Emerald says: "§ 23.23(c) It is unfair or deceptive to use the word "laboratory-grown", "laboratory-created", "[manufacturer name]-created", or "synthetic" with the name of any natural stone to describe any industry product unless such industry product has essentially the same optical, physical, and chemical properties as the stone named." Emerald is regarded as the traditional birthstone for May as well as the traditional gemstone for the astrological signs of Cancer. One of the quainter anecdotes about emeralds was told by the 16th-century historian Brantôme, who referred to the many impressive emeralds the Spanish under Cortez had brought back to Europe from Latin
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