Chilean cruiser Esmeralda

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.

See also
 South American dreadnought race
 List of decommissioned ships of the Chilean Navy

Notes

References
 Brooke, Peter. Warships for Export: Armstrong Warships 1867–1927. Gravesend, UK: World Ship Society, 1999. .
 Chesneau, Roger and Eugene M. Kolesnik. Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. London: Conway's Maritime Press, 1979. .

External links
 Chilean Navy site Esmeralda (1895), retrieved on 17 December 2012

Category:Cruisers of the Chilean Navy
Category:1895 ships