 men |
| Armament: |
4 × 305mm/40 Modèle 1893 guns (twin) |
| Armour: | Belt: 280 mm |
The Justice was a pre-dreadnought battleship of the French Navy of the Liberté class.
During her career, she nearly exploded like her sistership, Liberte did, but survived after the captain ordered the magazines to be flooded. She saw action during World War I at Mudros, and was scrapped soon after the war.
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Commissioned in 1908, Justice had the same characteristics as her sisterships. She displaced 14,900 tonnes (14,700 long tons), was 134 metres (440 ft) long, had a beam of 24.25 metres (79.6 ft) and a draft of 8.40 metres (27.6 ft).[1] Equipped with three steam engines rated at 20,500 indicated horsepower (15,300 kW) powered by twenty two coal-fired boilers, Justice could move at a maximum speed of 19.4 knots (35.9 km/h; 22.3 mph) and a range of 8,000 nautical miles (9,200 mi) at 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph).[1] She could carry 900 tonnes (890 long tons) of coal.[1] Her main armament was four 305mm/40 Modèle 1893 guns in two twin turrets, augmented by ten 194 millimetres (7.6 in) guns in five twin turrets and five torpedo tubes.[1]
The Justice, three years after her commissioning in 1908 was the near victim of an accident similar to an explosion on her sistership, the Liberte, which had occurred only one month before.[2] A short circuit near the forward magazines had started to spit out sparks in close proximity to the magazines. The captain flooded the forward magazines, and a disaster was averted.[3] Along with her remaining sisterships and the remaining ships of the Danton class (the lead ship was sunk by a U-boat), Justice served during in World War I as the main naval presence at Mudros in Greece.[4] She was scrapped in 1922.[1]
The Justice was the subject of the American movie "A Day on the French battleship Justice", which was released in 1911.[5]
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