{|    |} hms kangaroo was a b-class torpedo boat destroyer of the british royal navy. she served with the dover patrol in the first world war. ==construction and design== kangaroo was laid down by palmers shipbuilding and iron company at jarrow-on-tyne as yard number 787 on 29 december 1899 with work starting on speculation (i.e. without a specific order), but was purchased for the royal navy as part of the 1900â1901 shipbuilding programme. she was launched on 8 september 1900 and completed in july 1901.lyon 2001, p. 81. kangaroo was of similar design to ,  and , three "thirty-knotter" destroyers built by palmers under the 1899â1900 programme. like these s
1900_ships B-class_destroyers_(1913) Tyne-built_ships World_War_I_destroyers_of_the_United_Kingdom