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Kangaroo (SP 1284)

Kangaroo served both the U. S. Navy and Coast Guard.

Motor Boat: Built in 1917 as Herreshoff Hull #316 by the Herreshoff Manufacturing Co, Bristol, CT; Renamed Kangaroo; Acquired by the Navy, 18 September 1917; Commissioned Kangaroo (SP 1284), 10 December 1917; Decommissioned, 20 May 1919; Transferred to the Coast Guard 22 November 1919; Renamed AB-6, 6 November 1923; Sold, 1 October 1932 to John H. Curtis, Norfolk, VA. Fate unknown.

Specifications: Displacement 29 t.; Length 62' 4"; Beam 10' 11"; Draft 3' 6"; Speed 21 kts.; Complement 11; Armament one 1-pounder.


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Kangaroo 59k At anchor prior to her World War I Navy service.
U.S. Navy photo NH 94480
Naval Historical Center
Kangaroo 121k Photographed when first completed in 1917.
U.S. Navy photo NH 101885
Naval Historical Center
Kangaroo 46k Photographed when first completed in 1917.
U.S. Navy photo NH 101886
Naval Historical Center
Kangaroo 82k Photographed when first completed in 1917.
U.S. Navy photo NH 101952
Naval Historical Center
Kangaroo 102k Sailors exercising with rowing and sailing craft, 1918. The larger craft present are USS Content (SP-538), in the left center background; and Kangaroo, in the right center background.
Photographed by Alton H. Blackinton, Boston, Massachusetts.
U.S. Navy photo NH 41949
Naval Historical Center
Kangaroo 93k Sailors exercising with small craft, 1918. The larger craft present are USS Orca (SP-726); in the center, USS Content
(SP-538)
, in the left center background; and Kangaroo, astern of Orca.
Photographed by Alton H. Blackinton, Boston, Massachusetts.
U.S. Navy photo NH 41948
Naval Historical Center
Kangaroo 96k In port, possibly at Key West, Florida, circa 1918-1919. USS SC-297 and USS SC-290 are in the background.
U.S. Navy photo NH 100657
Naval Historical Center

Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships:

Kangaroo

Any of a family of herbiverous, leaping, marsupial mammals of Australia, New Guinea, and adjacent islands.

Kangaroo, a motor boat, was built in 1917 by Herreshoff Mfg. Co., Bristol, R.I.; purchased 18 September at Boston from her owner, Henry A. Morse, of Marblehead, Mass.; and commissioned 10 December, Chief Quartermaster C. H. Waterman, USNRF, in command.

Assigned to the 1st Naval District, Kangaroo served on section and inner harbor patrol in Penobscot Bay, Maine, until 14 October 1918, when she sailed for Key West, Fla. Arriving 12 January 1919, she performed patrol and dispatch duties along the Florida Keys and Atlantic coastal waters. She decommissioned 20 May and was taken over by the U.S. Coast Guard 22 November for customs and coastal surveillance patrols. Serving at Key West, Charleston, and Norfolk, she was renamed AB-6 on 6 November 1923. She was sold to John H. Curtis of Norfolk 1 October 1932.

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