HMS Emerald (D66)

HMS Emerald was an Emerald-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy, built by Armstrong at Newcastle-on-Tyne. Her keel was laid on 23 September 1918, she was launched on 19 May 1920 and she was commissioned on 14 January 1926. She served in the East Indies with the 4th Cruiser Squadron, took part in the 1927 Nanking Incident, and in 1926 was visited off Jeddah by Ibn Saud. In the Second World War she began on Northern Patrol duties, escorted convoys from Halifax under Captain Augustus Agar, and in June 1940 carried 58 million pounds in gold from Greenock to Halifax for safe keeping in Canada. She then served in the Indian Ocean and with the Eastern Fleet, and supported Gold Beach during the Normandy invasion. In 1947 she was allocated for ship target trials, foundered in Kames Bay on 24 October after them and was refloated in June 1948 before being broken up at Troon.