RMAS ''Magnet'' (A114) was the eponymous
Royal Navy
The Royal Navy (RN) is the naval warfare force of the United Kingdom. It is a component of His Majesty's Naval Service, and its officers hold their commissions from the King of the United Kingdom, King. Although warships were used by Kingdom ...
''Magnet''-class degaussing ship. She was completed in 1979 by
Cleland Cleland may refer to:
Places
* Cleland, South Australia, a suburb
** Cleland National Park, a protected area in South Australia
*** Cleland Wildlife Park, a zoo within the area of Cleland National Park
* Cleland, North Lanarkshire
Cleland ...
.
Class
As well as the ''Magnet'', a sister ship, was built by Cleland in 1980.
The ''Magnet'' class was developed to replace the s that had been converted for
degaussing
Degaussing, or deperming, is the process of decreasing or eliminating a remnant magnetic field. It is named after the gauss, a unit of magnetism, which in turn was named after Carl Friedrich Gauss. Due to magnetic hysteresis, it is generally not ...
. They are 828 tons
gross register tonnage (GRT) and have a top speed of . They measure long with a
beam
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Streams of particles or energy
*Light beam, or beam of light, a directional projection of light energy
**Laser beam
*Radio beam
*Particle beam, a stream of charged or neutral particles
**Charged particle beam, a spatially lo ...
of and a
draught of .
References
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Magnet class degaussing ships of the Royal Navy
1979 ships