Chilean corvette Esmeralda

History
Chile
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
General characteristics
Type	Steam corvette
Tons burthen	854 77⁄94 tons bm
Length	210 ft (64 m) o/a (excluding bowsprit); 180 ft (55 m) (p/p); 166 ft (51 m) (keel);
Beam	32 ft (9.8 m)
Depth of hold	18 ft (5.5 m)
Propulsion	4 × coal-fired boilers; 2 × horizontal condensing steam engines; 200 ihp (149 kW) at 31 rpm; Single screw;
Sail plan	Full-rigged ship
Speed	8 knots (15 km/h; 9.2 mph) (under steam)
Complement	200
Armament	As built; 20 × 32-pounder long guns; 2 × 12-pounder guns; From 1868; 12 × Armstrong 40-pounder rifled guns; 4 × Whitworth 40-pounder smoothbore guns;
Service record
Commanders:	Robert Winthrop Simpson; Juan Williams Rebolledo; Arturo Prat Chacón;
Operations:	Chincha Islands War; War of the Pacific;

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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