Janus-class destroyer

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Three Janus-class torpedo-boat destroyers (TBDs) served with the Royal Navy. Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities"., Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". and Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". were ordered under the 1893-94 Programme, all laid down on 28 March 1894 at Palmer's shipyard at Jarrow and launched during 1895. They displaced 275 tons (light), were Script error: No such module "convert". long and produced Script error: No such module "convert". from their Reed water tube boilers which gave them a top speed of Script error: No such module "convert"..

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In September 1913 the Admiralty re-classed all the remaining 27-knotter destroyers, including all three Janus-class vessels, as A Class destroyers.

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  1. Chesneau and Kolesnik 1979, p. 87.
  2. Manning 1961, p. 39.

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