HMS Emerald (1795) 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 capture the crippled Santisima Trinidad, which had escaped from the British at the Battle of Cape St Vincent. "Emerald" was supposed to have been present at the Battle of the Nile
Homosexuality and the Western Christian Tradition practice, is limited primarily to data regarding France and Britain, and has been superseded even in its major focus, biblical analysis." The gay scholar John Lauritsen, writing in "A Freethinker's Primer of Male Love" (1998), described "Homosexuality and the Western Christian Tradition" as the work of a Christian apologist who pleads for greater tolerance while "striving to exonerate the Church from her historic culpability in fostering intolerance". Homosexuality and the Western Christian Tradition Homosexuality and the Western Christian Tradition is a 1955 book about the history of Christianity and homosexuality by the theologian Derrick Sherwin Bailey. The medieval historian John