Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. 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 (in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria, England). She spent almost her entire wartime career on Arctic convoy duties, except for a deployment south for the landings in North Africa in November 1942, where she was a member of the Centre Task Force. She was captained for most of the Second World War by Captain John Hughes-Hallett.