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Name | Esmeralda |
Namesake | Esmeralda (1791) |
Ordered | 30 June 1852 |
Awarded | 23 October 1854 |
Builder | William Pitcher, Northfleet, England |
Cost | £23,000 |
Laid down | December 1854 |
Launched | 26 June 1855 |
Commissioned | 18 September 1855 |
Fate | Sunk, 21 May 1879 |
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Type | Steam corvette |
Tons burthen | 854 77⁄94 tons bm |
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Beam | 32 ft (9.8 m) |
Depth of hold | 18 ft (5.5 m) |
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Sail plan | Full-rigged ship |
Speed | 8 knots (15 km/h; 9.2 mph) (under steam) |
Complement | 200 |
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Esmeralda was a wooden-hulled steam corvette of the Chilean Navy, launched in 1855, and sunk by the Huáscar on 21 May 1879 at the Battle of Iquique during the War of the Pacific.
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