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Janus

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Janus			Palmer, Jarrow	28.3.1894	12.3.1895	11.1895	sold 3.1914
Lightning	N23		Palmer, Jarrow	28.3.1894	10.4.1895	1.1896	sunk 30.6.1915
Porcupine	N19, D0A, D69		Palmer, Jarrow	28.3.1894	19.9.1895	3.1896	sold 4.1920

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	275
Displacement full, t	320
Length, m	61.1 oa 59.7 pp
Breadth, m	5.85
Draught, m	2.44
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 3-cyl VTE, 4 Reed boilers
Power, h. p.	3900
Max speed, kts	28
Fuel, t	coal 68
Endurance, nm(kts)	3000(10)
Armament	1 x 1 - 76/40 12pdr 12cwt QF Mk I, 5 x 1 - 57/40 6pdr Hotchkiss Mk I, 2 x 1 - 450 TT (4)
Complement	54

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Project history

Before the Havock had completed it was decided to order another six destroyers from Thornycroft and Yarrow. Another nine were ordered from other builders making up, a few months later, the 1893/94 Programme. Apart from a slight increase in size the main difference was that the gun armament was increased by 2 57mm guns. The first six (the Thornycroft and Yarrow boats) had a bow tube fitted, but it was found to throw up clouds of spray in anything except a flat calm, had a bad effect on seakeeping and was soon removed. It was with these three funnelled boats that Palmer began to establish their reputation of building the most seaworthy of all the builders' destroyers.

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

Janus was sold at Hong Kong for BU in 1914. Lightning was mined in North Sea in mouth of Thames 30.6.1915.