| Navy | The Royal Navy |
| Type | Light cruiser |
| Class | E |
| Pennant | D 66 |
| Built by | Armstrong (Newcastle-on-Tyne, U.K.) : Wallsend |
| Ordered | |
| Laid down | 23 Sep 1918 |
| Launched | 19 May 1920 |
| Commissioned | 14 Jan 1926 |
| End service | |
| Loss position | |
| History | Sold to be broken up for scrap on 23 July 1948. Arrived at Troon to be scrapped by Arnott Young on 5 July 1948. Commanding Officers: Capt. Francis Cyril Flynn, RN HMS Emerald was in Dockyard Control during refit Capt. Francis James Wylie, RN Capt. Robin Wynell Mayow Lloyd, DSO, RN (retired) Capt. Wilfred Pearse Gandell, CBE, RN (retired) |
Commands listed for HMS Emerald (D 66)
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| Commander | From | To | ||
| 1 | Capt. Augustus Willington Shelton Agar, VC, DSO, RN | 31 Jul 1939 | 1 Jun 1940 | |
| 2 | Capt. Francis Cyril Flynn, RN | 1 Jun 1940 | Aug 1942 ? | |
| 3 | Capt. Francis James Wylie, RN | Mar 1943 | 5 Oct 1944 | |
| 4 | Capt. (retired) Robin Wynell Mayow Lloyd, RN | 5 Oct 1944 | 9 Mar 1945 | |
| 5 | Capt. (retired) Wilfred Pearse Gandell, RN (retired) | 9 Mar 1945 | Oct 1945 ? | |
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Noteable events involving Emerald include:
10 Oct 1940
The British cruisers HMS Newcastle (Capt. E.A. Aylmer, DSC, RN) and HMS Emerald (Capt. F.C. Flynn, RN), with the British destroyers HMS Broke (Cdr. B.G. Scurfield, RN) and HMS Wanderer (Cdr. J.H. Ruck-Keene, DSC, RN) of the 17th DF and the Polish destroyers Garland (Cdr. K. Namiesniowski, ORP) and Burza (Cdr. A. Doroszkowski, ORP) act as a screen to the British battleship HMS Revenge (Capt. E.R. Archer, RN) during a bombardment of Cherbourg.