Laid down at Rochefort, France in 1757, renamed La Ville d Pari in1762, launched on 19 January 1764, commissioned in 1762, captured by the British in the Battle of the Saintes on 12 April 1782,underway from Jamaica to England sunk off Newfoundland during the so-called Central Atlantic hurricane in September 1872.
Part of the Galeones de plata de Tierra Firme. Under command of Don Carlo de Ibarra. Left San Lúcar on 1 May 1637, arrived at Porto Belo, Panama on 27 June. Tonnage 200 tons. Captain Don Francisco Antonio de Andarda; Geronimo de Barreda. Of Jamaica. Returned the same year.
Source
Huguette et Pierre Chaunu. Seville et l’Atlantique 1504-1650, vol. 3.
An item reported that a merchant ship was torpedoed and sunk by an enemy submarine around 280 nautical miles southeast of Jamaica. The J.I.C. commented that this was the frst submarine attack since a while in the Caribbean.
Source
Map Room Papers (Roosevelt Administration), 1942 - 1945. U.S. Joint Intelligence Committee. Daily summary No. 124 dated 13 April 1942
An item reported that the British cruiser HMS Constance had a large program of visiting harbours between November 1921-January 1922. Although the dates were still approximate, she should visit Kingston, Jamaica between 15-21 November. Progresso 24 November, Puerto Mexico, Vera Cruz 6 December, Tampico 10 December, Galveston 15 December, New Orleans 20 December, Mobile 28 December, Pensacola 31 December, Tampa 4 January 1922, Key West 10 January and Bermuda 26 January.
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1. Part of C-class Cambrian-sub-class light cruisers, preceded by Arethusa-class, succeeed by Danae-class, laid down by Cammell Laird on 25 January 1915, launched on 12 September 1915, completed and commissioned in January 1916, decommissioned in March 1931 and sold to be broken up on 8 June 1936.
Source
The National Archives, Kew Gardens, England CAB-24-129-57
An item reported that the British cruiser HMS Raleigh had a large program of visiting harbours between November 1921-March 1922. Although the dates were still approximate, she should visit Kingston, Jamaica between 15-21 November, Colon, Panama 24 November, San Diego 4 December, San Pedro 8 December, Esquimalt 14 December, Monterey 17 January 1922, Santa Monica 21 January, Santa Catalena 26 January, Acapulco 2 February, Panama 11 February, Colon 13 February, Belize 16 February, Havana, Cuba 20 February, Nassau, Bahamas 26 February arriving at Bermuda on 3 March.(1)
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1. Part of Hawkins-class heavy cruisers, succeeded by County-class, laid down by William Beardmore, Dalmuir, Scotland on 9 December 1915, launched on 28 August 1919, completed in July 1921 and wrecked off Labrador, Canada on 8 August 1922, wreck partially remained.
Source
The National Archives, Kew Gardens, England CAB-24-129-57
An item reported that in the night of 17-18 August 3 freighters of a convoy were torpedoed during 2 attacks south westward of Guantanamo, Cuba. During the current month were 14 ships torpedoed which were part of the convoys in the area Straits of Florida-North Cuba-Windward Passage-Jamaica.
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Map Room Papers (Roosevelt Administration), 1942 - 1945. U.S. Joint Intelligence Committee. Daily summary No. 252 dated 19 August 1942
An item reported that the British HMS Cambrian would due Colon, Panama on 2 December, bringing the British minister, Panama and the naval attache to Port Limon, Costa Rica and continue the voyage towards Belize, Jamaica, Santiago, Port au Prince, Haiti arriving around 15 January 1921 at Bermuda.(1)
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1. Of the C-class light cruisers Cambrian sub-class, preceded by Arethusa-class, succeeded by Danae-class, building ordered in September 1914, laid down by HM Dockyard Pembroke on 8 December 1914, launched on 3 March 1916, completed and commissioned in May 1916, finally decommissioned in July 1933 and sold to be broken up on 28 July 1934.
Source
The National Archives, Kew Gardens, England CAB-24-115-34
According to the list and supplements 1-2 on 13 September 1945 BDZ No. 673 sent by the office of armament the Royal Netherlands Navy located at 41 East 42nd Street, New York 17, USA. There were no complete records available, so there were several sources used to compile the list. Sometimes the kind of guns gave indirect information regarding the origin such as 4”/BL and 12 pounder guns were British mostly supplied in the United Kingdom, Canada or Curacao. The 4.7” guns were old Japanese guns placed on some vessels in the begin of the war at Singapore and some 4” guns in the same period at Surabaya, Dutch East Indies. The trade in which the ship was used gave also an indication were the guns were supplied, for example involved in the Pacific trade means supplied at the West Coast.
Armed with 2-2cm guns supplied at New York on 6 April 1942
Armed with 6-2cm guns supplied at Baltimore on 25 November 1942
Armed with 1-10,16cm/4” 50 Mk. 12 gun
Cargo-passenger ship laid down by Rotterdamsche Droogdok Maatschappij N.V., Rotterdam, Netherlands with yard number 144 for account of N.V. Stoomvaart Maatschappij Nederland, Amsterdam, Netherlands on 29 October 1927, launched on 11 August 1928, delivered on 4 December 1928 and underway from Bombay, British Indies towards Baltimore and New York, USA via the Panama Canal torpedoed and sunk by the German submarine U 759 in the Caribbean near Jamaica on 6 July 1943. Call sign PQJN and after 1934 PGTX. Speed 15 knots with an oil fuelled 2-stroke singe-acting 7.040 bhp Sulzer machinery. Gross tonnage 9.251,00 tons, net tonnage 5.657,00 tons, deadweight 10.794,00 tons, grain capacity 643.645 cubic feet, bale capacity 556.236 cubic feet and and dimensions 149,36 x 18,59 x 11,20 metres.
Source
Archieven van hoofd handelsbescherming en diverse handelsbeschermingsofficieren 1941-1946 inv.no. 53 (Nationaal Archief, The Hague, Netherlands.
An item reported that after the visit by H.R.H. The Prince of Wales [the later king Edward VIII] to Jamaica was cancelled, changed also the program of the British battle cruiser HMS Renown. She was to depart from Colon, Panama on 14 September, arriving at Grenada on 17 September, the next day at Trinidad, at Demerara, British Guiana [Guyana] on 21 September, Antigua on 24 September, three days later at Bermuda and finally leaving from there on 29 September bound for Portsmouth, England.
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1. Of the Renown-class with as sister ship the Repulse. Original laid down as an improved Revenge-class battleships design but when the First World War broke out was her completion delayed and afterwards completed as battle cruisers. Building ordered on 30 December 1914, laid down at Fairfield, Govan, Scotland on 25 January 1915, launched on 4 March 1916, commissioned on 20 September 1915 and sold on 19 March 1948.
Source
The National Archives CAB 24-111-18
An item referred to a statement of the British Admiralty that the British cruiser HMS Nigeria (1) arrived at Port Stanley, Falkland Islands on Thursday. The British 9.850 tons training cruiser HMS Devonshire (2) left yesterday (26th) Jamaica with unknown destination.
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1. Part of the Crown Colony or Fiji-class light cruisers, preceded by Dido-class, succeeded by Minotaur-class, building ordered on 20 December 1937, laid down by Vickers Armstrong, Walker, Newcastle on Tyne, England on 8 February 1938, launched on 18 July 1939, commissioned on 23 September 1940, sold to India on 29 April 1957, renamed Mysore, decommissioned on 20 August 1985 and broken up.
2. Pennant C39. Of the County-class heavy cruisers London sub-class, preceded by Hawkins-class and succeeded by York-class. Laid down by the Devonport Dockyard on 16 March 1926, launched on 22 October 1927, commissioned on 18 March 1929, reclassified as training ship in 1947 and sold to be broken up on 16 June 1954.
An item reported that British light cruiser HMS Cambrian was probably to be placed at the disposal of the Under Secretary of State for the Colonies for a cruise in the Lesser Antilles leaving Jamaica around 24 December and arriving at Trinidad on 19 January 1922.(1)
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1. Of the C-class light cruisers Cambrian sub-class, preceded by Arethusa-class, succeeded by Danea-class, building ordered in September 1914, laid down at the HM Dockyard, Pembroke on 8 December 1914, launched on 3 March 1916, commissioned in May 1916, last time decommissioned on July 1933 and sold to be broken up on 28 July 1934.
Source
The National Archives CAB-24-129-42. Secret Admiralty Weekly Intelligence Summary Nr. 42 for the week ending 22 October 1921.
An item referred to a statement of the British Admiralty that the British 9.850 ton cruiser HMS Devonshire (1) the evening before departed with troops embarked from Jamaica towards Belize, British Honduras. (2) The HMS Sheffield (3) was to arrive on the 28th at Belize. The British department or foreign affairs stated officially that the Sheffield was sent to act against a possible attack by irresponsible elements from Guatemala. The Devonshire was to arrive within 24 hours.
Notes
1. Pennant 39. Of the County-class heavy cruisers London sub-class, preceded by Hawkins-class and succeeded by York-class. Laid down by the Devonport Dockyard on 16 March 1926, launched on 22 October 1927, commissioned on 18 March 1929, reclassified as training ship in 1947 and sold to be broken up on 16 June 1954.
2. Guatemala threatened in February 1948 to invade British Honduras and annex the territory which she was claiming since the 19th Century. There were however at the border no signs of such an invasion. Belize became on 21 September 1981 independent.
3. C24. Part of the Town-class Southampton sub-class light cruisers, preceded by Arethusa-class and succeeded by Crown Colony and Dido-classes, laid down by Vickers Armstrong, United Kingdom, on 31 January 1935, launched on 23 July 1936, commissioned on 25 August 1937 and broken up at Faslane, Scotland in 1967
An item dated London, England 24th reported that the British cruiser HMS Ajax (1) would go from Bermuda to Kingston, Jamaica to support the local government. According to the latest tidings was a large crowd gathering for the main police office at Kingston where the two arrested Union leaders were locked up together with another 70 men arrested that same morning during the demonstration.
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1. Pennant 22. Of the Leander-class light cruisers consisting of the Leander, Orion, Neptune, Ajax, Achilles, Amphion, Apollo and Sydney). With the Leander and the Perth-Sydney-Hobart forming sub classes. Preceded by the Emerald class and succeeded by the Arethusa-class. Building ordered on 1 October 1932, laid down at Vickers Armstrong, Barrow-in-Furness, England on 7 February 1933, launched on 1 March 1934, commissioned on 12 April 1935, participated in the Battle of Rio de Plata against the German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee on 13 December 1939, decommissioned in February 1948, a sale to India was cancelled by Winston Churchill, after temporarily being grounded arrived she at Cashmore’s, Newport, England to be broken up on 18 November 1949
An item dated New York, USA 5th reported that the American president Roosevelt left the American naval base at Gunatanamo, Cuba on board of the cruiser USS Tuscaloosa with unknown destination. During his presence there he held conversations about a further development of this base. A second item reported that arrival the same day at Kingston, Jamaica to visit the recently acquired American base there. The British governor paid an official visit to the cruiser.(1)
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1. Part of the New Orleans-class consisting of the New Orleans, Astoria, Minneapolis, Tuscaloosa, San Francisco, Quincy and Vincennes, preceded by the Portland-class and succeeded by the Wichita. Originally called the Astoria-class but renamed after the losses in 1942 and the following modernization of the remaining ships. Due to the limited displacement as a result of the Washington Naval Treaty (1922) was she known as a so-called Treaty cruiser classified as light cruiser but later reclassified as heavy cruiser due to the calibre of her main guns. There were three different designs for the ships in this class, namely for the New Orleans, Astoria and Minneapolis (all 3 originally laid down as Portland-class cruisers), the Tuscaloosa and San Francisco and the Quincy and Vincennes. Building ordered on 13 February 1929, awarded on 3 March 1931, laid down at the New York Shipbuilding Corporation, Camden, New Jersey, USA on 3 September 1931, launched in 15 November 1933, commissioned on 17 August 1934, decommissioned on 13 February 1946, stricken on 1 March 1959 and sold to be broken up on 25 June 1959. Limited building costs 10.450.000 US dollars. Call sign NAJF.
An item reported the estimated locations of submarines of the enemy in the western part of the Atlantic Ocean on 17 May: 2 in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, 2 between Halifax and Cope Cod, 1 between Cape Cod and Cape May, 3 in the area Cape Hatteras-Cape Lookout, 2 in the area Cape Carnaveral-Miami, 3 in the Gulf of Mexico between the Mississippi delta and Tortugas, 1 south of Jamaica, 3 in the eastern part of the Caribbean, 1 eastward of Trinidad, 5 west- and 4 eastward bound travelling north of the latitude of Cape Cod, 3 west- and 1 eastbound travelling between the latitude of Cape Cod-Cape Hatteras and 2 west- and 3 eastbound travelling in the latitudes south of Cape Hatteras, totally 36 boats.
Source
Map Room Papers (Roosevelt Administration), 1942 - 1945. U.S. Joint Intelligence Committee. Daily summary No. 159 dated 18 May 1942
