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 | |
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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.