Several ships of the Chilean Navy have been named Esmeralda
, a Spanish frigate that Chile captured in 1820 and renamed Valdivia; she was wrecked in 1825 , a wooden steam corvette sunk during the War of the Pacific , the world's first protected cruiser; purchased by Japan in 1894 and renamed Izumi , an armored cruiser , ex-HMCS Glace Bay (K414) , a training ship of the Chilean Navy, launched in 1953