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} |} HMS ''Emerald'' was one of the 36-gun, Amazon-class frigates, designed by Sir William Rule for the Royal Navy in 1794. She was ordered towards the end of May 1794 and work began the following month at Thomas Pitcher's dockyard in Northfleet and was completed on 12 October 1795 at Woolwich at a cost of £23,809. She was first commissioned under Captain Velters Berkley in August 1795 and sent to the Mediterranean to join the fleet under Sir John Jervis. After the Battle of Cape St Vincent, ''Emerald'' was one of a number of vessels sent to look for the crippled Santisima Trinidad. In May 1798 she was separated from Horatio Nelson's squadron in a storm and thus was not present at the Battle of the Nile, arriving in Aboukir Bay nine days after. On 7 April 1800, ''Emerald'' was part of Rear-admiral John Thomas Duckworth's squadron which captured nine merchant vessels and two frigates in an action off Cadiz. In 1803 ''Emerald'' served in the Caribbean as part of Samuel Hood's fleet, and took part in the invasion of St Lucia in July, and Surinam the following spring. She returned to home waters for repairs in 1806 and served in the western approaches. In 1809, ''Emerald'' was part of the fleet under Admiral James Gambier that fought the Battle of the Basque Roads. In November 1811 she was taken to Portsmouth and laid up in ordinary. She was fitted out as a receiving ship in 1822 then broken up in January 1836. ==Construction== ''Emerald'' was a fifth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy. She was, along with her sister ship, ''Amazon'', the first of the Amazon-class frigates, designed by William Rule.〔Winfield p.148〕 They were ordered on 24 May 1794 and were along the gun deck, at the keel, and had a beam of . With a depth in the hold of ,they were 933 (bm). A second pair of "Amazons", ordered on 24 January 1795, were marginally smaller at 925 (bm) and were built from pitch pine.〔 ''Emerald's'' initial build was completed at Thomas Pitcher's dockyard in Northfleet on 31 July 1795 at a cost of £14,419. She was immediately taken to Woolwich for fitting, which finished 12 October 1795, at a cost of a further £9,390.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「HMS Emerald (1795)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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