HMS Jamaica (C44)

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Crown Colony class

General Characteristics
Displacement:	10,725 tons full load (10,840 tons full load Ceylon-class)
Length:	555.5 ft (169 m)
Beam:	62 ft (18.9 m)
Draught:	16.5 ft (5.0 m)
Propulsion:	4 Parsons geared turbines, 4 boilers, 4 shafts, 72,500 shp (54 MW), 80,000 (60 MW) Ceylon class
Speed:	32 knots (59 km/h)
Range:	10,100 nautical miles (18,700 km) at 12 knots (22 km/h)
Complement:	730
Armament:	12 × 6 in (15 mm) guns, 9 × 6 in (152 mm) guns Ceylon class 8 × 4 in (102 mm) guns 8 × 2 pounder (907 g) guns, 12 × 2 pounder (907 g) guns Ceylon class 20 × Oerlikon 20 mm guns 6 × 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes
Aircraft:	Two Supermarine Walrus aircraft (Later removed)

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.

She served in World War II, taking part in a number of operations during that war, notably the Battle of the Barents Sea and the battle of North Cape, 26 December 1943 in which the German battlecruiser Scharnhorst was sunk. 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. She was scrapped in 1960.

Crown Colony-class cruiser

Royal Navy

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