Seven ships of the British
Royal Navy
The Royal Navy (RN) is the naval warfare force of the United Kingdom. It is a component of His Majesty's Naval Service, and its officers hold their commissions from the King of the United Kingdom, King. Although warships were used by Kingdom ...
have been named HMS ''Kangaroo'', after the
kangaroo
Kangaroos are marsupials from the family Macropodidae (macropods, meaning "large foot"). In common use, the term is used to describe the largest species from this family, the red kangaroo, as well as the antilopine kangaroo, eastern gre ...
.
* , a 16-gun fir-built brig-sloop built at Rotherhithe in 1795 and sold in 1802.
* , an 18-gun
''Merlin''-class sloop launched in 1805 and sold in 1815.
* , a survey brig purchased in 1818 in the West Indies. Re-rigged as a ship in 1823 and wrecked off Cuba in 1828.
* , a 3-gun schooner, ex-''Las Damas Argentinas'', purchased in 1829 and sold in 1834.
* , a 12-gun ordered as HMS ''Dove'' in 1839, renamed ''Kangaroo'' in 1843 and eventually launched in 1852. She was sold in 1897.
* HMS ''Kangaroo'' was the , launched in 1860, renamed ''Kangaroo'' in 1882 and broken up in 1884.
* , a
B-class torpedo boat destroyer
In naval terminology, a destroyer is a fast, maneuverable, long-endurance warship intended to escort
larger vessels in a fleet, convoy, or carrier battle group and defend them against a wide range of general threats. They were conceived in ...
launched in 1900 and sold in 1920.
See also
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HM Colonial brig ''Kangaroo'' (1812), an armed brig based in Australia from 1814 to 1817, and sold in 1818
* , a ship of the Royal Australian Navy
References
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Royal Navy ship names