HMS Emerald (1795) 18 July. In November 1811, "Emerald" sailed to Portsmouth and was laid up in ordinary. Fitted out as a receiving ship in 1822, she was eventually broken up in January 1836. HMS Emerald (1795) HMS Emerald was a 36-gun frigate that Sir William Rule designed in 1794 for the Royal Navy. The Admiralty ordered her construction towards the end of May 1794 and work began the following month at Northfleet dockyard. She was completed on 12 October 1795 and joined Admiral John Jervis's fleet in the Mediterranean. In 1797, "Emerald" was one of several vessels sent to hunt down and
HMS Emerald (1795) captured an American ship, "Wasp", in July 1810. "Wasp" was carrying 91 passengers from New York to Bordeaux; they arrived at Plymouth on 30 July. "Emerald" was still serving on the Home Station on 11 April 1811 when she sent into Cork a French privateer. This was the 18-gun (or "Augusta"), which had been taken on 6 April. Nearly a month later, on 5 July, "Emerald" left Madeira in the company of five East Indiamen and was still on convoy duties later that month when a transport ship spotted her escorting thirteen vessels off the coast of West Africa on