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} |} HMS ''Kangaroo'' was an 18-gun brig-sloop of the ''Diligence'' class in the Royal Navy, built in 1795 at Rotherhithe, England. She served in Home Waters and the Mediterranean until she was sold in 1802. ==Career== In October 1795 she was commissioned under Commander Courtenay Boyle. ''Kangaroo'' shared in the capture on 10 May 1796, of the ''Marie'', which had captured. In February 1797 at Plymouth she detained the ''St Croix'', from St Croix. ''St Croix'' was formerly the ''Cadiz Packet'', of Belfast.〔''Lloyd's List,() - accessed 17 January 2014.〕 On the evening of 9 April, ''Kangaroo'' captured the French privateer cutter ''Sophie'' some two leagues SE of The Lizard. ''Sophie'', of fourteen 4-pounder guns (eight of which she had thrown overboard during the chase), and 40 men, was two days into her maiden cruise from Brest and had made no captures. That month ''Kangaroo'' sailed from Plymouth as escort to the transport ''Boyne''. On 3 July ''Kangaroo'' captured some 17 leagues off Cadiz the lugger ''Purissima Concepcione'', which had on board an officer and nine men, and which was searching for a brig from Havana to deliver some dispatches to her. Then on the 22nd, ''Kangaroo'' captured the French privateer lugger ''Surprise'', of 48 tons (bm), eight guns, and 47 men. ''Surprise'' was eight days out of Crosic at the entrance to the Loire, but had made no captures. Also in July ''Kangaroo'' recaptured the ''Macaroni''. On 30 June Boyle received promotion to post captain and Commander Edward Brace replaced Boyle,〔 but not until ''Kangaroo'' returned to port after capturing the ''Surprise''. In September, ''Kangaroo'' recaptured and sent into Cork the ''Jenny'', M'Iver, master, which a privateer had captured as ''Jenny'' was sailing from Cork to Lisbon.〔''Lloyd's List,() - accessed 17 January 2014.〕 On 28 September, ''Kangaroo'', , and recaptured the ''Graaf Bernstorff'' and captured the ''San Norberto''. ''San Norberta'' was a Spanish privateer armed with four carriage guns plus some swivels, and had a crew of 42 men. ''Graff Bernstorff'' was carrying a cargo of iron and grain from St. Michael's to Lisbon when she was captured. One year later, on 18 September 1798, ''Kangaroo'' recaptured the ''Endeavour''. Early in October, ''Kangaroo'' brought dispatches that led Captain Sir John Borlase Warren in to take a squadron to search for and intercept a French force sailing to Ireland. The British and French squadrons met up on 12 October in the Battle of Tory Island, which the British won. Several French vessels escaped and ''Kangaroo'' joined in the pursuit. On 15 October ''Kangaroo'' pursued the French frigate ''Loire'', but lost her in the dark. Next morning the two British vessels spotted ''Loire'' on the horizon and set off in pursuit. ''Loire'' outran ''Mermaid'', but not ''Kangaroo'', which exchanged fire at a distance with her quarry. In the exchange the out-gunned ''Kangaroo'' suffered damage to her rigging and had to fall back. However, ''Kangaroo'' had damaged ''Loire'' too. The next day ''Mermaid'' eventually engaged ''Loire'', but suffered damage that enabled ''Loire'' to escape once again. On 18 October, ''Loire'' had the misfortune to encounter the rasée frigate (ex ship-of-the-line) ''Anson'', in company with ''Kangaroo''. As ''Anson'' and ''Loire'' engaged, ''Kangaroo'' closed on ''Loire''s unprotected stern, firing as she did so and repeatedly raking the immobile French ship. ''Loire''s mizzenmast fell and by midday, she was forced to surrender to a boat from ''Kangaroo''.〔〔http://www.ageofnelson.org/MichaelPhillips/info.php?ref=1266〕 ''Kangaroo'' then assisted ''Anson'' by taking possession of ''Loire''.〔 On 2 July 1799 ''Phoebe'' and ''Kangaroo'' captured the ''Nancy'' (aka ''St Joseph'', aka ''Santa Margaretha''). Twenty-two days later, ''Kangaroo'' recaptured the brig ''Triton''.〔 On 22 February 1800 ''Kangaroo'' recaptured the ''Minerva'', an American ship carrying a cargo of tobacco, that a French privateer had captured as ''Minerva'' sailed from Virginia to London.〔 ''Kangaroo'' would send the ''Minerva'', Tallman, master, into Cork.〔''Lloyd's List,() - accessed 17 January 2014.〕 That same day, ''Kangaroo'' captured the French privateer brig ''Telegraph'', which had earlier captured the ''Minerva''. ''Telegraph'' was quite new, armed with 14 guns of various calibers, and had a crew of 78 men. ''Telegraph'' was 20 days out of Saint-Malo and on the 11th had captured the brig ''Elizabeth'', which had been carrying a cargo of fruit. The only casualty was first Lieutenant Thomas Toulerton, who was injured while aiming a chase gun. Lieutenant Tompson then sailed ''Telegraph'' to Cork.〔 Two days later ''Kangaroo'' recaptured the ship ''Chance'',〔 of London, which had been sailing from Martinique when the French privateer ''Bellegrande'' had captured her. had captured ''Bellegrande'' three days earlier. Then early in the morning of 25 February ''Kangaroo'' encountered and engaged a French privateer brig of 18 guns. The fight lasted about an hour before the French vessel was able to make her escape. ''Kangaroo'' was damaged in her rigging and was unable to pursue. ''Kangaroo'' was also short-handed, having 44 men away in prizes, six men unable to man their stations, six men wounded in the encounter, and four men standing guard over 78 French prisoners in her hold. (That is, almost half her official complement was ''hors de combat''.) French prisoners on ''Telegraph'' later reported that the privateer that escaped was the ''Grand Decide'', of eighteen 12-pounder guns and 150 men. When ''Kangaroo'' recaptured ''Chance'', she freed two British army officers who then helped in the action with the privateer. ''Phoebe'' and ''Kangaroo'' also recaptured the brig ''Young William''. In March 1800, ''Kangaroo'' captured a French 16-gun privateer from Brest off the coast of Ireland.〔''Lloyd's List,() - accessed 17 January 2014.〕 Brace received promotion to post captain on 2 April 1800,〔Marshall (1824), Vol. 2, Part 1, pp.253-61.〕 with the result that Commander George Charles Pulling replaced him.〔 ''Phoebe'', ''Nereide'', and ''Kangaroo'' shared in the proceeds of the capture, on 5 June of the ''Eagle''. Because ''Kangaroo'' served in the navy's Egyptian campaign (8 March to 8 September 1801), her officers and crew qualified for the clasp "Egypt" to the Naval General Service Medal, which the Admiralty issued in 1847 to all surviving claimants. During this period, on 16 May, ''Kangaroo'' recaptured the ''Dolphin Wreck''. Then ''Kangaroo'' was patrolling off Barcelona when she met up with the brig , under Commander Lord Cochrane on 1 June. They encountered a privateer from Minorca that informed them that she had sighted a Spanish convoy of 12 vessels and five escorts three days earlier. The two British brigs set out to try to catch up with the convoy.〔 One week later, on 8 June, they attacked and blew up the tower of Almanara. The tower was armed with only two 4-pounder guns, but refused to surrender. Cochrane and two men were lightly wounded during the demolition. Cochrane reported that they also brought off a Spanish privateer of seven guns.〔Lewis (2014).〕 The next morning ''Speedy'' found the convoy sheltering under the guns of a battery at Oropeso. The battery consisted of a large, square tower armed with some 12 guns. The escorts consisted of a xebec of 20 guns, and three gunboats.〔 Cochrane anchored offshore and wanted to wait until night to send in a cutting out party. However, ''Kangaroo'' arrived and Pulling, as the senior commander, decided to wait until the next morning.〔 On the morning of the 9th, the two British vessels anchored within gunshot and by mid-afternoon had sunk the xebec and two gunboats. A felucca of 12 guns and two more gunboats joined the defenders.〔 By 6:30pm the fire from the Spanish defenders slackened and ''Kangaroo'' came in close to the tower, silencing its fire by 7pm. At the same time, ''Speedy'' engaged the felucca and the surviving gunboats, which then fled.〔 The British continued to undergo small arms fire from the shore until midnight, at which time the boats from the two brigs went in and brought out three Spanish brigs carrying wine, rice, and bread. Cochrane then went in with the boats for a second try, but the British found that all their quarry were either sunk or driven ashore. The next day ''Kangaroo'' and ''Speedy'' sailed for Minorca with their prizes; Pulling stated that they had expended all their ammunition, otherwise they would have reduced the tower as well. This was not an idle boast as Pulling wrote his report while anchored some 250 yards from the shore and 500 from the town.〔 ''Speedy'' had expended some 1400 shot and had less than a broadside left.〔 In the action ''Kangaroo'' lost a midshipman killed, and five seamen severely and two lieutenants and three seamen slightly wounded; ''Speedy'' had no casualties.〔 Cochrane also recounted that several of the cannon aboard ''Kangaroo'' were fitted on the non-recoil principle. During the action several of these burst their breechings, i.e., came loose. One endangered ''Kangaroo'' by bounding down the hatchway into the hold.〔 On 29 September, ''Kangaroo'' captured the Greek polacre ''Madona d'Idra''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「HMS Kangaroo (1795)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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