HMS Jamaica (44)
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HMS Jamaica, a Fiji-class cruiser of the Royal Navy, was named after the island of Jamaica, which was a British Crown Colony when she was built in the late 1930s. The light cruiser spent almost her en
Jamaica at anchor, 18 September 1943
The interior of a 6-inch triple Mark XXIII mounting on board Jamaica. The crew are wearing anti-flash gear and the crewman in the foreground has over his shoulder a 30-pound (14 kg) cordite propellant charge.
Jamaica's torpedomen who finally dispatched the Scharnhorst, at Scapa Flow after the sinking of the German warship on 26 December 1943
Battle of the Barents Sea
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The Battle of the Barents Sea was a World War II naval engagement on 31 December 1942 between warships of the German Navy and British ships escorting Convoy JW 51B to Kola Inlet in the USSR. The actio
Battle of the Barents Sea Irwin J. Kappes, 2009
Battle of the Barents Sea
Erich Raeder with Adolf Hitler shortly after he resigned from his post of commander in chief of the Navy in 1943