HMS Kangaroo (1900)

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HMS Kangaroo was a Template:Sclass2 torpedo boat destroyer of the British Royal Navy.<ref group="lower-alpha">On 30 August 1912 the Admiralty directed all destroyers were to be grouped into classes designated by letters based on contract speed and appearance. As a four-funneled 30-knotter destroyer, Kangaroo was assigned to the Template:Sclass2.<ref name="Conway06 p18">Gardiner and Gray 1985, p. 18.</ref><ref name="Manning p17-8">Manning 1961, pp. 17–18.</ref></ref> She served with the Dover Patrol in the First World War.

Construction and design

Kangaroo was laid down by Palmers Shipbuilding and Iron Company at Jarrow-on-Tyne as Yard Number 787 on 29 December 1899 with work starting on speculation (i.e. without a specific order), but was purchased for the Royal Navy as part of the 1900–1901 shipbuilding programme. She was launched on 8 September 1900 and completed in July 1901.<ref name="lyon p81">Lyon 2001, p. 81.</ref>

Kangaroo was of similar design to Template:HMS, Template:HMS and Template:HMS, three "Thirty-Knotter" destroyers built by Palmers under the 1899–1900 programme. Like these ships, she was powered by triple-expansion steam engines fed by four Reed boilers and driving two propeller shafts. Four funnels were fitted, with the two middle funnels very closely spaced. The machinery was rated at Template:Convert, sufficient to propel the ship at her contract speed of Template:Convert.<ref name="lyon p78, 80-1">Lyon 2001, pp. 78, 80–81.</ref>

Gun armament consisted of a single QF 12-pounder 12 cwt (Template:Convert calibre) gun forward on a platform on the ship's conning tower together with five 6-pounder guns. Two 18-inch (450 mm) torpedo tubes completed the ship's armament.<ref name="Lyon p98-9">Lyon 2001, pp. 98–99.</ref><ref name="Friedman p40">Friedman 2009, p. 40.</ref>

Service

Kangaroo was commissioned in August 1901 by Lieutenant Charles Edward Whately Pyddoke for service on the Mediterranean Station.<ref>Template:Cite newspaper The Times</ref> She visited Lemnos in August 1902,<ref>Template:Cite newspaper The Times</ref> and the following month was part of a squadron visiting Nauplia and Souda Bay at Crete.<ref>Template:Cite newspaper The Times</ref> She returned to the United Kingdom in 1905.<ref name="lyon p81"/> Apart from this tour in the Mediterranean, Kangaroo spent most of her duty time in home waters.<ref name=battleships>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In 1906 Kangaroo was part of the First Destroyer Division.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> She was part of the Fourth Destroyer Flotilla at Portsmouth between 1910 and 1912, and then joined the Sixth Destroyer Flotilla.<ref name="nmm">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Kangaroo remained part of the Sixth Destroyer Flotilla, based at Dover for the duration of the First World War.<ref name="baconv2 p626">Bacon 1918, p. 626.</ref><ref name="ditt p57">Dittmar and Colledge 1972, p. 57.</ref>

HMS Kangaroo was finally sold for scrap to M. Yates on 23 February 1920, but was resold to Thos. W. Ward and broken up at Milford Haven.<ref name="ditt p57"/>

Pennant numbers

Pennant number<ref name="ditt p57" />	From	To
P02	6 Dec 1914	1 Sep 1915
D82	1 Sep 1915	1 Jan 1918
D48	1 Jan 1918	-

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| 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
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| location = London
| publisher = Chatham Publishing
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