HMS Emerald was an Emerald-class corvette, of the Royal Navy, built at the Pembroke Dockyard and launched on 18 August 1876.

[1] She escorted Sir Hercules Robinson, the Governor of New Zealand from Sydney to Auckland in May 1879.

Emerald was sent on a punitive mission in the Solomon Islands in 1879 after the captain and three crew of HMS Sandfly were killed by natives.

She commissioned for the North America and West Indies Station in 1886, before returning to England in 1892 and again being placed into reserve.

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