HMS Emerald (1795)
HMS Emerald was a 36-gun, 18-pound, Amazon-class frigate built to William Rule’s design in 1794. She and her sister ship, Amazon, were ordered on 24 May 1794 and were built to the same dimensions. Emerald was one of several vessels sent to hunt down and capture the crippled Santisima Trinidad, which had escaped from the British at the Battle of...
