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JANUS paddle sloop (1846)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Janus     Chatham DYd 6.9.1843 6.2.1844 1.1846 tug 1849, gunvessel 1854, sold 1856


Technical data


Displacement normal, t

763bm

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

54.9 pp

Breadth, m

9.30

Draught, m

5.82 hold depth

No of shafts

2 side wheels

Machinery

sails + Cochrane watertube boilers, 1 rotary engine

Power, h. p. 
Max speed, kts

6

Fuel, t

coal

Endurance, nm(kts)

 

Armament

2 x 1 - 254/11 10'' 84cwt shell SBML

Complement 


Project history

2nd rate steam vessel, since 1844 1st class sloop. Double-ended design of Thomas Cochrane of 1843. Unsatisfactory experimental design.

Modernizations

1855: re-engined with 1 2-cyl side lever engine (220nhp); - 1 x 1 - 254/11; + 1 x 1 - 206/15 68pdr 95cwt shell SBML, 4 x 1 - 159/8 32pdr 17cwt SBML carronades

Naval service

No significant events.