Four ships of the
Royal Navy
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have been named HMS ''Justitia'', after the goddess
Justitia
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Lady Justice originat ...
, of
Roman mythology
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:
* was a
prison ship
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, formerly a merchant vessel, purchased in 1777 and in service until at least 1795.
* was a 74-gun
third rate
In the rating system of the Royal Navy, a third rate was a ship of the line which from the 1720s mounted between 64 and 80 guns, typically built with two gun decks (thus the related term two-decker).
Rating
When the rating system was f ...
captured from the Danish at the
Battle of Copenhagen in 1807 and broken up in 1814.
* HMS ''Justitia'' was a 64-gun third rate, formerly a Dutch ship. She was seized in 1796 and named , renamed HMS ''Justitia'' in 1812 and was sold in 1830.
* HMS ''Justitia'' (1830) was a
convict ship
A convict ship was any ship engaged on a voyage to carry convicted felons under sentence of penal transportation from their place of conviction to their place of exile.
Description
A convict ship, as used to convey convicts to the British colo ...
, launched in 1799 as the British
East India Company
The East India Company (EIC) was an English, and later British, joint-stock company that was founded in 1600 and dissolved in 1874. It was formed to Indian Ocean trade, trade in the Indian Ocean region, initially with the East Indies (South A ...
East Indiaman
East Indiamen were merchant ships that operated under charter or licence for European trading companies which traded with the East Indies between the 17th and 19th centuries. The term was commonly used to refer to vessels belonging to the Bri ...
''Admiral Rainier''. The Royal Navy acquired her 1804 and commissioned her as the 50-gun
fourth rate
In 1603 all English warships with a complement of fewer than 160 men were known as 'small ships'. In 1625/26 to establish pay rates for officers, a six-tier naval ship rating system was introduced.Winfield 2009 These small ships were divided ...
. She was reduced to 20 guns and renamed HMS ''Dolphin'' in 1819, and then HMS ''Justitia'' in 1830. She retained that name until her sale in 1855.
Ships of other nations
* was a Danish ship-of-the-line heavily involved in the
Great Northern War
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* is the same ship as HMS ''Justitia'' (1807) above
* The brig ''Justitia'' was captured by HMS ''Medusa'' and prize money paid in 1810
[London Gazett]
Issue 16397 page 1250
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References
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Royal Navy ship names