Esmeralda

Sunk

Type	Corvette
Wars	Chincha Islands War, War of the Pacific
Main guns	12 × 40-pounder guns

Wooden screw corvette. Captured Covadonga at Papudo in 1865. Sunk by Huáscar at Iquique in 1879 with her captain, Arturo Prat, who died trying to board the ironclad.

Corbeta Esmeralda, uno de los buques protagonistas de la Guerra del Pacífico, como parte de la escuadra de la Armada de Chile. Fue hundida en la rada del puerto de Iquique el 21 de mayo de 1879. Photo: Antonio Bisama Cuevas, Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Armament and specifications

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

Builder	William Pitcher, Northfleet, England
Laid down	December 1854
Launched	26 June 1855
Commissioned	18 September 1855
Length	210 ft (64 m) o/a (excluding bowsprit) 180 ft (55 m) (p/p) 166 ft (51 m) (keel)
Speed	8 knots (15 km/h; 9.2 mph) (under steam)
Complement	200

As built, from the ship's Wikipedia article. Figures there may cover later refits too.

Career

Launched

26 June 1855

Battle of Papudo

Survived

26 November 1865 · Chincha Islands War

Battle of Iquique

Sunk

21 May 1879 · War of the Pacific

Captain Arturo Prat killed boarding Huáscar