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Jamaica: Pre-Adhesive Postal Rates

Ship Letters to the UK
Ship Letter at Rate: Ship Letter charge 8d + UK Inland (1815 to 1840)

At Kingston
SL1 Ship Letter / Jamaica
10 Feb 1816
used 1801 to 1816

At Portsmouth
Portsmouth / Ship Letter

At London
Receiver of 8 Apr 1816
½d Scottish tax

At Glasgow
Receiver of 18 Apr 1816

Rated 1s4d = Double 8d Ship Letter Rate introduced 1815)
Plus UK inland postage of 2s4d = 1s2d x2 (for 405 miles) plus ½d Scottish tax.

HMS North Star was a 20-gun sixth-rate Naval Ship launched in 1810, she was broken up in 1817.

Ship Letter at Rate: Ship Letter charge 8d + no UK Inland (1840 to 1854)

At Kingston
m/s Ship ‘Zeno’

At Liverpool
?? May 1842
LIVERPOOL /
SHIP Letter

At Malanthorpe
cds of 15 May 1842

Rated 8d – The Ship Letter rate introduced in 1840.