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
A Study in Emerald of Gaiman's short story collection "Fragile Things," in the collection "New Cthulhu: The Recent Weird", and is available online. The online version takes the form of a Victorian periodical or newspaper, which includes various advertisements that reference characters such as Vlad Tepes, Victor Frankenstein, Spring Heeled Jack, and Dr. Jekyll. In the introduction to "Fragile Things", Gaiman cites Philip José Farmer's Wold Newton Universe, Kim Newman's "Anno Dracula" series (which Gaiman helped create), and Alan Moore's "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen" as being the major influences of "A Study in Emerald". The story begins with its (as yet) unnamed narrator,