HMS Emerald (1795)
Emerald's sister ship Amazon (right) engaging the French frigate, Droits de l'Homme (centre), with HMS Indefatigable (left)
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| Name: | HMS Emerald |
| Ordered: | 24 May 1794 |
| Builder: | Thomas Pitcher |
| Cost: | £14,419 |
| Laid down: | June 1794 |
| Launched: | 31 July 1795 |
| Commissioned: | August 1795 |
| Fate: | Broken up, January 1836 |
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| Class and type: | Amazon-class fifth-rate frigate |
| Tons burthen: | 933 67⁄94 (bm) |
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| Beam: | 38 ft 4 in (11.7 m) |
| Depth of hold: | 13 ft 6 in (4.1 m) |
| Propulsion: | Sails |
| Complement: | 264 |
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HMS Emerald was a 36-gun Amazon-class frigate that Sir William Rule designed in 1794 for the Royal Navy. The Admiralty ordered her construction towards the end of May 1794 and work began the following month at Northfleet dockyard. She was completed on 12 October 1795 and joined Admiral John Jervis's fleet in the Mediterranean.
In 1797, Emerald was one of several vessels sent to hunt down and capture the crippled Santisima Trinidad, which had escaped from the British at the Battle of Cape St Vincent. Emerald was supposed to have been present at the Battle of the Nile but in May 1798 a storm separated her from Horatio Nelson's squadron and she arrived in Aboukir Bay nine days too late. She was part of Rear-Admiral John Thomas Duckworth's squadron during the Action of 7 April 1800 off Cadiz.
Emerald served in the Caribbean throughout 1803 in Samuel Hood's fleet, then took part in the invasion of St Lucia in July, and of Surinam the following spring. Returning to home waters for repairs in 1806, she served in the western approaches before joining a fleet under Admiral James Gambier in 1809, and taking part in the Battle of the Basque Roads. In November 1811 she sailed to Portsmouth where she was laid up in ordinary. Fitted out as a receiving ship in 1822, she was eventually broken up in January 1836.
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