.jpg) Kangaroo in 1917 just after her completion and prior to her U.S. Navy and U.S. Coast Guard service.
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| History | |
|---|---|
 United States | |
| Name |
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| Namesake | The kangaroo (previous name retained) |
| Builder | Herreshoff Manufacturing Company, Bristol, Rhode Island |
| Completed | 1917 |
| Acquired | 22 November 1919 |
| Renamed | USCGC AB-6 6 November 1923 |
| Fate | Sold 1 October 1932 |
| Notes | Operated as private motorboat Kangaroo 1917 and as U.S. Navy patrol boat USS Kangaroo (SP-1284) 1917-1919 |
| 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 x 4-cylinder gasoline engines, twin screws[1] |
| Speed | 13 knots[2] |
| Complement | 5 |
USCGC Kangaroo, later USCGC AB-6, was United States Coast Guard patrol boat in commission from 1919 to 1932.
- ^ The United States Coast Guard Historican's Office (at http://www.uscg.mil/history/webcutters/Kangaroo1919.pdf) reports this propulsion plant and 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 in U.S. Navy service. It is not clear whether or how her propulsion plant differed in U.S. Navy service from that of her Coast Guard 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)