HMS Kangaroo

Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Seven ships of the British Royal Navy have been named HMS Kangaroo, after the kangaroo.

• Template:HMS, a 16-gun fir-built brig-sloop built at Rotherhithe in 1795 and sold in 1802.
• Template:HMS, an 18-gun Merlin-class sloop launched in 1805 and sold in 1815.
• Template:HMS, a survey brig purchased in 1818 in the West Indies. Re-rigged as a ship in 1823 and wrecked off Cuba in 1828.
• Template:HMS, a 3-gun schooner, ex-Las Damas Argentinas, purchased in 1829 and sold in 1834.
• Template:HMS, a 12-gun Template:Sclass ordered as HMS Dove in 1839, renamed Kangaroo in 1843 and eventually launched in 1852. She was sold in 1897.
• HMS Kangaroo was the Template:Sclass Template:HMS, launched in 1860, renamed Kangaroo in 1882 and broken up in 1884.
• Template:HMS, a B-class torpedo boat destroyer launched in 1900 and sold in 1920.

See also

• HM Colonial brig Kangaroo (1812), an armed brig based in Australia from 1814 to 1817, and sold in 1818
• Template:HMAS, a ship of the Royal Australian Navy

References

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| last1 = Colledge
| first1 = J. J. 
| author-link1= J. J. Colledge
| last2 = Warlow
| first2 = Ben
| date = 2006
| orig-date = 1969
| title = Ships of the Royal Navy: The Complete Record of All Fighting Ships of the Royal Navy from the 15th Century to the Present
| edition = Rev.
| location = London
| publisher = Chatham Publishing
| isbn = 978-1-86176-281-8
| OCLC = 67375475

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