HMS_Janus_(1778)

HMS <i>Janus</i> (1778)

HMS Janus (1778)

Fifth-rate of the Royal Navy

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

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

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History

From May 1780 she was under the command of Captain Horatio Nelson, though he was superseded by September that year.[1]

In 1788 Janus was converted to a storeship and renamed Dromedary.

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

Dromedary was at Plymouth on 20 January 1795 and so shared in the proceeds of the detention of the Dutch naval vessels, East Indiamen, and other merchant vessels that were in port on the outbreak of war between Britain and the Netherlands.[3]

Loss

HMS Dromedary was wrecked on the Parasol Rocks, Trinidad on 10 August 1800. Her entire complement survived.[4]

References

  1. [1]
    Cuthbert Collingwood, 1748-1810 Archived 27 October 2014 at the Wayback Machine, Royal Museums Greenwich
  2. [2]
    Will of William John Treen otherwise Sparks dated 6 June 1793 and witnessed by the Captain.
  3. [3]
    "No. 15407". The London Gazette. 15 September 1801. p. 1145.
  4. [4]
    "LOSS OF THE DROMEDARY". Caledonian Mercury. No. 12359. 1 December 1800.


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