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: |
|
| 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: |
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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
- ↑ Chesneau & Kolesnik, p. 51
- 1 2 3 4 5 Lyon & Winfield, p. 289
Bibliography
- Ballard, G. A. (1937). "British Corvettes of 1875: The Six Composite Corvettes". Mariner's Mirror (Cambridge, UK: Society for Nautical Research) 23 (April): 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.
