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Jamaica Defence: Naval Visits.

HMCS St. Laurent, a Canadian destroyer, at Kingston, Jamaica, 7 March 1939.
Built as a British destroyer, HMS Cygnet, in 1932, the ship was transferred to the Canadian Navy in 1937.
Marked Via Air Mail but franked only 6d for the 6½d single airmail rate to Canada.
Jamaica tax mark T⅒ (single rate, 10 centimes due) and Canada 2 CENTS DUE.

Kingston
machine
cancel:
7 March
39.

Ex
Sutcliffe.

Jamaica was a favoured stop for new naval vessels on their shakedown cruises. The light cruiser
USS St. Louis, the lead ship of her class, was on her shakedown in August 1939.

USS St. Louis visiting Jamaica, 11 August 1939.

Hand
painted
cover
including
the arms
of
Jamaica.

Address
removed,
franked
5c rate.

USS
Saint
Louis 11
August
39,
Kingston
Jamaica.