French battleship Justice
Justice in the United States in 1909
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| Name: | Justice |
| Namesake: | Justice |
| Laid down: | April 1903 |
| Launched: | 27 October 1904 |
| Commissioned: | February 1908 |
| Fate: | scrapped in 1922 |
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| Class and type: | Liberté-class pre-dreadnought battleship |
| Displacement: | 14,860 t (14,630 long tons; 16,380 short tons) |
| Length: | 133.81 m (439.0 ft) pp |
| Beam: | 24.26 m (79.6 ft) |
| Draft: | 8.41 m (27.6 ft) |
| Propulsion: | 3 triple-expansion steam engines, 18,500 shp (13,800 kW) |
| Speed: | 19 knots (35 km/h) |
| Complement: | 739–769 |
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Justice was a pre-dreadnought battleship of the Liberté class built by the French Navy. She had three sister ships: Liberté, Vérité, and Démocratie. Justice was laid down in April 1903, launched in October 1904, and completed in February 1908, over a year after the revolutionary British battleship HMS Dreadnought made ships like Justice obsolete. She was armed with a main battery of four 305 mm (12.0 in) guns, compared to the ten guns of the same caliber mounted on Dreadnought.
After her commissioning, Justice was assigned to the Mediterranean Fleet. In September 1909, she traveled to the United States for the Hudson-Fulton Celebration. At the outbreak of World War I in August 1914, she was assigned to the 2nd Division of the 2nd Squadron of the Mediterranean Fleet. She covered troop convoys from North Africa to France in the first days of the war, and spent the rest based at Corfu and Mudros without seeing any action. After the war ended, she participated in the Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War, though a mutiny in the French fleet in April 1919 led to the fleet's withdrawal. Justice was sold for scrapping in 1922.
Justice was laid down at the La Seyne shipyard in Toulon in April 1903, launched on 27 October 1904, and completed in February 1908, over a year after the revolutionary British battleship HMS Dreadnought, which rendered the pre-dreadnoughts like Justice outdated before they were completed. The ship was 133.81 meters (439 ft 0 in) long between perpendiculars and had a beam of 24.26 m (79 ft 7 in) and a full-load draft of 8.41 m (27 ft 7 in). She displaced up to 14,860 metric tons (14,630 long tons; 16,380 short tons) at full load. Justice had a crew of between 739 and 769 officers and enlisted men. The ship was powered by three vertical triple expansion engines with twenty-four Niclausse boilers. They were rated at 18,500 indicated horsepower (13,800 kW) and provided a top speed of 19 knots (35 km/h; 22 mph). Coal storage amounted to 1,800 t (1,800 long tons; 2,000 short tons).
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