HM Colonial brig Kangaroo (1812)

History
Name: Kangaroo
Owner: Transport Board[1]
Builder: Bideford
Launched: 1811,[1] or 1812
General characteristics
Type: Brig
Tons burthen: 200,[2] 203, or 204 (bm)
Propulsion: Sail
Complement: 50[2]
Armament: 12 × 18&9-pounder guns[2]

HM Colonial brig Kangaroo was a brig built at Bideford, England in 1811 or 1812. She belonged to the British Royal Navy's Transport Board and was based at Port Jackson. There she made voyages for the colonial government along the east coast of Australia with goods and troops. She made one voyage to Ceylon for merchandise and transporting military convicts from Ceylon to Australia. She returned to England in 1817 and was last listed in Lloyd's Register in 1819.

Career

Governor Lachlan Macquarie on 30 April 1810 requested the British Government supply the colony with two brigs (colonial ships) that would not be subject to the control of the Admiralty. The British government provided Kangaroo and Emu. The American privateer Holkar, captained by J. Rolland, captured Emu in 1812 on her outward-bound voyage.[3]

Lieutenant Charles Jefferys (or Jeffreys), received a letter of marque on 1 March 1813.[2] Kangaroo arrived in Sydney on 10 January 1814 after a passage of seven months and eight days from England.

She made one voyage to Ceylon, still under Jeffries' command, returning with merchandise, passengers and a number of military convicts. She arrived in Sydney on the 7 February 1816.[4] Governor Lachlan Macquarie sent her back to England after he determined that she was unsuitable for the colony. She left on 9 April 1817.

Fate

She is last listed in 1819.

Citations and references

Citations
  1. 1 2 Lloyd's Register (1818) Seq. no. K5.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Register of Letters of Marque against France 1793-1815". - accessed 11 June 2011.
  3. ↑ Bateson, p.192.
  4. ↑ "Ship News". The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, Saturday 10 February 1816, p.2. Retrieved 29 July 2015.
References
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