HMS Janus (1895)
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| 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) |
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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.
Janus was commissioned at Chatham on 27 March 1900 as tender to the HMS Goliath, which left for the China station. She served on that station for most of her career.
She underwent repairs to re-tube her Reed boilers in 1902.
Manning, T.D. (1961). The British Destroyer. Putnam and Co.
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