Historic Falmouth Cruise Port

Port of Falmouth, Trelawny, Jamaica

The cruise port of Falmouth is located in Trelawny, Jamaica (Caribbean).

⭐ Points of Interest:

Aerial view of Falmouth Town using drone not a webcam.

⭐ History

The Port of Falmouth is a popular port-of-call for many cruise ships and is located on Jamaica's north coast in between the other major port cities of Montego Bay and Ocho Rios.

Falmouth was founded in 1769 and named after a town of the same name in England.

During the late 18th and early 19th centuries, Falmouth was one of the busiest ports in Jamaica.

It was home to masons, carpenters, tavern-keepers, mariners, planters and others.

It was a wealthy town in a wealthy parish with a rich racial mix.

Within the parish, nearly one hundred plantations were actively manufacturing sugar and rum for export to Britain.

Jamaica, during this period, had become the world's top exporter of sugar.

This made Falmouth a central hub of the slave trade and the now notorious cross-Atlantic triangular trade.

Many slave ships arrived at this port, full of West African slaves who were auctioned off to local plantation owners

In the Falmouth Harbour as many as 30 tall-ships could be seen on any given day.

Many of them delivering slaves transported under inhumane conditions and loading their holds with rum and sugar manufactured by slave labour on nearby plantations.

Falmouth was operating as a free port in the early 1800's.

This meant that it was exempted from charging certain types of tariffs collected at other ports throughout the island.

This encouraged many ships to dock at Falmouth Harbour, bringing with them a number of undesirable individuals, especially white sailors who were often drunk and disorderly.

The Stone Cage near to the harbour was built to hold these drunken, disorderly sailors.

When Fort Balcarres was built adjacent to Charlotte Street, that function was transported there to hold these disorderly sailors.

Fort Balcarres has been the site of a primary school in recent years.

Steamboats began to arrive in Jamaica in the 1830's, and it signaled the end of Falmouth as a major port town.

These bulky vessels needed deeper waters to dock, and Falmouth Harbour was not deep enough.

Several attempts were made to deepen the harbour, but Falmouth never regained its former glory.

Railway transportation was introduced into Western Jamaica in the 1890's, and because Falmouth could not handle steamboats, the town was bypassed for Montego Bay.


⭐ Present - Falmouth Jamaica Cruise Port

On March 22nd, 2011 Jamaica had the grand opening of the Historic Falmouth Cruise Port (HFCP).

Since the recent modernization of its harbour, Falmouth can welcome some of the largest passenger ships and has experienced a sort of “re-birth” as more visitors than ever arrive to discover the treasures this lovely town has to offer.

The port has themed retail shopping spaces alongside a dock with two berths that are capable of hosting modern cruise ships.

The port has been a stop for Royal Caribbean Cruise Line’s Oasis of the Seas (which did its maiden call on the grand opening day) and Allure of the Seas, two of the world’s largest cruise ships.

The Historic Falmouth Cruise Port is being pioneered as the first-ever thematic cruise port destination and commercial development centre, transforming the historic town of Falmouth, Jamaica into a host city for the growing cruise industry.

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2019 Jamaica Drone Footage using the DJI Mavic Pro 2 Zoom.
Aerial View of Falmouth Jamaica.

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FALMOUTH JAMAICA

Falmouth is the capital city of Jamaica’s Trelawny Parish. It's a busy cruise-ship port that lies between Ocho Rios and Montego Bay on the island’s north shore. The city is characterized by its Georgian architecture, concentrated in the Falmouth Historic District. To the south, the 18th-century Good Hope Estate was originally a sugar plantation. East, near Ocho Rios, Dunn’s River Falls cascades over limestone rocks.