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Name: MAGPIE
Type: Sailing Vessel
Launched: 17/05/1806
Completed: 1806
Builder: William Rowe
Yard: St Peter's
Yard Number:
Dimensions: 75bm, 56.2 x 18.1 x 7.8ft
Engines: None
Engines by: n/a
Propulsion: Sail, rigged as a Schooner
Construction: Wood
Armament: 4 x 12pdr carronades
History:
1806 British Royal Navy
18/02/1807 French Navy; renamed MAGPYE
26/07/1814 Renamed COLOMBE
No later history known
Comments: Member of the Cuckoo Class of Schooners
18/02/1807: Grounded off the coast of Brittany. Captured by the French Army
1824: Laid up at Rochefort
1826: Converted into a prison ship at Brest
1829: No longer listed