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Spanish frigate Esmeralda information


Capture of the Esmeralda in Callao, by L, Colet, Club Naval, Valparaíso
History
SpainSpain
NameEsmeralda
BuilderPuerto Mahón, Baleares
Launched1791
Captured5 November 1820
FateCaptured in Callao by the Chilean Navy
Spanish frigate EsmeraldaChile
NameValdivia (15 November 1820)
NamesakeCapture of Valdivia
Commissioned6 November 1820
Honours and
awards
expedition to Acapulco after the Spanish frigate Prueba and Venganza
FateBeached at Valparaíso on 10 June 1825
General characteristics
Class and typeFrigate
Tons burthen950 (bm)
Propulsionsail
Armament44 guns

Esmeralda was a 44-gun frigate built in Port Mahón, Balearic Islands in 1791 for the Spanish Navy.[1] The First Chilean Navy Squadron, under the command of Thomas Cochrane, captured her on the night of 5 November 1820. She was renamed Valdivia in Chilean service. She was beached at Valparaíso in June 1825.

  1. ^ Gerardo Etcheverry, Principales naves de guerra a vela hispanoamericanas, retrieved 10. Januar 2011

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