HMS Janus (1778)

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.

From May 1780 she was under the command of Captain Horatio Nelson, though he was superseded by September that year.

In 1793 she was under the command of Captain Sandford Tatham

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

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