&sq=Envato&lang=en&file=File:USS_Kangaroo_(SP-1284).jpg) Kangaroo in 1917 just after her completion and prior to her acquisition by the U.S. Navy
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| History | |
|---|---|
 United States | |
| Name | USS Kangaroo |
| Namesake | The kangaroo (previous name retained) |
| Builder | Herreshoff Manufacturing Company, Bristol, Rhode Island |
| Completed | 1917 |
| Acquired | 18 September 1917 |
| Commissioned | 10 December 1917 |
| Decommissioned | 20 May 1919 |
| Notes | Operated as private motorboat Kangaroo 1917, as U.S. Coast Guard patrol boat USCGC Kangaroo 1919-1923 and USCGC AB-6 1923-1932, and as a private motorboat from 1932 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Patrol vessel |
| Displacement | 29 tons |
| Length | 62 ft 4 in (19.00 m) |
| Beam | 10 ft 11 in (3.33 m) |
| Draft | 3 ft 6 in (1.07 m) |
| Installed power | 120 brake horsepower |
| Propulsion | 2 × 4-cylinder gasoline engines, twin screws[1] |
| Speed | 21 knots[2] |
| Complement | 11 |
| Armament | 1 × 1-pounder gun |
The first USS Kangaroo (SP-1284) was an armed motorboat that served in the United States Navy as a patrol vessel from 1917 to 1919.
- ^ The United States Coast Guard Historican's Office (at http://www.uscg.mil/history/webcutters/Kangaroo1919.pdf) reports this propulsion plant, but also reports that Kangaroo had a top speed of only 13 knots. The Dictionary of Naval Fighting Ships (at http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/k1/kangaroo-i.htm) and NavSource Online (at http://www.navsource.org/archives/12/171284.htm) do not mention Kangaroo's propulsion plant, but credit her with a top speed of 21 knots. It is not clear whether or how her propulsion differed during her time in U.S. Navy service or why her top speed would have dropped so much during her U.S. Coast Guard service unless her propulsion was changed in some unreported way.
- ^ See note (1)