H.M.S. Kangaroo (1900)

H.M.S. Kangaroo (1900)
Pendant Number:	P.02 (1914) D.82 (Sep 1915) D.48 (Jan 1918)
Builder:	Palmer Shipbuilding and Iron Company
Ordered:	Purchased 1900
Laid down:	29 Dec, 1899
Launched:	8 Sep, 1900
Commissioned:	Jul, 1901
Broken up:	1920

H.M.S. Kangaroo was one of twenty-four "B" class destroyers built for the Royal Navy — a "30 knotter".

Service

She was one of twenty-seven T.B.Ds. of the Portsmouth Flotilla to participate in the Annual Manoeuvres of 1909.

In mid-1913, she was with the Sixth Destroyer Flotilla.

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

• Lieutenant Arthur J. Davies, 16 July, 1901 – 14 August, 1901  (for Annual Manoeuvres of 1901)
• Lieutenant in Command Charles E. W. Pyddoke, 14 August, 1901 – 20 October, 1903
• Lieutenant & Commander Rowland H. Bather, 20 October, 1903 – 1 February, 1905
• Commander John Luce, 1 February, 1905 – 18 September, 1905
• Lieutenant & Commander Fitzroy H. Hall, 18 September, 1905 – 25 October, 1905
• Lieutenant & Commander William G. Howard, October, 1905 – 28 May, 1906
• Lieutenant & Commander William S. F. Forbes, 28 May, 1906 – 1 January, 1907
• Lieutenant & Commander Hugh T. Prichard, 1 January, 1907 – 24 January, 1908
• Commander Hubert S. Cardale, 29 January, 1908 – 18 August, 1908
• Commander Henry C. R. Brocklebank, 18 August, 1908 – 29 June, 1910
• Lieutenant & Commander Anthony L. H. D. Coke, 15 August, 1910 – 4 August, 1911
• Lieutenant & Commander Charles L. Fox, 9 August, 1911 – 23 May, 1912
• Lieutenant-Commander Montague R. Bernard, 29 July, 1912 – 6 January, 1915
• Lieutenant & Commander Henry Forrester, 6 January, 1915
• Lieutenant R.N.R. in Command Donald Mansfield, 28 April, 1916 – 30 November, 1916
• Acting Lieutenant-Commander R.N.R. (retired) Donald Mansfield, 23 December, 1916 – 19 November, 1918
• Lieutenant R.N.R. in Command William G. Busk-Wood, 23 November, 1918 – 31 December, 1918

See Also

• Wikipedia