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HMS Kangaroo (1900)
HMS ''Kangaroo'' was a B-class torpedo boat destroyer of the British Royal Navy. 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.〔Lyon 2001, p. 81.〕
''Kangaroo'' was of similar design to , and , 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 , sufficient to propel the ship at her contract speed of .〔Lyon 2001, pp. 78, 80–81.〕
Gun armament consisted of a single QF 12 pounder 12 cwt ( 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.〔Lyon 2001, pp. 98–99.〕〔Friedman 2009, p. 40.〕
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