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	A Special Gleaner Feature on Pieces of the Past: 1692:Earthquake of Port Royal
		Founded in 1650, Port Royal was first captured by the English in 1655 and turned into a strategic military and naval base.
		From 1660 to 1692, Port Royal therefore became a haven for rogues such as the Welshman, Henry Morgan and 'three-fingered' Jack Rackham.
		All that was left of Port Royal was about 25 acres, a substantially depleted population and a skeleton of a town.
	www.jamaica-gleaner.com /pages/history/story001.html (1348 words)

	Port Royal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Port Royal was the center of shipping commerce in Jamaica until an earthquake on June 7, 1692 largely destroyed it, causing two thirds of the city to sink into the Caribbean Sea.
		Port Royal grew to be one of the two largest towns and the most economically important port in the English colonies.
		A new town of Port Royal was constructed near Old Port Royal and it became the principal station of the British naval forces in the Caribbean
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Port_Royal (976 words)

	Jamaica Gleaner - Port Royal: unravelling its geologic heritage - Thursday \| July 4, 2002
		One of the consequences of this was the further isolation of the Port Royal Cay, as a large gap of shallow water (several hundred metres wide) separated the surviving town from the rest of the Palisadoes spit.
		But, according to the records, this process was aided by the residents of Port Royal, who sank old naval vessels and boats (loaded with stones) in the gap, to speed up the process of accretion.
		In contrast, the gap between Port Royal and Gun Cay has narrowed considerably, and in time probably in another 400 years Gun Cay and other coral banks could be joined to the mainland assuming, of course, that human nature does not intervene (for example, dredging, and so on).
	jamaica-gleaner.com /gleaner/20020704/science/science2.html (685 words)

	JAMAICA - A premier caribbean travel destination featuring the resort areas of Montego Bay, Negril, Ocho Rios, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Port Royal is also the home of a few one-of-a-kind features; Kingston’s only sidewalk restaurant is here, Kingston’s only seaside hotel is just outside the town limits and Kingston’s most popular seaside pub can be found here.
		Port Royal is also home to the Archaeological Division of the Jamaica National Heritage Trust (JNHT), which recently completed a sonar survey of the underwater city, revealing a sunken pirate ship in the Kingston Harbour.
		In the seventeenth century, Port Royal was the headquarters of the numerous swashbuckling scoundrels that plundered the high seas.
	www.visitjamaica.com /resorts/kingston/places_general.aspx?guid=3a064610-aaf5-4247-8f9b-65bf7a8be926 (816 words)

	Historical Events - Port Royal, Jamaica, 1692
		The initial British settlement of Jamaica during the latter part of the 17th Century was concentrated on a long sandspit extending across the mouth of Kingston harbour, known as the Palisadoes.
		Earthquake damage to Port Royal was intense owing to amplification of the seismic waves by the soft sediment, and the extreme westernmost part of the Palisadoes sandspit subsided below sea level, by between 3 and 6 metres.
		Although the population of Jamaica is vastly greater now than it was at the beginning of the century, let alone than in 1692, the population of Port Royal had declined to around 1800 in the early 1980's.
	www.nerc-bas.ac.uk /tsunami-risks/html/HJamaica.htm (665 words)

	Book Review - Port Royal:The Sunken City (Jamaica)
		Today, Port Royal is a city of legends, legends of the 1692 earthquake and tidal wave that caused the city to sink beneath the sea, and legends of the fortunes that may be buried there.
		But Port Royal did not easily give up its treasures: working on a painfully slim budget, Marx and his rag-tag crew had to cope with murky, polluted waters; inhospitable sharks, eels and crabs; razor-sharp coral and ancient walls on the verge of collapse; and the intractable opposition of some financial and political interests.
		Port Royal The Sunken City is a superb read, and one that I would recommend to anybody, whether or not they are interested in marine archaeology.
	www.jamaicans.com /articles/bookreviews/portroyalbook.shtml (736 words)

	Port Royal, Jamaica
		Soon after their arrival in Jamaica in 1655, the English began mounting a defence of Port Royal against recapture by the Spanish.
		Pottery from the town of Frechen, near Cologne, was popular in England during the 17th century and was brought to Port Royal by English or Dutch traders.
		Delftware, a type of tin-glazed earthenware, was manufactured in England during the 17th century and was widely used in Port Royal.
	www.hmsf.org /exhibits/port-royal/piracy.htm (437 words)

	Travel Port Royal, Jamaica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Famed as the principal port of the pirates of the Caribbean in the late 17th century, it also was once the regional headquarters for the British Royal Navy - at a time when seapower controlled the world.
		Port Royal's booty was the property of the buccaneers, who carried it here from every city they sacked and every ship they robbed on the high seas.
		Port Royal soon gained a reputation as "the wickedest city in the world." Christian moralists said it could not go unpunished, and pointed to the ruinous 1692 quake as retribution.
	www.iriepeople.com /travel/port-royal.html (337 words)

	Port-Royal on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		THE PORT ROYAL EARTHQUAKE.(Port Royal, Jamaica earthquake in 1692)
		The growing popularity of Cafe Banal on Rue de Port Royal in Paris, France, is known for it's 1 Euro and half food menu and alcoholic beverages at the same price.
		Port Royal former base of buccaneers, destroyed by an earthquake in 1692.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/P/PortR1oyA1b.asp (578 words)

	Port Royal
		Port Royal was a safe protected harbor with a good draught and centrally located along the trade routes between Panama and Spain.
		Port Royal is basically the last cay in a line of connected cays extending from the mouth of the Hope River.
		Today Port Royal is a quiet little town, with only a few relics of its romantic past: Fort Charles at the entrance to the harbour once under the command of Horatio Nelson, St.
	blindkat.hegewisch.net /pirates/portroyal.html (2309 words)

	Port Royal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Port Royal was the capital city of Jamaica until an earthquake on June 7, 1692 largely destroyed it, causing two thirds of the city to sink into the Caribbean Sea.
		Situated on the Palisadoes sandspit at the western end of Jamaica, Port Royal had gained a reputation in the 17th century as both the "richest and wickedest city in the world".
		During part of the 17th century the British actively encouraged and even paid Buccaneers based at Port Royal to attack Spanish and French shipping.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/port_royal_1 (423 words)

	Port Royal - Destination Guide - Hotel Near (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		After wresting Jamaica from Spain in 1655, the British turned the island into a battle station, with five separate forts and a palisade at the north to defend against attackers coming over the cays.
		Despite the destruction, Port Royal continued to serve as the country's naval headquarters until the advent of steam ships saw the British Navy close its dockyard in 1905.
		Look back to sea as the ferry docks at Port Royal and you'll get not only a great view of the harbour, but a clear idea of the area's strategic military importance and a glimpse of its former limits.
	www.hotelnear.com /1238/1247/Jamaica-Port_Royal.html (766 words)

	CHAPTER 8
		The English ships returned to Port Royal where the two captains were tried for their conduct and shot.
		Port Royal and Kingston were severely affected and Savanna-la-mar was destroyed.
		They seized the town of Port Maria, armed themselves, murdered all the white people that fell into their hands, and were preparing for further outrages when they were met by the troops sent against them.
	www.discoverjamaica.com /gleaner/discover/geography/history2.htm (1840 words)

	Tour (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		During the seventeenth century Port Royal grew to be a city of 8,000 persons with fine brick houses (some of them four stories high), piped water, beer gardens, and prisons.
		Port Royal remains a historical treasure chest with most of its archaeological riches still buried in the sand or beneath the sea.
		Land excavations at the Port Royal Dockyard revealed another section of the old city including a buried church and a long-boat but due to lack of funds this dig was put on hold.
	www.jamaicanaffairs.com /portroyal.html (2133 words)

	USATODAY.com - Claudette speeds past Jamaica, sets sights on Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		PORT ROYAL, Jamaica (AP) — Fishermen dragged their skiffs to shore and braced for violent winds and battering waves Wednesday as Tropical Storm Claudette raged off Jamaica's south coast.
		Jamaica was under a tropical storm warning all day, but it was lowered at 8 p.m.
		Jamaica's government had urged people in flood-prone areas to be on alert and warned fishermen to stay in port.
	www.usatoday.com /weather/hurricane/2003-07-09-claudette_x.htm (586 words)

	Better than Atlantis?
		Once known as the "Wickedest City on Earth" for its sheer concentration of pirates, prostitutes and rum, Port Royal is now famous for another reason: "It is the only sunken city in the New World," according to Donny L. Hamilton of Texas A&M University's Institute of Nautical Archeology.
		Port Royal began its watery journey to the Academy Awards of nautical archeology on the morning of June 7, 1692, when, in a matter of minutes, a massive earthquake sent nearly 33 acres of the city -- buildings, streets, houses, and their contents and occupants -- careening into Kingston Harbor.
		Port Royal, says Hamilton, belongs to an elite group of archeological sites that includes Pompeii and Herculaneum, Roman towns frozen in time by the catastrophic eruption of Mount Vesuvius.
	whyfiles.org /036pirates/lost_city.html (683 words)

	HoratioNelson
		Nelson himself fell ill with fever and on his return to Port Royal, he was carried ashore on a cot and taken to the house of a Cubah Cornwallis, a free-coloured woman known to have saved the lives of numerous British sailors.
		Nelson recuperated in the country, all the while wishing to be at Port Royal.
		* The Port Royal Museum which was established in 1977 at the Fort Charles Complex in Port Royal, Kingston exhibits the history of Port Royal and maritime life in Jamaica from the Taino to the contemporary periods.
	www.angelfire.com /stars3/eaglefl/HoratioNelson.htm (2010 words)

	Jamaica Hotels by SmartStays - Lowest room rates and hotel reservations for Jamaica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Jamaica is an island nation and the third largest in Caribbean Sea, to east is Haiti, to west is Cayman Island.
		Port Antonio is the capital of the parish of Portland on the north eastern coast of Jamaica, about 100 km from Kingston.
		Its port is famous as a shipping point for bananas and coconuts, as well as one of its most important tourist attractions, tourism being a major contributor to the town’s economy.
	www.smartstays.com /jamaica (670 words)

	Port Royal Seafood Festival launched - JAMAICAOBSERVER.COM
		Mouth-watering seafood dishes of all varieties are being promised by the organisers of the innaugural Port Royal Seafood Festival, scheduled for Sunday, October 14 in Port Royal.
		Staged in conjunction with the Port Royal Fishermen's Co-operative, the activity is being marketed as a complete family fun day, and is expected to attract upward of 10,000 visitors to the former pirate haven and well-known seafood haunt.
		Speaking at the launch reception, member of the organising committee Ambassador Marjorie Taylor, cited Port Royal as Jamaica's seafood capital, arguing that the historically significant hamlet is a natural venue for the event.
	www.jamaicaobserver.com /lifestyle/html/20010921T220000-0500_14541_OBS_PORT_ROYAL_SEAFOOD_FESTIVAL_LAUNCHED.asp (569 words)

	Historical Museum of Southern Florida
		For centuries, Port Royal has been a focal point of Caribbean and Atlantic history: a cosmopolitan port and center for the African slave trade during the 17th century, a major base of the British Royal Navy during the 18th and 19th centuries, and a maritime town and world-class heritage site today.
		The Royal Navy era of Port Royal’s history will be portrayed through such items as a Spencer Browning and Rust telescope, pharmaceutical vials from the naval hospital, and a bust of Horatio Nelson, one of several British naval heroes who served in Port Royal during the 18th century.
		Among the many treasures are John Taylor’s map of Port Royal, with perspective views of the city before the earthquake, and two illustrations of ships at Port Royal by the prominent 19th-century British artist Joseph Bartholomew Kidd.
	www.hmsf.org /exhibitions-current-port-royal.htm (498 words)

	Port Royal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		Tucked away on the beautiful southern coast of sunny Jamaica lies today the remains of the historic city of Port Royal or Cayo de Carena, as the Spaniards called it.
		However, what we do know was the fact that Port Royal was haven for many people: pirates, privateers, drunkards, murderers, whoremongers, slave traders, gamblers, and even the infamous privateer Sir Henry Morgan.
		Port Royal became a den for undesirables to unleash their terror both on land and at sea.
	port_royal.tripod.com /portroyal.html (208 words)

	Port Royal Jamaica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
		With its wealth of detail & eyewitness accounts (numerous direct quotes from visitors, residents, and administrators of Port Royal), this book is a treasure trove for anyone who wants to learn about the same wicked town familiar to the pirates & buccaneers of the late 17th century.
		Having recently traveled to Port Royal, it was still difficult to imagine the city in its heyday.
		The 1st edition of this book was published in 1974, but this 2nd edition has been able to include many of the findings of archeological work and research done in the interim.
	www.textkit.com /0_0198215568.html (446 words)

	Port Royal, Jamaica
		In the late 17th century, Port Royal was the largest English town in the Americas (at the time, Boston was a close second).
		Port Royal was the economic center of the Caribbean but it was also called the
		This map is my interpretation of Port Royal as it was before the earthquake.
	shawnbrown.com /maps/port_royal.html (88 words)

	Jamaica Gleaner - Port Royal residents to play key role in development - Monday \| May 22, 2000
		Jamaica Gleaner - Port Royal residents to play key role in development - Monday
		PORT ROYAL'S 1,200 residents are to be fully integrated in the development of their community into a tourist attraction, says Robert Stephens, managing director of the Port Royal Development Co.
		"What we are doing is using this to prepare the people of Port Royal to be able to take advantage of opportunities that are going to come up in the project down the road," he said.
	jamaica-gleaner.com /gleaner/20000522/Business/Business1.html (389 words)

	Rare Jamaican Artifacts on Display at South Florida History Museum
		Port Royal, Jamaica is a ground-breaking exhibit that brings rare artifacts from the legendary Caribbean city to Miami.
		But in that short period of time, Port Royal rose to prominence as a cosmopolitan city where a wealthy minority lived off the economic boon of the slave trade and the bounty of privateers.
		“Port Royal was a city of pomp and prestige.
	www.miamibeach411.com /news/index.php?/news/comments/port-royal-jamaica-history (909 words)

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		Background: The project description as it currently stands During the late 17th century, Boston, Massachusetts, and Port Royal, Jamaica, were the two largest English towns in the Americas.
		Today, Port Royal is a small fishing village some 14 miles outside of Kingston, the capital of Jamaica, while Boston is a city of nearly 600,000 residents.
		The Port Royal project seeks to explore the divergence of these two places that have undergone dramatically different histories.
	cyber.law.harvard.edu /jamaica/text/port_royal_description.doc (338 words)

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