HMS Jamaica explained

Six vessels of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Jamaica, after the island colony of Jamaica:

• , a 14-gun sloop launched in 1710 and wrecked in 1715
• , a 14-gun sloop launched 1744 and foundered 1770 off Jamaica
• , a 16-gun sloop purchased in 1779 and sold in 1783
• HMS Jamaica, formerly the French 26-gun corvette, which captured in February 1796; she was taken in as a 26-gun sixth rate and sold in 1814.
• , a 52-gun fourth rate ordered in 1825 and cancelled in 1829
• , a launched in 1940 and scrapped in 1960