RMS Justicia 2007
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Wonderful ship and excellent footage (not quite sure about the soundtrack, but that's just me!) You get a lovely impression of the size on some of those bow shots. Well done.
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I have wondered if anyone had visited this lost ship. She was a handsome vessel with clean and elegant lines. A shame she never got to sail commercially. Thank you for posting this!
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Only a view moths before the war was ended she was hit 3 times by a German torpedo and she sunk after hours long struggle with death taking 12 poor souls with here.
The Rotterdam Maritime Museum holds some of here original never used furniture and 2 marvelous models. One ship model and a cut away model showing here interior. Both models display in one of my you-tube videos.
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She was given the name Statendam. With 3 funnels and a forward bow overlooking observation deck. Statendam was a handsome and very luxurious Liner.
War brook out when the liner was still fitted out. The British Navy took control (they agreed to pay HAL fore using the vessel) And she was used as a troop ship. And placed under the first Cunard then White Star Line.
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Remarkable footage of this lost vessel. This vessel was ordered fore the vessel was placed by Harland and Wolff Belfast in 1911 by the NASM/Holland Amerika Lijn Rotterdam. Here keel was lay-ed on the same slipway where Titanic was build. With here 35.000 grt she would be the Netherlands biggest liner/vessel 11.000 grt bigger then the Rotterdam of 1908 (also build by H&W)
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The 776-foot ship was just 4 years old when it sank. :( It was torpedoed in 1918.
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Fantastic stuff Mark, the viz is incredible.
This isn't Mark's footage, but the viz was OK and we will be back in 2008 in July so we hope we can make some better footage !
Regards,
Egbert
eggbird01 4 years ago