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	HMS Jamaica (C44) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		HMS Jamaica (C44), a Crown Colony class cruiser of the Royal Navy, was named after the island of Jamaica, which was a British possession when she was built.
		In April, 1944, HMS Jamaica was one of the escorts for the carrier force for Operation Tungsten, a Fleet Air Arm attack on the German battleship Tirpitz.
		In the Korean War, Jamaica was known as "The Galloping Ghost of the Korean Coast", due to the North Koreans claiming that she had been sunk three times.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/HMS_Jamaica_(C44) (242 words)

	Jamaica Gleaner - J'can in the British navy - Monday \| September 26, 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		When the 250 person crew of the HMS Cumberland docked in the Coal Pier in Rockfort last week, a Jamaican was among the ranks.
		He attended Jamaica College and is a few weeks away from his 21st birthday.
		The HMS Cumberland on which he sails is a frigate (a small battleship) but the crew's main mission in the Caribbean will involve tackling drug traffickers as part of an international coalition.
	www.jamaica-gleaner.com /gleaner/20050926/flair/flair6.html (485 words)

	HMS Jamaica - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		HMS Jamaica (1779), a 16-gun sloop purchased in 1779 and sold in 1783
		HMS Jamaica (1796), formerly the French Percente, captured in 1796 and taken in as a 26-gun 6th-rate, sold in 1814
		HMS Jamaica (C44), a cruiser launched 1940 and scrapped 1960
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/HMS_Jamaica (174 words)

	HMS Triumph (R16) - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		HMS Triumph (R16) (1944–1981) was a Colossus-class light fleet aircraft carrier, laid down during World War II on 27 January 1943.
		Her construction was relatively quick, with the carrier being launched on 2 October 1944 with the war only a few months from its finish.
		Consort and Jamaica, who would both have prominent roles during the Korean War, as well as the Australian Shoalhaven, a River-class frigate and the Royal Fleet Auxiliary tanker Wave Conqueror, joined Triumph as she departed the base.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/HMS_Triumph_%28R16%29 (1532 words)

	HMS Ganges Association History Royal Navy
		Admiralty orders of 5th June 1816 directed her to be built as a facsimile of HMS Canopus which was the ex French ship 'Franklin' which fought at the Battle of the Nile, 1st August 1798.
		HMS Ganges sailed to Devonport for keel to be scraped.
		By 1901 sufficient beds were ready ashore to enable HMS Caroline to discharge her patients and return to Chatham to be fitted out as an overflow training ship for the Ganges with accommodation for 60 boys.
	www.hmsgangesassoc.org /frigate.html (1400 words)

	uboat.net - Allied Warships - Light cruiser HMS Jamaica of the Fiji class
		Jamaica was part of the covering force for the carriers HMS Formidable and HMS Indefatigable.
		This was kept an American affair, but the 6 inch guns of Jamaica and her sister ship HMS Kenya were a valuable addition to the gunfire support groups of the American Task Force.
		When renewing her attack she was engaged by the British cruisers HMS Sheffield and HMS Jamaica and was badly damaged them.
	www.uboat.net /allies/warships/ship/4033.html (1405 words)

	HMS JAMAICA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Tanton, Kelvin served in HMS JAMAICA between 1954 and 1955
		Raymond, Bull served in HMS JAMAICA between 1947 and 1956
		Studd, Peter served in HMS JAMAICA between 1956 and 1957
	www.comradesandcolleagues.com /ROYAL_NAVY/HMS_JAMAICA.asp (169 words)

	HMS Kenya
		HMS Kenya was involved in the Hunt for the German battleship Bismarck.
		HMS Illustrious and HMS Kenya at Devonport by Ivan Berryman
		HMS Illustrious slips quietly away from the docks at Devonport, Plymouth with the Fiji class cruiser in the middle distance, 1941.
	www.naval-art.com /hms_kenya.htm (893 words)

	Order of Battle - The Battle of the Barents Sea - 31 December 1942
		HMS Anson, Cumberland and 3 destroyers reached their covering position S of the convoy on 27th, where they patrolled until the 29th to guard against an attack from the S. iv.
		HMS Bramble, Cmdr. H.T. Rust, DSO (Senior Officer, Close Escort); the fate of HMS* Bramble was not known until after the end of the war.
		HMS Vizalma, Lt. J.R. Angleback, RNVR, escorting SS Chester Valley, which had became separated from the convoy in a storm on 28th December, and was proceeding to Murmansk independently of the convoy.
	www.navweaps.com /index_oob/OOB_WWII_Atlantic/OOB_WWII_Barents_Sea.htm (2234 words)

	Hewanorra Musical Society (HMS) Incorporated, a Caribbean association of composers, songwriters and music publishers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		HMS policy and management are determined by a Board of Directors elected by the general membership and comprises of: - 6 writers, 2 publishers, 1 PRS appointee and 1 Government appointee.
		HMS licences run from year to year unless determined by either party serving the required notice as provided for in the licence.
		HMS operates as a non- profit-making organization with the sole mission of bringing together the people who create music with the people who play music, as economically and efficiently as possible.
	www.hmsstlucia.org /faqs.htm (2755 words)

	HMS Norfolk royal navy cruiser
		HMS Norfolk also took part in the action against the Scharnhorst, she was hit by two, 11-inch shells, one of which went through the X ring bulkhead and went overboard without exploding.
		HMS Norfolk at the Battle of the North Cape by Ivan Berryman.
		HMS Norfolk and HMS Belfast of Force I are shown engaging the Scharnhorst which has already been hit and disabled by both HMS Duke of York and the cruiser HMS Jamaica.
	www.ivanberryman.co.uk /hms_norfolk.htm (899 words)

	HMS Jamaica
		JAMAICA had been stationed in the West Indies, considered by most to be a rather "cushy number", so of course I was not the only one "crying in my beer" when the ship was moved to the Far East Station as a result of the tension and uncertainty in that area.
		JAMAICA continued operations on the east coast of Korea and U.S and U.K units were soon joined by ships from Australia, New Zealand and other Commonwealth countries.
		JAMAICA shook from stem to stern as every gun free to engage fired and the unfortunate pilot together with his aircraft disintegrated in a flash and disappeared into the water.
	www.britains-smallwars.com /korea/Jamaica2.htm (2359 words)

	Cayman Net News: Dis n’ Dat ..
		Jamaica’s renowned floral artistry was on full display at Flower Mart 2006, the premier outdoor festival for garden and floral enthusiasts from the mid-Atlantic United States region, which was held from 5 to 6 May, in Washington, DC.
		The museum of the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF), Up Park Camp, is to receive an important addition to its collection as a result of the kindness of former Royal Navy man, Hugh Campbell, who has donated a Tampion from the HMS Jamaica.
		The Vice Admiral, who was then a Captain, commanded the HMS Jamaica in 1946/47 and on leaving the ship, he was presented with the tampion from one of the secondary armament guns.
	www.caymannetnews.com /cgi-script/csArticles/articles/000021/002114.htm (1156 words)

	SC&H Model Sailing Ships: The story of the HMS Surprise
		The frigate HMS Surprise sailing for the first time.
		It was difficult to rate her and she was regarded as a fifth rate till 1798 and then re-classed as a sixth rate.
		She sailed to Jamaica in July 1796 under the command of Captain Edward Hamilton.
	www.modelsailingships.com /ships/stories/hms_story.html (401 words)

	HMS Belfast
		HMS Belfast is shown hunting for the Scharnhorst and HMS Belfast shown at Scapa Flow.
		HMS Belfast: Was a Southampton class Cruiser, along with HMS Edinburgh (Lost May 1942) she made up the third and final group of Cruisers in the Class.
		HMS Belfast was launched on the 17th March 1938 at Harland and Wolff Shipyard.
	www.naval-art.com /hms_belfast.htm (640 words)

	HMS Belfast, London
		HMS Belfast was launched in 1938 and saw service in World War II.
		HMS Belfast has a maximum speed of 32 knots, and a crew of 750-850.
		The HMS Belfast was joined by two more cruisers – the Norfolk and Sheffield – whilst the battle cruisers HMS Duke of York and HMS Jamaica blocked her off from the south.
	www.londondrum.com /cityguide/hms-belfast.php (529 words)

	Jamaica (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jamaica is a nation in the Caribbean Sea.
		HMS Jamaica (C44), a cruiser of the Royal Navy
		Jamaica State Park, a state park in Vermont
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jamaica_(disambiguation) (130 words)

	Historical Articles
		HMS Exeter, with 61 dead and 23 wounded, continued to fight despite only having one turret working and being on emergency steering whilst the Ajax, with 7 dead and 5 wounded, was seriously damaged and the Achilles, with 4 dead, was slightly damaged.
		Acting BdCpl E Laughton had been drafted to HMS Barham in 1938 and was still serving on her in 1941 when the ship was involved in the Battle of Cape Matapan where British forces destroyed three Italian cruisers and two destroyers whilst also damaging a battleship.
		HMS Argus, commissioned in 1918 as the first flush-deck carrier, and HMS Eagle were the carriers that escorted the convoy as far as ‘The Narrows’ between Sicily and Tunis at which point they, and the rest of the main escort, detached and returned to Gibraltar.
	www.royalmarinesbands.co.uk /history/BraveryAwards.htm (2815 words)

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		The British destroyer HMS Firedrake rushed to the scene and rescued fifteen men who had slid down the hawse pipe.
		The close escort was limited to one Flower-class corvette, HMS Azalea, which was stationed one mile ahead of a column of five LSTs (Landing Ships, Tank).
		One destroyer, the old Admiralty S-class HMS Saladin, was stationed to the south of the convoy as a screening force.
	www.seawaves.com /newsletters/TDIH/april/28Apr.txt (2044 words)

	Fiji Class
		HMS Fiji, HMS Kenya, HMS Mauritius, HMS Nigeria, HMS Trinidad, HMS Ceylon, HMS Gambia, HMS Jamaica, HMS Uganda, HMS Bermuda, HMS New Foundland including crew and families of ex-crew members notice board for the Fiji Class cruisers.
		HMS Fiji was built at Clydebank by John brown ship builders and laid down on the 30th march 1938, launched 31st May 1939 and completed 17th may 1940.
		HMS Jamaica was built at Vickers Armstrong at barrow, and laid down on the 28th April 1938, launched 16th November 1940 and completed 29th June 1942.
	www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk /fiji_class.htm (1727 words)

	Harvard Medical School - Division of AIDS - Office for International Programs - MASH (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		At HMS DAIDS, we believe that academic institutions have a crucial and specific role in the ongoing fight against the global AIDS epidemic.
		The resources at HMS and the urgent need for our core strengths in training, education, and research have led directly to the development of the MASH Program for global AIDS care and treatment.
		The faculty and staff of the HMS Division of AIDS can best contribute to these efforts through their clinical expertise; through their experience in program development and treatment of HIV in resource-poor settings, through the education of clinicians and health care providers, and through the conduct of research to improve programs in clinical care.
	www.hms.harvard.edu /aids/programs/oip/mash.htm (1987 words)

	The National Archives \| Research, education & online exhibitions \| Exhibitions \| Nelson, Trafalgar, and those who ...
		Jamaica’s governor, Major-General Dalling, briefed Nelson about his plan to attack Spanish colonies in Central America, and with a military force go into Nicaragua, up through the San Juan River.
		Nelson was chosen to command the naval element of the operation, which involved transporting troops, owing to his practical experience and knowledge of this coastline.
		The convoy left Kingston, Jamaica, on 3 February 1780 arriving safely at the mouth of the San Juan River on 10 April 1780.
	www.nationalarchives.gov.uk /nelson/gallery3/sanjuan.htm (867 words)

	Navy News - Jack to Jack - Over To You - J to L (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		HMS Jamaica: The granddaughter of the late Sidney Robinson is looking for anybody who served on the ship between 1942 and 1945 in ww2 or has any information or pictures regarding her grandfather who lived in Huddersfield before and after the war.
		HMS Le Tiger: Looking for men that served with armed trawler HMS Le Tiger or anyone remembering the convoy BA-2 from New York to Halifax, Nova Scotia on the 3rd July 1942, Liberty ship ss Alexander Macomb was attacked and sunk by U-215.
		HMS Llandaff (F61): Mike Brady is researching the history of HMS Llandaff which was handed over to Bangladesh and renamed Umar Farooq (F16) in 1976.
	www.navynews.co.uk /oty/otyjtol.asp (1424 words)

	Research Collections Information Service Sheets at the Royal Naval Museum
		He was appointed acting Lieutenant on HMS Winchelsea in June 1746, serving off the north coast of Scotland, in the North Sea and the Channel.
		On the 19th November 1746, whilst cruising off Scilly Isles, HMS Winchelsea was involved in action against the French frigate Subtile, during which Hood was wounded in the hand.
		On his return to England in September 1782, he was made an Irish peer, and given the freedom of the city of London, and during the 1784 general election he was returned to parliament for Westminster.
	www.royalnavalmuseum.org /info_sheets_samuel_hood.htm (856 words)

	HMS Mauritius - The Royal Navy Ships of Victor Johns
		H.M.S. Mauritius was commissioned by Captain L. Curzon-Howe, M.V.O., late in 1940.
		The previous day had been spent in a series of conferences and inspections, a necessary prelude to the handing over of the ship by the builders, Messrs.
		The local papers of December the 2nd heralded in large type the arrival of HMS Prince of Wales and Repulse, with four destroyers, and within a few days we were busily working on our 0.5-inch machine guns and so were ready for the Japanese air attack on the 8th.
	home.swipnet.se /ew-11578/hms_mauritius.htm (3217 words)

	Focus: August 26, 1994 - Urban Health Projects
		She has spent the summer working for Brookside Community Health Center in Jamaica Plain, counseling teenage girls about family planning and, in her role as camp counselor, constantly playing peacemaker to troubled kids over-ready to fight with each other.
		HMS students have performed such tasks as serving as counselors to the homeless, surveying elderly patients about home-care, and organizing health-promotion events.
		HMS students bring their talents to community groups; in turn, the program provides the students with an opportunity to become more familiar with the needs of underserved populations.
	focus.hms.harvard.edu /1994/August26_1994/Urban.html (845 words)

	Pirate Strongholds & Hideouts (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		For a while, Jamaica was considered to be the personal property of Columbus and when he died in 1506, the title passed to his son Diego, who appointed Jamaica’s first governor, Don Juan de Esquivel.
		The colonies on Jamaica, however, languished and were seen as weak targets; constantly harassed by French, English and Dutch pirates who had begun to ply their deadly trade throughout the Caribbean.
		Even though Spain’s attitude towards Jamaica had been exceedingly casual, the seizure of the island by the English made the Spaniards realise that the loss of it presented a very great and real threat to their other colonies in the New World.
	www.piratesinfo.com.cob-web.org:8888 /detail/detail.php?article_id=72 (7731 words)

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		It was covered by Fraser's Force 1 from Scapa Flow, comprising the battle HMS Duke of York, light cruiser HMS Jamaica, and destroyers HM Ships Matchless, Musketeer (Leader), Opportune, Saumarez, Savage, Scorpion and Virago and the Norwegian destroyer Stord.
		It was covered by Vice-Admiral R.B. Burnett's Force 2, comprising the heavy cruiser HMS Norfolk and the light cruisers HMS Belfast (Flag) and HMS Sheffield, which departed Murmansk on 23 December.
		Scharnhorst was now being pounded by Duke of York and Jamaica from one side and Belfast from the other, firing at the dull smoky glow that was all that anyone could make out in the gloom.
	www.bobhenneman.info /bhnc.htm (1535 words)

	BBC NEWS \| UK \| England \| London \| HMS Belfast restages WWII battle
		HMS Belfast played a leading part in the destruction of the German battle cruiser Scharnhorst on Boxing Day 1943.
		The Scharnhorst had planned to attack an allied convoy heading from England to Russia but, having been lured into a trap and surrounded, it was unable to use its famed speed after taking a direct hit in one of her boiler rooms.
		And only 36 of her 1,963 crew survived the freezing waters of the Barents Sea off the northern Norwegian coast after HMS Belfast and HMS Jamaica sunk her with torpedoes.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/uk_news/england/london/3351517.stm (201 words)

	uboat.net - Allied Warships - Fiji class Light cruisers
		HMS Ceylon, HMS Newfoundland and HMS/HMCS Uganda were completed with only three 6\" gun turrets.
		HMS Gambia (48) (To the Royal New Zealand Navy as HMNZS Gambia)
		HMS Uganda (66) (To the Royal Canadian Navy as HMCS Uganda)
	uboat.net /allies/warships/class.html?ID=73&navy=HMS (155 words)

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