| Emerald-class corvette | |
|---|---|
 Turquoise at anchor | |
| Class overview | |
| Name: | Emerald-class |
| Operators: |
 Royal Navy |
| Preceded by: | HMS Rover |
| Succeeded by: | Bacchante class |
| Built: | 1873–1878 |
| Completed: | 6 |
| Scrapped: | 6 |
| General characteristics (as built) | |
| Type: | Composite screw corvette |
| Tonnage: | 1,864 bm |
| Displacement: | 2,120 long tons (2,150 t) |
| Length: | 220 ft (67.1 m) (p/p) |
| Beam: | 40 ft (12.2 m) |
| Draught: | 18 ft (5.5 m) |
| Installed power: | 2,031–2,364 ihp (1,515–1,763 kW) |
| Propulsion: |
1 shaft 1 × 2-cylinder compound-expansion steam engine 6 cylindrical boilers |
| Sail plan: | Ship rig |
| Speed: | 12–13 knots (22–24 km/h; 14–15 mph) |
| Range: | 2,000–2,280 nmi (3,700–4,220 km; 2,300–2,620 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
| Complement: | 230 |
| Armament: |
10 × 64-pounder 71-cwt rifled muzzle-loading (RML) guns 2 × 64-pounder 64-cwt RML guns |
The Emerald-class corvettes were a class of composite screw corvettes built for the Royal Navy in the mid-1870s.
Ships[]
| Ship | Builder[1] | Laid down[2] | Launched[2] | Completed[2] | Fate[2] | Cost[2] |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Opal | William Doxford, Sunderland | 13 October 1873 | 9 March 1875 | January 1876 | Sold for scrap, 11 August 1892 | £95,949 |
| Turquoise | Earle's Shipbuilding, Hull | 8 July 1874 | 22 April 1876 | 13 September 1876 | Sold for scrap, 24 September 1892 | £95,547 |
| Ruby | Earle's Shipbuilding, Hull | 8 July 1874 | 9 August 1876 | 14 June 1877 | Converted to coal hulk, December 1904; sold for scrap, 16 February 1921 | £93,116 |
| Tourmaline | Raylton Dixon, Middlesbrough | 17 July 1874 | 30 October 1875 | January 1874 | Converted to coal hulk, 1899; sold for scrap, November 1920 | £95,769 |
| Emerald | Pembroke Dockyard | 29 July 1874 | 18 August 1876 | 2 July 1878 | Converted to powder hulk, 1898; sold for scrap, 10 July 1906 | £98,442 |
| Garnet | Chatham Dockyard | 16 March 1875 | 30 June 1877 | 31 October 1878 | Sold for scrap, December 1904 | £92,468 |
Notes[]
Footnotes[]
Bibliography[]
- Ballard, G. A. (1937). "British Corvettes of 1875: The Six Composite Corvettes". Cambridge, UK: Society for Nautical Research. pp. 176–89.
- Chesneau, Roger; Kolesnik, Eugene M., eds (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. Greenwich, UK: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 0-8317-0302-4.
- Winfield, Rif; Lyon, David (2004). The Sail and Steam Navy List: All the Ships of the Royal Navy 1815–1889. London: Chatham Publishing. ISBN 978-1-86176-032-6. OCLC 52620555.
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