HMS Jamaica (1744)

For other ships with the same name, see HMS Jamaica.
History
Great Britain
Name: HMS Jamaica
Ordered: 18 August 1743
Builder: Deptford Dockyard
Laid down: 15 September 1743
Launched: 17 July 1744
Completed: 28 August 1744 at Deptford Dockyard
Commissioned: July 1744
Fate: Wrecked off Cuba on 27 January 1770
General characteristics
Class and type: Hind-class sloop
Tons burthen: 272 8994 (bm)
Length:
  • 91 ft 5 in (27.9 m) (gundeck)
  • 75 ft 0.75 in (22.9 m) (keel)
Beam: 26 ft 1.75 in (8.0 m)
Depth of hold: 12 ft 0 in (3.7 m)
Sail plan: Snow brig
Armament: 10 × 6-pounder guns, later increased in 1749 to 14 x 6-pounder guns

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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