HMS Janus (1778)

For other ships of the same name, see HMS Janus and HMS Dromedary.


Career (Great Britain)

Name:	HMS Janus
Ordered:	24 July 1776
Builder:	Robert Batson, Limehouse
Laid down:	9 August 1776
Launched:	14 May 1778
Completed:	By 11 August 1778
Renamed:	Dromedary on 3 March 1788
Reclassified:	24-gun storeship in 1787
Fate:	Wrecked on 10 August 1800
General characteristics
Class and type:	Roebuck-class fifth rate
Tons burthen:	883 ⁸⁰⁄₉₄ (bm)
Length:	140 ft ¹⁄₂ in (42.7 m) (gundeck) 115 ft 10 in (35.3 m) (keel)
Beam:	37 ft 10 ¹⁄₂ in (11.5 m)
Depth of hold:	16 ft 4 in (5.0 m)
Sail plan:	Full rigged ship
Complement:	300
Armament:	As fifth rate 44 guns: Lower gundeck: 20 × 18-pounder guns Upper gundeck: 22 × 9-pounder guns Forecastle: 2 × 6-pounder guns As storeship 24 guns Upper gundeck: 22 × 9-pounder guns Quarterdeck: 8 × 6-pounder guns

HMS Janus was a 44-gun Roebuck-class fifth rate of the Royal Navy.

History

From May 1780 she was under the command of Captain Horatio Nelson, though he was superseded by September that year.^[1]

HMS Dromedary was wrecked on the Parasol Rocks, Trinidad on 10 August 1800. Her entire complement survived.^[2]