Comments on: HMS Jamaica – Former British Royal Navy Ship

By: Joe Yates

Joe Yates — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 23:30:13 +0000

Hi Craig just wondering if your grandad is still with us my father served on this ship inww2 and i am trying to find any surviving members and see if they can have a comunication any help would be great

Thanks Joe Yates

By: Fiona

Fiona — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 22:06:32 +0000

My grandpa served on HMS Jamaica!

By: steve johnson

steve johnson — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 21:56:43 +0000

my grandad Ernest Bailey served on this ship sometime in the 50′s i think … does anyone remember him?

By: Joe Yates

Joe Yates — Mon, 10 May 2010 01:20:56 +0000

My father served on this ship during WWll…would like to see if anyone still around he served with and if they ar still with us….luckily my dad is

By: Craig Miles

Craig Miles — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:51:23 +0000

Hi, My Grandfather was on this ship in WW2. One of the family memorabilia is a menu card that has the signatures of the survivors from the Scharnhorst in 1943 (Boxing Day Battle of North Cape) that my Grandfather helped out of the water. He never mentioned the war again though once he was home.
Interestingly, my Father was born the day before the Battle of North Cape on Christmas Day and named Christopher. So this ship has a strong place in my family’s heart.
If Jamaica can be proud of this ship, then that is great, I am certainly proud of what it means to my family.

By: Proud Jamaican

Proud Jamaican — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 19:18:03 +0000

Thanks for posting this, Jamaipanese. There are so many interesting facts about Jamaica that we don’t know.

By: David Pearce

David Pearce — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 09:07:20 +0000

I am a Trainee Instructor with Margate Sea Cadets (UK) and our unit is named TS Jamaica, after this ship. Having read the history of this vessel it is very interesting to see how much she did during WWII. She even appeared in the film The Battle of The River Plate (doubling for HMS Exeter)!

By: Alan McGrath

Alan McGrath — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 21:44:27 +0000

My father Bill NcGrath served on the “Jamaica” during the onset of the Korean conflict. As with most people of that generation he seldom spoke of what he and his shipmates endured.
Through the internet I have discovered most of the history of this ship.
The Jamaica was the first ship hit by the North Koreans and indeed sustained the first casualties before the UN even became involved.

By: Scifi Chrome

Scifi Chrome — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 05:25:18 +0000

Good work as usual man… you really should add a jamaica pride column of sorts if you don’t have it already… you seem to find these interesting tidbits… might you know where I can find a list of all the movies ever made in jamaica and all the movies ever made by jamaicans… haven’t found it yet…

By: long bench

long bench — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 21:39:06 +0000

hmm. Interesting factoid. I wonder what else our lovely colonial foreparents named "Jamaica" to remind themselves of their ownership rights?

Jamaica needs a new working definition of "national pride"; I propose that our new national identity be one that explicitly rejects the violent defensiveness and willful ignorance that we now see on display. I’ve always thought that I was a product of the ‘good’ kind of nationalism (not a fan of this whole national identity thing in general), but its hard to say that there was ever such a thing these days when the only kind you see/hear is downright scary.