HMS Janus (1778)

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

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

Janus
History
Great Britain
NameHMS Janus
Ordered24 July 1776
BuilderRobert Batson, Limehouse
Laid down9 August 1776
Launched14 May 1778
CompletedBy 11 August 1778
RenamedDromedary on 3 March 1788
Reclassified24-gun storeship in 1787
FateWrecked on 10 August 1800
General characteristics
Class and typeRoebuck-class fifth rate
Tons burthen883 80⁄94 (bm)
Length
  • 140 ft 1⁄2 in (42.7 m) (gundeck)
  • 115 ft 10 in (35.3 m) (keel)
Beam37 ft 10+1⁄2 in (11.5 m)
Depth of hold16 ft 4 in (5.0 m)
Sail planFull-rigged ship
Complement300
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

History

From May 1780 she was under the command of Captain Horatio Nelson, though he was superseded by September that year.[1]

In 1793 she was under the command of Captain Sandford Tatham[2]

Loss
Major Thomas Huxley, survivor of shipwreck, Old Burying Ground (Halifax, Nova Scotia)

HMS Dromedary was wrecked on the Parasol Rocks, Trinidad on 10 August 1800. Her entire complement survived.[3]

References
  1. Cuthbert Collingwood, 1748-1810 Archived 27 October 2014 at the Wayback Machine, Royal Museums Greenwich
  2. Will of William John Treen otherwise Sparks dated 6 June 1793 and witnessed by the Captain.
  3. "LOSS OF THE DROMEDARY". Caledonian Mercury. No. 12359. 1 December 1800.


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