Name Esmeralda Ordered 15 May 1895 Commissioned 4 September 1896 Construction started 4 July 1895 Length 133 m | Namesake Esmeralda (1791) Laid down 4 July 1895 Decommissioned 1930 Launched 14 April 1896 | |
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Builders Armstrong Whitworth, Elswick, Tyne and Wear | ||
Esmeralda was developed as a custom design by naval architect Philip Watts for the Chilean Navy.
On 18 December 1907, the ship brought troops from Valparaíso to Iquique to repress thousands of miners from different nitrate mines in Chile's north who were appealing for government intervention to improve their living and working conditions. This later developed into the Santa María School massacre.
Esmeralda served in the Chilean Navy for approximately thirty years, until 1930.
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Chilean cruiser Esmeralda (1895) Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA