HMS Janus (1778)

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From May 1780 she was under the command of Captain Horatio Nelson, though he was superseded by September that year.^[1]

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

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]

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

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Shipwrecks	5 Jan: HMS Mastiff 26 Jan: HMS Brazen January (unknown date): Argo February (unknown date): La Vengeance 10 Mar: HMS Repulse 13 Mar: Prince 17 Mar: HMS Queen Charlotte 15 May: HMS Cormorant 9 Jul: Queen July (unknown date): King George 8 Aug: USS Insurgent 10 Aug: HMS Dromedary 20 Aug: USS Pickering August (unknown date): Martha 26 Sep: HMS Hound 8 Oct: HMS Diligence 9 Oct: HMS Galgo October (unknown date): Earl Talbot, HMS Martin 3 Nov: HMS Marlborough 9 Nov: HMS Havick, Hired armed cutter Lion Unknown date: HMS America, Canada, Cornish Hero, Dublin, Norfolk, Recovery
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History
Janus
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