| Name: | JANUS |
| Type: | Destroyer |
| Keel: | 29/09/1937 |
| Launched: | 10/11/1938 |
| Completed: | 05/08/1939 |
| Builder: | Swan, Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd |
| Yard: | Wallsend |
| Yard Number: | 1549 |
| Dimensions: | 1660disp - 2430disp, 339.5 x 35.7 x 9.3(draft)ft |
| Engines: | 2 x Steam turbines, Parsons type, SR geared, 40300shp |
| Engines by: | Wallsend Slipway & Engineering Co Ltd, Wallsend |
| Propulsion: | 2 x Screws, 34.0knots |
| Construction: | Steel |
| Armament: | 3 x 2 x 4.7ins QF, 1 x 4 x 2pdr QF, 2 x 4 x 0.5ins guns; 2 x 5 x 21.0ins torpedoes; |
| 2 x depth charge throwers, 1 x depth charge rail | |
| History: | |
| 05/08/1939 | British Royal Navy |
| 23/01/1944 | Sank |
| Comments: | Member of the Admiralty J Class of destroyers |
| 23/01/1944: Torpedoed & sunk off Anzio by German aircraft | |
| Some records say it was a guided bomb or a glider bomb that sank her |
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