HMAS Kangaroo
HMAS Kangaroo in 1947 | |
| History | |
|---|---|
| Australia | |
| Namesake | Kangaroo |
| Builder | Cockatoo Docks & Engineering Company |
| Laid down | 15 November 1939 |
| Launched | 4 May 1940 |
| Commissioned | 27 September 1940 |
| Decommissioned | 15 December 1955 |
| Identification | P80 |
| Honours & awards |
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| Fate | Scrapped in 1968 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Boom defence vessel |
| Displacement | 768 tons (standard) |
| Length | 178 ft 3 in (54.33 m) |
| Beam | 32 ft (9.8 m) |
| Draught | 11 ft 3 in (3.43 m) |
| Propulsion | Triple expansion, 1,850 hp, single screw |
| Speed | 11.5 knots (21.3 km/h; 13.2 mph) |
| Complement | 32 |
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HMAS Kangaroo was a Bar-class boom defence vessel of the Royal Australian Navy (RAN). Although originally ordered as a boom vessel, Kangaroo was at one point to be built as the prototype for what became the Bathurst-class corvettes, but reverted to the boom defence design before construction started. Launched in 1940, the ship spent most of World War II operating the anti-submarine net in Darwin. Kangaroo remained in service until 1955, and after several years as an accommodation ship, was sold for scrapping in 1967.