Emerald Class Corvette (1876): Difference between revisions

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Six Emerald class composite screw corvettes were built for the Royal Navy in the late 1870s.

Overview of 6 vessels
Citations for this data available on individual ship pages
Name	Builder	Laid Down	Launched	Completed	Fate
Emerald	Pembroke Royal Dockyard		18 Aug, 1876		Sold 1906
Garnet	Chatham Royal Dockyard	Mar, 1875	30 Jun, 1877		Sold 1904
Opal	William Doxford & Sons, Sunderland		9 Mar, 1875		Sold 1892
Ruby	Earle's Shipbuilding, Hull	Jul, 1874	9 Aug, 1876		Sold 1921
Tourmaline	Raylton Dixon	Jul, 1874	30 Oct, 1875		Sold 1920
Turquoise	Earle's Shipbuilding, Hull	Jul, 1874	22 Apr, 1876		Sold 1892

Chesneau, Robert; Kolesnik, Eugene (editors) (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. London: Conway Maritime Press. (on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk).

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