HMS Janus (1895)

History
United Kingdom
Name: HMS Janus
Builder: Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron Company
Laid down: 28 March 1894
Launched: 12 March 1895
Completed: November 1895
Fate: Scrapped, 1914
General characteristics
Class and type: Janus-class destroyer
Displacement: 385 long tons (391 t)
Length: 204.5 ft (62.3 m)
Beam: 19.5 ft (5.9 m)
Draught: 8 ft (2.4 m)
Installed power: 3,900 ihp (2,900 kW)
Propulsion:
Speed: 27 knots (50 km/h; 31 mph)
Armament:

HMS Janus was the lead ship of the Janus-class destroyers which served with the Royal Navy. She was launched by Palmers in 1895, served on the Chinese station for much of her career and was sold off in 1912.

Service history

Janus was commissioned at Chatham on 27 March 1900 by Lieutenant Robert Gwynne Corbett,[1] who was in command during her trip to the China station, where she was to serve as tender to the HMS Goliath.[2] She served on that station for most of her career.

She underwent repairs to re-tube her Reed boilers in 1902.[3]

Notes

  1. ↑ "Naval & Military intelligence". The Times (36087). London. 12 March 1900. p. 7.
  2. ↑ "Naval & Military intelligence". The Times (36078). London. 1 March 1900. p. 6.
  3. ↑ "Naval & Military intelligence". The Times (36767). London. 14 May 1902. p. 12.

References

Manning, T.D. (1961). The British Destroyer. Putnam and Co.

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