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Esmeralda

Museum Corbeta Esmeralda In Iquique, a replica of the Esmeralda as she was on 20 May 1879 was opened as a museum ship on 20 May 2011 by President Sebasti?n Pi?era, including the descendants of Arturo Prat. The museum corresponds on the representation of 1:1 scale of the major departments in Esmeralda. Career (Chile) Name: Esmeralda Namesake: Esmeralda (1791) Ordered: 30 June 1852 Awarded: 23 October 1854 Builder: William Pitcher, Northfleet, England Cost: ?23,000 Laid down: December 1854 Launched: 26 June 1855 Commissioned: 18 September 1855 Fate: Sunk, 21 May 1879 General characteristics Type: Steam corvette Tons burthen: 854 77⁄94 tons bm Length: 210 ft (64 m) o/a (excluding bowsprit) 180 ft (55 m) (p/p) 166 ft (51 m) (keel) Beam: 32 ft (9.8 m) Depth of hold: 18 ft (5.5 m) Propulsion: 4 ? coal-fired boilers 2 ? horizontal condensing steam engines 200 ihp (149 kW) at 31 rpm Single screw Sail plan: Full-rigged ship Speed: 8 knots (15 km/h; 9.2 mph) (under steam) Complement: 200 Armament: ? As built ? 20 ? 32-pounder long guns ? 2 ? 12-pounder guns ? From 1868 ? 12 ? Armstrong 40-pounder rifled guns ? 4 ? Whitworth 40-pounder smoothbore guns Service record Commanders: Robert Winthrop Simpson Juan Williams Rebolledo Arturo Prat Chac?n Operations: Chincha Islands War

Username	surveychile
Shipowner	Chilean Navy
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Type of ship	Corvette
Year of build and builder	1855 William Pitcher, Northfleet, England
Date	27 June 2015
Place	Port of Iquique, Chile.
Added on	05/09/2015
Dimension	1200 x 900
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