Name HMS Jamaica Builder Deptford Dockyard Commissioned July 1744 Launched 17 July 1744 | Ordered 18 August 1743 Laid down 15 September 1743 Construction started 15 September 1743 | |
Completed 28 August 1744 at Deptford Dockyard | ||
HMS Jamaica was a 10-gun (14-gun from 1749) two-masted Hind-class sloop of the Royal Navy, designed by Joseph Allin and built by him at Deptford Dockyard on the Thames River, England and launched on 17 July 1744. She and her sister Trial were the only sloops to be built in the Royal Dockyards between 1733 and 1748.
After more than 25 years service, she was wrecked off Cuba on 27 January 1770.
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