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USS Magnet (SP-563)

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History
United States
NameUSS Magnet
NamesakePrevious name retained
BuilderElectric Launch Company, Bayonne, New Jersey
Completed1910
Acquired11 June 1917
Commissioned27 June 1917
FateSold 1920
NotesOperated as private motor yacht Magnet 1910-1917
General characteristics
TypePatrol vessel
Tonnage52[1] or 76[2] gross register tons
Length95 ft 3 in (29.03 m)
Beam14 ft 10 in (4.52 m)
Draft4 ft 3 in (1.30 m)
Speed14 knots
Complement22
Armament

The first USS Magnet (SP-563) was a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1919.<ref>SP-563 Magnet at Department of the Navy Naval History and Heritage Command Online Library of Selected Images: U.S. Navy Ships -- Listed by Hull Number "SP" #s and "ID" #s -- World War I Era Patrol Vessels and other Acquired Ships and Craft numbered from SP-500 through SP-599.

Magnet was built as a private motor yacht of the same name by the Electric Launch Company at Bayonne, New Jersey, in 1910. On 11 June 1917, the U.S. Navy acquired her from her owner, H. F. Lippett, for use as a section patrol craft during World War I. She was commissioned as USS Magnet (SP-563) on 27 June 1917.

Magnet served on patrol duties for the rest of World War I. She was ordered sold on 1 October 1919 and was sold in 1920.

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