HMS Janus

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Janus, 1895
Type: Torpedo Boat Destroyer ; Armament 5 x 6 pdr ; 2 x TT
Launched : 12 Mar 1895 ; Disposal date or year : 1914
Disposal Details : Broken up Hong Kong
Displacement: 320 tons
Propulsion: Complement: 50
Machinery notes: 3,900 (F.D.) ; Speed ; 27.8 knots ;
Notes:

26 Jun 1897 Present at the Naval Review at Spithead in celebration of the Diamond Jubilee.

Aug 1914 Hong Kong. To be sold.


Janus, Admiralty Trawler No. 325, 1914
Type: Trawler ; Armament: unarmed
Requisitioned as Admiralty Minesweeper : Nov 1914 ? ;
Notes:

Mid Jan 1916 to sweep 15 miles from outer boom, one mile east of Vardara Point, towards the Kasandra Gulf patrol, which was the main transport route for ships coming and going to and from Gulf of Salonika - see p 39 www.naval-review.org/issues/1918.pdf.