HMS Janus (1778)

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Name HMS Janus Laid down 9 August 1776 Construction started 9 August 1776 Builder Limehouse		Ordered 24 July 1776 Completed By 11 August 1778 Launched 14 May 1778
Renamed Dromedary on 3 March 1788 Reclassified 24-gun storeship in 1787

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From May 1780 she was under the command of Captain Horatio Nelson, though he was superseded by September that year.

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

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