HMS Magnet (1807)

	Magnet
History
Royal Navy
Name	HMS Magnet
Ordered	1 October 1806
Builder	Robert Guillaume, Northam, Southampton
Launched	19 October 1807
Fate	Wrecked 11 January 1809
General characteristics
Class and type	Cruizer-class brig-sloop
Tons burthen	38241⁄94 (bm)
Length	100 ft 0 in (30.5 m) (gundeck); 77 ft 3+1⁄2 in (23.6 m) (keel);
Beam	30 ft 6 in (9.3 m)
Depth of hold	12 ft 9 in (3.9 m)
Sail plan	Brig rigged
Complement	121
Armament	16 × 32-pounder carronades + 2 × 6-pounder chase guns

HMS Magnet was a Cruizer-class brig-sloop built at Robert Guillaume’s yard at Northam and launched in 1807.^[1] She served in the Baltic, where she took two prizes, one an armed privateer, before wrecking in 1809.

^ ^a ^b Winfield (2008), p. 299.

[FOOTNOTEWinfield2008299-1] Winfield (2008), p. 299.

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History
Magnet
Royal Navy
Name	HMS Magnet
Ordered	1 October 1806
Builder	Robert Guillaume, Northam, Southampton
Launched	19 October 1807
Fate	Wrecked 11 January 1809
General characteristics ^[1]
Class and type	Cruizer-class brig-sloop
Tons burthen	38241⁄94 (bm)
Length	100 ft 0 in (30.5 m) (gundeck) 77 ft 3+1⁄2 in (23.6 m) (keel)
Beam	30 ft 6 in (9.3 m)
Depth of hold	12 ft 9 in (3.9 m)
Sail plan	Brig rigged
Complement	121
Armament	16 × 32-pounder carronades + 2 × 6-pounder chase guns