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Private Transfers to Kingston Waterfront & Port Royal

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A Brief History of Port Royal, Jamaica: The Wickedest City on Earth

At 11:43 AM on June 7, 1692, the ground beneath Port Royal began to shake. Within minutes, two-thirds of the richest city in the Americas slid into Kingston Harbour. Buildings, streets, warehouses packed with plundered treasure, taverns still serving rum at midday -- all of it swallowed by the sea in a catastrophe so total that clergy across Europe called it divine judgment. They had a point about the wickedness, if not the theology. Port Royal in its prime was a place where pirates spent...

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